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“If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won’t help.”

—Edward Tufte

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Preludium by Zmir x Hania Rani.

Polish pianist, composer and singer Hania Rani joined forces with two architects, Łukasz Pałczyński & Jan Szeliga (Zmir Studio), to tell the story about the intertwining of architecture and music for Zodiak Warszawski Pawilon Architektury. Having initially been asked to give a lecture about their research and experience they instead built tree music boxes, composed music and installed them in a public space in Warsaw. After 10 hours one of them was already stolen. Two of them remained untouched. You can view the short film on Facebook.

—via Hania Rani on Facebook

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LEGO® Braille Bricks.

LEGO® Braille Bricks is a playful tool to teach Braille to blind and visually impaired children. Children naturally learn through play. It allows them to discover the world around them, come up with ideas of their own, connect with others, and use their natural creativity and curiosity. Each brick in the LEGO® Braille Bricks toolkit retains its iconic form, but unlike a regular LEGO® brick, the studs are arranged to correspond to numbers and letters in the Braille alphabet. Each brick shows the printed version of the symbol or letter, allowing sighted and blind children to play and learn together on equal terms.

—via LEGO® Braille Bricks

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Sad People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films.

International, award-winning type foundry Colophon have published the follow-up to their 2010 publication 'Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films'. 'Sad People' examines the filmic trope of housing unhappy characters inside of modernist architecture. Case studies via ten characters / homes / films, from Colin Firth's George Falconer inside John Lautner's Schaffer Residence in Tom Ford's 'A Single Man' (2009) to Brigitte Bardot's Camille Javal inside Adalberto Libera's Casa Malaparte in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Le Mépris' (1963).

—via Colophon

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Surfing On Seaweed.

Most surfers are well tuned in to the rhythms of the natural world. But what happens when that natural world finds itself out of balance? Well, for surfers like Charlie Cadin, you see if you can't do something about it. A shaper and surfer from the Island of Jersey, Charlie's approach to the island's problem with an invasive species of seaweed was to see if he could turn that negative into something positive - and so the seaweed surfboard was born.

—via Finisterre

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Film Posters.

In between designing book covers for a variety of publishers and writing his column for Creative Review magazine, York based freelance creative Daniel Gray has been keeping himself busy during lockdown with his self-initiated project of reworking film posters.

—via Daniel Gray

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Monocle on Design | Braun.

To celebrate Braun’s centenary, Monocle reveal why the German company’s designs are so revered and why its future is looking just as bright. Ben Wilson, industrial designer and director of communications at Braun, discusses the historical importance of the company’s design and how it continues to inform its exciting new work, whilst Monocle’s creative director Richard Spencer Powell selects his three favourite Braun designs

—via M24 Radio

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The Nexus House Archive.

UK based artist Marcus Jefferies uses the built environment to form a backdrop to his work where new narratives evolve through the exploration of site, scale and memory. The Nexus House Archive is a fictionalised history of a mid-twentieth-century modernist house. The archive seeks to examine the lure of American modernist architects, whose work epitomized a vision of futuristic luxury and desire. Many of the buildings were used as film locations and photoshoots. It is this blurring of real and imaginary narratives that underpin the working process of this archive. Found photographs and holiday snaps sit alongside imagined events to illustrate the life and death of a building.

—via Marcus Jefferies

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Models Don’t Lie.

Models have become a critical aspect of our workflow over the years, as can be seen by the amount of ‘mini’ houses that are now dotted around our studio, proudly displayed in the homes of our clients and on the shelves of various planning departments around the country.

—via Hyde + Hyde Architects

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