Shopping has being happening for 5 hours already in certain stores here on the East Coast, it is 10:30 AM, which is depressing.
For those of you who don’t know what Buy Nothing Day is please go to Adbusters here, to find out more.
Other Buy Nothing Day sites:
UK: here
Japan: here
Denmark: here
Sweden: here
Netherlands: here
Germany: here
An interesting article on James Corner and his firm Field Operations describing the reclaiming of the abandoned High Line and the transformation of the Fresh Kills landfill, both into parks.
Read the article at Metropolis here .
(Link also includes a photo gallery of the High Line by Olef Wolberger.)
Corner’s firm Field Operations can be found here.
Designer: Anna Keeler, AIGA Upstate New York
For those readers living in the United States, please go out and VOTE on November 4.
For more posters go to Get Out The Vote 2008.
“RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to this website, helping to create the world’s first open source documentary.”
More information here.
“AIGA invites designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters—and now, YouTube submissions—that inspire the American public to participate in the electoral process and vote for a presidential candidate in the 2008 general election.”
Posters will be exhibited at AIGA National Design Center in NYC, September 11th – October 24th. The center is located at 164 Fifth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets).
More info on Get Out the Vote 2008 at AIGA.
Two profiles from Dwell Magazine this month.
Discusses sustainability and big box stores such as WalMart, Target and IKEA.
“Every acre of Wal-Mart is equal to at least 100,000 acres in terms of resource demands on the planet. Its footprint is huge.”
“Sustainable models for stores like Wal-Mart don’t address the auto-centric nature of the big-box phenomenon,”
Read full article here.
A great short dialogue with the British architect, who I found out designed those beautiful new bus stops and newsstands all over NYC.
“There’s absolutely no reason why every-thing you look at in the street shouldn’t be worth looking at.”
Read full article here.
Today is Buy Nothing Day.
For info go to Adbusters here
