Up there
Posted on 20/07/10.
Shot high above the streets of New York City, UP THERE reveals the dying craft of large-scale hand painted advertising and the in-told story of the painters struggling to keep it alive. Capturing a trade that is equal parts artistic precision and grueling labor, the film presents a painting tradition pre-dating modern advertising. A craft that today finds itself dangling precariously on the brink of extinction. UP THERE is directed by Malcolm Murray, based on an original concept by Mother. It is produced by Mekanism with music by the Album Leaf.
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Raw Color Prints
Posted on 21/06/10.
In the studio we are still in awe of the Raw Color project we posted before. These images show attempts to apply some of the strongest pigment made with “juice cartridges”. These inkjet prints are done with (C) Red Cabbage, (M) Beetroot and (Y) Pumpkin. Caused by the irregular juice flow, the inkjet created a unique stripe pattern in every print. How the Dutch duo managed to create cyan ink with red cabbage we don’t know, but for initial attempts these results are amazing.
Link: http://www.rawcolor.nl/
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Raw Color
Posted on 14/06/10.
An absolutely amazing project, Raw Color is a collaboration between designers Christoph Brach and Daniera ter Haar in Holland. They dismantle and purify vegetables to their visual essence ‘raw color’. The harvested color is captured by a new process preserving their intensity on color cards. Categorized by shades and families a new map is created which shows their beautiful diversity. This projects reinterprets the vegetable and puts it into new context.
Link: http://www.rawcolor.nl/
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Kursi
Posted on 10/06/10.
We are big fans of what our friends Kursi are making in Lancashire. The furniture, all designed and made in England, evokes classic work by the likes of Robin Day and Paul McCobb. They employ traditional, time-honoured joinery and upholstery methods to produce contemporary pieces of furniture - and every single one of their products is made-to-order. This day bed lounger and sideboard are stunning examples of their passion for hand-made craftsmanship and penchant for all things mid-C20th. We can’t wait to see more.
Link: http://www.kursi.co.uk/
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Danish Modern
Posted on 04/06/10.
Our friends at Collectors Weekly have just drawn our attention to this fascinating interview with Andrew Hollingsworth, author of Danish Modern. Hollingsworth is a Chicago dealer of fine Scandinavian furniture and talks about the roots of Danish Modern design, its evolution, some of its best-known practitioners, and the reason why the chair is such of symbol of the aesthetic. Well worth a read!
“The person who’s considered the grandfather of the style is Kaare Klint. His belief was that form had been perfected throughout history, and that there was no need to reinvent it. He thought that the basic proportions of a chair, for example, had already been refined, and he opposed what some of his European counterparts were trying to do in the Bauhaus movement. Rather than reinventing the chair, he believed we could add modernity to it in terms of line, and then eventually materials, although he was essentially a traditionalist on the materials side of things, too.” While we aren’t particularly big fans of Klint, we like his mantra, and the chair pictured here the Faarborg.
Link: http://bit.ly/cw-hollingsworth
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100 Chairs
Posted on 26/05/10.
For this fantastic project designer Martino Gamper systematically collected discarded chairs from London streets (or more frequently, friends’ homes) over a period of about roughly two years, then spent 100 days to reconfigure the design of each one in an attempt to transform its character and/or the way it functions. He says “I see this as a chance to create a ‘three-dimensional sketchbook’, a set of playful yet thought-provoking designs that, due to the time constraint, are put together with a minimum of analysis.” Inspirational stuff, and sounds like great fun too.
Link: http://www.gampermartino.com
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//2005-2010/
Posted on 26/05/10.
If you didn’t know already we are celebrating our fifth birthday this year. This is just a bit of fun to celebrate.
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