Archive for the ‘studies’ Category

Tempo asks: What’s Oslo for you?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

I've been distributing a pack of diferent kinds of papers and asked some Norwegians to relate some of them to Oslo charachteristics. It does not make sense to have the papers here, since there is a lot of touching and grabing, but there are some of the answers I got: What ...

Writings for Tempo

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

One part of Tempo is called the Invisible Attractions. It shows some attractions through such a personal way that they become other things. I hope you can guess what I am talking about when I describe... ...the Colorful Showers As a city with so well defined seasons - and its main activities ...

What I have done in my week so far

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

It's chaotic, but I like it. • Since I am back from Venice, I've been putting a lot more effort at my magazine project. I need to present the research and some sketches in a Conference this October, here at KHiO - that's why this blog has beeg invaded with all ...

Beautiful-a-day

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Has anyone checked out the D&AD website for the year finals? There are some very well designed magazines to look at. Good examples from every mark in the range between the mass-traditional-magazine-market and the super-alternative-conceptual zine. Here are my favorites:

Psychogeography & personal maps

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

1.When all comes together “Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The adjective psychogeographical, retaining a rather pleasing vagueness, can thus be applied to the findings arrived at by ...

Ruskin

Friday, September 19th, 2008

'The fineness of Nature's work is so great, that, into a single block, a foot or two in diameter, she can compress as many changes fo form and structure, on a small scale, as she needs for her mountains on a large one; and taking moss for forests, and grains ...

Debord’s quotes on Psychogeography

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography Debord, Guy-Ernest. Les Lèvres Nues #6 1955 "Psychogeography oculd set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The adjective psychogeographical, retaining a rather pleasing vagueness, ...

The master plan

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

There is (a lot) more; I will work a bit on it and upload soon. So far, this is my project, and this is what I need to deliver in a couple of weeks. Click on the image to see it readable.