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Archive for September, 2008

Obsessions – Public Work

I stumbled across this really interesting example of experimentation in public space while browsing over at the Ministry of Type. Its a design put together in a public square somewhere in Europe (you can see a person there for scale). That would be kind of unremarkable just on its own, but the piece is put together using 250,000 1 Euro coins.

Golden Shirt

Let everyone know how you feel about ratios with this great shirt.

What is the Built Environment?

Given that this blog is supposed to be looking at how Graphic Design relates to the built environment, it probably wouldn’t hurt to take a look at what we are talking about when we refer to “The Built Environment”.

What’s all this then?

Hi, and welcome to Design+Build.
The aim of this site is to document and investigate the role that Graphic and Visual design play in the presentation and interpretation of architecture, interior design, wayfinding design and urban planning.
My first job after studying Interactive Multimedia was with an Architecture and planning firm called Scott Carver as an in-house [...]