I know, it’s terrible. It’s been to long. But here we go again!

Found this cool drawings and installations by Kevin Cyr from Brooklyn. At the moment he’s running a solo exhibition at 941 Geary.

From April 30 through June 4, 2011.

Enjoy!

Light Blubs by dutch designer Pieke Bergmans. She takes the normal light bulb to the extreme. Making them unproportional and out of contect.

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

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.”

A very nice installation, mixing the digital with the analogue, the new with the old. An arcade styled game where u drive a remote controlled car.

More info at their own website.

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.

via Designboom

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.

I encourage you to have a look at his past project, Parasitos Urbanos, where small robotic creatures interact with the urban enviroment.

Both projects are nicely illustrated as well.

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.

Electronic Ruler is a simple wooden ruler with a display. It uses the resistance of your pencil against the wood to mesure the distance.

Temae is more than just a holder for your tea bag, it also hase an indicator to show u how strong your tea is.