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).
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…
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
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 [...]
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests
Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates autonomous walking beasts from plastic tubes and bottles that can react to wind, and can store this energy for later use as compressed air. They “breathe”– they “think” and soon they will evolve.
