Non-Sign II

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Reduced to negative space framed by a haze of blackened stainless steel sticks, this poetic vision of a billboard by Seattle’s artsiest architects Lead Pencil Studio continues to make the Internet rounds for good reason.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

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1. Concrete Ocean Concrete Ocean, a solo exhibition of London-based artist Slinkachu’s miniature installations, continues to explore themes that “reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city.” 2. Traumgedanken Budding designer Maria Fischer’s thesis project on dreams, Traumgedanken, uses string to weave together literary, philosophical, psychological and scientific texts for a tangible interpretation of how “pieces of reality are assembled to build …

Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011

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Phaidon shows highlights from the fourth annual Brit Insurance Design Awards, a culling of the design world’s best additions in the categories of architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. Flipboard took home the Interactive Award this year, and the highly-addictive game Angry Birds got a nod for its entertaining design.