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Month: September, 2011

Anamorphic Typography

Joseph Egan.

“Our work encourages the viewer to walk into and around typography, an immersive experience considering that their usual relationship with type would normally be realised on a two dimensional surface be it printed or computerised. Being able to appreciate it physically painted onto walls of buildings which the viewers are used to interacting with every day draws attention to the beauty of typography and at same time highlighting the architectural forms that it adorns.”

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Chop Stick

Indianapolis Museum of art.

Progetto: Visiondivision.

Every product is a compound of different pieces of nature, whether it is a cell phone, a car, a stone floor or a wood board; they have all been harvested in one way or another. Our project is about trying to harvest something as gently as possible so that the source of what we harvest is displayed in a pure, pedagogic and respectful way—respectful to both the source itself and to everyone visiting the building.’

Commissionato come chiosco per i 100 acri di giardino dell’Indianapolis Museum of art, Chop Stick è un progetto ispirato al concetto che sia necessario rinunciare a qualcosa per realizzare una cosa nuova.  Read the rest of this entry »

Piet Oudolf

“All my work is related to trying to recreate spontaneous feeling of plants in nature. The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.”

. Highline, New York, U.S.

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The Social Playground

‘Knowledge Lives Everywhere’ Exhibition.

Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, U.K.

Progetto: Aberrant Architecture.

The Social Playground è un progetto realizzato in collaborazione con gruppi della comunità locale e si ispira alla tradizione britannica di decorare le uova sode per poi farle rotolare per colline e pendii nel periodo pasquale. Read the rest of this entry »