Exceedingly simple in its design and brilliant in its concept, Time Flex is no more than a shock resistant and waterproof digital watch mounted on an adhesive band that can be stuck on to any surface we may wish, and remain there for as long as we wish. It is so thin that it remains always flush with the surface of our skin or that of any garment we may be wearing and thus will not interfere with any king of activity we would be doing, and for what we would need – or simply want – a watch to keep our time.

Scriba from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.

Scriba personalizes your hand-writing when it comes to your digital communications, starting with your emails. Subscribe and Scriba will collect the sound and light level data from where you are writing. It then adapts your ‘handwriting’. You can also let Scriba know in what mood you are (tired, happy, bored, angry) and they will adapt your ‘hand’ writing accordingly – making it straighter, neater, curlier etcetera. You can also let your email looks as if you have erased some words or crossed them out. 

Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957) is one of China’s earliest and most influential avant-garde artists. The Han (206 BC) and the Tang (618 AD – 907 AD) dynasties cultivated the Chinese art vase. It was their form of a water pitcher. Today Coca Cola is one of the most popular drinks, if not the most recognizable in the world. This Chinese vase with Coca Cola is Ai’s humoristic intertwining of history and modern life. 

Charm Café is a youth focused creative centre located in Zhongshan Bei Lu, the creative street of Hangzhou. They provide a platform for Chinese artists and designers to present and sell their artwork. They also regularly host offline activities to encourage creative thinking amongst Chinese youth. Some of their main activities include the monthly West Lake Idea Mart (DIY Mart) and the weekly Charm Café creativity class and exhibition. Every October and May respectively they also help organize China Hangzhou Cultural & Creative Industry Expo and China International Cartoon and Animation Festival.

On the picture we see a poster located on the floor of the museum shop in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It was put there as a floor mat during one of their modernism exhibitions ‘Cold War Modern’. It reads in four languages; “ You are entering the retail sector… ”. The rest of the text reads like an instruction one is not supposed to ignore. Most people will immediately make the connection with Checkpoint Charlie, but not all. “Checkpoint C” was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Germany and West Germany during the Cold War. It was a symbol between East and West and symbolized power, fear and separation. Upon entering instructions such as these were also visible.

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