Macro Eyes
Eyes are more unique than at first glance.
Billboard Water Harvester
UTEC, the university of engineering and technology in Lima, Peru has collaborated with mayo draftDCB to develop the world’s first billboard that can produce potable water from the air as a promotional admissions campaign. Located in a region where rainfall is scarce year-round, but atmospheric humidity
reaches almost 98% – the project provides residents with up-to 96 liters clean drinking water in reserve tanks situated in taps at the foot of the sign, instead of having them source hydration from polluted wells.
Helikopter-Streichquartett
To perform Stockhausen’s Helikopter-Streichquartett you’ll need four helicopters and a string quartet. A moderator introduces the musicians, each of whom boards a helicopter, and the four perform the piece while circling the auditorium at a distance of 6 kilometers. The audience watches and listens via audio and video monitors. At the end, the helicopters land and the musicians re-enter the hall to the sound of slowing rotor blades.
Guerilla Advertising
It’s great to spot guerilla advertising tactics by companies that are trying to be a bit more creative.
Fibonacci Cabinet
Utopia has designed a perfectly proportioned cabinet system. The design idea comes from the traditional Chinese medicine cabinet, of which all the drawers are in the same size. In order to satisfy the multi- functional requirement, we apply Fibonacci Sequence, which is also called Golden Section for the intimately connection with the golden ratio, to rearrange every size of these units in series. The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of numbers: {0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, … } , in which the next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.
This design is composed of seven units, a big cabinet on the top, five drawers and a Chinese table on the bottom, which could be used separately and combined freely according to different requirements and different places.
Size: 55cm(L) × 55cm(W) × 145cm(H)
Materials : Bamboo
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Vocal Cords Singing
We give little thought to our voice. It is our principle means of communication and interaction. The sound of your voice is unlike any others persons voice in the universe. It is unique…it identifies you and only you. Here is an odd perspective of them in action:
Tom Sachs Sculptures
TOM SACHS is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier’s 1952 Unité d’Habitation using only foamcore and a glue gun. Other projects have included his versions of various Cold War masterpieces, like the Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module, and the bridge of the battleship USS Enterprise. And because no engineering project is more complex and pervasive than the corporate ecosystem, he’s done versions of those, too, including a McDonald’s he built using plywood, glue, assorted kitchen appliances. He’s also done Hello Kitty and her friends in materials ranging from foamcore to bronze.
Chanel Guillotine (Breakfast Nook) 1998
Tiffany Glock (Model 19) 1995
Prada Toilet, 1997
Chanel Chainsaw, 1996
Hermés Value Meal, 1997
A lot has been made of the conceptual underpinnings of these sculptures: how Sachs’ sampling capitalist culture, remixing, dubbing and spitting it back out again, so that the results are transformed and transforming. Equally, if not more important, is his total embrace of “showing his work.” All the steps that led up to the end result are always on display. On a practical level, this means that all seams, joints, screws or for that matter anything holding stuff together, like foamcore and plywood, are left exposed. Nothing is erased, sanded away, or rendered invisible. On a more philosophical level, this means that nothing Sachs makes is ever finished. Like any good engineering project, everything can always be stripped down, stripped out, redesigned and improved.
The reward for work is more work.
–Mark van de Walle
via tomsachs.org
Modern Renovation of Church
This neglected church, once part of the Sant Francesc Convent, was renovated by Catalan architect David Closes. Located in the town of Santpedor, Spain, it was the last building standing from the convent and was badly in need of repair. The project turned the former church into an auditorium and multifunctional space for cultural events.
Photos © Jordi Surroca.
Letterpress Works by Karl Martens
Dutch typographic designer Karl Martens is one of the most influential and enduring designers alive in the Netherlands today. His body of work spans over 50 years and manages to maintain a freshness and timeless appeal. In 1996 he was awarded the Dr. H.A. Heineken Award— the top graphic design award in Holland. He is the founder of the Werkplaats Typografie, a post-graduate graphic design school in Arnhem, NL, as well as a lecturer at the Yale School of Graphic Design, and the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastrict, NL. Karel Martens work is often regarded as defining “dutch design” and many of the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics he employs have been widely appropriated by the design community in NL and abroad.
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