ART/DESIGN
SwissMiss
Switzerland is almost like a second home to me. I grew up in France, in a small town near the Swiss border, so I have a soft spot for anything Swiss. SwissMiss is one of my favorite blog reads, and it’s probably yours too if you’re into design. The influential design blog was founded by Swiss graphic designer (“gone NYC”) Tina Roth Eisenberg, aka SwissMiss. It’s my go-to site to keep up to date on the design world.
Anyway, SwissMiss recently gave a talk at the PSFK conference. Here’s the video if you haven’t seen it yet:
Are you happy?
Design by Alex Koplin and David Meiklejohn (more info here)
Online Sales Alert! 15% off Herman Miller products
From Nov. 27 to Dec. 13 (2009). Gabriel Ross certainly knows how to please me hehe. Hurry up! Here
I’m totally lusting over:
- The cowhide plywood lounge chair – $2,195.00 CAD
(Photo: Gabriel Ross)
- The Eames lounge chair and ottoman (in white) – $4,289.00 CAD
(Photo: buroproject.be)
- The Eames rocking chair (in lime green or white) – $527.00 CAD
(Photo: igreenspot.com)
- The Eames Aluminium management chair (in white) – $1,297.00 CAD
(Photo: casasugar.com)
- And the Hang it All for good measure – $197.00 CAD
(Photo: Apartment Therapy)
Modern math
Some of you might remember this (from my French blog). Sorry for the repost, I’m insanely busy (and impatiently waiting for my Panton chair to finalize the “Office Project” woohoo!)
Source: morenewmath.com (Craig Damrauer)
Origami
Just when I thought I could no longer be impressed…
Photo: www.mabonaorigami.com
About the artist
(Photo and bio from his website)
Sipho Mabona was five years old when he folded his first paper airplane. In 2000 after having folded planes for fifteen years Mabona ran out of paper airplane designs to fold and turned to origami hoping it would enable him to come up with original designs.
Since then Sipho has been a participant at the Red Bull Paper Wings World Finals in Salzburg 2006, designed origami for the award winning Asics corporate movie “Origami in the Pursuit of Perfection”, has exhibited his work in galleries in Tokyo and Vancouver, was the invited guest at Japan Origami Academic Society (JOAS) Convention 2008 and was the first foreigner whose model graced the cover of the JOAS Convention book.
Sipho Mabona’s origami covers a great range of different styles from very intricate representational designs to abstract geometrical shapes. The impeccable folding and his great sense for lines and shapes distinguishes Mabona’s work of art. Mabona currently resides in Luzern, Switzerland.
(Photo by Fabian Biasio)
