by Michele Adriaens, 31 Jan 2008 |
THE DESIGN
Designer, Hunn Wai created an unlikely pairing of a ping pong table and a workstation with his Paul Smith Ping Pong table. Hunn combines a sense of fun with the use of flea market finds; a second hand dining table, lace, steel and acrylic paint. Most recently his table was published in VIEWPOINT, a publication from the London-based trends-forecasting agency, The Future Laboratory.
“Much like ripping MP3’s from CD’s you bought, I’ve transplanted intrinsic details from my prized possessions onto flea market finds. Resulting in new consumed products. The reference to Paul Smith has to do with the pattern found on my Paul Smith sneakers.”
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by Michele Adriaens, 30 Jan 2008 |
Thank You Too is a project by Joachim Baan. It is a business-card sized booklet with 30 cards, 5 post cards and a stamp. These cards can be send to a friend or a stranger, left behind anywhere someone might find them. In a book in the library or a bookstore, in a bag of an unknown passenger, in the mailbox of your neighbour.To give some respect, love and happiness to the people around us. To give a smile.
by Michele Adriaens, 30 Jan 2008 |
Fashion label Weare has a website where consumers can create pixellated black and white images that will appear as part of the pattern on garments. Their philosphy is simple – everyone should be able to participate in fashion. For the first time ever, designers can co-create garments with their consumers.
by Michele Adriaens, 29 Jan 2008 |
I love this colorful, semi-nonsense green monster with its gnashing teeth and its crooked eyes. It’s the work of Sonic Arts student, Hippo, whose illustrations will transport you into a mythical world.
“I have been doodling since 2005, took a one year break, then got back to business. I used to watch a lot of Sesame Street, Disney and Nick cartoons. My ‘iloveyoumonster’ is a hybrid of Oscar The Grouch -the monster in the trash can- and Mr. long-neck -the Loch Ness monster-, wearing an I Love New York style T-shirt.”
Fans of cute things will have fun looking trough the other illustrations on Hippo’s site.
Spotted! is a digest of fly work by fresh off creatives.
by Michele Adriaens, 28 Jan 2008 |
Hotel Everland currently docked on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo, is a one-room hotel as well as an artwork. By day, it is an object of the art world, that visitors to the Parisian museum are welcome to explore; by night, the museum empties and the pod becomes an object of the real world. Designers: Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann.
by Michele Adriaens, 28 Jan 2008 |
Console shelves, your best option to read a book. Design by Stanislav Katz.
by Michele Adriaens, 27 Jan 2008 |
THE ART
With this illustration, Alan Leong creates some very interesting imagery that combines the strengths of traditional Asian brush strokes with vector art, photo imagery, and the imprint of his palm forming the sub composition of the art piece.
“I created this for Tiger Translate, to celebrate its 75th year anniversary. Pop art you can call it … it’s a perceived imagery of someone behind the wheel when he’s high on alcohol, a higher state of consciousness, the fusion of lights, colors and speed. But definitely not to promote drink driving here!”
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by Michele Adriaens, 26 Jan 2008 |
The idea behind the Urban Salvations project in Beirut (Lebanon) was to reclaim the stairs as public space, by screening a documentary on Fairuz and the Lebanese war. The art intervention came as a means to appropriate the staircase and to declare the physical and the visual united. More info and images on Wooster.
