Moroso + Stephen Burks

A fantastic collection of striking colours, patterns and weaves enriched a series of products made in Africa by local artisans and designed by some of the leading African artists such as Fathi Hassan, Soly Cisse and architect David Adjaye, but also by european designers such as Patricia Urquiola and Philippe Bestenheider.
Bibi Seck and Ayse Birsel present a weaved rocking chair and the large armchair Madame Dakar, Stephen Burks created a series of low tables and chairs in colourful plastic weaving.
Urquiola signs a bench made of weaved coloured plastic strings and Rift, an upholstered armchair. Bestenheider designed Binta, a bold upholstered seater dressed with a variety of fabrics with combining vivid colours and patterns.
Loads of stunning pictures at the link in the title.

Dwele's MJ Tribute

One of the best tributes I've seen so far. Organic and heart felt. The moment feels so private and ultimately fun. Well done.

Robobird

Twenty-first-century robotics has a way to go before it catches up with 20th-century science fiction. But a German technology company has come up with a robotic penguin that Isaac Asimov himself would have admired.
Festo’s penguins — “autonomous underwater vehicles” — look, act, and move like real penguins. (They also have dolphinlike sonar capabilities and the ability to swim backward.) And if these birds fail to impress, check out Festo’s new line of bionic air penguins: flying robots that move like sea creatures and look like shiny dirigibles.

H&M Ad (great title huh?)

I wish I did this.

HOTEL DISTRITO CAPITAL, MÉXICO DF

ARQUITECTURA: Diámetro Arquitectos

DISEÑO INTERIOR: Joseph Dirand

ARTE: Thomas Glassford (Lámpara)

ANTIGÜEDADES: Claudia Fernández

DISEÑO: Pablo Rovalo

Grzegorz Domaradzki

Danielle Laporte

Authenticity of selflessness. Paths to your purpose.

DesignHotels.com

Just go.

http://www.designhotels.com

Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman

Amazing.

Aero-erotica

This is some sexy-exy shit.
The Icon A5 will revolutionize air travel. The designers hope to make flying as easy as driving a car. This personal aircraft is the necessary toy for those who need to supplement their recreational vehicle arsenal. The Icon A5 is amphibious, has fold-away wings making surface shuttling, storage, and terrain accessibility all the more practical. It seats two. It’ll run you an estimated $139,000. First deliveries are expected in 2010.

Objectified: The Movie trailer

A must see for me.

Posters by Brandon Lesley

Eartha Kitt - C'est Si Bon (Live Kaskad 1962)

UPDATE: I poster this on December 19th for the sheer joy it brought me. Now just 6 days later I find out she passed away on Christmas day. I was a little shaken. But I won't be sad. Her legend lives on! Rest in Peace sister.

Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley’s works reference specific paintings by Titian and Tiepolo, but he incorporates a range of art historical and vernacular styles in his paintings, from the French Rococo to the contemporary urban street. Wiley collapses history and style into a uniquely contemporary vision. He describes his approach as “interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit.” He makes figurative paintings that “quote historical sources and position young black men within that field of ‘power.’” His “slightly heroic” figures, slightly larger than life size, are depicted in poses of power and spiritual awakening. He deliberately mixes images of power and spirituality, using them as a filter in the portrayal of masculinity. Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition Infinite Mobility recently appeared at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.



Down, an exhibition of new paintings by Kehinde Wiley, opens at Deitch Projects on November 1, 2008. This exhibition consists of four new large-scale paintings inspired by images of fallen warriors, saints, and classical mythology.

Emiliana Torrini

On my other blog this would be "music I'd like to se in a commercial" here it's just random shit I like. I'm endlessly enamored with the creative process. I'm often more intrigued with the process than the product. There's something so honest about creating, the first kernel of an idea, moving an idea into a raw concept, the unrefined blemishes, the mistakes that work & the godlike nature of creating. It's like literally moving the spirit into the material. For me the most fun part of the dance is learning to do it.

Emiliana Torrini - Big Jumps

Hello Karpa

David Carvalho, has been born in 1980, he is a Portuguese Artist & Designer that has been developing work in many design disciplines, by himself and together with also other artists all around the world for the past years.

Structures/Facades

Tine Roeder and David Krings did a collaboration together called ‘Structures/Facades’. The inspiration for this sideboard (it is just a prototype for now) was the architectural history of East- and West-Berlin, rich in visions and utopias.

Brionvega

The venerable Italian brand Brionvega thinks the 60s and 70s are worth bringing back, or that at least some of the design sensibilities of the era warrant new life. The classic, groundbreaking Radiofonografio, divined in 1965 by two of the three Castiglioni brothers, Pier Giacomo and Achille, is making a new entrance as RR226. In 1965, the “musical component robot” was a home electronic marvel that in one sleekly designed device included a radio, amplifiers and a record player (for both 45s and 33s).



The modernized model has also a CD and DVD players but otherwise it is as close as possible to the original. The amplifiers are moveable which makes it possible to create different configurations both for visual and listening pleasure. Showcased at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in April, RR226 may be a while coming to a store near you.




But like so many of the Castiglioni brothers’ objects, still produced and/or displayed by Zanotta, Flos, Artemide and MoMA, the Radiofonografio is most likely going to stay with us for yet another long period. - Tuija Seipell

source:
www.thecoolhunter.net

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