Archive for April, 2011

Here two videos whose purpose is to raise awareness of the audience: performed with incredible skill are of a minimalist and stylized but very, very effective. The first is a video from Jonathan Jarvis on site for Charity Water , whose project is to bring clean drinking water in areas where to find water bacteria-free is impossible.

The second one is Chris Harmon and to the amount of damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

Oil'd from Chris Harmon on Vimeo .

Fortunately there is still someone who uses the media to make people think.

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Who has not dreamed as a child to color everything, even the floor, with its new color markers? I have, I have to admit, so when I came across in the work of Heike Weber saw the fulfillment of a dream away. What makes his work of art is this three-dimensional effect that results from a meticulous pencil marks made on a flat surface. Obtained with resins and carry-over of acrylic color, their effect on wave gives a surprising dynamic effect to the environment.

Born in '62 in Siegen (Germany), Heike Weber began to exhibit back in '93. With the personal virtues of artistic techniques is able to move to larger surface areas of 600 square meters, the effect in these divente very obvious and almost creates a sense of "vertigo". Brilliant, I do not mind having a floor as well at home.

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This year I had little time to devote to aimhè Fuorisalone beautiful, here are some photos of random projects that struck me more in Zona Tortona, Lambrate and Brera.

Superstudio in Zona Tortona was a little empty compared to previous years, there were the traditional stand of the cornerstones of the design, but among the many installations there were few real products. The 'Factory 31 and the Temporary Museum swarmed in front instead of new and old designers: hats off to David Trubridge and his lamps and wooden curved, because they are always a unique refinement. Following many other interesting projects of Nordic designers, including "pets" of Friedrik Farg and the aquarium fish of Karl-Oskar Ankarberg and those of young designers presented the stand of VIA Design France. As the trend seems to come very use of the wood: a "back to the nature" of elite characterized by combinations of games between traditional materials and finishes prevail in cuts. Many art projects and impractical, especially in the space of Lambrate that has become a miniature Venice Biennale, more and more rich and vital projects likeable surreal Laikingland (the cup Storm in a Tea Cup is brilliant!).

Stand Superfuturistico of Corian , which presents its products by recreating all the environments of the film Tron Legacy (with interior motion and reconstruction of the house), even in the hotel Nhow many interesting projects, including the chairs Microcosm , the piano Whaletone resin and products of Jordi Mila , a studio in Barcelona. Breaking new lamp Moooi : Heracleum of Bertjan Pot and Marcel Wanders is really beautiful!

And here we are in the Brera, Belgium is the space dedicated to design, presenting young and established designer Belgians in a scenario like the majestic courtyard of the Art Gallery. Here are some projects, including the beautiful lamp Night Night by Vanessa Hordies , hourglass, which falls off when the last speck of dust inside. Last but not least two projects Julien De Smedt , which has a modular library project, Stacked library, produced by Muuto and some prototypes of a chair and a bench for outdoor: Wouter good!

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