La photographe Maia Flore a réalisé la série intitulée « Big Head Poetry » dans laquelle elle fait des portraits où les visages sont recouverts de chevelures de femmes, avec un détail qui anime le portrait à chaque fois : une fleur, un noeud, une barrette. Une série délicate et poétique à découvrir dans la suite.
L’agence de publicité suédoise Akestam Holst et la maison de production Stopp ont conçu une publicité créative et interactive pour les produits capillaires Apotek Hjärtat de la marque Apolosophy, dans le métro de Stockholm. Quand un métro passe, les cheveux de la mannequin s’envolent dans tous les sens.
Elroy Klee, studio de design, nous fait découvrir une série photo en utilisant des blocs de construction « Lego » en guise de perruques. Les différentes coiffures traduisent des types et des couleurs de cheveux différents, en utilisant des pièces noires, rouges et jaunes. Une nouvelle façon de voir la construction d’une coiffure.
Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair.
Goossens’ Hair Typography is crafted by arranging bunches of hairs into the shapes of single letters. Each character has a dense centre and becomes increasingly sparse towards the edges.
“The shapes of the letters are created by forming the hairs into a legible character,” said Goossens. “The ends of the hairs create an organised chaos – an energetic play of lines, which form a haze around the shape.”
The script letters have fluid strokes and the designer compares the individual filaments to fine pen lines. Each letter has interwoven curling lines and can be made in a variety of weights.
Once the letters are formed, Goossens photographs the characters for reproduction. The designer told Dezeen that she hopes the font will be used for magazine or book covers, and individual commissions can be made directly from the designer.
Goossens studied interior design at Academie Artemis in Amsterdam, and photography and design at Design Academy Eindhoven. She currently teaches Interior Design and Visual Communication at Academie Artemis.
Other objects made of hair on Dezeen include a hairbrush, a lamp and a range of spectacle frames.
In other graphic design news, British graphic designer Peter Saville was named winner of this year’s London Design Medal and announced he is working on a new identity for Kanye West.
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Here’s a full project description from Goossens:
Hair Typography
The hair letters consist of hundreds of hairs and give the impression of being fine pen drawings. The basic shape of the letters are created by forming the hairs into a legible character, during which I follow the natural characteristics of the hairs: curly, rounded corners, springiness.
To a great extent, it is the dynamic of the hairs which determines the shape of the letters. The ends of the hairs create an organized chaos, an energetic play of lines which forms a haze around the letter’s basic shape.
About Monique Goossens
Designer Monique Goossens studied at Academie Artemis in Amsterdam, graduating cum laude in Interior Design Styling in 2006. During her studies, she developed an interest in the relationship between design and photography which she went on to explore in depth during further study at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.
Monique Goossens’ work includes elements of both design and autonomous art. It often takes the form of staged images in which she challenges established concepts of function and material. In consequence, shifts occur at elementary level and result in a degree of estrangement. A refined appreciation of materials enhances this process, leading to beautiful and unexpected discoveries. Photographs of these scenes become the definitive works.
Monique’s work is playful, humorous, surprising. Her graphic work follows a similar process as she collates photographs into books and develops letter types using a range of materials.
Monique currently teaches Interior Prognoses at Academie Artemis.
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Réalisée par Peter Simon, cette vidéo Ballpoint Barber nous propose de découvrir en stop-motion monté à l’envers un homme chauve utilisant une stylo magique pour se faire pousser les cheveux et la barbe. Une création sympathique à découvrir dans la suite sur une musique de Paul Otteson.
Designers Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid have adapted the flocking process to make a hairbrush that’s coated in human hair.
Flocking involves depositing small fibrous particles onto a surface to make it fuzzy, and Beveridge and Reid cut-up discarded hair to coat the brush.
“Using the off-cuts of human hair from our local hairdresser, we cut the hair down to a length that could be put through an electromagnetic flocking gun,” says Beveridge.
The back and handle were smeared with adhesive, then the hair particles were negatively charged in the gun so they stuck to the earthed brush when fired.
We’ve featured a few stories about strange uses of hair, including clumps utilised as the stuffing for plastic pouffes and strands bound in resin to form spectacle frames.
Recently we published a pair of tweezers made from a single loop of metal and we’ve previously written about shaving brushes with long locks of hair instead of bristles.
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« Pop up Hair Salon » est le nom de cet espace conçu par Zaha Hadid Architects en collaboration avec la marque Fudge Hair à l’occasion de la London Design Festival. Dans cette boutique temporaire, chaque chaise pour coiffer est placée au milieu de la pièce définie par des contours polygonaux au design très réussi.
Certains personnages de fiction sont reconnaissables à leurs coupes de cheveux. C’est en partant de ce constat que Patrícia Póvoa a pu nous proposer une série de posters simples de coupes de cheveux de personnages comme Marge ou la princesse Leia. A vous de les retrouver dans la suite.
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Small-batch chemical-free hair and skincare from the Hudson Valley
Cold Spring Apothecary founder Stacey Dugliss-Wesselman cultivated a special knack for ingenuity during her childhood in the Catskills, where the closest store was 45 minutes away. Later, as a hair stylist in Brooklyn, with a background in both cosmetology and nursing, she began sharing with her clients the blends of oils and remedies she’d concocted and soon garnered a devoted following.
“After much encouragement to sell my products, I decided I was going to do it…so I locked myself in the Cold Spring lab—the kitchen in a second apartment we were renting—to design the line,” says Dugliss-Wesselman. Cold Spring Apothecary was born in 2010, bringing together her deep commitment to safe, chemical-free and nourishing hair and skin products in a small-batch line. In April 2011, CSA opened its first retail location in the Hudson Valley town for which it’s named, below the lab and manufacturing center where all the products are made in a strictly sanitized environment. “We work in small batches of 6-24 bottles at a time,” says Dugliss-Wesselman. “Everything is carefully mixed by hand so we don’t use crazy mixing machines or filling machines, we feel that we have greater quality control by doing so.”
We were particularly fond of the haircare products we got to try—the Citrus, Ginger and Vanilla Dry Shampoo and the Citrus and Ginger Sea Salt Spray, one of Cold Spring’s signature items and Dugliss-Wesselman’s personal favorite. As far as dry shampoos go, this one did the trick with an intoxicating scent, giving our day-after locks the proper boost to last a little longer before the next full-fledged wash. Those with lighter hair will have an easier time with the pale powder, which requires more careful rubbing in on brunette and dark hair. The sea salt spray infuses a nice texture with the added bonus of an ultra moisturizing formula—an unusual benefit for this particular genre of styling product. Cold Spring started with shampoo, which continues to be a top seller in all natural scents that include basil and hibiscus, lavender and honey and geranium.
Cold Spring Apothecary—which, true to its name, incorporates a medicinal component to each of its products—also includes skincare, body care, fragrances and home fragrances and candles, all free from parabens, harmful sulfates and synthetic scents. The entire line is available from the flagship shop and select stockists, as well as Cold Spring Apothecary online, which also includes extensive information on all CSA products and ingredients.
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