Hasta La Ideas

As part of an initiative to introduce dance to a new audience, DDB and the New York City Ballet have commissioned urban art duo FAILE to create a series of dance-themed works, parts of which audience members will be able to take home with them after the show

The project is the first installment of the New York City Ballet Art Series, which will feature annual collaborations with popular artists who will create works inspired by the NYCB. The series is a response by ad agency DDB New York to a request from the NYCB to help it to introduce ballet to a younger audience.

The centrepiece of the project will be a 40-foot installation at the Lincoln Center (home of the NYCB) by FAILE made up of painted wooden blocks. NYCB will host two special performances on Friday, February 1, 2013 and Wednesday, May 29, 2013. At the conclusion of each of these performances, audience members will be given one of the wooden blocks to commemorate the series.

In addition, FAILE artworks will run on billboards, projections, web banners, print ads and subway posters.

Campaign credits
Agency: DDB New York
Artist: FAILE
CCO: Matt Eastwood
ECD: Menno Kluin
CD: Sean Labounty
AD: Joao Unzer
CW: Rodrigo de Castro
Lead designer: Juan Carlos Pagan
Designer: Brian Gartside

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Still not seeing much on the form-follows-function tip here on the CES floor, but we’re trying. The last thing that jumped out at us were these rather extreme, specialty PC tower bodies made by a company called In Win.

Machine running hot? Their H-Frame is a series of aluminum cooling fins:

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Coup de cœur pour Taylor Allen, un photographe très talentueux originaire du New Jersey. Avec des clichés très réussis jouant avec talent avec la technique de la double exposition, l’artiste américain nous offre des images à découvrir sur son portfolio dans la série « Exposure » ou dans la suite de l’article.

The unusual shape of the Tulip lamp more closely resembles a retro-style stool than lamp, but its unique structure supports functionality as a pendant, floor, or directional light as well as a bedside table for lightweight objects. A modern blend of painted ceramic and raw wood contrast nicely with the vintage shape and make it possible to create a variety of color combinations for any room style.

Designer: Maria Ovchinnikova

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A wall of digital animals that distract children on their way to surgery is one of the interactive installations presented by designer Jason Bruges in this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day.

Above: digital wallpaper at Great Ormond Street Hospital

In the movie, Jason Bruges shows 20 short movie clips of his studio’s installations and experiments as part of the Pecha Kucha event during our Designed in Hackney Day last summer.

Above: a hotel lobby with colour-changing walls

Among them is a project for Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, which saw the studio install a digital wallpaper along a corridor.

“The whole rationale behind the piece is to distract children on their way to surgery,” explains Bruges. “We’ve created this sort of half-tone forest in which digital animals appear and disappear as you’re wheeled through en route to surgery.”

Above: light installation at Tate Britain

“We’re a studio that crosses the boundaries of art, architecture and interaction design,” he adds.

Above: kinetic installation for More4 ident

He then introduces a hotel lobby in Madrid with interactive walls of dots that change colour with every visit, and an installation of thin, wobbly lights in the Tate Britain art gallery in London.

The studio has also worked on projects with television companies, creating imaginary radio studios for a BBC ident and installations of flapping squares for TV channel More4.

Above: micro wind turbines on London’s South Bank

A project about “energy-scavenging” on the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall saw hundreds of tiny turbines converting wind energy into a field of light.

The studio installed a track in the Olympic Park where visitors can race 100 metres against a light representing sprinter Usain Bolt, while elsewhere in the park the studio created mechatronic bubbles for Coca-Cola.

Above: mechatronic bubbles for Coca-Cola

There’s also a piece for a Richard Rogers-designed building in Soho. “It’s a lift that remembers all the movements it’s made during the day and plays them back at night as a performance,” explains Bruges, “so it fills the time from dusk to midnight with this symphony of light, which is hacked into the lift’s control system.”

“None of these pieces would be anything without the people who actually interact with them,” he concludes.

Above: lights on a Soho building show the movements of the lift inside

We’ve featured a few projects by Jason Bruges on Dezeen, including a lighting mobile that moves around to map its surroundings and an installation of light panels that open and close like flowers – see all our stories about Jason Bruges Studio.

Designed in Hackney is a project by Dezeen to highlight the best architecture and design made in the borough, which was one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices.

Watch more movies from our Designed in Hackney Day or see more stories about design and architecture from Hackney.

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