In Weiburg, a medieval city close to Frankfurt, mixed-used development will replace a parking structure. The plan of the new terrace-structure looks like the photo below: amazing! It is inspired by the Baroque design of the Weiburg Castle Gardens and won the all-important public vote.
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Life is really a puzzle we are all trying to piece together. The Horloge DIY Puzzle Wall Clock embodies that saying in its design. It comes with 17 loose puzzle pieces that can be put together in any shape that you desire. It operates on a single AA battery and retails for €65 here.
This morning I discovered this magazine and got immersed into the wonderfully "crafted" pages. Here's a preview for you.
This collection by Rita Saardi makes for an artistic mood. Gorgeous indeed!
Some amazing prefabricated home pictures of the Dwelling Shed possibilities for homes:
Kaloian Toshev is a 22-year old artist from Bulgaria. His affection and desire for perfection in what regards female forms led him to become the artist he is. Here you can find his website, which is a marvel of colours, form, an interplay between the complexity of shapes and the aspirations of the mind.
Below I selected a few of my favourites from his love portfolio.
Matias Mackler at SomeThinkFun had this inspiring photo on his blog and I just had to link it here. It's simple, yet distinguishly powerful in its messgae. See more and design new ways.
I'd love to be able to put all my ideas into practice soon. Meanwhile I keep finding beauties like the one below and I feel more and more inspired.
The Moleskine craze or trend is getting to me. I desperately wish for one of those stylish notebooks, no matter how small or colored, be it lined or not. I want one badly!
DO you have one?
Is it perhaps only the voice of organizational thoughts loudly whispering in my mind: "I need a place, a space and a pen?" Well, I can easily find notebooks..just general ones. Nonetheless, it would not be as stylish and poetic as a Moleskine.
Musée Granet – Aix-en-Provence
Granet Museum Opens Exhibition Focusing on Subtle Links Between Picasso and Cézanne [Artdaily]
Pablo Picasso’s Château de Vauvenargues [The Telegraph]
Summer of Picasso [Wall Street Journal]
To me, this particular work is brilliant with its reflections of the almost lack of life. Perhaps Caillebotte wanted to capture the possible stillness of the basin, in order to highlight the majestic beauty of the sailboat. A simple sailboat nonetheless, but with shades depicting voyages and memories alike - a lifetime.A quiet scene on the Argenteuil basin, near Paris, where sailboats, steamboats and barges could anchor. On the left below the tree, a sailboat designed by Caillebotte.
A touch of personality, a touch of picturesque artistry in visible large pixels. Portraying excessive desire to bring them pixels in the piving room?! :) I do find it wicked, at least for the thought of it.
Be my guest and be impressed. See eyes and space, creating controverse.
This particular image stirs a lot of thoughts in me at the moment. It could be the eyes, or the pictured space. Nevertheless, I will write more about this style. Meanwhile, see the image below and feel free to comment.
Thibaud Herem has a clean lovely style, where blue makes its illustration flow, predominantly through shapes and lines. Water is a central element which induces space and calmness even if the author may portray chaos (e.g. floods in the second illustration below). I have discovered Thibaud Herem recently and I must say I am glad I have :)
"Realistic rendering slightly fantastical characters results in some beautiful acrylic on wood paintings." twenty2wo blog
My favorites so far:
Yes numbers matter more than ever. We seem to live in world ruled by them, in all fields, omnipresent.
The intertwining of business, finance, art and numerology in Frieze
Le Corbusier always thought big. He once proposed replacing a large part of the center of Paris with 18 sixty-story towers; that made headlines too. Time 100
"The biggest design story of 2008 is how Barack Obama's magnificent election campaign introduced the concept of considered design to politics." Frieze, DesignOrchestrated design: logo by Sol Sender
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'Being an artist now means to question the nature of art'. Joseph Kosuth
"Works were strongly based on text, which was used as much as if not more often than imagery. Conceptual art also typically incorporates photographs, instructions, maps, and videos. The movement challenged the importance of art traditions and discredited the significance of the materials and finished product. Rather, Conceptual works were meant to be proactive and questioning to the nature of art."
A chair sits alongside a photograph of a chair and a dictionary definition of the word chair. Perhaps all three are chairs, or codes for one: a visual code, a verbal code, and a code in the language of objects, that is, a chair of wood. But isn't this last chair simply . . . a chair? Or, as Marcel Duchamp asked in his Bicycle Wheel of 1913, does the inclusion of an object in an artwork somehow change it? If both photograph and words describe a chair, how is their functioning different from that of the real chair, and what is Kosuth's artwork doing by adding these functions together? Prodded to ask such questions, the viewer embarks on the basic processes demanded by Conceptual art.
How is a museum segregated?“Segregation is driven by the supremacist fear of racial and ethnic contamination through touch and contact, even indirect.” (Jennifer Allen, Colour Theory/ Frieze 2009)
ILLUSTRATIVE ART. A general term used to describe paintings or prints which have been produced as illustrations of popular subjects (such as cars or animals) or activities or advertising. It is almost always NATURALIST and considered by purists to be non intellectual. (google define search)
