L’anglais Philip Bloom a réalisé cette video en timelapse pendant une ballade de plus de 3 heures sur un bateau. A bord de ce dernier, naviguant sur le lac Michigan, cette création permet de découvrir la ville de Chicago et ses alentours de manière inédite. En vidéo dans la suite.
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Découverte du travail de cet habitant de Chicago, Craig Shimala, qui a eu l’idée de proposer cette vidéo “Floating Chicago”. Une technique time-lapse ainsi qu’un système de miroir, pour une création intéressante et géométrique. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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Drool-worthy truffles, cookies and more, all made from all-natural ingredients
Chicago-based Chocolate Gourmet, the perfect after dinner treat or midday snack, will tickle your tastebuds for an unbelievably mouth-watering experience. We fell in love with their all-natural Chubby Wubby cookie sandwiches a few months ago, and are pleased to announce their newest editions, the “Fair and Square” Blondie and the “Loco” Tequila Truffle (pictured above).
Chocolate Gourmet’s extensive assortment of desserts also include cookies, truffles, squares and rugelach. The “ugly truffles” have clever names such as Homley Hazelnut, Messed Up Mocha, Morning After Merlow, Not in Mint Condition and Hairy Coconut. The cookies are also cleverly named, with Maternal Macadamia Nut, Over Protective Pecan and Precocious Peanut Butter as some of our favorites.
Whether you want to bite into one particular flavor or try all they have to offer, the company is flexible by offering different purchasing packages. Visit the Chocolate Gourmet site to purchase. Cookie gift boxes start at $22, truffle boxes start at $27 and bundles start at $60.
Colorful geometric mobiles by an iconic ’50s glass studio
Happy chic designer Jonathan Adler teamed up with legendary mid-century glass studio Higgins to produce a series of multicolored mobiles that both showcase Higgins’ iconic glass-making technique and reflect Adler’s signature playful aesthetic and bold use of color.
Based in the Chicago suburb of Riverside, IL, Higgins Studio was founded in 1948 by husband-and-wife team Michael and Frances Higgins. At a time when glass-creating techniques had largely moved away from fusing in favor of blowing, the two pioneered a rediscovery of the fusing method, which involves layering pieces of glass over a design in order to create a “glass sandwich” of sorts. Mobiles have always been a staple of the Higgins collection, along with an array of various decor items such as lamps, paperweights and mirrors, to name a few.
For Adler, the collaboration seemed only natural, saying “I’ve always seen Higgins Studio as a kindred spirit—their work celebrates craft and color and optimism. I’ve loved their stuff for years and I am thrilled and honored that they have created a Higgins for Jonathan Adler range. As we speak, I am looking at the Higgins mobile hanging in the corner of my office and I am smiling.”
The Higgins for Jonathan Adler mobiles, crafted with handmade enamel-fused glass and strung together with piano wire, are available in blue ($495) and pink ($895) from Jonathan Adler.
Une belle idée par l’artiste américain Cayetano Ferrer jouant avec des illusions d’optiques et avec la transparence, dans de nombreux décors et lieux. Des effets sur des objets et des panneaux, pour un travail depuis 2004 à Chicago ou en Corée du Sud. Plus d’images dans la suite.
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Chicago-based illustrator Alexis Anne Mackenzie makes collages from type and drawings.
See more of her work here.
Some very unique speakers from Chicago’s Specimen. Little Horns are handcrafted entirely in Chicago, Illinois.
These horns turn the audio world upside down. They posses a life-like soundstage unlike anything ever heard. With the Little Horn Speakers, the soundstage gets bigger, the instruments spread apart, the stage unfolds.
A special inverted design enables the low frequencies to emerge at the top of the enclosure. An octagonally fluted horn carries them upward and lets them flourish into the room. The immense structural rigidity of the horns octagonal geometry minimizes resonances yet allows sound waves to expand freely the way nature intended. There is simply something beautiful here, not just bass frequency reproduction, but a spatial imaging that belies the speaker’s size.
See construction process.
Chicago office Krueck & Sexton have completed the restoration of two apartment towers in Chicago by German-American architect Mies van der Rohe. (more…)
Hong Kong architects Cheungvogl have designed a research studio on stilts for Chicago, Illinois (more…)
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