Focus sur Dave Ma qui a réalisé ce superbe clip illustrant le morceau « Us » de Movement. Avec cette superbe vidéo tournée à Los Angeles, cette création nous montre avec talent sur la musique du groupe d’électro les errements d’un jeune membre de gang. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
The Mega Plush est le nom de court-métrage d’animation 3D réalisé par Matt Burniston dans lequel une bande de super-héros peluches affronte la bande malveillante des SOC, la Society of Chimps. Mélangeant avec malice l’univers des peluches à celui des films de super-héros, cette création est à découvrir dans la suite.
Zippers can be many things, but I bet you wouldn’t normally describe them as “whimsy.” But that’s exactly what they are, thanks to Japanese street artist Jun Kitagawa. He has created a standout public installation in cities around Japan that gives passersby more than just something pretty to stop and take in.
Kitagawa is no stranger to offbeat public displays of art. His inaugural installment came to be after finding himself with a bunch of unwanted T-shirts and living in a town with numerous nude statues. Obviously the best (and only, in my opinion) use for those T-shirts were for covering the statues. And in an act that rides a perfectly crooked (and humorous) line between vandalism and public service, a street artist was born.
His zippers are found painted on walls and sculpted to interact with natural resources. The zippers’ intent? To give viewers a more intimate look into the world we interact with every day through a familiar object.
*Hat tip: Spoon & Tamago
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Some of our recent design education has come from instructors who have offered us exclusive inside looks at summer intensives: Francis Bitonti’s “New Skins: Computational Design for Fashion” Workshop at Pratt DAHRC and the Brian Anderson’s “Immediate Objects: Explorations in 3D Printing” at the SAIC. This time around, we have a guest post by a student, Vivian Chan of Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts + Technology. Under the tutelage of instructor Russell Taylor, she and a dozen of her classmates spent six weeks in Europe this summer, traveling halfway around the world from Vancouver to the Netherlands to film and research designers in a unique and unforgettable Field School program.
By Vivian Chan
As part of the bi-annual SIAT Dutch Design field school, we travelled to the Netherlands in order to interview and document Dutch designers, their work, their process and design culture. The field school is a part of SFU’s study abroad program consisting of three courses: IAT 395 in the semester beforehand to prepare and research, IAT 396 the in-field course, and IAT 397 upon return to synthesize our research and experience into the videos and website.
During our time in the Netherlands, we spoke with 20 prominent Dutch designers such as Piet Hein Eek, Phillips Design (above) and Ineke Hans, as well as some up and coming designers like Formafantasma and Scholten & Baijings. We have officially launched our website, and all of our work and research has been documented and is now ready to be viewed in the form of short interviews and cultural films.
We all had a part in the video editing process. For the interviews, we paired up and each pair had 3–4 interviews that they would conduct on our own. The pairings matched up a student that was more proficient with video editing and another that could help in less technical ways such as gathering the video content and helping determine the structure and story behind the videos. We studied the designers’ past works and design approach, then developed questions that would establish credibility, as well as get them to open up and discuss the ideas, the methodology, the challenges and the thought processes behind their work.
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Uses for community spaces are continually changing, along with the people and industries that inhabit them. As once quiet peripheral urban areas become revived and rapidly developed, certain opportunities arise for innovative use of space. One such area is the east London Borough…
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“Materials that are biting and fighting, delicate detailing and dramatic tension,” are, according to young Swedish jeweler, Malin Henningsson the hallmarks of her work. It’s an exciting and bold description…
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News: a contemporary house inserted into the twelfth-century ruins of Astley Castle in Warwickshire by Witherford Watson Mann has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the last year.
This is the first time London studio Witherford Watson Mann has been nominated for the prize, which is awarded annually by the RIBA to a building designed by a UK-registered architect. It is the first house and the first restoration project to win the award in its 18-year history.
The two-storey residence squats within the chunky sandstone walls of the abandoned mediaeval castle, creating a holiday home for up to eight guests.
A new system of wooden floors and ceilings creates living areas and bedrooms in the oldest part of the building, while extensions added in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries are now used as entrance courtyards.
“It’s an extreme retrofit in many ways,” said RIBA president Stephen Hodder. “It sends out great messages about conservation.”
The 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize was awarded this evening in a ceremony at the Central Saint Martins campus in London, a building designed by last year’s winner Stanton Williams.
Witherford Watson Mann saw off competition from bookies’ favourite the Bishop Edward King Chapel by Niall McLaughlin Architects and a housing development from previous winner Alison Brooks. Other shortlisted entries included a museum that mimics volcanic formations, Sheffield’s notorious Park Hill housing estate and a cluster of university buildings in Ireland. See the full shortlist »
Past winners of the prize include David Chipperfield for the Museum of Modern Literature in Germany and Zaha Hadid for the Evelyn Grace Academy in London and MAXXI Museum in Rome. See more Dezeen stories about previous winners »
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Originally from Sydney, Australia, Andrew Green only arrived in the States recently—in 2011—but has accomplished quite a lot in the last two years. Thanks to his background as a touring DJ and music journalist, Green honed…
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Ron Paulk has already got his own following, independent of Core77; while we don’t have the demographic breakdown, we assume they’re mostly DIY’ers, builders, and fellow contractors. These video extras from our chat with Ron will be of interest to Ron’s following, as we get into some topics that Ron hasn’t covered on his own YouTube channel: The surprising story of how he decided to become a contractor in the first place, what it was that made him expand into design, and why YouTube is an invaluable learning tool.
The summer job that changed Ron’s life, and made him realize that building stuff was better than grad school:
Why (and how) Ron expanded into design and doing his own CAD work:
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