Archived entries for Design
Budapest Design Week 09 – WAMP
The past Sunday marked the end to this year’s Budapest Design Week. A notable event conclusion was the Finnish-Hungarian WAMP, a designer’s market offering fun and inspiring designs. (photos from Oct 11th, 2009)
During WAMP at the Magyar Iparmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest.
http://designweek.hu/en/okt/11
By Heim Zsuzsi, PUCC sweetwear
By Heim Zsuzsi, PUCC sweetwear
By Heim Zsuzsi, PUCC sweetwear
Beograd Bag made from reused bicycle tubes.
Salt and Pepper shaker by Lublóy Zoltán
Reused bicycle tires as belts by 1mindeg
Reused bicycle tires as necklace by 1mindegy
http://www.myspace.com/1mindegy
Amazing art watches by Óra Mü
Amazing art watches by Óra Mü
Amazing art watches by Óra Mü
Stately dog leashes by Márton Strohner, JFD.
E-mail at, Stromarci@gmail.com
Pee to Fertilizer
Pee at the Ars Electronica Festival 09.
Rich Bubbly Fertilizer
This was one notable souvenir from this year’s Ars Electronica Festival and I didn’t expect my urine sample can be so endearing to me. But give it to artists Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray and they’ll chemically transform any summer-grass smelling urine into rich bubbly fertilizer for your household plants. The drink.pee.drink.pee.drink.pee project takes on an epic challenge to curb pollutants in our urine from getting into out waterways.
It’s Nice That publishes again
It’s Nice That just released a second issue containing highlights from their blog and interviews with Boo Ritson, Rafaël Rozendaal, United Visual Artists, Karlssonwilker and more. They have also released an exclusive screen print by Rob Ryan which comes with every copy of the publication pre-ordered before midnight on 30 September. We’re looking forward to getting a copy of this!
Flags By Color
In his Flags By Color project, Shahee Ilyas uses a list of countries generated by The World Factbook along with the world’s national flag images fetched from Wikipedia to produce a series of charts that break down the color proportions for each flag. These proportions of color are then displayed in a single chart revealing the color proportions of all of the flags of the world combined. This project was generated entirely with script.
Naoyuki Ishitsuka
Nao Ishitsuka has an interesting portfolio.
In particular Universal visual language.
What do you think about it? Do comment!
Out There: where Architecture meets Semiotics
What are the first things you think when I say “architecture”?
Heavy long-lasting buildings? Pyramids? Sparky skyscrapers? A thirty floor residence? The tour Eiffel?
If this is what we usually mean by “architecture”, maybe we need to change our beliefs.
As Semiotics tought me, the meaning of things is not simply an “object” (a “chair” is not only “the object that has the shape of a chair”, because a stone on the grass is actually a chair, if you sit on it!) but the consequences related to them (actions but also feelings).
In other terms, the meaning is what things REPRESENT.
Thats why the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice is called “Out there: Architecture Beyond Building”.
Architecture is not just about “buildings” and “constructions” (=objects): we need to look beyond them.
Today the world is extremely dynamic, buildings cannot be something eternal anymore. What we create must be easy to develop, light, avaiable to be changed in order to our temporary needs.
Architecture is the way to create a world that
we feel like home
(Aaron Betsky)
but paradoxically, without building stable houses.
Its a way to communicate our time, our fears, our views.
Buildings dont represent this anymore.
Visual arts and performances, cinema, collage, illustrations, practices, immaginations, deconstructions, experiences, undefined shapes. Sperimentation, and not just an exposition of what already exists.
This is what I saw “Out there”.