Category Archives: Design

Postmodernism: It’s History

Posted on October 11, 2011 by cosmopolitanscum

It is entirely possible to love the current exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion at the V&A and find in it a sign of why Post-Modernism is at a dead end.

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Open Source Design

Posted on August 30, 2011 by cosmopolitanscum

London’s design scene has been dominated by designers working with craft techniques such as knitting. This has led to a kind of fetishisation of the handmade, a strange pre-reccession moment when the market for one-off handmade design bizarrely fed into a … Continue reading →

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You’re Worse Than Crystal Palace

Posted on July 28, 2011 by cosmopolitanscum

The strange British genius for turning media production into a prolonged spectacle, which we have seen during the hackgate scandal, dates back at least to the Great Exhibition of 1851 I would say. Reading through the huge profusion of books … Continue reading →

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Souvenirs For Buildings That Don’t Exist

Posted on July 27, 2011 by cosmopolitanscum

There is a moment in Superman III

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Portal placements

Posted on January 29, 2011 by cosmopolitanscum

As the Be Open Sound Portal passes into the hands of two of London’s most dynamic creative schools, the very limitations of the experience it offers – an unparalleled, immersive sound experience normally only experienced by a privileged few for … Continue reading →

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Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Posted on June 28, 2009 by cosmopolitanscum

Yet another horrendous piece of graphic design plops through the mat of the poor benighted inhabitants of London’s Olympics boroughs and yet again they as one recoil at the hideosness of the logo. (A hideousness which I want to explain … Continue reading →

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