Archive for January, 2008

Feminism

I call myself a feminist, proudly. But, in some instances, mainly during a talk or discussion with other people, I have come across a rather large amount of people to whom feminism= dated, nasty backward thinking dyke-ism. That in our day and age that label is unnecessary and just plain old fashioned. aren’t we liberated [...]

rumours and the power of placebo

yesterday I was telephoned by Luke and given a bollocking about my spread in the magazine. I was told to come in and justify and explain my work. I did. The aim of my work was to see if by simply spreading a rumour about doing something possibly  illegal to a few people in the [...]

MoMA and Design as Art

check it out, Paula Antonelli on how designers give a fuck

The Boyle Family

http://www.boylefamily.co.uk/

“family failing of philosophers” and “have I been understood?”
these are the first and last that I picked for my magazine spread.
Idea begins to take shape:
 I wanted to create something in the emotion of the words I had been designated. When Nietzsche speaks of the failing philophers he means that when we (mainly the church), refer(s) to man, [...]

“TUNE IN, TURN ON, GET WELL?”
So simple. So quick. It didn’t exactly feel historic. Mike Young took the clear gel capsule that was handed to him and the paper cup full of juice. Down it went….They knew that half the pills given out were placebos. Their chances were 50-50. Please, Young thought, let me be [...]