Sunday, November 28, 2010

Recycled Driftwood Animal Sculptures

Recycled Driftwood Animal Sculptures: "

Heather Jansch creates amazing and unique life-size animal sculptures out of driftwood. Each piece of driftwood is carefully put together and fixed with steel screws and fibreglass-coated steel frame to ensure a longer lifespan.











Blueprints to the Eiffel Tower

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Folding Art: Artist Rides Down River Thames in Paper Vessel

Folding Art: Artist Rides Down River Thames in Paper Vessel:


From the childhood hobby of making and sailing paper boats has sprung a truly unusual art project from German conceptual artist Frank Bölter. As part of the Drift 10 art exhibition in London, Bölter folded a massive origami boat with the help of some members of the public, then launched it into the waters of the Thames, hopped in and enjoyed a relaxing ride.



The paper boat was reinforced with some metal poles to hold its shape, but otherwise was composed entirely of folded reinforced paper of the kind used to make juice and milk cartons. Given the highly appropriate name “HMS Origami,” the 5.4 meter (17.7 feet) boat was sturdy enough to support one passenger in the calm waters of the Thames.



Although the boat wasn’t technically paper – at least not in the way that most children’s folded boats are – the origami boat is still an impressive feat of artistic experimentation. Bölter was confident enough in the water-worthiness of his craft that he laid back and read a newspaper, enjoying a leisurely sail while onlookers watched in wonder.





Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Incredible 3D Chalk Art

Incredible 3D Chalk Art: "

The first photos of Mr. Hou’s 3D chalk art first appeared last month on Sina Weibo (a Chinese microblog service like Twitter) and Chinese netizens nicknamed him “Chalk God”. One netizen said: “Is he an architect like in ‘Inception‘?” There were even netizens shouting one after another: “This isn’t chalk, this isn’t chalk.”




With regards to his own creative ideas, Mr. Hou said: “I think these 3D artworks actually aren’t that rare/surprising, but the idea is very key, and only with the idea can you move people. For example, I once went to a tourist sight/attraction, and there was a sculpture at this intersection. Below the sculpture, on all four sides, were a bunch of advertisements for counterfeit official documents. I felt this was so representative of China today, so I started drawing, never expecting to become so popular.”



Mr. Hou expressed that the piece that he is most satisfied with was “drawing ‘happy birthday’ for my son, and the vegetable planting piece was created last year when stealing vegetable games were really popular”.













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Monday, November 22, 2010

Sitting can be cool: 18 creative chair designs

Sitting can be cool: 18 creative chair designs: "

If you’re looking for a cool and unusual chair, you should probably take a look at this collection of great chair designs. Some have been featured already on Get Inspired, our inspiration feed on Designer Daily, make sure to subscribe to it if you don’t want to miss any update.

1. Barnacle Chair

Designer: Ania Wagner – Via Yanko Design

2. Firewood Storage as Chair

Designer: AK47 – Via Trendir

3. Nir Meiri stool

Designer: Nir Meiri – Via Design Milk

4. Deep Forest

Designer: Kibardin Design

5. Spoon Chair

Designer: Gaëtan Van de Wyer

6. The Pata

Designer: Hiroyuki Morita – Via Nvelt

7. Space invader chair

Designer: Igor Chak – Via Designboom

8. Lost in sofa

Designer: Daisuke Motogi Architecture – Via Dezeen

9. The Aperto Chair

Designer: Caroline Havag – Via Contemporist

10. Ocean Rocker wood

Designer: Jolyon Yates

11. Kilo

Designer: Kilo Design

12. Leaf chair

Designer: ilio – Via Trendir

13. Alright rocking chair

Designer: Joseph Riehl – Via Yanko Design

14. ABC stools

Designer: Roeland Otten – Via Design Milk

15. Flip Chair

Designer: John Caswell

16. Inside-out chair

Designer: Alberto Villarreal

17. Fadeout chair

Designer: Nendo – Via Iain Claridge

18. Foam Chair

Via CCTV



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