Peter Thuvander and Martin Hedenström of Swedish design group Muungano have won the Swedish Library Bus of the Year award for this library bus. The library bus, designed for the town of Kiruna, won the award from the Swedish Librarian Society. The bus incorporates a library, small cinema, computer games, a sofa for listening to music and internet access. The graphics were designed by Fredrik For..
Here’s another project from Dutch designer Anke Weiss, this time a table made from 150 bonsai trees. The trees take seven years to grow. Weiss then joins them using traditional carpentry techniques and coats the structure with epoxy resin. The flat top of the table exposes the structure of the wood itself, achieved through years of compressed growth. Weiss also created the Packaging Lights we fe..
Tres Tintas BCN es una empresa barcelonesa, editora de papel pintado, que nació en el 2004 con el objetivo de renovar el diseño imprimiéndole un aire fresco, joven y contemporáneo. 9 Selvas es la cuarta colección de Tres Tintas BCN, cuyo autor es el gran artista y diseñador Javier Mariscal. Javier Mariscal es capaz de expresarse a través de múltiples soportes y disciplinas artísticas: ilustració..
An exhibition of the British graphic designer Alan Aldridge opened at the Design Museum in London last week. It is the first UK retrospective featuring illustrations and graphic design works by Aldridge, who was one of the key graphic designers of the sixties and seventies and who worked extensively with The Beatles. Above: Beatles illustrated lyrics, A Hard Days Night 1969 The exhibition runs t..
The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minimum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the significance of this unusual calm, but are continually monitoring our closest star with an array of telescopes an..
Surface integration, 2008. ink on paper, 12" x 9" National radio quiet zone, 2008. ink on paper, 17" x 14" 2008. ink and aluminum foil on paper, 12" x 9" "Space projections + the process of organization" 2008, ink, graphite, acrylic and medium on paper, 72" x 36" "Support structure" 2008, ink on paper, 9" x 12" "Satellited" 2008, ink on paper, 9" x 12" "The radar building" 2008, ink and graphite..
He gives the impression of wanting to tidy everything up and clear away any unnecessary visual ballast. Meticulously and with surgical precision Richard Galpin breaks down the fine top layer of large-scale architectural photographs into geometrical forms and lines. Some of their elements are removed entirely, leaving the white bottom layer of the photographic paper, while others remain in place ..
march 31 - may 25 , 2007 heliumcowboy artspace, hamburg, germany http://heliumcowboy.com german grafitti- and street-artist boris hoppek is challenging every surface: taking his strong characters not only onto walls, but also on various materials from all kinds of backdrops (furniture, papers, blinds, advertising posters ...) to huge sculptures he builds from used cardboard boxes and sewing his ..
