Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Design Fiction Studio for Young Minds

The Innovation Center for Young Minds as an enviable-sounding studio for Fall 2010: In “Design Fiction Studio,” we will focus on experimental ways to combine science fiction story telling with new forms of media production. The students will be asked … Continue reading

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And the time it takes to make them is the time taken to mean it.

[Martin Puryear's] sculptures look the way they do because they need to in order to mean what they do. The labor that is compressed into them allows them to work over time, and the time it takes to make them … Continue reading

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Design Fiction Chronicles: Apollo 11 Owner's Manual

Found another design fiction in the form of an Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual, published by the folks at Haynes. I remember having Haynes service manuals for the two service-it-yourself buckets I had — a 1980 VW Rabbit and that … Continue reading

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Weekending 07112010

Good lord. What happened just then? Well — I missed a weeknote last week, but I’m not going to do penance. It happens. I’ve been working — mostly in my head, with a swirl of notes — on two casual commissions for … Continue reading