While scanning the stands in the Barker Hanger at Santa Monica’s West Edge Design Fair last week, the Apparatus booth gave off…
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Le travail d’Andy Gilmore fascinent jouant sur des motifs géométriques se développant à l’infini et des dégradés de couleurs à la manière de kaléidoscopes. On le découvre très influencé par la nature et ses motifs dans l’interview vidéo réalisée par Ghostly International. Un travail intrigant et poétique à découvrir.
Focus sur le motion-designer Alexey Romanowsky basé à Kiev. Avec cette vidéo « Pure Geometry », ce dernier joue avec talent sur différents styles d’animation en se basant sur des formes géométriques simples et efficaces. A découvrir en images dans la suite, le tout sur la musique de Vector Lovers – Clandestine.
by Emily Millett Whether he is tapping his feet in tune to the music or drumming his fingers along to an imaginary rift, Joao Teigas lives by an unstoppable musical beat, an organic rhythmic flow that…
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Contoured around natural seating postures, the Sylki Chair is the latest furniture design from Brooklyn-based studio POD Design. By considering ergonomics the geometrical chair’s surface features highly specific undulations and indentations designed to enhance comfort while distributing pressure on joints. To reduce waste the chair is molded from a…
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Thermochromic interactive grids invade Issey Miyake’s Tribeca location
A bright blue interactive installation has taken over the walls of Issey Miyake‘s Tribeca storefront. Composed of grids of hexagonal pads or “voxels”, Symbiosis0: Voxel responds to body heat or “artifacts” left by users who touch its textile surface. Accompanying the physical responsiveness of the piece is a mobile website that enables users to design a pattern that is displayed across the polygons upon submission. The display, a collaboration between artists Alex Dodge, Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald had visitors pressing hands and faces against the shapes and delighting both fashionistas and children alike.
“Issey Miyake’s ability to take traditional designs and techniques and reinvent them through new materials and technology is something we all felt inspired by,” relates Alex Dodge. “When we first thought about possible colors for the installation, we found a nice relationship to a traditional Japanese textile dyeing technique known as “shibori”—it’s typically indigo blue with white lines. So we found a way of doing something similar with a totally new technology.”
Connected by a series of wires, the royal blue shapes turn bright white on contact, retaining the impression for a few minutes afterwards. As Kärt Ojavee explains, “Every pixel of the honeycomb-structured installation is individually constructed of several layers: covered with silk, the substrate material is felt, and in between are the warming elements. All voxels have two visual states—blue and a highlighted wire-frame of a cube. The silk is coated with thermochromic ink, reacting to body temperature or activated by the middle layer, which is controlled through a web-based interface.”
The installation was imagined as an interactive piece that would engage shoppers in a way that traditional art cannot. “People are usually not supposed to touch artworks nor create their own content on the medium,” says Eszter Ozsvald. “Suddenly, from a passive listener you become an important part of the installation and your displayed image becomes a part of the interior. I like the fact that you not only take something from the store but you leave a trace, a unique touch behind.”
SymbiosisO: Voxel will be on display at Issey Miyake in Tribeca through 28 April 2012. Check out the installation in action by watching our rough cut.
Tribeca Issey Miyake
119 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
By Greg Stefano and James Thorne.
Documenting designs of the bookshelf revolution
Since 2007, Alex Johnson has kept a daily record of the closely followed world of bookshelf design with his blog simply titled “Bookshelf”. Faced with the e-book revolution and the downsizing of physical storage, the furniture staple remains a beloved component of the home, evolving from floor piles and mundane shelves to be embraced as a design object reflecting the spirit of the collector as well as the books themselves. Johnson’s new book, also called “Bookshelf“, curates the contemporary state of the household item as both a design and storage piece.
Admitting that e-books are certainly here to stay, Johnson points out that there exists a difference between book readers and book owners. While the former is content to consume the information and move on, the latter enjoys the experience of possessing, displaying and ultimately sharing tomes.
As affordable furnishing and democratic design bring creative solutions into homes everywhere, the demand for elegant bookshelves continues to rise. Minimalist or cluttered, asymmetrical or linear, the design of the bookshelf dictates the feel of the room it inhabits. Designers build from this premise, creating pieces that reflect the practical, spacial and aesthetic needs of book owners.
Johnson’s selections are accompanied by short biographies and web addresses to find and purchase each of the pieces. His work provides examples of the evolution of the single shelf, the incorporation of bookshelves into furniture and the departure from traditional box storage, among other trends. The more elegant examples include “Bike Shelf“, a minimalist, dual-purpose option for bookworm cyclists, as well as “Between Lines“, an amalgamation of intersecting letters made of steel and rubber that houses creative arrangements of books.
“Bookshelf” is available for purchase from Thames & Hudson and on Amazon. See more images of the book in our slideshow.
Paper engineering set off with abstract painting in a collaboration from Ghostly International
From the record label-meets-art house Ghostly International comes a collaboration between abstract artists Michael Cina and Matt Shlian. The limited edition series contains works on paper that bring together the divergent styles of the two artists, marrying Cina’s colorful abstractions and Shlian’s signature paper engineering to demonstrate the common theme of experimentation in their respective processes. Shlian’s paper pyramids borrows from geometric and biological forms to create a 3D canvas, his typical monochrome look overhauled by Cina’s vibrant pigments, which have roots in his background creating album art for Ghostly.
The name for the Aleatoric Series refers to the element of chance to create an unexpected outcome in the artists’ joint work. “These pieces feel spatial or nebulous…a micro and macro all at once,” says Shlian. “When I read, I never understand the important parts first. I pull out the details and focus on them first, and then I have to work at understanding the bigger picture.” In this way, the two artists shared the back and forth that comes with collaborative, ongoing work.
The pieces are assembled by hand using acid-free glue and paper, and the surface is colored with vegetable-based ink. As arrangement of the color changes from piece to piece, none of the 25 iterations of each composition are exactly the same. All told, the collection demonstrates the benefits of artistic experimentation and the effect that occurs when two talented artists riff off of one another.
Pieces from The Aleatoric Series is available from the Ghostly Store for $250.
Une série de visuels aux ellipses et courbes maitrisées avec des compositions hypnotisantes par l’artiste roumain Cristian Boian. Il montre l’étendue de son talent et de ses capacités à capter le regard. Le tout est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
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Voici ce concept très original pour la dernière collection de vêtements, de la designer bosniaque Amila Hrustic. Entièrement fait à la main et en papier et textile, elle reprend le style géométrique et les décline avec élegance et style. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
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