Art in the City by Spirit of Space

With its public art, Chicago holds itself to the highest standard by thoughtfully selecting artists that sensitively understand the magnitude and impact of their work. Whether it’s Picasso’s sculpture for Daley Plaza, or in Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate or Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain, each piece, in its own way, is an expression of Chicago. The success of a public work of art is measured not merely by aesthetics, but rather, by its magnetic qualities that inspire interaction. The art is a reflection of the City, the art becomes a part of the City, the art is instrumental in making the City. This film expresses the vitality and vibrance that public art can bring to the urban environment by experientially including the viewer in the making of place.

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Art in the City by Spirit of Space

Krystall Chocolate Bar by Riccardo Carlet

Here’s a delicious gift idea for your design-loving friends: Riccardo Carlet has created this chocolate bar shape and packaging inspired by Scandinavian appeal, thinking of icebergs, ice floes and an overall crystalized form.

 

 

 

 

 

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Krystall Chocolate Bar by Riccardo Carlet

A4 Chair by Chris Kim

In the age of digital design, designers are destined to face the process of rationalizing the form after a lengthy foreplay of form making in order to fabricate it into an actual product. Ironically, some designers/architects these days fully exploit the capability of freeform design to irrational extreme and put another effort and cost in rationalizing the form therewith. Many of these rationalization processes deal with panelizing the freeform surface such as approximating designed surfaces to developable surfaces, or even more brutally, irregular triangulation.
A4 Chair is designed with the reversed concept – origami approach. A single strip of surface is folded into shape a chair in consideration of utilizing bendable materials like bentwood or plexiglass. This does not only ensures developability of the final form (into a single piece of surface material!) but also renders fluidity of final form.

 

 

 

 

Sketch a chair

Final Sketch – A whole sheet of A4 paper is folded into a chair

Digitized Sketch

A Grasshopper sketch is created to digitize the hand sketch. This Grasshopper sketch makes it possible to visualize folded form real time and ensure that the model (folded and unfolded) is actually within desired constraint.

With this custom vb.net component, form making process boils down to adjusting end points of fold lines along 1 dimensional axis and corresponding folding angles.

Grasshopper Sketch for fold sketching

Final Form

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A4 Chair by Chris Kim

Januz Miralles Photography

Photographer Januz Miralles from Philippines explores the beauty and fragility of the woman’s body with care and delicacy. Mixing photography with different drawing and painting techniques, in mostly neutral tones (but sometimes with daring strokes of red), he manages to highlight a wide range of emotions both in his characters and in the eyes of those who experience his work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Januz Miralles Photography

Natural Touch BY PIKCELLS

PIKCELLS: Kronospan have launched a new range of wood decors called Natural Touch, which emulate the appearance of natural wood down to the grain patterns and texture. To show how versatile this material can be we designed and visualised these beautiful images to appeal to Kronospans design led consumer base.

The lush planting contrasts with the hard industrial materials to create a sensuous, tactile environment which the natural touch wood panels fit gracefully into.

All fixed furniture and sets were designed completely from scratch then brought to life by our talented CGI team.

As ever the need to emulate reality is a necessity and the devil is in the detail here. The contemporary designs don’t allow much room for decoration so fine details like rivets and split lines were employed throughout to make sure the images stand up to photography when printed and viewed at high resolution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Natural Touch BY PIKCELLS