Luna Park opened in Brooklyn in 1903, during the heyday of Coney Island attractions. This weekend, artist Fred Kahl pays tribute to the park’s history with a 3D-printed model depicting it as it appeared 100 years ago. It’s being billed as the largest art installation ever created on a desktop 3D printer, and building it involved some fascinating, custom-made technology.
There is something seriously satisfying about watching someone with steady hands drag a paint-laden brush along a smooth surface to make a picture-perfect letter. Sign Painters is a new documentary that offers that—so much of that—and profiles people in the in-flux industry who continue to make the way-finders and place-markers in our cities truly beautiful.
10 years ago, pop artist Brandon Bird found an X-Men coloring & activity book filled with awful sketches at a dollar store. Brandon eventually decided to turn it into a collaborative work with his fellow artist friends. But instead of simply coloring its pages, they each picked a sketch in the book and made original art based on it.
Brandon presented the artworks under the appropriate name X-Mans earlier this month at the Nucleus gallery in L.A. Here are some of the pieces:
As you can see, most of the pieces are lighthearted – Nate Carle’s Fourclops looks like it actually came from the sketchbook – but a couple of them made the best out of the source material, such as Amy Dixon’s Grey’s Anatomy and Erin Pearce’s Magneto Hates Birthdays. Have your browser wear Cerebro and head to Brandon’s website to see all of X-Mans. Brandon is also selling prints of some of the pieces on his online shop.
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The immense city scape of Tokyo has inspired many a photographer and video artist, with it’s vast sprawl broken up only by high rises jutting out of the swarm of movement on the ground. One such inspired photographer is French video artist Samuel Cockedey whose time lapse piece, Android Dreams is one of the best examples I have seen capturing the neon studded capital in fantastic detail.
Shot over the course of one year, Cockeday seems to have discovered some pretty outstanding vantage points from where he shows us Tokyo’s crammed streets and sheer size. Focusing mostly on the skyscraper district of Shinjuku the colors and light make the city change face as the time progresses. Cockeday comments that the piece is, “A tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapse”. As he says himself, stick it on full screen, watch in HD, turn the sound up, sit back and just take it all in. Enjoy!
I recommend checking out his other time lapse pieces on his channel on Vimeo also where he explores other areas of Tokyo and brings the city to life.
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Art school — incubator of tomorrow’s next great visionaries, or think tank for the Robot Apocalypse? Sorry folks, but this latest Arduino frankenconcept looks to be working against Team Humanity. Part of Art Institute of Chicago BFA student Daniel Jay Bertner’s recent oeuvre, the Tracking Interactive Mechanism (or T.I.M., for short) uses a webcam operating OpenCV to follow gallery-traipsing gawkers’ faces, and respond to their movements. Careful, though. T.I.M. here bites, or at least makes virtual attempts to pierce your flesh thanks to a hidden photocell mechanism triggered by a viewer’s proximity. There’s just one thing Daniel left out of his wall-mounted, predatory cyborg installation — the requisite Hannibal Lecter soundboard. Jump past the break to see this nightmarish, mixed media concept in motion.
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Renowned for bringing together not only the best in design but also those that are functionally outstanding, the 2011 Good Design Awards Exhibition is currently displaying the finalists for this years coveted prize. From children’s play things to industrial tools, vending machines to fireworks the exhibition represents the best of what the Good Design Awards have come to stand for in its 30 year history.
This year judges have been given the (rather ambiguous) phrase “To be reasonable” to help them in deciding the winning products that are striking in design but enhance peoples lifestyles at the same time.
Amongst the designs on display that the public can vote for are the playful “15.0% Ice Cream Spoons” from Lemnos and Terada Design Architects. The simple and clean design is made from aluminum which has a “high thermal conductivity” meaning the body temperature of the users hand, “slowly melts the ice cream making it easier to scoop”.
Also on display was STAMP iT from D-Bros. whose shop in Tokyo is set up around a large central table where customers can create personalized stationary, cards, bags, iphone covers and a whole range of other things. Almost antique in their look it is a nice twist on the modern day mass produced market that we are used to.
Another playful item that is nominated comes from Jakuetsu and is titled “Omochi”, meaning a Japanese rice cake. The children’s play thing is shaped according to its namesake and is designed for young toddlers to clamber all over it from all angles.
Regular visitors to Japan Trends will also remember the “Designer Fireworks” we uncovered some time ago. Part of the designs that were selected from “Kyushu-Chikugo genki-project” included very similar amazingly intricate fireworks, that are almost too good to set on fire.
The “Kyushu-Chikugo genki-project” aims at using design to revitalize regions through creating jobs around different products, where the whole process from design to production is taken into consideration.
Showing that striking design can be applied to even the most mundane items, the whole set of tools product from Nishimura is a beautiful example of Japanese design strength in the product and the packaging vessel it is contained in. Paying as much attention to detail and craftsmanship in the boxing as well as the product, the whole thing would look as at home in a display case as it would in a tool shed.
The awards even encompass architectural design including the above construct of outdoor brand Snowpeak’s headquarters by Taisei that blends the shape of the land into the building itself, keeping in with the brands environmental image. Along similar environmental theme also was the slope stability tool, basically a huge screw into the earth, that anchors the earth alongside trees. The cedar wood dining table and chairs drew on the natural theme, creating a beautiful smooth finish and elaborate patterning on the surface.
The exhibition is on display at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub until 13th November.
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