Detroit Lives

Lookwork

For designer types like me, Lookwork looks like a great way to compile an online scrapbook of images and inspiration. I currently use FFFFound! but I find many of the same problems Joshua Blankenship listed on his blog like no tags & bunch of nudie distractions. I also don’t care for FFFFound’s lack of real attribution. FFFFound seems much more about getting nice images to flow through where Lookwork seems much more like a personal scrapbook like Little Snapper. I am looking forward to its launch.

Elastic Mind

While studying architecture at the Politecnico in Milan in the 1970s, Paola Antonelli was inspired by Benoit Mandelbrot’s geometric ideas and visualizations, and eventually wrote her thesis on “Fractal Architecture.” The two met for the first time last year when Antonelli invited Mandelbrot to a Seed/MoMA Salon, a monthly gathering of scientists, designers, and architects. Just before Antonelli’s new Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit opened at MoMA, they reconnected to discuss fractals, architecture, and the death of Euclid.

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Interestingly, both design and science are trying to change their position in people’s perception. Science is trying to be perceived as more part of the real world and less lofty than before, and designers are tired of being considered decorators, because they have a much more structural roles in shaping people’s lives. They really anticipate behaviors and guide change.”