SunChips, Frito-Lay’s popular line of multigrain snacks, will introduce for Earth Day 2010 the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. Packaging Digest describes the key design innovations behind SunChips’ new packaging:
Current snack food packaging has three layers: a printed outer layer with packaging visuals/graphics, an inner layer, which serves as a [...]
The much-awaited BLDGBLOG book is out. Sounds like the visually-stunning, encyclopaedic tour de force we’ve been expecting:
“It’s got five major chapters and a huge bibliography; it’s got interviews, full-color photo spreads (by Simon Norfolk! David Maisel! Edward Burtynsky! Ilkka Halso! Bas Princen! and more!), as well as original illustrations by my colleague at Dwell, Brendan Callahan; it’s [...]
Somehow I missed this inspiring development: artists are moving in to Detroit, buying up houses for dirt cheap and converting them into linked-up, green artist communities.
A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit [...]
“Sunaisthēsis is the distant origin of the modern “synaesthesia”; the verb from which it was drawn, sunaisthanesthai, can be found in two passages of Aristotle’s treatises. “Formed by the addition of the prefix ‘with’ (sun-) to the verb ‘to sense’ or ‘to perceive’ (aisthanesthai), the expression in all likelihood designated a ‘feeling in common,’ a [...]
Der Spiegel reports of another “Veiled Woman Removed From Bus in Denmark“:
“For Amina Farah Suleiman, it was the fourth time in a few months that she has been kicked off a bus in the harbor city of Odense. Her Islamic niqab only had a small opening for the eyes, and the driver refused to accept [...]
In his September 2008 keynote address for the Networks of Design meeting of the Design History Society, Bruno Latour described, with typical circumspection, the implications of the on-going expansion of design. The sheer range of things now subject to it — objects, cities, and everything in between — shows just how momentous, and total, this [...]
A round of articles on the many hurdles facing women who breast feed and/or pump breast milk shows just how inconvenient this activity is in a world designed, so it would seem, with only men in mind. Sara J. Welch notes in a recent New York Times article:
“Several working mothers spoke of looking for [...]
In the chapter “Mobilizing the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption”, from their recent book Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life, Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose give a fine summary of the state of consumer/consumption theory.
It begins, appropriately, with a sketch of the profound ambivalence that has marked consumer studies since the [...]
Branding strategies and the marketing studies that inform them are increasingly taking into account the rules and conventions that shape consumer attention.
According to the New York Times, in a forthcoming article, “The Power of Strangers,” (to be published in The Journal of Consumer Research) Rosellina Ferraro, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of [...]
London, November 26: Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG with Antoine Bousquet of Birkbeck College will present a public lecture on ‘Battlespace/s: Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare’.
Manaugh’s lecture will be an analysis of ‘cities gone wild’ and their relation to war, architecture, science fiction and geopolytics.
Being a fan of Rafi Segal’s important A Civilian [...]
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