Maurycy Gomulicki's series of photographs at Galerie Sara Guedj.
Monday, September 10, 2007
HOIMING MOBILE ASHTRAY
Our friend, Hoiming and Baldwin's, mobile ashtray design.More bag design at hoiming.net for the full collection.
AGELIO BATLE'S GRAPHITE SCUPLTURE
Not only are Agelio Batle's graphite scupltures beautiful, these realistic sculptures also write! And its price is quite reasonable as well.To purchase them, visit Agelio's official webpage.
TEA TIME
Tea at Narna Hotel... this is where the Empire stays when he visits Narna.Above is photo of Ronnefeldt's Sleeping Tea Pot standing upright.
SCV SEMINAR + EXHIBITION
Our exhibition and seminar at SCV in Shizuoka went quite well. Many thanks to those who came to see us! And special thanks to the organizers.
FACTORY VISIT IN JAPAN
We are currently designing a set of furnitures, more on this projects later.Anyway, here is one of the factories we visited during our trip to Shizuoka. This wood-working factory must be one of the cleanest we have yet to see. And I must add that, this is the first factory (that we have visited so far) that is air-conditioned; a rarity in China.
PHILIPPE STARCK vs. SCARFACE
Oh my, this should be a good fight... Starck's $1748 AK47 (table lamp for Flos) vs. Scarface's $44.98 M16A1 assault rifle (table lamp)
Does spraying the $44.98 M16 in gold make the budget-lamp look as classy as Starck's AK47?
And why is Starck's AK47 so much more expensive?? I know, Flos will donate twenty percent of the gross sales from the Guns Collection to the Freres des Hommes Europe Association (an organization that works the growth of local communities & their social structure in underdeveloped countries for the world); but that's still three times the price of the M16.
Friday, September 7, 2007
A STACKING HOMMAGE
Dirk Winkel's Stacking Hommage is too good to be true! Any interested manufacturers out there? Anyone?dirkwinkel.com
WWF BILLBOARD
Wow, very creative indeed! Though I wonder who would sit there the entire afternoon to enjoy this?
STILL LIFE BY MARTIN KLIMAS
Martin Klimas' series of still life photograph left me in awe. I love the fact that though the photo captures the breakage in a standstill; but the broken sculptures look as if it were to continue its movement in a blink of the eye. Here is an article on Martin's work and working technique in The Morning News.
martin-klimas.de
IKEA's KLIPPAN COUCH
Sweet, this is just what I need! Ikea is finally super-sizing the classic Klippan couch!
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
idn15 anniversary
Hooray, this is our friend, Kinn's, new work for idN 15th anniversary.
Sorry, we have not been posting at all the past month... network problem here at China, the government somehow blocked off all blogspot sites!? This is depressing (suppressing as well). Sorry guys... hopefully our IT guy can do something about this...
Thursday, June 14, 2007
PEDAL ID ON PEDALMAFIA - SO FUN!
Haha, I absolutely enjoyed building my desired fixie with padalmafia's Pedal ID; yes, this sounds completely insane, considering it's 3:45 already. But if anyone built anything worthy for us to put up on this blog, I won't mind sharing it here on CC blog.Pedal ID on padalmafia.com
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
JULIAN WOLKENSTEIN
Julian Wolkenstein, Australian, London-based photographer, is amazing with his amazing conceptual works. Above photos of horses with human hairstyles are some of my favorite.
julianwolkenstein.com
Thursday, May 24, 2007
PANTHEON OF SOCCER GREATS
An 800 square meter ceiling poster, shown in the main train station in Cologne during the World Cup 2006.
Why are we reporting this just now? That's because they just received the Bronze Award for Innovative Use of Media - Outdoor: Single (THE ONE SHOW).
It took Hamburg-based illustrator, Felix Reidenbach, 40 days to complete this mammoth poster.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
LANDMARKS.ORG
It's about time the rest of the world take notice! Preserving our landmarks is part of taking care of our arts and culture... But what really caught my eyes was this ad for Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois. (See! Great ads does help!)
Congrats to Ogilvy and Mather Chicago for the ONE SHOW Bronze award!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
OPUS OR iPHONE?
You be the judge. But then again, we are talking about two completely different platforms here.
NATURA CLASSICA - TRIED AND TESTED
Hooray! We finally got our hands on our very own Natura Classica (and the Natura 1600 film)!! Above are couple of pictures I took with a standard ISO 800 film. It's a great little camera, very simple and straight-forward, it reminds me of my Olympus ยต back in the days (for its simplicity!).
The camera costed me 250 USD, so for its price, this is exactly what I expected; which leads me to my only complain for this lil' gadget - it lacks a manual mode! But I suppose that is the difference in its price.
HK GIFTS AND PREMIUM FAIR
Many thanks to everyone who came by our booth during the HK Gifts and Premium Fair. This year, we added a full range of mobile ashtray to our existing collection.
More photos of the event to come later.
See you all again in Shanghai this coming September!
24 VIEWS OF ANUBIS
I always like the figure of Anubis, it's just a personal thing. But here I've found 24 mechanical view of it, quite interesting. A mechanical version of Anubis is display in the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in Otaru, Japan. This theatre is actually a museum of Automata (mechanical sculpture) based in UK. Inside you will find a series of mechanical sculptures, mostly made with wood.. each piece will demostrate a mechanical display movements of human or animals, some could be quite violent.
Background info of Anubis: A man with the head of a jackal-like animal. As most should know that Anubis is the Greek name for ancient jackal-headed God of Dead in Egyptian mythology. Unlike real jackal, its head is black. Rarely shown fully-human, but he is depicted so in the Temple of Abydos of Rameses II.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Post a poem on your shirt
Get bored with your old tee shirts? Take a look and shop on "Post A Poem"! There were tee shirts with comics by famous artists from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, the graphics are not only interesting, but also have messages in them. One of the artists is Siu Hak, my favorite artist from Hong Kong. His illustrations were shown in many commercial cooperates, music labels, and publishing houses, he was also awarded the Silver Medal at the New York Festival 2002.
(Photos from www.postapoem.net)
Thursday, May 10, 2007
An art hotel in Bangkok
Bangkok is known as an excellent place for holiday, not only because of sunny weather, beautiful beach and tasty foods, but also those nice hotels.
The above rooms are artistic and unique, and surprisingly they are all from the same hotel!
Reflections is an art Hotel with 30 rooms for world travelers in Bangkok. There are only 30 rooms but each of the distinct rooms are designed by celebrated and honored Thai and international designers. Decoration, style and spirit reflect the taste of the temper of each designer. Don't worry about the price, it only costs 2,850 - 3600 Baht per night!
Room No.207 is my favorite, what are yours?
See all 30 lovely rooms: http://www.reflections-thai.com/rooms.html
(Photos from www.reflections-thai.com)
Tapisofa
Guess what are they? Carpet? Waste paper?
The answer is: sofa!
This sofa, called Tapisofa, was designed to be placed in corner, with unpredictable but natural shapes that create seats in your house. (But I think your guests won't know this "carpet" is a sofa...)
It is designed by a young french product designer Olivier Gregoire. He shows a balance between art and industry, form and content, the sensitive and the functional.
Take a look at other works by Olivier! They are really cool and amazing~
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