L’illustrateur Daniel Stolle nous fait découvrir cette série d’illustrations originales, en couleurs ou en noir et blanc, dédiées à différents magazines. Ces illustrations ont toutes des significations et des morales différentes. Des créations originales qui permette à l’homme de se questionner sur chacune d’entre elles, et leur sens.
Dutch designer Lieske Schreuder fed coloured paper to snails and then collected their vibrant-hued poo to make floor tiles (+ slideshow).
Having noticed that snails in her garden seemed to enjoy eating paper and cardboard, Schreuder purchased hundreds of them from a snail farm and built a laboratory to test what would happen if they consumed coloured paper.
“The result was that snails do not only eat coloured paper, but also defecate in colour,” said the designer. “So blue paper means blue excrements! Snails cannot take the colour pigment of the paper into their bodies and that is the reason the excrements are coloured.”
Her laboratory comprises a series of compartments where the snails have access to sheets of coloured paper, which has a similar cellular structure to the plant matter they typically eat.
Schreuder gathers the excrement, which has a malleable texture, and feeds it into a portable machine she designed to grind, mix and press it into tiles with a roughly textured surface that retains the colour of the original paper.
“Walking outside, in the garden or on the streets, we are constantly walking on snail excrements,” Schreuder explained. “But because these excrements are very small and look like normal dirt, we are not aware of this. This made me think of a situation where these excrements are in colour. This would be some sort of snail excrement carpet.”
The faeces can also be pressed into a mould using a spatula to create a delicate thread with a five-millimetre diameter that the designer is currently researching uses for.
“One metre of thread will take me an hour and contains six grams of excrement that is ground before processing,” said Schreuder. “It will take approximately nine snails five days to produce these six grams.”
The project is one of 57 ideas for combining biology with art, architecture and design presented at an exhibition called Biodesign at The New Institute in Rotterdam, which continues until 5 January 2014.
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Movie: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius explains why she enjoys working with colours and textiles rather than designing full pieces of furniture in the third video interview we filmed at her studio in Berlin.
“It’s just one solution for design, making stuff,” says Jongerius, who works with Swiss furniture company Vitra as creative director of colours, textiles and surfaces. “You can do so much more with your talent and brains [as a designer].”
Jongerius has worked on refreshing the colour palette Swiss brand Vitra uses for its furniture, including famous designs by Charles and Ray Eames and Jean Prouvé.
“Vitra have great stuff,” she says. “Why do they need me to create another piece of furniture? They need me on another level.”
Jongerius says that she enjoys working with textiles for the same reason; they enable her to express her creativity without designing a new product from scratch.
“If you design a textile you don’t have to design a full new piece,” she says. “Just the skin can make the new design. That’s why I find textiles interesting and also a nice subject for the future. There are not many designers that are good in textiles.”
However, Jongerius says that many companies are resistant to using new colours or textiles in their products, valuing consistency and durability over quality of colour or texture.
“There are very many colours to choose from,” she says. “But [the colours manufacturers use] only come from a certain scheme in the whole colour world: colours that do not change due to daylight. That’s what they think consumers want, colours that stay the same from morning to the evening and I think that’s really a mistake.”
She continues: “Testing in the industrial world is really so outdated. It’s all about the functional level. If you ask people if they care that a colour changes during the day, or if a fabric wears out after some years, I think there are many consumers who will see that as a quality.”
“But still we are testing as if you are wearing velcro on your jeans all the time, or you [will] invite an elephant to sit on your armrest. A lot is lost because of the testing.”
Despite the difficulty in convincing manufacturers to change their approach to colours and materials, Jongerius believes it is a worthwhile pursuit.
“It’s very difficult to sell,” she says. “But it’s a topic where I can use my brains and talent to change something in the industrial world. If you design the skin you have a new product and you don’t have to have a whole new table or a whole new sofa.”
See our previous story about Vitra’s updated Prouvé range »
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L’artiste espagnole Angelica Dass nous présente son projet Humanae. Ce projet applique la classification alphanumérique de la coloration « Pantone » en fonction de la couleur de peau de différentes personnes photographiées. Un projet simple et visuellement réussi à découvrir en images dans la suite.
Le créatif Phil Borst nous dévoile une de ses dernières réalisations. Le travail de l’américain est magnifique, jouant avec les formes et les couleurs. Sur une musique de Dustin Ohalloran, le rendu appelé “Mork” est à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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Raphaël Pluvinage et Marianne Cauvard ont eu l’excellente idée pour un projet à L’Ensci de créer cette “Noisy Jelly”. Le but de ce projet est de proposer de cuisiner et façonner son propre matériel musical avec de la gelée. Une idée à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
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Découverte de l’artiste Magda Sayeg, vivant au Texas, qui a inventé un univers intitulé “Yarn Bombing” dans lequel tout est conçu en pure laine. Des photographies de ses oeuvres en laine colorées dans la ville sont à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
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The design world flocks to Milan next month and designer Craig Alun Smith plans to splatter the city with bird poo in every colour of the rainbow by planting dyed bird feeders around the Piazza del Duomo.
The LuvOwls are made of seeds, suet and food colouring, moulded into the shape of owls because statues of the birds of prey are often used to scare off smaller foul. They come in come in red, green and blue, and the British/Canadian designer hopes birds will eat from more than one of the feeders to mix the colours in their stomachs.
He’ll travel from his home in Montreal next week to trial the system in Milan and find suitable perches for the feeders.
If you like this, check out a system for making packaging from coloured snail excrement here. We also featured Alun Smith’s pair of chairs called Wank back in 2008.
Here are some more details:
Craig Alun Smith’s LuvOwl project to debut this April in Milan at Piazza del Duomo during Milano Salone.
The concept of LuvOwl is simple, birds eat the Owl, and then bright colours “appear” around the city – true public art! LuvOwl is produced by moulding seed, suet and food colour into the form of an owl commonly but ineffectively used as a bird deterrent. The Owls are based on the RGB colour model so in theory seeds from different coloured owls combined in the birds’ gizzards should produce a broad array of colours. Craig will be in Milan next week (14th-16th March) testing the project and scouting appropriate perches for the LuvOwls.
Craig Alun Smith is a British/Canadian designer living and working in Montreal Canada. Known for his dialectic approach to design, his work typically plays with opposing forces or ideas, often with humour and emotion at its core.
James Roper est un artiste anglais à la fois illustrateur, peintre, ou encore sculpteur. Avec des choix de couleurs surprenants et des compositions impressionnantes, ce dernier nous plonge dans son univers unique et envoutant. Découvrez une série d’images dans la suite.
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Le duo Craig & Karl nous propose leur dernier projet avec 72DP. Prenant un parking australien et décidant de rajouter de la couleur à ces lieux d’habitude assez ternes. Une composition et un rendu en couleurs à découvrir dans la suite de l’article en images.
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