Significant Objects

It all seems to be about tale telling and stories tonight- this was a project featured on Design Observer, which caught my attention as it reminded me of one of my fav projects of late- that collaboration between Onkar Kular, Noam Toran, and Keith Jones: The MacGuffin Library. The idea of creating fake stories around real objects and therefore increasing their value is (too me) interesting-design-tastic. Link: here, oh god it feels good.

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100 Post-its

I guess I'm kinda behind the times with these next few posts- not been hanging at my computer as much as normal i guess. As part of identifying what we want to do for our final project we began by writing 100 hundred ideas on 100 post-its, easier said than done i found. After that we put them on the walls of the studio in categories which we found common ground on and approximately 24 headings developed containing in total approx 5000 post-its (54 people in the class). Every heading was assigned two people- and then these guys split the post-its in their heading into categories based on similarities or whatever. Then 3 brief ideas were presented and voted on for the 2 to be carried on a be written up- From these resulting 48 briefs we individually picked 2 to run with for 8 days- after which we presented what we had done and what we aimed to do in the next couple of weeks.

These are my 100 post-its:

clocks,

shaving/ coffee ritual,

goosebumps/ hair raising,

opposites,

anesthetic/ numb,

stair politics,

echoes,

game theory,

stale/ stagnation,

breathing in sync/ walking in sync,

repetition,

collect & accumulate (validated through it's peers),

collector as subversive and transgressive,

collector as organiser + criteria,

collecting trophies/ memorials,

raymears total canoe,

labyrinth,

insurance,

fortification,

dead photos/ slides,

piano tune/ roll,

house numbers,

keats and the imagined,

palimpsest,

advertising through artifacts,

valid/ invalid,

polarity,

locke and temporal flux,

multi valued logic,

moths,

using existing forms/ structures,

volume (sound etc),

pattern,

type in real,

fade/ decay/ texture,

tidal swimming pool,

numerals/ counting,

self contained things- crabs & mussels,

guilt,

hand written notes,

excess materials,

accumulation,

choice as a limiter,

constraints as liberating,

light as a material,

exhibition touching,

swarms,

sacrifice, hornets/ holey ice,

end grain, end cardboard,

symmetry,

stencils,

mushrooms,

prosaic,

implication, pragmatic linguistics,

mnemonics,

sticky tape,

immediacy of use/ feedback,

pain- ache - desire,

prioritising,

the act of staring something,

guild,

compromise,

joints/ fixings,

power in consistency,

metal type,

trains/ tracks,

tickets,

toilet door signs,

habits,

tautology,

spectacle,

slow design,

sleep in a book, sheets of a book, bed time story,

where you are = how you are,

non- action,

las vegas hooker cads,

facile,

irrational,

complete,

loneliness,

gray(-)scale,

inevitability,

mutant,

entropy,

segment,

gargoyle,

scythe,

some chemists mean contrivance,

mittens on string,

compassion fatigue,

canal locks, woman on phone "are you here?",

drawing machines,

originate,

tattoo fonts,

peg type boards,

cathartic (sis),

copy,

perennial/ ephemeral.