Après la série des chefs pour Fricote, LeBlox revient avec une série de miniatures consacrée aux personnages de la série Game of Thrones. Les familles et les personnages ont été fait sur plusieurs semaines courant Février-Mars et l’intégralité est maintenant révélée en exclusivité sur Fubiz dans la suite.
Architects including Zaha Hadid, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier are depicted like vintage video game characters in these images by graphic designer Federico Babina (+ slideshow).
Jean Nouvel with his Torre Agbar
Federico Babina illustrated a series of well-known architects as pixellated graphics with white or black outlines, as if they feature in an 8-bit video game from the 80s.
Zaha Hadid with her Vitra Fire Station
Each is paired with one of their famous projects in the background, coloured with a limited palette.
Rem Koolhaas with his CCTV Headquarters
Babina intended the pixellated portraits and backdrops to display the essence of each architect and their buildings.
Frank Gehry with his Disney Concert Hall
“The idea of this project is to represent the complexity of the forms and personalities through the simplicity of the pixel,” he told Dezeen.
Frank Lloyd Wright with his Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright stands next to his spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York, Louis Kahn is positioned in front of the concrete Salk Institute campus in California and Le Corbusier is shown beside his Ronchamp chapel in France.
Tadao Ando with his Church of the Light
Along with buildings, architects Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto are also pictured with iconic chairs they designed.
Japanese architects Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Arata Isozaki and Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA are all represented too.
Norman Foster with his “Gherkin” tower
Curved towers by Jean Nouvel and Norman Foster in Barcelona and London respectively are featured, as well as Richard Meier with his Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
Renzo Piano with his Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre
Current “starchitects” Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas complete the line-up.
Kazuyo Sejima with her Zollverein School of Management and Design
Babina described the style as a kind of “digital pointillism”, with the mouse replacing the brush: “The pixel reappears and emphasises the importance that has the single dot, seen as something essential that in combination with other points form a more complex picture.”
Toyo Ito with his Porta Fira Towers
“It’s a metaphor of architecture where every little detail is a key component of the whole mosaic,” he said.
An emerging fashion designer’s 8-bit-inspired latest collection and store
by Adele Chan
Where most go for increasingly hi-def effects, experimental Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga took a deliberately different direction with his label Anrealage, designing the Fall/Winter 2011 line around the concept of low-resolution graphics. Titled “Low” in reference to the throwback patterns, the collection includes skirt suits, coats, dresses, tights and court shoes printed with colorful square blocks, meant to resemble pixelated florals and paisleys. The resulting mosaic-like imagery attracts the eye, giving the illusion that moving further away or squinting might pull the designs into focus. The heels of the shoes are particularly striking—cleverly sculptured to look like miniature, offset blocks—reminiscent of Lego bricks.
An extension of the collection, the motif makes for a strong interior decor scheme in the brand’s Harajuku store as well. Entering the space is like falling back into a classic video game from the 1980s (minus the fire breathing plants and teleportation tubes). From the chairs and display table to carpet design and even hanging light bulbs, every piece of furniture appears to be rendered in a few pixels per inch.
Can’t make it to Japan? Get a taste with the Low Pixel print tights ¥5,775 (US$74) online.
Voici “The Node”, une très belle installation virtuelle réalisée par le studio Undream. La musique colle à merveille avec l’image et permet de mettre en avant différentes interprétations du son. Une réalisation de Murat Pak, à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Une belle installation de l’artiste Martin Bircher intitulée “Type Case” : un affichage écran doté d’une résolution de 125 pixels rectangulaires, de différentes tailles. Ils sont formés à partir de la réflexion de la lumière LED, et sont une représentation de l’information visuelle de l’actualité.
Un excellent travail vidéo du réalisateur Patrick Jean, pour un rendu étonnant dans une ville mêlée à des éléments en pixels. Le tout est accompagné d’effets sonores. Une vidéo produite par OneMoreProd. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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