Buoys

Some recent Cornwall pics, taken at Durgan, on the Helford River.

The Weather Project

Predictable one, but could not mention Olafur Eliasson in the last post without showing an image. The scale of the work was just awesome.

White

Came across this really interesting looking new book, White by Kenya Hara. Hara has been integral in forming Muji's design philosphy, he also designed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olymics in Nagano and is "......concerned with thrilling and inspiring the senses". Needles to say, its probably very good.
If you click the image you should be to read Olafur Eliasson's, (remember the giant sun in The Tate turbine hall?),  desription.

Kinetic Art Fair

I wish i could give more info about where this was exhibited because the the websites involved are not that clear. But it was shown during the recent Kinetic Art Fair,  and is linked to A22 Gallery. It is so important, as a designer (or artist), to be able to communicate ideas to the client. Some people are simply no good at reading a technical drawing, and need more of an artists impression, but on the flip side, a computer rendering is the only thing others will react too.
I am not sure who had the initial concept here, but the study at the top and the installation are by two different artists, but two artists who were very much on the same wavelength.

Specific Merchandise

Brooks Hudson Thomas, formerly of Blackman Cruz has just opened his own venture, Specific Merchandise in L.A.
There is a chance my designs could be featuring in the store, but totally regardless of that, i think Specific is destined for big things!

Diesel

Diesel, yes, the Diesel of denim fame, are making furniture. A certain relaxed aesthetic, but none the less, pretty accomplished and accessible.

Walter Frederick Morrison

Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee died recently. It is truly amazing how such a simple object has become ingrained in our lives. The idea of flying is something that mankind has always been fascinated by, from the myth of Icarus to Da Vinci's flying machines and the Wright Brothers we have tried to defeat the grip of gravity. With the fear of over analysing,  I feel in some way by setting a Frisbee in flight, we feel lighter, time shifts slightly, as we are fascinated by this mysterious thing, and i think this why it is so iconic. There is no way that Morrison would ever have dreamt that when he was chucking cake tins around some sixty years ago the phenomenon would exist. There is almost no design involved, it could not be simpler, it is the interaction of, and effect on humans that make it what it is.