For the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009, Teriyaki Boyz member and designer Verbal got to work on the new Toyota iQ. The entire exterior got a chrome look and the interior comes in clean white leather, matching the wheels. The concept was inspired by artist Jeff Koons.
Take a more detailed look at the Toyota iQ x Verbal Car after the jump.
After the ready-to-wear edition of the bottle in 2009, designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier, Evian works with Baccarat to create five exclusive limited edition bottles. Five unique bottles dressed transparently to evoke Evian’s best asset: purity.
“Bubbles bottle, drops bottle, tray bottle, reflection bottle and spring bottle: 5 exceptional creations presenting the tremendous savoir-faire of Baccarat artisans. These pieces have been shown in various cities such as London, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Moscow, Dubaï, Melbourne and of course Paris”.
colette will present them from March 16th to 21st and at Maison Baccarat March 24th to 30th before being auctioned next April 7th at 8pm at Artcurial, to raise money for the RAMSAR convention, which Evian supports for more than 10 years.
Have a detailed look at all five Evian x Jean-Paul Gaultier x Baccarat Bottles after the jump.
The Wallpaper Design Awards 2009 winners have been announced today. Among the judges you find Kanye West, Jean Nouvel, Ines de la Fressange, Marc Newson, Sir Ken Adam and Stefano Pilati. As you can imagine this panel made sure that only the very best was chosed in each category.
Browse the winners in categories fashion, furniture, hotels, buildings and more here.
House Industries “Letters and Ligatures” has just opened at LA’s Subliminal Gallery. The show celebrates the Delaware firms interest in and dedication to fonts and typography. Thanks to Andy Cruz, over at House, we’ve got a few images to share from the show for those that won’t get out to LA. If you think you might, the show stands until December 5.
A few preview shots from “Letters and Ligatures” after the jump.
One of the strengths of the Museum of Modern Art in New York is its ability to transfer ideas and experiences from the galleries to the web. Among the accomplishments, and perhaps the finest, in this vein is Design and the Elastic Mind. In short, the exhibit is about the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world. How adjustments in human behavior are understood by science, and made to useful objects through the design process. Many of the objects that feature on the web are not on view on site. The web portion itself is a free flowing exhibition, allowing us to bounce back and forth through topics, people and place and create our own trajectory through Design and the Elastic Mind.
Check out digital ping pong after the jump, one of our favorites from the exhibition.
LA-based SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS opens Letters and Ligatures on Saturday, November 8. The exhibition delves into the alphabetical world of the Delaware-based House Industries. The irreverently relevant type foundry proudly showcases a collection of prints, patterns, installations, and sculptures based on their recent typographical explorations. The exhibition will remain on view until December 5, 2008.
For Letters and Ligatures, House Industries conveys a single, yet complex philosophy: visual nomenclature fuels language, facilitates communication, and forms the basis of a civilized society. The written language strings together letters, words, and sentences, conveying the innermost thoughts and ideas that human beings communicate to the outside world. It is tied to our primitive nature, governing our individual choices and observations, our collective socio-anthropologic history.
House Industries understands that each design requires a commitment of time, energy, and creativity. With each project, the bond between artist and font is deepened. The two work closely together, first coming to an understanding of the project’s origins and meaning, then translating that abstraction into something that compliments but does not distract from the main idea. In essence, House Industries’ Letters and Ligatures aims to invite us to share in that close bond and is proof of House’s instrumental role as innovators and directors in the multifaceted communications of our society.
Saturday auctions at Phillips de Pury & Company offer some stellar lots at relatively low cost estimates. This coming Saturday urban and contemporary art, design, photography and vinyl toys share the stage. Artists ranging from Takashi Murakami to Jeff Koons (with Faile and Invader mixed in) are represented. On the design end, furniture from Marc Newson stands along the masters of modernism. Don’t miss it if you are in New York this weekend.
Written by graphic designer Cey Adams, with help from noted hip-hop photographer/historian Bill Adler, DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop gets to the nuts and bolts of establishing the hip-hop aesthetic. Both Adams and Adler contribute essays, as do notables like Russel Simmons and Sacha Jenkins. Visuals, the driving force behind the book, come from the likes of HAZE and Dapper Dan. Fine arts are also represented, with the work of Mr. Cartoon, Kehinde Wiley and others reproduced and dissected.
A must for anyone interested in hip-hop and its many spin-offs. Out now from Collins Design.
The latest feature from Honeyee focuses on the collaboration between Mastermind Japan and Core Jewels. The resulting pieces are really quite striking. Different designs based on a core interest in the skull. An interesting look into variation and the manipulation of material to the same end.
