Prototype Liquid Glacial Table by Zaha Hadid @ David Gill Galleries (London)

November 6, 2013, 9:55 am

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Words // Staff Dezeen

An updated version of Zaha Hadid‘s Liquid Glacial Table is currently on show at David Gill Galleries in London.

Hadid‘s design features a fluid decoration embedded in the acrylic and plexiglass form, which appears as ripples that seem to drain into the legs.

First shown in May 2012, the original Liquid Glacial Tables comprised a coffee table and a dining table made from two sections that fit together. The latest version is 260cm long, 160cm wide and 74.5cm tall and has four legs.

“I have always been interested in the concept of fluidity,” said Hadid. “Using all the advances in design, material and construction technologies, we are now able to achieve even greater results in the work.”

For the first two weeks of the exhibition, which runs until 16 November, David Gill Galleries will present models of a superyacht recently designed by Hadid for German shipbuilders Blohm+Voss alongside the table.

Hadid’s other recent projects include a curvaceous wine bottle for an Australian winemaker, a Library and Learning Centre at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and a shoe boutique in Milan.

Photography is by Jacopo Spilimbergo.

Here’s some more information from David Gill Galleries:

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Zaha Hadid presents Prototype Liquid Glacial Table at David Gill St James’s, October 2013

David Gill is delighted to present the next evolution of Zaha Hadid’s series of Liquid Glacial tables. The latest version, entitled, Prototype Liquid Glacial table, will be unveiled at David Gill Galleries, St James’s, on October 15 2013 and the show will run until 16 November.

The Prototype Liquid Glacial table is dramatically visual – the flat table top appears transformed by the subtle waves and ripples evident below the surface which seem to pour into an intense vortex that forms the table legs. Like the previous Liquid Glacial tables this new table is milled and hand polished to create an exquisite finish. The design embeds surface complexity and refraction within a fluid dynamic.

When it was launched in May 2012, the Liquid Glacial collection was acclaimed by collectors and press alike and the table was shortlisted by the Design Museum as one of the ‘Best Designs of 2012’.

“I have always been interested in the concept of fluidity,” says Hadid. “Using all the advances in design, material and construction technologies, we are now able to achieve even greater results in the work.”

For the first two weeks of the exhibition, a scale model of a ‘super yacht’ designed by Zaha Hadid for yacht builders Blohm and Voss will be on show. Zaha Hadid’s fluid design language has not been applied in the world of yacht design before and the manufacturers are presenting an entirely new concept to potential yacht owners.

Prototype Liquid Glacial Table
Dimensions: 260 x 160 x 74.5cm
Material: Acrylic / Plexiglas

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‘No One Wins – Multibasket’ Backboard by Llbot & Pons

November 10, 2013, 2:34 pm

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Words // Andrea Chin Designdoom

Everyone is a victor with the ‘No One Wins – Multibasket’ backboard. The permanent installation that debuted at the 2013 Setouchi Triennale, is a whimsical backboard concept by Berlin- and barcelona-based studio Llbot & Pons where local Teshima Island residents can shoot more than just a couple of hoops. Hosting six nets, all positioned at various heights, players must use their own imagination to make-up new rules for the classic court sport.

unlike a typical game of basket-ball, there are multiple hoops on one backboard
photo by nakazawa-san, setouchi triennale

the installation invites residents to come up with their own rules for the sport
photo by nakazawa-san, setouchi triennale

multiple players can shoot hoops simultaneously
photo by nakazawa-san, setouchi triennale

Read the rest of the article here.

Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Mirrored Room’&‘Love Is Calling’ @ David Swirner Gallery (NYC)

November 18, 2013, 9:10 pm

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Words // Alice My Modern Met

In what’s being called the next Rain Room for New York, eccentric Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is showing off her newest installations at David Zwirner gallery. Called Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away and Love Is Calling, expect these to be the must-visit installations this fall! (Translation: Expect long lines.)

In Infinity Mirrored Room, hundreds of multicolored LED lights, suspended at different heights and dangling from floor to ceiling, transform a room into what feels like eternity. The cube-shaped, mirror-paneled room has a shallow reflecting pool as its floor and the lights flicker on and off in a strobe-like effect. Though similar to the ones Kusama has shown previously -Infinity Mirror Room at the Tate Modern and Fireflies on the Water at the Whitney Museum of Art – this one was made especially for this exhibition and still promises the viewer a wonderfully surreal experience.

In Love is Calling, a darkened, mirrored room is illuminated by inflatable, tentacle-like forms—covered in the artist’s characteristic polka dots—that extend from the floor and ceiling, gradually changing colors. Not only is this a visual experience, it’s an auditory one, too. A sound recording of Kusama reciting a love poem in Japanese plays continuously. This installation was shown in Tokyo earlier this year as part of a group exhibition but it ‘s the very first time it’s been shown in the United States.

The full exhibition, called I Who Have Arrived In Heaven, spans the gallery’s three consecutive locations and features, along with these installations, 27 new large-scale paintings. The exhibition will be showing from now till December 21, 2013. (What a fun place to take a selfie!)

First photo: Delissa Handoko

Photo: Thomas Welch

Photo: Daniel (danhollis6767)

Photo: Brooklyn Architect

Photo: ae_jones

Photo: Brooklyn Architect

Photo: Jess Gardner

Photo: Brooklyn Architect

Photo: Josef Pinlac

Photo: jessieeeeeeeeee

‘Sounds of Threads’ Music Visualization by Bertrand Lanthiez

November 20, 2013, 7:48 am

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Words // Staff Dezeen 

French artist Bertrand Lanthiez created this audiovisual installation by projecting white light along criss-crossing woollen threads (+ movie).

 

Called Sounds of Threads, the installation comprises strands of wool stretched between four wooden stands, with beams of white light projected across them in time to a piece of music.

“I was interested in questions of how sight can enhance hearing, or also disturb our balance in perceiving a multimedia-based bodily experience,” said Lanthiez.

“I tried to demonstrate the power of our senses when they interact simultaneously,” he added.

Lanthiez composed an original piece of music to use in the installation, which he exhibited earlier this year in Reykjavik.

Collab’s Table Competition Takes Inspiration From Designer Marc Newson

November 28, 2013, 7:50 am

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Words // Caroline Williamson Design Milk

This year, the annual Collab Student Design Competition challenged students to design a table inspired by a discipline or industry within science, technology, nature, or the arts and use the work of Marc Newson, this year’s honoree, as a starting point. Students were asked to research the source of their inspiration and to rigorously and creatively incorporate elements from it into their design, ultimately coming up with work inspired by just about everything including WWII missiles, space ships, and bicycle construction.

Ten schools participated and the competition generated 181 submissions.

This year, the judges were Jeffrey Bernett, Founder, Consultants for Design Strategy (CDS); Peter Danko, Designer/Artist/Owner, DANKO Design, Inc.; Frederick McSwain, Manager, Poltrana Frau/Cappellini; Eugenie Perret, Owner, MINIMA; and Ilene Shaw, President, Shaw & Co! Productions.

Photo by Kelly Turso

The Judges. Photo by Kelly Turso

Judges providing feedback to student designers. Photo by Kelly Turso

Here are the winners!

First Place: Justin Martin, University of the Arts
STABIL
STABIL utilizes the latest in induction cooking technology to provide a social cooking experience for its users.
Faculty advisor:  Douglas Bucci

Second Place: Amanda Huang, University of Pennsylvania
MORPH TABLE
This coffee table can be customized by folding parametric panels and triangles to create various openings. By introducing the user’s interaction during the process of shaping the table, Morph offers indefinite appearances and responds to the user’s aesthetic and functional preferences.
Faculty advisors: Ben Krone and Sarah Rottenberg

Third Place: Kevin Bogan, University of the Arts
SELF PROPELLED GUIDED WEAPON SYSTEM
This tea table references WWII missiles with three legs flowing into a singular column that represents a missile’s form. Instead of relying on heavy ornamentation as many tea tables do, it rests on a simple line. The table can be appreciated equally for its formal qualities, craftsmanship, and reference to aviation’s history.
Faculty advisor: Don Miller

Honorable Mentions (Tie): Kathryn Moy, Pratt Institute
AMPLIFIED PLAY
The inspiration for this table began with looking at orchestras and how each entity is its own individual player in a whole system — and how that is similar to the way families interact while playing board games. The table’s intent is to bring families together for game play and to amplify the experience through sounds. The shape was inspired by a combination of steel drums and space ships.
Faculty advisor:  Katrin Mueller-Russo

Honorable Mentions (Tie): Vincent Falcone, Appalachian State University, NC
CHICANE
Chicane is a coffee table inspired by bicycle construction that incorporates modern composites with traditional materials. The table is inspired by the lugs that join frame tubes together on both vintage bicycles and today’s handmade bicycles.
Faculty advisor: Kern Maass

People’s Choice: Esli Teker, Parsons The New School for Design
ReFlex
The concept of ReFlex resides in the play of reflections within its mirrored layers and its flexibility of appearance through a set of customizable styles and colors. There are two interchangeable white/black glass tops with Pop Art images and a mirror. The shapes and transparencies in play allude to a boomerang floating and curving through the air.
Faculty advisor: Joel Stoehr

Founded in 1970, Collab is a collaboration of design professionals supporting the modern and contemporary design collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The student competition, founded in 1992 by PMA trustee and Collab Vice-Chair Lisa Roberts, and currently run by Collab member Roberta Gruber, gives university students the opportunity to take part in non-academic design and interact with today’s modern design leaders and other design academics.

Bird Droppings Create Typography in ‘Poo Printer’ by Fabrizio Lamoncha

December 12, 2013, 7:12 pm

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With help from a group of male zebra finches, Spanish artist Fabrizio Lamoncha has created the ‘Poo Printer’, an installation consisting of an analog typography printer which uses bird waste as a medium to form the Latin alphabet. With a wooden cage and a food tray at it’s center, the interchangeable device can be modified to the exact shapes and letters desired. As the group of zebra finches flock back and forth towards the food dispenser and begin to digest their meal, Mother Nature takes holds as the birds set themselves on a post killing time until they generate waste. Fecal deposits then cascade onto the arranged formation as a roll of paper captures the intended design. Once the entire process is complete, a letter is then formed on a canvas created entirely out of bird poo.

Here Fabrizio Lamancha reflects on his work:

A group of male zebra finches underwent this experiment with rigorous commitment. The author/captor, taking the role of some kind of 1984´s Big brother, is providing the implementation guidelines for the transformation of this countercultural attitude into a marketable artsy product. The observation of this group of non-breeding birds in captivity and the experimentation with induced behaviors has been rigorously documented for this task. This project researches in a hybrid, artistic and scientific framework the physiological, mechanical and social dynamics of birds under captivity in a simulated factory-chain environment.

Check out more from Fabrizio Lamoncha’s work at his website here and watch the ‘Poo Printer’ in action in the video below.

 

- Staff

[Source: Designboom]

Incredible Photos of Woman Lying Behind A Backlit Screen in “Be a Woman” by Hanna Seweryn

December 23, 2013, 1:07 pm

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Photographer Hanna Seweryn captures the very essence of a woman’s gestures such as drinking tea or playing with her kitten into an illuminating portrait in her photo-series entitled “Be a Woman”. In each image the woman sits at her table acting in simple movements behind a backlit screen. With monochromatic tones setting a transient moment in time the artist embodied a sense of delicacy and elegance combined with the being of solitude and independence within her character. Giving the audience a subtle yet intriguing narrative to play with Hanna Seweryn speaks further on her work:

I have been taking photographs since 2008, and every day I discover things which I wouldn’t normally notice. I perceive colors, light, shadows, and details that bring me happiness, give me inspiration and humble me. I like to walk my own roads of silence in contemplation, admiring the beauty of nature, people, and all that I might encounter on my way. Photography has become my passion, my great love, and healing for my soul, and my camera is my most faithful friend. It has enabled me to meet wonderful people and to see seemingly invisible things. Thanks to this passion I can share the way I see the world…my world…enclosed in the shape of a square.

Staff

[Source: My Modern Met]

PRINTS: “Untitled (Popeye)” by Scott Campbell

December 31, 2013, 9:00 pm

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ART: “Woman On Top” (1996) by John Wesley

December 31, 2013, 9:10 pm

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“Untitled #49″ by Peter Hwang

May 28, 2014, 7:00 am

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“Untitled #85″ by Lip Hwang x Peter Hwang

May 28, 2014, 9:41 am

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“Untitled #20 (Apple Destroyer)” by Peter Hwang

May 28, 2014, 11:10 am

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“Untitled #51″ by Peter Hwang

June 7, 2014, 5:14 am

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“Untitled #48″ (2013) By Peter Hwang

July 7, 2014, 4:12 am

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ART: “End-To-End Subway Car” by Seen

August 23, 2014, 8:19 am

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Black Silhouettes Painted On Windows Interact With It’s Environment From Artist Pejac

September 2, 2014, 10:23 am

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While using the environment as it’s back drop, Spanish artist Pejac cleverly draws acrylic silhouettes onto windows interacting with it’s surroundings. With such examples of a girl swinging from a tree to a man fishing atop a high-story building to his latest work of French high-wire walker Philippe Petit’s 40th anniversary walk between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, it seems as though Pejac maintains a level of simple minimalism at hand. Inspired by the notion of maintaining his privacy, Pejac started experimenting with paper and acrylics on glass windows, creating interesting little stories right through his living room window. You can view more from Pejac in the photos below.

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