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six f plus

three final-year design students from the art school in constance, germany: ‘marco mauber’, ‘tobias suppan’ and my good mate mate/ex-intern ‘uwe steffen’ have just completed this fascinating project entitled sechs ‘f’ plus, the site is in german only but the comprehensive colelction images are enough to give you an idea what it’s all about…

they have basically deconstructed the medium photography, choosing to disassemble and then rebuild a whole series of cameras using various techniques such as panoramic, stereo, single lens reflex, the mysterious sounding ‘schwarze otto’ and solargraphy, the gaffer tape style cameras which resulted from their experiment were all functional and used to shoot a series of images, later compiled into a neat book and even an exhibition to collect the whole process into a coherent story, worth a look, nice work ‘uwe’… makes me proud :)

m / 03-03-2011 20:06 - tags: , , , ,  

grab me #2

the new york times magazine has done an interview with english designer ‘andrew byrom’, see more of his stuff here, see also this related post from 2008

m / 03-03-2011 11:07 - tags: ,  

fadeout

…the fadeout chair’s legs seem to gently disappear, as though the chair stands in a pool of mist or fog. The chair’s back and seat are wooden, and the clear acrylic legs are specially painted by craftsmen so that the wood grain appears to gradually fade away…

a stunningly beautiful design from japanese company nendo, whose whole portfolio is pretty amazing by the way (tip via ‘the motor’, thanks pam)

m / 18-02-2011 12:30 - tags: ,  

domestic sex machines

sander & lernert have been spraying everyday objects in monochrome colours and taping stuff to studio floors again, this time with hilarious results for dutch band ‘de jeugd van tegenwoordig’, enjoy… bit of a dodgy tune though…

m / 01-02-2011 08:52 - tags: , ,  

the clock clock

simply genius… (via christian borstlap)

m / 12-01-2011 09:11 - tags: ,