BLOGing
Our new favorite blog is Brute Force Collaborative. It’s smart, it’s thorough and it’s got a great name. From modern architecture tours, to forward thinking construction methods, to über-cool fire stations in Europe, BFC covers some serious ground and is a welcomed addition to the design blogging world.
-thanks to Mike
Recently we came across Modern House Notes, a blog that does a phenomenal job of introducing projects that most of us have never seen before.
-thanks to Gina & Tom
FFFFOUND is killing it with fresh, striking images. You’d be delinquent not to check in with this eye candy.
BUILDing
Seattle based Myer Wells designs and builds furniture from reclaimed urban trees. They keep the designs simple and let the beauty of the trees take center stage. We like.
-thanks to Jeri
Studio 804 continues to blow us away with what a group of students is able to accomplish.
-thanks to Jared
The Parliament World Headquarters in Portland is gritty and refreshing and the firewood walls made us grin.
-thanks to Mark
Some of you may have noticed a rather engaging winners podium at the Olympics in Vancouver. It’s the work of designers James Lee & Leo Obstbaum. More info here.
-thanks to Adam
FILMing
The stop Motion T-Shirt War is beautiful, inspiring and hilarious. It’s also good design.
-thanks to Lee
ARCHITECTing
Really digging the work of Hufft who also run a shop. Good stuff.
-thanks to Mark
[Photo by Mike Sinclair]
Crisp and attenuated is the work of Bünzli & Courvoisier
PHOTOGRAPHing
Kudos to architectural photographer Mike Sinclair who has a sharp eye and a knack for maximizing the life and action in design. Give Sinclair your eyeballs for a moment and take a tour of some inspiring shots.
Nerida Howard is a master at making the architectural image pop right out of the page. We’d love to be a fly on the wall in his studio.
BRANDing
We found the 50 State Tourism Logos on twitter and thought it interesting because they’re so diverse. It’s hard not to notice that Washington State’s looks like a steaming pile of dog-doo. We might take a crack at redesigning it ourselves.
-thanks to Lee
WORKing
Swiss Miss recently posted the 12 breeds of client and how to work with them. Good times.
-thanks to Tina
SPEAKing
For those of you in Seattle, Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works is speaking on March 10th 7pm-8.30pm at UWs Kane Hall, Room 220. Join us there – it should be a good one.
-thanks to Dan
WRITing
The Guardian’s David Sanderson recently wrote an article about architects and their lack of skill when it comes to disaster relief.
“Architects are often the last people needed in disaster reconstruction -most of them focus on buildings rather than people, and will be of little use in Haiti or Chile.”
The article hits a vulnerable truth in the industry and Sanderson is a voice worth keeping a pulse on.
-thanks to Kevin
The ’12 breads of clients’ link is hilarious – something every designer and client should read before diving into a project.
thanks, guys. we’ll definitely try to keep it entertaining. for the record, our rammed earth design|build professors christened us brute & force for our slightly unorthodox manner in getting things done.
Good post guys – some cool stuff on here.
Will be following Brute Force’s guide to [mostly] free Architecture on my next trip up to Seattle. I have a lot of libraries to visit apparently.
@ Mitch – indeed, the libraries in Seattle are high caliber architecture.
Thanks for the heads up on the Allied Works lecture – I didn’t even know that one was on the books.
Regarding Sinclairs photography; it seems that photographers are including more people and life into their shots lately. I recall a past BUILDblog post on Iwan Baan who’s doing similar work. I’m diggin it and hoping that it’s not just a fashion only be be replaced with the stale, lifeless shots again once it goes out of style.