It’s So Yumi.
Architect Shigeru Ban has created a clean, minimalist floor lamp for FontanaArte, namedYumi. The lamp which has been selected for the XXIII Compasso D’Oro ADI Awards name means “Bow” in Japanese which...
View ArticleGary Judah Returns to Goodwood to Celebrate Mercedes-Benz.
Last year Gary Judah created a pretty spectacular sculpture of flying Porsche’s for the Goodwood Festival of Speed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 911. This year he is back paying tribute to...
View ArticleDan Wood’s “Kansas City Lights”.
Over the weekend I received an email from film maker Dan Wood with a link to a video he uploaded to Vimeo about a month ago. The time-lapse short film features the unique and diverse architecture of...
View ArticleTravel, Architecture, Food, and Cocktails.
A poster series after my own heart. What could be better than travel, architecture, food and cocktails? This series of posters created by Dublin based design studio me&him&you features 14 great...
View ArticleCabins
Cabins / Huts is a new book from Taschen that combines beautiful photography, illustration by Marie-Laure Cruschi, and insightful text about the idea of what a small refuge building is. I absolutely...
View ArticleLife in the Burbs at 1150 Canyon Road.
Art&Graft Studio Film® has released the third in a series of animated short films 1150 Canyon Road is a story about plans gone wrong featuring some wonderfully stylized animation that blends 3D and...
View ArticleInteractive Portals at LAX.
Public Art can be a hit or miss endeavor. More often than not it misses the mark for one reason or another, be it budgets, design by committee, to many cooks in the kitchen, what ever. Occasionally...
View ArticleSNOW CREEK RD.
If I had an extra $450,000 in cash just laying around I’d be tempted to pull the trigger on this property listed by Paul Kaplan in Palm Springs. Yes this is small at just 756 square feet. Yes it needs...
View ArticleArchiblocks.
Remember the building blocks you played with as a kid? Simple squares, usually with the alphabet painted on them. Well these are not your average building blocks. Archiblocks were designed by Laurence...
View ArticleComplex Meshes.
For Lumiere Durham 2015, England’s largest light festival, French artist Miguel Chevalier has unveiled his latest art installation “Complex Meshes”, at centuries old Durham Cathedral. The cathedral was...
View ArticleThe USC Architectural Teaching Slide Collection, A Mid Century Modern Time...
Yesterday I was looking for some reference images of mid century modern architecture for an illustration I am working on when I stumbled across the USC Architectural Teaching Slide Collection. This...
View ArticleArchitecture for the Birds.
Do you feel that the fine feathered friends building nests in your yard’s trees need something a little nicer? Maybe a nice two bedroom Eichler inspired house, or something a little bit more Frank...
View ArticleA Capsule of Memorabilia
If you are lucky enough to be in Italy this week you might want to take a train to Milan to check out the 2017 Milan Design Week. And if you do happen to stop in at Milan Design Week, be sure and check...
View ArticleA Case For Art and Architecture Books
When most people think of a book, rarely do they think of it as a work of art. Most of us think of books as a tool for the communication of ideas and information. If the layout, typesetting, and design...
View ArticleCinta from Lumicast Set My Heart Aflame
I get a lot of email promotions from various companies over the course of the week. Most of them get ignored but every once in a while something rolls into my inbox that gets my attention and makes me...
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