June 11, 2008

Reverse Graffiti

Filed under: design, materials, outdoor, art — debra @ 11:06 pm

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Moose is a British artist and a pioneer in an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. He seeks out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses. He creates beautiful works of green art by simply wiping away dirt from surfaces.

August 14, 2007

9 volt

Filed under: design, materials, lighting — debra @ 10:44 pm

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Richard Lawson’s 9-volt light was part of 100% Design and is now  being produced  by mathmos. a modern interpretation of a candle  the lamp is attached to a 9 volt battery. when lying horizontally it is in the off position and white in colour. it is turned on by simply turning it vertical. available in blue or red.


August 11, 2007

reorganizing vision

Filed under: design, materials, outdoor — debra @ 11:31 pm

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“aleph is an experimental public display, that is using the spaces, people and objects it faces as a palette to display messages from hidden viewpoints. when looking at a small mirror, it reflects a fraction of space around us, when looking at a mirror facade it reflects most things around us.. but if we build a matrix of small mirrors, which can adjust their tilt according to the site they are facing, we can create a display that uses the ever change flux of the place to show images from certain points in space.”

“the name comes from a fictional point of singularity by Jorge luis borges: aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping, or confusion” it is a public display commissioned for the UK belsay hall contemporary arts program and is on display till september.

July 22, 2007

chairs

Filed under: design, materials, interiors, furniture — debra @ 9:06 pm

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naoto fukasawa nine chairs are a part of vitra editions. they are all identical in design except that each chair is made from a different material. the different materials are marble, redwood, concrete, acrylic, wicker, metal, polyurethane foam, felt, and hay. each material transforms the appearance of the chair. this is exactly the result the designer fukasawa set out to achieve when he created the series of chairs to illustrate the impact of a single design decision, the choice of material.


July 20, 2007

panhandle bandshell

Filed under: design, materials, architecture, recycled, outdoor — debra @ 9:55 pm

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the pandhandle bandshell is a temporary music venue created from of recycled, reclaimed and repurposed materials. it demonstrates that a beautiful structure can be built from materials which would otherwise be discarded creating awareness of our impact on the environment. Designed by the finch mob, rebar, and Christopher Guillard.

July 18, 2007

V/a.g.r.a lamp

Filed under: design, materials, lighting, interiors — debra @ 9:43 pm

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designed by italian design lab nonesiste in collaboration with physicist stefano besseghina the v/a.g.r.a lamp is as it name suggests, it goes up when turned on. it is a “living lamp” embryonic and morpho-organic particles that come to life when stimulated by light.

July 14, 2007

delapitated flow

Filed under: design, materials, interiors, furniture — debra @ 8:06 pm

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furniture designer Matthias Pliessnig creates beautiful curved wooden form. by combining boat building and furniture building techniques he stays true to the elastic possibilities of the material.

March 1, 2007

bloomframe

Filed under: materials, architecture, interiors — debra @ 5:52 pm

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bloomframe designed by amsterdam based architects hofman dujardin is an innovative new building component which acts efficiently as both window and balcony which can be added to both new and existing buildings. With one simple movement the window can be transformed into an outdoor terrace.

February 27, 2007

disposable chandelier

Filed under: design, materials, lighting, interiors — debra @ 11:56 pm

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another fantastic product from south african design stuart haygarth. made from 416 disposable plastic wine glasses and lit with a pink flourescent light source he continues in his tradition of turning every day objects into elegant works of art.

November 29, 2006

ex-box

Filed under: design, materials, interiors, furniture, sustainable/green design, recycled — debra @ 7:00 am

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recent work from giles miller of farm designs “has been focused on provoking an appreciation for the potential diversity in sustainable design.” ex-box is an intelligent and cost effective design. built with a grid system an endless amount of sections can be used, resulting in a beautiful piece of furniture with patterns of light and shadow.

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