XMas Break

Dear Blog friends,
it's time for a short break, see you soon here, in the mean time have a lovely holiday with family and friends wherever you are!

Anna

Il Girasole - a house near Verona

Michelle Liu - Dutch Design Week

Michelle Liu - Beecosystem from Design Academy Eindhoven on Vimeo.

Recently graduated in the Social Design Master department of the Design Academy Eindhoven, Michelle Liu (USA) did develop this interesting concept.

Beecosystem is a project that utilizes the current state of the global honeybee crisis as a host to try and focus on finding possible solutions to revive cyclical thinking. Having a thorough understanding of the connections between the various components that make up life on earth can have an affect on how we consider our daily activities.  How can design play a role in designing small gestures that can have a big impact on human behavior?

Kyra van Ineveld - Dutch Design Week

Dutch designer Kyra van Ineveld did research the impact of the new information technology tools and how they change the information system and the truth.

Taking Wikipedia as case study, Kyra did investigate the topics that are updated most often from the public of this online encyclopaedia. She narrowed them down to five: Obama, war in Gaza, Catholic Church, global warming, race and intelligence.

Then she printed all the changes in a massive series of books, combining the old book style and the information (wikipedia style) in order to promote the real truth.

Jannis Hulsen

Xylium is the name of this project.
German designer Jannis Hulsen, did research a bacterium which produces an artificial cellulose material, Xylium is the name of the bacterium.

In collaboration with the company Jenpolymers, he developed a technique to create a skin around a wooden stool frame, forming the coating and seating surface.

Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Education paradigms

Here something you need to see!  Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert is explaining his point of view.

Andrea Brugi

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What a great way to start the blog season again!
Here Andrea Brugi, italian carpenter, at work. So proud to see these artists still exist in my country.

Back!

Hope you had a lovely summer! ready for fall?

Summer break

photo via tumblr

Finally some deserved free time weeks, see you at end of August,

have a super creative summer!

Anna

Dana Tanamachi

The By & By from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.

Lovely form of art! See more on Dana web.

Pass the Baton

There's No Place Like Here: Pass The Baton from Etsy on Vimeo.

An interesting concept.

Oscar de la Renta

Another beautiful fashion portrait From Me to You.

The Mast Brothers

The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo.

Jenna Rose

I think I must have told you about Jenna Rose work before.
I cannot stop to stare at these beautiful prints, this tote is perfect for the usual saturday trip to the farmers market! See also her lovely shop & blog.

Sofia Sizzi = Giulietta

Sofia Sizzi first collection is now available, check the work of this former Design Director for Gucci, DKNY and CK on her web. Lovely.

Anouk Vogel

A beautiful project from Dutch designer Anouk Vogel.
These dresses are made from used bicycle inner tubes, the dress’s dahlia-like surface is the result of myriad individual vases that can hold water. Depending on the type of flowers used and how they’re positioned, the appearance of the dress can change radically.

Adam Katz

Here a fantastic installation of communication designer Adam Katz.
" I was asked to create a typographic solution for Stefan Sagmeister's prompt of Things that I have learned in my life. My solution was to spray paint over 1,500 little green plastic army men day-glo orange and affix them to a window store front in New York City with my saying "All of my good ideas are battles." The piece remained up at 136 West 21st for over a month. "

Luca Nichetto for OFFECCT

Just seen during the Stockholm Design Week, this green solution for interiors by italian designer Luca Nichetto for OFFECCT.

John Stezaker

Do not miss the exhibition of British artist John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery (London).

The artist combines in a very conceptual way parts of old postcards, portraits and books illustrations in order to create a new and subversive image. The exhibition runs till march 2011.

Linna Xu

A beautiful project of designer Linna Xu. A book on Tasseology, the ancient art of tea leaf reading, including a history, instructions on how to perform readings, a symbol guide, and reading diary where readers can record their results.

Anne Lorenz

Great idea! Designer Anne Lorenz brings the ugly luggage stuff in the interiors, and they actually look nice!

Alessandro Pasinelli

Finally an Italian stylist, is so difficult to find a good one! Check the moving work of Alessandro Pasinelli and his beautiful studio in Milan.

Mary Katrantzou

Ready for some fashion this Spring??

Mary Katrantzou did present an interesting collection, she did transfer interiors images into her pieces: "With this collection, I wanted to put the room on the woman, rather than the woman in the room". See the entire collection here.

Maurizio Anzeri

Italian photographer Maurizio Anzeri uses old images and combines them with embroidery work. The result is a surrealistic completely new portrait.

Buon Anno!

.......just few days ago