Design week 07

Design week is starting up on the 5th of september and runs until the 11th. Some really great stuff going on and some highly reputable designers talking again this year. Erik Speikermann Lecture should be on the top of the pile for anyone interested, he’s giving a lecture in the Westin Hotel on Saturday the 10th. Anton Beeke’s exhibition is also well worth a visit and will be in The National Print Museum, Beggars Bush. Beeke is regarded as ‘L’enfant terrible’ of Dutch design and has some very provocative work; well worth a look.
Anyway all you need to know is here: Click me…

To teamYES*…

Who claim this ‘all looks a bit familiar’…

Remove yourselfs from your pedestal for just one moment. From a design point of view, perhaps it is similar. The chosen skin makes sense. The typographic solution used on the dates is akin to a style I encorporate, and have done for many moons, into my own work, and the simple layout is peerles. I believe it is, however, a ’style’, there to be used at the discression of the user and not a oeuvre of ‘teamYES*’. However, listen carefully and let me bequeth you, the content is nothing short of disparate, I will confess the ‘Theo Jansen’ is appropriated, although not without reference. It is nothing short of shameful that you only see yourself in the trials of others, bolster yourself to your own glories in a deplorable act of self-promotion. For such exertion to be passed of as regurgitation is nothing short of cruelty. To have such a degree of arogance and to deploy such authority of ownership over a template which is provided to all wordpess users is puerile. And to think, I felt I could share something culturally uplifting with you philistines. Chastise you men of folly, or suppress your valour. Patrick Mullen.

DEAF 2007

Dublin Electronic Arts Festival 2007 is kicking off on the 25th through to the 29th.

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