If you’ve ever sat for hours doodling with your spirograph, then you are going to love the results of this incredible design project. For his graduation, Sam van Doorn, deconstructed a pinball machine and reconstructed it as a design tool to track just where the ball goes when it gets hit by those little flippers. The Dutch designer named his new design tool STYN the machine and debuted it at his Graduation Exhibition. The better the player, the more interesting the design! [Read more...]
As post-industrial areas struggle to keep up with the suburban strip mall societies, many are falling short and needing a miracle to revitalize their once booming economies. Try as they might to convince the people otherwise, introducing a Walmart is not the answer. Realizing this and wanting to bring vitality back to Buffalo, architect David Lagé organized a think-tank called Terrainsvagues. After throwing ideas back and forth, they came to a conclusion that met all of their needs- farming abilities above the contaminated soil, beautiful art structures to attract visitors, which will in turn begin to bring back and sustain small businesses in the area. By working with artists in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Buffalo and urban farming organizations, plans are in the works to have large free-standing installations/ gardening structures by next Spring. [Read more...]
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A low curving stack of wood rises out of the grass, not drawing much attention from a distance. On closer inspection however, viewers are given an eye pleasing explosion of color – in the center of the stack is a precisely cut path which descends into the ground, the end of each log painted in brilliant purple. [Read more...]
Clement Briend is a photographer living and working in Paris, France. He is also a professor of photography at the University of Valenciennes. Briend studied at the Ecole Louis Lumiere and specializes in projecting images onto various surfaces and then taking photographs of the hybrid imagery. [Read more...]
This isn’t the first time we’ve featured Gabriel Dawe’s astonishing rainbow thread installations and we’re hoping it won’t be the last. This time the intricate designs were spread across the stories of Villa Olmo in Como, Italy from one banister to the next. The vibrant rainbow colored thread combined with the natural lighting of the Villa created a stark contrast between old and new. [Read more...]
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Here on Visual News we’ve covered artwork which seemingly transforms the urban environment, from digital reworking to finely crafted models these scenes create surreal scenes which demand a bit of exploration to make sense of… or realize they just don’t make sense. Madrid based street artist SpY does something all of these examples neglect: he does it for real. [Read more...]
Our view of life is often all about our perspective. Whether that is dealing with people around us, the often unexpected situations we encounter in our day to day life, or simply the way we observe our surroundings. London-based photographer Alexander Kent knows this well, using unusual perspectives and visual illusions to create work which makes us look twice and more closely analyze what we see. [Read more...]
