crazy cool installation from japanese artist hiroshi fuji featuring over 50,000 recycled toys.
love the rainbow of colors. so much detail in this - from the organization by color to the organization by shape and style. the more you look at these images the more impressive (and insane!) the installation feels.
via creative boom
it's monday, i'm in love.
fuchsia. bugs. ornate walls. american artist jennifer angus has my heart.
and guess what, DC friends? this beauty will be coming to the smithsonian in november. let the countdown begin.
images from designboom, photographed by rob blunt.
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very cool exhibit from the minneapolis institute of art and handsome cycles.
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gotta plan a trip for this one. take a look at how UK gallery inverleith house showcases - in the coolest way - the work of swiss artist nicolas party.
party transformed the interior of the gallery/house into a contemporary installation of his paintings, using every inch of the seven gallery spaces throughout the house to display his work.
from inverleith house: "each room takes on its own thematic discourse, like chapters in an absurdist narrative whole and whether full, immersive tableaus or repeating designs, party’s artwork continuously oscillates between abstraction and figuration."
that's a lot to unpack! but i love the idea of each room being a chapter in this story and the play on abstraction versus representation. also, this first room is my favorite color palette basically ever so there's that too.
it's always inspiring to me to see how art and design projects are born. ultimately, most of them come from someone seeing something a certain way, in a different context, and wanting to share that point of view. while visiting the louvre, artist and filmmaker julien de casabianca did just that. he saw alittlesomethingspecial. he was struck by a painting of a woman that was placed randomly in the corner, a woman in a prison. and then he saw something: what if he freed her? what if, literally and metaphorically, he set her free by re-creating her image outside of the museum, on the street?
and the outings project was born.
the project has "freed" similar works of art in at least 18 cities - sharing anonymous characters in famous paintings with people in london, rome, barcelona, and others.
i really love the idea that changing the context of these pieces could so drastically change their meaning. and i love the idea that people on the street won't take the piece in as they would had they seen it in a museum. maybe it strikes them more because it's unexpected. maybe they don't even see it because they're in the hustle and bustle of their day and not in the quiet introspection of a museum. either way, this project is a beautiful reflection on how context defines meaning.
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thought this project was pretty special.
it's called "in pieces" and is described as "a CSS-based interactive exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinction." it is an interactive exhibition turned study of 30 of the world’s most interesting but unfortunately endangered species, the idea being that their survivals are literally in pieces. the project teaches about these species through facts and video that are *beautifully* built into the site. also, i love the idea of a digital exhibit and the ability to take your time with each piece of content.
the other component of this is that it's a code and design experiment. the project plays with css polygons, pushing traditional uses of code by using coordinates to design triangles which make up the animals. so all of the objects are made up of triangles that are created using only code. so cool.
they cover the stories of 30 endangered species. the topic is important and the design and user experience is stunning. i really encourage you to click through and take a look at how they designed the user experience of the site but let me show you a couple of my favorites.
this one kinda took my breath away. and felt very appropriate as we get ready for new years eve!
japanese watch brand citizen partnered with architecture firm dgt to transform their watch parts into a beautiful, gold-filled installation made up of over 80,000 watch parts.
the installation aims to capture the connection between light and time.
breathtaking, right?
