Whitaker developed the concept in 2010 while working as a photographer, after he was approached by an advertising agency interested in building a workspace in the Black Forest near the town of Hechingen.The agency closed before the project could be realised but Whitaker recently created some detailed renderings to promote his studio's move into digital imagery production...
As a Guest of Honor at IMM Cologne 2014, Louise Campbell was selected to design a central installation for the international furniture fair. What she created is a low-tech space without the rigidity of a conventional house, an abstract structure that breathes peace and poetry: Das Haus. We get in bed with her, quite literally! In getting rid of computers and smart ph...
The work of Berlin-based artist Eva Berendes invokes a beguiling effect on the viewer, which is imposed by intentionally blurred lines between product and art. Geometric forms and pops of bold colors permeate her creations which include room dividers, folding screens and wall units. Her pieces recall real functionality, yet certainly stand on their own as art. Grid lines...
This small creation by the Japanese design studio is nothing complicated, but it works extremely well. A simple and fun idea that yet perfectly sums up nendo‘s philosophy of thinking out of the box, while remaining innocent and childlike. This set of paper blocks was created as an insert for a Japanese lifestyle magazine. It consists of a series of flat paper forms print...
For this year’s London Design Festival, the American Hardwood Export Council and Benchmark Furniture have sponsored the Wish List: What I Have Always Wanted, a project that brought to life the wishes of ten iconic designers. Fashion design legend Paul Smith’s wished for a garden shed and worked with custom furniture designer and maker Nathalie de Leval to create the 3...
The Stockholm Furniture Fair is officially in full swing! Each year, the Greenhouse serves as a “Garden of New Ideas”, displaying new talents from around the world. For the second year in a row, Stockholm-based Note Design Studio designed the hall. Intent on representing the social aspect of the event, the Swedish design studio put participant and customer interaction a...
New York artist Karen Margolis has a profound fascination with the inner workings of the mind. Her art, through a beautiful and almost obsessive repetition of circles, is actually a calculated expression of human psychology. Circles of shadow, color and absence map out the thoughts and feelings flying through our gray matter. Drawing upon her background in psychology,...
What looked like a great exhibition turned out to be more than that. From January 25th to April 6th, the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is hosting one major event. A few figures can sum it up: 7 architects from 6 countries and 4 continents have the task of filling more than 2,000 square meters with one monumental exhibition. The point is to make architecture interact with ou...
Adding to his body of work titled An Aggregation, Seoul-based artist Seon Ghi Bahk is currently presenting his latest installations at the Zadok Gallery in Miami. Known for his delicate charcoal installations, Bahk hangs the substance from nylon threads to create concrete and abstract shapes that simultaneously seem to be crumbling, floating and flying away. More specif...
“It is not about what you see but how you see it.” And from behind the lens of Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar, Beirut’s concrete jungle flourishes with unexpected geometric patterns, contrasts, colors and stolen moments. If such elements exist outside of Najjar’s digital world, his patience and timing are impeccable. Every Saturday, Najjar drives without aim, until s...
Innovative social design lab Studio Roosegaarde has unveiled their illuminated bike path in Nuenen, Netherlands. Inspired by the art of Vincent van Gogh, who lived in Nuenen between 1883 and 1885, the swirling patterns of the kilometer-long Van Gogh-Roosegaarde Bicycle Path use special paint that charges in daylight and embedded LEDs powered by a nearby solar array. Stud...
Beyond The Wall in all its Dekton glory stands tall, proudly representing a technological and industrial leap. This non-traditional, polycentric spiral effectively twists to a dramatic apex. While its unique look was by the hand of architect and designer Daniel Libeskind, it is the first structure created using Cosentino’s Dekton surface. What a pair! And now, after its ...
Entering Patrick Parrish Gallery‘s exhibition at Design Miami was somewhat like stepping into a life-sized sketchbook. Titled “Surfaces On Which Your Setting and Sitting Will Be Uncertain”, the installation was a surreal play of of gridded patterns upon gridded patterns created an ever-changing visual puzzle that made reference to the Italian design collaborative Superst...
32-year-old architect Yener Torun has spent the last year seeking out and photographing minimalist buildings in Istanbul, hoping to show a different side of the city from the standard images of old streets and mosques along the Bosphorus. He claims that because there aren’t many such buildings in Turkey he spends most of his time searching, which turns his mission into a...
An architect and urban planner since 1986, Edouard François is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He established his own studio in 1998 and has since been infusing the likes of France, India and Sri Lanka with his sustainability-focused projects. It’s easy to describe the flamboyant French architect ...
From May 16th to June 20th, Chinese artist Jacky Tsai will present his work at Scream London for an exhibition called Eastern Orbit. Based in London since 2006, Tsai is trying to create a link between the two cultural worlds he has been evolving around all his life. Mixing several techniques and styles along with those two strong cultural influences, Jacky Tsai achieves ...
Mother Nature presumably did not have art in mind when creating the bright colors and patterns of our feathery friends, however feathers are natural masterpieces. They insulate against the weather, make flight possible, provide camoflage and also serve as decoration to lure potential mates. Washington artist Chris Maynard has recognized the inherent beauty of feathers an...
Carl Kleiner’s Postures series is a collection of pictures of tulips held in various positions with wires. Documenting the surrounding world with his camera, he lets his photography serve as a medium for bringing his insightful visions to life. The fragility of the flower figures contrasts with either a black or white background, and as they hang in the air the flowers ...
Shanghai-based design brand Stellar Works presented its new signature collection at EDIT by designjunction in Milan during the design week. The exhibition featured their cross-cultural cosmos of furniture, lighting and accessories. Stellar Works stitches together past traditions with present approaches for tomorrow’s design needs. Their ethos as an international melti...
We’ve all been amazed by the images taken from the International Space Station (ISS), pictures of our countries, cities and how they look like at night. The dazzling golden images of our brightly-lit metropolises reveal their complex architecture and city planning. Highlighting the complicated way humans have rearranged their environment to suit their needs. London-based...
Rebecca Louise Law is a British artist that has been working with flowers for 17 years. In addition to several large-scale installations, she has worked on visual merchandising for brands such as Hermès, Mulberry and Cartier. Her most recent installation, entitled ‘The Flower Garden Display’d 2014′, was commissioned by London’s Garden Museum for the current exhibition ‘...
Studio Fludd is a creative collective based in Venice, Italy. Consisting of Matteo Baratto, Caterina Gabelli, Sara Maragotto, and Valeria Sanguin, Studio Fludd is inspired by alchemy and named after the alchemist Robert Fludd. Recently, the collective hosted the first in a series of GELATOLOGY workshops. Being lovers of gelato, we were keen to learn more. Essentially, t...
As Chaplin pointed out, in our modern era, time seems to have lost its essence. Constantly running around, constantly late, trying to keep up with the latest news, we have lost track of it. This is perhaps what Dutch designer Maarten Baas is trying to point out with his Grandmother Clock and, more generally, with his Real Time series. After the success of the Grandfa...
Jean de Loisy, president of the modern and contemporary art space Palais de Tokyo, commissioned Constance Guisset to create three islands of calm for the immense Parisian building. Titled “Three Conversations”, the three objects resemble lamps of Gulliverian proportions. Long, colorful straps, suspended from metallic circles, are held aloft by a mast that rises above the...
This human-sized kaleidoscope is basically the coolest thing since sliced bread. ‘Wink‘ is a mind-bending installation that was presented at last year’s KOBE Biennale and lets users create the colors of their own kaleidoscope. Designed by Saya Miyazaki and Masakazu Shirane as part of the Art Container Contest, the kaleidoscope was contained within a single shipping conta...
Villa Kugelhof by Paul de Ruiter Architects is a self-sufficient, carbon-neutral home that has won the prestigious Dutch ARC13 Architecture Award as well as a FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Award in the Sustainable Development and Residential (Low Rise) category. Situated in Noord-Beveland in the southerwestern Netherlands, the residence is located on 25 hectares of protected ...
Teamlab is a collective of Japanese designers and creative talents based in Tokyo. Their Floating Flower Garden installation, which was originally showcased at Tokyo’s Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, was recently reassembled for Maison & Objet in Paris. Over two thousand orchids, suspended in midair, create a softly undulating canopy that int...
Michael Wolf is a German-born photographer whose time behind the lens is spent examining life in the metropolis. His work “Architecture of Density” unorthodoxly depicts a day-to-day existence in Hong Kong – one of the world’s most populated cities and Wolf’s current home. His point of view reduces buildings to a complex series of patterns and lines that offer no end, no ...
MINDCRAFT is a yearly exhibition that highlights Danish design and craftsmanship. This year, Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi of GamFratesi handpicked fourteen designers to be featured in the exhibition which took place in the Chiostro Minore di San Simpliciano during Milan Design Week. The historic cloisters, which are located in the Brera Design District, provided an elega...
At last year’s Design Miami, we were captivated by the beautiful and perplexing light installation from champagne house Perrier-Jouët and designer Simon Heijdans presented. This year, Perrier-Jouët has commissioned a installation from Vienna-based design duo mischer’traxler that also leaves visitors scratching their heads. ‘Ephemerā’ is the first in a series of work tha...
“My photographs are all that remain of the sculptures.” Environmental artist and designer Martin Hill makes sculptures in nature that return to nature. His designs illuminate the idea of a new model of progress where the living world on which life relies is not destroyed. Using local materials running on renewable energy, waste is eliminated and multiple benefits and job...
Inspired by traditional African tribal masks, Amsterdam-based conceptual designer Lisette Appeldorn created her own contemporary interpretation with Raster. A minimalist rendition of various animals, including a fox, bear and crocodile, the masks are made from thin plywood. The designer used different folding techniques to create 3D geometric forms and patterns (that inc...
For his first time exhibiting at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Olafur Eliasson presents 3 ambitious spatial installations within the architectural context of the museum. Among these installations is Riverbed, an indoor river perfectly imitating nature. The artificial landscape created by the Danish-Icelandic artist is breathtaking. Rocks cover the floor...
For last October’s Science Festival, French photographer Romain Giusiano was able to capture an unusual performance. During the visit of a waste processing plant, comedian and dancers started interacting with the extraordinary venue, exposing the plant from a brand new angle. The photo shoot resulted in a series of almost surreal images. But the interesting aspect of Gi...
It’s no secret that Canadian winters are glacial, but life continues under layers of wool and fleece. However, Toronto’s city beaches become a desolate wasteland in winter’s icy grasp winter. In an attempt to breathe life into the beach-turned-frozen-tundra, Toronto’s international Winter Stations design competition was born. A joint creation of RAW Design, Ferris + A...
Although banana seats and streamers will forever be the cat’s pajamas, bicycle’s have reached new levels in style and technology in recent years. And We’re not just talking about the billion dollar bikes that are pedaling their way through the Tour de France at the moment. Even street bike design for us plebeians has progressed leaps and bounds! So while the professional...
