November 29, 2005
Infiltrate: The Front Lines of the New York Design Scene
New York is a capital of media, commerce, fashion, art, and of course - design. New York is a city of constant change, it's a birthplace of trends.
Infiltrate is a new visually and intellectually stimulating collection of today's cutting edge New York design. Rich visual texture combined with very personal and insightful dialogs provide a unique reader's/viewer's experience. Reader's attention and curiosity is rewarded with surprises, insights and valuable information.
Well known, lesser known and completely yet unknown studios are featured in the book. The criteria is the level of innovation, quality and a sense of time. Each of 23 groundbreaking New York studios and individuals is introduced by an interview, work examples and captions.
Posted by richard ting at November 29, 2005, 11:28 AM
January 06, 2005
Massive Change by Bruce Mau
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With the publication of Massive Change, Bruce Mau and IWB launched their own future-forward design philosophy. The appropriately named Massive Change project, of which the book is a fragment, includes a traveling exhibit, an evolving website, a radio program, and a slew of other components. The book itself is a compendium of insight from some of today's leading sages on sustainability. Binding ideas to their economic lives, individual chapters on urbanization, movement, energy, information, image, market, material, military, manufacturing, living, wealth, and politics tackle the question of not what we do but how we do it.
Links:
Institute without boundaries
The Mau Atelier
Posted by richard ting at January 06, 2005, 04:08 PM
December 14, 2004
Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Artist Residency, 1997-2001
[from lmcc.net site]
From 1997 to 2001, over 140 artists set up studios in temporarily vacant space provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the upper reaches of the World Trade Center's Tower 1. In an atmosphere of conceptual risk-taking, they produced a broad range of work, from panoramic cityscapes and discrete sculptural objects to physically integrated site-specific projects and new media performance. The residency was initiated to serve emerging and mid-career artists and encouraged conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. In this program retrospective, Site Matters documents an exceptional and atypical breadth of projects by some of today's significant young artists, including Stephen Vitiello, Paul Pfeiffer, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Monika Bravo, Gelatin, Patty Chang, John Pilson, Nadine Robinson, Sanford Biggers, Lucky DeBellevue, Emily Jacir, Jennie C. Jones, Kristin Lucas, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, and Olu Oguibe. Punctuating art documentation are residents' snapshots of daily life at the World Trade Center, offering a more intimate portrait of the Twin Towers post-9/11. The residency program is currently located in the historic Equitable Building at 120 Broadway on the 8th floor, in space generously donated by Silverstein Properties. Edited by Moukhtar Kocache and Erin Shirreff.
Product Details:
Flexi-bound, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color.
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: LMCC (November 15, 2004)
ISBN: 0972697314
