Clément Baloup

A comic artist from French, that also known as comic writer, founder of La Maison qui pue (A House that stink) comic collective, and pretty well known in France since he already gain some awards for his comic works. With great passion of Asian culture he was done some trip to South Asia that end up become inspiration for several of his comic.

Recently he visit Indonesia, invited by Centre Culturel Français Jakarta, to make workshop and exhibition of his works, and I took this chance to sent some short interview.

1. How to keep your creativity works?
Well, I try to get inspiration from the real world and the event or experience that moves me.

2. Favorite media?
water color on paper… but it may change (black&white ? computer ? who knows ? lol !)

Johnnie Cluney

Dogmatic Restaurant Storefront and Interior by EFGH Architects

The design of the 600 sq ft interior and storefront for the new flagship restaurant Dogmatic Gourmet Sausage System on Union Square, is based on the aesthetics of the butchery, which becomes the generative approach to the project. A 14’x4’ communal butcher-block table is the centerpiece for the space, and incorporates retractable cantilevered seating to avoid any freestanding furniture. A raised built-in banquet on the west wall overlooks the restaurant while providing the base for the Sausage Wall-of Fame. A mural describing the Dogmatic story is baked onto the ceramic tiles using a transfer toner technique. The 11’ tall vertical glass menu board screens a portion of the open kitchen, while hanging off a steel armature from the restaurant hood. Meat hooks support the lighting cylinders on tracks. The custom steel designed storefront doors pivot to allow for maximum openness and connection to the outside.

Visit the EFGH website – here.

SOURCE contemporist

My Kind Of Person

Race Made This

2009 goodbye - welcome 2010

selamat tahunn baru.. krn kesibukan yang tak terduga di awal tahun ini, baru sempat sekarang mengupdate lagi blog ini. owkayy, let’s rock 2010..

Facebook New HQ

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

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

STILL LOVING YOUTH #2 : TYPES ARE FUN

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.

Ready to freshen up your mind and sight after the holly jolly day!

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Paul Smith for Evian

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

Batik at Dries van Noten S/S 2010 collection

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

Robert Bradford - Recycled Toy Sculptures

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

Sea Organ - Musical Instrument Played by The Sea

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

The folks from 16DS are proud to present Sir Dandy and Cagi as their collaborating artists for 16DS collaborative project’s newest collection, An Affair to Remember. For this project, Sir Dandy is bringing forth Death/Glory, a range of limited  edition denim jacket and jeans, while Cagi will be presenting Suite16DS, a collection that is influenced and grew out from the beauty of her surroundings.

SOURCE Dailywhatnot

Grey House / SUB. Studio for Visionary Design

Architects: SUB. Studio for visionary design
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Project Directors: Wiyoga Nurdiansyah
Design team: Muhammad Sagitha, Dickie Padmawijaya, Sudibyo
Constructed Area: 70 sqm
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Muhammad Sagitha

In our perspective, we see ourselves as a partner for client. And the moderate client for this house allows us to explore all about new material with modest budget of US$15,000. We explore the material to get effective budget and reduce unnecessary thing.

This occurs on a small site of 108 square meters horizontally. Defining space by creating privacy areas which defined by single slope roof direction. This roof form with single direction creating another space as an attic, higher ceiling on one side and exposed as a source of lights while the courtyard positions on the same side which useful for living, dining and master bathroom.

Horizontal space which divide by partitions to give a different functions of room. Master Bedroom – Living Room – Bedroom with 3 meter-modules to get effective structure. As a space-economizing strategy, we defined a zoning scheme by the circulation hierarchy. As such, the maid and pantry areas are next to the side entrance. This allows for a larger space for the living room and dining areas without interrupted by service zone which stand alone on building set back area built by non permanent material.

The house has a flexible space, whilst the living can combine with bedroom to get bigger space in a fingertips. And the movable windows allow the space to extend with the outdoor terrace. The furniture has a folding dining table to get flexibility of space and also a hidden stairs on master bedroom to access the attic.

Raw materials stand out as honest expression of the house. Grey brick with 200×200mm module replaced the local brick to get more precision results and effective way to get smooth finishes wall surface for interior sides and its reduce costs. Exterior fence become a medium for living walls, vegetation replace a chemical finishes. Recycled wood is use for window frames. Metal roofing was chosen to cut the cost, with single roof direction to avoiding metal joint which is costly.

At last, a boundary transformed a witty, affordable, potential and visionary design.

SOURCE Archdaily

JongArsitek 2.3 Out Now!

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Brotz

Brotz is Dimas Hardiyanto, a young and talented street artist, with a handy hand and recognizable character. Check his nice works at :
http://bateraibekas.blogspot.com/

Mastomcustom X Toimoi - Love, Love Me Cub

www.toimoi.co.id

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The Standard x SE Bikes Limited Edition PK Ripper

The PK Ripper Fixed Gear is the 3rd installment in a series of limited edition bike projects from DC and SE Racing. Within this run of 1,000 (in the US), The Standard has micro customized twenty of these PK Rippers to reflect the New York hotel’s signature black and gold style. Fifteen bikes will be available for complimentary use by The Standard New York hotel guests while five are available for purchase now at The Standard’s online shop for $1,250 USD.

Details include: A matte black frame complemented with gold details, anodized gold front rim and small gold logo badge on the seat tube, and a Standard logo is embossed into the custom leather seats. The Standard’s version also has a reversible back hub and rim that allows the bike to easily convert from fixed to freewheel as well as Floval tubing, a Landing Gear fork, a looptail rear end.

SOURCE Hypebeast

Shwood Sunglasses

Handmade in Portland, Oregon the Canby’s are available in Zebrawood, Wenge and Maple. Each pair comes equipped with your choice of imported Carl Zeiss or polarized lenses to complete the package.

-Available in Maple, Wenge, or Zebrawood
-Three-ply frame and two-ply temple construction
-In-house, handcrafted manufacturing process
-Locally-sourced exotic hardwoods
-Optical quality Carl Zeiss or polarized lenses offer 100% UVA/UVB protection (more info)
-Frame Measurements: 55-17-140
-Stainless steel optical hinges
-MSRP starting at $95.00

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