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Entries from October 2005

Placentero lounge chair

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October 31st, 2005 · No Comments

A round bottomed lounge chair that moves with you as you move - Placentero

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Tord Boontje’s Icarus

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October 31st, 2005 · No Comments

In a couple of weeks Tord Boontje’s pendant lightshade ‘Icarus’ will be for sale over at Modern Poverty

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Lights, Camera, Brands

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October 31st, 2005 · No Comments

The Economist looks at product placement.

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The quiet elegance of Renzo Piano

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October 31st, 2005 · No Comments

Italian architect, Renzo Piano’s work has developed from being the outrageous Pompideau Centre in Paris to a more subtle form of Architecture. Piano, rejects the notion that great architecture has to make a lot of noise. “The intensity of architectural experience doesn’t rely on vertigo, on acrobatics,”

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The ArtReview Power 100 list

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October 29th, 2005 · No Comments

The Financial Times has the list of the 100 most powerful people in the artworld for 2005.

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Tastemakers: Fashion designers

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October 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Forbes look at the fashion industry and the top ten tastemakers in fashion today

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Web 2.0 cracks appearing

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October 28th, 2005 · No Comments

“While there’s no strict agreement on exactly what Web 2.0 is, much of it involves public participation and contributions from the commons.
Web 2.0 is very open, but all that openness has its downside: When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer. ” - Xeni Jardin, Wired News Article

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I want it that way

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October 28th, 2005 · No Comments

A funny rendition of the Back Street Boys’ ‘I want it that way’ by two Chinese students.

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Print and Play

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October 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Readymech - print them out, cut them up and make them into you very own toy - all for free. - via K10K

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The Power of Pictures

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October 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Historical figures have always manipulated their photo opportunities to present the image that they wish the public to believe. This ‘perceptual encouragement’ is discussed at Fotolia Blog

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