design

Dutch designer Maarten Baas in Shanghai: Interesting twists on Chinese traditional furniture designs

acfchina — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:27:00 -0600

I stumbled upon this rather amusing post on designaddict.com which talks about Maarten Baas’s, recent Jully 2008 exhibition at Contrasts gallery in Shanghai.
While participating in Contrasts’ residency program, which brings Western artists to China to study local artistic and cultural practices, Baas became fascinated with traditional Chinese woodcarving; this exhibition is dominated by the results [...]

The Making Of A Plastered T-Shirt

edpeto — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:09:00 -0600

Easy to find. Easy to share.

Viaggiatore — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:06:00 -0500

I come back to this thought again and again in my head:
I don’t need more video, or more multimedia of any kind, or even databases or forums or yet another social network. All I want, as a reader, is news that is easy to find and easy to share. It’s what I want in the [...]
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