Posted: November 25th, 2009 | Author: thespacewanderer | Filed under: toys | Tags: baroness, beast brothers, calavera, kidrobot, munny, vinyl | No Comments »
The Baroness of Kidrobot recently posted the image of custom made by the Beast Brothers. Mentioned that the 10 custom pieces will be available this Thursday, November 26th at 12pm for $555 each by “baronessloves” on eBay.
and here are a citation from her blog :
“Los Hermanos Calavera Rojo” are 10 beautiful pieces of art designed by The Beast Brothers. As the second installment to the “Los Hermanos Calavera” series, the “Rojos” are hand painted and detailed custom figures in a hand crafted box.
Features of this figure include:
- 8″ hand painted vinyl munny with gold chain accents
- Impeccably detailed and individually numbered on the back
- Custom sculpted sombrero, hand painted with silk rope and velvet accents
- Laser etched hand crafted pine wood box, stained and lined with red silk
Posted: November 15th, 2009 | Author: modsrider | Filed under: Features | Tags: facebook, INTERIOR, OFFICE | No Comments »
So besides the interface upgrade of the ‘home’ page, Facebook also “upgraded” it’s HQ in Palo Alto, California this summer. Prior to this, the company’s office used to reflect the Website itself – employees were scattered across Palo Alto in ten different locations connecting online. But not anymore: Everyone just moved into a cavernous 150,000-square-foot space at the Stanford Research Park that’s likely to make you sick with envy. Formerly a lab facility, the massive 150,000 square foot space has been transformed to reflect the company’s core values: creativity, freedom of expression and individuality.
The one held responsible for the interior design is the San Fransisco based Studio O+A, an interior design firm founded by Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander during the dot-com boom of the early 1990s, bringing quality design to start-ups and venture firms at Silicon Valley. From the very beginning of the design process, Studio O+A knew that it would be essential to get a wide range of input about wants and needs for the new office from as many employees as possible. Naturally they used Facebook platform, polls were conducted for the design decisions, post construction photos, updates and the thought process behind the project were posted to keep everyone informed with an employee board oversaw the decisions as well.
The new office is the first commercial project completed under Palo Alto’s 2008 Green Building Ordinance, reflecting the employees’ desire for a green headquarters. This is achieved by making extensive use of existing architectural features, recycling millwork from the original lab, and using repurposed industrial components throughout the project. Other sustainable features include the high-recycled-content carpet to energy-efficient lighting.
The design goal for the new facility was to maintain the history and raw aesthetic of the building and create a fun dynamic appropriate for the company’s youthful staff. Many walls and spaces are left unfinished: employees are encouraged to write on the walls, add artwork, and move furniture as needed, allowing the building to evolve continuously. Let’s wait a couple years to see how it evolve to.
SOURCE Whiteboardjournal
Posted: November 14th, 2009 | Author: modsrider | Filed under: Features | Tags: product, whiteboard journal | No Comments »
Whiteboard Journal posted a feature showcasing their products. WJ product line-up consists of basic, essential goods with impressive production values, from white oxford shirt in vintage washed treatment, henley tees in white and deep blue, tote bags and acid-free paper sketchbook that are available in large and medium sizes. Check out the feature here.
SOURCE Dailywhatnot
Posted: November 14th, 2009 | Author: modsrider | Filed under: Features | Tags: product, still loving youth, unkle347 | No Comments »
Still Loving Youth second edition is divided into three inter-connected parts, diverse features, together under the wider theme of TYPES ARE FUN. With this edition they’re playing and having fun with the aphabet and the art of typography which may sound foreign, complicated, but unavoidable. With this edition, they aim to provoke people to pay more attention, introduce them, and make them fall in love all over again with the world of typography through writing, photos, and light articles on this amazing publication.
See after the jump for the preview of Still Loving Youth #2.
From Still Loving Youth:
Three months after our first publication, Still Loving Youth is back with our second edition. This edition, uses a different format, theme and collaborators from our first edition.
This second edition is divided into three inter-connected parts, where each part is formed from diverse features, which come together under our wider theme of Types Are Fun.
In this edition, we have tried to play with the alphabet and the art of typography, which is often neglected by designers, even though notabene typography is one element of design which can’t be avoided. For people who live outside the world of design, the word typography may sound foreign, or complicated.
As a result, we have tried to ‘provoke’ people to pay more attention, introduce, and then fall in love with the world of typography through a variety of writing, photos and light articles, the fruit of the careers of our collaborators, which this time come from a variety of designers, schools and various art and educational communities.
The schools - from pre-schools to kindergartens - we allowed the students to be creative in reconstructing fonts made by local typographers. The children’s creations took a variety of forms, from paint, through beads to rugos. As well as displaying the children’s creativity in deconstructing the letters, we also feature various articles, linked to the world of children, particularly the process where children are introduced to letter shapes.
For various communities, we asked them to make their own font creations, based on their own specialities, such as the knitting community and origami from Tobucil, Bandung, which made letters from knitting wool, and origami paper. Meanwhile, the Brick Club Indonesia made a miniature town and letters from brick toys (Lego).
Other than creating fonts, in another section of this publication, we asked five photographers in five different Indonesian cities to document the special and unique street typography, reflecting the condition of the city where they live, in the form of photographic essays.
Finally, everything undertaken by our family of contributors in this second edition of Still Loving Youth, has indirectly created fonts and typographic art which feels great, light, and can be enjoyed by all members of the community.
In this edition, we’re not afraid to declare that fonts and typograhy are now starting to have a new meaning: fun.
Still Loving Youth 2nd Edition: Types Are Fun. Three separate volumes compiled in one folder box package. 1000 hand-numbered limited-edition copies.
Ready to freshen up your mind and sight after the holly jolly day!
SOURCE Dailywhatnot
Posted: November 9th, 2009 | Author: thespacewanderer | Filed under: Exhibitions, comics, event | Tags: Aji Prasetyo, Azisa Noor, comics, Eko S. Bimantara., Erwan Hersi Susanto a.k.a Iwank, Fida Irawanto, Ign. Ade, Prihatmoko Catur a.k.a Moki, Rhoald Marcellius, ruangrupa, Sheila Rooswita, Sulung Widya | No Comments »
ruangrupa mempersembahkan
Pameran 10 seniman komik
KOMIK MAGNETIK
Kurator: Ifan Ismail & Yudha Sandy
Seniman:
Erwan Hersi Susanto a.k.a Iwank, Fida Irawanto, Sulung Widya, Prihatmoko Catur a.k.a Moki, Ign. Ade, Rhoald Marcellius, Azisa Noor, Aji Prasetyo, Sheila Rooswita, Eko S. Bimantara.
Pembukaan pameran :
Jum’at, 13 November 2009 jam 17.00 – selesai
Dimeriahkan oleh:
Airport Radio
Pameran :
14 – 29 November 2009 (setiap hari jam 11.00 – 21.00, kecuali hari Minggu tutup)
RURU Gallery
ruangrupa
Jl. Tebet Timur Dalam Raya No. 6, Jakarta Selatan 12820
t/f: +62 21 8304220
e-mail: info@ruangrupa.org
www.ruangrupa.org
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Posted: November 9th, 2009 | Author: thespacewanderer | Filed under: Exhibitions, toys | Tags: customs, nemo, rollie, tenacious toys | No Comments »
Last Halloween, Nemo and Ben from Tenacious Toys held a custom shows for Rollie ( a deodorant brand), which end up with great success and exposure because of the great custom exhibited at the show. thumbnails above are just a few of the customs available, you may want to see the rest of the customs and maybe interested to buy at
Tenacious Toys website. And be amazed, because they can make something really cool, from a cheap platform (it’s a 99 cents).
Posted: November 8th, 2009 | Author: modsrider | Filed under: Features | Tags: evian, paul smith, product | No Comments »
Ooh, I forgot to show you the bottle I designed for Evian.
As I told you yesterday I have designed a bottle for Evian which will be on sale in limited amounts until Christmas. It is a nice glass bottle with colourful stripes around the top, printed with organic ink!
SOURCE Paul Smith
Posted: November 8th, 2009 | Author: modsrider | Filed under: Features | Tags: batik, product | No Comments »
You can say that I don’t understand anything about women’s fashion. If it’s fit nicely on a female form then I’ll say it is a good fashion, that’s pretty much how I judge a women’s clothing, But this Spring/Summer collection by Dries van Noten caught my attention. Just last week, president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono calls for Oct. 2 “batik day” to celebrate UN recognition of batik as an Indonesian cultural treasure. It’s funny to see that our society needs an “approval” from UN to celebrate a legacy we have for hundreds of years.
Now the hype continues, the art form has been adopted by Belgian born designer, Dries van Noten in his S/S 2010 collection. From the photos, it looks like he make use of the Parang motif Batik featured in a skirt and blouse. In this collection he utilized many kinds of traditional fabric from different kind of culture and country, injected a lot of colors and energy to the collection.
Thanks to Soubrette for the heads up. images via ElleUk.
SOURCE Whiteboardjournal
Posted: November 8th, 2009 | Author: modsrider | Filed under: Features | Tags: product, recycled toys | No Comments »
Robert Bradford creates his life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs.
Contrary to some reports, he’s not a self-taught artist who tinkered in his shed one day and suddenly decided to create something out of his kids’ discarded toys. He is a London-born and U.K. and U.S.-trained visual artist who, like many artists, also had another career on the side. His was that of a psychotherapist.
In 2002, he started to consider the possibilities that his children’s forgotten toys could have as part of something bigger. Bradford says he likes the idea that the plastic pieces have a history, some unknown past, and that they also pass on a “cultural” history as each of the pieces represents a point in time. Recycling is not his primary concern, but each sculpture certainly keeps quite a few pieces from becoming landfill. Some of the sculptures contain pieces from up to 3,000 toys and sell for £12,000 (US$19,000). - Tuija Seipell
SOURCE Thecoolhunter
Posted: November 8th, 2009 | Author: modsrider | Filed under: Features | Tags: ARCHITECTURE, Sea organ, urban public space | No Comments »
The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
This masterpiece of acoustics and architecture was created by expert Dalmatian stone carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project. Many tourists come to listen to this unique aerophone, and enjoy unforgettable sunsets with a view of nearby islands. Famed director Alfred Hitchcock said that the most beautiful sunset in the world can be seen from precisely this spot on the Zadar quay. That was how he described it after his visit to Zadar, a visit he remembered throughout his life by the meeting of the sinking sun and the sea.
Thanks to the Sea Organ music project, the inhabitants of Zadar have been restored once more to their relation with the sea. Chaotic reconstruction work undertaken in an attempt to repair the devastation Zadar suffered in the World War II turned much of the sea front into an unbroken, monotonous concrete wall. Now, the inviting white marble steps lead down to the water. Concealed under these steps, which both protect and invite, is a system of polyethylene tubes and a resonating cavity that turns the site into a huge musical instrument, played by the wind and the sea.
SOURCE Oodmusic
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 | Author: thespacewanderer | Filed under: toys | Tags: brandt peters, mindstyle, serv-o-matic, tenacious toys, vinyl | No Comments »
Tenacious Toys offering opened blind box of
Brandt Peters’s Serv-O-Matic, choose yours at the
online shop.
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 | Author: thespacewanderer | Filed under: toys | Tags: mindstyle, popaganda, ron english, vinyl | No Comments »
Mindstyle just done some nice photo shoot for the much anticipated Ron English’s Popaganda, and it resulted very nice and end up made me wants to collect all of them, check the whole set at
Mindstyle’s Blog.
and if you interested into collecting them, go to
Tenacious Toys to place your order.
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 | Author: thespacewanderer | Filed under: drawing | Tags: eveline tarunadjaja | No Comments »
http://www.lovexevol.com/shop/prints
You may want to visit her
online shop to get these beautiful artwork.
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 | Author: thespacewanderer | Filed under: event, toys | Tags: custom, munny, vinyl | No Comments »
At 31 October when most people partying with scary costumes, there are some people that actually sit in front of a toy store in Jakarta making scary custom for Munny. It was a lot of fun meeting talented people like Twisted Ican, Cikcuk, Yellow Dino, Brotz, Mycellina, Silvia Tampi, Jea, Thunderpanda etc, thanks to The Other Culture and Flatstreet Art.
Photos by
Brotz.
