"Toronto Project" from 1989 by a leading Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata.
It was an outdoor public installation realised in the centre of downtown Toronto.
I like this work where it perticularly reveals his essential concerns, the reintegration of the natural into the urban environment form, humanisation of de-humanised spaces. The rigid geometric space is a temporal installation which is delicate and almost fragile in appearance though it creates broad gestural movements and integrates several components of the site.
Link: Tadashi Kawamata
D. Hillman Curtis's website.
first i thought this was a still image photograph as this image won't move in the website.
it is a girl holding "still" while she maintain her posture, blinks time to time, then the image shift to another person. this resembles the works of bill viola though instead this was not made into slowmotion.
He was my mentor and the pioneer of true coolness of motion graphic/ flash web design.
and the coolness of D. Hillman Curtis is where his work cross over the genre between "web design" and "video art."
D. Hillman Curtis is an American new media designer, author, and filmmaker. Curtis is the Principal and Chief Creative Officer of hillmancurtis.com, inc., a digital design firm in New York City. Previously, he was design director for Macromedia. He has published four books on new media design.
this is famous Bauhause, I am attracted to the architecture and its history.
Walter Gropius was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he is one of the pioneering masters of "modern" architecture.
his educational philosophy encompassed the designing of all functional objects. the school's program was balanced between practical training in the crafts and theoretical training in design.
Also the integration of the arts was stressed in the creation of original furniture and buildings,
which often times were in industrial setting and incorporated modern and innovative materials.
As one of the most important architects and educators of the 20th century, he raised the level of product design by combining art and industry which attracted a faculty includes Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbet Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, and Wassily Kandinsky.
nelson bubble lamp - propeller reminds me of Isamu Noguchi's zen style lamp furniture and perhaps among his furniture design, this was the collaboration with Noguchi..
George Nelson studied architecture at Yale University,
Through his writing in Pencil Points he introduced the work of Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Gio Ponti to North America.
he became Herman Miller's design director, that became the start of a long series of successful collaborations with Ray and Charles Eames, Harry Bertoia, Richard Schultz, Donald Knorr and Isamu Noguchi.
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