Norwegian practice Various Architects have sent us these images of their design for a mobile pavilion, one of three finalists in a competition organised by Yorkshire Forward. (more…)
De très belles illustrations sont à découvrir sur le portfolio de l’artiste Ben Tour, originaire de Vancouver. L’aquarelle lui permet de réaliser des portraits pleins de vie, dont la spontanéité rappelle parfois celle d’un croquis sur le vif.
Limitied Edition of the “A Tribute to typography – Helvetica, past, present and future of the typography” exhibition 192 pages / 9×14cm / acid-free paper. Special Edition with Moleskine Hard Red Ruled Notebook. Design by GROOVISIONS, with logos debossed on both covers, customised banderole and history of Helvetica printed on the backend page.
–> Swiss Legacy
There’s an article in today’s Globe and Mail about typewriter collecting: “Rescuing typewriters from the wild
For aficionados, spotting a Remington Standard or early Underwood is like finding a diamond in the rough.”
Watch a video about Canada’s prolific collector, Martin Howard on the Globe and Mail website. Visit his website for a wealth of imagery and information.
By way of a summation of the array of ideas at his disposal, Adam and Joe’s BBC3 profile of artist Nobumichi Tosa and his Meiwa Denki organisation is well worth a look. Tosa just performed at the Design Indaba and, via a series of videos, went through many of his Nonsense Machines that have delighted audiences all over the world. While his singing robots (who have working vocal cords made of rubber) were actually quite moving, one of my favourite pieces would have to be his “machine for moving a dead fish”. Yep, that’s really all it does. But then, it does do it very well indeed.
Tokyo-based architect and design outfit nendo opened ‘Ghost Stories’ last night, their first exhibition in New York at the Friedman Benda Gallery (who recently exhibited new work from Ron Arad). The installation presents 40 of their Cabbage Chairs embedded in a sea of suspended cords that fill the gallery space creating a visual haze and forces physical participation if you want to see the chairs up close.
Using a strict black and white color pallet with minimal lighting to create a ‘ghostly’ effect, the hanging cords echo the pleated texture of the Cabbage Chairs which were originally developed in response to a challenge from fashion designer Issey Miyake.
Each white cord is partially painted black and when viewed from a distance, creates a diagonal block of solid contrast across the curtain wall. Nendo experimented with multiple techniques to dye the cord, ultimately settling on the good old trusty marker as this was the only way to accurately control the length of the black coloring. It took the studio nearly a month to color every cord following specs from a 3D computer rendering.
The exhibition runs though till March 28, 2009.
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