Event: SHOCK VALUE: Design in an intra-cultural world
Where: Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. In the basement of the new building, room K-18 When: October 31, 2007, at 4 pm Description In the Netherlands, the evidence of thoughtful design is everywhere: the...
View ArticleI’m a Stumbling Fool
And an apology to all those folks who got emails from me… And a plea for better INFORMATION DESIGN. Okay, I am a complete idiot. I hope some of the designers of Stumble Upon read this so that I can...
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Landscapes Unknown II
Kamran and I saw the documentary film Landscapes Unknown II, which was astounding in its portrayal of the artist’s vision. The filmmakers Melle van Essen and Riekje Ziengs were able to bridge the...
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Ashtary Design
Purchase Iran: View From Here, a book of photographs From A Love Letter from Iran, a review by author Kamin Mohammadi: In describing Iran one is in danger of wearing out that age-old cliché — this is...
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Tori is moderating a series of lectures for the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. The blog for the lectures is at this link, if you care to join our conversation. You can read about the lecture topics...
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I-Tunes Playlists
I don’t have an i-Pod (I know I must be one of the last people on Earth… but I have never felt really safe totally shutting out the world around me), but I still play most of my music on my computer. I...
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Brick Superman
The Brick Superman Superman often features in my dreams. In one dream he was transformed into a monumental stone sculpture in a post-human landscape. This is a take on that dream, if not an exact...
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Tintin in Lorestan
Brick Tintin Since I created the brick Superman, brick figures have been haunting me. I’ve dreamed of brick rodeo girls, brick pinups, a brick Wonder Woman, just to name a few. My dreams are of bricks...
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The Demon Runs Wild
The Demon Reveals Himself Last Friday, June 12th, was an historic presidential election in Iran. Many of our loved ones were campaigning for reform in Iran. When the overwhelming landslide for...
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Hope, Votes & Bullets
Over the past year, Tori Egherman, Kamran Ashtary, and Hamid Tehrani have been working on the book Hope, Votes & Bullets, which is currently available. Here is the text of the introduction: A few...
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