Dutch studio NuFormer Digital Media specialize in creating spectacular outdoor projection, based on 3D mapped real buildings.
“The Tournament” Giant Chess by Jaime Hayon – Trafalgar Square, London Design Festival 2009
The Tournament, an installation by Spanish designer, Jaime Hayón consists of a gigantic chess set, with 2m high ceramic chess pieces on a specially created mosaic glass chess board. The installation, which is set in Trafalgar Square, will be shown…
Jacob Dahlgren – Colour reading and contexture
Jacob Dahlgren is a Swedish painter, sculptor, and conceptual artist who works to a large extent with unconventional materials. The artist finds abstraction in everyday objects, which he employs to create dynamic interactive installations and performances. When arranged, the…
Xavier Veilhan’s show at the Château de Versailles 13th September – 13th December 2009
Each year the Château de Versailles near Paris will host an event presenting a famous international artist in its grounds. This year, French artist Xavier Veilhan shows his works in the Gardens, Royal Court, and apartments of the Versailles Palace. His…
Kaarsrecht Kruk (Straight Candle Stool?) by Pascal Smelik
This amazing aluminium table comes from a Dutch designer Pascal Smelik. It’s casted from hot wax poured into cold water. He uses a large syringe to squirt hot candle wax into cold water, then drains the water and fills it with plaster. Resulting mould is…
Copenhagen Design Week / 27 August – 6 September
Copenhagen Design Week explores design that matters —ideas, concepts, products and services that will come to play an important role in your professional and personal life. In 2009, Copenhagen Design Week explores social and environmental design and innovation. Each element…
Vienna Design Week
The aim of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is to show and enable people to experience the many-faceted creative work in the fields of product, furniture and industrial design, but also positions of experimental design. After two successful festivals in 2007 and 2008,…
S’assoir, siege de la convivialite urbaine by Sebastien Wierinck (to seat, seat of the urban conviviality)
Since 2002, Belgian born designer Sebastien Wierinck, presented his work, including public benches, café seating and temporary installations, in cities throughout the world including Milan, São Paulo, Brussels, Berlin and Paris. The name of his practice, On Site Studio, describes his methods…
Ron Arad: No Discipline at MOMA New York / August 2, 2009–October 19, 2009
Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad stands out for his daredevil curiosity about technology and materials and for the versatile nature of his work.
Fluxus – wave of light and glass by Karim Rashid and Michela Vianello for Andromeda
Fluxus is the result of the cooperation between designer Karim Rashid who designed the Knit – individual hand-made glass element – and Artist Michela Vianello, whose inspiration gave concrete shape to the overall concept of the sculpture. The wavering Murano…