| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 |
I was recently in New York to attend The Next HOPE, the 8th
Hackers On Planet Earth conference. HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth)is a conference sponsored by 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. While returning home from the event, I was thinking of a friend of mine who would have enjoyed the conference as much as I did. So I sent her an email..
Audrey Kawasaki is a painter and illustrator living in Los Angeles, California. Paintings stylistically reflect art nouveau and Japanese manga, creating tension between innocence and seduction. Her work is distinct: young girls with transparent features and evocative wide set eyes. Oil paint is spread thinly on wood allowing for the grain to show through.
With [...]
Design provocateur Tobias Wong, only 35, sadly passed away early Sunday morning. I simply don’t want to believe it and looking at the responses on Core77, I am not alone. In the press release Aric Chen states, “Wong was a keen observer, an original mind, a brilliant prankster, and an unerring friend.” [...]
June 2, 2010 ♦ 2 CommentsArtist and architect Tomás Saraceno explores the world we inhibit through his experiments in art and sustainability.
For the 14 Billions (Working Title) exhibition Saraceno collaborated with astrophysicists, engineers, and spider researchers to create a large scale model of a black widow’s web. Inspired by the scientific study of spiders’ webs to understand the origin [...]
Stefan Zwicky’s concrete version of the Le Corbusier Chair.
According to The Skeptical Environmentalist, concrete is used more than any other construction material in the world. I imagine this is because it’s fairly cheap, and resources for making concrete are practically unlimited. The down side to this is that concrete contributes to global emissions [...]
March 23, 2010 ♦ Comment?Ilan Dei Studio’s Urban Logs Collection breeds new life into wood that would otherwise become waste.
via notcot
function getSource() { return window.document.URL.toString(); }
Beautiful Dieter Rams interview, Less and More, @ Gestalten.
March 15, 2010 ♦ Comment?Every now and then Sagmeister takes a whole year off to dedicate to experiments.
February 22, 2010 ♦ 2 CommentsSince graduating my desire to read has been stronger than ever. While reading Bukowski’s “Women,” I was reminded of Coke Spoon 2 by Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid.
January 28, 2010 ♦ Comment?