Archive for Art & Design
Ventricle Vessel
June 5th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: design, product design
Amazing heart vase designed by by Eva Milinkovic.
via: Design Milk
Colin Christian’s Pod People
May 4th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: art, contemporary art, scifi, sculpture
I love these weird pod sculptures from Colin Christian. If the films 2001 Space Odyssey vs. Alien were to be made into a movie, these would definitely be the new creature eggs and instead of a cave, they would be incubating in a Eero Saarinen building.
Ephemicropolis
April 26th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: art, contemporary art, design, sculpture
Ephemicropolis 2010
Check out this obsessive work constructed with 100,000 staples by UK artist and designer Peter Root.
Stacks of staples were broken into varying sizes from full stacks about 12cm high down to single staples. These stacks were then stood up and arranged over a period of 40 hours.
Yves Béhar and Puma’s Super Green Shoe Box
April 13th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: consumerism, design, industrial design, packaging
The new Puma shoe box design by Yves Béhar has been three years in the making and I think it’s a great idea and a step in the right direction. The outer bag is made from recycled PET but it’s unclear if it’s recyclable and I don’t think this design qualifies for Cradle to Cradle certification but it’s great to see Puma is taking an interest in new ways to package products, thus reducing waste and inefficiency in producing packaging. I would like to know how the shoes are going to be shipped. The advantage of the shoe box is it’s ability to withstand pressure when stacked and boxed for shipping long distances. If the cardboard interior of the new packaging can withstand the same pressure as an original shoe box design, while cutting down on waste and cost, then this design will go far but if this is just for show on the consumer side and it’s actually shipped inside a shoe box to the stores, then Houston, we have a problem.
Filipe Soares Has Floating Dreams
March 31st, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: art, contemporary art, sculpture
Portuguese artist Filipe Soares has created some interesting little worlds using story boxes.
Pink Terror
March 31st, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: art, contemporary art, video art
Pink Terror by Mike Barzman and Christian Swegal
Don’t know too much about this video, but I love watching things getting smashed and exploding in slow motion.
The Graphic 80s
March 30th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: 80s, design, illustration, Inspiration, vintage
Collection of some great 80s illustration graphics and photo ads.
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To Live and Die for Bacon
March 12th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: books, design, graphic design, Inspiration, vintage
So many people I know are obsessed about Bacon. It seems to have an addictive quality that makes people love it ! I recently saw a friend post to her Facebook wall ” Is a life without bacon a life worth living?”. Personally, I don’t eat it, I’m sure it’s tasty but I’m just not going down that rabbit hole.
I found this excellent vintage book cover from one of my favorite inspiration sites and it made me think about my friends ♥ for bacon . The book was designed for the Danish Bacon Factories Export Association and probably dates from the late fifties to early sixties.
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The Knife and Some Color Cutting
March 4th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: art, contemporary art, dance remix, electro, remix, sculpture
Totally digging this work from Uruguay artist Ana Bidart
The Knife – Colouring Of Pigeons (DAI REFIX)
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Nick van Woert’s Busts
March 2nd, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: art, contemporary art, sculpture
Sugar Free, Plaster bust, sugar free gum, 2010
Brooklyn artist Nick van Woert uses some interesting materials on plaster busts. Ok, so now maybe people will start to use their gum as Art instead of spitting it out on the sidewalks in San Francisco.
Børre Sæthre
February 28th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: art, contemporary art, Inspiration, music, surrealism
Børre Sæthre – My Private Sky (Installation)
Norwegian artist Børre Sæthre has a way with the uncanny and is heavily influenced by the sets of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I thought of the piece above while listening to The Blues, which is a collaboration between Primary 1 and Nina Persson of the Cardigans.
Primary 1 ft. Nina Persson – The Blues”
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3D Printed Cha Cha Heels
February 26th, 2010 • Art & Design
Tags: design, product design
3D-printed shoes by Stockholm students, Naim Josefi and Souzan Youssouf, using a Selective Laser Sintering process.
The concept for the shoes call for further exploration in ever-developing rapid prototyping processes. The pair envisage a world in which we could produce and recycle such objects in a closed loop.
