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Slash: Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's (Museum of Design and Art) Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in cont...

Always Sunny in Philadelaphia Posted by on February 1st, 2010 at 12:07 am
[caption id="attachment_257" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bringing Christmas Spirit to Bumms near you"][/caption] I expected Philly to be the quintessential suburban America we've all become accustomed to in movies and TV throughout our lives. The America affected by foreclosures and the economic downturn, where danger and gun shots are just a suburb away and all the supposedly regular people are connected only by highways to their work and friends in other similar residential areas...

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Skyrocket Love – Or Something Like That Posted by on January 31st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
The four days spent in LA were a mixture of days spent driving the city looking for architectural highlights (which were hard to find, but total gems when I did) and nights spent going from gig to gig with an up-and-coming LA pop rock band I was staying with called Skyrocket love. Pop/Rock is certainly not my kind of music but it certainly gave me an interesting side of LA and by the end I was surprised that I even kind of liked their music (kind of). I hoped that the music industry still...

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Posted by on January 21st, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Its impossible to take a bad photograph of this building. Like some massive piece of sculpture standing in the middle of Downtown LA wasteland, an eerily empty world, it sits attempting to inspire. As a funny anecdote, I heard that because of its highly reflective surface the reflected light has significantly increased the air conditioning of adjacent buildings and now they are attempting to sue the City for damages.... ...

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Paris, Ashton and Marisa Posted by on January 19th, 2010 at 5:35 am
I went along to a photography exhibition on Melrose Place, Beverly Hills the other night for three recent graduates of art school in the LA area, or to be more accurate an exhibition for some rich LA princesses who had just finished photography school and their parents had banded together to put on an exhibition in a swanky gallery on Melrose to show off their daughters talents. Sage’s stuff was basically a travel journal from New York back to Los Angeles and was a colla...

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George Rousse Posted by on January 6th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Rousse's work, from the 1990s to today, generally appears at first glance to be photos of desolate or abandoned spaces (buildings, rooms, parking garages or streetscapes) often on their way to the wrecking ball, on which the artist has superimposed precise geometrical shapes or squiggly graffiti. However, this is an intended illusion: what Rousse does is to paint these designs onto the abandoned spaces before taking the photo, correcting for such things as the slope of floors or the inter...

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Evolver Posted by on January 6th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Evolver is a wooden pavilion built by students from the ALICE Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. When you walk through it, you’ll make a 720° turn and have an amazing panorama on the surroundings of Zermatt. This project certainly show the potential of student design build projects. Found at www.todayandtomorrow.net Embed code: ...

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“Ignore the Wardle Envelope” Posted by on September 11th, 2009 at 5:03 am
The winning John Wardle and Office dA submission has been described by Tom Kvan as showing “a detailed understanding of the teaching and research activities of the Faculty and the potential for contribution to research across the campus”. It is the internal planning of the building and its integration with the broader urban environment of the university that is the designs strongest selling point. JW & DA have created an internal avenue connecting the Concrete Lawn with Swanston St and t...

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Lyons House Posted by on September 7th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Corbet Lyons and his family have been avid contemporary art collectors for over twenty years. When designing their home they wanted to effectively combine the program of a house and a gallery, providing a place to display, exhibit and live with their collection. Second Year design students were given the opportunity to visit this atypical residence to see how unusual elements can be combined in architecture. To achieve the true integration of gallery and residence the residential program is a...

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Morpholuminescence Posted by on September 7th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Students from I.M.A.D.E, a division of Ball State University specialising in Digital Fabrication related to architecture and allied arts have developed a reactive lighting system that reacts to the viewer (supposedly allowing everyone to look like a supermodel - I'll believe that when I see it). Developed by students from “An Inconvenient Studio”, MorphoLuminescence utilizes an understanding of fashion photography to find its form and provide optimized lighting, enhancing the experience ...

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Iron Designer 2009 – Through the shades of Phooey Posted by on September 7th, 2009 at 4:16 am
Below is a brief review of Iron Designer from our friends at Phooey Architects. You’ll just have to ask them what exactly this catastrophic breakdown in communication actually entailed….. As we descended down the steps at BMW Edge and onto centre stage, the scene before us ignited our senses and got the well lubricated creative thoughts flowing. Masked with our ‘PHOOEY’ glasses the team speculated about what could emerge from these raw ingredients. However the nature of the design pro...

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