Author: Marcus Trimble

Some photos of the Australian pavilion at the Venice Bienale, being filled with hundreds of models.

Fragments of the human genome encoded in quilts.

Telstra in trouble for erecting advertising in front of Uluru in its Second Life island. They have since removed the advertising and a spokesman had this to say: “You are very correct in stating BigPond takes the image of Uluru in Second Life very seriously. This is why we do not allow avatars to climb…

PostSpectaular built a “design machine” to generated an infinite number of unique covers for Faber and Faber’s print on demand service in which out-of-print books are being made available again. I particularly like that there are a set of rules that determine the border designs; distinguishing between fiction, non-fiction and so on &#8212 in much…

A giant mechanical spider is was crawling around Liverpool’s buildings. A part of the Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 Festival.

Archinect has an interview up with Dutch model maker Vincent de Rijk who runs the model shop that makes the models for OMA and MVRDV amongst others. Somewhat naively I always assumed that those offices made their models in house; it is interesting to see that the models that identify the office’s with is very…