Exploring new ways for showcasing digital artworks in a gallery context, Offline Art: New2 is a new exhibition that enables visitors to view art through their smart devices.
Offline Art: New2 is currently taking place at the XPO Gallery in Paris, and features the work of artists who work primarily online or digitally, including Cory Arcangel, Dragan Espenschied, Jonas Lund, Evan Roth
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Presented at the Saint-Etienne Design Biennial in France, these beautiful, pastel tables by Nendo are decorated and marked using colored pencils.
The process involves using a Japanese technique called Udukuri, in which the soft parts of Cyprus wood are gently carved to reveal its natural grain. Nendo have then laid sheets of light paper over the wood, before delicately tracing the
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Experimental food designers Bompas & Parr have created The Whiskey Tornado - a machine that produces an inhalable and intoxicating, alcoholic vapor.
The machine generates a “spinning column” of whiskey inside itself, which is created when powerful humidifiers react with negative air pressure. Visitors are invited to inhale the potent vapor, which is instantly “absorbed through the lungs and into the
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Following the collaboration between Rem Koolhaas’ architecture firm OMA and Prada for its F/W 13 menswear collection, Studio Job took its turn to partner with Viktor & Rolf for the womenswear show last week in Paris.
In the past few years, runway design has become more and more determined by the impact and visual memory of fashion shows, entailing the involvement
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Every year Muuto hosts a competition for Nordic design students, receiving hundreds of entries from all over Scandinavia. The winner was just announced for 2012: Swedish design student Charlotte Ackemar.
Her Tick Tock Wooden Clock is a beautiful sculptural piece inspired by the grandfather clock. Working entirely with birch, she stripped down the forms to geometries and lines, and brought the
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Celebrating its centennial edition this year, The Armory Show in New York remains one of America’s leading contemporary art fairs.
The show first began in 1913 as the first large exhibition of modern art in America. The show caused quite a scandal and was seen as radical and avant-garde for displaying works including Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase.
Duchamp’s visionary work
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With SXSW Interactive commencing today, we take a quick look at some of the most important talks and events happening over this five-day festival of innovative ideas.
Held in the city of Austin, Texas, this year's festival is bringing together an exhilarating mix of futurists, creatives and social media experts to talk about the emerging trends in technology, digital media and
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Last week the Vieux Port pavilion, designed by Foster + Partners for Marseille, was unveiled to commemorate the city's status as European Capital of Culture 2013.
Located on the world heritage-listed port of Marseille, the structure consists of a beautifully simple yet highly scenographic mirrored canopy where the sky becomes one with the water reflections below. Foster + Partners collaborated with
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As part of a group exhibition at TextielMuseum in Tilburg, The Netherlands, design studio Formafantasma has created a series of silk textiles inspired by the museum’s rich archives.
The work takes inspiration from the museum’s Driessen collection; a unique acquisition of print experiments made by Felix Driessen and his family at their cotton printing company, Leidsche Katoen Maatschappij, during the early
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French design duo, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have released a book that reveals over 800 personal drawings made by the brothers between 2005 and 2012.
The Bouroullec brothers are known for their collaborative interior and product-focused work with brands including Camper, Vitra and Kvadrat.
Comprising hundreds of images and sketches drawn using ink, pencil and felt-tip pens, Drawing unveils a very intimate,
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Musical maestro, Beck has re imagined David Bowie’s 1977 single Sound and Vision, in an interactive, 360° multi-sensory performance.
Over a single evening, Beck performed alongside a magnificent ensemble of over 160 musicians at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. Musicians comprised choir members, and an orchestra, guitarists, harpists and even a theremin player, as well as members from the Dap-Kings band
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Seven Italian designers and a material scientist got together to explore the traditional techniques of glassblowing in Murano, Venice.
It took three steep climbs of stairs, across the beautiful Aram space, to reach the actual Gallery where the exhibition was held: a white, wide space where the shapes and colors of glass play with light and reflections.
Called Breaking the Mould, the
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L'enfant terrible of the art world, and one half of the famous Chapman brothers, Dinos Chapman has turned his attention to music, releasing an album with industrial and horror-movie influences.
Alongside his younger brother Jake, the brothers have created a slew of installations for some of the most renowned art spaces in the world since the 1990’s, such as Gagosian Gallery in
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East London-based design practice Studio Weave has created a musically inspired installation for the courtyard of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Lullaby Factory comprises an intricate labyrinth of metal listening pipes and gramophones that play out a selection of soothing melodies by composer and sound artist Jessica Curry. These sounds can be heard through height-level pipes near the hospital canteen,
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The Serpentine Gallery in London has announced that award-winning architect Sou Fujimoto will design the 2013 edition of its annual Pavilion.
At 41, Fujimoto is the youngest architect to accept the honor of designing the temporary Pavilion in Hyde Park, London. His project will consist of an ethereal web of 20mm steel poles creating a semi-transparent delicate structure where the surrounding
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