We attended the first part of Geeky by Nature yesterday here in NYC, a conference “exploring the best in art, code & design.” The day was filled with great presentations, the highlights for us being Joshua Hirsch from Big Spaceship, Hillman Curtis and his upcoming Stefan Sagmeister film, and Joshua Davis including his interactive graphics for IBM’s Watson. But, our absolute favorite talk was given by Hellicar & Lewis. Apart from being incredibly smart and talented, this team of UK interaction designers (Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis) is witty, appealing, and immensely inspiring. The images above are stills from work on their site. I highly recommend that you look at some of their videos to get a taste of what they do. Brilliant!
Category Archives: Just Plain Cool
Dig: Installation and Performance
“Dig is an installation and performance by Daniel Arsham/Snarkitecture
at Storefront for Art and Architecture and made possible by OHWOW that explores the architecture of excavation.
Installation. The gallery will be filled almost in its totality with EPS architectural foam, then excavated with simple tools to transform the material into an unexpected cavern. (March 29 – April 4)
Performance. In the final stage, Arsham/Snarkitecture will both create and inhabit Dig for the duration of the installation (April 23). There will be excursions by invitation only, but people will be able to view the performance from the street. More details here. via Creative Everyone
Plastic Bag Installation
This beautiful installation was part of a workshop at the Lund School of Architecture in Sweden taught by Theodore Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Sweijd and David Erkan. The mission was “to build a geometry with a component.” The participating students, (Emilia Thurin Melin . Karin Backlund . Kim Öhrström . Alexander Carlén . David Ottosson . Emanuel Kjellberg . Filip Mayer . Johan Svartnäs . Petter Nilsson . Robert Janson), constructed the installation using plastic bags and colored lights. Very dramatic. More at Robert Janson’s site. via notcot
Character
Okay, how cool would it be to have one of these at home? Answer: very.
“Character saves fascia signs from demolition. We choose the most stylish letters and turn them into individual and unique design objects. We replace the old neon tubes with LEDs, add a transformer, install a power cord and give them a new life cycle.”
via Beautiful Life
Alberto de Pedro
From Madrid, street artist Alberto de Pedro pasted a large photo of a detailed, decrepit interior on a detailed, decrepit door. Cool effect. via Colossal
Reflect Light
Designed by Peter Simonik and Elena Bolcekova of allt studio, this lamp works with the light that the space offers without even being turned on. Then, once turned on, it flashes with an unexpected vividness from its semi-see-through orange facets. via designboom
Not Your Mother’s Hostel
Hostels definitely didn’t look like this when I stayed in them! Golly+Bossy is a design hostel in Split, Croatia. Couldn’t find the architect, but they certainly did a beautiful job. via coolhunter
3D Screw Portraits
Andrew Meyers, an artist based in California, creates these sculptural paintings using thousands of screws and varying their depths, then painting each individual head, creating a 3D effect. More here.
Double Happiness
Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.
Designed by French-Portuguese architect Didier Faustino. Urban reanimation device. Recycled billboard space.Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture. via Broken City.
Tara Donovan: Pins & Mylar at Pace
Being a longtime fan of Tara Donovan’s work, I was especially happy to learn of her two shows at two different Pace Galleries in NYC these past two months. The top two (I’m noticing a lot of “twos” in this post) images are from her nickel-plated steel pin drawings at the 25th St. gallery. The bottom image is of her mylar sculpture “Untitled (Mylar) 2011” which takes up most of the space at the 22nd St. location.
To see some of Donovan’s other works look here.
Mentalgassi
Flip and fency images at Sala B Galley in Barcelona.
More images at Mentalgassi.
Felice Varini
I’ve just discovered the mind-blowing Felice Varini. What looks like a Photoshopped translucent pattern layered over a photo are actually painted walls, floors, ceilings (and any other objects that get in his way) resulting in the optical illusion. He’s been creating these for over 30 years and there are so many that it’s hard to choose which ones to post. I suggest you look at them all here.
via art.is.analogue.
Growing Jewelry
Just spritz and trim like any other plant…
by Hafsteinn Juliusson, via spotcoolstuff.
Morning After Portraits
“The morning after portraits are portraits of people in front of their medicine cabinets or in their local pharmacies with hangovers, migraines, morning sickness and other maladies self-inflicted or bestowed by nature. When viewed from afar, the portraits can be read as a whole image. As one moves closer, the image begins to break down and the individual capsule pixels become more dominant.”
By Andy Diaz Hope via designboom.
Nano Logo
Daniel Rozin Awesomeness
Seeing Daniel Rozin (and some of his mechanical pixel mirror pieces) at VoltaNYC last week, reminded me how much I love his work.
More at Bitforms Gallery.
Table-Setting Made Easy
For our next party: Join Cutlery.
Designed by Ding3000 via Yanko Design.
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