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25.02.2017
What we see as the outward visual denotation of urban infrastructure is not always connected directly to what it might connote as a symbol, an index, or as an embodiment of policy, need, capital and spatial practice. The objective of this new research and scholarship is to bring to light the disjunctions and contradictions in the visual coherence of our urban infrastructure, and to reveal how we …
18.09.2016
11.06.2016
lip augmentation trend
02.06.2016
El placer de ver la colaboración en el control de poblaciones de caninos sin hogar, donde también se ve beneficiada la población desde el punto de vista de la sanidad y la seguridad.
11.06.2015
Memefest Workshop: Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Instituto Superior de Disegno, Havana, June 19-25.
Mentors:
Dr George Petelin (Griffith University, Queensland College of Art & Memefest)
Dr Oliver Vodeb (Swinburne University of Technology & Memefest)
Participants: Approx. 20
The five day workshop is aimed at students, academics and profe…
02.06.2015
London College of Communication
Wed 10th June
– 16.00 in room D209
Lecture by Oliver Vodeb: Workshops as a Design research method and intervention
Thu 11th & Fri 12th June
– 10.30-16.30 in room D209
Workshop
This praxis based two-day design workshop will be investigating the medium of posters as a critical mapping tool.
The workshop will focus on design as a process a…
18.12.2014
not so far in time we were used to create out of nothing, to create without thinking in terms of stuffs and gizmos but in terms of results and meaning and innovation out of void. Now this approach is in the hands of teachers and workshops maker that have the slog to clean the brain of young artists and to force them to carve the work out of a dirty garage with a 486 and shoestring.
02.09.2014
I had been working on a solidarity poster/design for the protests in ferguson, addressing the right to resistance. I wanted to challenge the dominant narrative of the reasoning behind riots, and the idea of violent outside instigators, etc. The idea was there right away, however, by the time I got down to actually sitting down and designing, the timing seemed a bit off.
But not wanting to wast…
