The results of the 3rd Blank Space Fairy Tales are in! The jury selected the top three submissions from a pool of thousands from 67 countries, and from what I’ve been told, the competition was especially close this year! The esteemed jury included Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Elizabeth Diller, Allison Arieff, Bradford Shellhammer, Daniel Simon, Dror Benshetrit, Sylvia Lavin, Cristina Goberna, Aaron Betsky, Alexander Walter, Robert McKee, David Basulto, Becky Quintal, Matthew Hoffman and Francesca Giuliani.
You may already know the name Olson Kundig because we’ve featured some of their projects were on Design Milk in the past. Well, they’re also now winners of this year’s Fairy Tales with their gripping sci-fi narrative called “Welcome to the Fifth Façade,” which was accompanied by dream-like illustrations of structures inside silhouettes. Congrats the the Seattle team of Alan Maskin, Jerome Tryon, Kevin Scott, Gabriela Frank & Katie Miller!
Here’s an excerpt:
?For patients re-entering alone, we encourage them to return to where they last lived ? to be surrounded by elements that we hope will feel familiar and foster memory recall.?
And what exactly do I remember" I have memories of a childhood that I assume was mine. I remember nothing during the freeze. Lately, I?ve started to notice that I remember things that happened yesterday, the day before that and so on.
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