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Convert To Shape: Wayshowing and Community Identity Part One

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Wayshowing and Community Identity Part One. This essay forms part one of a series discussing the impact of wayshowing on community identity. Part two will go up later this week. Mollerup, Per from Wayshowing: A Guide To Environmental Signage Principles and Practice. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers, 2005). Lefebvre, Henri: ‘The Production of Space’ in Architecture Theory Since 1968. Ed K Michael Hays. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 2000). Kuo, A: Reviewed Text Message Reviews.

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Convert To Shape: New Look New Purpose

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New Look New Purpose. The past week has seen sweeping changes on the inside and out of Convert To Shape. Emboldened with a new look, courtesy of an unfortunate pilot error, this blog sets sail in a new direction. With the painful creation of my website. There was no reason (nor motivation) for posting about new work on this page. So, what to do with it? There are a couple of new features coming, too. Just wait for the new post.

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Convert To Shape: Regarding Digital Revolutions

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In a piece for the Age, Andrea Carson derides Twitter, at its worst, as little more than "a narcissistic medium of personal updates about nothing of consequence: a 'Daily Me' for a world that is obsessed with the individual and celebrity.". Carson, Andrea: 'Vacuous, shallow, banal - don't believe the twype' in The Age. Monday, 11th of October, 2010. I'm looking at you, Apple. One should be wary. I certainly haven't been immune from the the luscious refreshment of technology KoolAid. For communication&#82...

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Convert To Shape: Wayshowing and Community Identity Part Two

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Wayshowing and Community Identity Part Two. Part One can be viewed here. Indect: Parking Guidance System. At Westfield Doncaster (2008). Gibson, David in The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places. Princeton Architectural Press, New York: 2009). Gibson, David in The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places. Princeton Architectural Press, New York: 2009). Is a key example, whereby pedestrians are shown surrounding attractions and how to get there. London: AIG, 2006).

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Convert To Shape: Subcultural Backlash

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Criticism of the hipster is reaching fever pitch. But why? To what do we owe this displeasure? Brigid Delaney has written article. Most probably brought about by the recent publication of What Was The Hipster? Greif, M. et al. What Was The Hipster? N 1 Foundation (2010). Regular readers, and those who know me, will understand that I am cautious of labels, and prefer sliding scales to black-and-white definitions. With that in mind, it's worth pointing out that although a taxonomist may place my partne...

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Convert To Shape: Gaga And The Postmodern Condition

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Gaga And The Postmodern Condition. If you like, you can read a brief. I thought long and hard about how to do this first post for the new Convert To Shape. What would it be on? How would I write it? Should it be more formal, and appear as a proper essay, or would it be an extended piece of commentary? Perhaps these questions should have been resolved before beginning writing, but here we are. Inevitably, it is the content that has directed which way the good ship HMAS Convert To Shape will head. That she...

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Convert To Shape: Gallery Review: The August Shows at Platform

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Gallery Review: The August Shows at Platform. The artist run initiative situated underneath Flinders Street Station, is a gallery that lives in the subconscious — most people know that there’s something there, they just don’t acknowledge it. Format, a challenge to conventional curatorship and common ways of viewing art. Simmel, Georg; 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' in The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1950), p. 414. While it could be argued that all art has to overcome this ...

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Convert To Shape: Neon Tribe: Shamanism in the Digital Age

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Neon Tribe: Shamanism in the Digital Age. One of the things that has fascinated me recently is the re-emergence of the tribal aesthetic, in fashion, design and film. Not tribal as in terrible tattoos, but tribal in the sense of the tribe. 8212;be that North and South American, Scandanavian, Celtic. Located within the broader mythologies attached to these tribes. Has adopted the technological advancements of our contemporary era? I would argue none. For a later post, perhaps. While there is undoubtedly a ...

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Convert To Shape: Short Ones: The Politics Question

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Short Ones: The Politics Question. Over the last few days I've wondered how the political spectrum appears in design discourse, and how this applies to designers generally. But I always get stuck on one thing—where are all the conservative designers? Why don't we here them more often? Often as far as this goes is with the critique of the First Things First Manifesto and it's millennial sibling. First Things First 2000 Manifesto' in Adbusters. Design has shifted from a near-amateur craft, with little form...