Starbucks Cups Used as Drawing Canvas. EmailEmail A young Japanese illustrator Tomoko Shintani has added a little bit more charm to the already beloved Starbucks coffee cups by turning them into cute 3D comics series. “There was no particular reason or idea. I just drew on a cup because it was ‘paper,’” says Tomoko. Her drawings feature a little girl, usually accompanied by her pet cat, having fun in different settings. Tomoko’s little doodles start on a piece of paper and use a coffee cup as part of the canvas – that way she creates a slight anamorphic effect. The artist says one drawing takes her about an hour, which is around the same time you’d spend on a nice tall late, so have one and find your inspiration! Website: web.stagram.com, facebook. Cinematic Upside Down Street Reflections.
There's something incredibly fascinating about viewing the world through upside down reflections, taken through puddles on the street. it's like we're seeing the world with a new set of eyes, a perspective most of us are not really used to. It may take a second or two for your eyes to get adjusted to what's really going on. "They’re all untouched, except the 5th one (but it’s still a very light cropping)," explains photographer Yodamanu aka Manuel Plantin. "I shoot it as I frame it, cropped a lot, they wouldn’t make sense. It’s about seeing the reality the other way round on purpose. It’s not about shooting blind before cropping a lot. " "It’s fun trying because it’s challenging to frame something upside down while you focus 'upside up' - you have to try to see what I mean. Yodamanu on Tumblr. Alexa Meade Submerges Her Subject in a Pool of Milk.
Always one to push her creative boundaries, artist Alexa Meade recently experimented by painting on her subject and then submerging her into a pool of milk. After connecting with performance artist Sheila Vand through the internet, Alexa used her signature portraiture style of painting but decided that, this time, her canvas would be the white liquid we all grew up with. The incredible collaboration, their first joint release, is called “MILK: what will you make of me?” You can read more about this at Wired UK. Here's an excerpt. "It was a line that would merge her into background, the subject was something created to stand out from the background, the background was created to bleed into subject. " Make sure to watch the interesting and well produced behind the scenes video, below. Neon installation by joseph kosuth references james joyce's finnegans wake | designboom. Nov 27, 2012 neon installation by joseph kosuth references james joyce's finnegans wake one part of the installation ‘the wake (an arrangement of references with all the appearance of autonomy)’ by joseph kosuth, 2012hand-bent neonimage © kuad gallery joseph kosuth: the wake (an arrangement of references with all the appearance of autonomy)kuad gallery, istanbul, turkeyon now through february 23rd, 2013 one part of the installation ‘the wake (an arrangement of references with all the appearance of autonomy)’ by joseph kosuth, 2012hand-bent neonimage © kuad gallery lara mikocki I designboom.
DIY Drum Kit Chandelier. EmailEmail To pay tribute to the former restaurant on the site, The Drum, Charlotte-based restaurant JJ’s Red Hots asked a long time friend Matt Ludwig of Ludwig Metals to install a fully functional drum kit chandelier for the center of the restaurant. “Matt Ludwig is one of my closest friends, and also one of my oldest. Matt is a quiet dude, but he’s a funny son of a bitch.
Turns out, he’s also a pretty talented craftsman and welder. I am very proud to showcase his work in the restaurant and I hope our customers enjoy this piece as much as we do,” said Jonathan Luther, the co-founder of JJ’s Red Hots. Designer: ludwigmetals | via. New Color Wheels of Popular Music and Songs. Creative house Dorothy just tipped us off to two new prints they releasing today. Called The Colour of Popular Music and Song, the two lithograph prints cleverly take the names of popular music artists and songs and assign corresponding colors to them.
The Colour of Popular Music includes the names of 154 bands (and artists), from the obvious Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins to the more obscure Silver Apples, Black Flag and the Green Telescope. The Colour of Song features the titles of a whopping 576 songs including classics like Billie Jean, Brown Sugar, Purple Rain, Fools Gold and Blue Monday to guilty pleasures like Mr. Blue Sky, Goldfinger and Pretty in Pink. The Colour of Popular Music and The Colour of Song are available for purchase both as signed and stamped limited edition prints and as open edition prints. The Colour of Popular Music The Colour of Song Dorothy's website. Magical Miniature Clouds by Sarah Ann Wright. London-based photographer Sarah Ann Wright says she shoots "fun and dreams. " Though she's skilled at capturing everything from landscapes to portraits, it's her quirky conceptual photos of clouds that caught our attention.
The miniature white masses seem to magically float over a glass cup and a pair of hands as they send down showers and snow. 'With these images, I wanted to capture as much in camera as I could, as it adds to the realism, rather than relying on Photoshop too much later on," Wright tells us when we asked her how she created these photos. "Everything you see in the images is real, bar the snow falling, which is a snowfall texture layer in Photoshop. The 'rain' in the glass is actually hairspray, and the snow in the hands is fake snow - the kind you mix up with water. "The clouds are made from cotton wool, the pleats of which you usually buy at pharmacies to wipe your face with. Sarah Ann Wright's website. Kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 | designboom.
Nov 24, 2012 kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 ‘liquid light and soft bowls’ by kristine five melvær, exhibited at designtide tokyo 2012, japanimage © erik five gunnerud this year’s designtide tokyo 2012 included the food work exhibition curated by torbjørn anderssen and espen voll which featured 21 designs by eight individual norwegian designers, including two pieces from kristine five melvær‘s still life series that reinterprets the traditional role of the still life especially in terms of its representation. the ‘soft bowls’ and ‘liquid light’ pieces togetherimage © erik five gunnerud ‘liquid light’ filled with almost anything to project an ambianceimage © erik five gunnerud image © erik five gunnerud an inset brass candle holder provides the lightimage © erik five gunnerud ‘soft bowls’image © erik five gunnerud one design is the conceptual inverse of the otherimage © erik five gunnerud the smooth rounded shapes give an almost plastic aestheticimage © erik five gunnerud.
Flux cocoon by allegory | designboom. Nov 24, 2012 flux cocoon by allegory ‘flux cocoon’ by allegory, lausanne, switzerlandimage © laura rimayatiall images courtesy of allegory installed in the heart of the city of lausanne, ’flux cocoon’ by allegory is one of the winning projects of the the city’s first light festival, lausanne lumières, which will inaugurate on 23 nov. entirely influenced by its location, the project is situated at the crossing between vertical and horizontal circulatory movements, interpreted as the flux. the framework is an abstraction of the knot created by the crossing of each pedestrian’s virtual trace at this precise point in the flon area. an illuminated knot is suspended around an elevated pedestrian pathimage © laura rimayati upward view of installationimage © laura rimayati elevator and pedestrian pathwayimage © laura rimayati elevatorimage © laura rimayati installationimage © fabien & francis pont installationimages © allegory renderingimage © allegory conceptual diagramimage © allegor albert schrurs.
Fabian oefner: dancing colors - making sound waves visible | designboom. Nov 23, 2012 fabian oefner: dancing colors making sound waves visible ‘dancing colors’ by fabian oefnerall images courtesy of the artist bridging the gap between the acoustic and visual world, fabian oefner‘s ‘dancing colors’ express sound waves through explosions of colored pigments,their movement a result of music pulsing through a speaker. the swiss artist wraps the device in a thin foil of plastic and places the powderon its top surface. when the box receives a sound, the film begins vibrating, causing the colored matter to explode and shoot into the air in a symphonic manner. it is these moments – which last only a fraction of a second – that oefner captures. the process involves the artist attaching a microphone to the speaker, picking up sound at which point a signal is sent to a connected flash system,triggering the lights to illuminate these ephemeral instances. colored pigment is placed on speakers, the vibration of sound causing the matter to explode into the air.
Breathtaking Aerial Photography by Klaus Leidorf. EmailEmail There are many different ways to find peace – while some of us meditate, there are those who choose to pilot a plane and take pictures out the open window at the same time. Meet Klaus Leidorf, a 50-year-old aerial archaeologist from Germany, who takes stunning overhead photos while flying his Cesna 172. When Klaus started doing this back in 1989, his Contax camera wouldn’t allow him to capture very detailed shots – now, however, with his DSLR cameras (EOS 1DS Mark III and EOS 5D Mark II), his photographs are incredibly precise.
What excites Klaus the most about being up in the sky is the chance to see the Earth from a different perspective. Website: leidorf.de | 500px | flickr. Famous Old Photos Recreated in Color by Sanna Dullaway. EmailEmail Ever thought what was the color of Abraham Lincoln’s hair? Most of us probably see him in black and white in our minds because of all the old pictures, yet a Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway decided to give the past a high resolution color makeover. She retouched some historic and iconic pictures we’ve grown so familiar with, and recreated them in color. Sanna presented these pictures as a way to promote her services of photo restoration.
What was intended to showcase her great photoshop skills, instantly went viral and turned into a huge debate on mocking the past. Some users got really upset with Sanna inventing the coloring of the historic moments, while others appreciated how she brought back the emotional impact of the scenes. Website: forrifarg.se Abraham Lincoln Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc Winston Churchill Operation Crossroads, Baker Event at the Bikini Atoll Charles Darwin Theodore Roosevelt Che Guevara Charlie Chaplin Anne Frank August Strindberg Fridtjof Nansen Marc Twain.
Panoramic lightwalls by lightboys | designboom. Nov 20, 2012 panoramic lightwalls by lightboys ‘lightwalls’ by lightboys offer panoramic views of the outdoors within one’s interior ‘lightwalls’ is a collaboration between german company lightboys and international photographers. carefully selecting and editing the image makers’ medium and large format analogue and digital works, lightboys develop the pictures into immense light walls which transform one’s interior with breathtaking views of nature, skylines and even urban graffiti. all photographs are signed in limited editions. image © christian schmidt image © rüdiger nehmzow image © jan van endert image © christoph marlinghaus image © bernd opitz andrea chin I designboom. Traffic cone salt & pepper shakers by labyrinth at designboom shop | designboom. Nov 20, 2012 traffic cone salt & pepper shakers by labyrinth at designboom shop ‘traffic cone s&p shakers’ by labyrinthimage © designboom see all fun items of the designboom shop!
Traffic cone s&p shakers by labyrinth from spain ‘traffic cone s&p shakers’ by labyrinth ‘traffic cone s&p shakers’ now available on the designboom shop:practice safe seasoning with these novel traffic cone salt and pepper shakers! General info:content: set of 2 cones (black/clear + orange/clear)dimensions: 7.5 x 7.5 x 10.2 cm (each cone)packaging: 8 x 15.5 x 11 cm / weight ca. 135 g traffic cone pepper shaker europe USD 22 product + USD 10 shipping and handling = USD 32 total other destinations (USA, canada, asia, oceania, …) USD 22 product + USD 15 shipping and handling = USD 37 total see also other items by labyrinth: inbox mini cargo crates miniature palette coasters see designboom shop index! Anita hackethal I designboom. Dysfunctional luxuries - deliberately faulty objects by jeremy hutchison | designboom. Nov 20, 2012 dysfunctional luxuries deliberately faulty objects by jeremy hutchison ‘grater’ by jeremy hutchisonimage © jonathan minster jeremy hutchison: erratumparadise row, londonon from december 5th through to december 21st, 2012 designboom had the chance to speak with london-based artist jeremy hutchison for his project ‘erratum’, where he invited workers from factories across china, india, turkey and pakistan to insert an error in the items they mass-produce every day. the project is an extension of his 2011 project ‘err’, which saw workers produce an eclectic array of odd artifacts – from a comb with no teeth (made at star creations ltd. in kolkata, india), a spade with its blade upended (from romanik tools S.A in gdansk, poland), to a smoking pipe without a bowl (from pipsan pipes in istanbul, turkey). each object will be numbered, sealed and authenticated with the provenance (factory name, worker and year of production). designboom discusses with hutchison his work in greater depth:
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