Mark Jenkins guerilla street art

Mark Jenkins: Tape Sculpture and Street Installation

Kader Attia Ghost

Kader Attia Ghost 2007 at The Saatchi Gallery - London

Diana Al-Hadid The Tower of Infinite Problems

"Diana Al-Hadid is a Syrian-American artist who lives and works in New York. Her sculptures take ‘towers’ as their central theme, drawing together a wide variety of associations: power, wealth, technological and urban development, ideas of progress and globalism. They are also – both in legends such as the Tower of Babel, and reality, such as the horrors of the World Trade Centre attacks – symbols of the problems of cultural difference and conflict. Al-Hadid’s Tower of Infinite Problems poses as a toppled skyscraper. Made from crude materials such as plaster, Styrofoam, wax, and cardboard, her structure is a monument to human fallibility. Sprawling on the floor like an imaginary archaeological find, the sculpture places the viewer in a fictional role as futuristic observer, mourning the tragic follies of a past (our current) civilization. If viewed from the end, the two parts of the structure converge in an optical illusion, creating a spiral vortex suggesting a cyclical repetition of history."(The Saatchi Gallery - London)

Chempaq logo and brand identity

Beautifull simple logo and also a see thru process of development http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Corporate-_-Brand-Identity-Chempaq/186245
Chempaq was formed to redefine the hematology test by creating a single use self contained cassette module. This PAQ (cassette) was designed to be easy to use, automatically calibrated and to deliver high accurancy and precision.

Richard Sweeny paper sculptures

He creates beautiful –harmonious simple architectural shapes out of paper using nature and decomposing it into mathematical patterns.

Banksy-reinterpretation

Banksy-reinterpretation of classic art correlated to contemporary or past historical events which empowers statements. A efficient method of making a message understandable and getting it thru to all classes of people either thru the use worldwide known art in art galleries, either thru street art-life size stencils and stickers.

Eco-fashion-threat

A potential threat of the natural evolution towards using eco friendly materials, energy, manufacturing processes is the association between eco awareness and fashion trends and items. As fashion has a come-and-go-characteristics after each season, i believe the association of ecology awareness with it will only bring upon ignorance and a shallow understanding of the real issues, but when eco fashion will go out of trend so will all the awareness they tried to create, even more creating a negative impact on the real cause as people that aren’t fashion oriented will give the eco trend the same believability as they give to fashion, as something shallow and unimportant. There has to be a clear separation that buying organic cotton clothes has nothing to do with stopping pollution, or wasting Earths resources.

Bling-bling versions

I really hate the “bling-bling” versions of products, the kitsch trend in which anything covered with Swarovski crystals becomes a high-end luxury product, especially when it comes to technology or engineered products and I phone is not wanted product because it is expensive but because it is an intelligent phone, in the same idea a Mercedes is not a sought out product because it is expensive but because of its reliability and quality. I understand that the people who issue these “bling-bling” version of product have in mind the spiritual factor of social status and belonging , still the buyers must be really stupidly-rich and snob in order to purchase such a kitsch unreasonably priced products, just like the Swarovski toilet-the most relevant example.

Nick Pugh-Originality in design

I have seen a lot of design-drawing-sketching video tutorials, yet none were actually useful, the only thing they would leave behind was a frustration that you do not have a born talent as they do, as most of the videos would turn into a demonstration of how great they were. Originality in design was the only video that actually made sense and in which you had the feeling of "behind the scene" of the common demonstration that the others complied with. Nick Pugh narrates and demonstrates they way in which he deals with a common problem that creative’s deal with, which is the feeling that everything has been done, and even that whichever idea you would have actually comes from your collective memory which has stored previous designs, paintings, graphics etc which you liked. He developed a method in which he would scribble with both hands curves, straight lines, angles, combination of both in order to release your mind of collective memory influences, and your usual drawing style to create outlines from which you could create totally new designs.

Skull skin by Ajee

I really like the combination of strong dinamic and agressive angles with soft female curves in this vinyl toy made by french graffity artist Ajee,it is one of the "things i wish I had designed".

Leonardo DaVinci exploratory sketches

Things I wish I could draw

KInetic-fashion-design Husein Callayan

A few days ago i went to the Husein Callayan exhibition at the Design Museum in London, all dough I was and still am pretty skeptical about fashion design and fashion in general, as i do not agree with it principles and philosophy of pure esthetics above everything have to say that the exhibition was exceptional, not only thru the designs but especially thru the exquisite manner in which Callayan managed to express and transmit feelings using everything from music, light-darkness, visuals, temperature even wind currents.Sadly i cannot convey what it felt like not thru any words, images or movies...it is just somthing that needs to be experienced entirely.

Anatomy-inspired-design Santiago Calatrava

Much like Antonio Gaudi, Santiago Calatrava uses nature mainly anatomy to create kinetic sculptural designs. He has an upper hand on design using not only his aesthetic sense, and architectural knowledge but also the main factor that allows him to create, his knowledge in construction. He is an inspiration in transforming simple, common known principles in physics into amazing structures and mind bubbling uses, how would think that using basic rules of magnetism you could create an ongoing mechanism like his kinetic eye sculpture.

Nature-inspired-design Antonio Gaudi

Antonio Gaudi has an amazing futuristinc vision in architecture and design even for the 21st century not to mention for the 19th when he lived. Studing shapes , angles and curves from nature , he borowd hyperboloids and paraboloids and then reinfrorced them with steel rods to create structures that mimick nature.His masterpiece La Sagrada Família was constructed using a “hanging model a system of threads represents columns, arches, walls and vaults. Sachets with lead shot resemble the weight of small building parts.
Gaudí spent ten years working on studies for the design, and developing a new method of structural calculation based on a stereostatic model built with cords and small sacks of pellets. The outline of the church was traced on a wooden board (1:10 scale), which was then placed on the ceiling of a small house next to the work site. Cords were hung from the points where columns were to be placed. Small sacks filled with pellets, weighing one ten-thousandth part of the weight the arches would have to support, were hung from each catenaric arch formed by the cords. Photographs were taken of the resulting model from various angles, and the exact shape of the church's structure was obtained by turning them upside-down obtaining therefore the form, absolutely precise and exact, of the structure of the building, without having to have conducted an operation of calculation and without possibility of error. The forms of cords corresponded to the lines of tension of the prim structure and when inverting the photo, the lines of pressure of the compressed structure were obtained. An absolutely exact and simple method, giving an example of the intuitive and elementary methods that Gaudí applied in its architecture and that allowed him to obtain balanced forms very similar to which nature offers. “
From a simple common sense source of inspiration as nature, Gaudi created sculptural organic designs witch forseen the future.

Knitted-look ceramics by Madieke Fleuren- psychologically influential design

I have to say i never did like knitted things as i associate them with grannies wasting time deliberately, still maybe I could accept knitting only as a ironic hippy like type of protest in guerilla knitting (as shown below).

Returning to the real point as I said I do not like knitting, knitted things or anything of that sort and I also I do not find ceramics interesting at all, still this Knitted-look ceramic cup by Madieke Fleuren had an instant appeal to me because of the protecting instinct that it instantaneously rose in me. I tried to understand why and how design can induce feelings, I know a bit that in advertising such effects are produced by imbedding common psychological elements to which the target resonates(a certain cigarette brand chose a specific color (the one that the targets tobacco smoking grandparents would likely wear ,when they were children ) so that the target would be more likely to choose their brand as it would seem familiar ). Still I cannot explain why I would want to nurture this object, maybe because it induces the feeling of warmth given by both by a warm cup of tea or warm winter clothing, I don’t know, I’ll just have to research this aspect so crucial in advertising, and an added tool to making influencial design objects