This dress full of balloons by German artist Nicole Michniewski is one of ten outfits created by product designers, artists and architects for FASHIONCLASH Maastricht in the Netherlands last month. Above and below: Untitled (crisp abstraction) by Manja Hunger Called CLASH, the collection includes a wearable cage, origami paper dress and jewellery made of cable ties. The project was curated by Ma..
For me, Nowadays, history/war is only the news on the television or newspapers or some borring lessons in a class room. War (or History), also being modified into many cultural aspect of human being like a movie,novel, game, even art work.. Superhero is a portrait of now generation who 'enjoy' war/history as entertainment of our daily lives without care about the actual impact. We see and we kno..
photo collage © by Costas Voyatzis for YatzerPredrag Pajdic curates an exhibition comprising of 40 international artists hunting for alternative ways of expression during the economic crisis and is about to set London on fire! The exhibition in named Lingering Whispers (so appropriate!) and will be held between 07 May and 06 June 2010 at the Crypt of St Pancras Church. Art and fashion, stage an..
Beginning in Sydney, Australia three years ago, Earth Hour has grown into a global observance. States, large organizations and individual people observed Earth Hour 2010 on Saturday March 27th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. These ..
It was during the two World Wars when women limited by fabric rationing restrictions and yet not wanting to abandon their appearance came up with a solution of painting their legs with make up or asking a friend to draw a straight line down the bag of their legs so as to show that they were wearing stockings ? or even mostly in Middle Eastern countries women were and still decorate their legs or..
floor plan the ceramics street prospered in the edo era 300 years ago, and a ceramics festival was held several years ago, but no longer has a large audience. this project is expected to revive the street and the prosperity of stores. designed by japanese architects tonoma the ceramics market is an urban renovation of the historic street in osaka, japan. the site of the building is a slim form, ..
얼마 전 하버드비즈니스리뷰(HBR, 2010년 1월호)가 '지난 10년 동안의 최고 CEO'로 애플사의 CEO 스티브 잡스를 뽑았습니다. 반면 마이크로소프트(MS) CEO 스티브 발머는 명함도 못 내밀었습니다. 전 세계 CEO 1999명을 대상으로 한 HBR의 평가에서 100위권(The 100 Best-Performing CEOS)에도 못 들었죠. 스티브 발머의 굴욕이라 할 만합니다. HBR은 세계적으로 권위를 인정받는 경영 전문지죠. 스티브 발머가 이렇게 외면을 당한 건 물론 MS의 실적 부진 탓입니다. 그런데 스티브와 스티브의 격차엔 두 사람의 프리젠테이션 능력도 작용한 것 같습니다. 스티브 잡스가 신제품 설명회를 하고 나면 애플의 주가가 10%가량 오르고 경쟁사 주가는 5%쯤 빠진다고 하니 이렇게 ..
기즈모도(gizmodo)에 올라온 글입니다. 읽다보니 재미있어서 시간 때울 겸 번역 해봤습니다. 읽을때는 좋았는데 번역하려니 어렵네요. 일부는 의역이 좀 되어 있습니다. 아예 못한 데도 있습니다.^_^;원문으로 남겨뒀으니 양해를... 발표 이틀 정도 남았는데 시간 때우시라고 올립니다. 저작권은 기즈모도에 있습니다. http://gizmodo.com/5452501/the-apple-tablet-interface-must-be-like-this 일부 사람들은 애플 태블릿에서 맥 OS X의 UI가 실행되기를 기대하고 있다. 일부는 태블릿의 UI가 다소 특이할 것으로 생각한다. 이는 둘 다 틀린 생각이다. 아이폰은 UI의 혁명을 시작했고, 태블릿은 단지 두 번째 단계일 뿐이다. 왜 그런지 보자. 하드웨어 측면에..
From the head and hand of master draftsman Scott Teplin comes a series of 26 dream-houses fashioned after our alphabet. Explore in each a bizarre, miniaturized constellation of bed rooms, drawing rooms, fantasy swimming pools, mysterious laboratories, personal ice cream parlors, gambling halls, nuclear reactors, and oozing phenomena of unknown consequence. Each crisp drawing pops from its page i..