Showing posts with label urban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban. Show all posts
Licensed Plate Bowls
Fruit (or anything) bowl made from two bona-fide recycled vintage license plates. The retro piece is formed only by cutting, bending, and bolting – in a completely waste-free process. Available from W. Holman’s Etsy shop, there are plenty of repurposed styles to choose from.
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Incredible 3D Chalk Drawings
Mr. Hou is a talented Chinese artist famous for his memorable 3D drawings.
For his creative street art, internet fans have labeled him the "Chalk God"
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Getty Images' Watermark In Real Life
For those of you who don't know this. Getty Images is one of the most famous image banks out there. Naturally, the low res previews of their stock photography always have the Getty Images watermark on them.
Now, Getty takes the watermark to the streets for their most recent advertising campaign
They recreated it in glass and placed it infront of many monuments and attractions around Germany, along with a simple message: "All the images you can imagine".
Although I think the concept is pretty cool, Im not very sure about its execution. I mean there's always that awkwardly protruding pole that carries the glass "watermark".
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Kinetic Wall: A Vertical Lake Building Facade
International design studio Urban Art Projects puts the soothing effects of water into an unlikely place; the side of Brisbane, Australia’s airport car park.
This project is being developed with artist Ned Kahn. It is called a “Kinetic Wall,” and it will essentially be an eight-story-tall public art installation. Seen from the outside, the installation will look like a vertical body of water, complete with gentle waves and natural movement. From the inside of the building, the movement of the facade will create beautiful patterns in sunlight on the interior surfaces.
The effect is created with 250,000 aluminum panels which are loosely suspended so as to move gently with the wind.
It also helps provide passive cooling and ventilation for the car park, cutting down on energy costs and keeping the building more comfortable all year long. The new parking garage, complete with the unique facade, will be completed in late 2011.
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120 Bikes On A Wall
A bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany advertises their goods with a wall of around 120 bikes mounted on the building’s exterior in lieu of a sign.
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The Bubble Gum Wall
Located in Post Alley, under Pike Place Market, the Gum Wall had its beginning in the early 1990s when people, irritated that they had to wait in line to get tickets to the theater, stuck chewing gum on the wall.
At first they would use the gum to stick small coins to the wall but in time the coins disappeared and the gum remained.
Now it is covered with thousands of pieces of chewing gum of any color imaginable. And as the wall grows, the chewing gum art becomes more sophisticated. You’ll find names written with pieces of gum, and symbols like hearts or the peace sign.
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A Floating Pool In New York
+ Pool is an initiative by a group of architects and designers to build a floating pool in the rivers of New York City… and they need your help. The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. This site is the culmination of Concept Design for + Pool and they are looking to build a team of interested organizations and professionals to continue the development of the project into a buildable proposal.
Their next step is to partner with local cultural, developmental and environmental groups to raise public and private interest, identify civic potential and approach the municipality, while working with engineers, planners and specialists to refine the social and ecological performance of + Pool.
To find out more, contact them at info@pluspool.org.
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Obsessions Make My Life Worse And My Work Better
A work of art entirely made out of coins, composed by Sagmeister Inc. in September 2008 for the Droog Event 2: Urban Play. The public installation consisted of 250.000 Euro cent coins and covered more than 300sqm on a square in Amsterdam.
More about it here.
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Jell-O San Francisco
Liz Hickok creates scale models of urban sites (like San Francisco here) entirely in Jell-O. Luminously glowing, the fragile medium bears odd similarities to the city’s uncertain geological landscape.
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