Our component of the exhibition looked at the spacial relationship we have with water footprints. We illustrated in three dimension the volume of everyday consumables. Alongside each volumetric study was some supporting information that offered insights and alternatives to the product shown to help us move in a more sustainable direction. Special thanks to Dan Honey from State of Design for her tireless efforts in pulling it all together, Dalton for sponsoring the boards, design to print for the printing and Dave and Giovanni for their hard work…
Babel is an exhibition at Craft Victoria by Natasha Dusenjko. A friend of my wife’s, Natasha sent me some images of this exhibition this morning, and I promptly raced down to Craft Vic for a look… Absolutely stunning work that reveals more detail the closer you look, Babel is a word-based collection of fine porcelain and paper works that act as the internal structures and vessels of ancestor memory. Short texts scroll around these objects like a series of incantations, codes and instructions… Its on until the 13/06 so make sure you catch it.
Finn Butler has just joined the ‘Sounding Board’ with the Sign Design Society for the DOT Highways Signage Review in the UK. The purpose of the Sounding Board will be to provide industry knowledge and guidance from the areas of wayfinding, design and manufacture to the project Steering Group.
The review is the most wide ranging consideration of traffic signs in Great Britain for the last 40 years and will provide a traffic sign system that meets the changing needs of the road user. Originally developed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert from 1957 to 1967, the current signage system is arguably the most successful information design project ever implemented in the UK, and will be a tough act to follow.
It’s so intoxicating when someone with amazing concepts, sound rationale and expressive communication delivers their ideas. This video by Bjarke Ingels presents a range of complex ideas so precisely (aside from me not understanding Danish) that the outcome seems almost obvious and extremely convincing. Bjarke Ingels is the Director BIG Group, whose manifesto states that “Architecture seems to be entrenched in two equally unfertile fronts: Either naively utopian or petrifying pragmatic. We believe that there is a third way wedged in the no mans land between the diametrical opposites. Or in the small but very fertile overlap between the two”. Its an idea that resonates strongly at Buro North with reference to our design intent of “fusing creativity & pragmatics to generate visionary design”…
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