The Pothole Gardener is a cute and creative initiative by a "guerilla gardener" in East London.
More infos and pics on his blog : thepotholegardener.com
Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Pothole Gardener
The Pothole Gardener is a cute and creative initiative by a "guerilla gardener" in East London.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The WWF VS PDF
The WWF is the new green file format! Instead of saving in PDF that can be print,
WWF don't allow the users to print the document! May be interesting for companies that want good environmental impact! In fact, more than 53,000 companies, org and individuals already use it.
To learn more or to download WWF click here
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The Shape of things to come: New Sculpture
The New North by David Almeid
Saatchi Gallery. Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London, SW3 4SQ
Despite the hard critique I read about The shape of thing to come: New Sculpture, written by Brian Sewell, I had a good time seeing it.
Many different contemporary artists are showed, a diversity that is also reflected in the sculptures. I wasn’t appeal by all of them but I found a couple interesting and beautiful.
I think about “The New North” the massive sculpture of David Almejd who can be compare to a “Disco Yeti” and make me think about this beautiful videoclip of Grizzly bear. (see below)
Also, the poesy that came out of the work of Berlinde de Bruyckere as you can see ambiguous shapes made with horse’s skins.
If you haven’t seen it, Richard Wilson’s permanent installation "20:50" is the most effective optical illusion I had seen!
You can see it for free until the 16th October 2011 at Saatchi Gallery.
Knife from Encyclopedia Pictura on Vimeo.
The Parmesan Pencil
(design agency Kolle Rebbe)
Parmesan? Sharp your pen on your pastas (truffles, chili and pesto flavours)!
Korean Tesco
Grand Prix at Cannes Lions, Tesco's approach was to "let the store come to people".
How to become number one without increasing the numbers of stores? Put stickers of food items on tube's stations walls. People in Taiwan can now shop by scanning the code's food print on their way home. A happy guy will deliver the stock just when you're about to take out your shoes.
Only regret: In Quebec, we use to touch the vegetables. How can I know if my avocado is mature enough to make guacamole?
also interesting: a blog about QR codes and the effectiveness of it in marketing www.qr-decoded.com
On Narrative
On Narrative was part of the talks series events organized by -it's nice that- this summer. At the front line: Mickey Please, an illustrator and a multi-media animation filmmaker, Studio Weave and Kate Stanners, creator director at Saatchi & Saatchi.
All of them where there to entertain us about the power of narrative in their work of creation. Different and all interesting at the same time, I must say that it's the approach of Studio Weave, london designers working in architecture, that charmed me the most.
Before building or modify something, they personalize houses and buildings, give them feelings and create a story behind each. Therefore, it gives a fluent meaning to each project and it become easier to understand for all a community.
So let's say, if my flat is messy, it's just because he has a Jekyll and Hyde personality since the colds of the mid-terms...
Took place at the Redbull Studio,
Maybe you can be relucted by the price (12£) but knowing that’s a 3 hours open bar (drinks, beers, wine) may convince you.
Read about Studio: Meet Britain's brightest young architects (The Obsrever)
trailer of The Eagleman Stag by Mickey Please ( winner of the Bafta for best short animation)
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Champaign!
This funny little video was made for Nicolas Feuillatte's Champaign and won a bronze award at Cannes 2011.
DoCoMo Xylophone
This Golden Cannes Winner ad is absolutely beautiful! It was created for a new phone of the Japanese Telecom NTT DoCoMo. The video shows an all-natural performance of Bach's Cantata 147 completed and launched as the tsunami hit Japan.
More infos here
Brit insurance Designs of the year 2011 -Design Museum
Home made is best, book for IKEA
Margaret Howell plus shirt
The Thin Black Line Chair (doesn't look conformable btw)
The exhibition that surrounds an incredible variety of categories (architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product, transport) is definitely interesting! Among the 100 projects, you can find the Barclays Cycle Hire, little cousins of the Montreal’s Bixis!
One of the projects I found interesting is the E.Chromi project: A strange gathering between synthetic biology and design by undergraduates of Cambridge University. They created bacteria E. Coli that can secrete colors visible to the naked eye. Potentials uses are explained as colored feces for different types of diseases (If it’s red in the toilet your probably have colorectal cancer, if it’s green aids and etc.).
E. chromi from Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on Vimeo.
Kenneth Grange- Design Museum of London
Pentagram Kodak
The exhibit about Kenneth Grange, founder of the famous design studio Pentagram, runs until the 30th October at the Design Museum. It’s presenting a retrospective of the product designer’s work, considerate to have “made Britain modern”.
Born, as he says, in "a bacon and eggs kind of house" of the London’s East End in 1929, he designed over the years a long list of items. Among them, the first Kodak 44A in 1959, the 1997 version of London black cabs, Parker pens, Kenwood fool mixers, the anglepoise spring lamp, the first UK parking meters, Thermos etc. In fact, if you live in England, even for people that Grange’s name still unknown, you definitely already travelled or utilized once his designs in your day-to-day life.
Influenced by his national service and his early jobs as an architects assistant, Kenneth still working. Funny and maybe true, in an interview with The Observer, he said that Mac is overdesigned and some modern furniture might be “absolute icon” but still not comfortable and “designed to make the space look brilliant." Hopefully, according to him, his chairs are “bloody comfortable”. (1)
I enjoyed it but I made it through rapidly. However, British people can find it nostalgic as they recognize objects of their past. The 7£ entry was worth it because of the Brit insurance designs of the year exhibit that you can see at the same time.
(1)Kenneth Grange: half a century at the forefront of british Design, Rachel Cooke, The Observer
Dirt-The Wellcome Collection
As we fight day to day against bacteria, The Wellcome Collection invites all lovers of hand sanitizer to Dirt, its new exhibition where our complex relation with dirt is explained throughout 5 different locations and times (The Streets in Soho 1854, an Hopital in Glasgow 1867, the museum at Dresden 1930 , the community in New Delhi 2011, The biggest landfill site, Fresh Kills, in 2030).
The exhibition also presents contemporary artists like Serena Korda who makes bricks with the dust she collect from donators and Santiago Sierra’s massive modules made with human faeces.
Even if I expected it to be more disgusting, I enjoyed the vintages amputations pictures (I particularly loved to search in the medical dictionary of my granny when I was little). There is so much to say about dirt, it seems that the exhibition focus on the sanitary history of London and its cholera epidemic in the times the Thame’s waters were called “monster soup”. Therefore, I learned that this incredible diarrhea and vomiting attack that we call cholera was killing you after couple of hours only. A sample of this original “rice milk” that came out of infected people was probably the most scary artifact of the exhibit.
But after all, Dirt isn’t too much repellent and even, the earliest sketches of bacteria could be similar to a pattern founded on the new Marc Jacobs ‘s Dress. It’s finishing at the end of august but have a look; it worth it and it’s free!
Also, The Wellcome Collection planned many events surrounding “dirt” for kids and adults. The café can be fun for lunchtime and it’s located in a good-looking open space with excellent healthy food. You can enjoy a hot meal and go shopping in the boutique where you can find interesting books and funny things. (it’s 5 minutes walk from St Lukes)
It’s not rubbish!
Also see:
Dirt car art in london! (Ok...)
and the The Flickr Group ( Where you can upload photos of dirt in your everyday life)
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Skittles ads
The skittle ads are really great, especially the Youtube campaign that use the viewers as a tool/actor by asking them to put a finger on the screen. It's now well know but still good to look at it. Look also at the new one -fake-(A little bit more provocative -by cousins)!
Cannes Lions 2011 -Award winning Despair Whirlpool
An exhibition of massive living sculptures in the streets of Shanghai was realized for the Yang Ai foundation. The goal was to raise awareness around the every day struggles of parents with autistic children. It is estimated that the campaign had reached 20 000 000 people.
Cannes Lions 2011- Google ads
Wow, Google ads are particularly interesting. It shows the new functions of Google in the recreational way of a homemade video. When I watch them I don’t feel that it’s advertising. The fact is, that is advertising and it works brilliantly. Here are few examples:
Saturday, July 23, 2011
The street photography now project
"Street Photography Now Project is a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, authors of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson).
Each week from 1 October 2010, a leading contemporary street photographer will issue a new instruction, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we live in.
Over the following six days, photographers around the world are invited to upload one photograph in response, to a special Flickr Group. After six days the next instruction will be issued. The Project will run for 52 weeks, and you can join in at any time."
Friday, July 22, 2011
to become a Londoner.
‘My dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through Immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.’
-Ben Denis Aaronovitc
It always starts with a love story
This is a love story between a bicycle and a sewing machine.
The Bicycle Cap by peSeta for the New Museum from casa peSeta on Vimeo.
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