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Michael Doyle studied under members of the Propeller collective at the College for Creative Studies in the early 1990s, where he first began to challenge the lines between creative disciplines. With equal footings in design and fine arts, he has applied this passion through his involvement in performance and installation art, while working across a range of design disciplines, including interactive exhibits, environmental installations, graphic design and information architecture. He has worked in Detroit, New York City, Los Angeles and Singapore over the past decade.
As one of the first to embrace and articulate the concept of "experience design", Doyle recently solidified a long-term relationship with the innovative design and communications agency o2 Creative Solutions, where he continues to explore the possibilities of experience-based communication, and the merger of art and technology with a team of like-minded artists and creative professionals.
He has also designed albums for artists such as Solvent and Matthew Dear for the highly acclaimed Ghostly International record label, and has managed to find the time to found the DJ collectives Dorkwave and Dethlab, effectively dismantling the walls between Detroit's famously splintered music scenes. Dethlab and Dorkwave have DJ'd with the likes of T. Raumschmiere, Ectomorph, Solvent, Vitalic, Carlos D., Adult., Chemlab, and Jimmy Edgar.
As much a theorist as a maker, Doyle has lectured on visual communication and experiential design at colleges around the country, was the featured speaker at a Core77 design symposium in New York and won first prize for a future communication booth design competition sponsored by Archinect and Vitra in 2002.
Highly active in the community, Doyle served as Graphics Chair for the 2003 Industrial Designers Society of America national conference, and on the board of directors for the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, where he co-curated the controversial and highly acclaimed Other Auto Show. As an internationally regarded cultural commentator, he is director of Burnlab.net, a web-zine dedicated to emerging trends in art, design, music and culture with an editorial team of over twenty contributors from around the world, comprised of leaders in fields ranging from generative art to electronic music to automotive design. He also contributes editorial content for online design journals Archinect.com, core77.com and computerlove.net.
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March 6th, 2008
Maximum Joy
Mazda Taiki Concept interior
Dutch architecture critic Michiel van Raaij examines Mazda's bold new design language.
In the past year the Japanese carmaker Mazda has been working consistently on a new form language, and this week unveiled their most extreme ‘sculpture’ yet: the Mazda Furai. A car designed to take the 24h Le Mans challenge.
The design features ‘crossed folds’ everywhere. Normal steel plates feature only single folds, but here multiple folds are applied that cross each other diagonally. That is completely new. Unprecedented.
He goes on to talk about "maximalism" in design, and - without saying so outright - asks that we re-examine our definitions of "beauty". (At least that's what I took from it.)
Maximalism is our future. Maximalism is the end of good taste. Maximalism moves the border of good taste a little further and thereby makes room for emergent futures.
“Architects are obsessed with good taste”, Crimson writes in their book ‘Too blessed to be depressed’. I think that is true. But I also think that taste moves in a certain direction, in the direction of form, of maximum form. Zaha Hadid is just the beginning.
(Or, in the direction of "maximum joy", as we learn to shed the shame of Eden and rediscover the uninhibited virtues of wonder and possibility. Mazda does an excellent job demonstrating a new kind of beauty, unburdened by the type of shame which is at the root of outmoded definitions of taste.)
October 18th, 2007
Cyberoptix Tie Lab
Cyberoptix Tie Lab a.k.a. Bethany Shorb, the original purveyor of "ties that don't suck", has just released her fall//winter line of neckwear for boys and girls - in 100% silk, deluxe microfiber and hand-woven Fair-Trade silk scarves. Among the new designs are Plaguesley (a Paisley-like pattern based on Black Plague bacterium) and Catstooth (a shiftier version of traditional houndstooth that would eat you in your sleep if it could.)
Cyberoptix began as a side project for designer/sculptor/photographer/circuit-bender Bethany Shorb many years ago, designing club wear with high-tech, industrial and found materials while she was a graduate student at Cranbrook. She designed the costumes for Skinny Puppy's '04 world tour, and has since shifted focus to the much neglected segment of neckwear. Cyberoptix has most recently collaborated with Ghostly International on custom ties, and is currently designing costumes and merchandise for musical acts such as Solvent and Chemlab.
Cyberoptix neckwear is available online, through dozens of boutiques and museum stores internationally, and is represented by All Purpose on Refinery29.
Read an interview with Bethany Shorb at Murketing.com and click here for more photos from the new collection - all photographed and styled by Shorb.
October 5th, 2007
Eames Elephants Take LA
This has been a big day for adorable, colorful, stop-motion animated critters. In addition to the debut of the third Sony Bravia advert, our friend Eames Demetrios wanted to let you know that he has just released a new film titled A Gathering of Elephants. The six minute animation was created as a fun celebration of the newly issued Plywood Elephants.
The elephants were designed by Charles and Ray in 1945, but never went into production due to the cost and complexity of the mold. To celebrate the 100th birthday of Charles, an limited edition 1000 red and 1000 maple elephants have been produced by Vitra and will be available starting in November. The Eames Office spent the past 12 years developing a production version. In the Eames tradition, they hope to offer a more affordable model in the future. Watch the film in high res, plus some behind the scenes footage at DAS Film Fest.
August 8th, 2007
On Folding
Matthew Shlian is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based paper engineer, architect, teacher and sculptor. If you missed his beautiful drawings and folding structures at the '06 Cranbrook Degree Show - or want to see more, check out all the work at his website.
"The enthusiasm of my students often finds its way into my studio practice. Seeking sources from diverse backgrounds, I have realized that when different approaches collide, remarkable results occur. The lab and the studio share a symbiotic relationship. Rooted in both print media and the book arts, my methodology has grown to include science and technology among its main influences. The act of folding lends itself to a creative and impulsive process as well as a calculated one. In my studio the fold is the starting point, the place where energy is transferred and from the initial fold to subsequent ones, sculptures develop. In the lab the fold is used for both representation and research. Bio-mimicry, the act of extrapolating design principles from nature, fuels my work. Protein mis-folding, the root cause of Alzheimer’s and cystic fibrosis, is mapped on a human scale from paper to gain understanding of structural problems. Solar cells woven into textiles become flexible and using paper engineering techniques we can better understand the complex issues of “micro-origami” and the problems inherent in scaling our folds to a nanoscale."
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June 8th, 2007
Oh, the Horror!
The Horrors' new video, She Is The New Thing was reportedly shot in just an hour. After two long weeks of animation and another seven days of editing, director Corin Hardy emerged with a gorgeously ghoulish piece like something from the collective nightmares of Ralph Steadman and Tim Burton.
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May 17th, 2007
Form:uLA
It's been too long since we checked in on Form:uLA Dimension Laboratories. Bryan Cantley and co. are still making architecture and fantastical drawings like the ones above - what I've previously referred to as one of the best representations of cyberpunk architecture.
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May 16th, 2007
AIGA Detroit DESIGN RE:VIEW tonight
Last minute reminder that the AIGA Detroit DESIGN RE:VIEW 2007 closing event is tonight at Lawrence Technological University. There will be an exhibition of winning competition entries, as well as presentations by Sans Nom (check out their awesome lazer etched skateboard deck for Refill Magazine,) Q Ltd and o2 Creative Solutions.
Click here for the full invite, designed by Chistopher Bissonnette with a bit of art direction from myself at o2.
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February 19th, 2007
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Selected Works
Diller Scofidio + Renfro have updated their long static website with selected projects. Nothing we haven't seen before, but still beautiful and provocative.
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