Design Nomads

Human Billboards

Design Nomad — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:59:17 +0000

The Mass Games, or Arirang Festival, is a yearly gymnastic spectacle held in North Korea. The festival consists of perfectly choreographed gymnastics, dancing, singing and a heavy dose of propaganda.

The human billboard paintings are perhaps the most impressive. These billboards are created by around 30.000 school children holding colored papers up in the air.

German film director and photographer Werner Kranwetvogel recently released a photo book celebrating these human billboards called A Night in Pyongyang.

Ironing boards

Design Nomad — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:58:15 +0000

Ironing boards by Belgian artist, Wim Delvoye.

Venetian glass master

Design Nomad — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:14:12 +0000

Vittorio Costantini is a Venetian glass master. Costantini is known for his precisely rendered small flameworked sculptures. He is inspired by nature, and he works with a range of subjects, including multi-colored insects, butterflies, birds, fish, and flowers.
Costantini’s pieces are celebrated for their accuracy of form and truth to detail. The film, by Academy and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Lehman, was made at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass.

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Designer axes

Design Nomad — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:28:19 +0000

Designer axes from Best Made Co are hand painted and polished.

Best Made Co from New York City makes this ordinary wood-chopping instrument into an object of art.

PASTE

Design Nomad — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:49:31 +0000

PASTE is a street art exhibition curated that took place in Cape Town, South Africa.

18 local artists were selected for the exhibition, stepping out of the gallery space and into the inner city streets of Cape Town and the nearby township of Khayelitsha. The work was turned into large scale wheat pastes and was pasted around Khayelitsha and the inner city of Cape Town.

The aim was spreading the art into the different cultures and allowing the greater community access.

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Chess piece

Design Nomad — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:31:06 +0000

No electric tools needed. This woodtuner is working a bow lathe, which is a traditional woodworking tool. With just one tool -a skew chisel- he turns a chess piece on a bow lathe that would have been a familiar sight in ancient Greece or the Pharaohs Egypt.

The woodtuner can be found in the medina of old Marrakech, Marocco.

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Suburbia Mexicana

Design Nomad — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:46:23 +0000

Suburbia Mexicana is a photographic project by Alejandro Cartagena that revolves around the representation of the current suburban sprawl with a focus on the metropolitan area of Monterrey in northeastern Mexico.

Alejandro Cartagena seeks a new way in which the subject of urban growth can be addressed and photographically represented and captures both the destruction that rapid urbanization has imposed on the landscape and the phenomenon of densely packed housing. The photos show a global issue from a local perspective.

See-through church

Design Nomad — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:29:46 +0000

Belgian architecture collaborative Gijs Van Vaarenbergh has has built a see-through church in the Belgian region of Haspengouw called Reading between the lines. The ten metre-high church is constructed from 100 stacked layers of weathered steel plates. Gaps between these plates allow visitors to through through the walls.

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Sacred Ink

Design Nomad — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:58 +0000

Sacred Ink is a photographic exhibition by Cedric Arnold. It features over 45 large format black-and-white photographs taken in Thailand and displays the tattoos and it’s spiritual connection. It explores this unique subculture, its rituals, symbols and people. The images capture Thailand’s tattoo culture there, where body ink is considered a method a spiritual connection.

Handmade tiles from Denmark

Design Nomad — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:12:26 +0000

Made a Mano from Danmark design tiles, countertops and sinks, combining ancient traditional handicraft with modern techniques. Revealing a sure sense of beauty and style.

All Made a Mano products are worked, glazed, and embellished entirely by hand with influences from Arabic, Japanese, and African motifs.

The materials are natural lavastone and terracotta from Mount Etna in Sicily, the oldest recorded active volcano in the world.