Category Archives: Semi-Permanent 2010

Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol.4.

September 20th, 2010
The last install­ment in our post-Semi-Permanent wind back. Emma Par­nell recounts the legend of Storm Thorgerson… When Pink Floyd com­mis­sioned Storm Thor­ger­son to design the Dark Side of the Moon album cover, they did so with the words “We don’t want another pic­ture, we’re bored of your pic­tures, we want a cool graphic.” Storm’s reply? “Don’t [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol.3.

September 15th, 2010
Accord­ing to Nich­olas Roope of Poke Lon­don, in today’s ever-changing media hungry soci­ety, you have to be “more than just inter­est­ing”. Luck­ily, Roope him­self was, says Emma Par­nell, in part 3 of her Semi-Permanent 2010 retrospective. There is actu­ally more to this “inter­est­ing” the­ory, which Roope high­lighted in his 50 minute talk around inter­act­ive design. He pro­posed that [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 2.

September 8th, 2010
In part two in of our Semi-Permanent 2010 ret­ro­spect­ive, Emma Par­nell recalls the youth­ful exuber­ance and undeni­able tal­ent of illus­trator Jes­sica Hische. For a girl who owns the URL ‘iamobsessedwithmycats.com’ (it redir­ects to her web­site) and describes her life as “a sol­it­ary exist­ence where nobody showers and you get covered in cat hair”, Jes­sica His­che is [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 1.

September 7th, 2010
The dust gen­er­ated by the hooves of an inspiration-hungry horde is now well-settled on the tun­dra — but there's always time for some well-considered reflec­tion. In this series of reviews, Auckland-based designer Emma Par­nell shares her thoughts on Semi-Permanent 2010. First up, Ger­man 'object' designer Kat­rin Sonnleit­ner. Kat­rin Sonnleit­ner finds ways to make the mundane seem inter­est­ing [...]
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