Orange Shop: Notting Hill

For many of us buying a new mobile phone is a task, even a quest, which is not satisfying until it's over and the device is in hand. In the U.K. the mobile operator Orange is experimenting with shop concepts that create a better customer experience. We stumbled on this one in Notting Hill last week, apparently the only one of its kind in London. …

Pink Expenses

I just remembered this brilliant little project (circa 2003) from our friends over at The Royal Society for the Protection of Designers (aka Pink928). Pink Expenses is a receipt generator that would be handy to the corporate traveller if the content was a little more work-place friendly. To use it just select who serviced you and where, then choose your three slutty courses. The next …

Graham Dolphin

One of the standouts at last month's Scope New York, Graham Dolphin’s art, employing seemingly-compulsive writing as the centerpiece, simultaneously recalls Fluxus, Marcel Duchamp and the back of a notebook owned by a girl in junior high. With meticulous, miniature penmanship, Dolphin makes dense, obsessive, lovely formations of words using lyrics from pop songs as his mundane-born muse. "White Lyrics" indents the complete lyrics of …