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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Pieterjan
When I was 15 I started an education called 'Publicity and Illustration'. This study gave me a great motivation and a clear image on what I wanted to do. After this I started to study Graphic Design at St.- Lucas in Antwerp. During the course of this studies my interests spread from graphic design to furniture and instalations. Now I am doing a master degree in Art and Design and try to find a way to combine this viariety of interests. My future plan is not to have a plan but to follow my instincts and do everything everywhere.
On the internet u can find manny graffiti movies, but only a few good ones. This one focusses on a selection of artists with a verry different style and opproach. It’s verry well done and features a lot of great names, like Zevs, Os Gemeos, Swoon and manny more. The movie is about one hour, so make yourselfs comfortable, grab something to eat and drink and enjoy.
At Beeldfestival in Rotterdam I saw an amazing lecture of Julius Von Bismarck about his Image Fulgurator. The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others. >> Read more
The past two weeks there was a lot going on, somehow everybody felt the need to reflect or share new ideas in the same period. In these 14 day’s I visited 3 conferenses and saw over 30 lectures. A two day conference in Antwerp caled Integrated2009, Designweek in Eindhoven and Beeldfestival in Rotterdam. Read on for a small impression and some pictures.
Dagmar Schmidt represents a profound memory of German Plattenbau architecture. She decided to remove five residential floors of a classic Plattenbau building. Most of the walls remained, some were demolished to create entrances to the rooms. After the structural transformation of the building, the rooms were filled with furniture made of recycled concrete, such as stools, beds, couches, and sinks. What rested was a concrete floor plan of an old Plattenbau flat with preserved traces of use.Plattenbau refers to the great numbers of mostly public housing buildings constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. Prefabrication was pioneered in the Netherlands after World War I, based on construction methods developed in the United States. >> Read more
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Pieterjan
When I was 15 I started an education called 'Publicity and Illustration'. This study gave me a great motivation and a clear image on what I wanted to do. After this I started to study Graphic Design at St.- Lucas in Antwerp. During the course of this studies my interests spread from graphic design to furniture and instalations. Now I am doing a master degree in Art and Design and try to find a way to combine this viariety of interests. My future plan is not to have a plan but to follow my instincts and do everything everywhere.
