R-Echos

On Purpose: Design Concepts

On Purpose: Design Concepts looks at conceptual design practices, the emergence of ‘meta design’, and the question of who or what can define something as design…
With Åbäke, Droog Design, Daniel Eatock, Electronest, Ann-Sofie Back, Will Holder, Peter Jensen, Onkar Kular & Noam Toran, Metahaven, Alex Rich, Savage, Yuri Suzuki
September 13 - [...]

websites and White Cubes

Dumb sign, originally uploaded by blackbeltjones.
Been asked to work on the nominations for designs of the year again at the Design Museum, which is very nice.But it leads me back to this hoary old question – how should interactive work best be shown in a museum or gallery context? Should it be [...]

An experiment in the economics of production: how can we shift focus from consumption of a finished product to investment in the processes of design, print & production?

This is a poster and a text: an analog R-Echos
Would you be interested in investing in the tangible production of this work?
1. You can download the digital archive
and [...]

What if, VACANT LOT, Hoxton, London

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Colophon events this week

There are a couple of Colophon-related events in Europe this week. First up, Andrew Losowsky – that’s him above next to a copy of IsNotMagazine – has curated an exhibition of magazines as objects in Milan. CR Blog has an in-depth report with details – it sounds great, lots of magazine-y-ness. Andrew’s [...]