The foil on Kurosawa’s lamp reflects light in a lightning pattern on a ceiling and certainly deserves an industrial fan focuses directly on it to create movement. Strattman’s Hanging Lumiglas lamp is a great commercial entry point.
Source: Fubiz, Gizmodo, Youtube (video by Tom Warner)
Archive for December, 2008
Lightning chandelier
Posted in Interior design, tagged Asia on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Milk money
Posted in Commercial design, Industrial design, tagged Canada, France, Russia on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Design Museum Shop, Hattomonkey, Lovely Package, Visual Advice
Aliphbay
Posted in Art and installation, tagged North America on December 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After an evening of particularly disagreeable design, it is sublimely satisfying to find a fresh approach to sclupture. American Brian Dettmer’s inspired work with altered vintage books reminds me of summers of homemade book safe projects and the set of 1968 Encyclopedia Britannicas that I referred to almost exclusively every day until the advent of [...]
Pinxo
Posted in Industrial design, tagged Europe on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ferran Lajara’s Pinxo clip fits my ideals for design: thoughtful, classic, well-finished and simpler than its intended use.
Source: Moco Loco
Dreams of flying
Posted in Photography, tagged Europe, London on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So magical.
Source: Jan Von Holleben
颜色块
Posted in Art and installation on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Design Boom, Design Boom
Adventageous
Posted in Industrial design, tagged Asia, Europe, London, UK on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source: This Next, Susanna Hertrich, Xhibitr
Gifted
Posted in Advertising, tagged Europe, North America on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had a really mature piece ready to post and got distracted by Olle Hemmendorf’s rendition of the Air Max 90. I’ve never been drawn to Nike’s ethos or aesthetics but I have a lot of respect for them after yet another solid year of inspired advertising.
Last year’s Vintage Running campaign didn’t affect my love [...]
Frozen over
Posted in Art and installation, Illustration, tagged Europe on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t understand if Norwegian Are Mokkelbost is a collective or a single split personality, but I’m feeling these paper collages that look like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel through a kaleidoscope.
Source: Booooooom
and everything returns to nature in the end.
Posted in Photography, tagged North America on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From a first glance, American David Maisel’s photo sets couldn’t show more different subjects in terms of scale and sensibility, but his eye for natural colour gradients captivates me and the thought he puts in to his work is what I only dream most photographers do. The Mining Project shows abandoned copper mines in the [...]
