August 2009
All Streets
All Streets is a project mapping the US purely by streets and roads. The image reveals not only the shape of the country, but lighter and darker patches (more or less roads) reveal landscape features, and urban sprawl.
Cityfix: A Fake Brand
Cityfix® is a fake brand/campaign commisioned by MTV/OneDotZero and created by Studio Cymbols. The purpose of the campaign was to encourage industrial architecture in a post-industrial world.
Live Forever
Live Forever - The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition
Website: Up To 35
Up To 35 is an international design competition for students up to the age of 35, specifically for student housing. Their site is an all Flash affair (which I could rail against, but will restrain myself), but has an interesting navigation concept, and works relatively well for a site keeping all the content within one page. Let's take a look.
Urban Islands: Project Update
BLDGBLOG has updates and details on two of the student projects from Urban Islands 2009. Pop over and read about the Island of Future Airships and The Missing Buildings of Cockatoo Island.
By George! Laneways
The projects for By George! (Hidden Networks, Forgotten Systems) have been announced and you can find out more about them here.