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As transcribed from my notes:

I don't think there's anything I love more than this trend towards mixing space design and graphic design-- whether it's using graphic elements as material choices or the end product of the design is a space with graphic-quality views. I feel these spaces are more successful because they call upon a greater vocabulary within design language to engage the user and their senses.

SPACE GRAPHICS

In using graphic elements to enhance or create space, you call upon two important parts of the brain-- the brain that is analytical and sees the space in a deductive, more concrete sense [visual elements of separation, for example-- you stand here while this rests here], and the brain that sees/feels a sense of aesthetic, that not only does the space direct you to behave a certain way but asks you to have an emotional responses. In invoking physical and emotional responses I think a space is better able to serve its purpose or surpass/transcend the purpose-- there is no need for why, or at least you are led to believe so.

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I don't think it's surprising that all of these spaces were featured in the same issue of Interior Design magazine. If anyone's going to pick up on a trend, it's them.

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recommendations:



[a] movie SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE I saw this movie and it was hands down pretty much the most epically awesome movie I have ever seen. It takes a lot to make me cry during a movie and I would've at the end had the theater not been packed! It's a really beautiful story, well-told, not to mention the main actor, graphics, photography, and soundtrack are all great.

[b] book REAL WORLD BY NATSUO KIRINO A translation from the Japanese, this novel is really jarring and unsettling. I think Kirino has this really weird and twisted grip on reality. The plot is such a heart-wrencher, you really don't know what she's going to do, it's like she foreshadows a certain event then switches it on you and... I almost wanted to throw the book at the wall.

[c] music EPIK HIGH: LOVESCREAM Their latest minialbum following the release of the full-length album Pieces, Part One, Epik High, a three-man hip hop force, brings a different sound, something more jazzy, better beats, and some English lyrics [!]. This album has such an undefinable mood, you'd really just have to listen to it. For a preview, their video for their single from this album: