The Design Ark

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July, 2012 Monthly archive

Beautiful work from talented Scott Hazard who tears and layers photographs to create these beautiful scenes.

If the mind is a reducer, shuffling through an endless stream of stimulus to arrive at the most pertinent information, these pieces are reflections and extensions of this process. As the viewer’s gaze enters and traverses the layers of images in each construct, vision becomes tactile, lending an articulated viewing experience and a space for the eyes to linger in each image.

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A series of really interesting sculptures and installations by Alex Chinneck. More here.

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Mexican practice R-Zero studio, has recently completed the ‘H24 house’ in Mexico city, Mexico. More details here.

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Craig Atkinson has started a photo project documenting all the illegal uses of the Olympics name and branding around London. If you’d like to contribute to it, head over here.

(via Booooooom)

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Street Stone from Alexis Persani.

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This is nice - Club by Something Design.

Inspired by the simplicity often found in Green Rooms, the freestanding mirror-wardrobe Club combines a few related functions in to a curious piece of furniture. Essential in its appearance and informal in its use, a mirror stands on wooden stilts hiding an unexpected hat and coat stand. Being an object on its own, Club can easily be used and moved across the home.

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Starting as an empty white room, Roman Ondak’s Measuring the Universe at Tate St Ives has grown through the contribution of around 90’000 participants to a constellation of black marks. Through the simple action of measuring oneself, Ondak’s work doesn’t just expand on ideas of space and the universal but also the personal, creating a growing living artwork that questions just what a museum is for.

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