tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57996878735843828972011-04-22T01:47:43.855+03:00Design Trends - Fashion - Furniture - GraphicsAline Chahinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17748062981374421388noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799687873584382897.post-53025679662303835862007-07-16T19:36:00.001+03:002007-07-16T19:41:04.149+03:00

MyHome is an exhibition of experimental room sets at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have contributed to this exhibition with a project named Stitch room. you can check the details and more photos on Dezeen

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- via Inhabitat

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" Dutch designer Arwin Caljouw, with his project called Interior weeds, thinks over nature and the way that weeds emerge and grow in the streets. Interior weeds shows the power of plants in our environment:"...with the center piece you can create an interior plantation from street weeds or other personal selection of plants. The graphic tiles are an addition to a plain tile collection, which you

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Fiat has relaunched the iconic Fiat 500 model, 50 years after it was first introduced. More at Dezeen

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Boeing launched its new commercial jet, the 787 Dreamliner. You can check some photos from its interior below. It is the “world’s first mostly composite” passenger jet and which will be quieter and more fuel efficient than other jets. (theory though.. we need to check it first) More photos and text on Dezeen

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"As an artist who works both in performance and video art, Lida Abdul creates poetic spaces that allow the viewer to interrogate the familiar and the personal. Her work is guided by a ritualized formalism that insinuates the immediacy of myth and the playfulness of a mind seeking to understand the surrounding world. In many ways, witnessing her pieces is like attempting to understand the

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In skateboarding circles, what's on the bottom of your deck is as important as landing a hardflip on top of it. But old 2-D graphics are totally played out. So 80 designers are grinding skateboard art into a third dimension, with the help of a laser engraver typically used to cut sheet metal. The Refill Seven exhibit, which recently debuted in Sydney, flaunts the work of hotshot designers like

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"Zaha's new chandelier design for Swarovski, Called Fade, it will be exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London, next week..." More on Dezeen

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" Walking Chair's sound you sit in, SONIC-CHAIR a design installation by Holger Fritzlar, Frank Hussong, Michael Kientzler & Daniela Reuter. "The open design ensures a resonance-receptive, well-balanced sound environment. The active and passive sound insulation creates an acoustic island. Background noises will not disrupt the enjoyment of music or an audio book in the sonic chair, and what the

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" GRAFFITI AS CONSUMER ART seems an odd combination but it actually works quite well with Donna Brady’s unique Hi-Light pendants, made from photos of her Brooklyn neighborhood. The names are appropriately urban (take a walk down Kent Street) and the textures unforgettably so: rusted metal walls and pitted concrete surfaces over smooth cylindrical shades make for gritty-meets-swank decor. There’

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Palestinian artists, Suheir Hammad and Jackie Salloum are among 23 international artists to be selected for a grant administered by Art Maters, New York, to artists from around the world. Hammad received support for travel and research for "Translate a Nation", a performance about language and identity in the cities of Ramallah and Lod, including interviews in Ramallah with local artists and the

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"Carolyn Mendoza, a fine artist from Venice, California has established a long-term career in working with metal. Influenced by nature, she creates unique sculptural designs by welding natural forms onto steel. Using various patina techniques, vivid colors hidden beneath the surface are drawn out. This one of kind organic artworks can be enjoyed in both indoor and outdoor settings and can be

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Overwhelming? maybe it is little too much but it got my attention while reading the article on LA Times under Murals return with a fresh new look. this mural done by Jeff Robinson ..well it made the wall really return with fresh look, maybe if it was up to me it would have been less dense but i find the position of the mural very itneresting and the inclination of the tree is just awsome it

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Born and raised in Huddersfield, England, Richard is currently studying Three Dimensional Design at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He works with flat sheet materials, manipulating form through the use of hand-craft and CNC manufacturing techniques. Inspired by the mathematical principles dictating growth in nature, Richard Sweeney also creates paper sculptures for interior installations

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Using Sugar Cristals as ingredient, Greetje van Helmond , Royal College of Art Design grad, created a set of jewellery which she “grows” directly onto cord suspended in sugary solution. Her work is part of RCA Summer Show and it is called Unsustainable for more check Dezeen

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- via Mocoloco .."Ligne Roset offers a first this season, a line of furniture for kids called “Les Minis”. This brightly coloured collection, which includes seating and a play mat that transforms into a table or stool, is inspired by the iconic Togo sofa designed in 1973 and is lightweight and easy to care for..."

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- Via Swissmiss mmmm great thing isnt it?..no more waking up alarmed in the night to check on ur baby.

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- Via materialicio Legno-Legno from RUCKSTUHL - made from oiled oak and polyurethane.

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Galerie Kreo of Paris showed new furniture by Hella Jongerius and the Bouroullec brothers plus work by Front and Fernando Brizio, among others, at the Design Miami/Basel fair last week.

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- Via Sally Khoury Living in the city of Beirut, Sally Khoury paints the many faces of woman on over-sized canvas. After graduating from LAU (Lebanese American University) in Fall 2005 with a BA in Fine Arts, she has exhibited in various, cafes, restaurants, galleries, pubs and clubs in the city, and thus has taken a prominent step onto the art scene. Her work has gained much attention due to

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I am posting some of Fouad El Khoury's work which will be part of Venice Biennale 2007. 14 july 2006 - Silver bromide print mounted on aluminum 19 July 2006 - Lambda print mounted on aluminum 30 x 75 cm 22 July2006 - Silver bromide print mounted on aluminum

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Palestine, 1993-1995: Gaza 1994Born in 1952 in Paris of Lebanese parents. Lives between Paris and Beirut. After taking his degree in architecture in London in 1979, he turned to photography, producing a report on daily life in the Lebanon. He covered the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982, with his pictures appearing in Libération among others. He joined the Sygma agency, only to leave it one

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- Via Blue Ant Studio Mayntz Design is a designstudio for interior-, exterior-, product- and transportation design.Known for its fresh and unique design, Juergen Mayntz got international recognition over the last couple of years.Apart from contract work for well known manufacturers, Mayntz develops own unique pieces of furniture.Due to the huge interest in our designs we are now looking for

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- Via Dezeen Designer Ilse Crawford has completed the interiors for two new restaurants at Grand Hotel Stockholm in Sweden. More Pictures

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- via Mocoloco Ross Lovegrove’s System X, which he designed for Yamagiwa, is a modular lighting system composed of flexible fluorescent X’s that can be linked with other X modules to create a modern and sculptural lighting system for any interior space. Imagine the possibilities, you can link as many or as few X modules you want both horizontally and vertically to cover entire walls, ceilings,

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- via Ashkal Alwan Mounira Al Solh, "As IF I Don't Fit There", 2006, Video Still Curated by Saleh Barakat and Sandra Dagher The exhibition "Foreword" gathers five artists, whose work covers a number of artistic practices: personal narratives, acts of bearing witness, collecting testimonies, and cutting through the skin of political turmoil and historical events to hit the bone of intimate

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- via Ashkal Alwan Metro Club Presents: Radical Closure A Jalal Toufic Program @ Metropolis Art Cinema, Hamra Street, Beirut Three film screenings: Monday June 25 @7:00pm: The Exterminating Angel by Luis Bunuel (1967) 93 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Wednesday June 27 @ 7:00pm: Lost Highway by David Lynch (1997)137 minute, English Friday June 29 @ 7:00pm: The Shining by Stanley

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Open Cube by Jiri Evenhuis Technique: Stereolithographie; Material: Epoxy; Colours: brown, orange and green Bo Sun Loungers from Lino Codato Collection source: Architonic

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