Articles by Claudia Cukrov
The Holt Renfrew Vancouver store recently paid homage to their favourite fashion blogs. The 170 year old Canadian department store brand has dedicated each window display to a number of notorious fashion blogs, including; The Sartorialist, Bryan Boy, Garance Dore, Sea of Shoes, Jak & Jil and I want I got.
[via Style Spy]
We recently noticed the interesting work of Perth-based artist Laura Adel Johnson who creates artworks using fairy lights. Johnson was first inspired to use lighting in her practice when she saw the “gaudy” Christmas lights and decorations during her 2007 residency in Omaha, Nebraska. Johnson’s artwork is on show till June 27 at Sydney’s Chalk [...]
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design runs an interesting class called Street Lab. Interactive designer Piotr Szyhalski heads the class, which recently saw Sandra Chui Huynh creating a ‘Balloon Hunt’ throughout the streets of Minneapolis.
[via World Famous Design Junkies]
Architect Daniel Ferrer of Mobile M recently renovated the Alicante-based Conde Lumiares drugstore, taking an innovative, non-traditional approach to pharmacy design. Removing the suspended ceiling, the Ferrer raised the roof from it’s former “suffocating” two meter height to around five meters. To prevent the large space feeling too open Mobile M installed 256 suspended cylinders, [...]
Leo Chao’s ‘Beagle Scarf’ was created to aid Autistic people in times of stress. Some studies have shown music, textured toys and aromatherapy to be of great benefit in alleviating the stress and discomfort often associated with Autism. The Taiwanese-born, American-raised designer created the scarf which can be gently wrapped around the head. Inlaid speakers [...]
PSFK recently wrote about the crowd-sourced-design of Australian beer ‘Nelson’. The Melbourne-based micro brewery has recently teamed up with local Indie band The Temper Trap to design a limited-edition label for the brew. The now London-based band collaborated alongside graphic artist Reece Hobbins to visually represent their unique sound.
Mess and Noise explains:
a white silhouetted human [...]
Senosiain Arquitectos architecture firm have designed a shell-shaped residential home, based on the shape of the Nautilus’ shell. The Mexico-based abode currently houses a couple and two small children.
The house was constructed using Ferrocement, a composite material containing with cement, sand, water and wire or mesh. Other than being economical , the technique has many [...]
Architecture firm CODA has produced an interesting take on an old idea. The West-Australian-based firm designed the redevelopment of an old horse farm for a local drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. Created to aid recovering patients the farm will house and rehabilitate abused horses. CODA used recycled materials for the project and chose colours [...]
Director David Lynch has released an interesting new venture called the Interview Project. Each interview is a fascinating look into unique people from across the USA.
Lynch on the project:
Interview Project is a road trip where people have been found and interviewed. There was no plan for the Interview Project. It’s a twenty-thousand mile road trip [...]
London-based global briefing publisher Monocle have recently released The Future of the Workplace, the first edition of their Design Dialogues podcast series. Tyler Brule, editor-in-chief of the publication looks at the economic recession’s impact on design and the affects of large and small scale companies pushing more employees to work for home.
In particular Monocle takes [...]
The Bamboo Bike Studio is a Brooklyn-based venture which teaches people to create their own bike frame out of the renewable and “performance-positive” material, bamboo. Working in collaboration with the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Millennium Cities Initiative, the studio offers a two-day course where bike enthusiasts can learn building techniques and when [...]
An interesting look into the creative spaces of fantasy and science fiction authors, including multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner Joe Haldeman, novelist Margaret Weis, and two-time Nebula recipient Samuel Delany. See more here.
[via Super Colossal]
Multi-disciplinary design studio Round have won the Invitation category at the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards. The Melbourne-based studio won the coveted prize for their Walk, Talk and Chalk catalogue. The catalogue was created for a City of Melbourne exhibition which covered the city’s history of parking enforcement. Walk, Talk and Chalk [...]
A while ago PSFK wrote about Melbourne’s recent rebirth of craft via the Craft Cartel. The Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project is another such example that craft is back. The collaborative installation is run by the Stitches collective and the Institute For Figuring as a “testimony to the disappearing wonders of [...]
Pratt Institute’s Industrial Design students recently exhibited their Design For A Dollar project at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Students were asked to create a design spending no more than a dollar. Some of the designs are listed below.
Sukmo Koo and Young Taek Oh‘s Metamorphosis a light shade was an exhibition highlight. Created from [...]
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