is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Fascinating and dystopian at the same time.
Also take a look at Jethro Mullen’s work. Most of his instagrams are from Hong Kong (where he lives). He also captures Hong Kong’s patterned urbanism in a fascinating way.
While his photos are interesting, they simply remind me of another master that did it better, Andreas Gursky.
Gavin: there’s a clear throughline that connects Michael Wolf’s work to Gursky’s work, yes. I would say that they are in the same artistic school. Wolf’s work is similar but it has its own value.
This is looking through the glasses of someone who has never had any firsthand experience of that kind of urbanism. We are looking through the eyes of a culture that likes to label everything, where expectation and reality and so different from the rest of the world. First world people with their first world diseases and their first world problems… To the rest of the world, the world where there is no running water or electricity (yes most of the world does not have running water and electricity) , this could be their chance in life, their chance to have a roof of their head, something to strive for. This is a simple solution to a problem, how do you house so many on so little land and make it affordable? Ans: Build high and repeated modules to reduce cost. You call it ART??? Most call it life. It’s such a luxury others strife, struggle, like before mentioned, First world views, first world problems, first world disease…