Jusqu’ici, sur la terre, tout le désordre a résulté du fait que quelques-uns ont voulu mettre de l’ordre et toute ordure du fait que quelques-uns ont voulu balayer. Comprenez-moi, la véritable malédiction, en ce monde, c’est l’organisation, et le véritable bonheur, c’est l’inorganisé, le hasard, le caprice.
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I would have never thought that I would once post tea towels. Today is that day. Pieke Bergmans designed 6 tea towels for the Textile Museum in Tilburg (The Netherlands). Each one is infected by the dreaded Design Virus. Her goal is to make “personalized mass production” where irregularities are ruled in.
You can buy them for €15 a piece in blue or red at Wannekes.
Once the exclusive domain of programmers, code is now being used by a new generation of designers, artists, and architects eager to explore how software can enable innovative ways of generating form and translating ideas. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture offers an in-depth look at the use of software in a wide range of creative disciplines. This visually stimulating survey introduces readers to over 250 significant works and undertakings of the past 60 years in the fields of fine and applied art, architecture, industrial design, digital fabrication, visual cinema, photography, typography, interactive media, gaming, artificial intelligence (AI), artificial life (a-life), and graphic design, including data mapping and visualizations, and all forms of new media and expression.
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 9781568989372
7 x 8.5 inches (17.8 x 21.6 cm)
Paperback, 176 pages
While reading Wired's recent feature, "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet," Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza took issue with the following infographic, which illustrates the claim that the web is dead based on the total proportion of internet traffic instead of total overall use.
If you went with total useage, the graph might look like this:
"In fact," Beschizza writes, "between 1995 and 2006, the total amount of web traffic went from about 10 terabytes a month to 1,000,000 terabytes (or 1 exabyte). According to Cisco, the same source Wired used for its projections, total internet traffic rose then from about 1 exabyte to 7 exabytes between 2005 and 2010."
Now, using actual total traffic as the vertical axis, Beschizza reimagines the graph like this:
Does that look like "death" to you?
Japanese office Ninkipen have completed this office in Osaka with a facade of aluminum louvres that appear to bubble. (more…)
This is a good example of ~ I love you so much that it will melt.
Brooklyn based artist Julia Chiang uses a wide variety of materials in her sculpture and installation based work, including nostalgic and sweet ring pops. The colourfoul candy has been used by chiang in a number of works often employed as pixels spelling out words. The candy jewels atop the rings melts over time under gallery lights and slowly drips down the walls. The melted sugar stains the surfaces it touches.
Via: designboom
* via http://r-echos.net/2010/08/13/browsing-back-in-timeassembling%C2%A0%C2%BB-blog-archive%C2%A0%C2%BB/
The aim of the project is to let appear a “second day” made of a large artificial ligthing, between Marseille’s sunsets and sunrises, when everything becomes dark and quiet on the islands. This illumination will have its source up north, beyond the polar circle, where the sun shines 24 hours long during summer. Thus the continuous day of the arctic summer will be transported to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
Arctic Opening will light up a zone of the arid landscape of the Frioul close to an industrial ruin, channeling a fictional catastrophic future of an Arctic Ocean free of ice with the present of this mediterranean island, already surrounded by sea routes and heavy tourism. The result will become a metis landscape, all nights long: an arctic mediterranean, remote day at night.
Arctic Opening (Fenêtre Arctique) – follow up & pictures – fabric | rblg.
#24 CYPRIEN GAILLARD DUST LINES
My work starts where and when the archaeologists left off.
Leaving reality behind.
i’m visiting Zai and the etoy crew – just hours before they go to their huge exhibition in Korea. I will stay a few more days in their studio made out of containers. An amazing place to work from…
* www.etoy.com
25 3-D Renderings, by Carl Burgess & Thomas Traum, for the Most Beautiful Swiss Books “The Future Issue” 2009, designed by Laurenz Brunner.
The renderings allude to Vanitas paintings, while playing with classic clichés of computer generated imagery such as checkerboard and green screen backgrounds.
RESEARCH AND READING ROOM
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Eleanor Vonne Brown and Michalis Pichler recently put together a newspaper Research & Reading Room gathering conceptual publications and/or artpieces that use form or content of newspapers.
OPEN CALL: Artists are invited to contribute related works.
The Reading and Research Room took place at:
Pavillon am Milchhof , Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof e.V. Schwedter Straße 232 10435 Berlin,
July 17 – 27 2010 Vernissage Friday, July 16th 2010,7pm
ARTISTS’ NEWSPAPERS TALK by Eleanor Vonne Brown Friday, July 16th 2010,8pm
Tel +49 30 50 59 23 38
Opening hours: Tue – Sat, 12 – 18 Uhr
The Newpaper http://www.thenewpaper.co.uk/News.html
check for more infos the platoon blog
Does anyone know anything about this artist? His name?
HyperFood – Class of 2007, Expérimental Art Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Fishbones and seashells sculpture
via Funkyng Life
South Central Farmers Cooperative
Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a new idea in farming, one that has been gaining momentum since its introduction to the United States from Europe in the mid-1980s. The CSA concept originated in the 1960s in Switzerland and Japan, where consumers interested in safe food and farmers seeking stable markets for their crops joined together in economic partnerships. Today, CSA farms in the U.S., known as CSAs, currently number more than 400. Most are located near urban centers in New England, the Mid-Atlantic States, and the Great Lakes region, with growing numbers in other areas, including the West Coast.
This photo is from Michael Kenna his series called Power Stations. Who knew they could be so photogenic.
found at FFFFOUND!
an exhibition of artworks and objects
having to do with order, sequence
and consecutiveness.
pairs, successive things,
lists, instructions, corrections
and rules.
via ambitious
Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM
235 Bowery
New York, NY
The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along the library’s shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, representing the oil boom and the Dubai bust, the Cold War and the hot pant; depicting Pan-Arabs and Black Muslims, revolutionaries and royals, Orientalism and its opposites.
For the opening night Bidoun will present selected readings and video clips from the collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum.
Join us afterward for dancing and drinks at:
Sweet and Vicious
5 Spring Street
9pm
Music by Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)
For information visit bidoun.com or newmuseum.org
OVER IT string + type in collaboration with:
Jelly Helm | Jeremy Pelley | Matthew Foster
Fritz Mesenbrink | Chris Hutchinson | Damion Triplett
Jennie Hayes | Kate Bingaman-Burt | Marco Kaye
Mike Giepert | Justin Scrappers Morrison | Driscoll Reid
Jason Sturgill | David Neevel | Taylor Twist
Jimm Lasser | Julia Oh
via A.C. Rayburn.
Are you a graphic designer? Do you know the difference between a font and a typeface? Do your eyes light up when conversations turn to ems, kerning, and baseline grids? If you answered yes to these questions, then The Typography Manual for the iPhone and iPod Touch is for you!
The Typography Manual has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60-page book. It has all the essentials of a desk reference in a pocket resource.
Tubular Steel Furniture
Jeff Koons and RxArt recently joined forces to add some good vibes to Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital. RxArt is an amazing non-profit organization that promotes healing, and inspires hope, by placing original contemporary artworks in healthcare facilities! Great idea!
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Ron Arad Associates one of two scale models of marakesh villa ceiling experiment on show at The Aram Gallery curated by Daniel Charny (by dcharny)
One of diamonds, king of spades, two of clubs, six of hearts. This may be my favorite set.
From the NYPL Digital Archive.
When you have so many ‘ready make’ nowadays, having a home-made stuff is something addition to what the product or food represent, love. So it make sense to stamp every one of the cookies you make with this cookie stamper.
Cookie Stamper at Suck UK ~
This looks amazing and terrifying in equal measures. Feature film debut from Romain Gavras, the director behind those infamous videos for MIA’s Born Free, and Stress by Justice. Out mid-September. Watch the trailer here.
The Type Cruiser / Ebay Auction is spearheaded by Simone Vollenweider & Anna Sartorius.
Within the last month they designed a new typeface which is available on Ebay till August 2nd.
Part of the concept is that the font is meant to undergo changes throughout the auction: With each new tenderer a new special character will be introduced into the existing font such as a comma, question mark etc. Designers – that are not part of project yet – are encouraged to contribute to the exciting pool of characters by designing such a special character. The design of each new character is not subject to the existing typeface and is free of any rules or limitations.
The designers who are participating: Angelo Benedetto, Anna Lena von Helldorf, Anthony Burrill, Carolin Kurz, Daniel Gaffner, Daniel Peter, Dino dos Santos, Fanette Mellier, Jennie Winhall and Kathe Burn, Kerstin Finger, Hudson-Powell , Markus Dreßen, Martin Aleith (Pfandfinderei Berlin), Martin Sperling, Mathis Pfäffli, Node Berlin Oslo , Oliver Klimpel, Radim Pesko, René Siegfried, Silke Klinnert, Stephan Fiedler, Stephan Müller (Lineto), Thomas Ulrik Madsen, Yoann Betrandy, Mind Design & students of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.
a sneek-peek of some of the work in progress on my new furniture collection …the collection will be launching during this years London Design Week at Elemental. keep watching this space for further details…
London designer Simon Hasan has hand-made 400 bowls, cups and vases from boiled leather, which he will sell via a vending machine. (more…)
Photographer Vincent Fournier has a strong focus on the scientific, charting astronaut training fields through to antarctic research bases. His work captures the beauty and often otherworldly disconnection from reality found on the extremes of scientific research.
In a large majority of his landscape photos it’s easy to draw a comparison to Sci-Fi epic’s like Star War’s planets of Tatooine (home of Luke Skywalker) and the snow planet of Hoth. Did someone just spot an AT-AT?
Spotted in this months always inspiring issue of WIRED UK magazine.
The Hammer invites you to give your houseplant a vacation, during our August cultural retreat for plants. Throughout the entire month, participant’s plants will be installed in the light flooded Linbrook terrace, and presented with a series of readings, performances and musical events, for plants every Saturday from 1-4pm. Check back for the full schedule and for information about plant portraiture by Lisa Anne Auerbach.
Taking my touch-me-nots to this.
Whilst visiting Collette at KK Outlet in Hoxton last week I was delighted to find this little gem right at the back. Using thousands of water colour paints, a selection of which is on show at KK Outlet, Irina Dakeva has created this fluid, colourful and upbeat video for Breakbot. A steady hand and a lot of patience has really paid off especially when you see the original frames which are extremely captivating.
Shame that Irina doesn’t seem to have a folio online but is currently represented by WIZZ.
“Chess strategy is concerned with the evaluation of chess positions and setting up goals and long-term plans for future play. During the evaluation, a player must take into account the value of the pieces on the board, pawn structure, king safety, position of pieces, control of key squares and groups of squares (e.g. diagonals, open files, black or white squares), and the possible moves the opponent will make after any move made.”
– Chess strategy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Title: Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton 1959-1969)
Location: FTHo, 210 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4BW, http://www.flattimeho.org.uk/project/41/
Description: featuring material from AMM, Better Books, Bob Cobbing, DIAS, Coleridge Goode, Joe Harriott, James Joyce, Jeff Keen, John Latham, Annea Lockwood, Gustav Metzger, John Stevens, Val Wilmer and more.
PRESS RELEASE
Flat Time House hosts an exhibition of artworks, archive, movies and sound curated by Tony Herrington (Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, The Wire) and David Toop (musician, curator, long-time collaborator of John Latham).
For a period in the 1960s there was a great creative synergy in the UK between the visual arts, experimental film, free jazz, psychedelic rock, and the energetic poetry scene that formed the UK\’s so-called Underground. BLOW UP will present a visual and aural map of those connections through art works, recordings, archival film and documents, contemporary accounts, posters and album art.
The artist John Latham, who lived at Flat Time House until his death in 2006, was a central protagonist in this explosion of cross-talk and the mythologies surrounding his film Speak (1962) were a catalyst for exhibition. Speak is a powerfully strobing, paper-disc animation and, although it precedes the psychedelics of the high sixties by half a decade, its physical effect on the viewer is typical of the whole mind/body experiences of the early light-show gigs of Soft Machine or Pink Floyd and the environmental happenings of the late 60s organised by artists including Cobbing, Keen, Latham and Jeff Nuttall.
In fact, Speak illuminated some of the seminal events of the UK\’s new counter culture: it served as the Floyd\’s light show at early gigs at the UFO club and the Roundhouse; it was screened at Better Books on Charing Cross Road, the bookshop where Bob Cobbing hatched plans with Allen Ginsberg and Alex Trocchi for the International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall, and founded the London Filmmakers Coop with Keen and others in 1966. But it is the film\’s soundtrack that really connects the dots between London\’s art scene and contemporaries in free jazz and psychedelic rock: remarkably Latham rejected as \’too musical\’ scores recorded for him first by the Joe Harriott Quintet and then the Pink Floyd, before adding his own circular-saw soundtrack, pointing towards the simultaneously emerging noise aesthetic.
This exhibition begins to write a history of these connections, artistic, personal, or just in the air, and Speak\’s story is just one of the many told in BLOW UP.
Date: 2010-07-09
Title: Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs
Location: IMT Unit2/210, Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9NQ UK
Description: Dead Fingers Talk is an exhibition presenting two unreleased tape experiments by William Burroughs from the mid 1960s alongside responses by 23 artists, musicians, writers, composers and curators.
Few writers have exerted as great an influence over such a diverse range of art forms as William Burroughs. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and Junky, continues to be regularly referenced in music, visual art, sound art, film, web-based practice and literature. One typically overlooked, yet critically important, manifestation of his radical ideas about manipulation, technology and society is found in his extensive experiments with tape recorders in the 1960s and ’70s. Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs is the first exhibition to truly demonstrate the diversity of resonance in the arts of Burroughs’ theories of sound.
Date: 2010-07-09
Title: NARCISSUS TRANCE
Location: E:ventGallery, 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU
Description: The exhibition explores McLuhan’s premise that the technological dynamics of the present are concealed from human perception via an innate protective mechanism he defined as the Narcissus Trance. A process that anaesthetises the nervous system in order to allow technological media to merge with the mind. During the advent of consumer electronics, McLuhan warned that the new dawning age of instantaneity would produce an accelerated phase of transition that would lead ultimately to ‘pain and identity loss’ in humanity as the nervous system struggled to compensate for an ever increasing rate of change. He believed the only hope for the future given this predicament was to break the feedback loop imposed by the trance, and instead access technological media through a state of active conscious awareness. Within his ambition he proposed artists to be the instigators of this mass shift in perception.
Date: 2010-07-09
Title: Trisha Brown: Early Works
Location: Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
Description: Created between 1968 and 1975, Trisha Brown\’s pioneering Early Works blur the boundaries between dance and installation art. Originally created for loft spaces and art galleries as well as the outdoors, the Company now brings this collection of works for the first time to UK audiences in a gallery setting.
Rigorous yet playful, these iconic works include Accumulation (1971), Group Primary Accumulation (1973), Sticks (1973), Figure Eight (1974) and Spanish Dance (1973). From the starting point on the bridge of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the audience is directed to other parts of the gallery to discover the works as they unfold amongst the permanent collection. This is a unique opportunity to see seminal works that have influenced dancemakers worldwide.
Date: 2010-10-16
These bowls are so beautiful and geometrically stunning and with that colour, it just look deliciously as like chocolate, no?
Designer Ann Van Hoey was an industrial engineer before she discovered ceramics. She finished her studies at the Institute for Arts and Crafts in her hometown Mechelen in 2006.
“Étude Géométrique” (“Geometric Study”) is the name Ann Van Hoey has chosen for a series of five bowls which impressively embody the quintessence of her artistry in a contemporary manner. The basis for these pieces, i.e. thinly rolled pieces of clay cut into semicircles, are first joined and shaped into perfectly hemispherical bowls on the potter’s wheel. When the clay has dried so as to be leather-hard, Van Hoey uses a pair of scissors to cut triangular segments from it and joins the ends so as to overlap, thus opening up the path towards new three-dimensional shapes whose logic and clarity do not only fascinate minimalists alone. Without any décor, the clay’s colour and material characteristics are displayed to perfection. The combination of lines and surfaces makes for charming sculptural effects. Inspired by origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, Van Hoey’s crafting technique results in unusual creations that trigger new chains of associations.
Via: Artaurea
Design group United Nude have taken a number of recognisable objects and created simplified versions, including this Lamborghini, made up of a series of triangulated planes. (more…)
387 & 388 are Andrey Yazev his latest HTML & javascript experiments. Both work best with Safari or Google Chrome, especially 388.
387
388
Caillou small boats. The design is based on sailing canoes from the 1800s.
The Tretorn store in Soho has one of these on display, and Sean and I spent a good half hour debating if there was any earthly way possible to keep one in our apartment. They are beautiful and look like a heck of a lot of fun.
The Lo Res Project by United Nude, is an innovative design method using computer software to automatically create design options to choose from. By lowering the resolution of 3D models of products, the object becomes more and more fragmented, changing its character in the process. They’ve used this technique on a Lamborghini Countach and the result is quite nice. The United Nude Lo Res Shoe is the first product available at the United Nude stores.
Design graduate Julian Bond of the Royal College of Art has created a moulding machine to produce vases, each with its own unique design. (more…)
Maybe you know Oliver Laric his Versions 2009 video, than you’ll know what the Versions 2010 video is all about. Either way, same same but different.
Yoko Ono, Play It By Trust, 2002
Chess | 16 Miles of String: Andrew Russeth on Contemporary Art and Art History | ARTINFO.com
spotted today on top of a pile of ‘fly-tipping’ on Long Street, Shoreditch, but good enough to show in a gallery; a large bail of crushed wooden fruit crates with screen printed product details. these crates must have gone into a bailing/crushing machine to achieve the overall cube shape tied together with only two thin strings. before scrap metal prices went crazy you used to be able to find some amazing fly-tipping gems around the dimly-lit back streets of east london, these days you only find the very worst, very hard to recycle materials such as plaster board and hardcore dumped everywhere and this bail would disappear in seconds for fire wood during the winter. i’m rather tempted to go back for this bail and put a clear glass sheet on the top to use as a side table/coffee table or retail display piece.
the picture above is not my own, i can’t remember where i found it but it’s a good collection of crushed and bailed cardboard fruit trays and boxes- maybe at the back of a supermarket?
i love the floor in this flat by ecole. the way they’ve mixed cement with raw wood.. just lovely. second photo: grijs
London designers Campaign have installed a cardboard shop selling architecture books as part of the London Festival of Architecture. (more…)
Vessel Music is worth checking out for electronic music and its design sensibility. Designed by recent Chelsea College of Art graduate, Kit Grill, with a minimalist approach it features mixes from Wooden Shjips, Throbbing Gristle, Luke Abbott, Mogwai, Lali Puna…
At ninety-four years of age the Danish-born American designer Jens Risom has collaborated with Rocket Gallery and Benchmark Furniture, who have jointly secured the European rights to reissue his 1950s and 1960s furniture designs. The first collection of nine pieces is being exhibited at Rocket.
JENS RISOM FURNITURE, 2nd July-4th September 2010
ROCKET GALLERY
Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ (020 7729 7594)
The group of furniture released by Rocket includes an easy chair, a side chair, a desk, various coffee tables, two magazine tables, and Risom’s famous upholstered bench. These are shown in a mixture of oak and walnut versions and upholstered in a variety of Kvadrat fabrics and Elmo leathers.
The collection has been creatively directed by Jonathan Stephenson of Rocket and made by Sean Sutcliffe and Terence Conran’s Benchmark Furniture company in their Dorset and Berkshire workshops, with the close involvement of Risom himself.
Jens Risom was born in Copenhagen in 1916. From 1935 to 1938 he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen where he trained under the furniture-maker Kaare Klint and his fellow students included Hans Wegner.
In 1939, Risom emigrated from Denmark to the USA, where in 1941 he designed the first range of furniture manufactured by Hans Knoll. In 1946, he established Jens Risom Design Inc which grew to become the third largest furniture company in America.
“I set out to design contemporary furniture that was comfortable and practical to use. I developed an American version of Scandinavian modern furniture.” - Jens Risom, Classic Modern
A catalogue of the new furniture collection is available and the pieces can be viewed on the dedicated Jens Risom website.
Simultaneously, as a back-drop to the furniture, Rocket is presenting ‘Black & white minimalism’ with works by Lars Wolter, Michelle Grabner, Stefan Eberstadt, and Keld Helmer-Petersen.
Glitsh taped the words ‘of’ and ‘sound’ in morse code on this wall. He used white for the short rectangles and black for the long ones, 2 colors associated with music notes. The result: Wall of Sound 17. Simple but very good.
found at rebel:art
Bee houses attract wood-nesting and stem-nesting solitary bees – especially mason bees and leafcutting bees. Easy DIY bee houses can be made by following the basic guidelines – you can make them in blocks, as free-form sculptures, or whatever you can think of.
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