ARCHITECTURE GRAPHICS

HIGHLINE AT 23RD – Jon Kleinhample

Operating out of a PrenzlauerBerg Altbau, Berlin based architect and designer Jon Kleinhample is not just another design upstart.  His starkly white homepage masks a series of independent and professional work with a broad range.  The design project Exploding Plastic Inevitable is an exploration into the agglomeration of cellular structured spaces.  Rejecting the popular trend …

ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY

Marshmallow Art: Peeps Show 2010 – The Washington Post Magazine

Each year around Easter, the Washington Post holds its Peeps Show contest where readers across the nation submit elaborate dioramas incorporating everyone’s favorite Easter treat, Marshmallow Peeps. This year’s sugary creativity included more than 1,100 entries with an UP-inspired display nabbing the top prize. Definitely swing by the Peeps Show gallery to check out all …

INTERIORS PRODUCT

Snurk Bedding

Snurk Bedding started with a crazy little idea about a cardboard box duvet cover, Le-Clochard. And it lived inside Peggy van Neer’s head for years. Peggy worked as copywriter at an advertising agency and her boyfriend Erik van Loo was a sales rep in sports clothing. One day, Erik lost his job unexpectedly. But Erik …

DESIGN EVENTS MILAN MUSIC

Elita Milano 2010

Dal 13 aprile parte elita milano design week music and art festival. Quest’anno la programmazione è ricca di appuntamenti culturali e musicali, e di ospiti d’eccezione.Il festival, grazie al supporto dal Comune di Milano,  cresce raggiungendo le dimensioni di un importante appuntamento culturale, grazie all’inserimento di un fitto programma di concerti, conference, esposizioni e workshop …

FASHION JAPAN

Minä Perhonen

Akira Minagawa  has created clothes and textiles since 1995  that embodies aesthetic combination of simplicity and beauty. Deeply influenced by the Scandinavian design, Minagawa’s brand Minä Perhonen  – literally in Finnish: “I Butterfly” – merges the finish and dye quality of Japanese textiles with minimalist elegance of North European tradition.

PRODUCT

Carlo Trevisani – Coffee And Cigarettes

Carlo Trevisani is an independent designer in Milan. Always interested to go deeper the man-object interactions and the emotional and affective relationships that are established between them, he participated in numerous exhibitions and international design competitions; his work has been published in national and international magazines. Coffee And Cigarettes is a cup to enjoy your coffee …

ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY

Robyola

Richard Dyer, intellettuale statunitense, scrive nel 1979 l’articolo “In Defence of Disco”, pubblicato nel numero 8 del magazine “Gay Left”, un’apologia dettagliata della disco music, analizzata nelle sue caratteristiche sociali e stilistiche, descritta come portatrice di un nuovo erotismo sentimentale, più libero, quasi primitivo. Assistiamo al ribaltamento del binomio alto/basso, un vero e proprio sovvertimento …

FASHION

Eastpak & Christopher Shannon

Dopo il grande successo della prima collaborazione per la SS2010, Eastpak e Christopher Shannon tornano insieme per unŒesclusiva limited edition di zaini e borse dallo stile sporty-chic. La nuova collezione Fall-Winter 2010/11 consiste nella rivisitazione di 5 modelli storici del brand, dallo zaino Padded Pak‚r alla borsa Station, passando per il borsello The One,  riproposti in …

ARTS

Low rise

Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in. A project by Peter Root.

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Pictoplasma: Berlin Festival

It’s all about character! The Pictoplasma Festival will take place in Berlin April 9-10  with his massive turnout of designers from all walks, including character artists, directors, animators, and illustrators. If you work with or -simply love – the visualisation and application of character design you cannot really miss this extended weekend of screening, artist talks, interdisciplinary …