Focus sur Uli Knorzer, un illustrateur basé à Berlin qui travaille actuellement pour divers magazines et revues. Des oeuvres centrées sur l’être humain, retranscrivant avec talent les émotions et les visages. Des créations aux crayons de couleurs, à découvrir dans la suite en images dans la suite de l’article.
Try as we might, we can never get enough of Art Spiegelman—in the unlikely event that you disagree, treat yourself to a copy of Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps (Drawn and Quarterly). That illuminating and illuminated volume also functions as a catalogue of sorts for the Spiegelfest on view through March 23 at New York’s Jewish Museum. The outside-of-the-box comics/art fun moves from the page to the wall to the stage on Saturday, January 18, when BAM presents Wordless!. Billed as “an innovative hybrid of slides, talk, and musical performance,” the work was created by Spiegelman and jazz composer Phillip Johnston as a commission for the Sydney Opera House. Tickets are going fast. Prepare for the evening of multisensory stimulation with this Spiegelvideo from the Jewish Museum:
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South Korean designer Jinil Park has created a range of furniture from intersecting wires that has the appearance of a two-dimensional sketch.
Made from steel wire, Park‘s Drawing Series comprises four pieces, including two chairs, two lamps and a table, which give the impression of roughly drawn sketches.
“The key point of my work is the moments where the line is distorted,” said Jinil Park. “They express the designer’s feeling, status, and emotion.”
Park began by sketching furniture with intersecting lines and selected her favourites to recreate in three dimensions according to how feasible they would be as structures.
The designer hammered wires of different thicknesses to distort the lines in order to recreate variations in the lines drawn with a pen. Park then intersected the wires and welded them together until a strong enough structure was achieved.
“Instinctively, I created the conjunction of these thin wires that eventually hold the human weight while a single wire cannot,” explained Park.
The Drawing Series was exhibited at the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea from September to November 2013.
Here is some more information from the designer:
The concept for my project is the drawing, as you can see the concept for the project is very simple and it is furniture brought out from the drawing. The brainstorming of the project was actually by accident. I was thinking of making a new project by comfortably drawing lines and I found and realised fun and inquiring moments about the strokes that I drew on a paper. I personally thought that the outcome of those strokes can bring very interesting object.
The key point of my work is the moments where the line is distorted. They express the designer’s feeling, status, and emotion. In the matter of design, the line plays a very basic but also crucial role because it is an element that generates a standard point for both the beginning and the end of any work piece.
From the sketches of the furniture, originated from the line drawing, I picked the ones that I like the most and also the ones that I can make the solid object out of it. And to achieve that solid object, I used different wires that have different thicknesses by hammering on different faces of the wires with irregular strength. Therefore, I could demonstrate the wires as if it came out from the line drawing. And this process took the most of time to create this piece.
Collections of the wires that are created by this process are welded when they are combined and intersected together. Instinctively I created the conjunction of these thin wires that eventually holds the human weight while a single wire cannot. By this, I could materialise the 2D drawing to 3D generously.
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Dezeen Watch Store: we’re offering up to 25% off selected watches in the winter sale at Dezeen Watch Store, with all sale purchases over £60 eligible for free worldwide shipping. Included in the selection is Mercury by Ziiiro (pictured). Was £129, now £103.20 »
The Corporal SS by Nixon has a bold, easy-to-read face with distinctive military-inspired indices. Made from hardwearing stainless steel, the timepiece is topped with a hardened mineral crystal lens. Was £170, now £136 »
The Please watch by British industrial designer Jasper Morrison for Issey Miyake has a ridged polyurethane strap and a striped face. Designed to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the brand’s Pleats Please fashion collection, the timepiece pays homage to Miyake’s designs. Was £199, now £159.20 (black and white colourways only) »
The Mutewatch is an innovative touchscreen-style watch that combines vibrating timer and alarm functions with a hidden LED display that activated by touch. The minimal-meets-retro aesthetic is inspired by the Rubik’s Cube and includes an inbuilt USB port hidden within the adjustable strap. Was £149, now £111.75 (indigo blue colourway only) »
Saturn is the second Ziiiro model included in the winter sale. The digital watch features segmented LCD rings which are illuminated to mark hours and minutes and the central logo indicates am or pm. Was £145, now £108.75 (chrome colourway only) »
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En reproduisant l’aspect humain de la peau, l’artiste anglaise Jessica Harrison propose un contenu étrange pour ces meubles miniatures. Cette série pour le moins surprenante joue avec talent sur les matières et les formes pour nous surprendre. A découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Metal pipes and lightbulbs previously used on squid fishing boats are used to make a sculptural light that hangs from a double-height space in the centre of this Aesop skincare store in Kyoto (+ slideshow).
The refurbished interior by Torafu Architects for Australian brand Aesop reuses lightbulbs originally utilised at sea to attract squid.
“By utilising the height of the vaulted ceiling, we hung squid fishing boat pendant lights like a mobile and filled the space with light,” said the architects.
Aesop Kawaramachi comprises a narrow 3.2-metre-wide retail space with exposed concrete walls, roughly covered with white paint along the top and bottom of the ground floor.
Products are displayed on shelves made from textured grey board that are hung next to turquoise sinks.
Alow bench lines the right side of the store and a counter sits in the middle of the space below the cluster of lights.
A staircase at the rear leads to a first-floor gallery space, which overlooks the front of the store and the lighting feature.
This is the studio’s fourth collaboration with Aesop in Japan. Torafu Architects also designed Aesop Shin-Marunouchi, Aesop Yokohama Bay Quarter and Aesop Shibuya. Each Aesop store differs and in an interview with Aesop founder Dennis Paphitis, he told Dezeen that he was “horrified at the thought of a soulless chain”.
Photography is by Takumi Ota.
Here is some more information from the architects:
Aesop Kawaramachi
For Australian skin care brand Aesop, we planned the interior and exterior of the new store in Kawaramachi, Kyoto. The store is located on the 1st floor of a building on a busy shopping street. A narrow 3.2m width, 19.7m depth with a spatial height of 6.2m vaulted ceiling.
We approached the project by making the most out of the original building structure with the addition of careful alteration. We brought functional part of the store compactly to the narrow space by the entrance, the back space will be a hospitality area consisting of sizeable counter and long bench, where customer can relax.
By utilising the height of the vaulted ceiling, we hung squid fishing boat pendant lights like a mobile and filled the space with light. As you go upstairs, you will find the 2nd floor as a gallery space, providing opportunity for customers to meet new people.
Flexible board, used for the product shelf is made unburnable and has texture of mortar, taking advantage of its original unique feature. Together with the porous Ōya stone used for flooring, it provides a soft, natural palette that lends a pervasive sense of calm from the moment of entry.
For the façade, we covered entirely with flexible board, using interior elements, such as accent green colour and squid fishing boat lamp, in order for people to realise continuity in space, letting the store stand out even in the colourful shopping street.
Due to the location on the busy street where many travellers and locals come by, our store design is aimed to blend as part of new Kyoto culture by providing casual yet cosy store space.
Principle use: SHOP
Facility design: ENDO-Lighting, maxray (Lightings)
Production: &S
Credit: Graphics: Aesop
Site area: Kawaramachi, Kyoto
Total floor area: 86m2
Design period: 2013.09-2013.11
Construction period: 2013.11-12
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The peculiar Lampslamp is a true oddity in the world of lighting. Not just because of its ultra-flexible, even wobbly shade, but because of what’s actually inside the shade… burned out bulbs. Yes! It’s like a pink jellyfish ate your old light bulbs and now they’re permanently suspended in its belly! Strange, but definitely a statement, nonetheless!
Designers: Anna Strupinskaya & Alexey Ivashkevich
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There’s bodysurfing… and then there’s slyding. The G6’s sleek design gives hand-boarders the ultimate ride every water-sport enthusiast dreams about. The G6′s tight rails, deep concave and double swallow tail with wings allow for excellent grip and hydrodynamics. Carbon fiber’s high tensile strength to low weight ratio makes it the perfect material for the perfect slyde.
Designer: Slyde Handboards
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Design Miami 2013: this chair shaped like the fanned fail of a peacock by Toronto design studio UUfie was one of the most talked-about pieces at the Design Miami collectors’ fair last month.
The symmetrical shape of UUfie‘s Peacock chair is made from a latticed sheet of Corian, a solid surface material that’s often used for kitchen work surfaces and bathrooms, which curls round at the bottom and spreads out at the top to create the back of the chair.
The sheet was slit to create the lattice then stretched apart and folded round in a thermoforming process that uses heat to soften the material.
“Like children playing with paper by cutting, bending and folding it, we have created a single sheet of acrylic composite material into a peacock,” said the designers. “Resembling a peacock tail in courtship or a blossom opening, it makes a visual statement in any space, indoors or outdoors.”
The chair comes in two sizes and can be made in any colour. It was presented at Design Miami 2013 last month by Galleria Rosanna Orlandi and is now on show in Milan at Spazio Rossana Orlandi.
Photography is by Marco Covi.
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