I am still cranking out this paper (it will never end!), so I will make this post short and sweet. Also because the gorgeous blog 'Griottes' that posted these is written in French! All you need to know is that artistic director Emilie created Pantone palettes out of paper and brilliantly colored food and the results are stunning. Also cool? It seems that you can search Griottes by color! Love it!
If you are up for translating, or just more eye candy, check out even more here.
As I mentioned yesterday, I am in the middle of writing a long paper (and will likely be tomorrow, and the day after too, ha!). So I thought I would share with you one of the things I like do when I am stressed (and you won't believe it): it's cleaning! Yes, more often than not I share everyone's begrudging dislike of cleaning, but when things are stressful I sometimes finding tidying up to be this concrete, efficient thing that you can check off your to do list. Plus it has great, tangible results. And don't you agree having a clean house seems to make everything feel better and more manageable?
What's my point you might say? Well when I am in my cleaning frenzy, I sort of picture cleaning to be like this Method video! All pomp and circumstance and fun! The video is part of Method's Clean Happy Campaign and I highly recommend you check out all the cheery details here.
How was your weekend? I literally spent all of mine working on a 20-page paper I have due later this week. The research and writing process is both incredibly rewarding and incredibly exhausting. I feel like I am going round in circles (if only the circle from my bed to my kitchen to my couch) trying to get this done!
With that in mind I thought I would share this beautiful print which has a similarly circular quality, featuring a wonderful pattern of marching animals that combine to make up the rings of a tree trunk. The work was designed to promote awareness about the devastation of habitats in the rainforest and to "highlight the responsibility we have in letting animal species thrive in their natural environment." Designed by Aaron, Gary and Khairul the poster is on sale at Degree for $45. Check it out here.
I realized recently that is has somehow been almost a year (?!) since I wrote a post about color wheels? Not sure how that is possible since I absolutely love them, but I thought I would make up for it with a giant color wheel round up. Without further ado, bring on the color mixing madness!
Netherlandish artist Berndnaut Smilde has been making the blog rounds this week because of his incredible, amazing, [insert your own awesome adjective here] cloud sculptures (above). Yes, you read that right. Smilde has actually made clouds in the galleries of his exhibitions. They are not models of clouds, but actual clouds he has made out of water and air. Cool, right? I would love to see one of his installations in person.
But that's not all! Turns out Smilde's other works is pretty impressive too, including the scale architectural models (top) which he has shrouded under a frozen cloud of smoke. Apparently frozen smoke is the lightest solid material on earth at 99.8% air. Crazy! The other works, as you can see, are also fascinating, featuring everything from tangled exhaust tubing, miniature scenes, and wall hanging sculpture.
If you interest is piqued (and it should be!) you can check out all of Smilde's work here.
Not sure how I missed it, but the wonderful and talented Gary Hustwit (who I have written about here and here), has released a new documentary. Called Urbanized, it is about the design of cities and what makes them grow and shrink. Apparently by 2050 75% of the world's population will live in a city and Hustwit's film looks at the inventive ways in which numerous people affect global urban design. Pretty cool, right?
You can rent the movie on iTunes here, from Amazon here or buy a three disk set (with his previous movies Helvetica and Objectified included) here.
As you likely know, I love maps. And the colorful, pseudo-abstract creations of artist Jennifer Maravillas are no exception. Calling her work "surrealist cartography" she draws urban landscapes as filtered through her own subconscious interpretations. The result is a complex array of pattern, contrast and information that combine to form an exciting visual result.
Buy one of her prints here and check out her portfolio here.
