If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio… But… its 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 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.
Simplicity is the best . At Design Reactor, a Berlin based office, they understand this concept very well. Probably allot of you had great ideas like this one time or the other, but these guy’s actually produce them. Very innovative, humoristic and nicely designed. I love them.
At read more some other projects by Design Reactor.
Mathieu Lehanneur is a fantastic designer, inventor,.. and lots more. His work varies from interior designs to pils and robots. His designs are functional and flawless a great merge between aesthetics and concept. In this post I’ve tried to compile his most famous designs. On the first look they probably don’t say anything, on his website u can find the explanations. But maybe u can find it out by just looking at the visual images themselves.
Michael Marcovici is an amazing guy who had an extraordinary life so far. He quit school when he was 17 and started his first own company in the finance field, he sold his first business when he was 23, he started a side business on eBay that eventually became the world’s largest power-selling enterprise on eBay with a turnover of 30 million euro’s a year. U really have to read his biography on his website. His artwork is conceptual and loaded with political and sociological meanings. Also his interests in finances and technology is visible in his works. Interesting guy, worth checking. >> Read more
Everybody knows photoshop, its a way to digitally modify pictures. This is something that’s very useful and almost impossible to do yourself. But nobody ever died trying. This is an image that has been circulating the web quite some time and nobody really knows who’s image it is. On this¬†flickr¬†page are some more pictures. The origin and the concept behind it are a riddle according to¬†Wired,¬†they assume it was a promotional campaign for Photoshop¬†on the Indonesian market.
Draw bots are everywhere these day’s and the generic art scene gains popularity to. I’ve always been a big fan of these things and last year I’ve spend a lot of time researching this phenomena. This research resulted in a series of robots (what else?). In 7 months time I’ve made 6 different robots and installations. Every new robot or installation was an evolution of the previous, with this one at the end of the line. This robot reads simple algorithms loops them and creates patterns by doing so. An algorithm can be, move forward for 2 seconds and rotate 78 degrees, if we loop this we generate a certain pattern. The more difficult the algorithm, the more complex the pattern. This video we made at the Antwerp Astonauts exhibition last month.
A while back I saw a lecture with Theo Jansen. As an engineer/artist he makes organic, moving creatures. He releases his sculptures on the beach where they, driven by air, can walk around freely. They are fitted with ingeniously designed sensores that warn the sculpture when he contacts the water, and let him walk the other way as soon as he does. In the same lecture he speaks about his next step, to let his sculptures live autonomously the beach and he hopes that thew will develop to creatures that can withstand storms by hiding in the dunes. Very inspiring work, more info at strandbeest.com.
The next artist we undress here at the Parfois Blog is Jean Shin. Jean was born in Seoul, South Korea. She lives and works in New York City. I think its a bit strange that I don’t see her work appear in other websites and blogs. If you look at her work, you notice there is a message in it. Her installations are mostly build with all kind of leftovers. With which she creates her own world. She does this not only with installations, but also with photography, video, prints and sculptures. Read on for Jean Shin’s full story.
I found this fella on superuse.org, he had some nice concepts. Dennis graduated in June’07 as an Interactive Media designer at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy, in Rotterdam. In June’09 he completed the master-course Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, also in Rotterdam. His work is inspired by everyday life. Associations made between everyday objects and media result in hybrid forms and ‘new media’. Recognizable but subtle and clever.
The project above is called vacumonium, it is a harmonium (air-organ) build into an old Miele vacuum cleaner. So (…), form and function of two (household, everyday) objects are associated and literally combined. There’s a soundsample of the vacumonium on his website. >> Read more
Its a pity we don’t have any of these creative bus stops here in Belgium, it would encourage me to take public traffic more often. Today i’ve stumbled on¬†creativecriminals and found these, a nice way to advertise your product. Making money with street art, parfois would love to get our hands on a bus stop and do a makeover. The picture above: advertisement for Guarana Antarctica. Read on for more pictures.
Leo Villareal is one of the biggest light artists on this world. It is a pity this installation, located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, is no longer there. The west to east hallway was covered with 41 000 LED lights, resulting in a true spectacle. It starts slow and easy, but ends with a big bang! More information and work can be found on the artists website.
If you know a even better light artist, let us hear about it in the comments, and we will definitely write about it.
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