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Lumadessa

I just stumbled across some amazing prints over at Lumadessa, a little art and design label by Josh Brill that focuses on limited edition art prints and design products.

The Extinct Edition is brilliant! I love the color palette and the use of shapes to create a "sciencey" aesthetic to the prints. They come in 5″×7″ or 8″×10″ and are giclée (digitally) printed on a high quality professional Epson printer, with pigment-based, Epson UltraChrome K3 inks, that will last up to 100 years. Printed on Epson Ultra Smooth (hot press) 250 g/m2 archival fine art paper.

Also, 5% of profits are donated to Animal and Environmental charities.

And my favorite from the Birds Collection has to be the Baltimore Oriole print. ( You can take the boy out of Maryland.... and so on).

Make sure to check out all the prints at Lumadessa.

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Cable Art

I'm so in love with Maisie Maud Broadhead's Cabel Art that utilizes cables from electronics.

 
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New Prints from Jefdesigns

Just in time for the holiday season, Jefdesign's 6 new prints are all inspired by American Northwest forest scenes. Each print is created from an original hand drawing and digitally enhanced with woodgrain. Wall ready, no framing needed. A UV gloss coat protects from sun and intensifies print color. Each design is produced in a limited edition of 100, numbered and signed on the back.

Dangerous Beauty

I was first introduced to the Samantha Fields experience at the unveiling of her large contemporary painting which crowns the lobby registration desk at Hollywood’s Standard Hotel.  I have to say “experience” is the key word as artist Samantha Fields takes you into her world of nature on the edge.   Known as the storm chaser, she witnesses the spectacles that she then transforms onto canvas.  “Being out in nature as the storm rolls in is exhilarating and humbling. To me, the first-hand account of what I hope to capture is the basis for everything”.

(Storm Anvil over the Great Plains Nebraska)

Thousands of photographs which she takes are manipulated in the creation of her paintings.  At first sight I was surprised that the intense detail is not done with a paint brush rather an intensive and extensive multilayered airbrushed technique.  

Her recently unveiled exhibit Containment is a narrative of the frequent fires that rage across Southern California.  Dozens of small canvases and one large one from different perspectives depict various stages of the fire, from the large plumes of smoke to the ravages of foliage and the luminous glow of flames. 

 

The exhibit itself engulfs you as it is presented in the gallery setting of Kim Light/LightBox.

Everywhere you look stunning, evocative and mesmerizing power and color of nature.  

You can feel the heat. You could almost smell the smoke while seeing the tiny silhouette of a firefighter.  However, this is one fire that will not burn you only blaze in your memory.

Exhibit at Kim Light/LightBox gallery.

Have an infinitely modern day! 

Audiowood Turntables

I love that turntables are back in! And these sculptured wood ones created by Joel Scilley’s of Audiowood are truly works of art. The organic designs and detailed woodworking adds warmth and personality to the technology.

" You won't find much veneer here, nor will you see anything you've seen elsewhere. I'm building things that sound great, that work well, and that enhance musical experiences with their absolutely unique character."

New custom turntables range from approximately $1000 to $3500 depending on parts and design.

Just Beautiful.

 
 

Graphos

Michelle Lam's Graphos playing cards are an awesome little piece she designed for her graduation project. She wanted to spread the love and knowledge of typography in a fun and interactive way - so she used a deck of cards to do so.

“Graphos Playing Cards are designed to inspire other designers, and also lay people to be more attuned with design through an increased awareness of the importance of typography in a fun and easy-to-understand way.

Each card from the deck of Graphos Playing Cards will tell the unique story of a specific area of focus in typography. All sapdes highlight on the importance of “anatomy”; hearts on “classification”; clubs on “glyphs”; diamonds on “type setting”. Fonts are focused on sans serif, serif, script and decorative.”

Great concept and beautifully designed deck. I'm sure they were a huge hit!

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Moleskine and the Bauhaus Exhibition

 

 

 

 
 
"Moleskine, the heir of the legendary notebook used by artists and thinkers from Van Gogh to Hemingway, is pleased to announce the launch of two new products created to celebrate Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity on view at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City from November 8, 2009-January 25, 2010.   The Bauhaus Exhibition Box and Bauhaus Pocket Black Ruled Cahier Notebooks feature the well-loved and familiar details of the iconic black notebook but have been specially designed by Moleskine for sale during this major exhibition."
 
 

Evolution of the mobile phone.

Kyle Bean is truly a master of 3D form and model making. Check out this awesome project he created showing the evolution of the mobile phone (from Zach Morris style to the iPhone!) in the style of Russian Dolls.

Pretty friggin' awesome, right?

Make sure to check out the rest of his portoflio at KyleBean.co.uk

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Furniture Forever

Tall Tree Guild’s beautifully constructed metal furniture has a terrific simplicity to it.  The designer J Foley reinterprets some classic designs, giving them a unique character with the color and exposed metal.  Totally cool!

The Living Wall Project

The Living Wall project, led by Leah Buechley at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, uses magnetic and conductive paints to create circuitry in attractive designs.

The electronically enhanced wallpaper promises not only eye-pleasing designs, but also the ability to activate lamps and heaters – and even control music systems.

When combined with cheap temperature, brightness and touch sensors, LEDs and Bluetooth, the wall becomes a control surface able to "talk" to nearby devices. You can touch a flower to turn on a lamp, for example, or set heaters to fire up when the room gets cold.

To create the wallpaper, the team started with steel foil sandwiched between layers of paper that are coated with magnetic paint – acrylic paint infused with iron particles. Over this base they paint motifs such as flowers and vines using conductive paint, which uses copper particles rather than iron. The designs form circuits to which sensors, lights and other elements can be attached.

“It really is just a sheet of paper, and could be produced with existing printing and construction methods,” Buechley says.

Having exposed circuitry on your wall might sound dangerous, but Buechley says the system runs at 20 volts, drawing around 2.5 amps when fully loaded with devices. “You can go up and touch the wall and not even feel a tingle,” she says.