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Generative De Stijl 15 May 2013 | 03:03 pm
A recent competition, Elegant Algorithms, organised by Setup in the Netherlands, challenged entrants to create a digital version of Piet Mondrian's painting Victory Boogie Woogie.The results range fro...
Glass houses 20 Mar 2013 | 02:57 pm
"I’m a plagiarist man — you see, you must take everything from everybody" Philip Johnson, interview with Susan Sontag. With all the press jouissance over the possibility of a clone of a Zaha Hadid pro...
Kaufmann 16 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
I'm currently reading Fallingwater Rising by Franklin Toker, the 'biography' of the infamous house, and it set me to wonder whether there was there ever a more important private client in the history ...
Triade 11 Sep 2012 | 09:41 pm
I finally got round to finishing my first iPad app. Called Triade, it's a fun tool for creating images made entirely out of triangles, using a technique called Delaunay Triangulation. It's now availab...
The death of Kosmograd 18 Aug 2012 | 01:47 am
Baikonour is dying. "Kosmograd was a dream, Colonel. A dream that failed. Like space. We have no need to be here. We have an entire world to put in order." William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Red Star, Wi...
Red Mars 3 17 Jul 2012 | 01:36 am
As the Curiousity mission to Mars nears the Red Planet, another venture, Mars One, aims to build a permanent settled colony on Mars by 2023. They make it sound so easy. But landing on Mars has always ...
Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone 5 May 2012 | 02:24 am
In graphic design, an 'exclusion zone' is an area around a logo which must be left clear. Corporate brand and logo usage guidelines demonstrate the proportion of vertical and horizontal space around a...
ma.r.s. 12 Apr 2012 | 01:18 am
Finishing this week is Thomas Ruff's exhibition ma.r.s. at the Gagosian gallery on Brittania Street. The exhibition features a series of large C-prints of manipulated photographs, based on digital im...
Manhattan-ization 2 Mar 2012 | 09:18 am
"How do I get to Broadway? ...I want to get to the center of things" "Walk east a block and turn down Broadway and you'll find the center of things if you walk far enough." Jon Dos Passos, Manhat...
Long Thin Yellow Legs of Architecture 14 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
Continuing on the theme of Constructivist sculpture in Rotterdam, there is this remarkable piece by Coop Himmelblau, first built in 1988 and still present today. Called the Long Thin Yellow Legs of Ar...
