Archive for August, 2008
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Farallon is a simple, elegant piece of furniture that offers additional functionality specifically addressing the needs of a contemporary lifestyle. A dining chair and side chair that contains hidden storage spaces and pockets, Farallon simplifies the clutter of technology, creating new surfaces for changing needs. The simple, clever design brings a sense of adaptability to seating through functions created directly from its continuous fabric seat.
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The Muwi innovation lawn mower takes grass cuttings and turns them into something fun. First, Muwi calculates the size of the lawn and automatically cuts the grass. As the grass cuttings accumulate inside the machine, Muwi constructs and compresses them into cylindrical blocks. The blocks can become balls for children to play with or be combined to make a chair or anything else you can think of. After the blocks are used, they can be left to return to nature.
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The design of the Tatung Wireless VOIP Phone emphasises its cordlessness and the softness of its touch pad. The device supports mobile phone communication without spatial limitations. The simple geometrical form with the square cut-out is reminiscent of devices featuring an antenna. The rounded edges give the phone a softer appearance and enhance user comfort. When the phone is switched on, the illuminated keypad gives it a special appeal.
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Bristol born artist Nick Walker emerged from the now infamous & ground breaking Wild Bunch/Bristol Sound scene of the early 1980’s. As a forerunner to Banksy and the now mainstream British stencil/graffiti phenomenon, he has always been a pioneer of his field. Constantly evolving and pushing the boundaries of traditional graffiti by combining intricate stencil images with his conventional freehand methods.
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Russ Mills, the artist/illustrator behind Byroglyphics the online gallery presents an absolutely superb collection of digital illustrations that we are sure you will enjoy. Follow the link to see the entire collection.
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Natural lacquer is a fantastic material used in art craft that is created using a natural sap. The history of Japanese lacquer is very old and goes up to the Jomon period (5500 years ago). The “maki-e” lacquer, a product of the first part of medieval period, has fascinated even the courts of Western Europe and the oldest and most representative product of this genre, the Tamamushi, is still conserved in the museum of temple Horyuji and still has its original brightness. The first step in order to create a lacquer art craft is to prepare the base of plain wood: this is an operation made by the “plain wood craftsman”. It is not too much to say that the result of a lacquer craft depends on this first and important step. The next step is to apply the lacquer. Apply the lacquer and sharpen it: this is an operation that must be repeated many times and it requires a really great experience of the craftsman. Moreover, if the lacquer peels off or brakes, to apply the lacquer again in order to use that craft fo r a long time that could even be eternal.
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“Design … is an expression of the capability of the human mind to step beyond,” wrote the design theorist George Nelson in 1957, referring to the manifold possibilities that reside in human thinking, and which, ideally, find their way into products. Thus interpreted, design is a process of thinking whereby the onlooker creates the form of a product just as much as the person who created it. The French architect, Jean Nouvel, is constantly on the search for new forms to give expression to his designs, sounding the limits and possibilities of innovative materials and technologies in his work as an architect and designer. With the SKiN sofa, a design with a strongly avant-garde appearance, he now intends to give shape to something that is “essential” – a new kind of comfort is to be achieved through leaving things out.
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The 2008 pavilion for Kivik Art Centre in southeast Sweden has been designed by David Chipperfield and Antony Gormley. The pavilion, which was constructed in only two months, is a sculpture entirely in concrete. Formed of three interlocked 100 m3 volumes – ‘The Cave’, ‘The Stage’ and ‘The Tower’ – the pavilion offers three different ways of experiencing the nature and landscapes around Kivik.
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