Archive for April, 2010
Apartment in Katayama
April 21st, 2010This apartment building designed by Mitsutomo Matsunami looks stunning! The fact that the houses next doors only have 2 floors, makes this 7 story high building even more majestic. It’s build on a 110.55m² piece of land and has a total floor of 341.38m². There are 10 apartments in the building, measuring between 23.2m² and 35.7m², which is tiny compared to European ones.




found at what we do is secret
Alphablast
April 21st, 2010Alphablast is a series of decorated drinking glasses designed by Marco Dessí. He used orange nets as a template to sandblast their pattern onto fine Lobmeyr mouthblown glass. A very simple idea with a nice outcome. Each glass is unique.




found at dezeen
Cake
April 20th, 2010Cake is the best fashion video I have ever seen. This 20 minutes long video shows you a girl eating a whole cake while wearing AF Vandervorst. That cake sure looks delicious. Made by Fly16x9.
Here’re a few stills from the video.




And here is an other video called Cakes. It’s the same idea, but a compilation of 6 girls each eating a cake.
found at The Pulp Mag
Radius Installation
April 20th, 2010A few months ago, rAndom International was commisioned to develop a site specific light installation for the lounge at London’s membership club Home House.
The installation is a sound-reactive media installation that plays with the light emitted by spatially arranged light sources. Where a commonly flat arrangement of LEDs would be conceived as a display with a resolution too low to establish image, text or pattern, Amplitude is actually home to a large number of individually controlled light sources on a y-axis. The introduction of a third dimension to the traditional concept of a display turns the piece into a vivid part of the space and emphasises the fact that the piece is a light installation rather than a display; the algorithm controlling the emittance of light creates a living organism that can be detected in the shadows that the installation casts on itself.



Hip Bath
April 20th, 2010This photo is the best furniture photo I’ve seen lately. It was made by Ken Russell in 1955 and it’s form his ‘alternative uses of the hip bath’ series, the model is the ballerina Frances Pidgeon. I guess that this years Salone del Mobile in Milan wasn’t that exciting, you may prove me wrong with links in the comments.

Caps Lock
April 19th, 2010
Caps Lock by Andreas Banderas
found at bevel and boss
SHOP
April 19th, 2010Last Friday was the opening of SHOP, the WASTED GERMAN YOUTH store in Berlin. It’s going to be the retail space for the brand, but it will also be used as a gallery, office and studio. WASTED GERMAN YOUTH is Paul Snowden his brand and this is the story how it all started …
as history has it “i was sitting some sunday morning, in the garden at tresor, it was love parade, it was hot and the buzz was very good and all around, me, everyone, so super wang. i turned to my friend and said… these kids, all so fucked up. all of them, so off their fuckin faces. just wasted german youth. its just… wasted german youth” and there it was…
So if you’re around, go and check it out: Memhard Strasse 1, 10178 Berlin.
Photos by Spanier
By the way, Paul is actually a little bored and wants to get challenged to love his job once again. So you can submit your design project for Paul here and maybe when it tickles his fancy, he might give away his skills for free.




Sorted Books
April 19th, 2010Sorted Books is an ongoing project by Nina Katchadourian. When she finds a book collection, she looks at the titles and rearranges the books in such a way that you can read the titles as a sentence.




found at pietmondriaan
97 polysiloxane hoses
April 19th, 2010“97 polysiloxane hoses” is the latest sound installation by Zimoun. He developed this piece together with Daniel Imboden. 97 polysiloxane hoses are drilled through a table top. The compressed air flowing through the small tubes, makes them move randomly and generate an unique sound.




