Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn reviews Sustainism Is the New Modernism, a book by cultural theorist Michiel Schwarz and designer Joost Elffers to be released next month – New York Times
Dans l’esprit de la campagne Canon Pixma Sculptures, voici ce shooting de peinture liquide filmé grâce à une caméra grande vitesse. Un travail en freelance et en carte blanche de Eachfilm soutenus par le MBF Hamburg. A découvrir en vidéo HD dans la suite.
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Amsterdam designer Andreas Kowalewski has created a series of lamps shaped like mushrooms.
The Fungi Lamp is made of nylon webbing that has been wound around a mould and bonded with glue.
The lamps come in three different colours and heights.
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Here’s a tiny bit of text from Kowalewski:
The FUNGI LAMPs are made out of a nylon webbing, bonded together through a special glue technique. With their unconventional construction, each lamp silhouette shows literally a gradual growth like a tree and reveals traces of imperfection of the process.
The illuminated fabric creates an unique and mystical light effect.
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| Fungus chairs by MAD | Plug by Tomas Kral | Blown Fabric by Nendo |
This past fall, you might remember, was a bit rocky for the museum industry in New York. First, the state’s plans to pass a bill making selling pieces or collections of art in order to pay for anything but more art, particularly by government-funded museums, would be illegal, failed to pass through the senate. This was likely due to pressure put against its passing by the big, New York City-based museums who publicly stated on a number of occasions their distaste for regulation and promised they could police themselves just fine. If you were in support of the failed bill, things got even worse when the New York Board of Regents allowed emergency regulations surrounding museum deaccessioning to expire. This concerned many, as it was a sign that the flood gates for art sales could potentially now be open. Though that didn’t seem to happen en mass, at least on the record, the Regents caught a good deal of heat for it. Now, some months later, they appear to be attempting to regroup and figure out the controversial issue-at-hand. Judith H. Dobrzynski of Real Clear Arts reports that the Regents have recently formed a 16 member advisory committee who will look into how the state should handle museum deaccessioning. The list of members include lots of directors of museums across the state, as well as a couple of more high-profile museum types, including Martin Sullivan of the National Portrait Gallery, who was recently/currently mired in a controversy of his own. So what will come of the committee? That’s anyone’s guess. But given how tumultuous 2010 was for the state, it’s sure to be interesting to watch pan out.
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Découverte du travail d’Alex Stoddard, ce jeune photographe âgé de seulement 17 ans. Des auto-portraits étonnants afin d’exprimer ses sentiments dans des mises en scènes assez variées. Un style complet à découvrir dans la galerie et dans la suite de l’article.
La suite de son travail dans la galerie.
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Last year was quite a period of transition between Architectural Record, the American Institute of Architects and the magazine Architect. To get you back up to speed, here’s an attempt at a quick recap: First, the AIA decided that it was leaving Architectural Record as their officially-affiliated magazine, and would be moving over to Architect. A few months later, Architectural Record‘s Editor-in-Chief, Robert Ivy, announced that he was leaving the magazine to become the CEO of the AIA, essentially sorta-kinda putting him back near his old journalism haunts, now that the AIA was going to work for Architect. So, phew, after all of that repetition of the letter “A,” the first issue of the new AIA-supported Architect has arrived, complete with a newly redesign website, with its very own dedicated AIA section, and lots of big collaborative plans, beyond the magazine and the new site, from the magazine’s parent company, Hanley Wood:
…Hanley Wood will also run the AIA’s annual national convention, attended by tens of thousands of architects, builders and design professionals. This year, the convention will be held in New Orleans from May 12-14.
A main component of the AIA-Hanley Wood media partnership is a dedicated section in each of the four publications that will focus exclusively on AIA-produced content. Called AIArchitect, it will be a sister publication to the online-only, bi-weekly newsletter that currently serves as the AIA’s primary in-house publication.
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…on being featured in the latest issue of Martha Stewart Living! Looking fabulous!
I’m pleased to share that the collections editor of Martha Stewart Living magazine, Mr. Fritz Karch, is writing the foreword to A Collection a Day.
“Football isn’t a matter of life and death, it’s much more important than that,” is a quote often attributed (1) to Bill Shankly, the legendary manager of Liverpool FC. As exaggerations go, this one gets pretty close to the truth. Millions of fans identify intensely with the highs and lows of …
This boutique in Seoul was designed by Korean firm Betwin Space Design to showcase crocodile-skin handbags.
Created for Singapore brand Kwanpen, the shop’s exterior façade is clad in a relief comprising irregular prism shapes.
A grid of square boxes hang from the ceiling inside and rectangular recesses in the walls provide display areas for the products.
Photographs are by Pyojoon Lee.
The following information is from the architects:
Betwin Space Design
Betwin Space Design is a young design studio starting on 2008 with director Hwanwoo Oh and Junggon Kim, who always are longing for new space and designing with inspirational concepts.
Betwin have deployed designs through experimental studies with new approaches by thinking of the relationship and relativity between the space and things, and the space and people.
They starts their design thinking on the most functional and basic elements such as usage, purpose, the user’s intention, and the spatial condition. Decorative elements are constrained and they unfold the space using the process by theme and concept. They believe that design is a process to express the space itself rather than a tool to design for ‘Design’.
KWANPEN
KWANPEN is a hand-made crocodile skin handbag brand based in Singapore. The KWANPEN Seoul boutique in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, is designed to suit a small number of manias rather than the general population.
The brand’s Seoul store has a design element that is quite different from those of Singapore stores designed to an overall concept. The client who has the artisan spirit of their products, wanted a simple design so that it would not compete with the products.
Answering the client’s request to create a space where the protagonist in the space is the handbag, they started their inspirations from the characteristic of crocodile and gallery where the products can be displayed and exhibited as works of art.
The space concept is ‘Gallery’ where the decorative elements are devoid, and customers feel as if they are looking at works of art. The products stand out in the wall-mounted display boxes in a flood of light.
To deliver the sense of gallery-alike, it was designed to minimize the design elements and colors but only to shine products in shop.
Details not easily recognized and the radiating way of illuminating light were tested in various ways and carefully considered to give a certain effect of full of light in display box.
Unlike the conventional façade that features display windows, the front windows are completely closed, and the products are displayed in an active way through window showcase that it created in and almost reluctant way.
In order to communicate the brand identity, a modular material of crocodile skin is created to cover the whole closed façade surface. Employing brass which has excellent metal formability on façade, patterns of crocodile leathers were encoded and simplified.
KWANPEN express its brand identity itself through the space communicates with urban space and influences its immediate environment.
What appears abstract at first becomes a part of a larger story through the delicate experience and discovery of the space between exterior and interior. It is a gallery where the imagination becomes reality.
Project Name: KWANPEN
Design: Betwin Space Design / Hwanwoo Oh, Junggon Kim
Client: C&P International
Constructor: Betwin Space Design
Location: 100-3, Chungdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Design Period: Sep. 2010 ~ Nov. 2010
Completed: Dec. 2010
Use: Boutique Store (Handmade Crocodile Skin Bag)
Area: 98.9m2
Floor: White Concrete
Wall: Lacquer Painting
Ceiling: Vinyl Painting
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