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We had a great time with participants from VIDE‘s Design in Motion Summer Experience 2006. Take a look at the blog we kept to see the Real Dutch Design party, our trip to Berlin, the Bauhaus Archive and much more…

All images and content copyright 2006 Strange Attractors Design, Ryan Pescatore Frisk & Catelijne van Middelkoop and cannot be used, or reproduced without written consent.

TOKYO CHATLAB AIRS ON NHK'S POPJAM
A JAPANESE TELEVISION PIECE EXPLORING JAPAN'S INFLUENCE ON FOREIGN CREATIVES.

BIG TYPE SAYS MORE
A TYPOGRAPHIC INSTALLATION AT MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN IN ROTTERDAM.

BROADCASTING TONGUES INVESTIGATES TYPE USAGE AND DEVELOPMENT, IN VARIOUS SUBCULTURES AND CONTEXTS. THE FOCUS IS ON ‘LOCAL TONGUES’ VERSUS THE ‘INTERNATIONAL STYLE’, AN ALTERNATIVE WHICH IS READILY AVAILABLE TO DESIGNERS AND DESIGN CONSUMERS IN BURGEONING MARKETS.
OUR SEARCH FOR LOCAL VERNACULAR AND HISTORICAL CONTENT REVEALS THE IMPORTANCE OF DISTINCT CULTURAL AND/OR PERSONALSTANCE AND EXPRESSION. THE RESULT EXPLORES HOW CULTURAL (OR PERSONAL) SIGNIFICANCE, TRADITION, OR IDEOLOGY IS MANIFESTED IN GRAPHIC LANGUAGE AND THE EFFECT THIS HAS ON THE MESSAGE. FINALLY WE ASK HOW THIS WORK CAN HELP US REINSTATE AND EMPHASIZE OUR OWN PERSONAL OR CULTURAL IDENTITIES INSTEAD OF CAPITULATING TO THE GENERIC GLOBALIST VOICE?