Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation. Or maybe one of those crazy LED art projects in a skyscraper. It’s better than all that, put together.

What you are seeing here is the Rosetta Disk: 13,500 pages of data—in 1,500 languages—etched on a nickel. To see each page individually you’ll need a 500x microscope …

Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object …

High everyone! We just came back from Offf 09 and it was MIND-BLOWING!!! We’re still trying to get everything together and organized and are definitely trying to make it back next year. It were 3 very intense days, with a lot of cutting-edge work and friendly people like the guys from Urban Myth, Hobo or Studiolow.

Next week we’ll be posting interviews with Eric Wilhelm, Robert. L. Peters, Director Koboyashi, Joshua Davis, Paula Scher & Stefan Sagmeister,unfortunately we couldn’t get Neville Brody.

this isn’t flying this is tumbling with style fail gracefully

Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink …

Michael Marcovici, one of the most utterly corrosive conceptual artists of our time, has been developing a method for rats to trade financial futures and stocks, they outperform most human traders !

‘Our program is a professional service to the financial industry; rats are being trained to become superior traders in the financial markets. Using our own methodology in accordance with well-established animal training techniques, our subjects learn to recognize pattens in historical stock and futures data as well as generating trading signals. We provide solutions for tick based trading data and day based data. RATTRADERS rats can be trained exclusively for any financial market segment. They outperform most human traders and represent a much more economic solution for your trading desk.’

Instead of having the usual new furniture line-up, Maarten Baas chose to explore the concept of time with his exhibition Real Time. The movies Maarten made for this project are as varied as having floor sweepers move the clock hands with their brooms to having a poor worker sit in an tiny office moving a pair of pencils to the exact minute. The end result is a 12 hour movie which is also a clock …

teamdustrial will be reporting live from Offf 2009.

We’ve requested interviews with Eric Wilhelm, Robert. L. Peters, Director Koboyashi, Neville Brody, Joshua Davis, Paula Scher & Stefan Sagmeister. However we are planning to do much more so if you’re interested in sharing your views with teamdustrial just drop us a line and we’ll add you to this exclusive list.

Special shout-out to the PORTUGUESE GRAPHIC DESIGN PANEL on Friday featuring R2, Alva, This is Pacifica and Musa Worklab.

Offf we go!