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http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/new-basics
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. It used to be such a lively place with about 38 different shops,’ recalls a local. But as foot traffic began to dwindle, so did storefronts. And with inheritance taxes so prohibitive that it forced younger generations to sell their properties ‘now only 6 shops remain.’ But a local design firm is trying to change things and breathe life back into the street. Spoon and Tamago, Okomeya: a new specialty rice shop that wants to bring an old shopping street back to life. Everlane host...
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Mark Hurrell
http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/stuff-that-we-do
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Stuff that we do. Graydon Carter: What was the first Apple product you used before joining Apple? Jony Ive: In art school. The computers colleges had were terrible. I assumed the problems were with me. When you eat something that's bad, you assume the food is bad. But when you use a bad product, you assume it's you. On the subject of UX, Mark. Wrote an article for The Manual about the patronising-as-shit term ‘Visual Design’:. But what about the designers? What do they do? If th...
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Mark Hurrell
http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/Wars
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Had a nice slow saturday run up the Lea Valley. This afternoon. Was just crossing Hackney Marsh as the clouds were starting to break and the DJ mix I was listening to moved into Jacques Greene’s After Life, After Party. And I got a bit of a flashback to when I saw him play at St John. Last week I went to opening of Evian Christ. S memorial to The Trance War. At the ICA. Half expected it to all be a big joke. Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Mark is a designer interested in interaction.
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Mark Hurrell
http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/strange-attractors
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Last November I started printing out my tweets and then deleting them from the internet. Didn’t really know the reason why at the time, but I guess the act of doing it sat somewhere between a materials-kitsch point about owning digital things in comparison to physical things and some sort of conceptual-art obligation piece. On Kawara’s studio (sorry, art college never leaves you). You’re so special nobody knows what you’re talking about. K-Hole #4, Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom.
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Mark Hurrell
http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/information-no-theory
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Last night I was sitting in bed with a bottle of Jameson reading Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972. And got to this description of Christine Kozlov’s ‘Information, No Theory’:. The recorder is equipped with a continuous loop tape. The recorder will be set at record. All the sounds audible in the room will be recorded. Proof of the existence of the information does in fact not exist in actuality, but is based on probability. In the public domain.
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Mark Hurrell
http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/answers-from-architecture
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Couple of interesting newspaper runs - Fulcrum. Available for download on the Architectural Association website. Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Mark is a designer interested in interaction. In the public domain. He works for Government Digital Service, mostly on GOV.UK which recently won the Design Museum's Designs Of The Year 2013. And a D&AD Black Pencil. Previously he worked for BBC News Online. Blogs at prospects.mhurrell.co.uk.
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Mark Hurrell
http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/making-stuff
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Rem Koolhaas, Preservation Is Overtaking Us. Quite old but still, it’s actually quite an optimistic and motivating essay. Loads of interesting bits. Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. Mark is a designer interested in interaction. In the public domain. He works for Government Digital Service, mostly on GOV.UK which recently won the Design Museum's Designs Of The Year 2013. And a D&AD Black Pencil. Previously he worked for BBC News Online. Blogs at prospects.mhurrell.co.uk.
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Mark Hurrell
http://prospects.mhurrell.co.uk/post/riposte
Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. This probably sounds like it should be obvious, but apart from the tagline it’s really easy to forget that Riposte magazine. Only features women - sort of like how you rarely notice that every other serious magazine out there usually only features men (apart from, you know, the photo on the cover.). S art direction nails that envy spot between rigid modernism and complimenting the articles. Kim Gordon - Is It My Body? Prospects.mhurrell.co.uk. In the public domain.
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