Espacios que inspiran: una escuela de idiomas en Valencia. En academias y escuelas muchas veces se cuida poco la decoración, normalmente se da más importancia a la funcionalidad que al estilo y si bien la funcionalidad es importante no hay por qué renunciar a una agradable estética. 2DayLanguages, una escuela de idiomas en Valencia, diseñada por +Quespacio es un buen ejemplo de ello.
El edificio en el que se ubica la academia tenía muchos puntos a su favor para ayudar a conseguir un buen ambiente, pero aún así tiene detalles decorativos muy interesantes y que pueden ser inspiradores para otras empresas. El punto de partida es simple, paredes blancas, suelo de tarima clara y muebles en madera natural también en un tono claro. Todo muy sencillo pero muy de acuerdo con las tendencias actuales en decoración, moderno y juvenil. El ambiente perfecto para la clientela joven que suele haber en una academia. Podemos hacer la distinción de las aulas por colores en vez de por números. Una buena idea: decora con las fotos de tus vacaciones.
Si aún no os habéis ido de vacaciones, probablemente lo haréis en los próximos días y apuesto a que cuando volváis de ellas vendréis con un montón de fotos estupendas llenas de fantásticos recuerdos.
Dan Tobin Smith. Decoracion Con Vinilos Decorativos Peru Infantil Pizarras - S/. 54,00 en MercadoLibre. Anamorphic Tape Projection by Doyle Partners. Artist Stephen Doyle of Doyle Partners (of paper sculpture fame) just completed this excellent anamorphic projection for the New York Times magazine using blue tape.
The project involved taping the various words of traits being taught at KIPP Infinity middle school in Manhattan, of which “grit” is one. The photo is great and I also enjoyed the making-of video showing just how it’s done. (via quipsologies) Words Can Fly: A 3D Typographic Poster in Support of Fukushima, Japan. This beautiful typographic poster made of folded paper was designed and constructed by Montreal-based designers Kyosuke Nishida, Brian Li and Dominic Liu for the Words Can Fly A Thousand Miles Project.
The piece shows a number of origami cranes bursting through the surface of carefully crafted type. Via their website: This design was inspired by the Japanese traditional custom, Senbazuri, which means a group of a thousand origami cranes. It is customary to fold these cranes to wish someone luck. We wanted to pay tribute to this custom through the process of constructing the paper sculpture.The words on the poster were inspired by the instant encouragement and consoling words that Japanese people were able to receive just after the tsunami and earthquakes hit Japan, through social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.
Vinyl LP Birds. Geometric Rooms by Esther Stocker. Italian installation artist Esther Stocker creates stunning geometric environments that can often be explored by the viewer.
The construction of each piece appears to follow some type of strange equation, resulting in unusual linear patterns and planes that completely transform the physical pace. (via empty kingdom) A house that rains on the inside. The Glue Society is an independent creative collective based in Sydney and New York whose work “encompasses everything from broadcast entertainment, commercial and print advertising, film direction and graphic design to books, art exhibitions, live events, video installations and sculpture.”
Their latest creation for the Sculpture by the Sea festival in Denmark is this installation entitled I Wish You Hadn’t Asked, a small house that rains nearly 200 litres of water every minute on the inside. Read more over on Creative Review. Photographs by Nicolai Lorenzen. Binary Box Wall Stickers. Great enormo wall decals from the Binary Box.
Swarms, Flocks & Herds: Installations by Kristi Malakoff. I’m really enjoying these large-scale installations of animals and insects by Canadian visual artist Kristi Malakoff.
Also check out her work with currency and flowers. And if you liked this also see the work of Eiji Watanabe. Geometric Rooms by Esther Stocker. 2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery. One Thousand Means of Escape. New work from Berlin-based artist Astrid Bin, described as “one thousand paper airplanes are suspended in flight, like flocking birds, or swarming insects.”
Reading her bio I’ve decided she’s probably a pretty cool lady: S. Astrid Bin is a British-Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Past endeavors have included baiting and then unbaiting 100 mousetraps with her hands, making a picture of a pigeon from 538 pieces of toast, documenting an attempt at making a million dollars in a year, locking herself in a disused bank vault for ten nights, making light into a drawing medium, sending hundreds of postcards to an empty building, shaving her head, and occupying a phone booth for 24 hours. She likes to play with, manipulate, study, test and provoke the audience in meaningful ways. Collapsible Leaves: Plant Sculptures by Azuma Makoto. Artist and designer Azuma Makoto (previously here and here) was born in 1976 and runs a haute couture flower shop called JARDINS des FLEURS in Moto-Azabu, Tokyo.
His work with plants and flowers also extends into personal artistic practice and client work where he creates a wide variety of sculptures, installations and objects using tress, leaves, moss, and other plants both organic and artificial. One of his most recent exhibitions, Collapsible Leaves at Eye of Gyre Gallery involved a remarkable collection of suspended and mounted sculptures made of tightly folded and layered leaves. Bird Light: Hommin. Oh heck yes. An attachable bird clip for lightbulbs by Hommin. Fluorescent light installations by Ko Siu Lan. Recent work by Chinese artist Ko Siu Lan for Galerie Paris Beijing. (via i heart my art) Black Cloud: Carlos Amorales Adorns Gallery Walls with Thousands of Black Paper Moths.
Black Cloud, 2009, Espacio AV Black Cloud, 2007, Yvon Lambert Gallery Black Cloud is an installation by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales involving tens of thousands of black paper months affixed to the walls of large interior spaces. The piece was first installed at Yvon Lambert in 2007 and then in a different configuration at an old baroque church in Spain that was converted to a multi-use space called Espacio AV in 2009. Gorgeous. See much more here. Tomás Saraceno Launches You into the Sky with His Latest Suspended Installation “In Orbit” at K21 Staendehaus. © Studio Saraceno & Kunstsammlung NRW In one of his most ambitious suspended installations to date, artist Tomás Saraceno (previously) launches visitors at the K21 Staendehaus museum in Düsseldorf more than 65 feet (20 meters) above the main piazza with a taut, multi-level web of netting. Titled In Orbit the giant interactive piece is constructed from three separate levels of safety nets accessible from various points in the museum separated by enormous PVC balls measuring almost 30 feet (8.5 meters) in diameter.
The resulting aerial landscape is an interesting hybrid between science fiction, spider webs, neural pathways and cloud formations. Cloud Ceiling: An Interactive Cloud Made with 15,000 Light Bulbs at Progress Bar in Chicago. Calgary-based artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett (previously) swung by Chicago this month and installed this amazing interactive lighting solution called Cloud Ceiling at Progress Bar. Constructed from hand-bent steel, reflective mylar, electronics, motion sensors, LEDs, and 15,000 re-appropriated incandescent light bulbs, the cloud is now a permanent fixture in the bar which opened earlier this week. Motion sensors embedded in the ceiling cause the cumulous surface of light bulbs to illuminate, effectively ‘mapping’ a lit path through the cloud as bar patrons move through the space. Brown and Garret were featured in this space last year, for a similar interactive cloud installed at Nuit Blanche Calgary. You can learn more about Cloud Ceiling here.