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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
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 (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, [...]
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 [...]
material: bioglass, glass that contains silicon, calcium and sodium oxides.
I first heard of bioglass in an article about biojewelry bone rings.
Bioglass is a material typically used to replace bones. It replicates the structure, and can be sculpted to the relative site of repair. Artist Paddy Hartley and Dr Ian Thompson have been [...]
I’m a sucker for almost anything + resin (and dutch, haha). Two of my favorite examples are from the Marcel Wanders studio, Knotted Chair (1996) and Crochet Table (2001). Both designs use fibrous materials that have been impregnated with epoxy. Wanders Studio
Artist Laura Splan knits vinyl tubing together to create two works, Blood Scarf (2002) and Catheter Bag Cozy (2001). The tubing is clear, and when food coloring is pumped though, it changes the color of the knitted objects.
For more of her work: www.laurasplan.com
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