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Everything Duncan Wilson does is amazing.

“Inspired by an encounter with a snow covered park bench; the experience of disturbing the surface, leavings ones mark or discovering the trace of a previous presence. The Snowbench uses visco-elastic memory foam and diaphragm valves to retain the imprint of the user, documenting the physical interaction.

The bench becomes an icon of the object and situation that inspired it, evoking memories of an experience that contrasts with the present environment and context.”

“Six Students from Design Products, Industrial Design Engineering and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art designed a landscape of concept furniture derived from the statue-like forms of people sitting, standing or leaning against walls engaged in playing the PlayStation Portable (PSP). Visitors to the exhibition are able to enter these forms and play on the console while exposed to an audio installation echoing player activity.

The cocoon-like nature of the furniture is related to the experience of playing games on the PSP. Initial inspiration came from observing group play at a barbecue: when still light in the early evening, a group of players put their coats over their heads to create shade and see the PSP’s screen better. Despite not being able to see each other at all, they continued to happily taunt, insult and otherwise interact with each other as is the norm throughout the course of a game. Later on, the students observed people huddled together during play, adopting statue-like poses and postures – some sitting, some standing, some leaning – largely unaware of the party going on around them.

This everyday re-appropriation and simple, utilitarian acts on the part of the players became useful metaphors for what the students found most interesting about the PSP, as well as other devices like it: that they are simultaneously public and private objects, that they encourage shared experience but require a degree of isolation and immersion, and that proximity is as much a factor as mobility. We aimed to question and address the immateriality and relatively new language of use of these devices. What impact will they have on future patterns of living?”

Saw this a while back, but cant remember what blog i saw it on, so im sorry for not linking back through to you. Really like this poster, very interesting way of using letterpress by Studio Sport.

“Poster for the information event of the visual communications departement of the Zurich University of arts. The images were pre-printed on an inkjet-printer and over-printed on a letter-press machine. In collaboration with Andrea Koch.”

Its been a while since i updated the blog. Have been seriously busy with work for university.
I seem to have a real obsession with circles at the moment, and Richard Sarson’s work satisfies this. Love it.

This is coincidental, but this is our 100th post, which happens to be about the 100 Book Project by Mads Freund Brunse. This is quite possibly the best thing i have ever seen, or at least the best thing i have ever posted about.

“Library signage. An installation with an index of titles and extracts organised under different emotions. This allows you to discover new books that evoke similar feelings.”

(via VVORK)

“Installation view of a hole revealing wall painting of successive exhibition layers, 20 cm in diameter at the Viennese Secession. By Pierre Huyghe.”

(via VVORK)

Syzygy.

“Syzygy is a dramatic kind of eclipse (the alignment of 3 or more celestial objects). The campaign for the first ADCE conference plays on the fact that the ADCE awards were announced the day after the eclipse occurred. After the ‘darkness’ produced by the eclipse of three guest design & advertising stars, the real ‘stars’ - the winners of the ADCE awards - would shine the day after… To emphasize the concept of the eclipse (one object in front of the other), the Syzygy postcards and posters have a black vinyl glued in front of the star. In collaboration with Richard Sarson.”

(via Balla Dora Typo-grafika)

Amazing. Mutoh.

“To explore and to know the real world we live, how we perceive it is to be the basic start point. The principle should be true in the world of color in visual expression, here in terms of our perception and recognition of dynamic characteristics of the light. The impressionist Claude Monet often painted the same motif under several natural conditions, and fixed the dynamic effect of light on the renowned 33 canvasses of “Cathedrale de Rouen”. The artist explored in essence how human being perceives change of natural scene in time and its color dynamism beyond simple problems of expression. But few people know that painting and coloring under the sky for the impressionists’ exploration of natural light has made partly possible by the advanced technology at that time of pressing zinc metal to manufacture paint tubes. The advance of technology should be unvaryingly one of the motivation for re-examine the color in expression and communication on products or media in natural or artificial light environment.”

(via VVORK)

Antony Gormley.

“Breathing Room was an attempt to make a three-dimensional drawing in space that was both a diagram and a thing.

It is an instrument that allows the viewers to become the viewed by creating an interpenetrating nest of seven space frames that occupy a central position in the room.

The volume outlined by the frame remains constant whilst being extended in each case on a different axis. A mandala-like drawing on the floor forms the groundplan from which the seven rooms grow. The structure is made from 25 mm x 25 mm square aluminium tube.

The object hovers between being architecture and being an image of architecture. It is a contained object in a defined internal space. In the Ropac Gallery installation, all electrical lights were removed and the frames were painted with two layers of phosphorescent paint that absorbed light during the day and emitted it at night. In its night state the work assumes an unstable position between the virtual and the real.

If perspective and orthogonal architecture in the West are the way in which space is described and contained, this is an attempt to open up those limiting characteristics.”

(via VVORK)

Love these book covers by Heman Chong.

(via VVORK)

Seizure, an art work by Roger Hiorns is truly amazing. I can’t really describe what it is like, it is something that needs to be experienced. Hopefully the images below will help.

“In SEIZURE, Hiorns’ most ambitious work to date, the artist precipitates an unexpected sculptural form within the fabric of a housing estate near London Bridge. Architecture and modernist sculpture continue to be important touchstones for Hiorns’ work, and both have strongly informed the development of this major new commission. For his first work within an urban site Hiorns’ makes a radical shift of scale and context, and has developed an extraordinary chemical intervention in the heart of the city.”

(Art Angel)