Fabio Viale is a sculptor based in Turin, Italy. His most famous works are those that manipulate marble to appear as a drastically different material, such as styrofoam or rubber.
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Yatzer says, “The push of his work comes from an ability to deceive, and more accurately prompt questions in the viewer. Often these questions are as [...]
Artist Laurent Grasso and architect Pascal Grasso have created a temporary, transportable restaurant to sit atop the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.
The 678 square foot venue is named Nomiya after a small restaurant in Japan. Made entirely of glass, with a perforated metal screen over the central cooking area, the 12 person dining room [...]
Spirits bottle are getting pretty fancy these days but at the top of my list is the cool glass skull by Crystal Head Vodka. Back in October last year, there was buzz about an online video of Aykroyd talking about the Skull. People weren’t sure if it was a joke or some promotion for Indiana Jones. [...]
Candy cures all, so naturally the Spanish design firm, Marion + Merche Design thought to use pill bottle packaging for a Barcelona candy company.
Instead of plastic bags, customers load up their goodies in jars & pill cases labeled with a universal (but bright pink) cross. The result is a clever packaging concept that feels anything [...]
Our habit of filtering the barrage of sounds we encounter every day means our relationship with this sensory input is largely unconscious, but it affects us in surprisingly profound ways. Julian Treasure buckets the effects into four groups:
1. Physiological: Calming or stressful sounds affect our hormones, breathing, heart rate and brain waves
2. Psychological: Sounds, most [...]
Visual Inspiration: But Does it Float?
With esoteric post titles like ”I’m floating with the birds, I’m talking to the weeds, look what you’ve done to me” and an intelligent curation of images updated daily, this site is a must-see for the visually oriented. An added bonus, each of the images is meticulously sourced, linking directly to [...]
Always interesting, always unexpected, always extreme, Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2010 was definitely a spectacle. The show crossed into a whole new digital arena of entertainment as it was live-streamed on Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio.com, intercut with the photographer’s premade video footage. On top of that, 30 minutes before the show, Lady Gaga twittered that McQueen was [...]
Rory Sutherland is a pioneer in the fields of 360-degree branding and interactive advertising. As the executive creative director and vice-chairman of Ogilvy One and vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group, he has overseen the creation of several recent, wildly successful branding efforts such as Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty and Adidas’ Play a Sport interactive online [...]
Focus is one of the things we are always talking to our clients about. Too many times we find brands or retailers trying to appeal to too many people and thereby trying too many different things that just end up confusing themselves and their consumers. But having a focus – knowing what you stand for [...]