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Category: bcreative
Scott Walker…
… and the ‘The Digital Newsstand’
Scott Walker works Monday to Friday as the assistant managing editor at the Birmingham News, Alabama’s largest newspaper. In his spare time he created this design project that transformed an old newspaper box into ‘The Digital Newsstand’. The project replaces the window with an lcd monitor that is hooked up to a computer inside the box. The screen is now used to display a variety of newspaper front pages that walker personally worked on. In addition, Walker programmed the computer to provide news updates and play music through hidden speakers inside. All in all, the project offers a new way to view the news that blends the old fashioned newspaper standand digital technology.
fontifier
BRILLIANT!
This is a great site! Download the font form, draw your font, uplaod and pay and you have your unique font…. BRILLIANT!
The process:
Athens by Sound
AN INSTALLATION.
What is architecture beyond building? The response to that question from curators at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale was like a game of seeing who could scamper off farthest from architecture yet still claim some connection, however tenuous, with the art of making buildings. Slovakia showed us a row of kitchen fridges, Estonia erected a giant gas pipe, and Germany gave us apple trees attached to drips. Greece, by contrast, kept closer to convention with an ‘interactive sonic map’ of Athens. This being the Venice Biennale, however, we weren’t treated to a map in the familiar sense of a representation on a flat surface. No, this map took the form of a forest of cables, dangling headphones, screens atop pedestals, and words emblazoned across the floor. Video and audio fragments – ‘the city’s soundtrack’, explains curator Christina Achtypi – recorded at the points of a grid placed over Athens were activated by visitors in constantly changing sequences. The message? Cables and screens are just tools, a means but not an end in themselves, provided by the designers as a backdrop to human presence and movement. ‘Visitors determine the invisible and intangible characteristics of the space through their movement and actions,’ explains Achtypi. Sight may dominate our culture, but other senses are crucial to the way in which we engage with and experience space. So next time you happen to be in Athens, close your eyes and enjoy the soundtrack.
Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
THE ART OF CONCEALMENT: MELBOURNE’S TROJAN HOUSE
As you walk past the Trojan Home on the streets of Melbourne, you may not find much appealing in this monotonous wooden giant. But just like the name suggests, a whole new world awaits on the inside. With its lavish and sweeping interiors that are insulated with perfection, a thermal chimney that keeps the home’s temperature balanced, passive cooling and a rain screen for extra shade in the summer, the home is truly unique on its own. Designed by Jackson Clements Burrows architects, the most astonishing aspect of the structure is the three children’s bedrooms that have been cantilevered above a large living space, and that amazing kitchen. Truly a lot more than what meets the eye, isn’t it?
the Naked bike
here’s the skinny:
The Naked Bike is the product of a collaboration between Kyung Duk Kim & Gana Meissner and is showing at Canvas boutique and gallery in Malibu. The title is not only referring to the instantly recognizable pureness of the design but also to numerous hand-engraved & gold painted motives depicting naked women that are draped around various parts of this fixed-gear bicycle. The immaculate female bodies where chosen to juxtapose the perfectly engineered geometry of this competition track frame. Kyung Duk Kim’s artwork & technique is reminiscent of those fearless, tattooed riders that have taken over the streets of Los Angeles. The choice of colors & motives are a commentary on a city & a culture that is all about meticulously orchestrated self-expression in order to stand apart but at the same time to belong.
