Paris Views by Gail Albert Halaban

"New York-based photographer Gail Albert Halaban first began peering into people's windows many years ago, and her fascination with the public versus the private in urban life inspired a voyeuristic photo project and then a book, Out My Window, in fall 2012. It caught the eye of Cathy Remy, photo editor for Le Monde's M magazine, who invited Halaban to take her show on the road to Paris a few weeks later. The initial process went the same in Europe as it did in New York, with a few exceptions: Remy and Halaban found participants through Facebook, friends of friends, and word of mouth, and all gave permission in advance, though reactions toward the nature of the shoot were a bit polarizing." Read more on NYmag via Bird.Depositphotos Buy the book on http://www.houkgallery.com/artists/gail-albert-halaban/paris/

http://vimeo.com/105493549

All photos are shot by Gail Albert Halaban, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery

Layered Glass Sculptures by Ben Young

"Sculptor Ben Young just unveiled a collection of new glass sculptures prior to the Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design (SOFA) Fair in Chicago next month. Young works with laminated clear float glass atop cast concrete bases to create cross-section views of ocean waves that look somewhat like patterns in topographical charts. The self-taught artist is currently based in Sydney but was raised in Waihi Beach, New Zealand, where the local landscape and surroundings greatly inspired his art. You can learn more about his sculptures over on Kirra Galleries, and follow him on Facebook." via Colossal

Epic Street Art Murals by Borondo

Epic murals and street art created with impressionistic paint strokes from Spain based artist Borondo. You can see more of the exciting work below

Montserrat

"This is a tribute film to the amazing Montserrat typeface, recently designed by Julieta Ulanovsky. A tribute, also, to the Montserrat neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, which inspired the font. An finally a tribute to Jorge Luis Borges. The text is an extract from his wonderful poem Break Of Day (Amanecer) from the book Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923)."

Direction, design, animation: Fernando Lazzari http://www.popscience.tv/ Director of Photography: Matías Nicolás Music: Brian Eno / Black Planet Sound Design: Andrea Damiano Plataforma Buenos Aires, Carolina Tobal

http://vimeo.com/79733436

IKEA Halloween

IKEA have taken the famous scene from The Shining where Danny rolls around on his trike and inserted that same ominous fear into their own store. That's kind of an epic homage to Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsonfSQk2I

Marine Coutroutsios

Marine Coutroutsios creates compelling paper artworks which catch the eye and mesmerize. Marine moved to Sydney from France in 2012 and brings a European outlook to her interpretations of Australian life. Encounters with exotic flora and fauna have sparked Marine’s imagination. Represented by online gallery of Australian artists Art Pharmacy "Marine works through her ideas in multiple sketches, then carefully cuts out each individual element using a scalpel. This is an intricate process, with each work usually talking many hours to produce.", says The Third Row. Her works can be purchased on The Third Row website.

Here is Marine's Series of Australian Birds

Paintings by Kyle Barnes

Hyper realistic art on canvas painted by Kyle Barnes. As stated on the website Kyle is inspired by our perception of, and our interaction with each other through visual identity. The combination of expression, eye contact, concealment, colour and texture makes for a varied involvement with each of his works.

Sputnik-5 by Maxim Scherbakov

Maxim Scherbakov of design studio Plan-S23 (with Alexey Galkin) created the Sputnik-5 coffee table so that small plants or herbs can grow inside it. The structure and the name of the table is inspired by the Soviet satellite that first took living objects into space and returned them safely to Earth. The designer states: “The table acts as a watchman of a plant bursting from the aperture of the marble surface.” The table is actually built up from a series of components, each of the elements can also be used independently as decorative pieces.

Bambi by Katerina Plotnikova

Russian photographer Katerina Plotnikova (previously) who is famous for her portraits featuring forest animals and human beauties, released a new genius exclusive series that we called "Bambi".

My Whale

"My Whale" is a site-specific installation by Tundra for a renovated ship "Brusov", laid up on Moscow river and turned into an art-cluster.

There is an impressive space at the front of the ship, with panoramic windshield and hexagonal pattern on the vaulted ceiling, remained from the 70-s, the time, when “Brusov” was constructed in Austria. Standing there gives you the feeling of floating through the reflections of the Krymsky bridge lights on the river, inside a giant whale head. Looking through its eyes, listening to its songs that flow across the brain made of hexagonal cells by the wires hanging down here and there. With some light and sound we brought this whale to life.

http://vimeo.com/108384374

Visuals by Alexander Letcius, Alexander Sinica and Sergey Lubashin; Sound by Klim Suhanov and Semyon Perevoschikov of D-Pulse; Production by Bulat Sharipov; Shot and edited by Alexander Sinica.

Joanne Nam illustrations

Talented illustrator Joanne Nam

Quotes on Shit

"Quotes on Shit" is a side project of Jessica Walsh (Sagmeister+Walsh) and Timothy Goodman. We know these guys not only by OFFF presentation and awesome projects but also by a social project they did last year "40 Days of Dating"

1stAveMachine Sonos

Check this awesome ad created for SONOS by NYC based motion design studio 1stAveMachine. Check their portfolio online - a lot of awesome motion works!

http://vimeo.com/108810132

Surreal Collages by Eugenia Loli

Collage artist Eugenia Loli uses photography scanned from vintage magazines and science publications to create bizarre visual narratives that borrow from aspects of pop art, dada, and traditional surrealism. Check her Flickr account for more works

Interior of Beef&Liberty Hong Kong bar

Beef&Liberty is a gourmet burger joint and delicious restaurant based in the heart of revolutionary Hong Kong. Design by Japanese architects at Spinoff spiced with murals created by Cyrcle team, bar is definitely a place to visit. via

Photos: Jonathan Leijonhufvud – www.jlap.com

Norway's New Banknotes

Last week it was revealed that Oslo-based design agency Snøhetta had jointly won a competition to redesign the Norwegian banknote. The Central Bank of Norway announced on October 7 two winner proposals for the design of the new banknotes. Snøhetta’s design will be the foundation for the backsides of the notes, while The Metric System’s design will be the starting point for the fronts.

Backsides by Snøhetta

"When contrasts come together, as when soft meets hard or digital meets analog, a dynamic is created. Our cubical pattern first of all represents pixels; our times visual language."

Frontside by The Metric System

Pay Per Laugh

Last year the Spanish government decided to raise the tax for theatrical shows from 8% to 21%, resulting in a fall in audience attendance of 30% in one year. In response to this, Teatreneu, a comedy club in Barcelona has partnered with advertising agency The Cyranos McCann and came up with an ingenious new way to get people back through the door.

"Pay per Laugh is a new project that charges audience members according to how much they laugh at a show. Using facial-recognition technology installed in iPads attached to the back of seats, a count is made of how often each person laughs. This data is then sent to a server which creates and monitors the statistics. Audience members are offered free admittance but are charged €0.30 per laugh. However, the price for laughter is capped at €24."

via Protein

http://vimeo.com/97708026

Diesel POSTroma

"To celebrate the opening of Diesel’s flagship store in Rome, POSTmatter magazine collaborated with Berlin based artist digital artist Andreas Nicholas Fischer to create an abstract digital organism that envelops its audience as they enter the store."

"POSTroma is an installation that draws from topographical data taken from maps of Rome. This data creates the starting point from which Fischer’s impressionistic forms can grow, the installations growth and movements are based upon the use of #rome and #roma online. Each time the hashtag ‘#POSTroma’ is used on Twitter, a unique response will be tweeted back to each individual user. A specially programmed algorithm created by Fischer will generate a haiku poem and a striking screenshot of the in-store visual mutation at that moment, both of which will be delivered directly to the Twitter account of the original user." via Protein

http://vimeo.com/108478720

Alexander Wang x H&M

Designcollector is being a bit fashionista these days visiting Aurora Fashion Week in St.Petersburg that we going to cover later. Meanwhile we extremely enjoyed the black tidal wave coming from Alexander Wang recent capsule collection for H&M "Tonight’s Alexander Wang x H&M show at the Armory on the Hudson, way uptown on 169th Street, began with a video. Isabeli Fontana did her best Keanu Reeves, performing Matrix-like stunts, while Joan Smalls played the daredevil on a snowboard. They had nothing, though, on the parkour guys who rappelled from the rafters to throw their bodies around on trampolines and show off their cores of steel. If you haven’t got the point by now of Wang’s collaboration with the Swedish fast-fashion giant (it’d be hard not to, what with the full-court press PR campaign), we’ll spell it out. Hard. Core. Sport. " via Style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9kjTFR5x4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBNkOFaSZk

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