Tag: installation
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Reflections: Unwritten Histories of Toronto’s Waterfront
Tonight, the student of George Brown College, Institute without Boundaries program presented their exhibit for the TO DO festival entitled: Reflections: Unwritten Histories of Toronto’s Waterfront. Located in an abandon warehouse on the Lakeshore avenue, the students presented an interactive installation/research project to help them in their design process for the waterfront.
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The Art of Scent Design at TO DO 2017
This one day event really intrigued me because as an interior designer, we are taught materiality, space planning, building code, but no where in our education did aromas and how an environment can seem different just by infusing a smell into the equation.
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Things TO DO: Toronto Design Offsite Festival 2017
The Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) is Canada’s largest cultural celebration of design with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week, January 16-22, 2017. Going into its 7th year, TO DO transforms Toronto into a hub for creativity, taking design and art out of the studio and into the urban sphere, bringing people…
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Dear World… Yours, Cambridge – Miguel Chevalier
Artist Miguel Chevalier recently created a series of immersive projections that added a spellbound layer to a University of Cambridge charity event. The fundraising occasion featured Chevalier’s designs front and center in the King’s College Chapel, as they wrapped the historic interior in a myriad of changing colours, patterns, and textures. It was a striking juxtaposition…
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Nova by SOFTlab
The Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District (BID) and Van Alen Institute recently announced that SOFTlab is the winner of the Flatiron Public Plaza Holiday Design Competition. The second annual competition called for proposals from New York design firms for a temporary installation at the heart of the Flatiron District. SOFTlab’s winning proposal, Nova, will…
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Legacy at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago has a long history of reinvention. After the Great Fire of 1871, the city has had to think big, dream boldly and push the boundaries of what is possible in the urban landscape. From the world’s first modern skyscraper to the iconic bungalow, Chicago has always used architecture and design to continually transform itself…
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Soundwave by Penda
Penda recently finished a landscape sculpture in Xiangyang, China, which consists of more than 500 perforated, vibrantly coloured steel fins varying in height. The sculpture marks the entrance gate to the largest Myrtle Tree Garden in Asia. Music, Rhythm and Dance in combination with the surrounding Landscape were the main parameters shaping ‘the Soundwave’. As…
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Caesarstone Swing
London-based Canadian designer, Philippe Malouin, is the latest to re-imagine Caesarstone’s diverse surfacing. At the latest Interior Design Show in Toronto, the brand debuted Swings, a playful gesture which takes the composite stone out of its context and re-appropriates it in a surreal installation.
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Poetic technology by Daan Roosegaarde
Daan Roosegaarde 2014 from Richelle Sibolboro on Vimeo. Artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde discusses technology and its ability to translate poetic spaces derived from nature.
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Ai Wei Wei – Bicycles Forever at Nuit Blanche Toronto
Nuit Blanche is an evening when the streets of Toronto come alive. From sunset to sunrise, pockets of the city are filled with modern and contemporary art from around the world. This year, my journey thorough the extensive maze began at one end of the city and finished in the center of the action. Video…
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IIDEX Celebrating Canadian Design
To me, IIDEX has always been the kick-off to the Canadian design season. As Canada’s National Design and Architecture Expo and Conference, this is the place where designers and architects gather to see the latest in building products, technology and materials. Taking place at the Direct Energy Centre, as most trade shows go, the majority…
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Russia’s Pride
Olek has done it again. This time, her yarn bombing has taken her to Saint Petersburg, Russia which makes a statement in solidarity with those oppressed by the recent anti-gay law by installing a camouflage rainbow on a classic façade. “Upon arrival in Russia, one of the first things I saw was a street poster…
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Light is Falling
28.280 is a massive vertical installation by Vancouver-based designer Omer Arbel. Located in the main atrium of the Victoria and Albert Museum for the 2013 London Design Festival, the exhibition features lighting by Canadian design brand Bocci. The intent of the installation is twofold; On the one hand, it is a pure celebration of the…
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Yarn Bombed Train by Olek
“Yarn bombing”—also known as guerrilla knitting and yarn storming—is a type of street art that involves covering anything from trees to benches in brightly coloured knits. This is the first time that anything as big as a train has been attempted. Stationed in Lodz, Poland, Polish-born, New York-based artist Olek recently worked for two days straight…
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The Andy Warhol Temporary Museum
The Temporary Andy Warhol Museum designed by LIKEarchitects is a cultural space within a commercial space. It was designed to host the exhibition “Andy Warhol—Icons | Psaier Artworks and the Factory,” which was open between April 11 and July 11 at the Colombo Shopping Mall in Lisbon and included a total of 32 original works by…
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Custom Road Signs
The Road Sign Project is a production of Centre3 for Print and Media Arts in Hamilton, Ontario, presented in partnership with Atelier Imago in Moncton, New Brunswick. The two art centres each invited artists to create road signs that incorporated the vernacular and syntax of email and text messaging. The initiative served two goals: to…
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BLACK.SEE by J. Mayer H.
EIGEN + ART Lab in Berlin, Germany, is showcasing the works by Jürgen Mayer H. BLACK.SEE is an installation of free standing black sculptures with accompanying wall paintings that are also dark and mysterious. The three-dimensional components are made out of panels which have been milled out into lattice-like, irregular forms that seem rudimentary and…
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There’s no place like home
The plaza hosted several dozen red shoes (both painted and patent) in long rows extending the length of the square. The static soles ranged from pumps to sneakers offering the once fashionable items a final platform on the sidewalk.
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Street Decoration
A series of designs which play with forms and different media outlets to question our perception of reality.
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Mobius Playground
The structure looks at the mobius strip, where there is no clear interior or exterior space, just one continuous surface that turns and twists, surfaces flowing into one other.
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Cafe Cuba
The design takes influence from the old city streets of Havana, Cuba, drawing from the rich cultural history and night life.
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Scent of a City
It pays homage to perfumery and the perfumer’s know-how, their material and process.
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Perfect Curve
The experiential environment explores the flowing forms found in Antoni Guadí’s Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona, Spain, in which the Spanish Art Nouveau architect’s goal was to find nature’s purest, most perfect curve.
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Crystal Palace
The immersive installation invites visitors to experience the infinitely reflected crystalline interior, the dynamic visual display constantly changing.
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Desired Crisis
An experimental of people’s desire and efforts to resolve current global concerns, which then would be able to surmount when social systems, public realm and design professionals are synchronized together.
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Growing Lights
Light fibers climbing up a pergola in front of the house, branches of light growing out of the surrounding trees and small sprouts.
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Lighting Logistics
Environmentally friendly, low-energy sculptures showcasing its operational efficiency and infrastructure systems.
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Bottle Cap Construction
The pieces are arranged along a tilted cone which defines the geometry of the installation.
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