Design and a musical sideline

[imomus]

REDESIGNDESIGN is my new piece for Design Observer.



My next design-related writing assignment is to do a piece for AIGA Voice about Islamic-influenced tile design in Portugal, so I'm heading off to the airport right now to fly to Portugal via the Canary Islands. If you're in Lisbon, Oporto or Alcobaça over the next few days, come and see my concerts, radical exercises in conceptual music design! It's my sideline, you know.

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[piratehead.livejournal.com]

There's a very strange and beautiful science fiction novel called Appleseed by a Canadian who's long lived in London named John Clute. I t's a deep-future psychedelic space opera retelling of the Johnny Appleseed fable, into which is folded all kinds of wicker-man old-britain romantic mythology. Islamic-influenced tiled design of the Portuguese variety plays an important role in this aliatory distant future as a kind of beautiful and effective interface for a sort of nanotechnological interface for the 'internet' that has come to permeate all material being in the galaxy (but which is being destroyed by a virus). A very imaginative book.