On the face of it this scene looks like a nice, if unremarkable acrylic painting. You’d be half right. This is the work of Washington-based artist Alexa Meade. Her canvas are people. She paints directly onto her subjects, making them appear to be part of her art installations. To find …]]>

On the face of it this scene looks like a nice, if unremarkable acrylic painting. You’d be half right. This is the work of Washington-based artist Alexa Meade. Her canvas are people. She paints directly onto her subjects, making them appear to be part of her art installations. To find out for about Alexa and her work, visit here.

The VitraHaus, built by Herzog & de Meuron — home to the Vitra Home Collection. Discover furniture arrangements in different style genres, inspirational ideas for your home and the VitraHaus café, I wonder if they can top Ikea’s hot dogs…

Wallpaper* and Phaidon have made a name for themselves over the years for producing small but well crafted city guides for the self discerning tourist. A pocket sized and well designed guide can be a real insight into a city’s character but carrying around a city guide isn’t …]]>

Wallpaper* and Phaidon have made a name for themselves over the years for producing small but well crafted city guides for the self discerning tourist. A pocket sized and well designed guide can be a real insight into a city’s character but carrying around a city guide isn’t for everyone and does shout out TOURIST. However, Wallpaper* have developed their city guides into a line of iPhone apps that are as well designed as the guides themselves if not lacking a little in content.

Currently Wallpaper* are giving away the Berlin City guide on the iTunes App Store for FREE. Yes FREE. So go grab a copy now and get your tickets booked for Berlin. Oh and £2.39 for each other city guide, it’s pretty competitively priced though we’d still like to have the printed publication as well.

A web-based project, Thirty Conversations on Design collects the thoughts of 30 of the world’s leading designers, architects and authors. Thirty Conversations… is  the brainchild of Joe Cecere, Creative Director at Little&Company, a strategic branding and design firm located in Minneapolis in the US.

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A web-based project, Thirty Conversations on Design collects the thoughts of 30 of the world’s leading designers, architects and authors. Thirty Conversations… is  the brainchild of Joe Cecere, Creative Director at Little&Company, a strategic branding and design firm located in Minneapolis in the US.

Each participant in the project is asked to consider two questions: “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?” — the varied responses make
for compelling viewing. Among the first batch of interviews are Pentagram’s Paula Scher, branding stalwart Massimo Vignelli
and, my favourite, the irrepressible Professor Erik Spiekermann.

Enjoy.

(Thanks to FontFeed for bringing this to my attention.)

Beyond Limits is back! Since 2005, Chatsworth House in the heart of Derbyshire has been showcasing over-sized sculptures due to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s. Last year’s star attraction was Marc Quinn’s giant, floating baby, Planet, and this year it’s a life-size maquette of …]]>

Beyond Limits is back! Since 2005, Chatsworth House in the heart of Derbyshire has been showcasing over-sized sculptures due to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s. Last year’s star attraction was Marc Quinn’s giant, floating baby, Planet, and this year it’s a life-size maquette of Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North. I went on Sunday and it was rammed! Recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Modern, young & colourful architecture from Bratislava by Vallo Sadovsky Architects.

The last project I worked on at There in Sydney has recently been completed for Mac Interactive Architects. To celebrate the firms 10th year in business a limited edition coffee table style book with laser etched cover and brand new website was created. See more on this …]]>

The last project I worked on at There in Sydney has recently been completed for Mac Interactive Architects. To celebrate the firms 10th year in business a limited edition coffee table style book with laser etched cover and brand new website was created. See more on this project and a some other lovely new projects here.

A sickeningly slick portfolio from Brussels-based, Pam & Jenny.

XTEN Architecture, founded by Monika Häfelfinger (Swiss) and Austin Kelly (American) is a full service architecture and design firm with offices in Los Angeles, California and Sissach, Switzerland. They have a great website with some really interesting work, in particular the Openhouse and Surfhouse.

I have never seen images as mesmerizing as these by Jan Kempenaers. How can these be for real!?

via Hello You!