This Weeks Posts 11/19/11 — 11/25/11

A short week of posts last week before I took off for the long Thanksgiving weekend. Hope everyone had an amazing holiday.

1. Paintings by Scott Redden

Brooklyn based artists Scott Redden’s paintings evoke a feeling of looking at a bygone era. The warm, soft colors mixed with the simplified shapes of the barns, trees, and clouds leads me to believe that these are painted from a world that only exists in Scott’s mind.

2. Printed Polyester Bags by Varpunen

I really love these simple laminated polyester bags by Varpunen. I can’t find much information on them but the geometric patterns and warm muted colors are beautiful. The bags are 8″x8″ square and about 10.5″ high and retail for €22 (about $30.00) a piece.

3. The Carpenter, a short film by Dimitris Ladopoulos

Dimitris Ladopoulos is a talented film maker, illustrator and designer working in Athens, Greece creating beautiful things. His latest project, a short film called The Carpenter, is the first of a series of shorts Dimitris plans on doing in which he looks at the art & science of professionals working with their hands.

The Carpenter, a short film by Dimitris Ladopoulos

Dimitris Ladopoulos is a talented film maker, illustrator and designer working in Athens, Greece creating beautiful things. His latest project, a short film called The Carpenter, is the first of a series of shorts Dimitris plans on doing in which he looks at the art & science of professionals working with their hands. His talent behind the camera is matched equally by his ability to add elegant motion graphics over the footage to explain the details within each shot.

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Printed Polyester Bags by Varpunen

I really love these simple laminated polyester bags by Varpunen. I can’t find much information on them but the geometric patterns and warm muted colors are beautiful. The bags are 8″x8″ square and about 10.5″ high and retail for €22 (about $30.00) a piece.

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Paintings by Scott Redden

Brooklyn based artists Scott Redden’s paintings evoke a feeling of looking at a bygone era. The warm, soft colors mixed with the simplified shapes of the barns, trees, and clouds leads me to believe that these are painted from a world that only exists in Scott’s mind. Whether or not that is true is unimportant to me, but the paintings are inviting me to visit their serene world.

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This Weeks Posts 11/12/11 — 11/18/11

1. Collections, A Series of Illustrations by Simone Capano

I love this series of illustrations by Simone Capano. Collections is a series of 4 beautifully drawn collections including Amplifiers Old School, Country Life, Frames, and Teaspoons.

2. Twisted Table by Erwin Zwiers

The Twisted Tables by Dutch designer Erwin Zwiers are created by wrapping layers of wood veneer around a central shape, creating the look of tree slice & allowing the table to grow “organically.”

3. Melvin The Machine by HeyHeyHey

Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) is a Rube Goldberg machine created by design studio HeyHeyHey that photographs the crowd, posts the pictures to Facebook, Twitter, and its blog and creates one of a kind merchandise promoting itself.

Melvin The Machine by HeyHeyHey

Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine,) design studio HeyHeyHey’s latest project, is a brilliant rendition of a Rube Goldberg machine. Melvin The Machine is an art installation, orginally showing for 10 days in MU artspace during the 2010 Dutch Design Week, that takes pictures and makes video’s of his (its treated like a person) audience that are instantly uploaded to his blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts all while creating merchandise promoting himself. The entire cycle lasts 4 minuets at the end of which, Melvin the Machine picks a song to get the party started.

HeyHeyHey created the machine to produce what they call a “super moment” in which the experience counted rather than the end result. You can see more pictures of Melvin over on HeyHeyHey’s Flickr page.

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Twisted Table by Erwin Zwiers

The Twisted Tables by Dutch designer Erwin Zwiers are created by wrapping layers of wood veneer around a central shape, creating the look of tree slice & allowing the table to grow “organically.”

Collections, A Series of Illustrations by Simone Capano

I love this series of illustrations by Simone Capano. Collections is a series of 4 beautifully drawn collections including Amplifiers Old School, Country Life, Frames, and Teaspoons. Her prints are available on Society6 for only $15.

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This Weeks Posts 11/05/11 — 11/11/11

1. Watercolors by Serena Mitnik-Miller

Love these watercolors by San Francisco based artist Serena Mitnik-Miller. Her warm & vibrant color use mixed with fluid feeling patterns & repetition create visually stunning pieces.

2. Type Love: Centrale by Typedepot

Centrale Sans, by Alexander Nedelev & Veronika Slavova of Sofia, Bulgaria based foundry Typedepot is a beautiful sans serif typeface designed to read easily at small sizes.

3. Porch House Prefab by Lake|Flato

The Porch House modular prefab houses by San Antonio, Texas based architecture firm Lake|Flato, can be arranged and built to take advantage of views, breeze, solar orientation, and outdoor spaces. The modular system emphasizes creating outdoor “rooms” as extensions of the livable interior space.

4. Vito Trestle Table Legs by HeyTeam

The Vito trestle table legs, designed by HeyTeam, a design collective of Claudia Ciarpella, Paolo Emili & Riccardo Paccaloni, is a brilliant set of table legs that attach to any solid surface. The legs screw into a metal band that wraps your table surface and clamps all the pieces together.

5. Novum Deformable Cover by Paperlux

The cover for Novum’s 11/11 issue, designed by Caroline Rauen & Max Kuehne of PaperLux, shows that with a little ingenuity, a solid printer & die maker and few extra bucks, you can create something really stunning.

6. “In The Attic” works by Lee Borthwick

The “In The Attic” series works by artist Lee Borthwick are created out of found materials from the 5th floor attic in Arts Council England’s new offices. Materials like MDF, dead wood, drift wood, willow, styrene & mirror off-cuts are cut apart and put back together again to create architectural reliefs.

“In The Attic” works by Lee Borthwick

The “In The Attic” series works by artist Lee Borthwick are created out of found materials from the 5th floor attic in Arts Council England’s new offices. The pieces include materials like MDF, dead wood, drift wood, willow & styrene mirror off-cuts.

The materials are cut down and reassembles into architectural reliefs. The series is currently out on loan but will be available to purchase in the coming months.

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