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Sensory Impact likes objects, people who design objects and people
who like people who design objects.
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10/18/2007
The goal of the “Kyoto Treaty” of Design is to reduce environmental impact caused by design, and to instantiate a new design philosophy that abandons the notion of planned obsolescence that has characterized consumer culture for the past 25 years.
This Treaty is a call to arms for the creative community around environmental stewardship. Our mission to abate the impact of our cultural production on the world, and to work together to make positive change.
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7/25/2007
The new Volksware Meterware shop by artist Silke Wawro is notable for two things:
One, it sells all of it’s products by the meter.
And two, these products are made of discarded items that are already considered ‘consumped’ i.e. the Volksware Meterware carpet is a made of used clothes stitched together that is supposed to be as long as the amount of clothes one would purchase in their lifetime.
Or, the meterware seat that is a roll of second hand clothes and blackets.
Or, the more amibitious Meterware table that is a long assembly of discarded tables assembled together to form a neverending stretch. The idea is that a customer can purchase one by instructing the shop to saw off their desire length.
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7/23/2007
As every gastronome would concur, less is moreish. Whilst diminutive portions are de rigueur in refined restaurants where the imperative is to flirt with the palate, others only aim appease gluttons. Greasy spoons, after all, exist for a reason; quick delivery and calorific, oversized portions. But what if you’re a gym bunny with a potent hankering for a burger? A trip to the nearest eating joint boasting the golden arches would mean that the hour (or two) of vigorous cardio would come undone.
Cue Minnies – this Chicago-based restaurant serves bite-sized portions of the usual hash-house suspects: sandwiches, burgers pizzas and salads. Akin to tapas or mezze, the menu has a dollop (or two) of flair by incorporating offbeat offerings like Venezia and Mykonos.
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7/21/2007
Regina Debatty of WMMNA recently covered an interesting keynote by Architect Usman Haque titled “I Hate Technology” where he talked about what bothered him with the current culture of technology fetishism:
“The word “technology” means something different today than what it used to imply in the past. Technology used to imply “knowledge”, it was the study of making. It was not an object but the description of an object. Technology was more about the description of systems. Today we tend to think that technology resides in physical things. That is a rather dramatic change, from the way we describe things to objects containing this thing we call technology.
Artefacts. Fetishism for a piece of technology. You would never grab a frog and show it to people saying “this is wonderful biology!” or “Look at this biology!”” (more)
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7/17/2007
The original Damien Hirst Skull
“Damien Hirst trips over a diamond the size of his head and dies” retails for 600 Euros
Given Damien Hirst’s notorious affinity for the lurid, this would be the perfect satirical homage to Hirst and lends a macabre significance to the recurrent theme of death and irony in art and life. This post-modern artifact is a symbolic albeit disingenuous nod to Hirst’s sensational new piece – “For The Love of God”.
As Hirst succinctly put it, “Death is a such a heavy subject…” – oh, the marvelous irony of it all.
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5/22/2007
Design Observer points out to an excerpt from a book by linguist David Harrison:
“Languages can package knowledge in radically different ways, thus facilitating different ways of conceptualizing, naming, and discussing the world.”
If languages package information, can they be considered design objects?
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2/8/2007
Perkative is a prototype caffeinated beverage created by graduate students at the Pratt Institute that is supposed to be the most powerful caffeinated beverage on the market. It contains pharmaceutical levels of caffeine and is meant to be a commentary on the emerging energy drink culture and it’s impact on human health.
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1/18/2007
Björn Franke is an industrial designer who’s work focuses on how people explore, express and control their emotions, obsessions and fears through objects and technology. For his latest exhibit, he focuses on jealousy by creating an Imaginary Affair kit containing a set of nine devices which leave traces of such an imaginary affair. The tools leave marks on the body such as bite marks, carpet burns, bondage marks, love bites, scratches and bruises. Probes of perfume, lipstick and hair can be applied to either the body or clothes.
The project examines the world of private psychological warfare within relationships, in which obsessive behaviour and disorders surface. Rather than offering the common approach of subjecting these to restrictive cultural norms, the kit enables people to exhibit them in a most effective way.
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1/17/2007
Amusing picture of an Apple with a hand drawn wireframe by Designer Bruce Bell.
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11/13/2006
Polish artist Janek Simon subverts a muslim prayer rug by combining it with a old 70’s arcade game, thus creating, in his own words – “a new shopping item for the homecoming marines and the kid back home”.
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11/11/2006
Video gaming culture inspired paper glasses.
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8/28/2006
As someone frequently exposed to a precocious, whip-smart offspring I can’t claim ownership to, I’m constantly on the lookout for educational paraphernalia that deviates from the norm. The M is for Modern Alphabet flashcards are simultaneously intelligent, innovative and high on the cool factor stakes. They can currently be purchased at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or online at jargonboy.com.
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8/20/2006
You may or may not have a hangover. But it’s one of the days where everybody and everything conspires against you. To add to your woes, your Boss is incessantly breathing down your neck and you’ve had enough. Quitting, along with a visit to the nearest shooting range, is out of the question. That’s where BossToss comes in handy. Instead of gnashing your teeth, just load the plastic figurine and fire. Any homicidal gleams in your eyes are sure to disappear.
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5/28/2006
London’s Design Museum has chosen the artist co-founder of the Gorillaz band, Jamie Hewlett as the Designer for the Year 2006. Jamie beat out Tom Dixon, The Guardian and Cameron Sinclair for the prize. The Chairman of the jury, Christopher Frayling added: “Jamie Hewlett has not only created a personal mythology with the virtual band Gorillaz, he has also created designs for the direction in which technology and culture are going – the shape of things to come.”
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5/22/2006
Online Fashion Zine, Zoozoom has put together a fashion piece featuring a collection of subversive objects curated by CITZEN : Citizen that takes a sharp look at our decadent quest for new sensations.
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