Utilisant des matériaux originaux comme de la pellicule réfléchissante et fluorescente, l’artiste brésilien Mesmo joue avec talent sur le contraste et les effets de lumières, proposant ainsi un art enrichi presque par soustraction. Plus d’images de ce projet à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
From the sleek Niko camera bag to the ever-spacious Sotnik duffel, San Francisco’s Chrome seems to really be on-point these days. And since they’re best known for their bike-ready…
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After seeing three friends hit by cars while riding their bicycles at night in a span of just a few months, Los Angeles-based designer Brett Clouser felt compelled to found Lunis, an outdoor specific clothing brand…
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Foster + Partners a imaginé pour le pavillon du Vieux Port de Marseille cette installation d’une grande simplicité et d’une grande efficacité avec des panneaux en miroirs. Cette structure de 46 mètres sur 22 présentée dans le cadre de ‘Marseille, Capitale Européenne de la Culture 2013′ est à découvrir dans la suite.
Afin de viser des possibles clients la nuit à la recherche d’un fast-food, McDonald’s a pensé avec l’agence Cossette Vancouver ce panneau publicitaire réflechissant. De jour, le panneau est blanc sans message, mais la nuit, les phares font apparaître un message publicitaire.
Fashionable safety-wear for girls
Whether looking for a career repairing highways or simply a girl who likes to jog before sunrise, NYC-based designer Sarah Canner has you covered. Her newly launched label Vespertine applies the essential safety regulations found on high-visibility apparel to a more streamlined silhouette. Canner’s flirty line of vests and scarves would undoubtedly turn a few heads during daylight hours, but with their sustainable reflective fabrics, you’re sure to be noticed even at twilight. The Verspertine collection includes three styles—the Gogo Dirndle, the Vespert and the Sashay scarf.
Styled after the traditional Bavarian corset, the Gogo Dirndle is a body-hugging suspender set that will have you glowing on the dance floor and off. The dirndl, made from mesh, lycra and elastic, features a zippered front, adjustable lace-up back and slim cell phone pocket.
With its geometric bat-like shape, the looser fitting Vespert vest can be easily thrown on over any base layer and snapped shut. 3M reflective straps run from front to back, giving it a seductive crossing-guard effect.
Worn around your neck or across your body, Vespertine’s Sashay scarf is a more discreet way to stay visible. Reflective thread is woven into an English tweed scarf, which stays put with a reflective button.
Prices vary depending on style, but typically span $93-138—a small price to pay for a substantial amount of safety. The vests and scarves sell online from Vespertine.
Shimmering reflective jewelry and vessels from a designer pushing the limits of light
When The Future Perfect owner David Alhadeff met Lara Knutson five years ago, he described the attraction to her work as “immediate and visceral, like a moth to a flame.” Comprised of reflective glass fabrics, the shimmering surfaces have that effect on most, especially when Alhadeff showed them at his Noho store recently during NYC’s design week.
Alhadeff gave the Pratt grad (she holds degrees in both architecture and industrial design) carte blanche in setting up the show—from which of her brilliant “Soft Chemistry” vessels and “Nebula” jewelry were included to the lighting design. “She is very particular about her work, compulsive about the details,” Alhadeff explains, describing how her ambition and intelligence shows in her work. “When I feel this way about a certain designer, I have no problem telling them, ‘Do whatever you want.'”
The resulting exhibit featured her glittering designs to show-stopping effect, which doesn’t seem hard when the microscopic glass beads that she incorporates into her fabrics magnify light 100 times. But the real trick is how they’re lit as the pieces dramatically change depending on the amount of light. This gives all the work an endlessly shifting character, with the sparkling reflections of light being completely absorbing—the jewelry manifesting anew with every turn of the wrist.
Lara’s work is available for purchase from The Future Perfect online or at their store.
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