Coffee in cubes

MOCHA – MOJO COFFEEHOUSE BY MANCINI DESIGN

www.mancini-design.com

Mancini Design has created an amazing LEGO-like interior for a coffeehouse called Mocha – 

Mojo, located in Chennai, India.

scope new HOPE

www.scope-art.com

SCOPE Miami 2011

CHOKRA
Performance of Al Mtsaalh Haal
The Watermill Center- A Laboratory for Performance I Dec. 18 2010
Photo By Hronn Axelsdottir

and do not forget to visit - starring first time:

sweet home private art space

Gabriele-Maria Scheda
Bergmannstrasse 54
10961 Berlin
Germany                                         
Fon 0049 170/ 947 3004            USA  001-918-541-4091
mail@sweethome-privateartspace.com

Autumn workout

Primavera Vase Recycles Plastic Bottles

Primavera Vase is a cool vase frame that comes in various colors and helps recycle plastic bottles. The metal frame shaped as flower vase has fixtures for holding standard used plastic bottles so they functioned as an actual vase to put flowers in.

Now you can recycle one or three 0,5 liter plastic bottles. They come in black, white and red colors and cost $34.99. The vase is a great decoration object with a twist. The frame is a very elegant way to recycle the plastic bottles. It’s shape is traditional and recognizable but very sleek and beautiful.

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NEWSWORTHY WALLCOVERING BY LORI WEITZNER

http://www.weitznerlimited.com/














Lori Weitzner’s innovative Newsworthy wall covering takes recycled newspapers to a new level. The design is woven on a hand loom from strips of newsprint and backed for all applications from residential to hospitality.

Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milk.com/newsworthy-wallcovering-by-lori-weitzner/#ixzz1bdhIxhTk

Back in Town

Alan Wolfson
Miniature Urban Sculptures


http://www.alanwolfson.net/canal_st_cross_section.htm

"CANAL ST. CROSS-SECTION" (2009-2010) 27 x 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches STREET SCENE - OVERALL VIEW Notes from the Artist: I wanted to build a piece that resembled a core sample of a city street. As though you took a street, dug it up, and lifted it straight off the earth. "Canal St. Cross-Section" is a combination of five major pieces built into one box. There's a street scene on the top with a subway entrance on the corner. Looking down into the subway entrance, you are led to the two subterranean levels of the piece, both of which have intersecting cross views visible through the small windows on the sides of the piece. The street scene is not an exact representation of Canal Street, but rather a combination of existing and fabricated environments. The Canal Rubber store is modeled after the real thing — a landmark on Canal Street since 1954. The pizza place on the corner was inspired by one that existed on Eighth Ave. — I liked the signage. I decided to throw in the Chinese massage parlor both to give it a touch of Chinatown and also to spice it up a little. The other business establishments on the street were modeled to give the feeling of how Canal Street looked in the late 1970s. I've done so many subway environments over the years, showing almost every conceivable point of view. I wanted to incorporate several of these different views into this project. The problem was to make all that architecture work together and make sense visually. I was able to do that by having windows on the sides of the piece to accommodate the cross views. I gave the subway platform a sense of depth by using a carefully placed mirror at the far end. As with almost all of my projects, the sight lines were critical. "Canal St. Cross-Section" took eighteen months from start to finish.

August rebound

Textile Art

Sao Paulo exhibition I

2006, burlap

160 × 140 cm

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Untitled
2003, chlorine on sackcloth
170 × 125 cm

Touch down

Painting Reality

http://youtu.be/tXCnWUzUw_E

“Painting Reality” is a public art project in which unsuspecting drivers unwittingly painted Berlin’s Rosenthaler Platz intersection a strobe-like composition of blue, yellow, purple and red.

In an act of guerilla art, the artists IEPE & the anonymous crew poured vats of water-based environmentally-friendly paint at each corner of the intersection, while traffic was temporarily halted. As the lights turned green, some 2000 cars, including bicyclists, spread the 500-liters of paint in every direction. The vehicles soon spun a mesh of aleatoric lines, varying in thickness and color. Some lines are thin and retain their original hues, while others bleed into each other in wide bands of sickly palate.

by Samuel Medina

posted in Archifilms

Take your hat off

AKIO HIRATA’S EXHIBITION OF HATS

http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/designers/akio-hirata/
http://www.nendo.jp/en/works/detail.php?y=2011




Nendo‘s latest project is Akio Hirata’s Exhibition of Hats.

An installation of about 4,000 mass-produced non-woven fabric hats seem to become the walls and ceiling in no specific pattern, enabling the viewer to wander through the space in any way they like.



















The exhibit runs through this tomorrow at Spiral Garden in Tokyo.
Photos by Daici Ano.


Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milk.com/akio-hirata%e2%80%99s-exhibition-of-hats/#ixzz1REiYOnSJ

HIRATA NO BOSHI

Spiral Garden
2011.06.15 - 07.03

The graphic and exhibition design for the first major Japanese retrospective of internationally-known milliner Hirata Akio’s seventy years of work. For the exhibition space, we wanted to make Hirata’s hats stand out. The mass-produced non-woven fabric hats we created for the space are the antithesis of Hirata’s carefully handmade hats, and bring them into sharp relief through dramatic contrast. Hirata oversaw the shape of these hats, which float and stream through the exhibition like ghosts or shells of the real hats exhibited. Some are exhibition stands; others become walls, ceilings and diffusers to scatter 
light through the space. Flooded with roughly 4000 of these ‘ghost hats’ as though shrouded in a cloud, the exhibition space softly invites visitors inside. There, they find not clear-cut paths to follow but an environment in which they can wander and discover Hirata’s creations as they like, as a way of physically experiencing the creative freedom that underlies Hirata’s work.