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A woman in white shirt and trousers stands with her back to us facing an eerie, ominous, foggy supermarket settingA still from the video content inside Omega Mart by immersive designers Meow Wolf. Photo by Kate Russell.

First off, don't get into immersive experience design, events, and production unless there is a part of your brain that lights up and says "this is what I was meant to do, I literally can't do anything else." In the Willy Wonka exhibit thread, kathryn has a very interesting comment on how to do the most with the least in immersive design for events or experiences without a lavish budget.

03/05/24
by taz

Strong feelings for knobs, switches and buttons

Photo of a pair of hands with a small, open, field notebook and fountain pen on the left and small, sleek, chrome colored TP–7 audio recorder on the right with a glass of red wine in the middle backObject of lust: TP–7 field recorder, via teenage.engineering

Help satisfy dmd's lust for beautiful functional objects? Difficulty level, been there, fiddled with that.

12/26/23
by taz

Loons, so many loons

a flag drawn in crayon or colored pencil showing a red eye, a butterfly wing, moon and stars, and sunny day

"nice to see someone leaning in to the core imagery of the loon as a red-eyed nightmare being by really focusing in on the eye part to the exclusion of the rest of the bird; I feel like this is the one Minnesotan who's going to be straight with me about the Horrors" – taquito sunrise.

Minnesotans are submitting their new state flag and seal design ideas, and Mefites have opinions.

11/11/23
by taz

Live Long and Lobster chair

photo of a modernistic black leather and chrome chair with wood veneer with matching footstoolOluf Lund and Eva Paarmann Lobster Chair appearing in DIS: New Eden

Pronoiac posted My god, it’s full of chairs, an index of over 160 different commercially-available chairs that have appeared in Star Trek productions.

10/23/23
by taz

Native Street Style

Runway photo of model in Lauren Good Day multicolor midi ribbon skirtphoto by Tira Howard Photography for SWAIA

If the Indigenous community has its version of the Met Gala, this would be it ... Mefi member Bottlecap offers info and highlights on the designers and designs at the 101st Santa Fe Indian Market

08/26/23
by taz

"A Labour of Love"

Cover of Graphic design USA 11 1990, American Institute of Graphic Arts with an illustrated eye and text design

Wow! chavenet posted archives.design, compiled and curated by Valery Marier, a digital archive of graphic design related items from the Internet Archives, including annuals, books, branding, editorial, education, ephemera, information, interactive, posters, and type specimens.

07/01/23
by taz

oversized ... or disjointed in style

McMansionMcMansion by pasa47 (cc by)

Hello! Professional architectural historian checking in here ... Preserver addresses Mchelly's question about "McMansion" as architectural nomenclature.

06/24/23
by taz

YESSSS!

girl on a game show wearing a white t-shirt with a bright screen-printed design showing a stylized yellow feline against a blue and red backgrounddetail of youtube screen capture

A roaring Ask Metafilter "identify this item" success for moonmilk's question "Do you recognize this t-shirt from 1992?"

04/29/23
by taz

Unclear... audience? logic? labels?

Two people viewing a wall filled with a confusing diagram of swooshing multi-color arrows connecting blocks of informationPhoto by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash

spamandkimchi posted How to Play "Diagram Critique Bingo" by Abby Covert.

02/13/23
by taz

"That's a Moiré"

a square of an abstract pattern in blue on white

"The real collection of patterns is the physical collection. Envelopes are individually sleeved and kept safe in 3-ring Binders. This web page, the digital images of the patterns, are put in place so other people can enjoy these wonderful patterns": cardioid has posted abstractcollage.com's amazing collection of over 500 security envelope patterns — designs printed on the inside of envelopes to obscure the contents of snail mail.

02/08/23
by taz

Which Stitchery

A close-up color photo of a sunflower on the left, and on the right, the image converted to a cross-stitch patternimage via pixel-stitch.net

In Ask Metafilter, HotToddy is asking about the best needlepoint kit sellers, and SinAesthetic posts about an app to convert your images into cross-stitch patterns.

01/29/23
by taz

What is "knolling"?

Close-up photo of camera, tablet, tablet pen, watch, mobile phone, multi-tool, loupe (?), and leather strap all arrayed in a pleasing composition on a nice wooden table topPhoto by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

"... a totally different organizational method born from the studio practices of artists, designers, and DIYers that involves laying out related objects—paint pens and ink markers, wrenches and chisels, metal chains of all sizes—in a precise but simultaneously stylish way, intended to streamline workflow."

01/18/23
by taz

"It's a no-brainer"

Blurred lines

the Catherine Palace (35)the Catherine Palace (35) by Dmitry Karyshev (cc by)

mumimor has some interesting thoughts about Eyebrows McGee's question on Decorating a Baroque palace

08/21/22
by taz

A Place for Everything

clutter montage 001clutter montage 001 by roberthuffstutter (cc by)

Welcome to cluttercore. People have opinions! In fact, every nook and cranny of this thread on TikTok's newest design trend is filled with different, fun, colorful opinions!

And in other news on filling things to the brim, Remittance by the Barrel is an interesting read about Caribbean communities carefully, lovingly curating barrels of items to ship to relatives outside of the U.S. Nice!

05/18/22
by taz

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