If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio. But it's not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there are 4 of us blogging on a regular basis. Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we'll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
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I love the clean and minimal japanese style. House of trough is a house for a couple in east Hokkaido, Japan, made by japanese studio jun igarashi architects. Due to poor neighbourhood conditions (the plot is next to an iron-factory), the house is introversially organized and visual contact with the surroundings is limited. There is a logic of buffer zones that protect the living/dining/kitchen area while spacious quality in the verticall axis balances the lack of horizontal quality. Found in designboom.
In our days databases are growing fast and the visualization of them is becoming an issue. The upcoming discipline of information design (or data visualization) converts boring numbers of very complex phenomena into interesting-to-read graphics. Density Design is a research group in the design department (INDACO) of the Politecnico di Milano, which focuses on the visual representation of complex social, organizational and urban phenomena. Visit their website and flickr page to discover more.
The Crumpled City Maps; are soft, extremely light but very strong, perfectly waterproof, designed to bequickly put away in their bag, without having to be folded but just scrunched up, rolled upinto a ball. Crumpled City, indeed. At the core of the design is this ‘playing’ with gestures: this allowing people to dosomething that is usually “forbidden”, that is to simply scrunch up a document. It is aliberating, fun act, especially if you do it with something that you are not going to throwaway, but which is actually made to be kept and reused. >> Read more
Not a new table, but I just found it in a small book from Established and Sons. Table looks like a table; it is rectilinear, has a functioning surface, four legs and is made of wood. And yet Table is subtly different, using its chosen materials to add detail and features. Spruce lumber triboard, an engineered timber product used for construction site hoardings, was the unusual material chosen. >> Read more
Utopian architecture is the only kind of architecture worth talking about, a very bold statement indeed. A whole exhibition discussing only this, Realstadt at Kraftwerk in Berlin. Coincidentally I also saw some work of Jens Reinert who jonas posted a couple of weeks ago. The exhibition space, an old factory nicely decorated and curated.
As the concept of urban farming is getting bigger and more and more well spread, some lectures and events appear. The past weekend we visited one of them here in Berlin. Zeillen, life science – Urban farming was located in more places across Berlin. A big vegetable garden was constructed with the help of lots of volunteers, a theatre filled with plants and vegetables, … Lectures took place in the middle of it. To go short, a lot of interesting stuff taking place with the upcoming of urban farming as a concept or as a project. Some more pictures u can see at read more, and all about the event end its lecturers and workshops on the website of the event.
Slinkachu has some new pictures out on his blog. Here’s what he said:
“I got back from Fame Festival in Southern Italy last week, after spending a few days making installations around the city. I made six in all, including a few that used miniature speakers and mp3 players to add sound. The one above had a speaker hidden in the drain that played sounds of screaming kids and splashing.” >> Read more
The Briefcase house by Jimenez lay plays with the concepts inside/ outside, personal/ communal, private/ public. It is a space within a space, a living or personal space, comparable with personal belongings in a briefcase inside a bigger space, the space in between is for working. Jimenez explains his concept through a comic styled storyboard. Lots and lots more pictures (and the storyboard) at read more.
Maria Ikonomopoulou is a greek artist based in the Nederlands. She did her latest work it at at the Daglicht Studio in Eindhoven and she experimented with big size graphics. You can visit the exhibition Groot grafiek in Rotterdam. Maria has been working again in the past with embroidery techniques. To find out a little bit more about Maria and her past work, “spaces between us” and “intimate distances”, I recommend you to have a look at the this interview. To me Maria’s work awakes lots of feelings, thoughts about life and love, it is familiar since she uses greek folk techniques, like embroidery and I especially like her sence of aesthetics. >> Read more
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