Photos from high above.
Trained as both an architect and a pilot and obviously a very skilled photographer, Alex MacLean has flow his plane over much of United States to document her landscape, taking beautiful photos of her vast agricultural patterns to city grids and capturing the relationship between natural and constructed environment. We're (sort of) trained as architects, now just to brush up that photography skills and get that pilot license.
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Look what we've got for Beatrice's birthday! For her great tasting bakes, none other than the Already Been Eaten cookie cutter.
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More reasons to drink coke with its vintage coke cans design.
With annual net sales of $20,458,000,000, Coca-cola has yet again come up with a way to increase its popularity by releasing coke in good looking cans. We would imagine millions around the world collection each design. We won’t mind one either. Wonder if it comes in Diet-coke (for Andrea and Dawn ). Just hope it hits the Singapore shores. So another round of Coke?
Designer Wooden Figures. All Hand Made.Articulated joints & removable parts.
Candy and Nick are the minds behind Noferin. With their training as a graphic designer (Candy) and an environmental scientist (Nick) they craft out a whimsical world of characters, all hand-made.
Pecanpals are made from 100% sustainably harvested wood. They are made from rubber tree wood that would otherwise go to waste. Rubber trees are planted for their rubber, and after about 20 years, their rubber yields start to diminish. We use this beautiful wood, thus saving it from the fire pit.
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Our favourite princesses are given a different happily ever after by Dina Goldstein.
We love how different the princesses are being portrayed. In reality, nothing is perfect so our dear princesses shouldn’t be too. Vancouver photographer Dina Goldstein captures unique portraits and mixes them with commercial editorials. She has received numerous awards for her creative and commercial projects.
Humanitarian Architecture.
The first picture shows what is Architecture. The second shows what Architecture is about. This is perhaps one of the few precious things that architecture school taught us. When we look at objects, we see more than the surface, rather we seek to see the thoughts behind the objects. There is perhaps no beautiful objects; only beautiful thoughts and the Soe Ker Tie House is a beautiful piece of architecture. Designed by TYIN Tegnestue, a non profit organization working on promoting humanitarian through architecture, the Soe Ker Tie House serve as dormitories for an orphanage in Noh Bo, an improvished village along the Thai - Burmese borders. Constructed using local techniques and materials, the Soe Ker Tie House exemplify the potential of what could be achieved through a sensitive and down to earth approach towards architecture and more importantly reminded us of what architecture is truly about.
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“The traditional dunk of an Oreo cookie into a glass of milk was dramatized with the use of a panoramic elevator in a shopping mall. This attention-grabbing use of new media gave us one more way to show that Oreo is milk's favorite cookie.”
Advertising Agency: DraftFCB, New York, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Chris BeckerExecutive
Creative Directors: Sandy Greenberg, Terri Meyer
Art Director: Jeseok Yi
Copywriter: Claudio Lima
Photographer: William Tran
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Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira’s “tridimensionals” installations exhibited at the Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas between March 26th and May 9th, 2009. Breathe taking!
From the Rice Gallery:
Oliveira uses tapumes, which in Portuguese can mean “fencing,” “boarding,” or “enclosure,” as a title for many of his large-scale installations. The term makes reference to the temporary wooden construction fences seen throughout the city of São Paulo where Oliveira lives. It also refers to the weathered wood Oliveira uses as the primary material in his installations.
Early on, Oliveira experimented with the surfaces of his paintings by gluing newspaper onto a canvas and scraping it, or mixing sand with the paint. A breakthrough occurred while he was a student at the University of São Paulo, where for two years the view from his studio window was a wooden construction fence. Over time Oliveira began to see the deterioration of the wood and its separation into multiple layers and colors as similar to the process of painting. One week before the final student show opened, the construction was finished and the worn out plywood fence was discarded. Oliveira collected the wood and used it in his first installation.
Oliveira’s installations, which he refers to as “tridimensionals,” have evolved into massive, spatial constructions that combine painting, architecture, and sculpture. In some installations he uses walls as supports, attaching and shaping lengths of PVC tubing to create enormous, protruding forms over which he layers thin sheets of wood. In others, he arranges thousands of pieces of painted wood into gestural abstract “paintings” that spill off the wall into the viewer’s space. The constants in Oliveira’s work are the visual and tactile qualities of wood that has been exposed to the elements, and though he incorporates new, flexible plywood into his work, his primary material remains the discarded wood collected on the streets of São Paulo.
Watch video of installation here...
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