World’s Largest 3D Display
Electrical engineering students at the Delf University Of Technology in the Netherlands have created the world’s largest 3D-display. The display consists of 8,000 suspended ping pong balls that each contain a red LED light. It plays games of 3D snake, 3D pong, and 3D duckhunt, and displaying SMS messages and simple animations.
Yayoi Kusma
Yayoi Kusma started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs. She created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils.
Early in Kusama’s career, she began covering surfaces (walls, floors, canvases, and later, household objects and naked assistants) with the polka dots that would become a trademark of her work. The vast fields of polka dots, or “infinity nets,” as she called them, were taken directly from her hallucinations.
[Via Guardian Unlimited]
May 17, 2006 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Socccer Ball Home
This is the kind of house we were dreaming of when we were kids. The Soccer ball-shaped houses, called “Barier,” are designed to resist an earthquake or a flood. They float on the sea and can be used as a rescue ship.
May 17, 2006 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Talking to the birds
To make an advertising for a label, there is nothing better than a real demonstration. But when it’s inventive, it’s much better.
Leo Burnett created this paradise for birds, putting seeds in that huge box to attract them.
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
One of the most innovative figures in 20th-century art, Flavin used fluorescent light as his medium. He became a key exponent of minimalism in the early 1960s.
Link [via Guardian Unlimited]
May 16, 2006 - Category: Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Townhall of Forest
A work from the architect Jean Baptiste Dewin opened its doors in 1938 in the Art Deco Style.
The interior is made with Art Deco typical material. The ground is made of black and white marble work in the lengthwise to bring a contrast of perspective with the stained glass which comes in a perpendicular way.
The stairwell is made of copper, and in a really rectilinear design.
We really enjoyed that kind of architecture because it’s a shadow of the birth of modernism and the Art Deco who took differents paths.
May 15, 2006 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
BioWall
BioWall is a hand woven three-dimensional structure that can be crafted into lace-like walls of any dimension. Plants creep and crawl around the structure so that it becomes an indoor, living hedge that divides space. It’s a very interesting idea inspired by the formation of bubbles, living cells and water molecules in our natural environment.
Flower Chair
The flower chair exists in different materials: wood fibres, plastic metal and concrete. The materials gives a very different look to the chairs.
Nickel Couch By Jonny Swing
Johnny Swing’s magical ability to re-purpose materials in new and exciting ways has led to a successful career — creating furniture and interior environments for the corporate offices of companies known for their creative vision. Whether he’s welding together thousands of pennies in the form of a chair or assuming the role of team leader on the popular television series “Junkyard Wars.”
AIDES Safe Sex
Here’s a really strange yet powerful video promoting the use of condoms. You don’t need any explanation, the video will show you why you need to protect yourself.
[via Elastico]
Tomie Ohtake
The institute Tomie Ohtake, has the same name as the Japanese Architect who gives her name to it. The institute is one of the world’s most important cultural center for design, architecture, photography and plastic arts.
May 8, 2006 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Suzuki LC
The LC is a funny recreation of Suzuki’s first cars, which had space for only two people. All the details have been mulled over to give this car a vintage look.This cute little beast is powered by a 660cc, 3 cylinder, DOHC engine, paired to a 4-speed automatic transmission. Too kawaii!
Stuttgart Music School
It’ s a twinkle of colors bound to receive all the intruments. Michael Wilford brought his pure vision of the world in this huge school.
May 8, 2006 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Moet Flower Rose
The champagne, four flower glasses. Have a drink in a flowery prairie. Even if you don’t have anything to celebrate you’ll always find a good reason to empty that bottle.
Denis Santachiara
Denis Santachiara was born the 4th of may 1950 in Campagnola, Italy. He has chosen Milan as his adoptive city. This designer is a self-taught person who has always been fascinated by technology which he considers “poetic language”.
Single Tapete
Send them your personal digital picture and you’ll receive your personal wallpaper.
Some people don’t like to feel alone when they go back home, so… invite your friends in a wall decoration and have a drink with them. But don’t toast your glass with them, you’ll mess up the wall, right?
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Jaime Hayon’s Bath
Hey come on Jaime!!! I know that you became a designer because you were bored of working in a office. That’s why you transform a table or a desk in a bath. To feel at home!
But please don’t transform my chair into a toilet.
Iluminar
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“From the darkness to the light”: Iluminar is not a design exhibition about the light but a light exhibition about the design.
Leading by our favorite designer Fernando an Humberto Campana, the exhibition is bringing together 250 masterpiece of lighting signed by more than 100 designer.
The scenario, from darkness to light and back again, is inspired by the rhythm of the day, as well as seasons, and life. They reenact the colors of a day and bring you to a fantastic world of colors.