ideas & integrities

During his life Fuller influenced such diverse talents as Norman Foster, sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi and John Cage. Driven by the design philosophy of “more for less”, Fuller worked simultaneously on plans for houses, cars, boats, games, television transmitters and geodesic domes, all of which were designed to be mass-produced using the simplest and most sustainable means possible.

memphis clips

Memphis-style clips from Keefer Street market. Memphis was a Milan-based group of furniture and product designers. Reacting to the post-Bauhaus/International Style design of the 1970s the Memphis Group designed bright, colorful, playful pieces. Ettore Sottsass, called Memphis design the “New International Style”. Memphis greats include Michele de Lucchi, Marco Zanini, Aldo Cibic, Nathalie du Pasquier and of course Ettore Sottsass who had worked for Olivetti through the 1960s.

gum disease

I think I have gum disease.

1) glass container, Daiso $2
2) iodized sea salt
3) Steri/sol (perfect graphic design)
4) montreal ‘67 cup, junk shop 50¢

more 2 good books

Problem Seeking is an exploration of architectural programming with a decidedly EST feel to it. The diagrams seem more self-help than technical. It’s conspicuously black and white in that 1965-75 sort of way. For any diagram enthusiast, this is the right book.

New Architecture was a surprise, seeing the Brasilia influence in the American Northeast. Plenty of raw concrete, concrete louvres, visible and exaggerated structure. Again, conspicuously black and white in that 1965 to 75 sort of way.

uhu

Shortly after my brother died, I went to my boyfriend’s sister’s wedding in Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. It was… literally the most terrifying flight I’ve ever been on: Air Transat. The plane’s chassis was creaking like a fucking rocking chair. We transferred like eight times. Then we arrive and I had my first all inclusive… piña colada poolside service. I’m not complaining. We spent most of the time trying to find someone to have a threesome with. Every single market we went to there was José trying to sell us: cocaine, hustlers, cristal (you figure it out), illegal electronics and… pirated copies of The Hills. This was not such a bad trip. One of the only things I bought was a tube of UHU glue because I was totally stricken with how UNIVERSAL the packaging was.

hilton totem

This one is hard to explain. I found this on Commercial Drive. I don’t even really like it. But the thing is, I used to work for these printers on Powell Street in Japantown… using the 1981 imagesetter and learning about 130 linescreens and eating halva (long story.) When I worked there… Richard Shorty used to come in all the time along with all these other famous Coast Salish artists. They would bring these shitty sketches and I would redraw them in Illustrator, making them something perfect and beziered?