A commenter on youtube summed up my feelings towards this video when they wrote “that’s so awesome, too bad it’s just a tv ad”. This giant xylophone structure was built in the middle of a forest by Japanese agency Drill Inc. to promote the eco credentials of NTT DoCoMo‘s wood-encased SH-08C phone (below), which is made from trees that have been culled from overgrown forests in Japan.
Hot Tools by ECAL
April 29th, 2012 Posted In:Art
Design
Exhibitions and Events
Film and Photography
Making
Student and Graduate
Another great video from the students at ECAL. Hot Tools was an exhibit during Milan Design Week by students in their second year of the Master’s in Product Design under the direction of Alexis Georgacopoulos. Explains designer Ronan Bouroullec, who led the workshop: “After a visit lasting a few hours to the workshop of glassblower Matteo Gonet in Basle, students had to design and produce tools and utensils, and invent scenarios that would create an interesting effect in Matteo’s artisanal glass-making process. We had five days to create a successful test palette.” The result is a set of experimental glass pieces that overtly showcases the art of glassblowing, as well the process that went into each individual piece.
Experiments with paper
at ECAL
April 27th, 2012
Posted In:Design
Exhibitions and Events
Film and Photography
We are very much enjoying these videos by ECAL industrial design students Christophe Guberan and Lucien Gumy that explore the capabilities of paper in design. From Christoph’s printed self folding structures (below) to Lucien’s collapsing paper towers (above), these experiments give the humble piece of paper a life all of its own.
In 2008 construction began on the 2012 Olympic Park in London which has seen a former industrial site in east London transformed in to 200 hectares of Olympic Parkland. These birds eye view photos by British photographer Giles Price document the mammoth development and allow us to appreciate the sheer scale of the operation. In Price’s own words this new perspective “allows us to look down on ourselves and reminds us of a reality that we are not aware that we are involved in.” Read the rest of this entry »