January 23, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Pod Exhibition Pavilion: Studio Nicoletti

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Slightly west of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, a large urban development is underway. The developer behind the project wanted the on-site offices and sales showroom to be an iconic structure that would reflect the architectural style of the upcoming development. Studio Nicoletti Associati in Rome in conjunction with Hijjas Kasturi Associates in Kuala Lumpur, came up with The Pod, inspired by water droplets in nature, the spherical structure is formed with a series of elliptical sections of varying width and height.

Inside, the pavilion is divided into two zones: one dedicated to the office space and the other contains the main showroom. Fabricated from tubular steel members the exterior skin is made of reflective aluminum panels causing its color to change depending on the sun or artificial lighting.

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January 23, 2012 by collabcubed - 3 Comments

Cristina Barbero: Protected Spaces

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You know the saying “People who live in glass jars…”

Spanish artist Cristina Barbero believes that every individual needs their own vital space; create a bubble where they can be protected from their fears and problems. Each one may be very different and unique, yet united they form society and the cities that we live in.

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January 20, 2012 by collabcubed - 1 Comment

Foster School of Business Art Installations

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Two interesting permanent typographic art installations were recently created for the Foster School of Business, part of the University of Washington in Seattle. The two installations are collaborations between designers Kristine Matthews and Karen Cheng, both on the faculty at the University’s School of Art.

Change reflects on the dynamic relationship between business and change. The word “change” appears on the floor of each elevator, along with 18 synonyms (adapt, innovate, transform, etc.). The synonyms are each highlighted with actual loose change, international coins that hint at the diversity of the UW Foster Business School as well as the global nature of business.

As the elevator moves from floor to floor, the interior word “change” is modified by another word just outside the elevator, to both the front and back:
Floor 5: I Change/You Change
Floor 4: Lead Change/Manage Change
Floor 3: Expect Change/Embrace Change
Floor 2: Local Change/Global Change
Floor 1: Change Ideas/Change Lives
Floor 0: Change?/Change!

The second installation, Business Is..., asks how do you define ‘business’?

Viewers are asked to respond to the open-ended question “Business is…” on a companion website, www.FosterExchange.com. User responses appear on a series of LEDs that wrap around a four-story-high column. The monitors also display real-time stock market openings and closings, predictions, and even advice for students who meet and study in the atrium below.

Both installations are innovative, interactive, beautifully integrated, totally engaging and fun! I’d say complete successes through and through.

Here’s a video about the projects:

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January 20, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Rise & Sigh Sheets: Martina Carpelan

These made me chuckle. Finnish designer Martina Carpelan put a new spin on embroidered bedding. Her Rise and Sigh sheets have suggestive flirty sayings embroidered in reverse to leave a temporary tattoo-like impression on the occupier’s skin.

Wonder what these would do to Ariana Page Russell?

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January 20, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Florian Hafele: Contorted Sculptures

Viennese artist Florian Hafele creates sculptures using materials that vary from PVC and paint, to wood and plastic, to gilded bronze. What all his sculptures have in common is a contortionist or deformed quality. Focusing on the question of performance in our social environment, Hafele’s works offer multiple perspectives and views on the over-strained human in an achievement oriented society.

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January 19, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

The RedBall Project: Kurt Perschke

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This is such a fun project! Though it’s been traveling the world for a few years, this is the first I’ve heard of it. The RedBall Project by New York based artist Kurt Perschke, consists of a series of temporary installations within a city over a span of a couple of weeks. Perschke finds interesting, and somewhat humorous, locations (though, a giant red ball in any location automatically evokes a certain amount of humor) that are often taken for granted. The previously neglected spaces come to the foreground highlighting the nooks and crannies of urban life.

For Perschke, the core of the project’s goal is the invitation to the public to engage and unleash their imagination. “Every time a passerby says – ‘You know, I know the perfect place to put it!’ – RedBall has succeeded in creating a moment of imagination.”

The project has taken place in many cities including Barcelona, Taipei, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, Portland and most recently Abu Dhabi. Up next: Perth, from February 10 – March 3rd. Hey Kurt! How about bringing the project home to NYC?! I know the perfect place…

Here’s a short video by Tony Gaddis of the project in Chicago:

Photos are all from RedBall’s Facebook and Flickr Pool (PJ Mixer, PersonnelPeople, Swanky, Leo Reynolds, Duncan Kerridge)

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January 19, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

SKIN: Pavilion of Knowledge

The Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon is an interactive science and economy museum. The design firm P-06 Atelier, in collaboration with architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça, created a “skin” with a state of the art touch transforming the space into a playful and evocative landscape, employing a perfect mix of bold graphics, tactile patterns and typography.

The moveable walls have the American Standard Code for Information Interchange cut out of them as an analogy for the museum’s intention of sharing information. Through the different sized stencils, both noise and the white LED light are filtered differently at different points of SKIN.

I’d love to see this in person. Looks like a great effect.

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January 18, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Stop SOPA & PIPA

Stop SOPA & PIPA.

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January 18, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Michael Scott: Optical Paintings Plus

Em and I stopped by the opening of Michael Scott’s Black and White Line Paintings show last week. Upon entering the gallery, we were greeted by the collection of large enamel-on-aluminum paintings whose lines initially created visual effects such as moiré patterns and the illusion of multiple plains, until our eyes quickly adjusted and could take in these mesmerizing works. Surprisingly, they have a hypnotic and peaceful quality. Some have a sharp precision to them, while others are distressed and bleed. In the back office of the gallery there is even one that looks like the lines were done freehand and offer yet another take on the black and white line theme.

Michael Scott, a New York based artist originally from Pennsylvania, has worked in many mediums over the past twenty-five years, periodically returning to his line paintings. Other works include his multicolor line paintings and his smaller encaustic-on-wood works, one of which was purchased by Sofia Coppola, clearly a fan, who nominated Scott as her contribution to the 100-People-Places-and-Things-You-Need-To-Know in V Magazine’s Spring Preview issue. (You can see the article here.)

Michael Scott’s Black and White Line Paintings 1989-2011 is on view at Gering & López Gallery in NYC through February 18, 2012.

Photos courtesy of the artist, Gering & Lopez, and Triple V Gallery

January 17, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Roskilde Festival Plywood Dome

Inside and out this wooden dome, designed by Danish architect Kristoffer Tejlgaard and engineer Henrik Almegaard, looks great. Made up of 240 plywood hexagons, this geodesic dome was created for the 2011 Roskilde Festival in Denmark and disassembles into sections.

The futuristic shape, as well as those skylights that jut out and add texture, give the structure a very cool look.

You can watch a video of its construction here.

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January 17, 2012 by collabcubed - 2 Comments

Architypeture III

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From top to bottom and left to right:
Museo Ibere Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Condominio P in Cagliari, Italy by C+CO4 Studio; Objekt 10, Zavrtinica Business Center in Croatia interiors by Typotecture, exteriors by Brigada / Damjan Geber (architect), Srđana Alač (designer)(x4 photos); Rocklea Road Warehouses, Jackson Clement Burrows Architects; Cafés Salzillo, Coffee & Literature Week, Mucia, Spain, Clavel Arquitectos (x3 photos); Vigaceros Headquarters, Murcia, Spain, Clavel Arquitectos.

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The Number House in Osaka, Japan, Mitsutomo Matsunami Architects; Education Executive Agency Tax Office in Groningen, UNstudio photo by Ron Tilleman; Museum of Modern Art, Santos, Brazil, Metro Arquitetos Associados + Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Pokobar, Zagreb, Croatia, Typotecture (x3 photos); Restaurante LAH!, Madrid, Spain, Ilmio Design; QV Car Park, Melbourne, Australia, Latitude Group; Chips Residential Development, New Islington, Manchester, Alsop Architects.

Here we bring you our third installment of Architypeture: the beautiful combination of architecture and typography. These projects come from Brazil, Spain, Croatia, and the Netherlands, as well as representation from Japan, Australia, and the UK. Click on the credits to link to more images or information, usually on the architect’s site.

If you missed our previous Architypeture posts, Architypeture I is here, and Architypeture II is here.

January 16, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Website for The King Center: C&G Partners

The folks at C&G Partners, a New York City design firm, have just launched a new website for The King Center Imaging Project, an initiative of JP Morgan Chase with The King Center in Atlanta. On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 200,000 documents including letters, speeches, drafts, notes, photos and more, are now available for free to the general public.

The site builds on the graphic identity established for the project’s related traveling exhibition. There is an overwhelming amount of information which has been impressively organized in a welcoming and user-friendly way. Definitely worth exploring.

Thanks Jonathan!

January 16, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Peter Emerick: Koan Grids

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New Jersey based artist Peter Emerick has been photographing traffic cones for several years. His Koans series encompass grids and single photos of all kinds of traffic cones photographed from a birds eye view. They are surprisingly varied and that particular angle offers up interesting abstractions of the ubiquitous object.

Emerick, together with artist Erik Sanner—who is also fascinated by traffic cones and includes them in his artwork, as well as apparently having given East Village Traffic Cone Viewing Tours a couple of years back—are putting together The Traffic Cone Occasional and are looking for artists who create art with traffic cones. If you are one such artist, you can contact them via one of their websites, here or here.

For more traffic cone art, see our previous post here.

January 13, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Chaos at Zellig: Philip Watts Sculpture

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This really caught my eye. In the center atrium of Zellig — a building designed to provide space for young creative enterprises and galleries as part of the Custard Factory redevelopment in Birmingham, England — is a unique five-story-high sculpture designed by Philip Watts Design titled Chaos. Though at first glance the piece does give the appearance of a chaotic mass, in actuality it is a functional art installation designed to connect the courtyard at three levels. Made with 2000 meters of steel tubing and containing three glass bridges, it must be quite spectacular to find oneself intertwined in the sculpture.

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January 13, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Túlio Pinto: Balancing Acts

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Looking at his work, a person might not want to get too close to one of Brazilian artist Túlio Pinto’s sculptures or installations. Concrete slabs precariously balanced and held in position by a piece of fabric or balloon doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence, yet they definitely impress.

Pinto lives and works in Porto Alegre where, in addition to his installations, he paints. He co-founded the artist studio Subterrânea and is a curator of Brazilian contemporary art.

Photos courtesy of the artist and Andersonastor.

January 12, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Social Climber: Theresa Bruno

English conceptual artist Theresa Bruno is interested in western consumerism and asks her audience, through her art, to re-examine what and how they consume. She uses found objects and appropriates them for her artwork.

In her piece Social Climber, Bruno placed fifteen toilet roll holders and fifteen assorted toilet paper rolls on a wall. The progression from left to right demonstrates the ascending quality in toilet paper. The installation deals with class consciousness and questions luxury, globalization, and consumption.

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January 11, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Jonny Detiger: Groovy Paintings

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There’s a lot to look at in these paintings by Jonny Detiger. They’ve got a doodle-y quality that I like mixed in with a 70s vibe. The names of Detiger’s current solo show, as well as his previous one, seem to describe his art perfectly: Stream of Conciousness and Kaliedoscopic Adventures.

And if you like these paintings, you might also like Detiger’s sock and underwear line at Etiquette Clothiers.

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January 11, 2012 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Cross-stitched Clichés by Lisa Bowen

I happened upon Lisa Bowen’s delightful tumblr of embroidered clichés and expressions, which made me chuckle. Originally from England but now living near Sydney, Australia, Bowen (who also goes by the alias Jilly Cooper) a mixed media artist has recently started a crafty, cross-stitch series titled ‘How to String a Sentence Together.’

The work came about after Lisa found a copy of The Penguin Book of Clichés and began thinking how often we use them, despite being told to avoid them. She began to collect these expressions and words, carefully cross-stitching each letter and framing each phrase.

In addition to cross-stitching and proudly using these “hackneyed and trite expressions,” Bowen tweets a cliché a day here, and sells her framed clichés here.