Sighted on the Web & Elsewhere

Sighted on the Web: Week of August 19

By Tiffany Lambert, Designers & Books August 23, 2013

Stories become structures, McSweeney’s interview with a lampshade maker, Zaha Hadid’s sketchbook, anti-surveillance fashion.

 

Stories to structures

Architect, author, and illustrator Matteo Pericoli’s workshop at Columbia University’s Laboratory of Literary Architecture teams writing students with design students to create architectural models of literary texts. (Photo: The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig. Image by Tony Cenicola/New York Times)

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McSweeney’s interviews a lampshade maker’s apprentice

From McSweeney’s, interviews with people who have interesting or unusual jobs. Here, Rachael Burke discusses making lampshades as an apprentice with the famed “lampshade lady,” who authored the book The Lampshade Lady’s Guide to Lighting Up Your Life.

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Architects reveal their hand

Moleskine’s architecture book series features sketches and handwritten notes by architects such as Zaha Hadid and Giancarlo de Carlo. (Sketch by Zaha Hadid)

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Clothing for counter-surveillance

Brooklyn-based artist and designer Adam Harvey has created a line of clothing that is invisible to drones. His recent work, Stealth Wear, explores the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge views on surveillance. The work was prompted when Harvey received a request from an intelligence agency to publish his work in a classified document. Stealth Wear will be on view at a privacy pop-up shop at the New Museum in New York beginning August 28. Other items for sale include the OFF Pocket—a signal-blocking cell phone case— and a redesign of the I Love NY t-shirt, which contains a character-resistant font illegible to the NSA.

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