i don't feel that i need to explain my art to you, warren

thursday night, some friends from work and i went to the ica to see design life now, an exhibit about, well, design. a nice night out away from work looking at stuff, that’s well, work. but it’s really cool work. the exhibit had something of an omnibus approach to the word ‘design’, which you could look at one of two ways; either they wanted to look at the individual works in the context of how society thinks of design across many fields, or they wanted to include some crowd-pleasers like pixar models, toys, and wild architecture. i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, although some selections were pretty darned dubious. still, it was really neat to see things in a museum that were not the least bit dissimilar to stuff i’ve worked on. except, you know, they’re shipping.

this was actually the first time i’d been to the ica, which apparently is celebrating its first birthday. i’d parked my bike underneath its imposing overhang more than a few times, savoring a bottle of gatorade and a powerbar, but hadn’t gotten inside yet. the building is really cool, and terribly photogenic; probably will be even more so when it’s not surrounded by parking lots.

and it’s free on thursday nights, too.