120505 - Kit 04 - Sports & Kit 05 - Games & Toys by Andreas Samuelsson, here.
120430 - The tiles on the ground floor of Oscar Niemeyer’s Ministry of Education, Brazil.
120429 - Peter Shire’s sculptures from Hokkaido Story Revisited: Late Spring.
“Between 1991 and 1992, Shire took five trips to Japan and in the process made huge, astounding sculptures for Sapporo Breweries, the Hokuden Company and the AIM factory. While at AIM, with the assistance of his assistant, Shire created over 30 elegant small scale sculptures. In 2008, AIM went out of business and Shire returned to Japan to recover these works.”
120428 - Ettore Sottass’ Basilico Teapot.
120424 - Interference Pattern 42x made from Comics by Michael Mykola Haleta.
120423 - Mary Yacoob’s Thin Cities etchings,
“These thin city etchings are inspired by the novel “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino in which the explorer Marco Polo is asked by the Emperor Kublai Khan to describe the cities in his Kingdom. Each city has its own idiosyncratic logic. In the end, it is possible Marco Polo is just describing one city, Venice, but just looking at the same city from a different perspective.Each city etching has it’s own internal logic: eg a city of machine pathways; a city of plan rotation via the spikes on mountain tips; a rotating tool city; a city of tool heads in the sky….”
120422 - Salt Dome Beach Home, Eric Johnston
120416 - Edward Coyle, Doha Series, 2011
“I am intrigued by architectural and constructional processes; the accumulation of plans, materials and structures, and the way that each stage in this process sequentially obscures the previous stage as construction advances, brick by brick, towards its intended conclusion.A vast body of architecture exists only in the realm of the unbuilt, in the form of ideas, drawings or models. To engage in dialogue with these unrealised projections allows us to read beyond the surface of buildings.
My paintings represent my own (falsified) documentation of a building’s existence, where both real and invented architectural features percolate space. The painted layers of architectural structures can refer to the past, present or future of a building as well as the unrealised futures of any abortive projections.Architectural processes have parallels with my own painting technique, both in terms of how my compositions are conceived and also in the way they are executed.
My practice utilises sampled architectural imagery taken from architectural plans and conceptual designs, as well as from memory and imagination. I work these sampled structures or planes up onto canvas and then expand, disassemble or destroy them with each new layer of paint.The resulting works show an oscillation between the real and abstract, the temporary and the constant.”
120415 - ”La Tete Caree” (The Square Head), Nice, 2002, by artist Sacha Sosno and architect Yves Bayard, is a 7 storey administrative building for the public library.
120401 - Shigeo Okamoto, Calendar, 1981
120330 - Beans & Chips, Screenprint, London 1999
“For his first major body of prints, ‘The Last Supper’, a series of 13 screenprints made in 1999, Hirst based the designs on specific pharmaceutical packets but with the original drug names replaced by everyday British café food. ‘Beans & Chips’ is based on a packet of Becotide Rotacaps. Each pack contains 112 rotacaps, which are designed for insertion into a rotahaler and the contents inhaled. The product is used in the treatment of asthma by reducing inflammation in the lungs. Side effects include candidiasis (thrush) of the throat and mouth. The design of this print was incorporated into a stained-glass window at Hirst’s Pharmacy restaurant in Notting Hill, London.”
120311 - The opening of the Design 2012 show on Thursday was good fun. The exhibition is open until Thursday if you fancy a look.
120308 - My work in the Design 2012 group show at Dreamspace which opens this evening.
120306 - Ceramic sculptures by Ken Price.
From butdoesitfloat.com
120305 - Myself and a group of really interesting designers, artist and architects are in a group show this week at Dreamspace, London. The show opens tomorrow, with the private view on Thursday. Come along.
DESIGN 2012
Exhibition Dates: 6 - 15 March 2012
Private View: Thursday 8 March 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Admission Free
Opening Times: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5:30pm
DESIGN 2012 is the next installment of the annual Dreamspace Gallery open survey of contemporary design practice. The exhibition represents a wide range of recent design projects emerging from or via the UK and aims to investigate the trends running between the design disciplines. This year’s exhibition includes architecture, furniture design, product design, urban design, graphic design, typography and design interactions.
Featuring:
Adam Hiles
Carla Novak
David Edwards
Emily Yeung
Eva Sopeoglou
Hugh McEwen
Karin Soderquist
Laura Gill
Lee Stokes
Maya Cochrane
Mortar+Pestle Studio
Ross Gunter
Studio SC
Sonia P. Sanchez-Lopez
Yong il, Kim
dreamspace gallery
