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A strange (but probably marketing oriented) feature of this year’s Denmark pavilion at Biennial in Venice. It is a partnership between 4 Danish design firms with 4 Chinese universities, to tackle the urban and environmental challenges ahead of China’s growth.
Read more on Designboom.
What a simple and beautiful way to brand Lego: the power of imagination.
Courtesy (link) of Corrie for this new Sony’s ad.
Tom Dixon’s first piece of architecture, the Tokyo Hipsters’ Club, is a big deal in industrial design world. The legendary self-educated/trained British industrial designer who just won the prestigious Designer of the Year Award by Design Museum in London, is excited to venture into architecture. His comment on architecture is quite revealing, he said recently in an interview with magazine Pol Oxygen, “People like to pretend [architecture] is difficult. [Architects] create a sense of mystique around it but the truth is the difficult bit is the structural engineering, the boring bits are the rules and regulations, and the fun bit is creating shapes, which really isn’t all that difficult.” It is easier said than done. His THC is very much a concrete box with interesting retail design within. We will have to wait and see how easy is creating shapes for Dixon in his next project.
Dixon is currently the creative director of the hip European furniture retailer Habitat, he also co-owned the Finnish furniture company Artek (founded by Alvar Aalto in 1935).
Thailand design firm, Trimode Studio, designed this perforated chair called “Koop” somewhat Asian, yet highly architectural (and probably not very comfortable).
Can we turn leaves into architecture? Why? Because we can?
Giles Revell is a British photographer interested in manipulating images through camera (and Photoshop).
If you don’t want to trash your spam, you can turn it into architecture. Alex Dragulescu from Romania created a program that turns spam into 3-dimensional models. While these are not “livable” architecture, you can at least sell them as images.
Proving bigger doesn't necessarily mean better, this homeowner maintains a website documenting his new Neil Denari home addition, as well as his thoughts regarding how the house plays to his family's needs. He even has an interview from KCRW, downloadable as a podcast. Lots of steel.http://www.thehappynewhouse.com/
Denari is more known for his “continuous” surface, which now becomes so ubiquitous. This time, sponsored by Bartco Lighting, he created an object that is more minimalist sculpture/structure than space. I am not sure if there is any reference to Dan Flavin’s work. But the idea of taking what we used to see in grocery stores and big box retail, the standard fluorescent tubes and make them into such an intriguing installation is quite incredible.
More info by my fellow classmate John Southern's comments.
Norway-born digital/video artist Niko Stumpo has done some amazing abstract “thing” (because I don’t really know how to name it). Its floral quality reminds me of the Art Nouveau aesthetics…
Here is an interview with him on Youworkforthem.
Hard to believe, but these images aren't photoshopped. They are actually original photographs from Angus Brown, an artist featured previously in Wired Magazine. They are taken through a process called synchroballistic photography. In it, the subject and photographer are moving in the same direction at a similar speed, thus the subject becomes slightly warped and the background becomes indiscernible. What is perhaps most interesting relative to this method from an architectural frame, is the dialogue it sets up relative to the figure/ground argument - that being in some cases the subject is subsumed by, or synchronized to the background through motion, and visa versa. http://www.serratedimage.com/
A strange (but probably marketing oriented) feature of this year’s Denmark pavilion at Biennial in Venice. It is a partnership between 4 Danish design firms with 4 Chinese universities, to tackle the urban and environmental challenges ahead of China’s growth.
Tom Dixon’s first piece of architecture, the Tokyo Hipsters’ Club, is a big deal in industrial design world. The legendary self-educated/trained British industrial designer who just won the prestigious Designer of the Year Award by Design Museum in London, is excited to venture into architecture. His comment on architecture is quite revealing, he said recently in an interview with magazine Pol Oxygen, “People like to pretend [architecture] is difficult. [Architects] create a sense of mystique around it but the truth is the difficult bit is the structural engineering, the boring bits are the rules and regulations, and the fun bit is creating shapes, which really isn’t all that difficult.” It is easier said than done. His THC is very much a concrete box with interesting retail design within. We will have to wait and see how easy is creating shapes for Dixon in his next project.
Thailand design firm, Trimode Studio, designed this perforated chair called “Koop” somewhat Asian, yet highly architectural (and probably not very comfortable).
Can we turn leaves into architecture? Why? Because we can?
If you don’t want to trash your spam, you can turn it into architecture. Alex Dragulescu from Romania created a program that turns spam into 3-dimensional models. While these are not “livable” architecture, you can at least sell them as images.
Denari is more known for his “continuous” surface, which now becomes so ubiquitous. This time, sponsored by Bartco Lighting, he created an object that is more minimalist sculpture/structure than space. I am not sure if there is any reference to Dan Flavin’s work. But the idea of taking what we used to see in grocery stores and big box retail, the standard fluorescent tubes and make them into such an intriguing installation is quite incredible.
Norway-born digital/video artist Niko Stumpo has done some amazing abstract “thing” (because I don’t really know how to name it). Its floral quality reminds me of the Art Nouveau aesthetics…
Hard to believe, but these images aren't photoshopped. They are actually original photographs from Angus Brown, an artist featured previously in Wired Magazine. They are taken through a process called synchroballistic photography. In it, the subject and photographer are moving in the same direction at a similar speed, thus the subject becomes slightly warped and the background becomes indiscernible. What is perhaps most interesting relative to this method from an architectural frame, is the dialogue it sets up relative to the figure/ground argument - that being in some cases the subject is subsumed by, or synchronized to the background through motion, and visa versa. 
