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Short and Snappy (No. 16):
Bumper Edition
| There are so many links for this bumper edition of Short and Snappy that I’ve had to put the links into categories (you’d think that I work in a museum or something!) Enjoy the videos, sounds, photos, opinions, guides, widgets, collections and objects that follow. Videos The Power of Ten, the classic educational film by Ray and Charles Eames is available to view online. If you’re lucky enough to be in Melbourne, you can also visit the Eames exhibition and associated series of events until the 17 of July as part of the Melbourne Design Festival. There's a film night but it’s already booked out. (Via Kottke) The TED Conference (technology, education and design), is making a selection of their past lectures available online. So far, I’ve only watched Hans Rosling's talk, but it’s a beauty! Watch it to see the power of information design. The graphs aren’t all that pretty but they are very compelling. (Via Information Aesthetics) More to watch at Moving History, with more than 100 films from a selection of moving image collections in the United Kingdom. (Via The Ten Thousand Year Blog) Photos Retro design - a compilation of scooter-related ephemera on Flickr. Sounds Take One Museum is a collection of six tours of museums in the United Kingdom with Paul Rose from the BBC as guide. (Via Lena Maculan's article on podcasting at the 24hr museum) Historical Sounds from the Free Information Society in MP3 Format Articles The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has reworked the way it displays artworks in its European Galleries, and according to this article in Journal Star, ‘it’s a rethinking that is immediately apparent to an infrequent museum visitor’ where ‘paintings share wall space with clocks. Silverwork and sculptures are on pedestals strategically placed in the same room with the paintings’ and ‘All of the works in each room were made in approximately the same place at approximately the same time’. A timely article exploring the shift museums have/are making towards becoming more focused on the audience. (Via Design Observer) Guides The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has brought out a guide on video games for parents available in PDF format. It provides a good summary of different genres of games, as well as looking briefly at the areas of concern for parents, such as violence. Now if only they’d bring out a game where you can run a museum! (Via The Age blog Screenplay) Widgets Download the Rijksmusuem’s widget and get art delivered to your desktop on a daily basis. (Via Musematic) Competitions The Ghost Nets Competition is clearly a design competition that aims to make a difference. The brief is to design a product which resuses ‘ghost nets’ that are ‘lost’, ‘deliberately discarded’ or ‘abandoned’ fishing nets. An added twist to the brief is that it should also be ‘easily manufactured by community groups for sale’. This appears to be a very worthwhile project, even if you're not a designer, the informative, well-designed site is still worth a visit. (Via ABC's Catapult) Designboom has recently announced its winner for its design competition with an altruistic bent, Shelter in a Cart. I think the most significant aspect of these competitions is that they bring important issues to attention. Collections  Experience design, from decades ago, with this archive of the journal Design. The issues range from the year 1965 to 1974, and conveniently it includes both the scanned pages as well as searchable text. Pictured above is an image from the article Company Showcase on the BMW Museum. (Via Core 77) This online exhibition of Czech book covers, explores the avante-garde period of design between World War I and II. The online collection of book covers is comprehensive and allows you to browse by either design type, author, designer or year. Curated by Stephen Van Dyke, from the Cooper Hewitt Design National Design Museum. (Via Design Observer) A collection of links to movies and TV series featuring archives, art galleries and museums. Objects A little creepy, but oddly cute as well, Genpets, life-like sculptures of bioengineered pets, are currently on display at V-Gallery, Basel Switzerland. Not surprisingly, they've caused quite a reaction wherever they’ve been displayed so far! (Via Sydney Morning Herald Blog Mash Up) Email Mode your museum and design links for the next Short and Snappy. |
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