Kiki van Eijk: “Coup de Théâtre” for La Montre Hermès
Kiki van Eijk and Hermès started working together in 2012, when Kiki designed exceptional travelling display windows for Hermès which were initially presented at the Bijenkorf department store in Amsterdam, and later travelled the world with Hermès to Milan, Vancouver, Osaka and Tokyo. Following this successful collaboration, Kiki is now invited by La Montre Hermès, the watch division of the house of Hermès, to design unexpected stage-settings for their watch collections. For La Montre Hermès, Kiki van Eijk designed a nomadic window display decor concept, drawing her inspiration from her poetic inner dream world. Each display is a miniature theatre intended to recreate a certain atmosphere; Kiki designed veritable miniaturised scenes linked to the company’s collections; Cape Cod, Dressage, Clipper, Arceau, Heure H, as well as to the precious watches. Read More…
Submergence Project by Squidsoup at Galleri ROM
Submergence is the latest project by Squidsoup Studio sawn at Galleri ROM, Oslo, Norway. The installation explores immersion and interaction within volumetric light based visuals created through 8,064 individual points of light. Watch the video after jump!
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Brick Lane Transformed 8 Bit Scene to Promote Wreck-It Ralph
For one weekend the famous Brick Lane in Londoon has been transformed into 8-Bit Lane, as celebration of arcade game nostalgia to market the upcoming release of Disney film Wreck-it Ralph. Pixellated trees, clouds, pigeons and a London taxi has been created by sculptor Aden Hynes. 8 Bit Lane has also showcase the world’s first Blipp-able building using Blippar’s visual discovery app. When Wreck-It Ralph fans Blipp The Nicelanders house on the wall, the house emerge in 3D and theyare invited to play a game featuring Ralph himself.
Aden Hynessays: ‘I played 8 bit games as a teenager, so it was great to realise that vision in three dimensions. In many ways the retro styling has much more charm than the hyper reality of today, I’ve never been asked to make an 8 bit taxi before.’
‘On Space Time Foam’ Installation by Tomas Saraceno
On Space Time Foam is a plastic installation by artist Tomas Saraceno that allows people to walk inside the clear plastic film floating on the air.The structure is “composed of three levels of clear film” that hopefully won’t tear. The plastic has a surface area of nearly 13,000 square feet. Visitors can access the installation either from above, to navigate it themselves, or from below, to watch as people seemingly float in mid-air.
On Space Time Foam art installation is open until February 3, 2013.
21 Swings: Interactive Musical Swing Installation by collective Daily Tous Les Jours
21 Swings is a recent project created by Canadian design collective; Daily Tous Les Jours, known for their wide variety of interactive public installations and experiences.
The installation offers a fresh look at the idea of cooperation, the notion that we can achieve more together than separately. The result is a giant instrument made of 21 musical swings; each swing in motion triggers different notes, all the swings together compose a piece, but some sounds only emerge from cooperation. The project stimulates ownership of the public space, bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds, and creating a place for playing and hanging out in the middle of the city centre. A traveling version of the project is currently being made for these collective moments to spread around the world.
Ptaszarnia, Short Movie by Karina Wiciak
This short film tells the story of what is happening in your interiors, when everyone had left……
“Ptaszarnia” is the first of twelve parts of an original collection called ”XII”, entirely designed by Karina Wiciak from Wamhous.The collection “XII” will consist of 12 thematic interior designs, together with furniture and fittings, which in each part will be interconnected, not only in terms of style, but also by name. Each subsequent design will be created within one month, and the entire collection will take one year to create. Here, visualization is to constitute more than a design, which is thrown away after implementation of the interior design, but mainly an image, which has a deeper meaning and can function individually, for instance as a print on a wall, or even a movie. The project “Ptaszarnia” includes the armchair “Ptaszek” and the hanging lamp “Ptaszyna”.
Miniature Sculptures on Pencil Tips by Dalton Ghetti
Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on pencils’ tip. Dalton, who works as a carpenter, has been making his tiny graphite works for about 25 years.
“At school I would carve a friend’s name into the wood of a pencil and then give it to them as a present. Later, when I got into sculpture, I would make these huge pieces from things like wood, but decided I wanted to challenge myself by trying to make things as small as possible. I experimented sculpting with different materials, such as chalk, but one day I had an eureka moment and decided to carve into the graphite of a pencil”
Christmas Tree by 1024 architecture
1024 architecture has been invited by the city of Brussels to revisit the traditional Christmas tree on the Grand Place. It is a contemporary prefabricated Christmas tree that contrasts with the image of traditional tree and is actually stirring debate in the Belgian capital.
Photo Series in Baikal Lake, Siberia by Dimitry Peshkov
These amazing photographs series were taken on lake in Siberia by French photographer Matthieu Paley.
Serko tells the true and incredible story of young Dimitry Peshkov’s staggering 9,000 kilometer ride across Russia in the winter of 1889-1890. His feat wend down in history as ‘the most astonishing equestrian achievement’ and ‘the longest horse ride of all time’. Basis for the book was the feature film ‘Serko’ by Joel Farges. Following Dimitry’s footsteps lead Matthieu from frozen Lake Baikal to encounters with reindeer and shamanistic rituals, which resulted in a 200-page book published by “Les Editions du Chêne”. 
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Ice Structures & Snowflakes Photographs by Andrew Osokin
Russian Photographer Andrew Osokin has captures these beautiful images of perfect symmetry that we ca find in nature. Isn’t it amazing this regularity found in these ice structures. Check out the photograph!
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‘David Zinn,’ 3D Street Artist
David Zinn, street artist search small flaws Street and adapts expressive three dimensions drawings. The artists uses chalks to draws these really expressive drawing. The one above with the little figure cleaning the leaves on the street is quite cool. More pictures after jump.
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Time-Lapse Photographies by Firefly Tsuneaki Hiramatsu
Japanese photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu captured fireflies beauty in a whole new light, using time-lapse photography. The result – lush images that show patterns of light that looks more like celestial figures than arthropods. Fireflies use two chemicals – luciferase and luciferin. The former glows when combined with the latter, which is an enzyme that triggers light emission. Read More…
James Bond’s 50th Anniversary; 22 James Bond Collection in Blue Ray
Available from now, the complete 22 James Bond collection in blue ray featuring the first movie from Dr. No to the 22nd Quantum of Solace and more than 130 hours of bonus and exclusive content.
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Walk in the Rain, Without Getting Wet at Barbican Centre, London by Random International
Rain room installation realized by Random International take place at the Barbican in london. The installations covers 100 square metres and lets people control the weather. When the 2,500 litres of water are falling at 1,000 litres per minute, sensors captures your movement and protects you from getting wet while you walking into walking in the rain.
The installationin is running at the Barbican in London from 4 October until 3 March 2013.
Flying Stick for Valeo at Mondial de l’ Automobile 2012 in Paris
This year, automotive supplier Valeo wanted to highlight its eco responsable behaviour in its Parisian stand at Worldwide Autoshow. For that matter, Valeo missioned Auditoire agency to build it and comissioned Atelier GH to create an original piece of art for this very occasion.
Atelier GH decided to put Valeo’s environmental and technical expertise at the heart of its proposal. The results is a naturalistic allegory of its technologies.
This biomimetic logic inspired Atelier GH a picture: technical object vocabulary that draw a vegetation driven by natural phenomenon: an enlighted field in movement suspended to the ceiling.This techno poetic ecosystem comes to life through an object: ‘the Flying Stick’, a 2.50m strand suspendend at 2.60 m high, fitted with a propeller, a fogger, LEDs and a laser. All its characteristics inspires a feeling of nature: wind, light, water and movement.
On Valeo’ stand 60 Flyings Sticks draw a mechanical choreography. This animatic piece of art is a visual and sensory experience that puts visitors in the middle of a technical nature’s metaphor.
This project was a technical challenge for us. From chosen materials to electronic programming and software development, the hole disposal was conducted as a research and development unit.
‘Heart of Glass,’ Sculptures by Gary Farlow
Gary Farlow and his team of 10 at Farlow’s Scientific Glassblowing have reconstruct, the heart and cardiovascular system into an a glass sculpture. Their anatomically correct models can be designed to simulate blood flow, teach placement of catheters and angioplasty devices, or simply test or demo new surgical gizmos. Individual arteries, veins, and capillaries are shaped and fused together, one at a time. Read More…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winners
Paul Nicklen (Canada)/2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The winners of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 have been announced. In total 48,000 images were submitted from 98 different countries to a panel of judges, who then had the strenuous task of whittling these down to a final 100 for the exhibition. The coveted title of Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year was awarded to Paul Nicklen from Canada for his image of emperor penguins on a frozen area of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. An exhibition of winning photos is running at the Natural History Museum in London featuring 100 images.
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Waiting spot Installation for MINI at Dutch Design Week
Izabela Boloz Studio in collaboration with Kasia Zareba have created ‘Waiting Spot,’ an outdoor installation to mark the waiting area for Mini Design Rides – free taxis cruising around the city of Eindhoven during the Dutch Design Week.
Blue tire tracks emerge out of this field of colour as if a car drove through fresh paint. By using these two elements only, the designers guide visitors towards the spot and intuitively mark the waiting area. Read More…
