The Bauhaus school in Dessau becomes a bus and embarks for a world tour. A mobile building will travel between four global cities, aiming to “unlearn” the influential school’s Eurocentric attitudes. Called Wohnmaschine, which means “living house”, the small-scale Bauhaus bus will travel between four cities in 2019, the school’s centenary year.…
This art piece hides two different wire sculptures depending on your perspective. French sculptor Matthieu Robert-Ortis has used the transformative influence of perspective in his brilliantly executed piece, La révolution des Girafes. From one angle, it looks like a pair of elegant giraffes, but from an alternative point of view, it’s the spitting…
Robin Grasby uses offcuts from luxury marble workshops to create a terrazzo material he calls “beautifully chaotic”. The London-based designer uses waste from the marble industry. It is called Altrock, the material can be used for worktops, wall coverings, tables or tiles. It is produced using 87 per cent recycled materials, including marble flour, which is the…
Pentagram has removed Mastercard’s name from its logo, meaning the credit card company will now use only the red and yellow intersecting circles as its brand mark on cards and at physical and digital retail payment points. The distinctive overlapping circles logo will remain the same, but the all-lower case FF Mark typeface company name beneath…
Point Line is a product that bridges the digital media and physical media. The geometric form was designed by Xundi Li. Designed to be an all-in-one turntable and speaker system for the modern, discerning consumer, this beautiful stand-alone device blows many others presently available options out of the water from a design…
Miriam Jacobi and Lucas Hesse translate symbiosis using visual processes for a recent project. If you’re a little lost, symbiosis is “a close interaction between two different biological organisms” and the ideal route of visualising this scientific subject saw the duo utilise both illustration and typographic messaging. They began by…
As 2018 draws to a close we decided to take a look back at the most popular artworks we’ve published over the last 12 months. Although 2018 was the year Banksy shredded a painting in front of a live audience, hundreds of other incredible feats of films, art, and design…
Dawson’s abstract work, titled “Aesthetic Sabotage”, uses conventional materials like clay and canvas in unconventional ways, to create works where not all is as it seems. The creative practice of London-based artist Robert Dawson centers around disrupting the perspective of the viewer. Dawson’s patterned clay artworks draw upon familiar motifs. He…
“Failure To Not Forget” is a photographic-pictorial project by Iamonte twin sisters. The project was born by chance in 2013 as a form of connection and experimentation between themselves, mixing their creativity and everyday life. Through film photography they documented their life: friends, travels, landscapes, houses, buildings, views, intimate moments of…
Contemporary design studio We+ designed a kinetic Christmas tree with ribbon in MIKIMOTO Ginza Main Store. Behind the window that is seven meters tall and seven meters wide, objects with “ribbons,” which is Mikimoto’s design concept for this year, and pearls, a motif for ornaments, are hung to form a…