Lax(ative) Advertising

Call it ingenious marketing or just plain bad taste, but a company promoting its laxatives on a bus stop billboard on busy Avenida Faria Lima in São Paulo has incorporated toilet lids attached to the seats where bus passengers sit and wait to further drive home its message. Those innocently taking a rest while waiting for their rides on public transport unwittingly become part of …

An Interview with Lori Nix

Lori Nix makes highly–detailed dioramas that are playful and dark. An exhibition of her latest photographs opened at G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle yesterday and runs through 23 June 2007. (Click image for detail. More images after the jump.) What made you start making these models in the first place? How did all this come about? I was doing room–sized installations when I was in …

Run, Loud Graphix, Run!

LCD Soundsystem's specially–commissioned Nike+ mix has been a welcome accompaniment on the Nano when I'm pounding the streets, so I'm glad to reveal that the works of four more musicians are about to be released, but this time with a European twist. At the Designmai festival in Berlin this weekend, the Run, Loud Graphix, Run! collaboration will be unveiled, where the new tunes will be …