molo design at Superstudio Piú in Milan

molo design, a collaborative design and production studio from Vancouver, Canada, have setup their exhibit for this year’s design week in Milan at Superstudio Piú in in Zona Tortona.

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Description from molo design:

A series of natural brown paper caves, “grotta di carta”, have been constructed from stacked columns of flexible paper blocks. Mobile-like clusters of luminous paper clouds are suspended overhead. The new mobile structure allows a broad canopy of cloud forms, hung from a single point, to provide light and a sense of intimate enclosure. We are also showing urchin softlight with a new LED armature that will be available in the coming months.

We also have available “heartfelt lantern for Japan”. The numbered, limited edition lantern is $150 USD (110 €) with full proceeds being donated to Architecture for Humanity’s relief efforts in Japan.
molo’s cappello lamp was installed yesterday at the Studio Museum Achille Castiglioni!
molo’s float glassware used in the film TRON: Legacy is part of the TRON Designs Corian® exhibition.

                       

Artworks «For Japan»

A series of posters for Japan and what happened since 03/11/2011. Hope for Japan!

Daily Inspirations no. 129

Unlike the ancient models, which explained inspiration exclusively as the gift of God, enlightenment, or as the ability of an artist to perceive some special divine winds or breaths, the modern era in psychology brought a cardinally different approach to understanding of inspiration and its source. For example, Sigmund Freud considered the inner psyche of an artist himself to be source of inspiration. Some unresolved psychological conflicts or mental traumas during the childhood are the primary motivational forces, which make a poet write poems, a painter paint pictures, or a composer to compose music. Well, at least Freud believed in that theory. However, looking on the bright, cheerful illustrations, beautiful portraits or enchanting sceneries, it may be pretty difficult to believe and accept the idea that such art works could result from such unresolved conflict or childhood trauma. Rather it seems obvious that the authors of such works were inspired by something really good: the nature or human beauty, positive emotions, some joyful events in their lives, etc…
Super Happy Times by Jordan Metcalf


Depthcore – ‘Mystic’ by Craig Shields

Antique Botanical by Irina Vinnik

POSTERS III by Mark Brooks

Faceted Facade: Brick Home Wrapped in Wood & Glass Shell

There is no need to guess where old ends and new begins – an angled mixture of wooden solids and glazed voids sprouts from the traditional brick facade like an alien growth, encompassing a series of existing buildings and past extensions.

Redesigned by Ooze (images by Jeroen Musch), this classic Rotterdam residence represents years of ‘organic’ growth – addition upon addition – tied together by a new series of interior staircases and rooms bridging classic and contemporary spaces.

But there is more to this refab than meets the eye – those iconic triangles were not just artistic gestures, but a way to rapidly prefabricate structurally autonomous pieces offsite before shipping them to the building for construction.

Also, the added ‘layer’ wrapping around the building was a measure taken to maximize the available envelope allowed by local codes – not just a way to make it aesthetically stand out from the crowd.

Encoded in the completed project is the permanent imprint of the prior whole – stark parts of the past stand out in the present even more than they did before, setting a conventional farmhouse estate apart from its neighbors while leaving key historic elements intact. Sustainable dark-stained timber trusses and selectively green-roofed sections help it remain a fit as well. Meanwhile, inside, antique fixtures, furnishings and furniture carried over from the original populate the new zones, again combining antique and modern under one roof.

Compo SSDDGET at Emma Thomas Gallery/São Paulo/Brazil

Mind Blowing Mine Furniture by Mati Karmin

Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin creates finds mines on the shore of the island Naissaar, located in the Gulf of Finland, not far from Tallinn and transforms militaristic scrap metal into the unusual furniture.

Unique photography by Federico Cabrera

I am Federico Cabrera, 28 years old photographer/designer born in Argentina, now living in Finland. I do everything I have the time to do, today I am a fashion designer for GILLES ET DADA, a photographer, a graphic designer and a web designer. I would prefer to let the work speak for itself. What I can say though is that i base my work on simple techniques and impulse, I don’t think too much about what I do I just do it.