Cool Hunting
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MIAD 2006 Show
by Ami Kealoha
And now, the perfect roadstop for mega-designgeeks on a summer cross-country trip. Milwaukee, Wisconsin has a hidden history of industrial design innovation starting with industry pioneer Brooks Stevens. The Juried Exhibition of 2006 graduates from the (yes it is) prestigious Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) present the next generation purveyors of beautiful planned obsolescence. Product prototypes, 3-D proposal renderings and boundary-pushing corporate graphic design from the best undergraduate and masters students are featured in the show. Like the stereotype of the pragmatic Midwest, work in the show leans away from an art-for-arts sake mindset towards creating solidly marketable things.
Emerging from the incubator are pieces with sublime, subtle differentiation. MIAD’s tiny campus area also houses the Eisner Museum of American Advertising and Design. The loft-like space mounts retrospectives of ID and graphic design studios which have written the dominant vocabularies of American design, like the upcoming Charles Anderson Exhibit. The MIAD Graduate Exhibition runs through 5 August 2006.
by Kristopher Irizarry
New Fest 2006
by Wendy Dembo
The 18th New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, New Fest 2006, is in full swing. The line-up offers features, shorts, domentaries and filmmaker forums. I was looking at the web site and it looks like they have a lot of “boys” in the titles: Real Boys, Boy I Am, Boy Culture, Daddy’s Boy, Boy With a Ball, and more. On Wednesday, 7 June 2006, I am going to see the short The Bridge (pictured right) which won the City of Melbourne Emerging Filmmaker Award for Best Australian Short Film and was produced by my friend Lazaro Hernandez. I also hope to catch 20 Centimeters (left), Ramón Salazar’s Spanish musical fantasy about a pre-op trannie, which closes the festival on 11 June 2006.
Industrial Design Techniques and Materials
by Ami Kealoha
Industrial Design Techniques and Materials, traces the history of design materials from the shifts brought by the mass production of the Industrial Revolution to the more recent developments brought by technology and ecological consciousness. The upshot is an intellectual survey of the field that's chock full of inspiration as well as full of inspiring finds like Nature Touch's eco-friendly exotic bullfrog, cow belly, and Tilapia skins. Due out 5 September 2006, preorder it now from Amazon.
Imperfection Bowls
by Ami Kealoha
The New Collectibles in the New York Times magazine. After some research, we found that New York's design institution Moss has been sold out of them for weeks, but they do have these "Imperfection" bowls, which are made from handmade glazed porcelain and gold and signed by the designer. Available in small (pictured), medium, and large, they start at $475.
2006 NYC Tattoo Convention
by m ss ng p eces
On 21 May we visited the seventh annual NYC Tattoo Convention at the Roseland Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan. We captured the performance of Lucky Diamond Rich, the most tattooed person in the world and met with Spider Webb, perhaps the most rebellious tattooist in history. Spider Webb was at the forefront of the movement to legalize tattooing in New York City during it's city wide ban from 1961 to 1998. Lucky Diamond Rich has been tattooed in 45 cities by 136 international tattoo artists. We caught up with Lucky on the Lower East Side of NYC after the show and discussed the life of tattoos. The following is an episode that reveals a brief glimpse into the world of ink. Headphones are suggested but not mandatory.
