Sep 16
Ok, I really want to see this one once it’s finish.
And I wouldn’t like to be a Manhattan window-washer…
More info on this 56-story luxury skyscraper.
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Sep 14
September already, which mean other than London Fashion Week, the London Design Festival is set to run from the 13th until Tuesday the 23rd of September.
For the occasion, the Financial Times has interviewed Sir John Sorrell CBE, chairman of the London Design Festival, which he devised and founded in 2003.
Here are some of the Must-Sees
Double Dutch - a feast of flowers is an installation created by the Flower Council of Holland
Featuring designs from Dutch designers and curated by Jane Withers,the installation at 29 Thurloe Place shows how flowers can give design a new dimension.
London Design Festival and The Financial Times
The Financial Times hosts breakfast talks at the Southbank Centre with themes such as Creative Cities, Creative Brands and Sustainability. 15 - 19 September, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
British Architect David Adjaye created a conceptual pavilion for the duration of the festival. Free entry, open to the public at all times, South Bank Centre.
Jun 12
Jonas Samson created a high-tech light-emitting wallpaper it’s possible to use a two-dimentional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object.
As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper.
Year: 2007
Material: Light emitting wallpaper
Size: 240 cm x 360 cm
Jun 01
An original idea of the Italian brand Lago, which specializes in furniture design. It offers to dispose of the way you want the 7 modules that allow flexible to create, with imagination, the bookshelves of your choice.
Lago Spa Via dell’Artigianato II n.21 35010 Villa del Conte (PD) Italia.
Apr 03
After a nice and pertinent interface for Colorchart, Moma strike again with Design and the Elastic Mind.
The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. This Web site presents over three hundred of these works, including fifty projects that are not featured in the gallery exhibition.
Mar 27
All ye lovers of SciFi, vintage illustration and design and all things scientificadelic, do check out Flicker’s ”Vintage Science” illustration group.
It’s packed with lots of really cool illustrations, from deliciously outdated science manuals
covers to those ultra-pop USSR space exploration propaganda posters.
Rainfall.com also find some cool vintage scifi covers :
And if you still want more, GetConfused warmly recommends “Future Perfect” in Taschen’s hyper kawai Icons series.
Feb 24
—To reveal the increasing essentialness of material with a compilation of brilliant ideas, and craftmanship
Edited by Victionary - www.victionary.com
Following the success of Amatterofdesign™ series, SimplySeries™ is the latest Victionary series in 2008. Be the first volume of it, Simply Material introduces a number of materials that create objects or art forms
in irregular shapes of interest and beauty, and demonstrate how the composition alone is able to liberate these materials from the category of raw junk and arouse visual interest.
Material continues to be, is the most important element underpinning all criteria of design, especially when it comes to architecture, interior, product, industrial and fashion. Objects created with individuality and
narrative qualities – whether by sophisticated new technologies or traditional handcraftsmanship, are explored in Simply Material, so please join us now and be inspired!
Contributor
Analia Segal . Aqua Creations Ltd. . ASSA ASHUACH STUDIO . Autoban . Big-game . BOEK (PIET HEIN EEK). bookhou design . Buro Vormkrijgers . BY:AMT Inc . Chris Kabel Designs. Contraforma . David Trubridge Ltd. ERB . Eric Klarenbeek . Ernst Gamperl . ESSEY ApS . Estudio Campana . Eva Menz. Design Ltd. FEEK . Florentijn Hofman . Foldpaper . FORM US WITH LOVE . FutureFactories . HAYON®STUDIO . Helmutsmits.nl . Hiroshi Tsunoda. Design Studio . Jordi Canudas . Julia Lohmann . Julian Mayor . Karim Rashid Inc. . Karin van Lieshout . KENNETH COBONPUE . L.A. Galerie – Lothar Albrecht. Lynn Kingelin / Ikuinen Design . Maarten Baas . Madelon Galland . Marcel Wanders Studio. Object d’art . Oboiler . Pd DESIGN STUDIO . Peter Callesen . Philips Design . Proef . Radu Comsa . Reddish . Ronen Kadushin . Sam Buxton . Sand & Birch Design . Sebastiaan Straatsma . Sonia Chow Studio . Sternform Produktgestaltung . Stew Design Workshop . Studio Bertjan Pot . Studio Frank Willems . Studio Job . Studio Makkink & Bey . Studio Rainer Mutsch . Studio van Eijk & van der Lubbe . Studiobility . SUZUKIKE . Sylvain Willenz Design Studio . t.n.a. design studio. Tim Parsons . Tjep. . Toshiyuki. Tani . Tyson Boles . Valvomo Architects. WOKmedia . WOOD london
Feb 23
Feb 19
GetConfused is proud to present two pieces of interactive poetry designed for the launch of the new Wellcome Collection gallery at the Wellcome Trust.
For those of you who don’t know it, here is a bit of propaganda on one of London’s venerable institutions which happens to stage really cool shows.
“The Wellcome Trust’s mission is ‘to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health’.
Reflecting the profound impact that today’s research will have on society, the Wellcome
Trust seeks to address the social, cultural, ethical and historical aspects of biomedical
research and progress. To achieve this it supports, through its Medicine, Society and History
division, a programme of research, a major library in the History of Medicine and public
engagement activities.
Part gallery, part museum, an extraordinary library, events, conference centre and more,
the Wellcome Collection will take a thoughtful and experimental look at medicine, life and art,
rooting science in the broad context of health and wellbeing.”
Armed with the best intentions and barely as much time as the lifespan of a dragonfly, GetConfused came up with two interactive Flash pieces which celebrate health and disease in a kalleidoscope of typography, graphics and molecular mutations.
“Mutation Babe”
(Concept by Coco and House of Coma ; Graphics by Coco ; Animation by GetConfused)
This piece stages a series of 5 tableaux in which a seductive image of feminity is submitted to a series of distortions and viral interventions culminating in rather sulfurous final montages. Forget the bugs, we had one day to design it.
click here to view “Mutation Babe”
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“Invisible Inspiration”
(Concept by House of Coma ; Animation by GetConfused)
The second piece is a cut-up text that can be played either in its normal sequential order or following a randomized keyboard pattern. Half surreal poetry, half S&M psychedelia, this piece was shortlisted by the Wellcome Trust Jury for the competition’s final run and came out third of all entries.
Jan 27
Celebrating all things design and fantastic, we wish to bring your attention to the work of 19th century designer William Morris whose work and ideas have had an enormous influence on the course of modern design and decorative arts, inspiring directly for instance the Art Nouveau movement in France and Belgium. William Morris remains in fact one of the most influential English designers. He was also an artist, a writer, a poet and a translator. In 1861, he founded his own design company which produced innovative and alternative works, some of which can still be purchased today.
Along with some of his artist friends of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts movement, a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain, and a writer of poetry and fiction who inspired the creation of the fantasy genre. While he worked for some time as an architect, his most famous creations are his wallpaper and patterned fabrics designs.
Inspired by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin who preached a return to the inspiration found in nature and the medieval ethos of authenticity and craftsmanship, the Pre-Raphaelites refused the hierarchy of artistic mediums, embracing in one movement painting and the decorative arts. Morris can also be considered one of the founding figures of book art, a genre which he helped revive through the legacy of the legendary Kelmscott Press which he founded in 1891.
Finally, the work of Morris also presents an interesting tension between his aesthetic aspirations and political convictions. On the one hand, Morris and his daughter May were amongst Britain’s first socialists, working directly with Eleanor Marx and Engels to begin the socialist movement. Morris, like all his pre-raphaelite friends, also had a violent dislike of the prevalent bourgeois tastes in Victorian England. Yet, on the other hand, even Morris who believed that art should be affordable and hand-made cannot have ignored that, ultimately, his creations were luxurious objects that only could be purchased by the most affluent members of the Victorian upper classes.
Socialism vs the social reality of luxury design part 1…