Art on buildings

October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

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This has come from the highly delightful Jaz Cummins.  Foyles on Manette St in Soho are diplaying some rather impressive art, covering the entire building.  The images show photos of women from Rio de Janeiro “for whom crime, violent loss of loved ones and arbitrary repression are part of everyday life”.  The work has been done by street artist JR and it is similar to work done previously for his Favela Project.  Thanks Jaz!

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Art, Blog, Experiential 

More Data Visualisation But Through The Movies

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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This was sent to me by David Bausola and it is one of the nicest examples of Data Visualisation that I have seen recently.   Created by Zach Beane and inspired by Lee Byron’s Stream Graph, Movie Box Office Charts displays box office data graphically according to takings and date.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Art, Blog, Data Visualisation, Design 

Philips Design Probes

June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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This is a nice little series of experiements from Philips Design Probes.  Through tracking trends and developments that may evolve into mainstream issues that have an impact on business, they are focusing on key areas covering politics, economics, culture, environments and technology features which will enable them to understand lifestyle post 2020.  There are some really interesting projects going on including how we can create a sustainable habitat in 2020, but being a tattoo fan one that caught my eye in particular is The Electronics Tattoo.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Art, Blog, Design, Innovation, Technology 

The O2 memory project

April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

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So Saturday I hoped down to the Southbank for an afternoon of awesomeness with Charlie, Priyanka, Sam and Charles to see the O2 Memory Project. The instillation created by Jason Bruges, camera-captures panoramic movements and stores them within it’s digital memory bank inside. You can then go inside the instillation and see images that it has taken and here’s some for the photo album from Team Awesome

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Although the project is a great idea, it wasn’t executed as well as I would have hoped however, we managed to add an additional BOOM (as Sam would say) to the project. After leaving the instillation, we went to the Hayward Gallery to see what other toys we could play with and stumbled upon these little cardboard camera’s that you put over the lens of your camera to make your photo’s a little more interesting.

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Now OK these images didn’t come out as well as we had hoped when we put them over the memory project, but below you can see the effect it’s supposed to create below.

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Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Art, Bizarre, Blog, Instillation 

Diesel create outdoor spaces

March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Diesel are supporting the art world by launching a competition for designers win the chance of exhibiting their work on the side of buildings and giant walls within city centers. The winners will be displayed in Manchester, Barcelona, Zurich and New York. The campaign was developed to cut through the thousands of advertising messages we are faced with, to “salvage what precious public space is left and fill it with something worth saying.” The words “pot” and “kettle” spring to mind Mr Diesel but I am interested in seeing the results from the competition. Via: PSFK

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Art, Blog, Experiential, Fashion, Marketing 

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