Archive for March, 2007
Be on the tiles, you guys!
Analia Segal makes a unique balance between form and function - incredible tiles (blobs by the way):
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Studio JSPR is a 4 people independent designer team founded in 2005. They are also Wallpaper Design Awards 2007 winners. In three words - the guys are cool. That’s four words, nevertheless, enjoy:
More of Studio JSPR
Erika Loqvist (you won’t believe it) is also a winner of Wallpaper Design Awards 2007. Her tiles are very extraordinary too:
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These are also crazy tiles:
Found here.
March 13th, 2007
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What is a blob? Many things, really. Starting with a mostrous creature and a thing everyone owns in their homes.
What if there are many blobs? It could probably look like this:
These speech bubbles are the work of Philippe Parreno. The bubbles are made of mylar and helium and exhibited in Paris.
Studio Make Light is functioning since 2004 with a vision to take lighting out of the light. There are two Light Makers: Minsang Cho and Sam Liu. More of their great blob lightning works can be viewed here.
Stuart Haygarth presented some art pieces, like this chandelier for MAC cosmetics, which represents the bloom of colour.
Another blob from Stuart Haygarth:
This is also a blob.
This is PTW’s National Swimming Center for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. This construction is known as the “Watercube”, it has organic bubble structure, but you certainly see that yourself.
March 12th, 2007
David Ellis lives and works in Brooklyn. The artist calls his works ‘motion paintings’ and so they are - vivid and unusual!
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Donna Eaves photos seem to carry crazy bathroom ideas - probably the abstracting after the dreams or before them.
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Absolutely cute blog Le blog de nesk (in French) brought us these pictures:
Mazakii is an illustrator, designer and dressmaker, based in Guangzhou China, with her outrageous ambition to be the chief designer of Coco Chanel, replacing Karl Lagerfeld.
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Antony Micellef is a provocative graffiti artist. His art is war, fashion, sex and feminism - at least that’s what we, peculiar people, see there.
More of Antony Micellef
March 8th, 2007
Rocky chair
This chair is made of reclaimed cinema seats. You must think that it must come handy then - well, only if you have 1500 pounds (~$3000).
Design by Guy Arzi
Lace and Embroidery Chairs
Our favourite GamPlusFratesi know how to make furniture with so popular patterns. (The only sane chairs must have been included)
Design by GamPlusFratesi
36 tennis ball chair
Again the topic of reused materials - this time, it’s factory rejected tennis balls, 36 of them composing this lovely massaging chair.
Design by Studiomold
3pts chair
Made of basketballs. We are not sure whether you can use this chair for basketball game.
Design by Tal Schwartz
Bucket seat
A bucket and a chair. No, a chair, which is made of bucket. ..Erm..
Design by Carl Clerkin
Copy and Paste chair
Limited 99 chairs edition.
Design by Sigurdur Gustafsson
Polyhedral chairs
Rumours say these are very soft.
Design by Bouroullec Design
March 6th, 2007
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These toys are certainly meant for grownups, unless you want to damage children psyche.
Beck Wheeler is a German artist and she produces great creative toys. This toy has a removable bear-face that can be unbuttoned to expose a multi-eyed creature.
Another toy from Beck Wheeler:
Kissy Kissy Toys
Bodil Soderlund covers old teddy-bears with cast and then kilns it. Old fabric naturally burns out, leaving just the cast frame of the old teddy bear, making it timeless.
Bodil is also offering a service of transforming your own teddy into a porcelain object of desire.
Cast toys
Bodil Soderlun’s website
Pee and Poo toys are made in a cotton plush (80% cotton and 20% polyester) and filled with polyester fibre. Naturally, they are CE approved and are suitable for children of all ages. They look so cute, apart from being pee and poo.
Buy Pee&Poo
Continuing with the loo subject, here’s the Pissing Guy, by Sjors Trimbach. No comments.
Buy the guy
I Golfini Della Nonna presents Terrorism Finger Puppets made of hand crocheted cotton. The puppets have incredible likeness with Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Ahmadinejad and George W. Bush. Whole politics theatre just for $55!
Buy Terrorism Finger Puppets
Some acid toys: cute Furfolo and Cloud X - chemical hand-mades!
Furfolo
Cloud X
March 5th, 2007
Design Within Reach conducted Most Popular Champagne Chair Award in January with a $500 gift certificate for the winner. Might not sound very exciting until you see these cute little things:
And the winners are!
March 1st, 2007
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