Augmented Architectural Model

PROJEKTIL created an “augmented reality installation, a by 5 projectors recorded architectural scaled model. The whole installation is controlled by interaction with iPad.

The Esquire Logo Project

Esquire magazine selected Universal Everything alongside others such as Micheal Gondry and Porsche Design as one of their "Twelve most innovative artists and designers", to reengineer the Esquire logo for the twenty-first century. Please check official Esquire site for all participants contributions.

Participants: Tronic Studio, Tom Geismar, Universal Everything, The Crowd, Masamichi Udagawa, Aaron Rayburn, General Motors Design, Rovio, Yves Béhar, Michel Gondry, David Rockwell, Porsche Design Studio

Ora-Ïto Mutation Exhibition

Later last year world-famous enfant terrible of design Ora-Ïto presented Evo-Mobil for Citroen. And this month in Milan he revealed a second concept of a mobility - "UFO" - a juxtaposed piece of contemporary art and futuristic mobile vehicle.

On the edge of the hy­poth­e­­sis and con­tem­po­rary art, Ora-Ïto pre­sents hy­brid ob­­jects as­­so­­ci­at­ed to the re­search and in­­no­­va­­tion de­­part­­ment of the dy­­nas­tic Cit­roën. Bap­­tized «Evo­­mo­­bil» and “U­­FO” th­ese two monu­­men­­tal sculp­­tures are the cross­ing of Cit­roën’s Icons and a re­flec­­tion from the past to the fu­­ture. Based on the pro­cess of the evo­lu­­tion, the vi­­son of Ora-Ito com­bine his­­toric and so­­ci­o­log­i­­cal tes­ti­­mony by put­t­ing aside estab­lished codes. The icon­o­­clas­tic artist was not dream­ing about another con­­cept car but a ge­net­ic tran­s­­for­­ma­­tion to spread an uni­ver­sal mes­sage to the car in­­­dus­try through his ar­tis­tic vi­­sion and new di­rec­­tions nev­er in­­vesti­­gat­ed be­­fore

Will Cotton

Contemporary artist Will Cotton is inspired or clearly obsessed with sweet candy cotton that he mentions in most of his paintings.

Sharon Sprung art

Sharon Sprung is a Brooklyn based award-winning artist who studied at Cornell, The Art Students League in New York, and the National Academy of Design. Among her biography presentation I found out that she did a master-class in our city's Saint-Petersburg Academy of Art, so this nice connection made me to love her works stronger.

Gregor Gaida sculpture

Conceptual and provoking works of Germany based Polish sculptor Gregor Gaida deliver the sense through his hyper-realistic expressions.

1024 architecture

1024 architecture unique experimental comapany created by Pierre Schneider and François Wunschel. Their work spends from outdoor visual mapping to small theatre installations - all experimental, finding new ways of applying technologies to media art.

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AEROSYN-LEX

Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic is a Designer, Typographer & Creative Director of The KDU (the world's largest private design society.) Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lex is a graduate of both Pratt Institute and Temple University of Japan, and has lived and worked in New York and Tokyo. He is currently based in Brooklyn. He has worked as part of the lauded design firm Graphic Havoc and as Senior Partner in The KDU Consultancy he has developed a client list including LVMH, NIKE, DIESEL, Coca-Cola, MTV Japan, Ogilvy, BEAMS Tokyo, Apple, Nokia, Samsung and many more.

Avalanche / reduxe

At first sight it might appears digital but then you get the plot and see a handmade installation by Clemens Behr in details. Video is directed by Sandra Birkner

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Film: NOVA

A sincere DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Directed by Isaac Niemand, and produced by ROJO® in collaboration with BossaNovaFilms, it was all filmed on the heat of live action at ®Nova Contemporary Culture which happened in July and August 2010, in MIS-Museum of Image and Sound, and SESC Pompeia, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Lee Price paintings

Lee Price paints figurative photo-realist self portraits from a bird's-eye view that are both intriguing and obviously voyeuristic. She peels the skin off a part of women's links to food that straddles a line between being intimate and a little gross. Read full interview on www.dontpaniconline.com and watch images under the cut

Hussein Chalayan Fall 2011: Floating dress

Another fashion designer (after Gareth Pugh) that we considered to be out of classic fashion borders - Hussein Chalayan streches his innovation and creativity across the industry of a beauty.

"PARIS–For fall 2011, Hussein Chalayan again presented a film, picking up where he left off last season, exploring Japanese culture within the DNA he’s established over the past ten years. But it’s not the kind of literal Japanese influence you might envision–no obis or kimono sleeves here. This season’s film, Kaikoku, means “open country” in Japanese. “After the period of isolation Sakoku in Japan, the country experienced and openness to Western culture which over the years has influenced the food, fashion, art, architecture and technology while the country has still remained distinctly Japanese,” his line sheets explained." - read more on Fashionista

Watch "Floating dress" video under the cut

Any Colour You Like by Dev Harlan

Installation "Any Color You Like" by Dev Harlan, 2010. Hybrid Sculpture, Foam, Plaster, Video Projection

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IBM: The Face of Watson by @joshuadavis

Okay guys, now you know what famous digital artist Joshua Davis will speak at OFFF 2011 festival. I think he will speak about IBM Super IQ machine "Watson" and the process he created a "face" for "it". That's hard to call Watson "it" because he behave like a human ... well a very well educated human to continously beat a real ones in a famous American quizz show "Jeopardy!". Watch the video below and find out the interesting digital design challenge that Joshua has faced during this project.

UPDATED

Okay and today Watson won the game "Jeopardy!" from two humans

Robo-Rainbow

Robo-Rainbow is one of Akay his “Instruments of Mass Destructions”, a.k.a. “complicated technical solutions to aide in simple acts of vandalism”.

robo-rainbow from mudlevel on Vimeo.

Gareth Pugh PITTI 2011

"Fashion is dead! Vivat Fashion!"

With a collection inspired by religious iconography and Florentine opulence, Gareth Pugh made his Italian fashion debut at Pitti Immagine #79, showcasing his clothes via a unique fashion film, created with Ruth Hogben.

From our point of view Gareth Pugh is the most valuable trend setter and forward thinking creative person working on a modern fashion and design scenes. His prophetic gift pushes the limits of art and perception whether they are physical or visual. Enjoy his latest fashion attack.

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