Photography by
Andras Gefeller, including the
Supervisions project, which feature carefully stitched together birds-eye views of every day scenes, each composed of hundreds of individual images / oh we like this:
design books, a collection / the collections of
Vladimir Arkhipov. See also
folkforms.ru. Arkhipov wrote
Home Made, a gazetteer of improbably but essential (to their makers) anti-consumer objects, created for a highly specific purpose. His "Museum of the Handmade Object" project is very low key, much like these objects, which could sit unnoticed on a shelf or in a cupboard, untroubled by taxonomers or anthropologists /
For Once, We Welcome Your Bulldozers, Russian conservationists finally agree with developers / old cars never die, they just
go to China.
New things that look like old things. Announcing
UPPERCASE magazine, which has that 60s art directed vibe, at least on the cover. In the other corner,
Icon tears a strip off
the new Routemasters, or at least the design competition to find a worthy successor to the original bus. But alas, all is not well, and 'the designs are rife with cuddly, friendly, smiley anthropomorphism'. This is partly due to the way the
Routemaster has been drilled into the public consciousness as both a
design 'icon' and an example of British engineering skills at their best. Any attempt to recreate them is
dabbling in nostalgia, a dangerous commodity that resists being controlled. Good piece: 'Foster's entry looks like a bone to gratify the polo-necks.'
Some more about nostalgia (and long titles are back):
Attending the NME Awards With Pete Doherty and a Whole Bunch of Actual Musicians, Feeling Nostalgic, a new Letter from London.
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