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friday inspiration

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Tree, Line installations by Zander Olsen.

"This is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest. These works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales, involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint."

via Vulgare

snow pallet installation

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:01:00 +0000

Snow Pallet Installation by Toshihiko Shibuya reflects circles of color from vividly painted iron disks onto crisp snow without the use of artificial lighting.

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CMYK lamp

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

CMYK Lamp by Dennis Parren uses LEDs to project colored shadows on the surrounding environment. Wonderful!

via Daily Icon

twist whisk by joseph joseph

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Twist 2-in-1 Whisk transforms from a flat whisk to a balloon whisk - with a twist!

via Moco Loco

colorblocked cutting boards

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:01:00 +0000

Beautiful colorblocked cutting boards by Lostine, available at Anthropologie.

via Design*Sponge

education tables

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

From Studio Makkink & Bey, variously sized tabletops can be joined or disconnected as needed for the task at hand, becoming work desks, side tables, chalkboards and easels, or something in between. Not only is this layout flexible, its a lovely arrangement.

via Moco Loco

factoria joven skate park

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Factoria Joven Skate Park is a fantastic public space for energetic youth to skate, bike and climb. I love the bold color swatches and faceted surfaces. Jealous! Designed by SelgasCano Arquitectos.

via Design Milk

friday inspiration

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

"Who knew that Ice Cube, the infamous rapper with '80s group NWA and actor, studied architectural drawing before he started rapping? Pacific Standard Time, a collaborative project launched this past October and including over 60 cultural institutions across Southern California, celebrates the birth of the Los Angeles art scene. Recently they began releasing a series of videos of Angelenos speaking on their favorite artists and institutions... Ice Cube tells us, "Coming from South Central Los Angeles, you've got to use what you've got and make the best of it. What I love about the Eames is how resourceful they are."

Happy Friday!

via Core77

field candy tents

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Just a handful of the delightful, graphic tents by Field Candy. Which would you choose?

brand memory game

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

For this Brand Memory Game, Hendrik-Jan Grievink has made a selection of 30 internationally well-known brands, showing neither logo nor name on the images of the matching pairs. The challenge is to find matching pairs of a brand, based solely on their characteristic colours and style elements and a short description of the brand.

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timberland folding hiking shoe

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:01:00 +0000

The compact Radler Trail Camp shoe by Timberland is a lightweight, collapsible shoe, perfect as an extra pair of shoes when out on the trails or camping. Uppers made of ripstop fabric, fleece-lined for comfort and made of 42% recycled rubber.

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flux furniture

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Flux chairs are made from one single, durable piece of material designed with curved fold-lines and integrated assembly notches. Each chair collapses into one, easy-to-store, envelope-shaped package. The design is both quirky and elegant, easily standing out or blending into an environment.

katharina grosse

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

A fantastic, psychedelic visual landscape: One Floor Up More Highly by Katharina Grosse at MASS MoCA. The artist transforms piles of dirt and styrofoam using broad swaths of vibrant paint, simultaneously distorting and reinventing our definition of landscape and canvas.

via It's Nice That

friday inspiration

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Chad Wys deconstructs decorative art in his Nocturne Series and leaves an evocative absence in its place. His Process of Elimination series is just as beautiful, too.

via It's Nice That

linger a little longer

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:01:00 +0000

Linger A Little Longer, by Jay Watson, uses a thermochromic finish to respond to the heat of objects and people, bringing to light the impact of the user on his furniture. This would be fantastic in a restaurant setting, filling the interior with ever-changing graphics "provided" by customers. Made of solid chestnut.

via Design Milk

collection of light

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Collection of light, designed by Humans Since 1982 is a collection of LEDs which together constitute a lamp in itself. The aim is to create an aura of a real collection (similar to a collection of insects) and expose each illuminant as a worthy industrial product. The LEDs are all labeled (with name, size and colour temperature) and arranged in a specific order to accomplish harmonic light. The housing is original 70 year-old insect collection drawers from Museum of Natural History Stockholm (Naturhistoriska Museet).

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plantable by jailmake studio

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Plantable aims to take a domesticated object- taken away from nature, placed within glass and walls, and enable nature to claim it back once again. If I had a sunny dining area I would certainly grow all my herbs within arm's reach! Designed by JAILmake Studio.

via Contemporist

garden shed summer house

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Although originally designed by Ville Hara and Linda Bergroth as a hybrid greenhouse and shed - awesome, by the way - Linda took the architecture to another level by creating her own summer house, adding a wooden floor, solar panels for lighting and steps made from reclaimed bricks. I absolutely love this idea, although I'm not going to ask about the logistics of a bathroom...

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liyuan library by li xiaodong atelier

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

An exterior layer of branches covers the underlying glass facade of the Liyuan Library in the small village of Huairou, China. The tranquil interior allows for plenty of natural, diffused reading light and reading nooks in which to pass the time. Visitors are simultaneously hidden from the landscape and encompassed by it. Designed by Li Xiaodong Atelier.

via designboom

friday inspiration

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

This poster is inspirational both day and night. A collaboration between Division of and Dolce Press. Happy Friday!

via For Print Only

business cards

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Clever "business card" design by Fischer Portugal utilizes a self-inking rubber stamp and any nearby piece of paper to create an eco-friendly card for an environmental consultant. Brilliant!

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rice packaging

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Minimal rice packaging by Green In Hand uses kraft paper, tissue paper and rattan material. See their full line of beautiful (and more colorful) packaging here.

via designboom

spline chair

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

A lovely silhouette: Spline Chair by Minwoo Lee.

american gothic, and others, by devorah sperber

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Devorah Sperber composes hundred of found objects - in this case, spools of thread - to recreate famous artwork. Her execution disorts the viewer's sense of scale and orientation with the world.

"I am interested in the link between art and technology, how the eyes prioritize, and reality as a subjective experience vs. an absolute truth. As a visual artist, I cannot think of a topic more stimulating and yet so basic, than the act of seeing--how the human brain makes sense of the visual world."

via designboom

svalbard global seed vault

noreply@blogger.com ({ kat }) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Perpetual Repercussion, by Dyveke Sanne, is a gorgeous installation at the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. Highly reflective steel, along with prisms and dichrioc mirrors, reflect light during the day and reflect artificial light during the night. See installations photographs here.

The Global Seed Vault is designed to store and protect samples of every type of seed from every seed collection in the world. Descending almost 500 feet under the permafrost, the entrance tunnel to the seed vault is designed to withstand bomb blasts and earthquakes. See photographs of the interior here.

via NY Times