Such a nice video… not lots of words today, just look.
The song and video “We’re Going To Be Friends“ is made by the White Stripes and is produced by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Arts Network. D-Pan is a nice website with lots of video of an area, me and most of the people would not come across that often.
German visual artist Sarah Illenberger chooses familiar motifs and objects, and recreates them using fruits and vegetables and everything that seems to be practical in her eyes. The result is a visually couleurful display of images that’s creative and fun to look at. Transforming a watermelon into a cloud raining seeds and others examples you can see are her simplistic approach that truly says that less is more.
“Sarah Illenberger’s visual language is extremely effective at translating content, data, and ideas into vivid, often humorous images. Whether big or small, abstract or complex, the subjects and problems of our times are pointedly depicted by this renowned illustrator and designer in concise visual forms.”
Power in Public Space is a lecture series hosts by the master program ” Space Strategies” from the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee at DAZ, Berlin.
“History of humankind can be described as the history of inclusion, exclusions, centralization, marginality, legibility and difference; in general human history is the history of conflict in different spaces. Generally art has been the most truthful witness of history, and how actual situation can be reflected from different points of views is what these lecture is all about.”
I want to recommend you to see it on the 9th November when there is a lecture from on urban artist Brad Downey. He uses film, sculpture, painting and drawing to reflect on concepts about the Establishment versus the audience. Never sure if his art is vandalism or can be called art.
There are also other lectures from Aram Bartholl, Julius von Bismarck and Le van Bo. To see when and where, click power in public space.
Actually I didn’t know the other artist and now after the short research I correct myself and recommend you every lecture, unlucky first one was already yesterday… but then Wednesday next week, the week after and the week after next next week you can go there.
Singaporean design studio hans tan studio has developed ‘spotted nyonya‘, an industrial re-interpretation of the nyonya porcelain vessels which are traditional domestic wares native to chinese-peranakans in south asia. Produced in collaboration with Singaporean creative agency FARM, this contemporary take on the traditional objects transforms the original multicolored surface treatment into a new dotted pattern. the limited edition series of vessels utilizes the resist-dyeing technique that is often applied to dye fabric patterns. hans tan masks the porcelain pieces with the new dotted motif, which is then sandblasted, so that the areas protected are preserved, while the original glazed sections of the exposed areas are erased, revealing the white porcelain which lies beneath. ( via designboom)
Cool new invention and innovation. So if you get bored of old ceramics , you can recreated them now by sandblasting.
It looks like a room where daylight is falling on the walls, but it is not!
Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken’s intention was with this project to take elements of his work and theories concerning daylight and incorporate them directly into architecture. The installation is located in the entrance of an office building in Stockholm. As both the entrance and staircase have no natural light, it was important for him, to replicate the positive sensation of sunlight. The installation consists of over 6000 LEDs.
“ When you have daylight in a room you get information of something outside. This creates a feeling of an expanded perceived space. A sensation of freedom” a phrase by Daniel Rybakken.
His work seems and is so quiet, because at first sight everything looks normal and only after a second look you see the optical illusion. LOVE IT! His earlier work has also a wonderful name ” subconscious effect of daylight”. For sure his idea is going to be useful for underground stations, cellar apartments and every other dark room and especially for the grey Berlin times which starts now.
Today I was looking through random magazines in an art & design bookstore and suddenly had a graphic magazine in my hand, where first of all I liked a lot the front graphic. Couleurful, triangular-shaped patterns! But the moment I flipped the first page of the november issue from “Novum-world of graphic design” , I was astonished that the paper where cut and you could move and play with the front page. It was like having an interesting object in your hand and not anymore a plain high-clossy paper. great idea, well done!
Well after my research I know even more. The Idea is coming from the Hamburg based creative studio Paperlux. It is a joint project of Paperlux (conception, creation), the printarena (printingand punching), Jürgen Jeurink (punch from) and the EMAG GmbH paper finishing (lamination). But more about the printing process you see below in the well-done short video.
Provided in 48 000 print passes and with 140 punch cuts per issue, six different colored covers created without re-exposure plate. The result? A cover that can be shaped into geometric three-dimensional figures, and thus invites to play.
PS: Paperlux is a great design agency! great ideas!
Cooper & Gorfer consists of the two artists Sarah Cooper (USA, 1974) and Nina Gorfer (Austria, 1979). With their backgrounds in art, architecture, graphic design and photography they began their collaboration in 2006. Their work belongs to a narrative tradition within photography, with roots in 18th and 19th century painting. Alongside their art projects Cooper & Gorfer also work as editorial and commercial photographers. They are now living and working in Göteborg, Sweden.
On thursday their exhibition My Quiet of Gold will be presented at Gestalten Space in Berlin. Looking forward to see them in reality.
Photographs from a journey to Kyrgyzstan are the focus of Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer’s solo exhibition My Quiet of Gold. Kyrgyzstan is a country with a strong tradition of storytelling where folk tales are part of everyday life. Cooper and Gorfer approached the culture by allowing the people they met to stage their own stories. The artists’ personal conversations with people gave rise to the portrayals. The images were digitally processed to create painterly collages, depicting more than one level of reality. Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer’s work stems from a narrative tradition within photography with roots in 19th century painting. Their pictures are imbued with understated drama and an enigmatic tone – a typical characteristic of staged photography in which unpleasant stories are often narrated with a seductive aesthetic. The beautiful picture attracts the viewer, who soon perceives other meanings. Unlike the discrete passer-by who single-handedly waits the decisive moment, Cooper and Gorfer carefully direct choreographed productions. The time they invest in creating a picture can be likened to that of a painter in a studio.
Cooper and Gorfer’s staged folk tales draw a picture of Kyrgyzstan’s contemporary history, creating unique portraits at the same time. The duo avoid making a traditional documentation of the country, instead they describe the culture through a fertile mix of fact and fiction. The images are also indirectly self-portraits of Cooper and Gorfer; picture editing and the selection of stories unveils their own interests and preferences. The image that comes through portrays two socially committed romantics.
