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stephen burks: man made at studio museum
published 04.04.11
stephen burks' first solo exhibition, 'man made' is not only a gallery showing but a venue where weavers and artisans create a series of functional and experimental objects and installations conceived by the designer himself.
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sruli recht studio visit
published 04.04.11
while in reykjavík, iceland for designmarch 2011, designboom visited the studio of sruli recht, who works between product design, tailoring and shoe making.
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candice breitz: the character
published 04.04.11
candice breitz organized fifteen mumbaikar children and sent each of them home with a different bollywood film featuring a strong emphasis on a child character of a similar age. the artist then interviewed and asked each to verbally portray the character, finding common themes and structures in the children's responses.
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tokujin yoshioka: the invisibles light for kartell
published 04.04.11
the new collection, made from thin sheets of clear acrylic, is an edited and lightweight version of tokujin yoshioka's previous series entitled 'the invisibles'.
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stéphane maupin: RATP formation center
published 04.04.11
the unit, situated between paris' main highway, train tracks, factories, and social housing, is influenced by the brutality of this urban collage where concrete pillars clash with raw material.
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takeshi miyakawa: red eclipse
published 04.04.11
designer takeshi miyskawa's 'red eclipse' table plays with foreshortening and its structure to provide a deeper message.
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porro: immaterial house at milan design week 2011
published 04.04.11
the 2011 collection expands on the idea of a storehouse of forms, colors and fittings offering objects of desire that tie together modernity with memory, along with function and aesthetics.
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kostas syrtariotis: booktree
published 04.04.11
the shelf takes on the shape of a tree in which its outreaching branches climb the wall, providing space in which to store books and other small items.
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KINO architects: tokyo balconies
published 04.04.11
composed of four highly discernible volumes skewed off their axis, a number of pie-shaped balconies are generated on each level, expanding and enhancing the qualities of the interior.
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tristan cochrane: fish rocking chair
published 04.03.11
british designer tristan cochrane has found a way to build furniture from sardines with his fully functional fish rocking chair cast from aluminum.
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superflex: flooded mcdonald's
published 04.03.11
depicting a critique of the increasing flow of consumerism into people's lives, the artistic built a working replica of a mcdonald's restaurant, slowly flooding water through the fast food joint.
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tobias rehberger x artek: nothing happens for a reason
published 04.03.11
'I like the idea of creating a visual art project which is about not seeing something. the painting method of battle ships in the first and second world war, the so called dazzle painting, in a way for me perfectly represents this paradox.' - tobias rehberger
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