Pininfarina Soda-Dispensers, Richmond, VA...

A few images of some Pininfarina (the designers of Ferraris and Maseratis) soda dispensers (providing a seemingly endless number of combination choices for beverage flavors), found in a few (quasi) fast-food places at the VCU campus in Richmond...  

How come we don't yet have these here in Doha - the natural habitat of most motorized carnivores..?

Click here for some images from a recent visit to the Pininfarina headquarters in Italy...

The Appliances Exhibition at the Eclectic Electric Gallery, Richmond, VA...

A collection of a bit older and more recent electrical paraphernalia (heaters, toasters, fans, irons, and more...) from the Eclectic Electric collection in Richmond, Virginia... 

Tasmeem Doha - Hybrid Making Event Featured in the Latest Issue of the Context Magazine...

The latest issue of Context Magazine features a cover (and back-cover) showing Tasmeem Doha Student Lab Lima's (run by Jeff Turko) work... The issue also includes an essay by myself, as well as several pages of additional images from the latest Tasmeem Doha 2013 event... 

Good times... 

The Tasmeem Doha Event Begins in Three Weeks...

The biannual Tasmeem Doha Conference begins in three weeks time. It's the biggest Design Conference of the MENA/ GCC region that, this year, not only includes a two day talking-heads component, but also five days of Student Labs, done in collaboration with the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art; a set of Academic Research Workshops, a number of exhibitions by both regional and international artists, designers and architects, and a film festival. The keynote speaker is Rem Koolhaas... 

There's still much to do during the next few weeks (I'm co-chairing the event) but I think it's going to be a very exciting and interesting eight days... 

Tasmeem Lab Liaison Workshop - VCU Arts, Richmond, VA...

A few images from a recent one day VCU Arts (in Richmond) workshop run for the 'Lab Liaisons', a select set of VCU students who will be assisting the Tasmeem Lab Leaders with the running of their five day workshop during the upcoming Tasmeem - Doha event, which this year will be exploring the notion of 'Hybrid Making'...

The illustrated exercise, which was set-up by Corin Hewitt, one of the Lab Leaders and faculty at the sculpture department at VCU, asked the participants to create, through manually mixing variously colored pieces of plasticine, the matching color of a verbally described, but hidden, sample piece. Whoever got the color of their plasticine closest to the sample's color 'won' the round...

All these students, who range in study backgrounds from music, to art history, to interior design - and in experience from Foundation to Graduate level studies - will all be joining us at Mathaf for the Lab segment of the Tasmeem event... The viewing of the Labs is open to the public so, if you're in the neighborhood, please stop by Mathaf and take a look what wonders the international set of Lab Leaders and students will produce during Tasmeem - Doha's initial five days (March 10 - 14, 2013)... 

 Corin Hewitt...