oh, öland ! . . .

autumn on sweden’s beautiful öland island . . .
matthew burger visits ölands folkhögskola in october, 2011
i was asked by a enthusiastic, versatile, instructor, louise häggberg, to visit her design students and colleagues at ölands folkhögskola (öland folk high school). here’s a very brief description of the basår design program. the duration of the […]

pratt m.id, some connections to interesting work

the industrial design department’s graduate candidates
m.id thesis blog links from 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011:

http://prattid.blogspot.com/ (spring 2006)
http://idthesisfall06.blogspot.com/ (autumn 2006)

http://pratt-id-thesis.blogspot.com/ (spring 2007)
http://prattmidthesis.blogspot.com/ (autumn 2007)

http://prattidthesis.blogspot.com (spring 2008)
http://prattidthesis.blogspot.com (autumn 2008)
pratt id thesis 2015

building community with design . . .

“from cellphones and cookers to cities . . . that’s design guru stuff too.” *
about an exhibit by the cooper hewitt museum at the united nations’ visitor center, 1st avenue & 46th street, nyc. design with the other 90%: cities, until january 9, 2012: * the new york times: rescued by design
moorhead & […]

printed matter | imprimés | drucksache

today was a good day under blue autumn skies, at the new york art book fair, at moma’s ps 1. there were too many wonderful exhibitors to give them all credit, so i’ll only mention a small fragment of the whole here. e-flux’s airstream trailer book coop was parked outside the main building of ps […]

exhibit in brooklyn: starved for attention

i would encourage you to see the photo exhibit from doctors without borders • médecins sans frontières, about child malnutrition called, “starved for attention,” at grand army plaza [prospect park west and eastern parkway], wednesday, thursday and friday, between 9:30am and 5:00pm, september 21st through the 23rd. starved for attention, brooklyn
doctors without borders […]

design interventions in south africa: the taxi workshop . . .

“johannesburg is one of the worst cities in the world in which to commute.”
[ the guardian ] are you stuck in traffic?
the economist • january 2011:
south africa’s dreadful drivers & the danger on the roads: watch out !
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the guardian and the economist are addressing road safety world-wide, in general and in particular, […]

rather amazing & particular items . . .

rather particular items from this season’s new york international gift fair, at the jacob javits center, 655 west 34th street, new york, new york. i truly enjoyed seeing so many of my former design students, all full of energy and promise, at the amdc
| american design club | exhibit, which, this year was located right […]

of visual interest: klein basel, switzerland & myrtle avenue, brooklyn . . .

klein basel, switzerland, 1990 . . .

myrtle avenue area, brooklyn, new york 2007 through 2011 . . .

untitled, number one . . .

untitled |ˌənˈtītld|
adjective
1 (of a book, composition, or other artistic work) having no name.
2 (of a person) not having a title indicating high social or official rank:
lesser untitled officials.
untitled, number one . . .

jörg ratzlaff: matthew, 1981

a metaphor for manhattan . . .

the opening exhibit for the smithsonian’s national museum for design was entitled, “MAN trans FORMS”. when the cooper hewitt museum opened in october 1976
in the former andrew carnegie mansion, dianne pilgrim and her crew had invited, among others, oswald mathias ungers to give a direction for what this institution could be. ungers used visual examples […]