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paris’ fondation cartier continues to commemorate its 30th anniversary with an installation created by interdisciplinary design studio diller scofidio + renfro. using the institution’s existing architecture as the framework for the project, ‘musings on a glass box’ occupies the entire ground floor of the jean nouvel-designed building, generating an immersive and captivating environment split between two adjacent gallery spaces.
We created an alternative view to near future if all humans would suddenly disappear. How much of our world would still be running with the help of automation and technology? How long would it last?
This series of animation and video work for tech event Slush consists of animated teaser, loops for all of the digiscreens in Helsinki metro, opening show, event screen content and closing words.
Teaser credits:
Client: Slush
Creative production company: VELI
Executive producer: Joni Lindroos
Director & animation: Matti Vesanen & Sakke Soini / VELI.fx
Grade: Pyry Pelkonen
Music & sound design: Sandra Tervonen
Voiceover: Juuso Ruohonen
Lyrics: Noah Kin
leroy approaches UFO as a weightless substance as if the object was a drop of water in the outer space, alluding to the universe of spacecrafts and satellites. being stretchable and supple, transforming the space with its mirror surface, the installation’s movement has no beginning and no end.
sato takuma’s WYSASSS-titled photo series captures what seems at first glance to be pure magic. mysterious installations of stones levitating on wooden pedestals provoking the imagination to conjure up some folkloric tale…
actually, the work’s name speaks for itself. the acronym WYSASSS — as you well definitely not have guessed it — stands for when you see the acrylic to see a stone and a stone. the trick is takuma places a piece of transparent acrylic between two stones before finding a perfect angle to take a picture so it would seem like there’s nothing supporting the upper stone. it levitates and then just like that, everyone is dumbfounded. try and look closer — you’ll see a slight difference in color where the acrylic is.
Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has completed an extension to a house on the shores of Italy’s Lake Garda, featuring glazed walls that disappear into the ground to open the living area up to the garden.
The client for the project — an economist from Vienna — wanted an addition that would add value to and improve the functionality of a villa originally constructed in 1680.
Bergmeisterwolf, which is based in South Tyrol in the very north of Italy, was tasked with expanding the home’s floor area and optimising the connection between the internal spaces and the large garden.
“We needed to design an extension tuned with the existing building in a way that they both enhance each other,” said the studio.
Au coeur des tribunes, le 12e Homme est la parfaite incarnation des instincts grégaires, de l’oubli de soi au profit des abattements et des jubilations collectives.
At the heart of the stands, the 12th Man is the perfect incarnation of gregarious instincts, of self-forgetfulness in favor of the collective abysses and jubilations.
in october 2017 the annual adobe MAX creativity conference took place in las vegas. german communication designer thomas wirtz created the identity of the event based on his master thesis ‘BTW’ — a modular system consisting of two components: a typeface, produced by 3D printing, and a variety of physical processes associated with the letters.
stunning!
when asked to design the sales office of china’s largest developer sunac, aeo chose to honor chinese tradition by emphasizing the expression of architectural logic following natural law. draping the building in a metal mesh curtain, the beijing-based studio uses the secondary skin to form a symbiotic space for both man and nature.
contrary to western architecture — which is based on a geometric form and stone masonry construction systems — aoe adopted a design for the exterior which is dictated by natural curves. the unique façade overhangs, with its eaves forming a gray lounge space linking the building with its surroundings. the metal fabric also forms a sustainable curtain to protect the building from direct sunlight.
wonderfully minimal.
One Hundred and Eight is an interactive Installation by Berlin-based Nils Völker mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans.
very cool kintic work in my old stomping grounds of cambridge. m.
Breaking Wave is an anamorphic kinetic sculpture created for Biogen-Idec’s new headquarters in Cambridge, MA by Plebian Design and Hypersonic.
Breaking Wave tells the story of the search for patterns, and the surprising results that come by changing our point of view. 804 suspended spheres move in a wave-like formation. When the wave crests and breaks, the balls hover momentarily in a cloud. From almost anywhere in the room, this cloud is purely chaotic, but step into one of two hidden spots, and this apparent chaos shows a hidden pattern. From the first, a labyrinth hints at the search for knowledge, and from the second, a Fibonacci spiral inspired flower reminds us of the natural order and patterns found in nature.
Scientists search through billions of experimental data points in order to find patterns to develop new drugs, to treat Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer, and other diseases. Without a particular framework or perspective, these are just 0’s and 1’s, with no form or information. But with the perspective of an understanding of molecular dynamics, these data points create a clear picture about the hidden dynamics within the body, and allow scientists to craft drugs to successfully treat these diseases.
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