Jazz Grant picked five V&A objects. Her collage became a Hackney mural
Jazz Grant searched the V&A stores, selected five objects, added photographs and cut the material by hand. The result shows what collage can do that a catalogue cannot.
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They built the 1.9 m² a 25-year-old can afford in Stockholm
Riksbyggen and BBDO Nordics turned a housing index into three full-scale micro-homes: 1.9 m² in Stockholm, 3.1 in Gothenburg and 4.5 in Umeå.
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Stefhany Y Lozano painted 26 hands. Gesture became the subject
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This furniture borrows from Carrara’s waste. The material trail stops early
Marmifere borrows its forms from the ravaneti, Carrara’s quarry-waste heaps. Moving from a waste landscape to a recycled-material claim requires one more thing, however: a traceable material source.
Julie Green painted 1,000 last meals without displaying the names
For twenty-two years, Julie Green reduced each execution to three visible pieces of information: a state, a date and a last meal painted in cobalt blue. The constraint turns one thousand plates into a physical archive.
The heart above the i is not this typeface’s most political feature
Oficía Mono turns office typography into a character. The more interesting thread connects its glyphs, licensing price and Charlotte Rohde’s eight-year interest in how typefaces circulate.
5,000 movie posters. The real subject is Texas
The Harry Ransom Center has exactly 5,000 movie posters in its digital collection. Looking at the metadata instead of the gallery reveals a much narrower corpus: almost all of it comes from one Texas theater circuit.
Doom runs on a 2010 DSLR. Doom is the easy part
Doom now runs on a Canon EOS 550D using its screen, buttons and even its speaker. The port is really a map of everything developers had to learn about the camera first.