Zim and Zou Paper Wonders

I love the work this French duo, Lucia Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann of Zim &Zou. Their projects are fresh and different with a contemporary approach to graphic design utilizing paper sculpture. Their latest work, Back to Basics is a brightly colored retro scene of camera's, cell phones and tape decks. It took them a year to get this to come to life and their still working on it! They have done some really great work, check em out!

Damn, that's awesome!

Sweet.

Mix Tape!

Back to Basics - Behind the scene from Zim and Zou on Vimeo.

Love this beautiful font created from embroidery thread.

Birds & Butterflies

I'm in the mood for a little quite after last night :). Don't get me wrong, it was a great celebration but today I feel somber and these beautiful birds and butterflies by Paul Villinski is just the treat I needed.

By re-purposing discarded material Villinski's artwork truly transforms.  Inspired by sailplanes and paragliders, metaphors of flight and soaring often appear in his work.

His butterflies are created from crushed beer cans and each piece seems to have a personality of it's own. I love the cobalt blue series and the vinyl lp butterflies are wonderful.

lovely.

Check out his glove series too!

Typographic Illusions

Really impressed with this installation by the young design student Joseph Egan out of London. By looking at the relationship between graphic design and architecture they discovered the process of anamorphosis (a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices to reconstitute an image.)  Initially inspired by the fine artist Felice Varini (who in himself does wonderful work) his team created a typographic installation within a building on the campus of Chelsea College of Art & Design.

"Our work encourages the viewer to walk into and around typography, an immersive experience considering that their usual relationship with type would normally be realised on a two dimensional surface be it printed or computerised. Being able to appreciate it physically painted onto walls of buildings which the viewers are used to interacting with every day draws attention to the beauty of typography and at same time highlighting the architectural forms that it adorns."

Very Impressive and the video really captures the process. Thanks for sharing Scott!

STORYpod

I attended a community art installation in NE Portland today to benefit the fight against HIV/AIDS. Portland designer and sustainability advocate Owen William Fritts, in collaboration with 52 Limited ( a creative staffing agency) and nike, have created a community art installation for the upcoming Cascade AIDs Project + nike (RED), annual art auction.

Called a "STORYpod", the piece will be a series of organic structures made of hand-woven branches entwined with personal messages, memories and stories about HIV/AIDs. A group of volunteers, passer-byes and the artists created about 11 pods from various branches and and woven red shoe laces. Each piece unique in their design and all very enchanting.

"The result of the final installation will be a living, growing testament of the collective strength and support of the community in the fight against HIV/AIDS."

If your in Portland come down tomorrow and send a message of hope.
More information and pictures here
Sunday, April 10 · 10:00am - 4:00pm . 3971 N. Williams, Portland, OR 97212

The beginning of my pod I made with Josh.

Finished today, who knows what it will look like when it's done!

Lovely, Lovely, laces and weaves!

Just in time, a book printed using 4 printers

This is a cool project by Xavier Antin. Just in Time, or A Short History of Production is a book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history.

MAGENTA (Stencil duplicator, 1880)
CYAN (Spirit duplicator, 1923)
BLACK (Laser printer, 1969)
YELLOW (Inkjet printer, 1976)

210 x 297 mm
42 pages
100 copies
english

sweet!