Cascade - Atelier van Lieshout

I just saw this and thought I would post this for purely pesonal reasons. I worked in Rotterdam for a while and I often cycled by this sculpture by Atelier Van Lieshout an thought it was interesting. I just saw a blog post of it from 5th March 2010 saying it was going up in Rotterdam the next day, turns out we arrived in Rotterdam on the same day. I'm sure this isn't interesting for most people...

I suppose it's quite "dark" really and as the Dezeen post said "evokes associations with the current economic crisis, the exhaustion of raw materials and the bankruptcy of the consumer society" but for me it can't help having a humourous quality, the figures look like Morph...

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Here is a little sneaky view of something I've been doing...

It is honestly more than just a cushion...

Els Woldhek

http://www.whatels.net/index.php?/naturally-false/

I just saw this and remembered I had seen some work by this designer in London this year, I really like it. Using veneer and copperplating, both usually just used for decorative purposes but here also structural. Ended up with some really organic looking objects, especially the copper growths. The overal organic, kind of wobbly look reminds me a little of some Maarten Baas work.

Beta Tank - Taxing Art

http://www.betatank.net/taxing-art.html

I saw someone had blogged a chair by Beta Tank just like this table which reminded me I had seen these people in Basel. A really interesting take on the Art-Design debate. This is a table but once you turn the squares over to make lots of pyramids it loses it's function and is now art. Meaning in Germany initially it would be taxed as a functional object at 19%. Turn the pyramids and it will be taxed 7% as a work of art.

The same is true of this box of hammers/work of art/coffee table. On the way to basel someone on the border will have decided which category this fits into.

Christoph Thetard - R2B2

This is Christoph Thetard's final project at Bauhaus-University Weimar.

Designed to reduce energy use in the kitchen a foot pedal and flywheel power a coffee grinder, food processer and hand blender. Looks like something Brunel would make...

Has other nice work at http://christoph-thetard.de/christoph-thetard.de/Blog-engl/Blog-engl.html

Sylvia Pichler

Nice lamps...

Used to have some of this tape kicking about the flat. Missed opportunity...

Giles Miller - Cardboard Collection

Stuff I'm sure everyone has seen before, but it's news to me...

http://www.gilesmiller.com/

I've spent weeks cutting corrugated cardboard. I hate the stuff! But these are quite nice

KAMKAM - An Furniture

http://www.kam-kam.org/

De-constructable furniture based on the ratios of A-sized paper. I like things that transform...not so keen on the hinges though.

ASAP - Jean Marie Massaud

http://www.massaud.com/site/en/#/works/design/mobilier/8407-asap

Just Saw these

I like being able to see a bit of the structure. I think you are able to rearrange the way the structure slots together to give different sized units. Which is nice...

Estelle Sauvage - Kettle

Incandescent light bulb now banned in France, put to new use by Estelle Sauvage. I was briefly looking at ways of reusing the incandescent light bulbs a couple of years ago as more and more countries ban them. I did not think of this, damn it!

Apparently heats to 90C perfect for tea...

Postler Ferguson

http://www.postlerferguson.com/

Saw these buoy lamps, I love that complex structure and the scale.

Remind me a little of the Studio Job Crane, at least the structure does.
http://www.studiojob.nl/ (total non- website, annoying)

This is also by Postler Ferguson. A model of a concord engine. I like technical drawings, cut-throughs etc so this is interesting. Mammoth task to take on aswel!

Montante for Maserati 8CTF

http://www.montantecicli.it/modelli.asp?art=43&type=1

Celebrating the 70th aniversary of a Maserati winning the Indy 500 (I think...). Beautiful anyway. I love the curve on the seat tube.

Junya Ishigami

Picnic
http://www.jnyi.jp/

Like some sort of Christmas cartoon, but I like it

Design Academy Eindhoven - Pigs

I love the Dutch, they are properly weird.

This is a trophy for the graduating students at the Design Academy Eindhoven. The head comes apart in slices to give each student a little medal. Nice

Mark Maker Table - Ed Swan

http://www.edswan.com/

I love the concept and patterns that got made. So odd

Myungseo Kang

http://myungseokang.com/

I think I missed this last year but I like it

tokujin yoshioka

Sensing nature.
http://www.tokujin.com/

Isn't this nice...
Not trying to be too intelligent and arty and hard to engage with, just beautiful.

Gaetano Pesce - A nice quote

"I understand exactly what Baudrillard said about contemporary art. He said, I'm sure people don't understand but they are scared to say that they don't understand because if they say that then they are ignorant, so it's better to say, "oh very interesting!" But nobody says "why?" because the moment you do that you break down this huge structure of conformism. - Gaetano Pesce.

I do not understand.

Sophie Kirkpatrick

http://www.sophiekirkpatrick.co.uk/

I like the use of contours, something I've been using for inspiration recently too.

A really cute little desk, I could do with one of these

AFF schutzhutte am fichtelberg

http://www.aff-architekten.com/story/09/3009.html

I love the way they have created a ghost image of the hut that used to stand here by using the old hut as the mould to cast the concrete!

Kenyon Yeh

UNIKEA

http://www.iamkenyon.com/dalt.html
Excellent idea, som much more interesting than you're usual IKEA furniture

Rohan Chhabra

http://www.maindustrialdesign.com/students/project.asp?id=742
Funny object

Robbie Henderson

http://www.robbiehenderson.co.uk/

I love this concept. When we have killed all the animals how will we replace them. A feather to cross pollinate flowers. Pretty little object raising a serious issue.

Siren Elise Wilhelmsen

http://www.sirenelisewilhelmsen.com/sirenwilhelmsenknittingclock.html

This is an amazing object. A scarf gets knitted over a year. Representaion of the passing of time in a completely new an interesting way!

Kristine Bjaadal

http://kristinebjaadal.wordpress.com/

I really like this, turning a little disaster into something beautiful

Design Drift

http://www.designdrift.nl/

I like their work, especially the Fly Light creating an installation inspired by animals behaviour.

Quite similar to random internationals swarm light which I saw in Basel

http://www.random-international.com/