This Year… 2012
Design by NB Studio.
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Collaborators: Andy Smith, Dan Funderburgh, Jean Jullien and Paul Davis.

’2012, as we all know, is the year the world ends. But rather than wallow in the misery of it all, we’ve devised a way to make our friends and clients ridiculously wealthy. We placed a multiple £1 bets with William Hill on the world ending in 2012. When ‘it’ eventually happens each slip returns £1million. Every betting slip is accompanied by a limited edition print by either Andy Smith, Paul Davis, Dan Funderburgh or Jean Jullien.’

Taken from the NB Studio website.

Swedish design studio BVD, have a lovely building.
Photography by Rasmus Norlander.
BVD are now on Facebook.
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Thanks to Tom at BVD for the images.

New from Non-Format, poster announcing the 2012 Summer Design Fellowship at the architecture, planning and design practice Shepley Bulfinch.

Elephant Magazine: Issue 9. Buy here.
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We discover what happens when historical craft meets modernity, as the tradition of embroidery finds a place in contemporary art. Lauren DiCocco says she feels ‘part of a community’ because of her medium, while Melissa Zexters says it allows her to adjust photos and memories. We discover the two views of Zurich: that it is not typical of Switzerland, and that Switzerland is not typical of Zurich. To investigate, we trekked to the Kreis 5 and Kreis 4 districts – areas that could have been conceived by Dada. From Elodie Pong to Ante Timmermans, we (literally) hunted down the city’s most intriguing artists.

We also pit-stopped in China to speak with Chen Nong (whose art is a self-proclaimed ‘carnival’) and at East London studio APFEL, which is striving to stay small. Meanwhile, analogue meets the modern day at Viktor Timofeev’s Manhattan office. Finally, we made our way to Chris Burden’s Tpoanga Canyon studio, where he reflects on the 1970s, performance and daring to break the law.