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)
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)
“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)
Saw the website of Barcinski & Jeanjean the other day, really cool.
Also see these pieces of work by them too, really like the idea of the bluetooth music in an exhibition space.
So simple. So wonderful.
Colorflip website by Rafael Rozendaal. And a few more minimal but amazingly interactive websites.
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Amazing interactive design by Chris O’Shea.
Audience, conceived by rAndom International, is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects. Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behaviour. Some chat amongst themselves, some shy away and others confidently move to grab your attention.
When members of the audience occupy the space, the mirrors inquisitively follow someone that they find interesting. Having chosen their subject, they all synchronise and turn their heads towards them. Suddenly that person can see their reflection in all of the mirrors. They will watch this person until they become disinterested, then either seek out another subject or return to their private chatter. The collective behaviour of the objects is beyond the control of the viewer, as it is left entirely to their discretion to let go of their subject.
(via Visual Streak)
Varvara and myself went to Amsterdam last week for my birthday. We saw pretty much every single exhibition about design, fashion and photography. So for the next few days ill be posting images and links from the places we went. Starting with the Hacking IKEA exhibition at Platform 21, that started the day we left.
This is my favourite, a table with a subwoofer attached to the underside and a lamp with a tweeter above the bulb. Click the more link to see more pictures.
“Check out IKEA Hackers. They encourage people to buy IKEA flat pack DIY stuff and make new things out of it.”
(via Tobias Revell)
This Is Sand – an amazing interactive web-site for play.
This is a joint project of the designers Johanna Lundberg and Jenna Sutela with the Flash programmer Timo Koro. We wanted to create a playground of colours and sound for people to play with us in our sandbox – within the computer screen.
It’s a lot of fun to make images with digital sand being able to change the colour and even apply a gradient. Give it a go!
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