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Timelines
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Storytelling has evolved on to a whole new level, as we take a journey in time and place. The historic
past, the here and now, and fast-moving science fuse together to create the future. Its the mix of multilayered references that creates something new.
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This is not about a retro vision of the future, but instead about taking products and ideas directly from the
past, adding a contemporary filter and an advanced technology layer. The result? A time hybrid that feels
totally fresh.
Untitled #1 by Agnieszka Lasota is a perfect illustration of history, modernism and technology. The artist
has encased her grandmothers 90-year-old oak table in electro-polarised glass skins. When an electric
current is activated, the table top becomes a screen showing a digital video projection representing the
tables past life.
The piece materially represents different eras of technology and design, with the designers roots and
culture creating an intriguing narrative for the viewer. A physical timeline of design history and future
possibility is established and made into an inspiring product.
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Be excited by artists and designers who look backwards, forwards and sideways in their approach and
produce work that archives, curates and records the life of a concept or product.
LIFE LOGGING
THE DESIRE TO LOG
STORIES AND THE
IMPORTANCE OF
DOCUMENTING MEMORIES
IS OPENING UP A WORLD OF
DESIGN POSSIBILITIES.
Polish designer Agnieszka
Lasota calls her pieces
vehicles of time and with them
explores the meeting place
between memory, nostalgia and
progress.
Crucially it is not just the story
behind the work that is
important here but the actual
record of time.
www.agnieszka-lasota.pl
SLOW DOWN
Students at Goldsmiths Digital
Studios - at Goldsmiths Art
College, London - research and
develop new ways to explore
simulation, reality and memory
through interactive installations.
www.gold.ac.uk
Jeehee Lees Memory Dust
project allows people to
physically interact with a
memory. The viewer can blow
away virtual dust from images
displayed on a digital photo
platform. The result is a
combination of the past image
with the present markings of the
user.
THE POST-RECESSIONARY
WORLD HAS REASSESSED
ITS OBSESSIONS. SPEED IS
NO LONGER TAKING STOCK
AND THE DESIGN
OPPORTUNITIES THIS
OFFERS ARE WHAT COUNT.
British-Israeli photographer
Yishay Garbasz uses a bulky,
large-format camera to force
herself to slow down.
Her recent project, In My
Mother's Footsteps,is an
exploration of the inheritance of
memory, as well as a healing
process. Garbasz retraces the
steps of her mother across
Europe during World War Two.
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TRADITION MEETS
TECHNOLOGY
OPPOSITES NOW ATTRACT.
THE OLD AND THE NEW ARE
NO LONGER ON PARALLEL
PATHS AND THEIR FUSION IS
CREATING FRESH IDEAS.
Blurbis a company and
community that still believes
passionately in the joyof books reading them, making them,
sharing them and selling them.
By refusing to reject the new
and by moving online, they have
given anew lease of life to book
publishing, making it possible
for anyone torecord themselves
in their own book.
www.blurb.com
Paper Beats Internet is another
site that uses the space
betweenanalogue and digital to
carve out a new form of
communication.
Users post an initial drawing on
the website and others create
commentand response
drawings that work off the first
drawings theme. Besidesbeing
aesthetically pleasing, the time
and care that go into doing
adrawing adds a sense of
thought, warmth and depth to
the usually quick,off-the-cuff
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www.merelkarhof.nl
Obsessive collections of
historical detail are becoming a
new hobby, as well as product
development strategy.
Lesli Larson writes the Archival
Clothing blog. In her own words
she is: Obsessed with
austerity, build quality, durable
woollens, waxed fabrics [and]
long distance cycling
As we reassess the priorities of
clothing, such complete
immersion in detail, historical
context and functionality
becomes for many a liberating
way to look at fashion.
www.archivalclothing.com
CULTURAL OVERLAY
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LEGACY
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DeadMau5 - I Remember
directed by Colin OToole is part
short film part music video, and
was produced in collaboration
with the brand Your Own
Clothing.
An older man talks to two young
men about how youth today
doesnt have a voice or belong
to a collective group with a
shared passion.
To illustrate his point he
explains the 10 commandments
of being a true raver, little
knowing that his young friends
have already been planning a
party of their own.
www.pulsefilms.co.uk
Its fascinating to see the idea of
legacy - in this case the rave
scene of the late 80s and the
political protest that represented
- being used as a narrative
thread by the new generation,
as they take it to the next level.
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