GAUD++
Opening Reception
March 31, 2008
Immediately following lecture
Robert and Hazel Siegel Gallery
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11205
To see the development of the project, please visit the blog at: http://www.gaudplusplus.com/
Archive for the ‘design’ Category
GAUD++ Opening Tonight
Monday, March 31st, 2008United Bottle
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Last Friday was the opening of United Bottle, a project by INSTANT ARCHITECTS, Dirk Hebel & Jörg Stollmann with Tobias Klauser at the Van Alen Institute. A very smart and interesting solution to the issue of waste.
Read about the project at the Van Alen’s site here.
More images after the jump below.
Jean Nouvel Wins Pritzker Price
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
GAUD ++
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
SOFTlab’s Mike Szivos has been leading an independent study group at Pratt’s GAUD. The group ( Jason Mcgee, Troy Zezula, Robert Beach, Sean Duggan, Andrew Seskunas + Mike Szivos) are curating this semester’s show of work produced at the school. They’ve been working on a parametric system for the manufacturing of the system of podiums which will hold the models. There is a perspectival organizational logic to the grouping of the models. The boards have their own organizational principle based on 3 different parameters too.
The show opens on Thursday at Pratt.
Visit the independent study’s blog at Gaud++, where they’ve documented the entire process very methodically. Pretty fantastic, and quite an amount of work.
Congrats guys.
Free-Range Workers
Monday, March 17th, 2008
“Free to roam on green pastures for health, happiness and recreation, with perminant (permanent?) access to over 60 free on-site classes and activities, ranging from yoga to guitar lessons… Computer literate”
In their own words: “A response to the similarities between many office working conditions and battery farmed hens.”
Brilliant.
View more of Usdesignstudio here. Go to Free-range Workers
Heart Beans
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I just came across this project created at the Bezalel academy for arts and crafts, for the course “Food for Thought” in the jewelry department. This coffee grinder operates according to the users heart-beat rate and is intended as a critique to consumerism (isn’t consumerism linked directly to the fetishization of objects?). In their own words: “To use this object, you must caress it and hug it, much like as a baby is held, the user inevitably bonds with it, emotionally.”
Although the object is currently a one off, it could potentially become a mass produced product. Ultimately, it is a poetic approach to an everyday object/task, and makes us [re]think about the way we relate with objects. Whether I would want to bond with my coffee grinder or not, well, that’s a different story.
Visit Nastypixel to read more about the project. Check out some of their other projects while you’re there, pretty interesting stuff.
Troika’s Cloud
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Just recently I came across Troika’s ‘Cloud’, an installation for British Airlines’ Terminal 5 in London’s Heathrow Airport . It uses a combination of digital input and analog double-sided disks (flip dots) to animate the skin of the sculpture. Absolutely fantastic.
Visit Troika’s website here.
According to their news section, they will have an exhibition at MoMA starting March 12. Not to be missed.
View the YouTube video after the jump below.
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SOFTlab Featured in Stiletto Magazine
Friday, February 29th, 2008
SOFTlab has just been featured in the latest issue of Stiletto Magazine, a high end fashion / culture quarterly French magazine. We met Laurence Benaim, the founder and Director of the Publication / Chief Editor of Stiletto at our studio back in November 07.
I’ll translate the article later on and post it here.
Design and the Elastic Mind
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
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I made it earlier today to the MoMA preview of Design and the Elastic Mind. I couldn’t really take enough time to look around, but it is definitely an impressive selection of interesting work..
I’ll post something more complete once I make it back to the museum and actually get to spend some time in the exhibition. But for now, here are some low quality phone pics for now.
Sagmeister @ Deitch
Friday, February 15th, 2008
I made it today to the Deitch Projects to see how the Sagmeister “banana wall text” was holding up. The show, although small, is pretty awesome. The banana wall text is gone, they’ve all ripened so all you’ll see an almost homogeneous color. The smell of the entire place reminds me of my house in Colombia: ripening bananas in the kitchen. It’s a nice cozy feeling.
His prints are fantastic -check out the small prints of salt-like text on the smaller room- and the interactive spider web.
More images after the jump below.