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Showing posts with label Art and Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art and Design. Show all posts

15 August, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Steamroller Printing
Martha street studio recently had their second 'under pressure' steamroller print festival in Winnipeg, Canada, where carvings are inked and
printed with the aid of a steamroller.
See more here

08 August, 2008

Art & Design Friday

UK Street Art
A collective site for UK street art, graffiti, prints, exhibits etc..
Check it out here

01 August, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Street Art Locator
Find street art near you, and add your own findings here

11 July, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Loop Desklamp
Great looking desk lamp concept with an LED light source. Needs only 5watts to produce good working light. Designed by Petter Knudsen at T16.

04 July, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Carrot City
Brilliant advertising by Gorge Grown Farmers Market in Portland, Oregon.
See more here

27 June, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Ellis G
Short video of Ellis G, a Brooklyn based street artist who outlines shadows at night with chalk.

20 June, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Newspaper Yarn
Step by step instruction on how to make your own newspaper yarn that can be woven into rugs, curtains etc..
Find out here

13 June, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Laser Tag
Crazy street art project where you can write on a building using a laser pointer. Reminds me a little of Antonio Scarponi's "dreaming wall" project, just a little less premanent.
See the videos and read more here

06 June, 2008

Art & Design Friday

B-Side
Andrea Acosta's project B-Sides in Germany has brilliantly used the void spaces on the back of street signs.
See more here

30 May, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Erik Nordenankar
Erik Nordenankar, a student at Beckmans (a design school in Sweden) had drawn his own portrait using a GPS unit he placed in a briefcase and then sent it around the world to specific locations. The self portrait becomes apparent when you follow the journey of the briefcase.
Brilliant!

23 May, 2008

Art & Design Friday

The Telectroscope Project

On May 20th these two monstrous drillbits appeared in both London and Brooklyn, NY.
The telectroscope project is the brainchild of artist Paul St George and it lets people communicate visually across continents and will be open for the public until June 15th. 
Read more about the project here

16 May, 2008

Art & Design Friday

Lovegrove & Repucci
Beautifully designed dinnerware that playfully clashes tradition with the opposite.
Find out more here