This is . This isn't

This is . This isn't MIDF PopUp 2008

thisisnt@gmail.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:54:00 +0000

We made a video of our pop-up exhibition, especially for those who could not make it during the Melbourne International Design Festival.

Key Wear Scarf Draw

thisisnt@gmail.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:48:00 +0000

Finally the Key Wear Scarf Draw is out. Thank you to those who participated to our draw. Hopefully, we will see you again! Now let's see who are the 8 lucky winners...

A. Blackwood

J. Brownrigg

S. Dowling

G. Ho

C. Lynch

C. Lednich

B. Rodgers

K. Rhode

Congratulation to those 8 lucky winners! Each of you may custom your 4 letters that you want on the scarf and e-mail it back to us at thisisnt@gmail.com by next Monday Aug 4th. Your custom made key wear scarf will be ready for you at National Design Centre on Friday Aug 8th from 12pm.

Pop-up Exhibition

thisisnt@gmail.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:52:00 +0000

Hi Folks,

So our This is and This isn't pop-up exhibition is now showing. If you still haven't check it out, don't forget to go down to National Design Centre corner of Russell St and Flinders St at Federation Square. Remember to enter our draw for the "Key" Scarf and see our exhibition next door at Tjanabi restaurant. Don't be shy, you are welcome to go inside to the restaurant.

You still have 3 more days.

Press

thisisnt@gmail.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:28:00 +0000

On the 7th July, Jansen and I caught up with Tess McCabe at the Workshop and did an interview on This is . This isn't pop-up for the Melbourne International Design Festival (MIDF).

Link to interview and MIDF blog.

What a joy to hook on

noreply@blogger.com (Lyedetector) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:53:00 +0000

Joystick has been popular controller from the dawn of archaic video games. As we all know and experienced, it has been used widely to control the movement of your character in the game. From manoveouring your Pac Man away from the evil blue blobs with tentacles to shooting variety of aliens in Galaxian. However as video games becoming more complex and faster, the original joystick controller would have to come to an end and replaced by more superior and ergonomic controller out there. Nevertheless the joystick will lived on for it different purpose. As a coat hanger, joystick can be an interesting semantic that perhaps would give a purposeful meaning of its afterlife. When a coat is hook onto the stick, it would interactively shift down, this not only showing a retro aesthetic object that has history in itself but also an emotional, living and breathing object.

This isn't moment - Lego Storage

thisisnt@gmail.com (Bonnie) — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:56:00 +0000

This picture was taken at a coffee shop in London

Lego has designed to encourage people to be creative. This cafe owner has just demonstrate us how useful could Lego be in our everyday life. If you run out of storage box next time. Why don't you take out your Lego from the box and build one for yourself?

"This isn't" moment - Hawker's Display

thisisnt@gmail.com (Bonnie) — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:07:00 +0000

This picture was taken at the harbor in Barcelona.

Often hawkers are the most creative people you can find on the street. They are always working under constraint condition. They have limited space, time and mobility. Here is a great example of a hawker combining an umbrella and a tripod together to make a display stand for his jewelry. It is collapsible, portable and it presents his jewelry well.

This isn't the conclusion

thisisnt@gmail.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:57:00 +0000

A full stop indicants that this is the end of the line. Yet it continuously leads you to the next line and to the next full stop. A story may end with a full stop. Yet it leads you to arguments, discussions and imagination. A conclusion does not necessary mean it is the end of a story. It often leads you to arguments, discussion and imagination.

Imagination is like a full stop. It stops for a little while and suddenly it leads you to the next.

Our project begins from a full stop where "This is" becomes "This isn't". Just like when 2 sticks meet together to become a pair of chopstick. A utensil that is used for eating. A simple object like a Chopstick is used for eating. When you separate them these 2 sticks have been used as hair decoration and weaponry to catch a fly in a Kung Fu movie. These other purposes were not the original design attempt. It has been re-purposed from one idea to another.

This is and This isn’t is a collaboration project of how we experiment the use of objects that are meant for its main purpose and secondary purpose. The ideas are based on what we’ve found in everyday routines. We will capture all these creative “This isn’t” moment and further develop theses ideas from a design approach.

We hope “This is”, gives an example and explanation of how and what the objects purpose was meant to be, while “This isn’t” is an experimentation of modifying the object for other purpose. This will take place through documentation and experimentation.

Therefore, we have created a blog platform and invite you to join us to collect more “This isn’t” ideas. We are also inviting designers to further develop “This isn’t” ideas with us.