I’m currently at home with a stack of decongestants and a swimming head. Being ill at a time the studio is running at capacity is decided not what’s needed, but I’ve been out of sorts for weeks, so it’s time to fix it with Albos oil, no going out, and a stack of books. I’ve [...]
Not many words in the links today; instead, some nice things to look at, from all of us at BERG. Jim Denevan makes gigantic freehand drawings in the earth. More geometric patterns: this time, what happens when you take a long-exposure of a Roomba in the dark. Eric Testroete made his own head out of [...]
Matt Jones writes...
This week, we’re proud to present a guest post from Megan Prelinger, cofounder of The Prelinger Library.
Megan’s piece is the first in an occasional series of guest blogposts we're going to commission from friends, colleagues and others we admire. In it, she previews her book "Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–62" that hits on some of our studio's obsessions - mid-20thC art, design and... rocketry...
As an historian, I dig through found evidence of past decades looking for unseen intersections between technology and design. The two were of course close mutual contextualizers during the mid-century Modern era and incredibly, the untapped historical record of this era is rich and multi-layered: Monthly and weekly periodicals recorded events as they unfolded, catching [...]
In the UK, schools are inspected every few years to make sure they’re educating kids well and run effectively. Ofsted, the agency that visits the schools and writes the inspection reports, yesterday released their 2008/09 Annual Report. It’s a 160 page beast of stats, strengths and weaknesses, everything schools and the government need to focus [...]
“Hello Little Fella” is a group I started on Flickr a few years ago, spotting faces. For a little while I had been taking pictures of objects, furniture, buildings and other things in my environment where I recognised, however abstract, a face. I tagged them with what I thought the appropriate greeting – “hello little [...]
Let me get the business plate-spinning out of the way. Yesterday we completed the year-end accounts, which I first mentioned here in week 218. On the face of it, 2008/09 wasn’t much better than 2007/08 — revenue was up, but margins were down. But look closer: July to December 2008 was flat. Even stevens. January [...]
Matt mentioned we haven’t had many pictures on the blog recently, so it’s about time I rectified that. It’s been linked all over the web, but it’s still very much worth pointing out this lovely essay and series of visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books. Beyond the obvious prettiness of it, it’s a shrewd [...]
I’ll be giving a short talk about the work of our studio – focussing on what we call “Immaterials” – at the CAT London event next Thursday, 19th November. Friends-Of-BERG Adam Greenfield, Kevin Slavin and Iain Tait will be prognosticating also, so it promises to be a fine day of futurity and fun. Hope to [...]
Just a quick note to say that Jack is in NYC today speaking at the IDEA conference. It’s an amazing line-up, where he’ll be presenting BERG’s work alongside Paola Antonelli of MOMA, Perry Chen of Kickstarter, David Chang of Momofuku restaurants and… Kid Sister! Hopefully he will remember get her autograph for me.
For the new faces; hello! I’m Georgina, and I spent the summer with BERG, conducting a social and economic history of the so-called ‘Silicon Roundabout’ community cluster around the Old Street area. The project itself is tying up, and we’ll be launching the stories document in January 2010. It’s been a summer of research and [...]
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