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The following posts feature work done by Kim Phu in her adventures as an art director, designer, writer, and all around do-er of things. For more information on these projects and where they come from, check out the about page.
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Dam Fine Tours
Dam Fine Tours which takes you on a walk through some of Amsterdam’s most famous and “colorful” neighborhoods. Bring your friends, not your family.
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Garden Pops
Last week, I (along with about twenty other like-minded people) attended an Urban Typography workshop at Mediamatic. This was the course description:
Inspiration from the streets! A two-day course centered on experimenting and iteratively fine-tuning urban designs with FabLab. Use materials such as frames and stencil sheets in combination with light and mirrors in order to create spatial constructs.
This seemed like the perfect opportunity to create a visual language for the very people I have had difficulty communicating with since our first arrival to the Netherlands. No, I’m not talking about the Dutch, I’m talking about the crackheads. You know, the ones that spent all summer fighting with each other, writing poetry on our door paneling, and sitting on our stoop (what else?) smoking crack.
Well, this summer is going to be different. My theory is, because the Crackheads are inherently unhappy, they can’t be expected to have any respect for the space that both they and I share. So, if I make the space that we share into a happier, more whimsical place, maybe they won’t want to smoke crack. Well, at least in front of our house.
Using different media provided by the FabLab, these are the pieces I have made featuring the bean character I’ve painted for the living room.
Garden Pops
These acrylic, neon green garden pops slip easily into the unmotared bricks anywhere in Amsterdam. Little villages of them can pop out of nowhere creating a playful and imaginative space that makes it impossible for anyone to sit down on and take a toke.Vinyl Stickers
These vinyls sticker can do a couple of things. They can be used as a way to communicate with the existing graffiti the addicts leave behind (by giving the sticker something to say back to it), or it can be used to cover it up.Garden Pop Stoop Mate
A long, connected piece of acrylic can be mounted onto any staircase or stoop to prevent junkies from sitting there all night long. Also, if they fall on to the floor, they will have a plethera of little buddies to talk to. -
Offline iPod Touch Map for Download: Antwerp
Oh iPod Touch, I’m going to tell you what I found myself saying to my first boyfriend over and over again for the first two years, “You would be so great if you just tried a little bit more.”
Quite frankly, I am just a little sick and tired of my iPod showing a blatant disregard for the usefulness of things being offline. Yes, we all love the web, but the internet doesn’t open up its legs for free to just anyone like the whore that Apple believes it to be. It can be expensive and hard to find, especially when traveling. I mean, all I wanted you to do, oh-Crappy Expensive Christmas present, was to provide me with a map of Antwerp for the weekend and ungratefully you couldn’t even do that.
My alternative to using Google Maps was to sync a high-res image of a city map to an iPod which can be viewed offline. Even though that seems like a sensible idea Apple somehow didn’t think that a user would want to keep the resolution of images larger than its screen. So, because of the genius in the Visual Design department, I had to Holly Hobby my way out of yet another issue I have had with this product and come up with my own solution (see comments). But here it is, from me to you:
- Antwerp offline ipod touch map available for download here.
- Amsterdam offline ipod touch map available for download here.
Other maps may be available in the future as I become increasingly frustrated. What can I say? Hate breeds creativity.
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Elwood Logos
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Exploring Life After Kotaku
Well, it was fun while it lasted, but I’ve come to the realization that when you spend all your time writing about video games, you actually have less time to play them. Let’s go back and take a look at some of my favorite posts:
- Womengamers Offering Scholarship to a Couple of Little Smarty Pants
- You Make the Mtv Beach Call: Gaming Team or Fallout Boy?
- Stiff Walking Sheriff Promoted to Stiff Walking Assasin
- WoW Offers to Mount for a Mount
- It’s the Chicken! No Wait, It’s the Egg!
- Women Getting Pigeoned-Holed in Gaming World – AGAIN
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Keeping Your Mobile Cool By Keeping It Cozy
Basically we developed this microsite idea so that we could say people without G4 Network content on their cell phones were whack.
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David Hockney Portraits at LACMA
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Boy’s Life
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Gold’s Gym
At Gold’s Gym, they’re not going to baby you into working out, so why should their advertising? The “We Hate Seeing You Like This” campaign features a, uh, “motivational” approach to getting fit.
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