The second set of ideas for the week includes these interesting oeuvres: 1. AIM Materials Aluminium, ABS Designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Design Year 2013 “The general idea underpinning this project is to offer a lamp which can be infinitely adjusted to satisfy all lighting needs. A new type of lamp has been developed that […]
«My life as an artist has been shaped by two passions: for graphic design created in the public sphere on the one hand, and by the exploration of a related private vision in painting, on the other.» This was the definition about own creativity of one of the greatest graphic designers of our time, a […]
«I’m always treading the line between fine art and commercial work,» artist and designer Rex Ray once said. «It’s an ongoing conversation and experiment to figure out how to balance fine art with more commercial graphic design.» Indeed, the relationship between art and design is the topic that does not have any clear opinion. And arguments about where the […]
I guess it’s so curious to know what do artists think about their works, how they feel our world and how does their imagination transfer into different art objects. And at last how their energy inspires and charges us. Do their ideas come to them accidentally or after deep plunging into philosophical musing? American artist […]
When an artist creates his own unique visual world, an architect designs of his environment, a playwright plunges us into the world of his characters, a composer sets a certain rhythm, then a theater artist has the global task to unite the creative vision of all participants of spectacle, while staying true to itself and its […]
Dandyism. The modern dandies. Part 2 The good news is they are here and they are among us. They, who are trying to make the world around them brighter and more elegant, who create their own atmosphere of elegance, refinement,who express their personality through lifestyle and appearance, defending their individualism in our time faceless mass […]
This is one of those books that will our guide in the journey to the origins of design. The authors of the history of modern applied arts lead their story from the industrial boom in the UK, then the emergence of Art Nouveau in France, Jugendstil in Germany and Austria and then to the development […]
…..Julia produced, as a conjurer produces a rabbit from his hat, a large handkerchief of scarlet chiffon and with this she played. She waved it, she spread it out as though to look at it, she screwed it up, she wiped her brow with it, she delicately blew her nose. The audience fascinated could not take their eyes away from […]
