Semi-Permanent Recap

After two days in a darkened hall watching a near-constant stream of images and a diverse speaker lineup, my brain started confusing music videos with dreams and vainly tried to come up with the common thread in Semi-Permanent. Tying it all together (props to the planners for the choice), the over-caffeinated concluding speaker, Joshua Davis took the stage. His talk, centered around the concept of …

Yummy Industries’ 2nd Series

Back in February, Josh Spear clued us all in on Yummy Industries. Well, I'm just here to let you all know that they have some new belts available at their online store. The 1st and 2nd series are listed together in alphabetical order all clumped together. 2nd series belts: bird in pussy, death before disco, double dragon, elephant foot, first night out, lycelacie, mandelbrot, mob, …

Design Italiano

The Repertorio Del Design Italiano 1950-2000 is an indispensible guide to modern Italian design of the last fifty years. It took the authors more than ten years of research to assemble this thorough resource. If your Italian is a bit rusty you can rely on the 2,000+ images to follow the work of one of the dozens of designers or firms covered. $250, in Italian, …