Mole Magazine’s first Issue (Cute Little Things) is almost ready to drop, and we are giving BRIDGE a sneak peek from the featured articles! Design With Company (DWC) is a Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer architectural adventure that began in 2010. Both protagonists live in Chicago and teach architecture at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC). Character Building is a series of material and figural investigations for the Independent Media Center (IMC) in...
Mole Magazine’s first issue (Cute Little Things) is almost ready to drop, and we are providing BRIDGE with a few teasers from articles that will be featured! Lukas Franciszkiewicz is an industrial designer studying in England. He creates pristine objects that bypass practical uses, but rather prompt an abstract scenario or philosophical question. In Cute Little Things, we explore his project ‘Beta’.
As our world expands, its components are becoming infinitely small: smartphones, microchips, mp3’s, teacup chihuahuas and so forth. We have become obsessed, and increasingly adept, at compacting complex systems and ideas into cute little packages. The downsizing movement has become immensely profitable; even the infamous American consumerism has been won over by this ubiquitous trend, putting pressure on product designers to cater to a marketplace where “smaller is better”; nanotechnology, ‘fun-sized’ snacks, Smart cars,...