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Poetry of a Prototype
The Fashionable Lampoon International
Serge Brunschwig the art of logo obsession faces the question surrounding the future • young artisans – they aren’t just out to preserve ancient know-how, they need to be experimental «with craftsmanship, we need to try to replicate what was done on TV with chefs»
Andrea Trimarchi / Simone Farresin Formafantasma to think that resources are infinite is the biggest utopia of modernity • wood — the only material in construction that humankind doesn’t extract but grows the vascular cambium is a process that helps plants and trees adapt to climate change and evolve the most primordial process of prototyping known to nature everything for us starts with words and concepts, not shapes there’s two of us – we want to understand before designing
Tom Dixon updating challenges on crafting newness there is no point in making this real unless people want it • cast iron radiators, sewage components and panels of steel mesh transformed into sculptural chairs with limited comfort and use creating one-off pieces from salvaged materials found in the piles of industrial waste an engineer to make things in big quantities and a craftsman to produce a wooden spoon
Jermaine Gallacher the ambiguous design dealer go to the market, buy multifaceted things save money, buy beautiful — and wait • I’m into buying things that are ambiguous and don’t have a name attached to them so somebody can’t just go ‘I know how much that’s worth’ you can make up a bit of magic about it about never having something that you don’t want or need, which you’ll eventually consider to be waste
Rubell Museum Shawn Stussy Kim Jones / Dior Miami
Kira Tippenhauer • MIAMI, FLORIDA
Josefin Liljeqvist you buy a shoe and you meet the cow who got killed to make it • she wants to introduce her supply chain to customers highlighting the steps involved in production; from farm to tannery, cow to slaughterhouse this goes beyond the vegan versus non-vegan leather debate
flowers are usually saved for a prototype
Benjamin Benmoyal tessuti da VHS Disney in Francia e un viaggio in Islanda i colori di James Turrell e Olafur Eliasson • designer franco-israeliano ex ingegnere aerospaziale per due anni ha studiato da autodidatta come tessere utilizzando i nastri delle videocassette
one’s masculinity is far more interesting than one’s virility Gecko Tales — Episode One
DISPARATE PROTOTYPE PLASTICITY KATERINA JEBB FEVRIER 2020
sogno arcane semantics emerging from dreams • in a dress, there is always something to take away Fontana’s golden slash, and glass by Laura and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana Philippe de Champaigne and Blaise Pascal in Port Royal, Elisabetta Farnese, the Duchy of Parma dark dreams or talking dreams; reassuring, or disturbing like possession What if Women Ruled the World?
Kathleen Ryan • I wanted to make a watermelon and was thinking about what would work for the rind. I wanted to focus on the fleshy insides of the melon, so I needed to find something that would carry the structure of the rind by itself. The Airstream idea was a light-bulb moment that came to me when I was deep in a Craigslist rabbit hole. The round shape is inherent to the design and it’s the industrial embodiment of optimism and nostalgia, freedom and Americana, a safe little bubble where people could travel and view the world, where Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were quarantined for two weeks after their trip to the moon.
Penumbra Gio Ponti / Alvar Aalto a talk that never took place
architecture for intersections that litigious and lovely confab • the Saint and the King — a standard Mediterranean bromance two places of worship and one dialogue that stands as...