new logo?

not sure if a ‘youth forum’ logo is something we want to suggest as they might like to develop it themselves- however i was playing with illustrator this afternoon i came up with this. any thoughts?

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Ideas for fixings

Looking at the designs for the ‘designframe’ its become apparent that sturdy and robust fixings are going to be an essential requirement for the safety and security of the blocks. However moving on from that we started looking at how these fixings could go on to incorporate various accessories to enable then to be used [...]

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[displayframe] Brief

manual for [displayframe]
For clarity, the ‘furniture’ will hereby be renamed the [displayframe].
Background
Up until now the design of the millennium gallery has been geared towards retail, a prescribed sterility and the finished product. The YOUTH FORUM [displayframe] is an opportunity to elevate the importance of the the design process and provide an exhibition showcase for innovative [...]

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Boxing

Studies into how the room can fold into itself and be stored in acoustic boxes within the space. These boxes act as sound dampeners and also look like spikey scandinavian fridges. Could be Available in IKEA Summer 2009 Collection.

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‘Messiness’

One of the main things we extrapolated from the youth forum’s spatial animations was the ‘messiness’ of their ideas. We seem to have become obsessed with sleek, ‘designed’, sexy boxes; which is in stark contrast to the loose rough-and-ready approach of the youth forum.

This divide in approaches has triggered an interesting debate within the [...]

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Museums: The problems with the Millennium

 

OMA: “Is a museum a shrine or a factory?”

There is a disassociation in the Millennium Gallery between…

- the consumption of knowledge and ideas vs the consumption of perishable products
- the closed white [...]

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