Ecriture Infinie

Leave your mark in a massive notebook filled with handwriting for the future

by Bryn Chernoff Starting at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum in 2006, Cameroon-born artist Bili Bidjocka and Lausanne-born curator Simon Njami have been traversing the world inviting creatives of varied professional backgrounds to write on the blank pages of eight enormous books “as if it were their the last opportunity to hand write something.” Their project, called Ecriture Infinie, emphasizes the gestures of writing and the …

Etel For Espasso

New furniture designs and reissues by Brazil's modern masters now on show in NYC

Celebrating many generations and over six decades of Brazil’s rich history of design is the new exhibition at Espasso, a NYC gallery that features Brazilian design. Starting today, 20 September 2011, the group show presents beautiful furniture design from the country’s top architects and designers to America, much of it for the first time. Uniting the designers—Arthur Casa, Dado Castello Branco, Isay Weinfeld, Jorge Zalszupin …

Slow Tech

Designer Hugo Eccles unveils four smart ways to ensure social downtime in a London Design Week group show

While many designers are working hard to develop new applications that would foster more streamlined social networking, the group behind the London exhibit Slow Tech are intelligently conceptualizing how to take time off. Created by Wallpaper Magazine editor Henrietta Thompson and Protein, the group show “encourages people to take time off from their little shiny screens,” explains participant Hugo Eccles. Working with designer Afshin Mehin, …