Design that offers a new perspective on everyday items can be both thought-provoking and inspiring. For this blog post, we bring you a selection of designer-artists whose experimental work takes an oblique look at the obvious.
Design that offers a new perspective on everyday items can be both thought-provoking and inspiring. For this blog post, we bring you a selection of designer-artists whose experimental work takes an oblique look at the obvious.
Masks in art and costume span centuries and different cultures from around the world. This selection of artists has taken the concept of a mask and reworked it with fascinating results.
Pop Art is now a constant presence in our culture. However, the movement only really emerged in 1950s America and the UK, developing more in the 1960s with artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein who led a new breed of artists in revolt against the accepted art and cultural norms of the time. For a much more detailed explanation and to see some fantastic examples of Pop Art check out the Tate, while this feature explores Pop Art in product design.
Occasionally we like to bring you artworks with more than a passing nod to nature and this piece takes a closer look at art that pays homage to the tree.
Gustav Klimt at Atelier des Lumières takes visitors on a journey through 100 years of Viennese painting. The immersive exhibition, which has just been extended until January 6, 2019 takes an original look at the works of Klimt – marking the centenary of his death, through a presentation of the portraits, landscapes, nudes, colours, and gilding that revolutionised Viennese painting at the end of the nineteenth century.
If you want to be immersed in the very best of contemporary electronic and experimental music then check Assembly — a five-day event at London’s Somerset House running from November 14-18, 2018.
As well as giving us a taste for what we’ll be wearing next year, London Fashion Week also saw the return of designer Anya Hindmarch’s Chubby Hearts campaign featuring a huge ‘cloud’ beanbag in the City’s historic Banqueting House.
Now is your chance to cast your vote in The Architectural Photography Awards 2018, supported by the World Architecture Festival (WAF) and PICSEL and sponsored by Sto and Dornbracht.
Interactive architecture and installations are responsive to their changing circumstances using sensors, processors, and effectors embedded into their core design and structure. This means that they go beyond merely being automated, to include interactions and responses that are pure communication, placing the design firmly in the emotive and artistic realm.
Here, we bring you some examples of interactive architectural and installation projects and the people and studios behind them.
It’s not often we come across agencies that truly live up to the oft-used hype ‘pushing the boundaries’. However, when we found Loop.pH, we knew it was special, so we decided to devote a whole feature to some of its recent work.
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