cute history

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

For the AA publication, 20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse, all those in the architectural field are invited to submit a photograph of their bookshelf. The photograph should be taken by the contributor herself, and should represent the influences on the contributor's practice at the time the photograph was taken. These photographs will be published in 20/20 alongside identifying information for the contributor, her professional affiliation, the location of the bookshelf and the date of the photograph.

As images of books, this project highlights the role of publications in architectural practice and the important influence of published sources in design practice. As images whose only content is texts and whose contents are unreadable, it will also question the function of visual images in architectural texts that are, in turn, influential in the renewal of the design process.

Photographs will be selected for inclusion based upon global and professional diversity in representation, quality of the content, and the quality of the photographic image.

The total number of images published will be 20, 202, or 2020, intended to replicate the outsourcing of authorship represented by the 20/20 publication and by the editorial process in general. The choice of 20, 202, or 2020 will be made by an arbitrary selection also known as the economy of design.

Photographs should be at least 300dpi. Please include the contributor's full name, professional title and affiliation, the location and date of the photograph.


Send all materials and correspondence by email to wwinnie2020@gmail.com

DEADLINE IS JULY 15, 2008


Winnie Won Yin Wong
20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse
AA Publications
www.2020publication.info

by designer Wu Zhen

from New Graphic Design in China published by 3030 Press
via pingmag
thanks Dan Muntean

As exclaimed by blogger Xixu, as translated by Danwei:

"What I care most about are the destructive attacts on the Fuwa, especially Nini, by folk artisans! First are the grand-sounding Fuwa sachets given "free" to primary school students:......Though the artistry is frightful, with highly obvious deviations from the original design, I still have to voice my respect in light of the fact that this is a public service performed by a retired worker! And the student in the photo who received the gift looks really happy about it!"

via Danwei
via acgtalk

cuz it's so cute

Leung Mee-ping, Site Specific Installation, Zhangjiang High Tech Park, Shanghai, China

From Jun Yang's "Paris Syndrome" exhibition, Vitamin Creative Space. Jun Yang's show begins with a filmic-documentary video and series of photographs set in five of Guangzhou city's European-styled residential developments. Other works in the show explore the quotidian present as a moment predicated on an imaginary, impossible, and unlikely future. The jungle-variety indoor-plants (eg. particularly those most often reproduced in plastic and branded bourgeois) are the only handmade objects in the show, while the meat-market lamps, vinyl-stickered veneer tables, and eames-esque chairs are all Yang's re-design of modern industrial objects of "elegant" yet "clumsy" taste.

Thanks Jun Yang
Thanks Cai Tao

From Splendid China theme park, Shenzhen, China.

Three ancestral halls, built in the 1910s, near kaiping, guangdong province, china.
photo by Dan Mihai Muntean

Limited copies available for purchase through MIT

Cover image is by Maleonn
Design by Tanja Neubert

One-uping the story of the Thai police forcing bad cops to wear Hello Kitty armbands as punishment, the Beijing Public Security has something "cuter"...



From Yahoo News (8/28/07):

In this image released Tuesday Aug. 28, 2007 by the Beijing Public Security
Bureau, shown is cartoon figures of 'virtual police'. Police in Beijing said
Tuesday they will soon begin patrolling the web using the animated beat cops
that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen
warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content. (AP Photo/Beijing
Public Security Bureau, HO)

Thanks Henri Day via MCLC