Bet you didn’t even know there was a Brazilian architecture scene in London and New York… Me neither. Turns out we were both wrong, though. Which is why it was awfully kind of international design-porn magazine Wallpaper* to run this feature on the scenes in question. Especially pleased to see this bit – the interview with freelance [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘design’
May 1, 2010
Brasil 45
Inspired by Ben from Akwaaba Music, who posted up a fantastic collection of Angolan 7″ record sleeves a few months back, I thought I’d share a few of my better-looking finds from the record shops (and junk shops) of São Paulo. Check out the rest here.
December 2, 2009
The Modern Marx
Superb, single-minded blog The Mid-Century Modernist is carrying a fascinating set of photos by architect Julian Weyer which focus on modernist Brazilian design. Weyer modestly describes his pictures as a ‘predictable’ tour of mid-century brazilian highlights, but although Oscar Niemeyer’s space-age architecture does feature heavily, the real star of the show is Roberto Burle Marx. Marx [...]
August 22, 2009
Old Gold
Matéria de Capa is an absolute goldmine of old Brazilian magazine covers from the sixties and seventies. It’s mostly TV mags like amiga and inTerValo, but there’s a bunch of others mixed in there, too. The site describes itself as ’Uma homenagem aos artistas, jornalistas e fotógrafos que registraram a história da telenovela e da cultura [...]
July 12, 2009
Sabadabada
Cover art selection from the classic Brazilian record label Elenco. These and plenty more on the online goldmine that is Sabadabada.com
April 7, 2009
Jua Kali: Recycling Remixed
Jua Kali is a Swahili expression for the art of crafting objects of value from the leftovers of everyday life. Literally it means ‘hot sun’, which is where the people who turn one man’s trash into another man’s treasure do most of their work. Jua Kali is common in Brazil, too, where it’s just plain old recyclagem artesanal. And [...]
