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Absolutely Useless (Yet Highly Amusing) Objects Designed by Katerina Kamprani
Fuzzy plates, bowls with holes, and slim staircases? Yes, please. In a world of ever-changing gadgets, endless updates, new apps, and beautiful architecture in the woods most of us can never be a part of, designer Katerina Kamprani has created The Uncomfortable Project, a set of absolutely useless—but beautiful and probing—objects. Does this make the pieces art? Absolutely. These designs by Kamprani lean towards a greater conversation about purpose and aesthetics, art and everyday objects. In fact, there are no clear-cut rules in Kamprani’s world, which is utterly refreshing in a solution-oriented culture. We sat down with Kamprani for a little more insight into these uncomfortable—and delightful—objects.
Where did you get the idea for these creations?
“The first uncomfortable just popped into my head. After that, I started thinking like that because it’s fun but also it helps me analyze the invisible design language behind everyday objects. I am an architect, but design is my passion.”
Is it an ongoing series? (We hope so)
“It is an ongoing series, although lately I am thinking more surreal than uncomfortable and I am not sure if the new objects will fit the “guidelines” of the Uncomfortable! I guess in these objects there is also a little bit of self expression and maybe I don’t feel so “uncomfortable” any more.”
How does this differ from your other work?
“The Uncomfortable is my personal project, for my clients I try to do “comfortable” things! But I think the core thinking behind the Uncomfortable is close to designing useful things, it all has to do with analyzing the user’s experience.”
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Heartwarming ‘Pigs and Papa’ Photos Show the Affectionate Bond Between a Farmer and His 1,200 Pigs
© Toshiteru Yamaji
© Toshiteru Yamaji
Who doesn’t love a passel of pigs? Kagawa-based photographer Toshiteru Yamaji captured the beautiful relationship between a pig farmer and his 1,200 pigs in Pigs and Papa. Yamaji was born in Kagawa in 1937 and was a city worker in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries for 24 years. Through his job, Yamaji came to know Otchan, the pig farmer he ended up photographing from 1997-2007 for this project. Yamaji, an amateur photographer, self-published a book of the photos in 2009 and ended up winning the 13th Japan Self-Publishing Award’s graphic prize for his book. The next year, FOIL published a re-titled, revised edition. Yamaji’s depiction of this happy farmer with his happy pigs, who have clearly forged a strong bond with each other, is an important reminder that there are better ways, for both the animals and the farmers, to raise farm animals than in factories.
You can buy or preview the book here.
© Toshiteru Yamaji
© Toshiteru Yamaji
© Toshiteru Yamaji
© Toshiteru Yamaji
© Toshiteru Yamaji
© Toshiteru Yamaji
© Toshiteru Yamaji
“Pigs and Papa,” by Toshiteru Yamaji. Published by FOIL in 2010.
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music to their ears.
i came upon this fantastic renovation project featured in a recent issue of elle decoration UK when i went searching for glass room dividers yesterday. it’s a former training school in Copenhagen which was beautifully renovated into living space by Jon Oron, a music producer and friends — together they renovated the space creating 16 apartments with two adjoining music studios. this is open studio apartment Jon Oron lives in on the 2nd floor — a great open space with whitewashed hardwood floors, white walls, and those inventive glass doors and room dividers separating the living area from the bedroom. i love this whole space, so i had to come back and share the rest of it with you today!
• photos by Pernille Vest for ELLE Decoration UK.
Photographer Uses White Paint and Charcoal to Turn Everyday Items Into Clever Works of Art
Interested in how we “learn to see, identify, and remember, and the role images play in the codification of perceptual and mnemonic experience,” artist Cynthia Greig has created photographic documents of three-dimensional drawings. She begins her series Representations, by collecting everyday objects from the “recent past—their designs made obsolete by changes in technology, taste, and time.” In a process of deconstruction and later reconstruction, Greig comes to “represent” these objects as belonging to a timeless era; one that asks us to examine our own passive viewing experience. We reached out to Greig to explore this fascinating project further.
Hi, Cynthia. Talk to us.
“I can be a pretty impatient person, but I also recognize that my impatience can get me into trouble a lot of the time. When I discovered this process of creating three-dimensional drawings it gave me the opportunity to slow down and look, and experience the act of looking from a completely different perspective. In seeing how the camera sees I saw more than I would normally. Experiencing the physicality of drawing, the feel of the charcoal against the surface, the object’s contours, its shape in space, observing the subtle textures and shadows playing on the whitewashed surfaces, all became part of a kind of meditation on the ordinary and the everyday. We see a coffee cup, a phone all the time, but take them for granted, and don’t really see them. I’m intrigued by this kind of invisibility we experience with the material world of mass-produced, everyday objects.”
“Plus, there’s a whole history of decisions, aesthetics, culture, design and technology that play a part in shaping the everyday possessions we use. I often choose to represent the outdated versions of these familiar objects, like a black and white tv, an analog camera, a dial telephone, or the kind of generic shoes women buy and dye for a wedding party. The shapes of these objects relate to the forms of my own generation, and reflect on time, the persistence of things, but also how the ordinary changes and evolves. How does that affect our future memory of things past? I’m interested in what disappears and remains with the passing of time.”
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Evocative Photos by Stefanie Klavens Examine the Scenery of Everyday Life
Boston-based photographer Stefanie Klavens examines the scenery of daily life in her series How We Live. Klavens focuses on a wide variety of unpopulated, commonplace spaces both private and public in order to examine the elements that are so often seen they have long gone unnoticed. The wonderful variety of décor make these spaces seem like carefully decorated film sets that we are being given access to after everyone has gone home, but Klavens is giving us a glimpse of “intimate, frozen moments [that] become pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that reflect our culture and how we choose to go about our lives.”
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a bright montreal retreat.
One of our lovely readers, Sarah, along with her boyfriend, have almost completed a renovation of a 1950′s cottage they purchased months ago in Montreal, Canada. When Sarah’s grandmother passed away, she left money that Sarah was sure she wanted to use as a down payment. When the couple toured this home so many details reminded her of her grandparent’s home that she knew it was the one.
Sarah describes, “We even got to meet the older lady whose home it had been for over 40 years. She agreed we needed to gut the kitchen immediately as she said she would have done it herself if she’d had the energy. With her blessing we got to work opening up the kitchen to the dining room/living room, removing carpet, refinishing the wood floors, removing two layers of wallpaper and painting over all the dusty rose. We’ve done all the work ourselves and are so happy with the outcome-a bright, cheery easy to use space.” Stay tuned to Sarah’s blog for upcoming details of the home’s before and afters!
Desktop Wallpaper: April 2014
This month’s inspiring desktop design comes from New York-and-Philly based designer, illustrator and all-around awesome person, Kimberly Hall (Nottene). You might remember how she created some pretty swell clothing with Marimekko fabrics in our Make It! challenge.
She says of her quote and illustration: “I love to see this quote when I draw because I am reminded that sometimes I need to just choose happiness, and it will make me feel good…and when I draw with happiness I can make others feel good too. It’s healthy!”
Click on the size below to download:
1024×768 \\\ 1280×1024 \\\ 1680×1050 \\\ 1900×1200 \\\ 2560×1440
View and download past Designer Desktops here.
Typography Portrait Smartphone Cases by Sean Williams for Casetagram
You might know artist and designer Sean Williams under his Seanings moniker, but if you don’t, you should. Sean creates hand illustrated portraits out of typographic designs. Meaning, the person’s face is made up of lyrics from that person’s songs. Sean has partnered with Casetagram to bring these Typography Portraits Collection to your iPhone 5, 5s, and 5c devices. Now, it looks like they have the line for all the various devices, like the Galaxy S II, S III, S4, the Galaxy Note, II, III, the Nexus 4 and 5, and more.
Because we all need a little HOVA and Yeezus in our lives, right?
Rikki Tikki Just Retro Ceramic Tableware
Danish brand Rikki Tikki has launched a handmade and hand-decorated line of ceramic tableware called Just. The series is made with retro slash contemporary shapes with contrasting color glazes on the interiors. On the matte exteriors, each piece has a textural crisscrossed pattern etched into the surface creating organic-shaped diamonds.
The line is available for purchase via The Scandinavian Shop.
Photos courtesy of The Scandinavian Shop.
Thunderbird
"Slapped Actress" |
Pimento Cheese Grilled Cheese (thanks Suzanne!) |
Fried chicken hoecake |
B&G |
Shrimp & Grits |
croquettes |
hush puppies |
Kale salad |
Pickle plate |
Beignets |
Green Spaghetti, Blue Turkey and Pink Cereal: Food Photos Freakify the Everyday Meal
White Rice
Green Ice Cream
Will you be ordering the green spaghetti or blue turkey? California-based Lawrie Brown invites us to consider the manufactured and processed methods with which food reaches our table, presenting bizarre amalgamations of familiar dinners and snacks in his Colored Food Series. The work also plays with our individual psychological response to color, the viewer either fascinated or repulsed by the hyper-bright synthetic transformation of everyday meals. Using latex house paint, Brown disrupts the generally appetizing vision of food photography, making us a little queasy when we think about all the actual artificial coloring and process that goes into most Western food production.
Orange Cheese
White Noodles
White Sugar
White Bread
Yellow Butter
Pink Cereal
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Photo du Jour: Circus Cats Backstage
We’re not gonna lie, we were worried this was some sort of kitty vending machine, but it’s actually a shot of a cat’s version of backstage, captured by Amsterdam-based photographer Rene van der Hulst back in 2002 at the Hoogvliet Circus near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The cats were part of an act by a dwarf duo that had trained the cats to do a myriad of tricks. Van der Hulst happened upon the stars of the show just before going onstage, and was quite taken by the surreal nature of these felines waiting to perform—he assured us, too, that these little guys only spent a short time in their backstage quarters.
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‘Other People’s Clothes’: A Photographer’s Humorous Self-Portraits Imagine the Lives of Strangers
Boston-based photographer Caleb Cole’s curiosity about the lives of others led him to make his amusing series Other People’s Clothes. In the series, he becomes the stranger by using scavenged clothing and a location in which to create these imagined stories of strangers’ lives. There is an underlying empathy in Cole’s work, even if the humor is front and center. About the deeper meaning behind his witty portraits, Cole says, “Though I am the physical subject of these images, they are not traditional self-portraits. They are portraits of people I have never met but with whom I feel familiar, as well as documents of the process wherein I try on the transitional moments of others’ lives in order to better understand my own.”
Cole’s work is on view through April 5, 2014, at Nave Gallery Annex in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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studio spaces: jenny sharaf.
i was instantly smitten with the bold, colorful work of artist jenny sharaf at tappan collective. but then, it was the portraits of jenny herself, taken by Hans Kwiotek that made me want to learn more about her. she just looks so cool and confident, right? his captures of jenny in her studio space are rad! tappan has a wonderful interview and studio visit with the artist, you should check out — her current medium? “Housepaint and cheap craft paint from Michaels!” Jenny is a an artist born and raised in Los Angeles, currently living in San Francisco, and is also the founder of Gallery Daily, which bridges the gap between art and technology in the Bay Area. Through painting, video, works on paper, and installations, Jenny Sharaf explores “the mythology of the California girl, the role of the female artist, and the image of the role of the female artist, and the image of the 21st century woman in order to illuminate the evolving generational shifts of feminism and contemporary notions of the gaze”. you can see all of her work at tappan collective, as well as her own website. oh, and she has an excellent instagram photostream and tumblr, as well.
• Photos are taken by Hans Kwiotek, Photos via tappan collective.