llot llov
The desk ‘Clark’ by Berlin design studio llot llov provides temporary storage which is not about filing or sorting but simply stacking. Everything stays within reach and does not disappear in drawers or cupboards.
[via designboom]
Glimpse Door
Minimal and very original mirror trompe l’oeil by Sarah Tamala Kang.
Sometimes we cannot help but to try and catch a glimpse of the other side. Passing through the everyday spaces we inhibit, the door half opened always stirs up a sense of seduction and curiosity within us. Inspired by these ordinary yet inexplicable moments in our daily lives, Sarah designed a mirror that gives an illusion of a door opening on any given surface.
[via Fubiz]
Destilat
After excellent concept of the Rek Bookcase Austrian design studio Destilat follows up with their new Kaos Bookcase.
Some people sort their books alphabetically by title or author, others according to the theme or style, while still others base the organization on color or size. There is no ideal system as organizing based on the one perspective always causes chaos in terms of the other. kaos makes productive use of this disorder: books are stored in little groups, which makes it possible for various organizing systems to exist alongside one another. The result is a three-dimensional picture composed of books – unpredictable and, by principle, chaotic.
[via Fubiz]
Louis Verhoeven
Dutch designer Louis Verhoeven has an original showcase on his portfolio website.
[via Designcollector]
Motoi Yamamoto
Following the death of his sister to brain cancer twelve years ago, Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto adopted salt as his primary medium. In Japanese culture salt is not only a necessary element to sustain human life, but it is also a symbol of purification. He uses salt in loose form to create intricate labyrinth patterns on the gallery floor or in baked brick form to construct large interior structures. As with the labyrinths and innavigable passageways, Motoi views his installations as exercises which are at once futile yet necessary to his healing.
Salt is a ubiquitous commodity, as it is found in all of the oceans of the world, and virtually all cultures use some variant of it in their diet. What began as an exploration of the practices of Japanese death culture and its use of salt has now become a more philosophical enquiry into the importance of this substance to life on the planet. He likes to think that the salt he uses might have been a life-sustaining substance for some creature. Yamamoto is interested in the interconnectedness of all living things and the fact that salt is something shared by all. For this reason, when his salt-works must be disassembled, he requests that the salt in his installation be returned to the ocean.
According to the artist: “Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a trace of my memory. Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by. However, what I seek is the way in which I can touch a precious moment in my memories that cannot be attained through pictures or writings. I always silently follow the trace, that is controlled as well as uncontrolled from the start point after I have completed it.”
[via E-Sushi and Force of Nature]
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Nothing
Nothing is a new commercial creative agency formed by Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten that has just opened its doors in Amsterdam. While the city houses the KesselsKramer agency in a fairly unconventional building – a nineteenth-century church – the Nothing office is an unusual construction too, in that it is built almost entirely out of cardboard. They sent us some great pictures of the space, which was created by designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg…
The Nothing team took the idea behind the company name (taking nothing and turning it into something) as the starting point for the physical design of the office; which included creating walls, signage, beams, tables, shelving and even a set of stairs out of cardboard.
But Nothing aren’t going to be prissy about the clean lines of designer cardboard that surrounds them. Apparently, the walls will double as a blank canvas with visitors encouraged to leave their mark on the surfaces. Indeed, illustrator Fiodor Sumkin was the first to liven up Nothing’s predominantly brown colour scheme with some well-crafted penmanship.
And when they get bored by the accumulated daubings, the studio can presumably replace individual sections of their workspace for, well, nothing much at all.
[via CRblog]
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Jen Stark
Colourful inspiration by Jen Stark. In simple terms, Jen creates her art using nothing more then a knife and multi-colored paper. With these simple supplies, Jen creates ellaborate and intricate arrangments full of color that really draws the viewer in.
[via signalnoise]
Really Short Films
‘Samurai on the Toilet’ and ‘Man Blowing a Bubble’ are two extremely short ‘films’ by artist/illustrator Mitch Ansara and Japanese director/actor/writer/producer Takeshi Kitano.
[via the daily escapade]
