Good, Sir.

Back in London, Steph and i hit the Design Museum for a run through.

Sir Terence Conran is the "Big Deal" we were introduced to. The exhibition was named 'The Way We Live Now' and rightly so.

Here's a copy/pasted snippet from Design Museum:

Terence Conran has had more impact than any other designer of his generation on everyday life in contemporary Britain through a series of parallel careers. Conran describes the private boarding school he attended as an “inspired” choice by his mother, because it particularly encouraged creativity in its pupils and balanced academic study with practical, physical activities like digging the vegetable garden and rudimentary plumbing. Later, at the Central School of Art and Design in London, Conran absorbed the Bauhaus and Arts & Crafts influenced beliefs that “a good design should be available to the whole community, not just to a few”. After Central he set up as an independent designer at the age of 21. Through his friendship with the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi he was on the fringes of the Independent Group, the artistic avant garde of the 1950s that brought Pop Art to Britain and worked on the Festival of Britain. But he was driven to establish his own shop, as he once said, to prove to people that his designs could find a market even if nobody else wanted to sell them.

And here's a snippet from my camera:

More on Terence Conran > H E R E

A bit about his current empire > H E R E

Great bump-in.

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promising

SVA's new ID Master's course, "Products Of Design" is set to launch next fall.

Looks like they've aligned all the right ducks, egh? Great presentation as well.

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Fall, It Did.

A couple weeks ago, Steph and i whistled-skipped out of our Pittsburgh hotel, saddled into the rental car, re-checked our route and went on our 2hr way to tour Frank Lloyd Wright's most applauded achievement: Falling Water.

...one for the books.

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JELSEN JARGON Interview w/ Kasalina

Photographer Kasalina shot me a few questions to answer - and that's exactly what i did.

She also posted some images from the 'Absolutely' piece i recently completed.

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Last Week's Interestings // 101

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"Can You Stop."

...pick a quote.

Any quote.

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INTERVIEW : The Nu Black

From the UK, Gabrielle Smith was kind enough to hit JELSEN JARGON up for a The Nu Black interview. I made sure to not make any typos.

Here's a bit about Gabrielle & The Nu Black:

October 2008, I decided to set myself a challenge for Black History Month in the UK. 30 days of posts featuring youth of Black origin, the things that inspired them, positive images, videos, news articles, quotes etc.

I completed the challenge and decided to continue. My aim is to try and post things that are not necessarily ‘out there’, that are original, creative and that will hopefully inspire those after me (and hopefully those before me if they come across the site, lol).

The name thenublack comes from the idea that my generation and those born to parents of Black origin have had paths paved for them by their parents and ancestors. Although we weren’t around when the MLK’s, Malcolm X’s and other well known Black figures were around – I’d like to think that we’re aspring to be equally as great, as revolutionary and box-breaking as they were.

Wonderful

Take a peek at the interview > H E R E <

And continue enjoying her blog's daily melanin-themed content.

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More > Trouble & Bass

Scion Radio 17: Trouble & Bass Interview from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

These guys are indeed a fun bunch.

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