German artist EVOL turns those power boxes you see on the side of the roads into apartment blocks, in effect creating miniature cities. Recently he was asked to create an installation in a place that’s almost the opposite of his normal environment… an open field. Instead of building something on the land, he decided to create in the earth itself. He ended up creating an intersecting X shape that allowed him to create his own city in the land that viewers can walk amongst.  (via This is Collosal)

German artist EVOL turns those power boxes you see on the side of the roads into apartment blocks, in effect creating miniature cities. Recently he was asked to create an installation in a place that’s almost the opposite of his normal environment… an open field. Instead of building something on the land, he decided to create in the earth itself.

He ended up creating an intersecting X shape that allowed him to create his own city in the land that viewers can walk amongst. 

(via This is Collosal)

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Technology and craft are common buzzwords these days, but the recent collaboration between Fendi and architecture duo Aranda/Lasch explores the duality with an unusual concept. Dubbed “Modern Primitives,” the project started with Aranda/Lasch’s sculptural installations based on a crystal structure and its “forbidden symmetries”, which debuted at the 2010 Venice Biennale before landing stateside at Design Miami last December. The sculptures, the result of the architects’ obsession with the way the modular shape “programs” the faceted patterns, may look futuristic and high-tech but were dictated by the organic formations of the crystals. Defining the project, this tension between order and looseness sets the stage for an interplay between high and low (the pieces are coated with a truck bed liner called Line-X), as well as craftsmanship and the digital world. In addition to lining one of Fendi’s Peeakaboo bags in Japanese medicinal Washi fabric woven with a design based on the crystals, there’s an iPad app to simulate how the crystals grow. In Modern Primitives’ latest incarnation, “Fatto a Mano for the Future,” Fendi brought the craft side to life in a live demonstration. Using the tetrahedrons and leathers from the Spring collection, Roman craftspeople worked alongside Aranda/Lasch at an event yesterday in their Fifth Avenue Store to meticulously hand-stitch covers. From there, the exhibit will travel to other store locations before becoming part of the Fendi Foundation. (via Cool Hunting)

Technology and craft are common buzzwords these days, but the recent collaboration between Fendi and architecture duo Aranda/Lasch explores the duality with an unusual concept. Dubbed “Modern Primitives,” the project started with Aranda/Lasch’s sculptural installations based on a crystal structure and its “forbidden symmetries”, which debuted at the 2010 Venice Biennale before landing stateside at Design Miami last December.

The sculptures, the result of the architects’ obsession with the way the modular shape “programs” the faceted patterns, may look futuristic and high-tech but were dictated by the organic formations of the crystals. Defining the project, this tension between order and looseness sets the stage for an interplay between high and low (the pieces are coated with a truck bed liner called Line-X), as well as craftsmanship and the digital world. In addition to lining one of Fendi’s Peeakaboo bags in Japanese medicinal Washi fabric woven with a design based on the crystals, there’s an iPad app to simulate how the crystals grow.

In Modern Primitives’ latest incarnation, “Fatto a Mano for the Future,” Fendi brought the craft side to life in a live demonstration. Using the tetrahedrons and leathers from the Spring collection, Roman craftspeople worked alongside Aranda/Lasch at an event yesterday in their Fifth Avenue Store to meticulously hand-stitch covers.

From there, the exhibit will travel to other store locations before becoming part of the Fendi Foundation.

(via Cool Hunting)

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 VR Urban created a digital installation that integrates projection, laser guidance and SMS to make graffiti. With a phone embedded into an over-sized slingshot, users simply type a message they’d like sent as part of their graffiti splat, and, guided by a laser, shoot that onto a wall that is being projected onto. The camera sitting above the projector tracks the laser point and then accurately projects the splat with message included onto the wall in real time.

(via Bas on Blogilvy)

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Design collective For Use/Numen created these astounding cocoons made only of packing tape floating in mid air so that visitors could climb inside and explore. The installations, which look like the work of horrifyingly large arachnids, grew in scale and scope as the year progressed, first deployed inside a small Croatian gallery, then an abandoned attic during October’s Vienna Design Week. The designers used nearly 117,000 feet and 100 pounds of tape.  “The installation is based on an idea for a dance performance in which the form evolves from the movement of the dancers between the pillars,” explains For Use’s Christoph Katzler. “The dancers are stretching the tape while they move, so the resulting shape is a recording of the choreography.”  (via @fastcompany)

Design collective For Use/Numen created these astounding cocoons made only of packing tape floating in mid air so that visitors could climb inside and explore.

The installations, which look like the work of horrifyingly large arachnids, grew in scale and scope as the year progressed, first deployed inside a small Croatian gallery, then an abandoned attic during October’s Vienna Design Week. The designers used nearly 117,000 feet and 100 pounds of tape. 

“The installation is based on an idea for a dance performance in which the form evolves from the movement of the dancers between the pillars,” explains For Use’s Christoph Katzler. “The dancers are stretching the tape while they move, so the resulting shape is a recording of the choreography.” 

(via @fastcompany)

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Dawn Ng’s paper installation “I Fly Like Paper.” Says Ng: “I have become obsessed by the notion of home and particularly intrigued by the origin of the word nostalgia…throughout my life, I’ve found this seductive feeling of homesickness or its opposite “far-sickness”-a desire to leave, both tsunamis of longing so great that either can overwhelm and paralyze my entire being. The idea of this work of art is to recreate this great wave of emotion. By orchestrating thousands of paper planes to physically burst through a single window and explode into massive indoor space, my intention is to visually and physically engulf the viewer.” (via design for mankind)

Dawn Ng’s paper installation “I Fly Like Paper.” Says Ng:

“I have become obsessed by the notion of home and particularly intrigued by the origin of the word nostalgia…throughout my life, I’ve found this seductive feeling of homesickness or its opposite “far-sickness”-a desire to leave, both tsunamis of longing so great that either can overwhelm and paralyze my entire being. The idea of this work of art is to recreate this great wave of emotion. By orchestrating thousands of paper planes to physically burst through a single window and explode into massive indoor space, my intention is to visually and physically engulf the viewer.”

(via design for mankind)

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Katrin Sigurdardottir does some amazing installation work. One of which that caught my eye was “High Plane.” It’s a very large white platform 13 feet off the ground with two perforated holes and ladders that lead up to them. To view the landscape, the viewers climb the ladders and poke their heads through the 2 holes in the platform. Simultaneously they are confronted with each other and their heads become a disproportionate part of the landscape. Katrin’s experimental installation can be viewed at the The Renaissance Society in Chicago, IL. You can also view her other installations here.  (via @okgreat)

Katrin Sigurdardottir does some amazing installation work. One of which that caught my eye was “High Plane.” It’s a very large white platform 13 feet off the ground with two perforated holes and ladders that lead up to them. To view the landscape, the viewers climb the ladders and poke their heads through the 2 holes in the platform. Simultaneously they are confronted with each other and their heads become a disproportionate part of the landscape. Katrin’s experimental installation can be viewed at the The Renaissance Society in Chicago, IL. You can also view her other installations here. 

(via @okgreat)

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A new exhibition of UK-based artist Antony Gormley’s work has just opened at the Anna Schwartz Gallery in sydney, australia. entitled ‘Firmament IV.” The show includes an installation of a single ‘expanded field’ which gormley has constructed from 1030,  150mm diameter steel balls and 1849 steel elements that have been welded together to create a non-regular, polygonal structure - a form that dissolves and resolves throughout the gallery.  Gormley’s work has always been about our sense of perception, testing our experience with physical presence in certain conditions of time and space. On this occasion, the viewer is asked to continually adjust his / her relationship to the field as he / she navigates through it. (via les-deux)

A new exhibition of UK-based artist Antony Gormley’s work has just opened at the Anna Schwartz Gallery in sydney, australia. entitled ‘Firmament IV.” The show includes an installation of a single ‘expanded field’ which gormley has constructed from 1030,  150mm diameter steel balls and 1849 steel elements that have been welded together to create a non-regular, polygonal structure - a form that dissolves and resolves throughout the gallery. 

Gormley’s work has always been about our sense of perception, testing our experience with physical presence in certain conditions of time and space. On this occasion, the viewer is asked to continually adjust his / her relationship to the field as he / she navigates through it.

(via les-deux)

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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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