Vitra Design Museum’s African Exhibition

Vitra goes to Africa, the Indienet, a people's history of coffee and more in our look at the web this week

Design Indaba’s newly redesigned site makes it easier than ever to keep up with all things creative happening in Africa. Interest in the steadily developing continent is widespread, and even Vitra is getting involved. The renowned German furniture-maker is focused on highlighting the new generation of creative talent in their forthcoming two-year exhibition, “Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design.” With curators like Okwui …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Vitra goes to Africa, the Indienet, a people's history of coffee and more in our look at the web this week

1. The New Yorker Embraces the GIF No matter how you prefer to pronounce it, there’s big news in the GIF world right now. One of the most respected publications for arts and culture, The New Yorker, has done the unexpected and released a digital GIF cover. It might be simple, but the work by animator Christoph Niemann is also beautiful and done with the …

GPS as a Digital Paintbrush

Vitra goes to Africa, the Indienet, a people's history of coffee and more in our look at the web this week

GPS, it turns out, can be more useful than just telling you how to get places. Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada used the very precise technology from Topcon Positioning Systems (used by cartographers and the US Army and Navy) to create “earth art”: a gigantic landscape portrait on a plot of land in Washington DC’s National Mall. 15,000 stakes were set up as a template, and …