Pencil vs. Camera

6 Jun



Pencil vs. Camera’ by Ben Heine
image © Ben Heine

‘Pencil vs. Camera’ by ivory coast-born brussels-based photographer ben heine is a series of images that inject hand-drawn pictures within real-life settings to create a composite effect that is often surreal and highly narrative. Manipulating the backdrop to host added elements such as real-life tetris blocks,floating speech bubbles, and an alcoholic panda, the photographs are an exercise in manual photoshop, always including heine’s hand which holds up the sketched piece of paper in the foreground.

Alarmingly accurate and crisply focused, the series puts great care in the alignment and perspective required to successfully pull off the optical illusion. heine creates seemingly effortless snapshots that are highly imaginative and contextual.

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Scratching the Surface

6 Jun


Portuguese-born, london-based artist alexandre farto (vhils) creates arresting portraits by breaking away pieces of walls. He takes his subtractive art to not only galleries and exhibition spaces but also the streets, creating larger-than-life figures in the midst of urban and underused space.

Farto generally first sketches out each piece in spraypaint, before beginning the painstaking process of chipping, sawing, and drilling away at the wall to various depths. he will often add additional colour or shading to the newly exposed portions of the wall, creating a visual interplay between the untouched surface, original painted figure, and layers of underlying material.

In addition to work on walls, farto has series of subtractive portraits done by tearing away portions of billboards and posters, as well as in metal and wood.







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Animated Paper

6 Jun


The Big Society

6 Jun


The Big Society
1 colour screen print poster on 170gsm uncoated art paper
H60 x W80cm

The Big Society is all about you and me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me…………

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Slut Slag or Slag slut

6 Jun



Limited edition products for people who really want to show how much they care. His n’ hers ceramic salt and pepper pots, Egyptian cotton bath towels, hand embroidered slippers, engraved Italian glass tumblers and fine weave cotton pillowcases.

Casualties of War

6 Jun


‘Casualties of War’ by Dorothy
all images Courtesy Dorothy

‘Casualties of war’ by manchester-based creative collective dorothy is a series of plastic moulded figurines that illustrates the dark side of war veterans. a direct commentary on a editorial article titled by the same name, the prototypes delineate the often brutal and negative aftereffects of the war, manifesting itself in the form of brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, suicides and more.

the 7cm-high figurines reference the classic toy army soldier model with a pool-shaped base and a similar green finish. featuring figurines in four different scenarios, the series is at once disturbing and honest, showing the reality and the many detrimental influences of war.




POTHOLES

5 Jun













Little People Project

23 May

















Streeeeeet bench

4 May


Eindhoven-based designers vincent wittenberg and guy königstein have developed a series of alternative street infrastructure for common urban spaces. The street usually refers to the pavements, roads and traffic islands – areas which have the potential to offer new design opportunities. following this perception, one can initiate collaborative and participative urban processes, from which both the municipality and the residents profit, eventually creating a more interesting and vivid street.

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FUJITSU design award 2011

3 May


The work of US-based designer rené lee, the ‘bento’ computing system concept integrates a notebook, tablet, and smartphone into a single modular device, expanding the possibilities of networked use while extending the life cycle of the product and providing easy portability of each component. ‘bento’ was shortlisted from over 1000 designs in our recent designboom competition ‘a life with future computing’, organized in collaboration with FUJITSU. A laptop with 15″ OLED screen serves as the structural base of the design. when used as an integrated system, the 11″ tablet and 4″ phone sit in shallow depressions, flanked by a solar powered lithium-ion battery and a 1TB SSD drive. When charged, the tablet and phone can be removed and used wirelessly, or utilized independently as individual devices.

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