Tag: concept

The last sculpture designed by Robert Longo is named “Death Star 2018”. The main concept is to represent the weight of bullets, using beauty as a tool to show us the ugly. Artist Robert Longo is already in the art history books...

Bentel Brothers created a pair of glasses that squiggle your face. New York-based designer Nikolas Bentel and his brother Lukas took cues from Instagram face filters when creating these undulated red glasses. The Squiggle Glasses are shaped like a thin wavy line, partially...

Playing with the sensual relationship between materials and colors is the concept behind the iridescent works created by the Sydney-based artist Jonny Niesche that confuse perception and mood. Working with hard reflective surfaces such as mirrors, welded steel and polished brass, along with softer,...

Mirrored tableware tricks brain to change eating habits. This visual perception could be the key to reducing food consumption, according to Studio Playfool – which designed this range of mirrored tableware to make your plate look twice as full. Half/Full was designed by Saki Maruyama...

Asad Raza has installed “Untitled (Plot for Dialogue)” within the interior space of a late 16th century deconsecrated church in Milan. The San Paolo Converso church has been converted into a contemporary art space. Raza’s work explores how objects and human beings inhabit...

This conceptual rug has a postmodern concept rendered with a modernist palette. The multidisciplinary artist Scott Jarvie has designed an optical illusion “Void Rug” the design was influenced by the notion that the design of a 2 dimensional rug could be informed by a...

Hongtao Zhou, interdisciplinary scholar and artist, uses inflatable installations to penetrate historical buildings during Tongji Design Week in an effort to encourage people to break boundaries in art and design.  The installation explores the spatial qualities of Shanghai’s old bus repair station, now D&I’s...

Alan Belcher explores an intersection between photography and sculpture, creating artworks he defines as ‘photo-objects’. His ‘_____.jpg’ study approaches the jpeg icon with a manner of directness and humour. The entire exhibition takes the universal jpeg icon and preserves it as...

Artist Shih Chieh Huang filled the Renaissance Court of the Worcester Art Museum with a gigantic worm-like sculpture. The work loops its way around the room’s staircases and columns, pulsing with the pressure of several box fans that keep the structure alive. For the...

These medals are made to be shared. Designed by Philippe Starck, this new medal version split into four, allowing winning Olympic athletes to share their success with their families. Having previously designed the torch for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, the designer was...