I have recently been invited By Greg over at 2modern Design blog to be a guest blogger –
Check out my post over there featuring the Obama street art that has emerged in recent months
Obama Art and a guest blogging gig!
Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Bag Monsters
I found this video whilst searching around youtube last night..
Harris and the guys use the air exhausted from underground subway to create these clever, totally animated, life-of-their-own, trash bag sculptures.
You have to check this out!
Ponoko – Amazing possibilities for Designers and Buyers! Plus HUGE savings for Design Tavern Readers!
I would like to Bring to your attention some of the amazing things going on over at Ponoko.com and to also announce the huge savings available as a Design Tavern reader.
I have been in contact recently with Ponoko’s Community Manager John Lewis to find out more, and was able to score Design Tavern readers 50% off making costs!
“Ponoko … the first online shop for individualized goods – things designed and made just for you.
Right now you can shop the marketplace for designer crafted goods, request a designer to make something especially for you, or create and make something yourself.”
Toyo Ito is coming to town
If there are any other local Melbournites around on the 17th of Feb, than make sure you check out the international speaker series put on by the RAIA –
Gracing our shores will be the highly accredited and heavily awarded, Toyo Ito.
Visit here for more info
For those of you off shore it I thought I’d put together a few images of Ito’s amazing work.. but first a little background.
Toyo Ito 1941- is considered “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects” (Designboom).
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The G19 by Yar Rassadin
This is my 2nd post featuring the work of Yar Rassadin (see the P-Bookshelf here)
This time under examination is the ultra contemporary lighting design, the ‘G19’
the 19 lights are arranged in a simple grid to create this modern and sleek design.
art to furniture, and back again- BBB pick Chair From studio Dror
“pick_chair, noun”
1. Picture: art object hung from the wall
2. chair: pick it from the wall to sit
Studio Dror have come up with “the first foldable cantilever chair” that goes from modern art work to functional furniture.
Perhaps one day “we’ll pull up a chair” by simply grabbing it off the wall?
THe chairs really are ingenious, beautifully fashioned and exhibited, perhaps to nice to sit on?
“Studio Dror is an extension of Dror Benshetrit’s work. Being a multidisciplinary design company, founded in 2002, Studio Dror specializes in product design, architecture and art direction. Dror’s client list includes Puma, Rosenthal (Germany), Boffi (Italy), Levi’s, Bombay Sapphire, Surface Magazine, and Kiehl’s.”