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I spent last Sunday afternoon watching "UP!" for the fifth time - with big tears falling watching the same old scenes, and promising to myself and to my daughter that I will soon write a screenplay as beautiful and funny as UP!'s one (never say never!!) This is why as soon as I saw Olivier [...]
Yesterday I had a nice email exchange with Lucia Bruni, designer from Lucirmas, a design studio based in Barcelona whose creations I find extremely appealing. Lucirmás designs and produces sustainable glass products which tell a story. They make original, handcrafted objects from 100% recycled glass, offering the quality of a beautiful, artisan product. Lucirmás’ mission is to create [...]
All images by james prinz, chicago and courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman gallery, new york Originally from Missouri, now based in Chicago, USA, Nick Cave has been creating intricate wearable sculptures for nearly twenty years. Each piece is formed from an wide array of materials obtained from various locales. cave brings elements such [...]
Milan: Italy's fashion capital. But not only. Each year, at the end of April, Milan becomes the world's design and furniture capital. And it has always been a great event, a must-go for those who are interested in design - if you are good at spotting talents, then that is the place to test your [...]
Better not to say "I already know everything about this subject" because you never know what you might stumble upon. I was drinking my Saturday morning espresso at the local caffè, skimming through one of those offered magazine when I saw the guerrilla-crafts of Graffiti Grannys and went "WOW"! And this year, it is the [...]
I really love when art is not that serious and when it is this "immediate". Thanks Nicole, another great post!
I must admit that in my many visits to U.S.A I have never had cupcakes. Despite my being Italian, I love to experiment "foreign" food traditions, but nobody offered me a cupcake while I was in the U.S.A therefore I ignore what they are. But I assure you that the next time that I will [...]
I do not know the weight of this incredible jewelry by Hanna Hedman but I would gladly wear one of these amazing artworks made of silver, oxidized silver, powder coated copper and paint. Hanna Hedman is an awarded Swedish jewellery artist living in Stockholm. Her "While they await extinction"-is a jewellery prpoject that has its origin [...]
One of the first I>K post was about a smart idea born tobring light to people living in the darkest slums in India. "Littlesun", the name of this small solar-powered lantern, is another smart and shining product having a similar purpose. Presented at the World Economic Forum, Littlesun has been designed to improve access to light [...]
Frankly speaking, I did not know there was a form of art called book carving. I had already published another post about another book-art artist, Isaac Salazar, a while ago, but these creations are slightly different. Kylie Stillmann, a Melbourn based artist, uses a scalpel to create wonderful sculptures, inverted reliefs of trees and the birds that [...]
I find this App Concept so wonderful BUT unfortunately it seems that its creator, Jonas Eriksson, a native of Sweden and an award winning interactive designer and developer, has not yet found any developer willing to help him make it a real product. I am so sad that I do not have the skills required! [...]
Once again, thanks to Nicole to introduce me to this very interesting Korean Artist, Do-Ho Suh, whose installations and architectural environments are playing between the micro and the macro, between personal and social, individual and collectivity. You can read more about him in this designboom interview. Do-Ho Suh is represented by gallery Lehmann Maupin, New York.
“Mleko i Miód” (Milk&Honey) was designed for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a gift for the Polish EU Presidency. It is a set for preparing a traditional drink. Beza Project studio delivered a turn key solution – from the initial concept design to full coordination and project management at the production level. It consists of [...]
With this product I opens a new blog category, Wishlist - in case you know a pseudo-geek design-and-coolness-sensitive person and do not know how to make him/her happy, here it is, just buy one of those things! Just joking, especially because many of the "things" I am going to include in this category are still [...]
Thanks to Stacey Sheppard I have discovered Newspaper wood. I knew it is possible to make wood with paper, but this technology is even more interesting. From Stacey's article: "Meike Meijer, a Dutch design student who, acutely aware of the enormous amount of newspapers and magazines that are discarded and recycled into new paper each [...]
Today was the opening day of Artefiera, Italy’s largest modern and contemporary art exhibition, set in Bologna from January 27h to January 29th. I did not have time to visit everything, but I am glad to share with you some of the many interesting things I was pleased to see. I have also shot less journalistic [...]
The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide [...]
A pair of German designers introduce the Parasite Farm, an indoor gardening system that feeds off your waste. Food accounts for about 13 percent of trash in the United States, the third-largest component behind paper and yard trimmings. Although composting may be the natural extension of recycling paper, metal, and plastic, many urbanites don’t have [...]
Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece. Haroshi became infatuated [...]
When a while ago I searched for sustainable art the result was a wide array of upcycling projects which to me were yes artistic but not that sustainable. Today I am talking about Mosstika, Elina Tokodi and József Vályi-Tóth, a NYC based collective, whose mission is " to collide the worlds of art and nature, creating havens [...]
I was tempted to merge FEIT and Oliberté in one single post, but althought there are similarities (handmade premium quality shoes) the business model which these two companies are using is very different. FEIT is a niche product, Oliberté is a mass market one. FEIT appeals to uniqueness, Oliberté to social responsibility. Oliberté has been [...]
