Museum Day

Greetings, Museum Lovers!
Courtesy of Smithsonian, September 25, 2010 is National Museum Day, with free, Free, FREE admission for two to many local museums, including DAM.
Visit www.Smithsonian.com/MuseumDay for more information and registration.
Cheers!

Make it Work..

If your table isn't bug enough.. just slice it up like Yves, here...

Gaetano Pesce Footwear

These are the modern jelly shoes, with a twist..  Read all about these Shape Shifters via the times blog:
"Pesce’s new shoe for the Brazilian company Melissa — an ankle bootie composed of interconnected PVC circles, whose form can change at the whim of its owner with a swift slice of the scissors. Cut once, and the boot becomes a bootie; cut again, and it’s a ballet flat, a peep toe, a sandal or even a flip-flop. ‘‘This is the future of mass production,’’ Pesce says. ‘‘With the technology we have today, we can give people something that is half done and ask them to finish it.’’
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/shape-shifters/

Catalog Living

For those who read and browse catalogs, this blog is just hilarious.  Your west elm or pottery barn catalogues won't look the same ever again.

http://catalogliving.net/

Masterplaning Animation

masterplanning animation from Vandkunsten on Vimeo.

Pictory

Photo Stories: http://www.pictorymag.com/

Too many choices..

See the Crayon colors multiply over time... Think of what the world would be with only 8 crayon colors?!!

Black Eiffel has great postings: http://blackeiffel.blogspot.com/2010/04/crayola-color-chart.html

The Endless Summer

I really enjoyed my friend’s latest posting from their world travels from SE Asia- I am always in disbelief of the things they’ve seen in just under one year. If you don’t have the itch to travel now, you will shortly! Hope you enjoy. http://theendlesssummer.travellerspoint.com/

From Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers, once the world's tallest building.

To Thailand's gorgeous beach, Koh Phi Phi.

And Angkor Temples in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Extracts of Local Distance

Extracts of Local Distance from STOESELTNTPRO on Vimeo.

Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.

Digital scans of analogue architectural photography form tiny pieces of a large resulting puzzle. The original pictures are being analysed and categorised according to their vanishing-points and shapes. Based on this analysis, slices are being extracted from the source image. These slices retain the information of their position corresponding to their original vanishing-point and thus form a large pool of pieces, ready to be applied to new perspectives and shapes.

Using the extracted image segments, it is now possible to form collages of originally different pictures with a new common perspective. In order to compose a collage, a perspective-grid is defined and a lining of matching image segments is being applied. The segments are not altered to match the frame but fitting ones are chosen from the sheer mass of possible pieces. By defining additional keywords which describe the content of the original photographs, the selection of segments used for the final composition can be influenced. Thus a contextual layer is added through the semantic linking with the source material.

The recompositions mix and match the views and perspectives of both the architect and the photographer with a third, newly chosen frame. The resulting fine-art prints are entirely unique each time.

Time to pay tribute to Phil--the final week is coming!

Heineken PR Campaign

Heineken has a few excellent campaigns--attached is a good mix of information design and a bit of humor. The youtube post is just pure brilliance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEqJV1acgN4&feature=player_embedded

WHITE O U T

Called WhiteOut, the installation consists of parallel panels made of thermally-bonded polypropylene filaments, suspended from the ceiling. The screens move apart in response to the static charge of visitors walking between them, returning to their positions once people have passed. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/02/24/whiteout-by-spaceoperaform/#more-66402

UHURU

Looking for innovative furniture? Found: Uhuru. What they're about: "Uhuru is a design + build furniture company dedicated to sustainability and creating timeless designs. Uhuru builds each piece by hand, in their Red Hook Brooklyn studio. We strongly agree with the shaker assertion that “beauty rests on utility” We strive to make furniture and products that are beautiful in their simplicity with an acute awareness of materials, and craft. Many of the items we create utilize materials that have been reclaimed, recycled, repurposed, reused or otherwise rejected from their original function."

http://www.uhurudesign.com/index.php

Chromatics Glass: Installations

Chromatics Glass has some impressive installations in the UK:

Alberta House Streamlite Tower- Central London

Wellesley Square- Croydon Central Area
http://www.theglasswallcompany.com/index.html

2010 Vancouver Olympic Medals

Unlike the summer Olympics the medals at the winter Olympics are different each games and designed by the host country. The medals for this winter games are the most unique yet -- I'm not just saying it because I am a proud Canuck.

In an Olympic first, each medal will be unique, featuring part of an image hand cropped from a master artwork by Corrine Hunt, a Canadian designer and artist of Komoyue and Tlingit heritage based in Vancouver, B.C. A silk scarf with the entire design will be presented to the medallist, enabling them to see how their medal connects with those awarded to other athletes at the Games.

Also for the first time, the medals are not flat. Instead, they have an undulating surface intended to represent the West Coast landscape of mountains and waves and drifting snow. Canadian industrial designer and architect Omer Arbel, also of Vancouver, created the innovative undulating design of the medals, which were struck nine times each to achieve the distinctive look as part of a 30-step medal fabrication process.

At 500 to 576 grams each, the medals are amongst the heaviest in Olympic and Paralympic history. The production of the medals is green as well, as the base metal alloy was made from scrap circuit boards, diverting 6.8 metric tonnes from landfill.

Visit this site for more detailed images.

Who needs reality?

This enchanting 12-minute film depicts iconic architectural masterpieces through the eyes of a photographer -- and it is completely computer rendered!

As bonus footage, the compositing breakdown of how this animation was constructed could be viewed here: http://vimeo.com/8200251

Veer

Veer Contest Submission from J.D. on Vimeo.

Congratulations to J.D. Busch from the Dallas office for winning Veer's logo competition. The project was to recreate the company's logo with common object and without using a computer. J.D.'s video beat out over 1,000 other entries. You can see the winners here.

Anne Kyyro Quinn Felt Installations

http://www.annekyyroquinn.com/