This peice is called ‘Perfection is not concrete’ because ‘Perfect is man-made judgements. It is intangable and abstract which can be varied in different people’s perceptions.’ They chose typography as their medium to present the statement because it’s an human invention after tools and language.
http://craftbritain.co.uk/2013/04/29/concrete-typograghy/
Maya Lin’s final memorial
July 5, 2012
“The project, called “What is Missing?,” seeks to highlight issues surrounding biodiversity and species loss due to human action and inaction through a variety of installations and media including sculptures like the Listening Cone at the California Academy of Sciences, over 150 videos such as “Unchopping a Tree,” and hundreds of stories collected through the What is Missing? Foundation’swebsite. Strongly focused on individual experiences of what Lin calls ‘the Sixth Great Extinction,’ the What is Missing? project seeks to educate world citizens about the dangers of habitat destruction and the former vitality and diversity of places around the globe.
The fact that the project straddles the disciplinary boundaries between architecture, landscape, sculpture, and information design makes it especially accessible and compelling, and raises the question of whether a memorial need be a static object, such as a statue on a pedestal. In fact, this memorial is constantly changing as visitors to the website submit memories of rivers that used to teem with fish but now run empty, or of forests where now only subdivisions run to the horizon.”
http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/44188/maya-lins-final-memorial/
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/19771/sebastian-errazuriz-occupy-chairs-the-armory-show-2012.html
sebastian errazuriz has developed the art-furniture collection ‘occupy chairs’. the series consists of twelve chairs formed from plywood, decorated by white acrylic paint and a replica of one of several signs used by protesters in the occupy wall street movement,
written in black paint upon the surface of the flattened folding chairs. the artist created the pieces as dual protest sign/seating implements.
when not in use, the message of the protester may be read on the surface of the object and while secured in chair form, the piece may serve protesters to better occupy public spaces. additionally, the series was created with the chilean-born artist’s vision to occupy the homes of the 1% with the message of the 99%. errazuriz believes this effort will be achieved through the action of the collectors, being typically of the 1%, purchasing a piece from the collection. this choice to purchase this art work would bring the sentiments of the protesters into the homesof the 1%. in this way, the art buyers would monetarily support the efforts of the masses and, by default, would share the message of the protesters with other members of this socioeconomic class.
‘as a double-sided mirror the occupy chairs also explore the potential for these complaints against the richest one percent to be transformed into
glamorous fashionable catch phrases in design-art pieces that celebrate the exclusive luxury market.‘ – sebastian errazuriz
“Nestled in that no man’s land, a new era with new work is being prepared; artistic and elastic statements that without a doubt are shifting between all disciplines and all dimensions.”
The Pop-Up Generation
Design Between Dimensions
By Lidewij Edelkoort
the exhibition ‘the pop-up generation: design between dimensions’, investigates the trends of screen culture, flat-packing, and pop-up shops
by graphic designer anna garforth, in collaboration with vinke display
process video (really great!)
http://vimeo.com/36152966
http://www.motimuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/current/the-pop-up-generation/855
“In 2010, the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake first presented a ground-breaking collection called 132 5. Working closely with a computer scientist, mathematical algorithms were designed into 3D shapes that are then heat-pressed into two-dimensional forms. When these garments are folded, they resemble origami creations. When they are unfolded and put on, dimensional shapes pop-out and protrude from the body.”
“Young generations born with and behind the screen live in a shadow area, a no man’s land between the second and third dimension that they wish to connect. This popup generation moves easily from 2D to 3D and back again as if they do not even notice that there is a difference. The brain is trained to see volume in a flat sketch and to discover a structure behind the volume found in an architectonic drawing.”
Hit the jackpot- so many interesting projects. I’ll add more later
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Sadly, I cannot find a graphic designer on the list of participants here. I think it’s important to keep gd as the core from which we’re writing.
from the MOTI museum website (Museum of the Image in Breda)
“Armed with technological developments, today’s designers are now able to allow themselves to be unrestricted by dimensions”
“At the start of the 21st century, the world is a cacophony of different cultures, destitute economies, innovative mass media and hyper technology. Old structures disappear and are replaced by a longing for synergy that flourishes with the new worldwide means of communication. In the practice of design, disciplines merge and worlds are linked together; 2D & 3D, analogue & digital, culture & capital, science & art, nature & technology and local & global.”
Participating designers:
Kiki van Eijk (NL), Catharina van Eetvelde (BE), Rodrigo Solorzano (MEX), Anthony Kleinepier (NL), Tord Boontje (NL), Bartosz Mucha (PL), Jaime Hayon (SP), Studio Job (NL), Niels Meulman (NL), Anna Garforth (GB), Carla Fernandez, Niels Hoebers (NL) Eric Ku (USA), Camile Scherrer (CH), Eley Kishimoto (JP), Carolina Wilcke (BE), Issey Miyake (JP), Laurens Manders (NL), Front (SE), Molo (CA), Richard Woods (GB) and Neozoon.
Kiki van Eijk (NL) — furniture design
Catharina van Eetvelde (BE) — animator/artist
Rodrigo Solorzano (MEX) — industrial design, origami type stuff, interesting diy toy kit for kids
Anthony Kleinepier (NL)
Tord Boontje (NL)
Bartosz Mucha (PL)
Jaime Hayon (SP)
Studio Job (NL)
Niels Meulman (NL)
Anna Garforth (GB
Carla Fernandez, Niels Hoebers (NL)
Eric Ku (USA) — graphic designer!!!
Camile Scherrer (CH)
Eley Kishimoto (JP)
Carolina Wilcke (BE) — product designer
Issey Miyake (JP)
Laurens Manders (NL)
Front (SE)
Molo (CA) — canadian architects and product designers
Richard Woods (GB) — british sculptor, fake surfaces
Neozoon.
Beautiful photographs by David Liittschwager that are both graphic and scientific.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/cubic-foot/liittschwager-photography
How much life could you find in one cubic foot? That’s a hunk of ecosystem small enough to fit in your lap. To answer the question, photographer David Liittschwager took a green metal frame, a 12-inch cube, to disparate environments—land and water, tropical and temperate. At each locale he set down the cube and started watching, counting, and photographing with the help of his assistant and many biologists. The goal: to represent the creatures that lived in or moved through that space. The team then sorted through their habitat cubes, coaxing out every inhabitant, down to a size of about a millimeter. Accomplishing that took an average of three weeks at each site. In all, more than a thousand individual organisms were photographed, their diversity represented in this gallery. “It was like finding little gems,” Liittschwager says.
Banksy is another example of an artist/designer who is fearless of shifting mediums, scale, and exhibition location.
From Wikipedia below-
Banksy’s work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of theanarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is active today. However Banksy himself stated on his website that in all actuality he based his work off of 3D from Massive Attack, stating, “No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw.”
designed by italian artist francesco vezzoli with AMO (the think tank of dutch architect rem koolhaas’s OMA studio), the prada ’24 h museum’ opens tonight in paris’s historic palais d’iéna, now the seat of paris’s economic, social and environmental council. the gallery space exists for only twenty-four hours– first as a private party, then at 11pm CET as a discotheque viewable online at the ‘24 h museum‘ website, and then finally as an exhibition open to the public and school tours during the day of january 25th.
the installation is divided into three sections, each modeled after a particular type of museum space: historic, contemporary, and ‘forgotten’, all offering tribute to femininity through five-meter high, neoclassical sculptures that reference contemporary celebrities– ‘disco sculptures’ as he calls them. the classical space is framed by the curving stairway of the palace; the experimental area set in a cage surrounding the main hall, illuminated by pink neon; and the third, the ‘storage or salon de refusés’, modeled after abandoned museums and warehouses. in this way, the installation becomes a meta-museum, examining the ways in which art is presented and consumed. the ’24 h museum’ party is also reported to include amongs its events a twitter conversation between vezzoli and an unnamed celebrity.
noting the importance of context when discussing cultural concerns, vezzoli reflects: ‘artists and critics see museums as a jewel case where the mementos of our epoch should be preserved, but if you said ‘MoMA’ to the president of barclays bank, [he would] say, ‘that’s a venue for rent for ,000 if you want to hold an event.‘
Interesting Fair in NY that fuses design and play.
Held last weekend in Queens, New York, the Maker Faire brought together scientists, artists, inventors, and curious local residents to share and explore inventions large and small. “It’s in the image of the county fair,” says Margaret Honey, CEO of the New York Hall of Science, which hosted the second annual event, ” but rather than pigs and pork it’s rockets and robots.”
“We’re really focused on creating new approaches to learning and engagement that sit at intersection of design, make, and play,”
http://www.good.is/post/slideshow-where-science-meets-unchecked-creativity/
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/
Talk to Me focuses on objects that communicate with us or help us talk to each other. We should look through the website carefully and read the catalogue.
