even MORE matroyshka.

a few pics collected along the way. 

 

 Matryoshka nesting dolls

 

 

priest can’t separate wrong from wrong.

this excuse is far more lame than anything ever to cross my mind, and to think i spent many years at the mercy of this ilk makes me want to vomit. i know i was not abused. but how many of my classmates were??? this telling article is proof positive how gnarly and perverse and sick organized religion can be. via boingboing:

Retired Catholic Archbishop Rembert G Weakland, who has been accused of covering up widespread child rape by priests in Milwaukee, has a forthcoming memoir in which he wrote the following bits of wisdom:

“We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature.”Weakland, who retired in 2002 after it became known that he paid $450,000 in 1998 to a man who had accused him of date rape years earlier, said he initially “accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would ‘grow out of it’.”

“We did not know that child abuse was a crime,” says retired Catholic archbishop 

more on the matroyshka dolls.

i posted the gilles doll a few months ago, and had no idea that it was part of a series. the dolls are inspired by clothing designers, as labeled. the website is in italian, so more details will be available once i get unlost in the translation. until then, i still want to see the dolls inside the dolls inside the dolls inside the dolls inside the dolls.

the dolls were made for the Vogue Russia anniversary. via: Vogue.ru.

 

Nina Donis

Celine

Marc Jacobs

Giles

Antonio Marras

currency redesign project. more fun with money.

i have made no secret of my thoughts about american currency. not only is it basically worthless, it’s ugly as well. double trouble! according to robert smith, ugly currency should be banished from the earth and replaced with paper money that will stimulate the economy. and why not? designers have solved problems for the world time and again…why not the economy too? (i admit it’s a lofty goal, but one never knows.)

for my part in this, i have a series of six bills already designed; they are being tweaked and refined and will be submitted (along with rationale and other collateral) to smith’s blog. i know there are some good designs out there: designers…you know who you are. (!)

all that said, smith does an admirable job (below). the bills are more colorful and playful but they lack an overall concept other than “money.” i do hope the submitted designs will be available for viewing somewhere on the internets. it will be interesting to see what pops up. i promise to post a link with the results.

from design boom: graphic designer richard smith thinks designers can help kick-start the US economy with ‘a thorough, in-depth, rebranding scheme – starting with the redesign of the iconic US dollar’. smith recently created the designs featured here and is asking the public to contribute their own dollar designs to his blog. 

from richard smith: ‘the american dollar has not truly been redesigned since about the 1930s. the dollar redesign project is your opportunity to theoretically ‘change’ that. yes, technically there are many limitations and complications when  it comes to bank note design, but if the swiss can do it on a regular basis, why can’t we north americans too. besides our great ‘rival’, the euro, looks so spanky in comparison it seems the only clear way to revive this global recession is to rebrand and redesign. why not ? it seems to work for everyone else …’ RS

more here.

build a shower.

even though i am trying to embrace the curve in my very right-angled centric home, i must admit that i would let this build-a-shower-set in under the radar. and i would most likely use 5×5″ tiles to echo the size of the components. life in OCD is not easy. it takes a lot of time!

the square components can be mixed and matched and perform the following functions: thermostat, speaker, volume control, diverter, showerhead, lighting and storage. the flexibility of this system (and the range) make it one of my favorites of the year. just the aptly named “showerhaven” overhead component alone is worthy of discussion.

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cross pollinating: zaha hadid for lacoste.

in her first outing as a shoe designer, zaha hadid collaborated with shoemaker melissa (known for using eco friendly materials molded into shoes.) like her buildings, her shoes are bold lines and structured. because the shoes are one piece, there is no fastener, so one must thread their foot through the maze of straps. 

 

 

in her new collaboration with lacoste, hadid continues the strappy theme, but with more editing. in lieu of lacing that might crawl up the leg or around the ankle, hadid combines the functional and sculptural into one, with the shoe extending in a coil that wraps around the calf or ankle. from the press release: “Featuring a digitized version of Lacoste’s famous croc logo and a pliable, coiled strap system, the styles bring Hadid’s signature look to footwear for men (an ankle boot) and women (a calf boot).”

the shoes will be launched during london fashion week this september coming. the edition is small; only 850 pairs will be manufactured. they will be sold at outposts colette (paris), 10 corso como (milano/tokyo/seoul) and dover street market (lond0n).

     

Photo: Courtesy of Lacoste

   Photo: Courtesy of Lacoste

 

 

 

alan clarke’s proposal for london 2012 olympics.

 

should the tragic identity for the 2012 london olympics (above) evolve in anticipation of the olympics, we can only hope it will be as well thought and elegant as the poster designs below. visually articulate work by alan clarke, from his website.

 

pacovolume: cookie machine

vid discograph.

more about "pacovolume: cookie machine", posted with vodpod

more than a feeling.

secta chameleon.

more about "more than a feeling.", posted with vodpod

gilbert garcin retrospective at espace jacques villegle

this entire post via designboom.

correct account

gilbert garcin - retrospective
at: espace jacques villeglé
from: now – until june 20, 2009 (free entry)

espace jacques villegle, (saint gratien, france) is currently holding a retrospective of gilbert garcin’s work. the french artist creates surreal collages / sculptures from paper, sand, string, rocks, pieces of a meccano and other discarded objects which he then photographs. he almost always features a cut-out of himself in his black and white images – ‘confronting the meanings and absurdities of the human condition in stark, dream-like landscapes and situations’.

the shortest path

the witness

the couple mechanism

le maitre du monde

self searching

change the world

nothing is perfect

diogenes or lucidity

the melancholy of garcin’s poetic ‘enactments’ never overwhelms.  instead, an optimistic humour is communicated throughout his series of allegorical works, a sense of playing in a psyche littered with fragments from the past. garcin himself has explained: ‘in seventy years one has gathered ten thousand souvenirs, one has a sort of attic in one’s head.  piled-up things, which end up suddenly re-emerging.’

the free exhibition will end on june 20th – more information can be found here.