sculpture
Design
I Just Can’t Get Enough Of These Robolamps
6:40AM Sean Fallon | Croatian artist Robert Matysiak has a really awesome thing going with his Robolamps. It’s just a bunch of plumbing supplies and green light bulbs, but I want to collect them all. More »
Design
If The Kindle Had Its Way, This Stream Of Books Would Be An SD Card
3:30AM Adam Frucci | Biografias was created by artist Alicia Martin using 5,000 books. Eventually, we’ll probably be seeing physical books used more for art like this than for reading. Sigh. [Urban Prankster] More »
Design
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | We have seen Gerry Judah’s amazing work before, which mix awesome engineering and technology to get almost-impossible pieces, like this 32 metre high, 44 tonne sculpture showing two Audi cars shooting into the sky. Up close it’s mighty impressive: More »
Cars Racing On A 32 Metre High Vertical Road Make Me Wish For Antigravity Engines
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | We have seen Gerry Judah’s amazing work before, which mix awesome engineering and technology to get almost-impossible pieces, like this 32 metre high, 44 tonne sculpture showing two Audi cars shooting into the sky. Up close it’s mighty impressive: More »
Design
Reflections on a Baby Crocodile Driving a Pink Motorcycle
11:30PM Mark Wilson | Some may frown on this crocodile dying for his art, but mounted on that pink motorbike with the stagnant air in his face, I’d argue he’s living more than most of us. More »
Design
Metal ‘Portraits’ Make an Optical Illusion Out of Your Face
8:04PM John Herrman | Sculptor Brian Cox has made a hobby out of turning people’s faces into a real-life, stainless steel Rubin vase illusions. Novelty gifts, as a whole, now have a new standard for, well, novelty. More »
Design
Cityscope Illuminated Sculpture is Like Glowing Crashed Meteor In Cologne
9:40PM Kit Eaton | Cityscope is a new sculpture by Marco Hemmerling, designed to deal “with the fragmented perception of urban spaces” or something: To me, it’s better to imagine it as a meteor that just managed to soft-land in a city square. Or, better still than artistic mumbojumbo: perhaps as a particularly odd-looking alien spacecraft. This works even better when you learn its partially-mirrored surfaces disappear at night as it is dynamically multicolor-illuminated from inside. That said, there was a lot of design thought put into this to make it “fit” its space, and the whole thing was CAD-CAM’d into existence. Pretty. [Dezeen] galleryPost('cityscope', 3, ''); More »
Design
Paper Shredder Reinvented In Sculpture-Like Paper2Dust Concept
8:34PM Kit Eaton | Paper shredders are usually simple and utilitarian-designed boring boxes, which may be why Bluelarix Designworks went to town on this reimagining of the machine. Paper2Dust is bizarrely sculptural, and works by having a “fast turning cord” spinning inside the top that literally rips the paper you slide into it into dust. The glass lid of the machine lets you see how pulped the paper’s getting—when you’re satisfied you simply release the power button, and the dustified paper slips down into the machine’s leg. There’s the usual safety features of course, but if it ever made it into a real product I think its selling power would be the therapeutic value of seeing hated paperwork being vaporised. [Yanko Design] More »
Design
Animated Waterdrop Sculpture May Amaze, Make You Seasick
1:00AM Kit Eaton | Less spine-tinglingly freaky than the eerie-eyeballed Opto-Isolator animated sculpture, the upcoming Waterdrop sculpture by Héctor Serrano Studio for Roca may have a different side-effect: seasickness. It’s made of hundreds of moving vertical bars, each with a glowing tip, driven by motors to mimic in large scale the surface of a puddle after a water drop impact. Imagine: a darkened room with the repeating oscillations of a huge simulated sea surface. At the very least, it may make you wonder where the bathrooms are. On show at 100% Design London from 18 September. And if you can’t make it, there’s a video of the effect at the Waterdrop link. [Waterdrop via Designboom] More »
Gadgets
Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine, or Goodbye Kitty
7:35PM Gizmodo US Edition | Laydeez an’ gennulmen, I bring you the passive-agressive anger-release machine, an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz. It’s pretty self-explanatory—a vending machine that smashes smashables for you, although I’m not sure it gives you the same satisfaction that you get from chucking china at the floor. I dedicate this one to those people who were hoping for a 32GB iPhone at yesterday’s WWDC, anyone who believes that Hello Kitty is the Jim Jones of the 21st century, my director, Ang Lee, producer Harvey Weinstein, and my voice coach, Bart Simpson. Oh, hang on, haven’t I forgotten someone? More »
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