A conceptual artwork from the London Design Festival 2006 is Bridge, by Michael Cross. A series of steps that rise out of the water as you walk across them, as if walking on water. On entering the exhibition the visitor is met by an empty expanse of water with one step at its edge: stepping [...]
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from Mr. Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance LTD
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Drop Spots is a kind of alternative mailbox. It’s a hiding place in a public space, where people can leave things for exchange. Anything. It’s a wierd and wonderful way to add personal character to the streets that we live in. Stash something fun and see what you get back. Not much going on [...]
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With the advent of new technologies, there appear new concepts. Here’s a new phone/keyboard hybrid for Skype.
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More from Alexandros here.
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Wendy Rameckers, from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, has created a wall of fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives or girlfriends.
“Most men have a selective memory,” she explained. “They know all about their car, but never seem to know their wife’s bra size. When trying to buy a sexy bra for their wife or girlfriend, usually they point to other women in the shop or, when asked about size, they say a ‘handful’.”
The wall consists of rows of silicon breasts in all sizes. By look and touch, male shoppers can work out the right size.
Brilliant idea! Men have fun and girls get more lingerie.
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Alex Dragulescu: Spam Architecture (detail) / Spam Plants (detail)
Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu turns data sets into raw materials for the generation of tantalizing 2D and 3D forms. Rather than scientific visualization intent on clarifying the content of the data, Dragulescu creates graphic and temporal compositions notable for their strong graphic qualities.
Spam Architecture is one project that has garnered much attention recently. Here spam is translated into three-dimensional form by analysing keywords and patterns in the text. Like its sibling project Spam Plants, it explores the mapping of textual data into spatial configurations.
All trace of the original data source is absent in the final result. No reference to the textual material remains, nor of the analytical process involved. Instead, a single coherent form is presented, with no signifiers indicating its origin. In this sense, the spam data could be said to simply constitute an arbitrary pseudo-random data input, with the result bearing no semantic connection to the raw material that it was generated from.
Dragulescu does not provide clues or any rational way of evaluating the nature of the mapping. But nor does he make a claim to producing literal meaning. Hence the viewer is free to enjoy the results as a complex formal experiment in which spam undergoes a process of transsubstantiation, transformed from a source of irritation into intriguing objects of great beauty.
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from Generator.x: Generative strategies in art & design
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Bizarre photography by Czech artist Michal Maku.
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Print these out and give them to your corporate friends. Maybe they’ll get it?
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Nice idea for a blog: Inked Blog is about tattoos and stories behind them, must check if you’re into tattooing.
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