We wanted to make the best for the most for the least.”
— Charles and Ray Eames
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“Memories of Paintings” from Thomas Blanchard, is an experimental dreamlike video. The visual compositions have been created out of paint, oil, milk and soap liquid.
A few links for Friday, Saturday and also Sunday:
- I just love the fifties retro-style work of Satoshi Hashimoto, one of the main illustrators for Monocle magazine.
- An apartment with a slide. Yes, childhood fantasies can come true.
- You can find many Design Facts you did not know, in this platform for sharing interesting facts about the history of design, all in bite-sized servings.
- Japan in 4 minutes. A video collection of moments and memories of a 3-week railway journey through the country.
- Instant logo search: Search and download among thousands of well-known logos. Useful when you are looking of that company logo. (via)
- The Ellum Solar is a smart light, embedded with sensors, that illuminates the dark when motion is detected. It’s attached magnetically and charged by a solar panel. So simple. (via)
- Marble and resin tables that look like marine environments with secluded beaches. They remind me of rocky coastlines in Greece.
- Architect Dame Zaha Hadid died yesterday. A great talent and a badass lady.
Have a lovely weekend!
Tabisso’s product range TYPOGRAPHIA is a unique collection of typographic lounge-chairs representing all letters from A-Z and numbers from 0-9, completed by a set of floor lamps with 25 punctuation marks.
I just saw these in a magazine and was wondering why didn’t anyone think of this before? The typographic lounge-chairs are probably too much for home decoration, but I find them a perfect touch for company lobbies or office space and showrooms.
In the other hand it would be fun for the girls to have 3 chairs with their initials: C, M & D. And an asterisk lamp would not be bad either.
Can you imagine real dandelions emitting light?
Fragile Future III by Studio Drift is a modular system combining nature and technology. The three-dimensional bronze electrical circuits contain luminous dandelion seed heads and bolt together to form a power circuit overgrowing walls, floors and ceilings, forming sculptures and chandeliers.
Very delicate and beautiful result.
I just discovered Martin O’Neill, a London-based illustrator & artist who creates beautiful collages for publishing, advertising, design & installation work.
In order to create his images he combines collage, silkscreen, photography, paint, and digital techniques. I especially love his type collages, there is so much going on, I wish I had larger photos of his work to be able to see the detail.
More lovely work on his website called appropriately “Cut it out“
I am in love with a pop-up book!
ABC 3D is created by French graphic designer Marion Bataille, also author of 10, Numero and Livre de Lettres. Actually, I just love all her books: the colors, the clever pop-ups that make one letter dissolve into another… Brilliant!
Also another fun version of the above video, but with a special ABC3D song (created by the band “Not Waving But Drowning”) inspired by the book.
“Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.”
I am trying to remind myself to do this with my kids. I found this video really helpful and enlightening.
Dr. Carol Dweck, a researcher in motivation, personality and development, is one of the few talking about how to instill a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset. Her talk on this was recently turned into another beautifully animated RSA Short video.
Carol Dweck is also mentioned in a very interesting book I am reading at the moment: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children. Lastly, a relevant article I happened to stumble upon recently, also mentioned Dweck and her work.
Amazing surreal images by Korean artist JeeYoung Lee.
For each of her photographs she spends many weeks to turn her small studio space in a new colorful installation. Everything you see is made by her and there is no photo manipulation.
Probably influenced by the American photographer and installation artist of the 90s, Sandy Skoglund.
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Amazing rising furniture by designer Robert van Embricqs from the Netherlands.
This is a Swedish chapel converted into a house. This kind of conversions always intrigues me, partly because they would never happen in Greece with Greek Orthodox churches. But if you speak strictly architecturally, I would love a place like this, not so much as a house -it looks a little busy- but as a sunny studio / workplace.
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