Architect’s Eye: Speech Tchoban & Kuznetsov

Beautiful and slightly creepy-slash-awesome installation as part of this year’s Interni Legacy event at the Università Statale in Milan, during Milan Design Week. Created by Sergei Tschoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, partners at SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov, a Moscow based architecture studio, the sculpture is titled The Architect’s Eye. Composed of a stainless steel, reflective sphere, the art-tech piece utilizes an LED internal system to create the image of a huge human eyeball.

To add to the already big impact, the eye reacts as a natural eyeball would—rotating to look to the sky as well as at visitors and the ground, a color-changing iris and a pupil that increases and decreases in size.

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Interactive Starry Night

Like a storybook coming to life—imagining art come to life with the interactive, touchscreen, Van Gogh Starry Night by Petros Vrellis.

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Why you should care about SOPA

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Quirky and fun toy-story-for-books stop motion animation by Sean Ohlenkamp must have taken many long nights rearranging books, but well worth the effort.

The custom music by Grayson Matthews really helps to add a sense of wonder in the piece, giving personality to the each book in the small independent Type Bookstore in Toronto.

via Virginia Tevere

Paul Smith for London 2012

British fashion designer Paul Smith has created a series of seven postal stamps for the London 2012 Games, inspired by his good friend; Olympic cyclist, and Isle of Man native, Mark Cavendish.

Featuring Smith’s signature bright colored palette start at £3 for a single miniature sheet to £50 for a hardback collector’s book, also available online at www.paulsmith.co.uk.

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The making of the Eames fiberglass chair using the half-century old method, a remarkable process of craftsmanship.

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Beautiful explosions: Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang put on his largest “explosion event”
of the last three years, utilizing microchip-controlled explosives to form incredible
designs and patterns at Mathaf, Qatar’s Arab Museum of Modern Art.

via LA Hall

Now in Production: at Walker Art

AOL is featured on the cover and discussed in the branding section of the Walker Art Museum’s new publication and exhibit, Graphic Design: Now in Production—curated by Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio of Brand New.

“This major international exhibition explores how graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically over the past decade, expanding from a specialized profession to a widely deployed tool. With the rise of user-generated content and new creative software, along with innovations in publishing and distribution systems, people outside the field are mobilizing the techniques and processes of design to create and publish visual media. At the same time, designers are becoming producers: authors, publishers, instigators, and entrepreneurs employing their creative skills as makers of content and shapers of experiences.”

The exhibit is coming to NYC this upcoming summer at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Governors Island outpost May 16–September 2, 2012.

Redesign the NYTM

Editorial design from London based Studio8.

I find creative profiles to so interesting, how to document the life, ideas and style of people…The Selby, as always, does a beautiful job in this profile of Lucy Chadwick
short film created for Zara.

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