MAKEA tu vida
Makea tu vida is a group of people, a website where information is exchanged and an attitude that resists our "throwaway"culture. The aim is simple: to design useful and beautiful furniture from unused objects.
Makea tu vida offer workshops on the creative reuse of furniture, organize urban tours to identify places where furniture that can be reused has been abandoned and run the annual Rehogar recycling contest, which awards prizes to the best designs made from waste materials.
The website has a section called El Recetario (The Recipe Collection) where you can check out the most successful Makea tu Vida designs, with photos, instructions and varying levels of difficulty.
Article from The TrendNet, author: Ptqk
Information only in spanish, but worth checking out the pixs!
dot-font by John D. Berry (free pdf download)
buch zum thema design im alltag... (via boingboing)
Typography legend John D Berry sez, "Inspired by Cory's success in giving away the texts of his books in every conceivable electronic form, and yet ending up selling more copies of the printed books than his publishers would otherwise expect, I have put together a digital version of Dot-font: talking about design, which you can download for free. It's a collection of essays on design, both graphic and otherwise, published in paper-space by Mark Batty Publisher in 2006. "We all live in the midst of design every day; we might as well pay attention to it, and turn an observant and critical eye on what's around us.""
I remember going to the WorldCon in Yokohama with John and watching him get mobbed by Japanese type-nerds. He designed the interiors for my book Content and my forthcoming With a Little Help. This is a stellar work from a great talent.
dot-font by John D. Berry (Download)
Rays of Light Amid the Gloom (via NYT)
Artikel aus der New York Times zum Status der Niederländischen Designszene: