Designer, Arik Levy, has produced a piece of storage furniture which is a modular system, when combined adds up to a single metre cubed. The piece is constructed from 7 individual pieces in either Aluminium, Blackened Oak and Clear Oak, the black one is shown above. Unfortunately this is an extremely limited piece and is only available in 5 of the Aluminium ones, and 12 clear oak or Black oak ones. The cube is a fashionable shape this year which is something you will see lots more of… mark our words.
Everybody likes this loads and would like one of these in the studio, thank you – please.
Filed under: Art, Design, innovation | Tags: Aleksandra Stratimirovic, Art, coloured, pixel
Artist, Aleksandra Stratimirovic, a Yugoslav, resident of Sweden has produced an installation entitled “Sunny day”. It is produced by filling 4464 small medical glass vials with different coloured liquids. When displayed with a fluorescent backlight, the coloured vails become bright and by taking a couple of steps backwards an image of a girl appears. The framework is 2 by 3 metres and the image depicts a girl stood by a lake with a rolling hill as a backdrop.
It’s another example of how the inherent properties of glass can be used to create art and by adding a simple coloured translucent liquid, something completely different can be created. Click on the image above to go to the artist’s website and see for yourself how the illusion works.
The work has been exhibited in Vzigalica gallery, at the Svetlobna Gverila festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2008.
foto: © Bojan Brecelj IPAK
OK, so recently there has been a real push on the Swarovski stuff. It used to be that they were pretty much tucked away in the corner of a department store near you. Regardless of your personal view of crystal and the sometimes horrific sculptures created in it (we won’t bore you with ours), the recent push on promotion by the company has seen swatch style stores popping up all around Europe.
The Swarovski Crystal Palace in Milan has started to turn the crystal into something more of an art medium than a… well crystal.
Recently the English artist Paul Cocksedge (stop giggling at the back) showed his piece which shows the Mona Lisa, but only when you look in the convex mirror provided. A trick of the light worthy of David Copperfield. The piece is 4 metres tall and utilises 1440 individual crystals
Anyway, we just thought this was great way of using a material and its inherent properties to create a visual effect with a twist.
Filed under: Design, innovation | Tags: Design, innovation, Jar, van Ost, VKB
Here in the Netherlands, they are recycle crazy and, without giving away my roots, it was a bit of a culture shock to take empty plastic bottles back to the supermarket.
Dutch designer, Jorre van Ast, has created a solution to allow you to recycle those old jars on your shelf. You might have used the contents long before, but this little set of screw on caps allows you to breathe a new life into the glassware itself. Simply by putting one of the pouring, shaking or one of the other tops on the jar you can give it a new use.
The Dutch Kitchenware company “Royal VKB” has picked up this selection of jar attachments for production and they are available now. I reckon the Everybody office kitchen needs some.
I guess the point of this post is to remind us that the best solutions to problems are almost always the most simple, the ones which stare us in the face and the ones which just make you say “Damn, I wish I had thought of that!”. In all forms of design, the brief is a problem which is solved by the designer and in this case, Jorre van Ast has taken an everyday object, which in many homes stays on the shelf or in a cupboard for years, and enabled you to utilise it again. This then reduces the pressure on the recycling system and allowing people to be damn resourceful in the process.
Everybody says well done, Jorre.
