Colors are Malene Landgreen’s vocabulary, and when it comes to color blocking we totally understand what she means! Landgreen has moved far beyond the conventional frames of painting in Denmark with the wall exhibition in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It’s through her relations to volume and colors that she ‘speaks out’.

Love it! We have to hire her for the painting of Trendland future office!

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Created by Kolja Clemens for furniture brand Mom. It’s a “Coat Hanger tribute” to the Tempelhof airport in Berlin. MORE AFTER THE JUMP

There are exactly five plantonic solids; Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron.  While they might sound fancy they are actually the most basic building blocks that can be reduced to.  They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who theorized that the classical elements were constructed from the regular solids.  Algorithmic scripting is allowing designers to create new forms for the 21st era using Plato’s solids.

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Despite the growing trend in in fashion today to identify with the artisan,  authentic artisanship is far and few within our contemporary consumer culture. La Maison du Pastel is one of these rare gems of history whose workmanship dates back to the 18th century. Since the acquisition by Henri Roche 1878, the house has specialized solely in the hand-making of pastels, at which time there were only 100 tints. By 1887 the range expands to 500 colors and from then on, “La Maison du Pastel” sees a continuous growth in palette, and Roché pastels become renown worldwide for their specific qualities.

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Irrepressible LA photographer R.J. Shaugnessy shot this sequence of images in his trademark energetic West Coast documentary style for Sony PlayStation.

Shaugnessy  has photographed successful campaigns for brands such as Adidas, Nike and Vans.  His work has been seen in the pages of magazines like Fader, Vice and Self Service, and in three published books including MORE AFTER THE JUMP

COMPLEX MORPHOLOGIES by Megan Magraw, Nathaniel Rather, David Saunders

London and New York based international design practice Kokkugia operates through design, research, experimentation and teaching to develop generative design methodologies from the complex self-organising behavior of social, biological and material systems. I have selected some of their research and teaching imagery which I found highly inspirational in the purest form of abstraction. The images shown here are only a few examples of parametric modeling, rapid prototyping, and other numerically controlled manufacturing techniques using algorithmic design and computational geometry.

GENETIC ALGORITHM FABRICATION

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