In yet another onto-it post (from 2006) by Geoff Manaugh on his BLDGBLOG he throws up some enticing potentials about future aeroplanes printed out of plastic and the imagined potential of bio-printing.
But where it gets really interesting for me, is where he starts to discuss how contemporary life is slipping into sci-fi, and “Science-fiction and social realism will become one and the same thing.” Becoming increasingly future-focussed (reading between the lines) is valuable for the way it sparks, or encourages imaginative, open exploration of ideas. He yawns at much of …

Like a white swan landing on the reflective lake at just the right moment, this exhibition is coming. Following my earlier post, Extreme Textiles, I just stumbled across this post on the Design Boom blog
The site for this delicious looking exhibition is here: Tokyo fibre 09 Senseware
It’s pure magic. check it out.
I especially like the filter mask moulded into a monkey’s nose/mouth.
Interesting how white almost everything in the exhibition is. This is a common property given to newness: as if new forms/ideas await colouring in…. still clean and …