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.

Comments

[anti-peace-riot.livejournal.com]

Very interesting article... I think I'll start following their work more.

"Satire is often a place where things go fuzzy. Satire is a masked ball where we can be devils or devils' advocates. Satire can be a laboratory where we brainstorm, research and develop, free to explore even forbidden, outmoded or discredited options."

I love that. Satire really is a type of science. However, if taken the wrong way, it can be just as controversial as the breakthroughs or experiments performed.

I also want to thank you. I've been reading your posts for some time now and I have been starting to develop an interest in design. I was wondering if yourself, as well as others who read this journal have any particular favorites?

Have a wonderful time in Portugal!

[becki1111.livejournal.com]

I know I have read some related articles on Islamic design in Portugal. Here are a few just in case they mention spots or other design aspects you may want to check out:

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200102/the.mystery.of.algarve.s.chimneys.htm

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200102/arabian.memories.in.portugal.htm

***This one is actually about tiles
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199202/the.tiles.of.iberia.htm

Oh how I envy your travel opportunities, mine seem so paltry now

[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.