Proton, Unity, Energy, Blizzard
Earlier this year at the Gagosain gallery in London, there was a rather
dissonant exhibition, Crash, of artworks notionally inspired or reflective of
the work of JG Ballard. A highlight for me was
Unit: Design/Research 02: Space and structure
Recently I picked up the second issue of the design newspaper Unit: Design/
Research from Unit Editions [http://www.uniteditions.com/], edited by Tony Brook
and Adrian Shaughnessy.
The second issue, titled '
In the box
In 1933 Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld designed a circular steel and glass
pavilion to be mounted on the roof of the luxury department store Metz & Co. in
Amsterdam. Its still there today,
The ballet of iPod City
Two news items aroused my disurbanist instincts last week, and in my paranoid
modus operandi where everything is connected, thought that they represented two
aspects of an identical process: the continued fragmentation and
Into Orbit
In an essay about F. Scott Fitzgerald's heavily criticised first novel, the
celebrated literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote
[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04TOIBIN.html] " This