Giuseppe Mileti, a vision of nature
Tuesday, April 17 2012
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Discovered by chance on the Behance network, photographs of <b>Giuseppe Mileti</b> have a real style, a singular approach of nature and photography. Nature, trees and woods are the main subject of these works. Playing with texture, saturation and light, the trees seems mysterious, ghostly, but also very live and almost moving.
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemileti/" target="_blank">www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemileti</a><br />
<a href="http://www.behance.net/giuseppemileti" target="_blank">http://www.behance.net/giuseppemileti</a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemileti/6969878437/" title="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012 de Giuseppe Mileti, sur Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/6969878437_3a16372ae4_c.jpg" width="500" alt="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012"></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemileti/7003690191/" title="XIII - 25 Feb 2012 de Giuseppe Mileti, sur Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7099/7003690191_245f81966f_z.jpg" width="500" alt="XIII - 25 Feb 2012"></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemileti/6941585435/" title="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012 de Giuseppe Mileti, sur Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6941585435_c3daabf3ef.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012"></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemileti/6943844633/" title="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012 de Giuseppe Mileti, sur Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7195/6943844633_42513f163a_c.jpg" width="500" alt="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012"></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemileti/7026845573/" title="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012 de Giuseppe Mileti, sur Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7261/7026845573_d90ed68e02.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="XI-3 - 19 Feb 2012"></a>
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Music video "When I am king" by Tim Knol directed by Sverre Fredriksen
Tuesday, December 20 2011
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This music video has been released two years ago, but after a quick search on the web it appears that there were not a lot of articles about it. However <b>the video is really great, mixing up a lot of techniques : pyrography, stop-motion and animation</b> (with a bit of modelling). Directed by <b>Sverre Fredriksen</b> and directed by <b>YellowSubmarine</b>, the video illustrates with humor and poetry the song <b><i>"When I am king"</i></b> by <b>Tim Knol</b>. The video making-of unveils some details of concetion work, which needed several hours of work for one second of animation.
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Visual identities by Pavel Emelyanov
Saturday, December 17 2011
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<b>Pavel Emelyanov</b> is a Russian graphic designer working in<b> Murmansk</b>. His work consists for the most of designing visual identities. His portfolio contains great designs of logotypes and graphic guidelines, for a wide range of clients.</p> <p>
<a href="http://www.behance.net/Levap" target="_blank">Behance Portfolio</a><br />
<a href="http://revision.ru/a/Pashtet777/" target="_blank">Revision Portfolio</a>
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Rolling Through the Bay, 35 years of toothpicks and creativity
Thursday, November 24 2011
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<b>Rolling Through the Bay</b> is a unique piece of art, the kind of work we could see in a movie or a comic book. <b>Scott Weaver</b>, an american artist, spent 35 years of his live to make it with toothpicks. The sculpture features "tours" allowing ping-pong balls to roll through the piece of art.<b>The sculpture symbolises the city of San Francisco by containing the main monuments and spots of the city, placed along the tours. </b> A really creative and original work, which seduces a very wide public, thanks to the imaginary feeling it evokes. The details and concepts are important too for the artist, who used only one brand of glue, and foreign toothpicks to make the trees of the city.
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<a href="http://www.rollingthroughthebay.com/index.html" target=_blank">www.rollingthroughthebay.com</a><br />
Discovered via <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/" target="_blank">This is Colossal</a>
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Graphic puzzles
Thursday, October 20 2011
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<b>Searching for ideas, manipulating connection between concepts, creating relationships between words, pictures, defining new ways to see things…</b> These activities are a large part of the designer work, before any production work. In the same way a developer combines logical blocks, handles variables and conditionnals, the graphic designer orders ideas and visual combinations in an original, efficient and unexpected way.
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If I start this article by these words, it's because it's the reflexion I had when discovering the following three projects. They use, each in its way, <b>this idea of connection, of modularity, with the goal to make a lot of different results from a same raw material</b>. Each of them have their own identity, but they contain a kind of common logical, which reminds <b>children games</b> and <b>puzzles</b> systems.
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<h2>Nuzzles</h2>
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<b>Nuzzles</b> is among the three projects, the one which really uses the puzzle concept. Using the codes of children games, the <b>big wooden handcrafted letters</b> just fit together perfectly and create words. In addition to the beauty of the object, we can see in it a reflection about language and world building. If one piece is missing, the whole just collapses.<br />
<a href="http://nuzzlesbyjohn.com/" target="_blank">http://nuzzlesbyjohn.com</a>
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/index.php?post/public/puzzle-nuzzle01.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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<h2>Watch Packaging</h2>
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This work, designed by the indian agency <b>Sahron Nayak Design</b>, plays with two rotating pictures circles, in the same way as the circular movement of a watch. <b>By rotating the package design, the user makes several different versions of the product</b>, producing fun and absurd pictures. A nice way to start a new day with an interactive box.<br/>
<a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/watch-packaging/335209" target="_blank">Project's page on Behance</a>
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/index.php?post/public/puzzle-watch01.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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<h2>Block Stories</h2>
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The last project refeers to one of the most basical children game : building cubes. By painting an original picture on each cube's faces, b><Johan Theeuwes</b> allows the user to <b>create a story with a collection of independant characters and events</b>. The story takes place in the connection and the succession of the faces, allowing to modify the whole only by rotating a single element. <b>An interesting point of vue about narration and story buiding, with a very nice graphic design.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/block-stories/418734" target="_blank">Project's page on Behance</a>
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/index.php?post/public/puzzle-block01.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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Munge Leung, luxury interior design
Friday, July 29 2011
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<b>Munge Leung</b> is an interior design firm located in <b>Toronto</b>, <b>Canada</b>. Founded in 1997, the firm specialized its work into interior design for the fields of hospitality, nightclubs, restaurants and original personnal houses. <b>Between decoration, product design and architecture, the works contains a lot of beautiful details in a whole project</b>, which allows the agency to work on huge proposals.<br />
Pictures and link in the rest of the article.
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<a href="http://www.mungeleung.com/" target="_blank">www.mungeleung.com</a>
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<i>This post, like the last one, is getting a bit far from the usual "editorial line" of this blog. I hope you will enjoy this evolution, with a widened range of subjects.</i>
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Sculptures musicales par Felix Thorn
Sunday, July 25 2010
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<b>Felix Thorn</b> est un jeune artiste anglais né en 1985. La musique ainsi que le dessin ont toujours été ses passions, bien qu’il ait eu du mal à lire les partitions étant plus jeune. C’est donc naturellement qu’il se tourna vers des études d’art au <b>London College of Communication</b>, où il se spécialisa en <b>Sound Art</b>. Décidant d’apprendre par lui-même l’électronique, <b>son objectif depuis est de créer des sculptures musicales, permettant de créer de la musique électronique et acoustique à la fois</b>. Ses machines intègrent une certaine dimension visuelle dans la mesure où il leur associe au son des systèmes d’éclairages et des jeux de lumière synchronisés.<br />
<a href="http://www.felixsmachines.com" target="_blank">www.felixsmachines.com</a><br />
Via <a href="http://kitsunenoir.com/" target="_blank">kitsunenoir</a>
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Take-G toys, des art toys en bois
Tuesday, May 12 2009
<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/take-g-head.jpg" alt="take-g art toys japonais fabriqué à la main à partir de bois" title="take-g, un designer de art toys japonais travaillant uniquement à la main et à partir de bois" />
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Les <b>art toys</b> ont aujourd’hui obtenu une certaine notoriété et figurent <b>autant chez les collectionneurs que dans les galeries d’art</b>. A la mode, on voit fleurir ces figurines un peu partout, et elles commencent même à pénétrer le marché des objets publicitaires. Mais face à cette expansion,<b> force est de reconnaître une certaine uniformité</b>. Les matières, les modèles, les styles graphiques sont souvent les mêmes, ou du moins se ressemblent fortement. <br />
Mais l’innovation se cache toujours quelque part, et <b>c’est au Japon que Take-G, de son vrai nom Takeji Nakagawa, crée des art toys tout simplement magnifiques</b>.
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/take-g2.jpg" alt="take-g, des superbes art toys en bois" title="le bois comme matériau pour des art toys magnifiques" />
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"What do you relate future with? Cities full of metals, glasses and plastics in a SF movie???
What we really want is not that kind of future but one full of trees and something more natural. I don’t think humans can live without trees no matter what advances technology makes."
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Cette citation de l’artiste parle d’elle même. Rejetant le vinyle, matériau de base de la plupart des art toys, Take-G réalise ses jouets <b>uniquement à partir de bois</b>, dont il veut montrer la <b>diversité des essences</b> et <b>la beauté naturelle</b>. Des figurines héritant de <b>l’esthétique japonaise kawaii</b>, mais aussi de <b>la sobriété de l’artisanat</b>, bien loin du plastique et du fluo. Toutes ses figurines sont fabriquées <b>à la main</b> et la plupart sont des exemplaires uniques, régulièrement exposés dans des galeries ou expositions à travers le monde. J’aime aussi beaucoup le design de son site web, qui est à l’image de son travail, sobre et réfléchi. Ci-dessous quelques photographies de son travail, et bien sûr un lien vers son site (en japonais, mais il y a une page d’explications en anglais), que je vous conseille d’aller voir au plus vite.
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<a href="http://take-g.com" target="_blank">http://take-g.com</a>
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/take-g3.jpg" alt="art toys originaux" title="take-g, un designer de art toys japonais" /><br /><br />
<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/take-g4.jpg" alt="art toys japonais" title="des art toys très originaux, fabriqués à exemplaires uniques !"/><br /><br />
<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/take-g5.jpg" alt="art toys robots en bois" title="take-g, de très rares art toys japonais fabriqués à la main"/><br /><br />
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Milligram Architectural Studio
Sunday, January 11 2009
<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/milligram-head.jpg" alt="Milligram Architectural Studio, agence d'architecture située à Tokyo" />
<p align="justify">Site de l’agence d’architecture Milligram Architecture Studio, fondée en 1998 à Tokyo au Japon. Des réalisations jouant avec le béton et le bois dégageant une sobriété et une sérénité particulières, sans pour autant paraître froides comme c’est parfois le cas en architecture contemporaine. L’agence réalise des travaux d’architecture, d’architecture d’intérieur, mais aussi de design de mobilier.<br />
La version flash de leur site web semble avoir quelques problèmes, je vous conseille la version HTML qui est d’ailleurs plus légère. Plus d’images dans la suite et sur leur site web.
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<a href="http://www.milligram.ne.jp" target="_blank">www.milligram.ne.jp</a>
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/milligram-7.jpg" alt="Milligram Architectural Studio, architectes japonais" />
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/milligram-6.jpg" alt="Milligram Architectural Studio, architecture de béton et bois" />
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/milligram-8.jpg" alt="Milligram Architectural Studio, architecture et design d'intérieur" />
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<img src="http://www.ceegee.fr/blog/public/milligram-2.jpg" alt="Milligram Architectural Studio, architecture et création de mobilier design" />
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