ABOUT
torstrasse 166, berlin, germany, 2008. Installation with 600 shoes and ca. 13.000 m thread. these shoes were collected from people who didn’t want to use them anymore.
CREATOR
Chiharu Shiota
RULES & RESTRICTIONS
Those who want to give their shoes can do so, but only if they use a red threat to connect it to the building.
COMMENT
I like this artpiece a lot, it’s very free in it’s form, but still has it’s restrictions.
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ABOUT
Amsterdam based photographer Jaimie Peeters always comes up with new inspirations and started a new series called “The Girls at Home Project” where he shoots girls in their own homes. Jamie Peeters wanted the girls to feel comfortable in there own homes, and step out of the comfortzone.
CREATOR
Jamie Peeters
RULES || RESTRICTIONS
– no rules, just let the models have fun and come out of your comfortzone.
COMMENTS
I know Jamie myself and after this big project he stopped fashion photography, now he only walks around with his analog camera.
He also made this project into a book, the book is full of girls who aren’t afraid to show herself. And that is something i really love about this project, he capture the girls at the moment that makes every girl special. You can feel the vibe, how the girls are in real life, aren’t afraid to walk naked in there rooms, or only with underwear.
LINKS
http://www.c-heads.com/2013/04/18/room-for-2-by-jaimie-peeters-for-c-heads/
ABOUT – This is a collection of hand made Bohemian inspired clothing. The designer has created her own brand with a concept:
wild flower – noun: a flower of an uncultivated variety or a flower growing freely without human intervention. Which links to: Handmade clothing inspired by bohemian prints, colours and shapes. All Wildflower Clothing has that one off feel, delicately crafted with nothing mass-produced.
She has opened up her collection via social media linking to her website. She hopes to further develop her skills and broaden the collection as time goes by.
CREATOR – Kate Evans
RULES RESTRICTIONS –
Not mass produced.
No choice of what is made/pattern/colour.
Size/price
COMMENTS – I really enjoy this collection as it began a personal interest and grew into a collection which is now being opened up on different platforms to a wider audience.
LINKS – https://www.facebook.com/pages/WiLDFLOWER-DESiGNS/1544764559127423?sk=timeline
– http://wildflowerdesignsx.wix.com/wildflowerdesigns
About
Remy Jungerman is an artist who was raised in Surinam. With his work ‘crossing the water’ he is pointing out the cross over to the geometric form from the modernism to the African diaspora-perpective. These panels represent the fact that he is stepping of the restrictions in form and colour of his inspiration ‘De Stijl’, he trades
these for the influences of ‘winti’ rituals. He uses traditional fabrics, but the batik based textiles of the brand Vlisco. Vlisco is a the last connection for the titel ‘crossing the water’ it has relation to Indonesia and Africa as well. “each fabric has a specific meaning in the winti rituals”. For him this is a symbol for the economic and trades between different cultures where he lives in. He wants to show that globalization is a thing that is happening for ages already. The titel refers to the pattern of cultures when you cross the water.
Creator
Remy Jungerman.
“Although I work from a culturally traditional premise, there are direct connections with De Stijl”.
Rules/Restrictions
– Expression of the winti ritual.
– The ritual colours in the work.
– Using of Vlisco.
– It has the mix between western and non-western culture.
– he uses traditional ‘non-western’ technics.
Comments
He mixxes ‘western’art with ‘non-western’ art, so he is questioning the question do we need to divid this still? He blends cultures, because he knows what it is to be in between those cultures. He makes this combinations timeless. And the beauty is that the ritual in this matters is making the art, besides this he really uses the traditions, the meaning of the winti in his work. I can identify with his work, that is why it attracts me a lot.
ABOUT
The Vitruavian Paint Machine is a project that’s performed in the Van Abbemuseum. They made a painting on the walls which would by influenced by the visiting people. If visitors passed the painters it was possible to choose a color. Depending on the color and the people, the painters would change their painting.
CREATORS
The creators of this performance were Luna Maurer and Edo Paulus.
RULES/RESTRICTIONS
The creators worked with four different colors. Each color has a ‘rule-made-form’. But the creators weren’t the people who selected the colors, the audience did. So the audience would decide which color they had to use (next), so they decided partially what the painting would look like. The way of drawing would also change depending on how many people where in that room. The specific rules you can find on http://conditionaldesign.org/workshops/vitruvian-paint-machine/
COMMENT
This was a really interesting way of art I heard of in another class. I thought it was very interesting/fun that people could intervene and could decide what would happen next. It was very fun that we got the assignment to make drawings with rules of this kind of our own. It’s an easy example of intervening in someone’s project, but it does get amazing results.
ABOUT
Photochromia is a project from “The Crated” a design studio which Madison Maxey is a part of it. For this project she worked with a company called Print All Over ( digital printing partners) to create clothing that changes patterns in response to light. The trick: photochromatic inks, which are made up of molecules that turn transparent when exposed to sunlight. The technology has been around since the mid-1800s, yet it still feels futuristic when applied to clothing. The clothing line includes baseball caps, T-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, backpacks, and more.
CREATOR
Madison Maxey is a around designer. She builds prototypes, writes codes and likes in generally to experiment at the intersection of design and technology. Her interests lie between 2nd generation wearable technology, additive manufacturing and computational design. Her main focus is The Crated a Innovation studio focused on developing 2nd generation wearable technology. They Believe that the key to productive wearable tech lies within the realm of fiber science. With this in mind, they focus on performance & responsive materials and soft circuitry.
RULES/RESTRICTIONS
One of the most important rule in this project is the fact that she could realize this project with the digital printing partners Print all over me. A Online platform where everybody is able to collaborate, create and produce in real world. Another rule is the fact that Photochromia’s technological abilities are pretty basic; disappearing ink doesn’t perform nearly as many sophisticated tasks as some of Maxey’s competitors, like Ralph Lauren’s Polo Tech Shirt, which tracks biometric data from the wearer. she thinks that opening up how we think of wearable tech with projects like hers and others will help prepare people for what wearables might look like in the future.
COMMENTS
This kind of Projects are very investing in the way the designers work with new technologies and processes to create new and new ideas for the future living. For me it is wonderful that we live now in the beginning of a new post digital era where old knowledge, techniques can be combined with new never before seen technologies to create individual and innovative projects with we are able to continue through open sources and platforms.
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ABOUT
In this collection the designer was using metal, foam and latex to create Memphis-influenced garments for her University of Westminster graduate collection. She chose an unusual combination of materials to create bold shapes reminiscent of furniture from the 1980s Milan-based design movement lead by designer Ettore Sottsass. The bright colours and smooth glossy textures were influence by the work of ceramic artist Ben Feiss.
Large sections of fabric were folded, pleated and sliced to reveal the layers of colour. The resulting oversized garments create a range of geometric silhouettes. Jasso Collado admitted that the garments aren’t particularly wearable in their current state, but hopes to adapt the fabrication techniques for accessories.
CREATOR
The designer of the collection is Valeska Jasso Collado
“I chose foam because it would make the voluminous but clean shapes I had in mind possible,” she said. “It also meant I didn’t have to build any kind of frame or stuffing which are more common methods to create volume for garments.”
RULES RESTRICTIONS
Materials: Latex, foam and metal
Techniques: Folded/ pleated/ sliced
Colors and Shapes: Only Bright colors inspired by Memphis interior and furniture
COMMENT
I really like the collections, i am also working with this kind of materials and i think as she is saying that these are nice materials to work with.
What i also like is the balance between shape and color. In my own work i also use fabric that is not really wearable on a daily base but that is making it so nice.
‘Jasso Collado admitted that the garments aren’t particularly wearable in their current state, but hopes to adapt the fabrication techniques for accessories.’ I think is really cool to think about wat you could do with this fabrics to make it ‘wearable’
Exhibition Valencia
ABOUT
It is an evolution of the concept of “Cadavre Exquis” in which each collaborator adds to the Collective Art through being allowed to see the end of what the previous artist contributed. Participants are free to choose if they want to paint, draw or scribble their work or just to create it digitally with design software. Anyone was able to participate on the project. You could just sign up on the website:
http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/nl/how-it-works
Eventually they showcased a 1.3km-long artwork in London that combines graphics, artworks and photography in a giant visual game of Cadavre Exquis. Also they showcased the collection worldwide.
CREATOR
The artists involved come from 85 countries. The full set of artworks can seen on the Red Bull Collective Art website: http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/
RULES/RESTRICTIONS
The only rule to participate, was to start your artwork at the point where the artist before you ended. It is like the game you used to play when you were younger, you drew a doll with friends, one drew the head, the other drew the belly etc.. and it ended up like a weird doll.
COMMENTS
I think it is a good project, because different artists were able to show their work to the world. Any individual could just sign up and participate.
LINKS
http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/
Example of the Cadavre Exquis game
ABOUT
Hong Hao starts with scanning objects and goes on to reconstruct the whole image using his PC. Though the chosen items (what he calls “My Things”) can be common object from our day-to-day life such as money, trash, chocolates, medicines, and things in a round shape, and there is hardly any specific meaning in each, the unparalleled enumeration of cumulated objects in his works brings a strong impact on us, and we can not help feeling the sense of awe. As is often the case, the assembled and repeatedly used objects in our everyday life tend to be catabolized when it comes to their functions and meanings, yet this is not the case for the works of Hong Hao. While money, chocolates, and books, all these bring happiness into our life, we all know that teetering over the edge leads us to facing misfortune in a pit on the way.
CREATOR
Hong Hao was born 1965 in Beijing and made his first education 1989, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing where he was studying print-making. Typical for the work of Hong Hao is that he’s collecting day-to-day life objects which are not really special for the normal user, and ask with his work what the function and meaning of these things are for us. He shows also how people deal with waste in big cities like Beijing where he also lives. In his work is the chaotic state in which he lives and also the outcome from the sensibility of the experience of the dramatic change in and around him.
RULES/RESTRICTIONS
the essence of Hong Hao’s work is basically the technique that he’s using (scanning) and the fact that he use the visual strategy of quantity to make is arranged pictures powerful. This small and for us not worthful things became in this way more importance and make the picture to one big thing witch is also a bit frightening if we think about how much waste we produce.
COMMENTS
Even this project is not untypical Opendesign Project it is still very interesting to see how Hang Hao put’s the views on a important problem of wasting stuff that we not even perceive in our big city lifes. Hao shows how interesting it is that we collect unworthiness thing without even knowing it in the way we waste them witch is a fact that with is part of our biology development.
ABOUT: Woolen blanket collection by Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir.
CREATOR: VÍK PRJÓNSDÓTTIR consists of Egill Kalevi Karlsson, Thurídur Rós Sigurthorsdóttir, Hrafnkell Birgisson, Brynhildur Pálsdóttir and Gudfinna Mjöll Magnúsdóttir, five Icelandic designers who work with product design, art, fashion and food design.
RULES: All the pieces in the collection are inspired in some way or another from Icelandic customs, mythology and the country’s characteristic climate.
COMMENTS: Collection is beautiful and the same time playful which I really like. The blankets seems to be very high quality and handmade and I would definitely buy one of those to myself.
LINKS: http://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/23/second-collection-by-vik-prjonsdottir/
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