PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" � Archive � Visiting Stefan SagmeisterStefan Sagmeister’s work surprises, touches, provokes, makes you laugh and makes you think. The Austrian Graphic Designer published the book
“Made you look” in 2001 containing all of his work up to that point, took a year off client work and toured the world talking about Graphic Design and the importance of content over style.
Fred Eerdekens  Entering the artistic space of Fred Eerdekens places the spectator in a semantic landscape in which what one had thought of as stable meanings are continually twisted and turned. What better way to figurize this than by letting the spectators themselves 'twist and turn' in trying to make sense of the objects. In spiralling around the objects, they in fact become direct figures of the play of logic that rules the objects. After the linguistic turn, and in the wake of post-structuralist thought, the topography of our mental landscapes has become increasingly intricate. The work of Fred Eerdekens attests to this fact and it provides a conceptual map of this, in many places still unknown territory. |
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Take It Apart This site is a resource to be used by anyone who wishes to see -- for any reason -- how to take apart certain electronic devices. We will try to post a new dissection as often as time permits. We must recommend against, of course, the dismantling of electronic devices. (Doing so could damage them or void their warranties.) an amazing site for product designers... |
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