Workbays Village is the result of a collaboration between Vitra and ECAL/Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne. Master Product Design students hack the modular office system Workbays, designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Consisting of wall elements made out of pressed polyester felt and held together by slim aluminium profiles, the office system was launched…
For Terre Thaemelitz , sales, distribution and claims are the essential tools of culture and thus they determine his* artistic practice, where her* roles as DJ Sprinkles, writer, contemporary artists, designer and businessman become one. In Lovebomb, the video/conceptual album on view at Documenta, these practices result in a disturbing,challenging and intense audiovisual experience.
Circuitry of…
Stefanie Rittler and Sascha Henken studied together at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and have always provided each other with advice. Currently, Sascha works from Leipzig, designing public spaces and sustainable products, while Stefanie is a social designer and carpenter based in Berlin. Waiting for Water is their first enterprise as a duo.
Waiting…
Freelandbuck is an architecture office based in Los Angeles and founded in 2009 by David Freeland and Brennan Buck. In their work, Freelandbuck often plays with lines in perspective, bridging the gap between bi-dimensional drawings and 3D shapes.
‘Parallax Gap’ is their winning proposal for an installation at the ceiling of the Renwick Gallery, in…
“I have led my life always worrying about what other people think of me. They say I look cute, gentle, childish or naive”.
“I always felt suffocated by that. But wearing this, I am just a person in a full body suit”.
Hokkyoku Nigo is one of the members of a Japanese group of people with a…
For the following weeks, this column will be dedicated to discuss some of the works exhibited at the Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. The first takeaway from this huge endeavor is its leviathanic ambition to collect, process and polemize urgent topics of politics, economy and culture. Much like the globalized world it is discussing, Documenta…
Chad Hagen is an artist, graphic designer and art director; he graduated in Fine Arts from the Minnesota State University and he's currently living in Minneapolis. His artworks and illustrations have been published in magazines as Fortune, TIME, Wired and the New York Times and he already worked for brands like Gap, Mattel and…
For his brand new collection, the fashion brand Massimo Dutti collaborated with Barcelona-based creative studio Six N. Five: the founders Andy Reisinger and Ezequiel Pini found a compromise between art and design in five short movies. They created these movies in order to enhance all the products: a clutch bag, a pair of shoes, cuff-links,…
Having spent a decade inside Egil Sæbjörnsson' s mind, his two Troll friends, Ūgh and Bõögâr, have now taken full control of the Icelandic Pavilion appointing themselves as the real artists of the show.
It is a well-known fact that objects are indeed alive. There's that cup of coffee over there, winking and making your mind bubble.…
Ryan Burke is a make-up artist and self-portraitist; he comes from a small-town in Virginia. Everything started because of the end of a love story for which he moved in California. When he broke up he was alone in Los Angeles, so he decided to see what he could do as a photographer, and pursued…