Here are some images from the roughly 15- to 20-minute projection loop onto the New Museum last night at the Festival of Ideas for the New City. Part of the Flash:Light event, Let Us Make Cake. (Click to see larger.)
Flash:Light
If you’re in NYC and you haven’t made your Saturday night plans yet, this definitely seems like the thing to do tonight. As part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, Audemars Piguet presents Flash:Light, a series of projection mapping events around the New Museum, including on the New Museum itself. There are an impressive amount of artists participating in the project including Daniel Arsham (of recent Dig and Pixel Clouds fame), Acconci Studio, Jon Kessler, and about fifty more! There’s more information here but it looks like the three main events are taking place at the New Museum, St. Patrick’s Basilica on Mott St. and on the street itself on Mulberry Street between Prince and Houston. It all apparently starts at 8pm and continues past midnight.
Check it out here.
Lampa E
Lampa E is designed to be playful; inviting for interaction and repositioning. It can be used as a reading or desk lamp, or as a sculptural lighting object. Designed by Vesna Pejovic from Serbia using aluminum and LED light source.
via designspotter
Phat Knits
Maybe one of these to replace the bean bag, Dan? Designed by Bauke Knottnerus, Phat Knits is a series of giant threads used to create, knitted or not, interior products. These are part of two special editions of Phat Knits made for an exhibit called Unravel: Knitwear in Fashion going on now through mid-August at the MoMu (Mode Museum) in Antwerp, if you happen to be there in the next couple of months.
You can see more images here.
Sprig Mobile
Aren’t these delightful? Designed by Brian Schmitt these mobiles “feature a playful interplay of geometric and organic forms” in a bunch of bright color options. Powder coated finish on lasercut aluminum.
Available at Schmitt Design.
d˚light Bubbles
d˚light Bubbles are soft, cool to the touch and squeezable silicone bubbles that can be made into concave shapes by pressing in on them. They can be hung on a hook, or bunched up on the floor, or any other arrangement you might prefer. Designed by Diana Lin Design and available on her site.
Origami Phone Handset
Em pointed me to this cleverly designed prototype. Designer Chengyuan Wei conceived of a phone handset made from cardstock, including all the minimal essentials: chip, microphone, and electrical wire. This flat board folds into a three-dimensional object when pressed on its sides. Much simpler than making a paper crane…just sayin’.
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More Marlon de Azambuja
Yes. I am officially a fan. In addition to his wonderful Operaciones series (see previous post), Marlon de Azambuja has large-scale projects as well, some of which would fall under the category of Street Art. Two of these series are: Potencial Escultórico (Sculptural Potential) in which he wraps street furniture/objects in colored duct tape; and Metaesquema (Meta Diagram) where he uses permanent marker to draw out diagrams encompassing the street manhole covers and grates. Both of these series of works appeared in the streets of Madrid.
“…For the last three years, Marlon de Azambuja has marked out urban spaces with adhesive tape, interventions that have the finality of highlighting or, even better, allowing the discovery of aspects that have always existed but that we have never imagined. Marlon de Azambuja is part of a constructive culture’s memory that finds its forebears in Brazilian Concretism….”
Very cool.
Marlon de Azambuja: Operaciones
I love this series by Brazilian-born, Madrid-residing artist Marlon de Azambuja called Operaciones! Really? It’s almost ridiculous how much I’m loving these. The description reads (translated from Spanish): “Displaced stickers on original slips of paper.” So simple and yet so clever and appealing. Makes me want to run out to the stationery store and buy a whole bunch of sticker sheets to make my own series and place all over the apartment.
Nestea Can Concept
Tea! Nice Packaging! Circles! This has my name written all over it! Too bad Nestea hasn’t implemented designer Bob Dinetz’s redesign of their cans. I would certainly be buying.
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en.light.en Interactive Lamps
en.light.en interactive lamps are designed by Barrangan Studio in Colombia. Apart from the basic lamp function of lighting their environs, en.light.en lamps contain different narratives that can be triggered by the user, creating a more “poetic and metaphysical relationship” between man and technology. One lamp seems to answer your questions à la Magic Eight Ball. Another will keep your ego in check displaying messages determined by the user’s psychological needs and desires. It can uplift those who are down, and bring down those with overinflated egos, creating a healthy equilibrium. Oh, and finally, one of the en.light.en lamps displays the time in scrolling LED type as well, (for the more practically-minded), while reminding the user that time is limited and they will not live forever.
For those who understand Spanish, here’s a video of all the different en.light.en lamps and what they offer…down to serving as an egg timer.
Pop-Up Magazine
If you’re in NYC next week, this event looks interesting. Apparently it’s a big hit in San Francisco. From their website:
Pop-Up Magazine is the world’s first live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Nothing will arrive in your mailbox; no content will go online. An issue exists for one night, in one place. Pop-Up showcases the country’s most interesting writers, documentary filmmakers, photographers, and radio producers, together, on stage, sharing short moments of unseen, unheard work. Books, films, journalism, photography, and radio documentaries in progress. Obsessions and digressions. Outtakes, arguments, and live interviews.
This live issue includes filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), author Nicholas Dawidoff, This American Life contributor Starlee Kine, and a host of other people including New Yorker, ESPN, and New York Times writers to name a few. Looks like tickets are going fast. Info and tickets here.
Cube Works
Cube Works Studio is a Toronto-based collaboration of graphic artists who aim to repurpose common objects into complex pieces of functional art…and, obviously, they are a group of master Rubik’s Cubers to boot! Their large-scale works include images of celebrity icons as well as recreations of Pop Art pieces and classic works. Though they are most known for their Rubik’s Cube tableaux (which are created by twisting the cube to the desired configuration, not by taking them apart, in case you wondered,) Cube Works also features art created with dice (see two at bottom left) and spools of thread (see two at bottom right.)
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Ripple Plates
I like the look of these Ripple Collection plates, but for the full effect you’d really have to serve a four course meal! I’m more of an entree-side-and-salad-all-on-one-plate person.
Available here.
NYC Art Installation Lobbies
One of the nice aspects of NYC is that there are always new, or not-so-new, things to discover. Among them, are the various art installations in many an office building lobby. Some are permanent, some rotate. Some are by famous artists and others, less famous. All, when in the neighborhood, are worth popping in to see. Here is a sampling:
From top to bottom, row by row:
James Turrell; 3-dimensional Light sculpture; CIT Group Building, 42nd and 5th Avenue; KPF Architects.
Video Walls at IAC Building. World’s largest hi-resolution video wall, 120 ft by 11ft high. Alternating usage; West Chelsea; Gehry Partners Architect
Jenny Holzer; A continuous stream of prose and poetry about the history of New York City scrolls across glowing, 65-ft-wide, 14-ft-high wall; 7 World Trade Center; 250 Greenwich St; SOM Architects
Interactive Wall at Sloan-Kettering; the large lobby wall has a perforated appearance that transitions from regular on the front plane to apparently random on the back plane. The openings are determined by an array of eye-level viewpoints that cluster in programmatic hot spots throughout the lobby; 1275 York Ave.: LTL Architects
Rotating Art Installations in the Lever House lobby. A few examples shown (l to r): most recently Rachel Feinstein. Also Barbara Kruger, Tara Donovan. You can see other past exhibits here. SOM Architects.
Moveable Type by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, is a digital installation that reflects the movement of news in the New York Times building lobby. It pulls sentences and phrases from the newspaper’s databases, projects them onto a grid of small screens, and orchestrates the material into a series of changing sequences. Renzo Piano Architect.
Photo credits: MSK Wall – Halkin Photography; Moveable Type – Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
Twin One Cutlery Set
Also designed by the brothers at the UK-based designwright (see Pie Timer below) is the Twin One cutlery/chopsticks set for Lékué (see our post on their cool steam roaster.) It has the interlocking effect of the Join Cutlery (have I cross-posted enough?) but these have the added function of chopsticks with an impromptu spring hinge created once the knife and fork, on the opposite end, are connected..
Joseph Joseph Pie Timer
I don’t typically use a kitchen timer, but the beautiful design of this Pie Timer, designed by designwright for their company Joseph Joseph, could get me started.
The white analogue dial is only revealed when twisting to start the timing, creating the pie-chart effect.
Available here.
Metaphorical Horizons: LEGO Installation
This immense structure entitled “Metaphorical Horizons” was created by industrial designer Lene Rønsholt Wille, in Amsterdam, over a 6-week period, using 270,000 white LEGO bricks. Wille says that the sculptural object “functions partly as a bench, a desk, a wall and as an entire space”
The project was sponsored by LEGO. More detailed construction photos here.
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