October 26th, 2011 Yanda
Made exclusively from polypropylene pipe and nylon cable ties, this installation occupied an entire room at Industry Gallery, in Washington DC from September to November 2011.
The work partly pays homage to Washington DC’s own iconic cherry trees, whilst also questioning our relationship with and attitudes towards plastics. The longevity and ready availability of the industrially manufactured materials used to construct the installation stands in stark contrast to the ephemerality and natural beauty of the cherry trees and blossoms it emulates.
http://www.tom-price.com
http://www.projetarcasamagazine.com/en/exhibitions/139-solo-exhibition-by-tom-price-at-industry-gallery
via http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tom-price-pp-tree
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October 26th, 2011 Yanda
This installation by artist and designer Dominic Wilcox aims to breath life into the simple, inanimate shoe, making a connection with nature while referencing the lives of the absent owners. The shoe laces of seven hundred eco-friendly shoes rise up into the air as though growing towards the light creating a field of green on a bed of earth.
http://www.dominicwilcox.com/field.html
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October 13th, 2011 Yanda
Cloud is a work of experimental architecture: a floating roof made simply from helium gas, water and soap; an instantly deployable canopy for conversations in the shade.
We believe that in the future architecture will be light, intelligent and simple – like clouds.
The Cloud experiment is about beginning that process to discover the future of architecture.
Maybe we can carry a building in our pocket?
via http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/15294/design-miami-basel-2011-w-hotels-designers-of-the-future.html
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September 15th, 2011 Yanda
Japanese architect ryuji nakamura is known for his delicate use of unexpected materials. His installation ‘puddle’ consists of various sheets of cellophane that have been rolled to create a colorful table top of vertical standing tubes.
The project was originally created as part of the design x science meeting ‘earth: materials for design’ exhibition
in tokyo. The show explored the use of everyday materials such as wood, plastic and metals, with the means of
creating a dialog on making / designing objects in the coming age.
‘Puddle’ is based on a study of how various designers, who work with a range of materials, understand the flow of time on our planet. the intention of each piece is to examine the ‘communication between design and science’ while using materials familiar to us.
http://www.ryujinakamura.com
via http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12338/ryuji-nakamura-puddle.html
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September 15th, 2011 Yanda
Cornfield’ is a large-scale installation by Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura. Constructed solely of glue and paper, the structural formalities of the piece balance logic, technique and aesthetics. Its size measures 53.90 m2 with a total volume of around 100m3, expressing a feeling of filling a great space with a rigorous geometry, while transmitting an ephemeral sense of weightlessness.
Its overall planar shape is a triangle consisting of 30°, 60° and 90° which has the height of an average-sized person. The length of its longest side measures 16 meters.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12335/ryuji-nakamura-cornfield.html
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September 14th, 2011 Yanda
My sculpture/performance piece is inspired by Carl Jung’s psychological theory about the shadow. It concerns with the repressed ideas, weakness, and desires of oneself that the conscious mindrefuses to acknowledge.
It represents my ‘shadow’ whichinvolves my hidden desires to be different and become perfect in my own right. We always feel the pressure to be perfect by everything around us such as themedia, social network, advertisement, friends, and family.
I’m sitting here casting my ‘shadow’.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Shadow/2096916
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August 31st, 2011 Yanda
Before and after:
Browsing Copy
Nobody buys a “Browsing Copy”
It is the most read.
It works the hardest.
But it never leaves the shop.
Customers leaf through it,
put it back on the shelf
and take the book next to it.
This project seeks to elevate
the status and worth
of these rejected books
Designers, illustrators and artists
are invited to use them as a canvas for their creativity.
These mishandled books are donated by our local bookstores.
http://www.browsingcopy.com
http://www.couple.com.sg
Curated by http://www.abeautifuldesign.com.sg
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August 31st, 2011 Yanda
The intervention “Radioactive Control” by Luzinterruptus was created for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg which tried to demonstrate the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan, has brought into question the safety systems at the nuclear power plants.
via http://davidreport.com/201108/radioactive-control-luzinterruptus/
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