Chilean-born designer Francisca Prieto experiments with typography to create innovative interior products and artworks. Her work plays with graphic elements in both 2D and 3D form giving each piece a rich narrative of its own. Says Prieto: “I like unexpected connections, like the idea of bringing together the concept of a compass and a clock…I also like taking things out of context, like using Japanese binding instead of hinges. The unexpected scale or context makes you look at it with different eyes” (via homelife)

Chilean-born designer Francisca Prieto experiments with typography to create innovative interior products and artworks. Her work plays with graphic elements in both 2D and 3D form giving each piece a rich narrative of its own. Says Prieto:

“I like unexpected connections, like the idea of bringing together the concept of a compass and a clock…I also like taking things out of context, like using Japanese binding instead of hinges. The unexpected scale or context makes you look at it with different eyes”

(via homelife)

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The city district Amsterdam Osdorp recently merged with Slotervaart and Geuzenveld-Slotermeer and was given the name Amsterdam Nieuw-West. This change also meant the end of 20 years of restructuring urbanized areas. To celebrate everything achieved, Martijn Hogenkamp and company created an intriguing video, ‘The Metamorphosis of Osdorp,’ that gives an overview of the architectural highlights they found the most characteristic.

Says Hogenkamp, “Restructuring urbanized areas isn’t all about aesthetics. That is why we chose to put emphasis on the architects and especially it’s inhabitants and the surrounding of the buildings. To achieve this, we decided to combine live action video with 2D- and 3D-animation. Herewith we were able to complement reality with our interpretation of the most important factors of restructuring urbanized areas.”

(via @vimeo)

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Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Her work is a fusion of installation, painting, performance, photography, and video art. Rather than painting a representational picture on a flat canvas, Meade paints her representational image directly on top of her three-dimensional subjects. The subject and its representation become one and the same. Essentially, her art imitates life on top of life. (via Alexa Meade)

Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Her work is a fusion of installation, painting, performance, photography, and video art.

Rather than painting a representational picture on a flat canvas, Meade paints her representational image directly on top of her three-dimensional subjects. The subject and its representation become one and the same. Essentially, her art imitates life on top of life.

(via Alexa Meade)

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