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.
When artist Julien Berthier goes out for a boat ride is his boat people often try to rescue him. He has cut an old boat in half and restored it in a quite non conventional way. U might have seen it before since it is a work from 2007, but just in case u missed it u can see the whole project at read more.
Parfois payed a visit to the new home of Pieterjan, Berlin! One of the first things we did over there was the Daimler Contemporary. A small gallery that’s a bit hidden, but worth the search.
The ‘Minimalism and Applied II’ exhibition is intended as a series of arrangements of art, architecture and design objects ‘in dialogue’.
Some of the artists: Eileen Gray (IRL), Charlotte Perriand (F), Jean Prouvé (F), Gerrit Rietveld (NL)
If you can, go and have a look. The exhibition runs from October 29, 2010 until March 27, 2011
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin, Germany >> Read more
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
Finally! The optical, illusional, old school tiles we all know from our grandma’s kitchen are back! Nel Designed this set inspired to a urban environment. Slight alterations in color or motive occur and bring these tiles from the cult to the contemporary.
It’s been a while, but everybody was enjoying their holidays! Here we go again;
Anders krisar is a Swedish artist currently based in Stockholm, his work deals with a variety of subjects including the human body. In his recent body of work, krisar has concentrated on photography and sculptures, especially modified faces and body parts. In this series of piece you can see how he takes realistic casts of the torso, arms or face and modifies them in ways that lend them a surreal quality. There is the basket weaving of skin in ‘cuirass’ a commentary on leather goods, and ‘the birth of us (boy)’a young man’s torso with hand prints firmly embedded in the skin. >> Read more
A few days ago, I was very pleased to discover Gilberto Esparza, a mexican artist, which is interested in making robots that interact with the enviroment. His last project, Plantas Nomadas, is a robot that works with the help of microorganisms and contaminated river water. The key for this process is the microbial fuel cells. According to wikipedia : “A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrochemilcal system that drives a current by mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature.[...] A microbial fuel cell is a device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy by the catalytic reaction of microorganisms.” Summing up, Plantas Nomadas is a self-sufficient robot that can walk to the river and drink contaminated water. Through a microbial fuel cell proccess, the produced energy feeds the robot and make it able to walk, while the surplus helps the plants to grow. A great interaction between technology and life cycle. >> Read more
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.
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