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At the heart of this project, the bangles, necklaces and rings are having the intention to transform complex and separate elements into a new kind of whole. Jointed Jewels is the beginning of series of work in progress. As the range continues to evolve and expand, it will be joined by “family members” in other product genres. All the Jointed Pieces share the same DNA, they are based around the 3D printed ball joints and made in one single process. Although the jointed pieces share the... Read Full Story

Through the Gallery Nilufar and Gabrielle Ammann Gallery, Nucleo will exhibits their latest collection in the Pavilion of Art & Design (PAD) London, one of the “world’s top contemporary art & design fairs”. In the booth of Gallery Nilufar, Nucleo will exhibit Presenze a collection which is a testimony of past lives, the evolution of absolute objects. Gabrielle Ammann Gallery will show Carboniferous and Black Resin Fossil Coffee Tables. Presenze With the Presenze collection, designed... Read Full Story

LAVA’s solution is an origami cave. It features in their new exhibition that held recently in Sydney. LAVA’s Digital Origami Emergency Shelter is a concept for an inhabited molecule. The design is based on a water-molecule, referencing the Japanese Metabolist movement`s idea of prefabricated capsules as living space. The base molecule can be shipped as a flat pack, cut out of local plywood, or dropped off by a helicopter. The interior can then be carved out of wood, cardboard... Read Full Story

Back for the seventh consecutive year, Design Event 2011, takes place across various venues in the North East of England, with a rich line up of the best design talent from the north of England. This year’s theme is Happiness and the event opens with Design Event MART, a curated selling exhibition at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Friday 14 – Sunday 16 Oct), championing over 30 design companies from the North. An exciting new initiative this year will be Design Event Presents... Read Full Story

Is art, design and architecture, what separates our man-made world from nature? Could something raw and natural have the delicate composition and symmetry that a building or painting possesses? Can nature itself be the greatest form of unintentional art? This blog post will attempt to find out. Symmetry is a sense of harmony, balance and an aesthetically pleasing proportionality which is seen as being perfection or beauty. However, this perfect balance can be deliberately created through... Read Full Story

Katharina Kowalewski, an actress & director, with her roots in the fashion industry (She has worked for vogue, glamour swarovski), is now trying to broader her portfolio with a new thing, filmmaking. Her second short film which she directed together with Nadine Strittmatter, a swiss model who also member of the up and coming band Hundreds, ‘Sweet Focus’ is selected for the Cannes Film festival Short film corner. The film was produced by Peter Lehner who has also produced Marc Forster’s... Read Full Story

LAVA ’s Home of the Future is a showcase for future living, with nature, technology and man in a new harmony. The Home of the Future will start construction in late 2011 on the rooftop of a new furniture mall in Beijing, China. An ETFE geodesic skydome provides a year-round microclimate that opens up the home to a garden filled with sun, light and fresh air, away from the pollution and noise of the city. Visitors will experience fifteen different living spaces, from internal/external... Read Full Story

Gallery Hanahou will be kicking off 2011 with a group exhibition showcasing some of the most talented fashion illustrators working today. Curated by renowned artist, fashion illustrator, and educator Bil Donovan, “Fashion Illustration: Visual Poetry” brings together 14 of the most talented and innovative artists working in fashion illustration today for an exhibition that showcases the possibilities of the genre to complement, respond to, and sometimes transcend fashion. The pieces in... Read Full Story

From 15 October 2010 until 30 January 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich will revive the first museum exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso. Mounted at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932, the show was a crucial moment in the history of modern art. Picasso had organized a very personal look at his work, with pieces chosen from his pink and blue periods and his Cubist and neo-classical phase as well as Surrealist creations, and the homage now on show reconstructs this subjective survey. With 100 works... Read Full Story

Chris Bosse of Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] has created a window installation for the famous Italian department store la Rinascente for its Contemporary Christmas Art windows. LAVA’s window installation is an origami coral reef using 1500 recycled and recyclable cardboard molecules that explores the intelligence of natural and architectural systems. The sculpture plays with space by climbing up walls and arching over to create coral caves. Based on the geometrical... Read Full Story