GreenBlue

I went to a lecture yesterday evening about the GreenBlue by Jason Pearson. It is interesting that he showed the Eames' "Power of Ten" (short slideshow version) to talk about engaging context at different scales. If you know or read about "Cradle to Cradle" by William McDonough, the diagram above should look familiar for you.

Screen/Shelf/Sculpture

Found this on design*sponge. It is a Helsinki-based design studio called Järvi & Ruoho. I think I like it as a sculpture.

The Beauty of Lightness

I am always fascinated by the light or diet beverages. From the package design standpoint, the light version is always more attractive than the regular version (except Bud Light). It seems as if the light version have more freedom in design because it is OK to differ from the brand and it need to be a little edgy to attract a smaller group of customers. From a graphic design standpoint, this is quite a "break through". How many time have you seen a vertical logo on a beer bottle? I haven't. Remember we talked about what "luxury" is in the modern world (when modern aesthetic is mechanical, industrial and basically socialist)? Heineken may give us some hints...

A Proud Ohioan

This affinity diagram is one of the 51 IDEO Method Cards I saw a while back. David Kelley, one of the founder of IDEO in Palo Alto, CA is originally from Barberton OH (a small town 7 miles SW of Akron). Here is an cover story in Newsweek 2 years ago (talk about old news...) that talks about "the Power of Design". Interesting read about how design integrates into the corporate world.

More IDEO stories

M City

Looks like something Eventscape would have done, but it is actually by ReD (Research+Design), a Spain/Portugal architects and digital fabrication studio (doing installation/art in Kunsthaus Graz, go figure). The interesting thing about Kunsthaus Graz as a museum is that it allows the whole building to be "transformed" into one big installation, which in turn creates a very specific response to the space (the temporary cones being attached to existing spiral fluorescent lamp). It reminds me of the object/experience discussion we had this afternoon in the studio. When the object become so dominant yet integrated, it becomes the experience and part of the space...

LeFevre Fellow

Another cool link from Sandhya, Voronoi II by Andrew Kudless , this year's LeFevre Fellow in KSA. I haven't met him personally but apparently, from the name Voronoi of his latest architectural project (if you can call that architecture), it is about something called "Spatial Science". I don't know exactly what that is, but the form/structure is generated by some computing program script with Rhino nurb application. Look like something Jeff Kipnis would be interested in. It seems like it is time for architects to be programmers, no offense to programmers (or architects) ...

The woman behind Koolhaas

Petra Blaisse, the woman behind Koolhaas (not his wife though) for 20 years. (Jon would love the Mies' reference.) I was asked by my wife yesterday about her being involved in the Glass Pavilion project in Toledo by Sejima. She was original an museum exhibit designer turned interior and landscape designer for almost all OMA's high profile projects in Europe and US. And she is coming to Wexner to gave a lecture on May 2.

Digital Canopy

nArchitects lectured last night at KSA, too bad that I couldn't go but want to post this "beaufiful" canopy project in PS1 in 2004. The thing that facinates me about this project is the surrealist quality of the virtual wireframe-nurb by bamboo... Also if you have time to visit their website, check out the "party" wall (thanks Sandhya for the info).

Eames or Addidas?

Question of the day. If you have a choice, which one will you get? And which one do you think is cheaper?

Cinderella Table

By another Dutchman Jeroen Verhoeven, an inverted table made with birch, by CNC millwork. Talk about digital craftmanship...

Pig Table

Don't know much of about the designer, apparently by some crazy Dutch (no offence, but they are simply way out there, thanks to "coffee" shop). But I would love to have one around. So weird but cute.

Fog

L.A. based artist Mindy Shapero's work is on view in Wexner. Pretty amazing scupltures.

Inverted Shadow Tower

Olafur Eliasson is also mentioned (well, more than that) in Metropolis this month. I first knew about his work when he did the big glowing thing in Tate Modern (the Weather Project 2003). The Danish-born, Berlin based artist is a truly master of light and space, probably because he is not an architect. This spiky tower is very sharp but interestingly friendly, and of course, very architectural.

The Tiles

The Bouroullec (French-speaking folks, please let me know how to pronounce the name correctly) brothers always have new way to make cool modular system (their little artist house sucks though). I wish we can use it on the exterior instead of the titanium panels…

System X

[Here comes the "conservative" posts after some wild stuff...] I got the new Metropolis this weekend, a ton of really cool stuff in this month's issue. Metropolis, I have to say, remains one of my favorite design magazines out there. Hope they have many 25 years ahead of them. Ross Lovegrove is on. The British star designer has been making organic forms for a while, but this bent X-shape fluorescent light designed for the Yamigiwa simply transcends the banality of 2X4 fluorescent.

It's hard to believe Lovegrove doesn't have his own website (I think he used to have), but BusinessWeek actually had a pretty nice article about him back last December.

Welcome!

Welcome to D-FILTER.

What should I do for the first one? Let's start easy. I found this CarLoft thing the other day. I am like, it is so obvious, why didn't we see this before? Alright, maybe it is not the first one, but do we want more or less of these? What about those "high end" condo in China or Moscow we are doing?

See more at:
http://www.carloft.de/v0/htdocs/index.php