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What’s going on?

Lots of posts but not much news on actual activity at F/F recently. Read more here

Great re-use skate deck art

This stuff is awesome - it’s part of a show from Harvest by Haroshi called Skate and Destroy currently showing at plsmis gallery in Tokyo, Japan until the 27th Feb. All the artworks have been created with old worn, or snapped, skateboard decks.

Need vs Want

It’s fairly excepted that in the debate over the worlds ever widening poverty gap that what an individual’s ‘needs’ is pretty much the same universally - you know shelter, full belly, clean water, security etc. Essentially in monetary terms not very much at all. So what is causes the gap to keep growing. The answer [...]

Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest

via threetreesdontmakeaforest.org At BGreenNow™ and Function/Form this is the kind of action we like to see and support. Well done to Sophie, Caroline and Nat for their efforts and good luck with the Three Trees project. About Three Trees Vastly experienced, Three Trees’ founders, Sophie Thomas (thomas.matthews), Caroline Clark (Lovely as a Tree) and Nat Hunter (Airside) [...]

This building is ACE

Took this shot during a photo mission around the Melbourne CBD over the weekend. There are so many great bits of old and forgoten signage and typography on buildings across Melbourne - must find the time to document more of it.

10.10.10

via designweak.com Interesting project by Steve a Plan-B Studio. To celebrate 10 years in business he is going to donate 10 days a month to a different Non-Profit/NGO organisation each month. He’s offering to do anything from give up his creative expertise to working in the soup kitchen - will be following this one to [...]

The future of magazines?

via creativereview.co.uk Creative review articulate some of the views on tablets and the future of magazines we’ve been discussing at Function/Form since the arrival of the iPhone and the future of tablet/touch devices.

Happy Festive Season

Function/Form wishes you a great festive season
The studio will be closed till the 11th January 2009

Google + Cloud = Better Monitoring of Global Deforestation

via feedproxy.google.com Great use of both Google Earth and the power of the cloud to map and monitor deforestation rates around the planet. Nice work Posted via web from arcd

Great sustainable storage solutions from Housefish in the US

via housefish.com Really like the simplicity and overall design of this great modular storage system from Housefish in the US. Key is a new highly modular storage system that ships flat and assembles easily- the only tool you need is a hammer. The parts are cleverly joined into an exceptionally strong structure by machined [...]