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ANTI DESIGN FESTIVAL
18-26 SEPTEMBER 2010

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

This is a call for submissions for the Anti Design Festival, which will run from 18-26 September on and around Redchurch Street in Shoreditch, London. The ADF is an alternative art and design festival initiated by Neville Brody that promotes work that challenges contemporary stereotypes. This is work that is seen as uncommercial, dangerous, and anti-establishment. For artists, designers, and other creatives this is an opportunity to exhibit work alongside contributors including Jonathan Barnbrook, Stuart Semple, and Stefan Sagmeister.

While we are keeping exhibition details under wraps, we are interested in soliciting creative work that pushes the boundaries of conventional art and design. This is the chance to show previous work that has failed with clients or instructors, or to produce completely new work without the imposition of market restrictions. Because this festival is completely non-profit in orientation, we cannot pay for contributions. However, this is an opportunity for your work to engage a wide audience in a context that will challenge and provoke the public to rethink the role of art and design in contemporary culture.

Submissions can take any form you want, but the bulk of the work should be cheaply made and reproducible so that visitors can take it and use it however they want. You can send us actual printed pieces, but you would have to pay for shipping (email us first to confirm shipping details). Most probably, you would send us PDFs of work that are up to A3 in size (black and white or color) that we can reproduce for you, or digital files to be shown on computers. Here are some suggested formats: Objects/ephemera already produced; PDFs of graphics to be photocopied onto A4 Sheets; Posters; Images or motion graphics to be displayed out of monitors; Sound to be played into headphones

Below is a list of creative prompts we’ve culled to inspire you. Feel free to use them as you’d wish. 

If you are interested in contributing, please confirm your participation to andy [at] researchstudios [dot] com by Monday, 19 July. The final due date for all submissions is Friday, 13 August. For more information, please visit www.antidesignfestival.com

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‘I preferred a more mechanical method’

‘Incisions sutured under moderate tension’

Abdul Basit Khan is a graphic designer, currently working in the Department of Architecure at the University of Singapore. There is a wonderful amount of research-based projects in his portfolio.

Having been fortunate enough to spend some time in Sydney previously I have a deep admiration for all things Australian, including the Sydney Opera House. It’s a truly gorgeous structure and one of the most memorable buildings I may experience in my entire life. That being said I was really blown away when I saw that the city of Sydney invited artist Laurie Anderson to use the Opera House as a canvas for projections in celebration of a winter festival. Anderson had some help from Lou Reed and Brian Eno, which makes the whole thing that much better. I wish I was in Sydney to see the whole thing in person.

via Cool Hunting

This staircase I came across on Apartment Therapy was too good to not share! I feel so inspired to try something like this.

As part of Modern Atlantas events, Fri evening will be the opening of a month-long series of installations by Habachy Design at the Design Within Reach Atlanta studio. From 6-8pm Friday June 3rd come see the debut of 4 areas of the studio in which Michael Habachy designed utilizing DWR products along with elements such as reclaimed wood, and marble as well as graphic elements including work from The Takeovers own Msenna.

Modern Atlanta kicked off this evening and looks like it will be a great few days, celebrating design in the city as well as some greatness from outside the A. Branded by the good folks over at Armchair Media, MA will be hosting events profiling work from some of the top architects in Atlanta as well as industrial designers and interior designers such as our good friend Michael Habachy who will have an event at Design Within Reach on Friday including work from The Takeovers own Msenna. If your in town be sure to check out the events!

Take a look at Jiminie Ha‘s work, really beautiful stuff there.

This year marks the 7th annual Thinking Creatively Design Conference, held at Kean University. The conference this year includes a wide-ranging panel of speakers and is being held alongside the IDSA Conference, also at Kean this year. The collaborative efforts of both groups has drawn a great roster of speakers, designers, educators, and students together for what is sure to be the largest event yet. Attendees to either of the conferences are able to attend all of the events from either conference, a great value during tough times for sure.

If you’re in the NYC/NJ area the weekend of April 16/17 make sure to come by. There are two FREE sessions, one on each day. See below for more info:

THINKING CREATIVELY
April 16 & 17, 2010
Kean University – Union, NJ

2 FREE SESSIONS

Saturday, April 17th / 9AM (Wilkins Theater)
Jon Kamen (CEO) and James Spindler (Executive Creative Director)
@radical.media

I was blown away when I saw these images of the Seed Cathedral currently under construction in Shanghai. The building will be the centerpiece of the UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo, starting May 1, 2010. 60,000 long clear acrylic rods form the outside of the building; at the end of each of the rods seeds have been embedded, creating a massive seed vault that will move in the wind.

See more images at The Big Picture

Via BLDGBLOG

This letterpress poster of the Colosseum in Rome is just too good to be true. I want one so bad. Check out the video below to see a little bit more about it.

[vimeo 9971247]

Print. HOW. Step. Those are the magazines that most designers/students subscribe to. Not me. While I was in design school I worked in the offices of a furniture retailer and one day the owner’s wife left her copy of Metropolis in the lunch room and so I picked it up. The cover drew me and it appeared interesting enough, “Why Buildings Breath”.

I opened it up and was blown away; architecture, interiors, product design, and then this spread on the typographic design work of Christian Schwartz. I never realized how closely linked all these (seemingly disparate) fields could really be. I subscribed to the magazine for the next 5 years or so.

Recently I came across the design portfolio of Dungjai Pungauthaikan, currently an Art Director at Metropolis, and there is really some nice work in her portfolio. Seeing some of the spreads on her site really brought back a ton of great articles that I read over the years. Editorial design has always interested me greatly, and Dungjai has an impressive ability to organize a lot of information while still allowing the spreads to be visually arresting.

Soulellis Studio has done some really great work for Cornell’s AAP (Architecture, Art & Planning). I especially love the poster shown above.

I can’t honestly remember who led me to this, but I remember them saying something about wishing this was their new summer home. I can’t agree more. The Paraty House, in Paraty, Brazil, was designed by Marcio Kogan Architects.

It’s “two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast.

The building projects outward from the mountain, almost onto the beach, in an 8m cantilever. The house finds balance in the topography of the land, creating an extensive open doorway and living space in the practically untouched nature. Paraty House features a furniture collection showcasing 20thcentury design, including works by many well-known artists.

The residents arrive by boat. After stepping out onto the sand a metallic bridge positioned over a crystal-lined reflecting pool leads to a set of stairs connecting to the lower volume. This volume contains the living room, kitchen and service area. The continual internal area has a 27m span and huge glass windows to take advantage of the view of the sea.

The same entrance stairs also lead to the upper volume that houses the bedrooms. In the front part of the house, retractile panels of eucalyptus sticks protect the bedrooms from the sun. The areas that face the mountain have small internal patios with zenithal lighting, and use exposed reinforced concrete, which grants a striking texture to the walls.

The entire top of the house is covered with terraces, used as observation decks for the residents, and as a garden for sculptures, medicinal plants and edible herbs.” [Via Contemporist]

“Candy Chang is a designer, urban planner and artist in Helsinki. She likes to make the city more accessible and engaging through research, design, and the creative use of public space.”

There are some really interesting projects over at her site that cross disciplines between community awareness/advocacy, technology, urban planning and design/art. I wish more designers thought along these lines, it makes for some very exciting results. I think some of these same projects could make for some interesting assignments in design schools.

Our good friends over at Thinking For a Living™ have just re-launched their site! The new site makes good use of some innovative navigational techniques and has a slew of great resources, articles, links and more. Make sure to check them out and visit often.

Friend of The Takeover, Andy Chen, has a new article up on Design Observer. You must head over there and read it for yourself.

Andy has been keeping us up to date with the research he’s been doing at the Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre. He’s currently working on some very exciting things and we’re excited to see his hard work continue to pay off.

Cool Hunting recently put out this video for the opening of  Nike Harajuku Flagship Store.  In it they interview Katayama from Wonderwall who did the interior and architecture  for the store.. check it out..

I love these generative drawings by Leonardo Solaas that I came across. They were eventually used by a group of architecture students in Chile for a book project. Amazing linework, I’m in love with the fluidity and organic nature of this set of graphics.

This post is for the die-hard nerds out their in our audience of readers. I happen to love cartography and looking at maps, always have since I was a little kid. So naturally this post over at BLDGBLG attracted my attention. Check it out.

I have been doing nothing but watching these as of late. What a great idea, we have started a new Good Folk series of interviews along the same lines and we can’t wait to sure them with you all.

I realize this is old and it may not even be around anymore, but check out what was designed for the summer pavilion for London’s Architectural Association a number of months ago. The piece, by Danecia Sibingo, is a reminder of the British Aisles inseparable connection to the seas.

Via CR

Kevin Finn (Finn Creative) is a designer out of Australia that’s really been making waves lately. Open Manifesto is a magazine side project he launched. It’s fourth issue, out now, is on Propaganda and features conversations with Milton Glaser, Peter Saville and Errol Morris. There are also essays by Steven Heller and David Stairs.

I’m a big fan of Jamie Hayón‘s work for Spanish footwear brand Camper, especially the interiors he recently did for their new Tokyo store.

One of my favorite studios right now is Project Projects. Their work makes up an impressive collection of websites, exhibits, books, identities and environments. Their work is consistently effective in it’s communication and aesthetic. I think that what they do best is focus on the message behind every project, rather than attempting to dress it in some trendy graphics or type. Smart and beautiful, that’s it. Must be why they were named finalists in this year’s National Design Awards by the Cooper-Hewitt.

DesignPhiladelphia: October 07 – 13, 2009

Moving into its fifth year, DesignPhiladelphia is the largest national celebration of its kind. This city-wide cultural event spotlights all things design from architecture to interior design, fashion to product design, textile to graphic design. It’s a journey exploring exhibitions, workshops, studio tours, lectures, special events and product roll-outs that inspire, engage, excite and delight.

Came across this great time-lapse footage of the construction of the new Cowboys Stadium in Dallas/Arlington. Watching the Giants/Dallas game tonight I was really intrigued to see how it was built. An amazing feat of engineering!

The complete opposite of yesterday’s post. 100 Abandoned Houses, must be Detroit.

      A triplex penthouse overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge just went on the market for 25 million! according to the new york times this is more than 2 times more than the highest prices home sold in Brooklyn… and if i had 25 mil i wouldnt hesitate to pick it up!  this place is amazing.. something out of a movie..  maybe that would be a bit careless with the cash, considering the times, but all you’d have to say is go look at the view through one of my 2 enormous clocks then get back to me..

via: NY Times

I was really excited to find out about this film. Snakebit is a documentary on renowned architect Samuel Mockbee, the founder of Rural Studio. Can’t wait to see it!

While I consider myself an admirer of Daniel Libeskind’s work I’m not really sure what to think of these €2-3 million pre-fab structures that were just unveiled.

Via Dezeen

Recently I ordered this great little business card holder designed by Sam Hecht. A couple of clicks later and I was led to his studio, Industrial Facility. They’re based in London and recently launched a new online store called Retail Facility. I love the calculator shown above.

These kind of projects make me wish I had stayed in architecture school.

Via PSFK

New images to the extension of the Tate Modern in London by Herzog & de Meuron.

Via Dezeen

Check out this tour that LoftLife Magazine put up.

Robert Venturi’s 1969 Lieb House is being relocated from Barnegat Light, NJ to Glen Cove, NY on Long Island. More about it here.

Whoa. Cassina produced a 1:1 replica of Le Corbusier’s vacation home for an exhibit by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Le Corbusier built the Cabanon in 1952 for his holidays at Cap-Martin on the Cote D’Azure, retreating there every summer for more than ten years.

Yes, as in Philip Johnson’s Glass House.

The Glass House Moleskine® sketchbook features sketches by 29 architects, designers, and artists inspired by the home, quotes by Philip Johnson, and blank pages for notes or sketching. A limited edition notebook, the proceeds from it go to support the preservation and maintenance of Johnson’s famous architectural masterpiece, The Glass House (shown above).

This sketchbook is inspired by the site’s unique power of place, its role as a source of inspiration for architects, designers and artists, and the desire for visitors to pause, look closely, and document their observations as part of their site experience. In this spirit, the Glass House has launched a partnership with Moleskine®, the signature tool for creative minds, to produce a custom sketchbook.

The centerpiece of the notebook is Stephen Doyle’s 3D glass house:

Via If It’s Hip, It’s Here (Thanks Raf!)

I’ve been meaning to post this for months now. I love these teeny-tiny little houses by Tumbleweed that were covered in the NY Times.

While doing some browsing at Labyrinth Books the other day I came across this spectacular quote, above, in Counterpoint, a great book on Daniel Libeskind‘s work designed by Pentagram.

Established in 2004, studio junction Inc. was founded by Peter Tan and Christine Ho Ping Kong. Utilizing the experience and knowledge that comes from combined degrees in Architecture and Fine Arts, we formed a small design studio and custom woodworking shop. We have been involved in the design and construction of spaces and objects at various scales.

Not sure how i feel about this.. but its interesting..

I was put on to the Ace by a teacher while in school. its by far the coolest hotel ive ever seen, the prices are reasonable and the rooms are so sick.. its all about good design.. they are opening a few more in the next few months as well.. good stuff..

The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.

Via Design Observer