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..
Ten Reasons Why You Should Attend HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth)
Tobias Wong (1974-2010)
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.” [...]
Tomás Saraceno – 14 Billions (Working Title) 2010
Artist 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 [...]
Concrete & Design
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 [...]
Ilan Dei Studio – Urban logs
Ilan Dei Studio’s Urban Logs Collection breeds new life into wood that would otherwise become waste.
via notcot
Dieter Rams on Gestalten.tv
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Beautiful Dieter Rams interview, Less and More, @ Gestalten.
Stefan Sagmeister, “The Power of time off”
Every now and then Sagmeister takes a whole year off to dedicate to experiments.
Tobias Wong, Ju$t Another Rich Kid, & Charles Bukowski
Since graduating my desire to read has been stronger than ever. While reading Bukowski’s “Women,” I was reminded of Coke Spoon 2 by Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid.
Update & Luxirare
Having updated Bew’s links, I would like to bring your attention to Luxirare.com.
I am absolutely in love with this site. The hi-res images of fashion and culinary art will make you drool.
Droog site relaunched
Similar style,
new layout,
and appears to have more products available…
http://www.droog.com/
Viktor & Rolf for Shu Uemura Eyelashes
Shu Uemura’s eyelashes first caught my eye when they appeared on PingMag. I was happy to find that dutch fashion designers, Viktor & Rolf, have designed lashes for Shu Uemura. They can be purchased at Colette (beware of flash and musical roll-overs).
Blood Design
Fredrikson Stallard’s Rug “The Lovers” each urethane puddle represents the average volume of human blood
Antonio Murado’s porcelain Salome Coffee Set
Kacper Hamilton’s 7 Deadly Glasses
Bob Partington’s Blood Pen
Nadav Kander Photography
I love these photos from Nadav Kander.
Chongqing IX, from his work, Yangtze, The Long River
This advertisement is from his series of photos for Absolut.
Tattoos & Design
Back in 2007, Design Miami featured a three day tattoo parlor furnished by DWR. Organized by Tobias Wong, Josée Lepage, and Aric Chen, “As Long As It Lasts,” featured tattoos designed by Hella Jongerius, 5.5 Designers, Yves Behar, Tord Boontje, Vito Acconci, KAWS, Juergen Meyer H, Andrew Allenson, and Lawrence Weiner.
Some photos on sallyTV’s [...]
Lucy McRae and Bart Hess
Bubblle Dress
Lucy McRae is often described as a “body architect.” Her interests lie in fashion, technology, and the human body. In a collaborative piece with Rachel Wingfield, she developed a body suit called Frisson for Philips Design Probe. The garment has LEDs that light up as biometric sensors respond to being blown [...]
Studio Libertiny Vases
The Honeycomb Vase by Studio Libertiny is made by 40,000 bees. Referred to as “slow prototyping,” it takes a week for the bees to complete just one vase.
For Paper Vases, 700 prints were glued, compressed, and then shaped on a lathe. The results are quite beautiful…
Kiki Smith @ UPenn
Photo by Nan Goldin
Kiki Smith is a sculptor, printmaker, photographer, and installation artist. Her subjects range from anatomy, art history, mythology, science and feminism. She’s known for her provocative sculptures of the body and its anatomical parts. Typically they express vulnerability through potentially humiliating yet natural functions, such as urination [...]
Salón Internacional de la Moda Flamenca 2008, the 14th International Flamenco Fashion Show
Salón Internacional de la Moda Flamenca (SIMOF) 2008 is an annual fashion show dedicated to the fashions of flamenco. Held in Seville, Spain, new collections from 40 designers were presented in 32 shows from January 31st to February 3rd. Tight, asymmetric dresses were presented on the catwalk in a variety of different textiles, colors, [...]
Objects in pink
Inspired by postings of Betsy Johnson’s home,
Great design objects in pink:
Hella Jongerius, Soft Urn 1995
Karim Rashid, Butterfly chair 2003
Ipod Nano
Tord Boontje, Blossom chandelier 2002
Campana brothers, Anemone chair 2001
Audrey Kawasaki
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 [...]
MOT-Space For Your Future
Space For Your Future is the current exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The exhibition features multidisciplinary work categorized into four groups: Body-Inner Space, Metaphor, Body Sensation, and Memory/Data. Together they propose how we will live and communicate in the future.
My favorite spaces are Body-Inner and Memory/Data:
Body-Inner Space features Cosmic Wonder’s Magic [...]
your last minute wishlist
The official Bew holiday guide has arrived!
…ringing in consumerism and conformity for this season.
Periodic Table of Elements Shower Curtain
from ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses
It Crowd Box Set IT comedy from the UK Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Anatomy Atlas 726 color plates of medical illustration
FÄRM cheap but cute vases [...]
Nikki S. Lee, Subcultural Chameleon
Nikki S. Lee is known for studying subcultures by introducing herself as an artist and participating in their activities. She then portrays them by posing for photographs. Her various projects include: the Hispanic project, skateboarders project, lesbian project, yuppie project, punk project, seniors project, etc. GAK is currently running an exhibit of her [...]
Dutch Design Love: Kiki van Eijk
Kiki van Eijk is a dutch designer with a kick-ass portfolio of work. I first saw her work posted on core77 for dutch design week 2005. Upon visiting her website kikiworld.nl, I recognized Modern Dutch Tile Chair. I love how this design invokes dutch tradition with a twist by adding in some [...]
UARTS 2007 Charette
Today was the end of our 2007 Charette. This year our guest critic was Tobias Wong, so we were all pretty psyched. The theme was ReMake, with a number of subthemes. These included: Kustom/High Design/Commentary, RetroFuture/Steam Punk, Handmade/MacGuyver/Repurpose, Pimp My Ride/Tricked Out, Hacked Design/Design Optimization. My group, Berk Asal, Sebastian [...]
fabian seibert for suelzkotlett
Fabian Seibert’s products combine engineering with design. I really loved his 2004 grad jewelry collection.
tie wrap necklace
Fluidcity, whoa
FluidCity…
