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They Live - Obey, Consume, This is your God - YouTube

2011-10-25T14:00:49Z

Sooyeon Lee: Grand Slam - NOWNESS

2011-10-18T09:07:09Z

The Table Tennis Champ Stars in Matthew Donaldson's Slow-Mo Homage to the Sport

zoomar: Is your child stupid? Turn them into a broom! Faux...

2011-09-16T07:06:12Z

Is your child stupid?

Turn them into a broom!

Faux French ad from Hara-Kiri magazine, circa 1970s

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Necromance

2011-09-21T07:03:29Z

These thought-provoking designs by Kobo Sin are to die for!! Both beautiful and shocking, Freakshow confronts the issues of death, time, and nature in a series of decorative furniture and lighting that is sure to turn heads.

Designer: Kobo Sin

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Women are from Venus, Men are from New Jersey

2011-09-17T05:52:38Z

Women are from Venus, Men are from New Jersey

Welcome to Pyongyang

2011-09-20T12:40:08Z

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Charlie Crane photo series from DPRKorea.

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Watch Sculptures: Moments in Time by Dominic Wilcox

2011-09-15T15:21:48Z

London Design Festival 2011: a watch featuring a looter running off with a TV while a riot policeman stands and watches is one of a series of one-off, customised time pieces commissioned by Dezeen from Dominic Wilcox. (more…)

CNC routing helps surfing become more sustainable

2011-08-15T01:18:41Z

In a sport that is highly attuned to the rhythms of nature, Mike Grobelny’s Clean Waves design is making ripples toward a greener future.

Typical surfboards contain resins, polyurethane foams and fibreglass, none of which are easy to breakdown or reuse once the resin has cured. However not Clean Waves…

Completed as part of a student project at Auckland’s AUT, product design graduate Mike Grobelny’s board is an uncompromising design and has already caught the attention of many in design circles. Grobelny is a finalist in the Best Awards, the New Zealand design awards, a finalist in the IDEA international design awards competition, and was recently featured in idealog, a NZ business, design and innovation magazine.

Adhering to the cradle to cradle approach of product life cycle design has ensured the consideration of every aspect of the board’s impact on the environment. The design called for the close scrutiny of timber. Grobelny settled on bamboo and paulownia – selected for their fast growth rate and thus suitable for sustainable management. Miniming the impact detail towards a green board, even the lacquer finish is biodegradable.

The hexagonal pattern, which was CNC routed into the timber, increases buoyancy and reduces weight, but maintains the structural rigidity important for carving up waves.

Grobelny’s timelapse video (below) demonstrates the design process and use of CNC routing on dual sided compound curved surfaces. If you watch carefully, a jig is used to hold the milled side in place while the router mills out the opposite face.

David is an industrial designer from New Zealand. He contributes weekly 3D print articles for Ponoko. You can follow him on Twitter @dizymac

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Amy Bennett | At The Lake

2011-08-11T07:14:30Z

Incredible paintings by Amy Bennett. Her paintings are based on 3D miniature models that she builds herself.

“The paintings are glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative. Similar to a memory, they are fictional constructions of significant moments.”

Via BOOOOOOOM!

hayashi natsumi: levitation self portraits

2011-08-09T09:33:00Z

using no rigging system or photoshop, the daily self-portraits inject a surreal atmosphere to the often conventional settings taken in and around the city of tokyo.

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Jon Rafman

2011-05-11T19:10:05Z

In Your Fridge by Stephanie de Rouge

2011-05-11T15:41:10Z

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Show me your fridge and I'll tell you who you are.

With the series ‘In Your Fridge’, photographer Stephanie de Rouge let’s us have a peak into peoples fridges. Just the kind of thing my curious nature loves.

Stephanie de Rouge is a fine art and documentary photographer based in New York City.

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Botanica, Domestica and Migration by Formafantasma | Yatzer™

2011-04-21T20:13:48Z

Botanica, Domestica and Migration by Formafantasma

published in: Design By Apostolos Mitsios, 13 April 2011

Photo © Luisa Zanzani
Botanica by Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)
Commission by: Plart Foundation
Curated by Marco Petroni

Formafantasma, classic Yatzer suspects, are determined to conquer Milan this year and strike with three new projects. First of all, they present their "Botanica" series at Spazio Rossana Orlandi where they manage to combine in an excellent way nature and plastic. As Formafantasma explain, Botanica is commissioned by Plart, an Italian foundation dedicated to scientific research and technological innovation for the recovery, restoration and conservation of works of art and design produced in plastic. Maria Pia Incutti, founder of Plart and Marco Petroni, curator of the project, commissioned the studio to create their own personal interpretation of polymeric materials.

Photo © Luisa Zanzani
Botanica by Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)
Commission by: Plart Foundation
Curated by Marco Petroni

In order to do that, Formafantasma explored the history of polymers. They give us all the details: “Botany, as a discipline, began with early human efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest sciences. More than two centuries ago plants started to be categorized also for their secretions, a possible source of material. The objects displayed in the Botanica collection are designed as if the oil- based era, in which we are living, never took place. Just like historians do, we investigated the pre-Bakelite period, discovering unexpected textures, feelings and technical possibilities offered by natural polymers extracted from plants or animal derivatives. For Botanica we opted to investigate the possibilities of Rosin, Dammar, Copal (a sub-fossil state of amber), Natural Rubber, Shellac (a polymer extracted from insect excrement that colonizes trees) and Bois Durci (a 19th century material composed of wood dust and animal blood).

Photo © Luisa Zanzani
Botanica by Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)
Commission by: Plart Foundation
Curated by Marco Petroni

The organic details and plant-like forms of the pieces underline the vegetal and animal origins of the resins, while the palette of colors is based on natural amber tones in combination with traditional materials such as wood, ceramic and metal”. The result is absolutely impressing: the pieces seem they emerged from the sand and their textures look almost unreal. Formafantasma definitely achieved their goal to offer a new perspective on plasticity, reinterpreting centuries of technology lost beneath the impeccable surface of mass production.

Photo © Luisa Zanzani
Botanica by Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)
Commission by: Plart Foundation
Curated by Marco Petroni

Photo © Luisa Zanzani
Domestica by Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)
Commission by: Dilmos Gallery

Their second project is a low chair called Domestica and is commissioned by Dilmos Gallery. Domestica is the result of Formafantasma’s investigation on rural craft and its archetypes. Their inspiration, as they explain, is the Gerla Basket, a container usually used by farmers to collect harvested cereals, transported as a bag-pack. In some regions of the north of Italy the Gerla basket is often considered as a symbol of the Italian resistance movement during World War II. That’s because Italian women were in fact using the basket to bring food and ammunition to partisan forces formed by pro-allied Italians. As homage to Gerla Basket’s story, a little Italian fag is stitched on the military-green blanket that covers the upper part of the basket.

Photo © Luisa Zanzani
Domestica by Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)
Commission by: Dilmos Gallery

The design of the seat is a direct reference to a small stool used as a support to help take off the Gerla basket once it is full. Domestica, according to Formafantasma, seems like the result of a natural procedure, as if the basket that hangs on the back of the chair was fused with the chair forming a kind of nest. Domestica chair offers shelter more than comfort and that’s what it makes it so special. It also proves that Formafantasma, just like with their previous works, manage to introduce in the most imaginative way objects from rural culture into contemporary life.

Image Courtesy of Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)

Last but not least, Formafantasma are going to show in Milan their Migration project that is the result of a commission from the Italian rug-brand Nodus. From the wide variety of techniques that uses Nodus, Studio Formafantasma chose to work with needlepoint, one of the last techniques still produced in Europe. Each of the three rugs of the Migration collection was produced entirely by hand in Portugal with an average embroidery time of a month per carpet. As a reaction to the idealized rococo representation of nature, Studio Formafantasma designed a collection of three rugs inspired by the work of 19th century ornithologist Jan James Audubon, famous for his scientific categorization of birds.

Image Courtesy of Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)

On the final designs, instead of minuscule and geometrized flowers, three giant birds seem to be trapped in the moment, flying on the surface of the rugs. The carpets are composed as out-of-scale garments, finished with wooden buttons, as a reference to the fine needlepoint technique used both in tapestry and clothes. Formafantasma explain: “With Migration we wanted to suggests a new type of romanticism, wild and liberating, expressing the most ancient of human desires: to migrate towards the new and unknown, while relaxing upon a carpet of beautifully embroidered feathers.” We hope that Formafantasma finally convinced you to migrate to Milan in order to see their new projects. One thing is for sure: we’ll definitely be there!

Image Courtesy of Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)

Making of // Image Courtesy of Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)

Image Courtesy of Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin)

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Autarky by Studio Formafantasma | Yatzer™

2011-04-21T20:13:17Z

Autarky by Studio Formafantasma

published in: Design By Marcia Argyriades, 11 May 2010

Images Courtesy of studio Formafantasma
During Milan Design Week 2010 Studio Formafantasma of Eindhoven presented an installation called “Autarky.” The installation was set in an underground floor at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, which set the idyllic mood for what our eyes were about to see. Autarky is a collection of tools, vessels, lamps and food made of mostly of flour.