lliigghhttss @ 7 dunham place williamsburg brooklyn - sat 05/18/13 time: 9pm to 4am /// and \\\ ROLU 4 TOC - CLOTHING 4 BOOKS (OR SCULPTURE) at Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East 4th Street Fri May 17 Sat May 18, 12PM - 7PM; Sun May 19 Mon may 20 12pm - 5pm
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Friday, 17 May 13 - 01:00 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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super psyched / super sad.
(part one) super psyched to be showing new work in nyc this weekend. debuting a video work called "the sex of art is narrative / narrative is water / the light of design is space"
i found these amazing old lights in the basement of robert rauschenberg's studio. i learned that they were heat lamps he used to affect pigments and dyes he was working with a lot in the 70s and 80s. apparently he liked using them because the heat produced outcomes that were not predictable, thus removing his decision from part of the work. i sat under the lights until i was soaked in sweat partly as a way to ponder the act of removing decision from work... sweat being outside of my decision. i'm also interested in the fact that the heat/light that i'm baking under is the same heat/light that made many of his great pieces... and i'm always interested in the way influence works in art and design production. since i believe we are all becoming each other, i believe i became his work.
and oh man! in such amazing company at this show!
(part two) super psyched to be showing one of three new projects that have been commissioned by table of contents, the amazing portland based shop.
rolu 4 toc - clothing 4 books (or sculpture)
the other two projects involve books, happenings, and issey miyake. can't wait to tell you more about them soon.
more about noho design district exhibit here.
(part three) super sad to have cancelled "everything is always changing all the time" our collab with various projects and arp at the museum of arts and design due to some health issues that have prevented me from traveling.
 with ARP and VARIOUS PROJECTS 1.jpg)
we will hope to present this work late summer early fall under different circumstances.
if you're in nyc, stop by and say hi to the work!
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
I love time capsules. They always involve love. And as a blogger, I feel like I’m slowly making a sort of time capsule every day. Maybe they have something in common with photographs? A mysterious fragment of moments that has an unlimited amount of potent
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Wednesday, 15 May 13 - 04:39 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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i did a time capsule for slow and steady wins the race. total fave forever.
here's all 11 things i want to give to the future.
please enjoy the time (past, present, future) and space.
posted by matt olson
The Jante Law is the idea that there is a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities that negatively portrays and criticises individual success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate. The Jante Law as a concept w
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Tuesday, 07 May 13 - 04:58 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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this made me smile.
via konst & teknik
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Art & Leisure + Art & Leisure presents work by graphic designer Dante Carlos, May 24 – July 11, 2013, London Centre for Book Arts. The exhibition will centre on an editioned book, displayed in the space, as well as available for purchase, and Dante Carlos
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Wednesday, 01 May 13 - 04:27 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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we've been lucky enough to work with dante carlos on a few projects in the last year. total awesomeness. and the rolu reader he designed, we will learn from these things in ways no one could've taught us was selected for the Festival international de l'affiche et du graphisme de Chaumont! (more on that later)
the london center for book arts presents art and leisure & art and leisure by dante carlos
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
LIGHTSUP exhibit at Atelier de Troupe - new lamps by Jason Meadows / Matt Paweski / Michael Rey / Zachary Leener / A de T --- Opening reception, april 26, 2013 6 - 9 pm at 3418 glendale blvd. los angeles, california --- go go go go go go go go go go go go
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Tuesday, 23 April 13 - 08:56 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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sure wish i could go! some faves for sure.
please enjoy the light, time and space.
posted by matt olson
jaques adnet was a French art deco modernist designer, architect and interior designer. He was known for his furniture designs in leather. Distinctly avant garde, Adnet and was among the first to expect metal and glass to integrate with the structure and
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Monday, 01 April 13 - 09:09 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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our friend mary sent this jaques adnet drawing from 1930... total awesomeness.
and this, also from 1930, looks like a jam between something from the unpainted memphis store and our seven stacked benches (after shelves)
don't really know jaques adnet beyond name so, digging in today. thx mary!
originally via aqqindex.com
i'm happily back home now after traveling 6 of the last 7 weeks. whew.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Developed in collaboration with the artist, the volume features five essays examining autoconstrucción through the lens of art history, politics, architecture, and urban migration in Mexico in the 1960s. The catalogue also illustrates sculptures by Cruzvi
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Monday, 25 March 13 - 08:54 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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abraham cruzvillegas: the autoconstrucción suites
Published by the Walker on the occasion of the artist’s first major survey, this volume explores the rich terrain of Cruzvillegas’ work over the past 10 years, rooting his sculptural language within the volcanic landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, Mexico.
designed by dante carlos.
highly recommended. available here.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Even if the piece is later dismantled, its fragments remain as they were before they were incorporated: there is no alchemical transformation, there is no trick or magic. Transformation occurs only in the viewer’s mind. And in my hands, of course. So, ...
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Tuesday, 19 March 13 - 06:39 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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i am so psyched for this exhibit. have been excited about this work ever since i came across it several years ago due to a mangled spelling of autoprogettazione in google which resulted in a "did you mean - autoconstruccion?"
and there's the great and, for me, super special story of meeting abraham through rosemary furtak at the walker. ask me about it if you see me.
great post here.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
OBJECT ORIENTED - JF & SON stages pink and fuzzy ruminations on Speculative Realism and the modern museum environment as part of the Museum of Arts and Design's month-long The Home Front: American Design Now (JF & SON, who completed a residency at MAD...)
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Tuesday, 12 March 13 - 08:21 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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object oriented - jf & son
After The Museum, the second incarnation of the Museum of Arts and Design’s annual design showcase, The Home Front: American Design Now, opens this week. Organized by Dan Rubinstein and Jake Yuzna, this years program expands into a physical exhibition including projects by Dexter Sinister, jf & son, Murray Moss, Patrik Ervell, Rich Brilliant Willing, andVarious Projects with ro/lu.
via pin-up
jf and son previously
please enjoy the time and space
posted by matt olson
Printed Matter and ROLU at the Independent Art Fair 2013 /// We're excited to be part of the Independent Art Fair again this year, and have two booths at the fair (3rd floor and 4th floor). In one booth we collaborated with the design team ROLU to....
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Thursday, 07 March 13 - 01:03 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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Printed Matter and rolu at the Independent Art Fair 2013
We're excited to be part of the Independent Art Fair again this year, and have two booths at the fair (3rd floor and 4th floor). In one booth we collaborated with the design team ROLU to put together a book nook of featured works, and in the other booth we are showcasing a new fundraising edition by Erica Baum entitled "Perch", 2013. Come by and say Hello!
some rolu 4 ommu is in another booth! "a desk and a desk chair"
pic via peres projects instagram feed.
if you're in new york this weekend... i hope you go!
more pics here at printed matter's facebook page.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Printed Matter presents the first annual LA ART BOOK FAIR, February 1–3, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles. The opening will be held on the evening of Thursday, January 31.
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Wednesday, 19 December 12 - 01:33 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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perfect. now i have two reasons to go to l.a. the bernard piffaretti and this.
The LA ART BOOK FAIR is free and open to the public.
Friday, February 1: 11–5pm
Saturday, February 2: 11 am–6pm
Sunday, February 3: 12 am–6pm
and of course there's a bunch of other reasons too.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Before and After may refer to: "Before & After", a category used on the TV game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, which interlocks two items into one. / "Before and After", an episode of The Golden Girls / Before and After (film), a 1996 drama starrin
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Wednesday, 19 December 12 - 09:02 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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recently: above after / below before
grateful for both.
top via maryanne bottom via claudette.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Here is a picture I took in Miami last week – yeah as you can see, it’s not below 0° everywhere – I love this very Margaret Howell look, even more because the girl wearing it has the perfect attitude to go with it, a little tomboy, a little gallerist (yes
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Wednesday, 19 December 12 - 08:33 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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lulu wolf!
gallery director at mondo cane, street fashion in miami wearing various projects !
pretty fun!
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, located due east of Miami city proper between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The area encompasses all of the barrier islands of Miami Beach south
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Wednesday, 12 December 12 - 08:58 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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came home from miami to 17" of snow... at least i have these pics.
lo and behold
nathan coutts
apartamento should do this place.
brian and kyle!
nice shirt patrick!
the view from the counter i had my coffee at every morning. great light!
kyle spotted this guy!
lulu wearing sam vinz hat.
speaking of lulu, she got shot in various projects for garancedoré.fr outside nada!
this guy's watering his plants from up on the roof. he was to tired to come downstairs.
elevator shaft
skin + bones: parallel practices in fashion and architecture
art smith is a new obsession. thanks mark and duane!
fred eversly came by the booth. amazing to spend some time.
at the bass museum party... this pic pretty much sums it up.
so many of the trees are lit up in miami. so many great shadows.
sarah braman
daniel buren
non-mono-ha mono-ha?
louise bourgeois
me in 20 years. the owner of puerta sugua.
hanging at kyle's pad.
big daddy cane.
me alexis and kyle pic by lulu.
what a great week. so much gratitude.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County. The 42nd largest city proper in the United States, with a population of 408,568, it is the principal, central, and most populous city of...
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Friday, 07 December 12 - 11:01 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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pen, tunes, bandana, excedrin, notebook, credentials... ready!
design miami and art bagel!
booth looks amazing. thanks mondo patrick and lulu. so grateful.
rolu featured in the design miami ad!
maison patrick margiela
the midnight sandwich and mora rice. one of the best parts of coming down here.
my favorite booth. kaleidoscope mag. stuck in customs.
truthfully my favorite booth is arratia, beer. showing amazing work by pablo rasgado.
hanging with fabrizio rollo. he always looks amazing.
alexis dj'd the white zinfandel party at nada. he was in this crazy lighted unit on wheels. super nice breeze coming off the ocean. weirdo beach vibe music. awesome.
knicks beat the heat! so great to have a non-art night with kyle. thx brother.
rasheed wallace! all net!
got obsessed with this end to the section next to ours. the glass is just glued and bolted to the concrete. made me think of the way sigurd lewerentz did windows.
carmelo anthony didn't play and the knicks somehow still blew the roof off the place!
amazing cool clear air on the ride back to south beach. kyle and i decided to retire and move down here. why wait till we're old?
lulu is the best. we are so grateful for all her help. we're going to do a collab called rolulu someday. she's been wearing amazing various projects stuff everyday. so good.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Harald Szeemann has - and There's more at stake in adopting such a designation than semantics. Szeemann is more conjurer than curator—simultaneously archivist, conservator, art handler, press officer, accountant, and above all, accomplice of the artists.”
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Wednesday, 05 December 12 - 08:06 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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great harold szeemann related post by our friend JOÃO DORIA at the walker art center design blog. i've been cukoo for szeemann forever and every new perspective / discovery always makes me happy and more solid in my certainty at his amazingness.
scenes from rolu/mondo miami coming soon.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
since 1962 Ugo La Pietra has developed an activity conducive to clarifying and defining the relationship "person>environment". At the beginning, this process of work has made instruments of knowledge (models of understanding) that tend to transform the-
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Monday, 19 November 12 - 03:46 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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ugo la pietra on vimeo! a few years back when "nic the intern" (aka a young hare) was doing a weekly post, we were on a total bender with his work. glad to see these videos are out there now!
via south willard where there are more or direct from vimeo here.
previously here, here, here to name a few.
please enjoy the passing time.
postes by matt olson
"what we are offered here is a facile synthesis of theater, architecture, and technology with none of the responsibilities - esthetic, moral or functional - that these separate disciplines exact from both their artists and..." review of "spaces" moma '70
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Friday, 16 November 12 - 08:48 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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have come across many mentions of this show "spaces" that took place at moma in 1970 in various places over the years and was always curious as it involves so many of my faves.
found this review of it at east of borneo.
please enjoy the passing time. it's my birthday today so it's especially close for me.
posted by matt olson
For this next installement of our Fall Salon Series, join Matt Olson of ROLU STUDIO and ACC Director of Education Perry Price on Thursday, November 8th, at 7:00 p.m. in the American Craft Council Library for a conversation on the studio's unique approach
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Wednesday, 07 November 12 - 08:22 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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thursday nov 8th i'll be in conversation with perry price the director of education at the american craft council. we've had some fun discussions in the last couple months.
more here.
please enjoy the day.
posted by matt olson
DOCUMENTS - TRACES 20/01 Revealing fingerprints on a surface. 120€ 20/02 Additional support hourly rate 20/03 Comparison of fingerprints. 120€ 20/04 Examination of traces on a document. 100€ 20/05 Evidence of falsification of a document. 100€ 20/06 Examin
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Monday, 22 October 12 - 05:06 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in design |
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nice pics of jo-ey tang show at mousse magazine.
please enjoy the day.
posted by matt olson
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