Monthly Archive for October, 2008
someone is into obama in my hood.
sady, the light changed when i went to take the picture and i was not into getting another pic and made my way to the subway (lazy mixed with it was cold and kinda rainy and i wanted to get on with things)… but anyways, this is a neat form of street/political art.
looks cool when it gives a walk signal cause it lights up the whole graphic!
It start to look like an stc office…
And soon should look like this off the elevator.
Don’t miss the long Contemporary Art container designed by Zaha Hadid for Chanel and it’s traveling exhibition.
the show runs until the mid november. Taking a concept radically opposed to the Bauhaus and its rigid functionality, Zaha Hadid, Pritzker prize winner, pull off one of these, highly distorted, organic structure that is a great showcase to display Chanel’s work. This is more of an experiment rather than a product showcase and the temporary structure is definitly worth the walk-through.
this remind me in of the work by Shigeru Ban about 2 years ago on the West Side highway
Shigeru Ban is on the forward thinking side of the temporary structures and started this trend a few years ago
directely connected to the art commerce world. Of course Buckminster Fuller was there 50 years ago that too.
something art-y is happening in madison square park next to work involving tons of stage lights.
The huge AC unit has arrived and has been fitted to the south window,
unfortunately we loosing some natural light.
they replaced the two antique wired windows of the conf room, now it really look like you are going to fall off the floor.
they are also done with the pocket doors and started on the drop ceiling in the reception area. you can see the massive amount of ethernet cable running in the ceiling.
reception area + client services and pr looking almost from my office toward the second conf room
view from coming out of the elevator building directely into the lobby, this will be painted red obvioulsy…
These guys are really out there with a lot of birllant ideas so it should be an interesting presentation.
register here if you want to go
TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2008 6:30–8:30PM – $40 for AIGA non-members
Diller Scofidio + Renfro / 2×4
PERSONAL SPACES/PUBLIC VISIONS
The architectural firm Diller Scofidio+Renfro and the graphic design studio 2×4 both create very high-concept work which is attracting not just attention, but raucous enthusiasm. For years, DS(+R) worked behind the scenes as an idea lab, and now their work is bursting onto the public scene with high-profile projects like the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the upcoming High Line and Lincoln Center projects in New York, and the unforgettable “Blur” a pavilion constructed of Swiss mist.
Similarly, 2×4 was launched from an ivory tower (Yale) and is bringing a cool, fresh, and brainy approach to graphics, with thoughtfulness fueling work that transcends aesthetics. At 2×4, Michael Rock has created high-profile projects for Prada, the Brooklyn Museum, and even Nike for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Is the brainpower of both of these studios antithetical to today’s aesthetics-driven process? What comes between a laboratory of ideas and work in the public sphere? What constitutes the track from theory to practice (and back again)? And why are these visual and spatial expressions of such personal visions ultimately so magnetic for wide audiences?
Jake Barton, principal of Local Projects, a media design firm for museums and public spaces, will moderate this illustrated discussion.
Bios:
Elizabeth Diller is a principal and co-founder of the inter-disciplinary studio, Diller Scofidio +Renfro. DS+R’s work encompasses architecture, urban design, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print. DS+R is currently working on various projects for Lincoln Center such as the Julliard School, Alice Tully Hall, and the School of American Ballet; The High Line, a park situated on the obsolete railway running through Chelsea; the new Creative Arts Center at Brown University; and the Mott St. Townhouse, a private residence in NoLIta. DS+R’s new building for the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art opened in December 2006. DS+R has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the first in the field of architecture; the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian; the Brunner Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from MIT; an Obie Award for Creative Achievement in Off Broadway Theater for their multi-media theater work, “Jet Lag” and a progressive architecture design award for the “Blur Building” a building made of fog for the swiss expo 2002.
Michael Rock is a founding partner and creative director at 2×4 and Director of the Graphic Architecture Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. At 2×4, he leads a wide range of projects for Nike, MTV, Prada, Vitra, Harvard and CCTV. Before starting 2×4 he was co-founder of Information incorporated in Boston. From 1984–91 he was Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design and since 1991 he has been a member of the design faculty at the Yale School of Art where he currently holds the rank of Adjunct Professor. In addition he was a fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and a contributing editor and graphic design journalist at I.D. Magazine in New York. His writing on design has appeared in publications worldwide. He holds an A.B. in Humanities from Union College and a M.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the recipient of the 1999/2000 Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome and with 2×4 the 2006 National Design Award. The work of 2×4 is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Harriet Russell was an art skool student at the Glasgow School of Art. Among other things she makes postal address art and see if the Royal Mail will deliver them.
everyone saw (or read) blade runner, right?