Dirt is Good: 18-ton Sand Sculpture Backdrops by JOOheng Tan

Every once in a while, advertising is amazing. World champion sand sculptor JOOheng Tanwas recently asked by ad agency Lowe in Singapore to help create these impressive backdrops for an OMO washing detergent ad campaign. In an age when something like this could have been created digitally, they asked Tan to physically build three 18-ton sand sculptures to be used as backdrops in ads encouraging

High Line, New York, USA

Photograph copyright Iwan Baan.Photograph copyright Iwan Baan.Photograph copyright Iwan Baan.The HighLine is a new 1.5-mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroadstretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan. Inspired bythe melancholic, unruly beauty of this postindustrial ruin, where nature hasreclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure

Tree Ring Lights by Judson Beaumont

These funky tree lights were designed by Judson Beaumont of Straight Line Designs, a furniture design firm out of Vancouver. Called Tree Rings the lights are made out of a beetle pine shell topped with mirrored Plexiglas that allows the embedded cool fluorescent light to shine through in the dark. I’m not sure of the practical application, but it appears the lights can be used as as small tables

Phytopia, By: Pablo Zunzunegui, UC Berkeley

Our friend: Pablo Zunzunegui, Sent us his project and said this words "My name is Pablo Zunzunegui, and I am a M.Arch graduate at UC Berkeley. I am seeking the opportunity to show one of my projects entitled "Phytopia" in DesignDaily."And this is the project brief: San Francisco-based architect Pablo Zunzunegui has developed 'phytopia' a series of speculative explorations that take place in the

Street Furniture System

Street is a multi-storage and display unit ideal for placing magazines, books and plants. The furniture system is composed of four parts: a basic frame and three modules – one that takes on the iconic form of a house, as well as cube-like high and low units. These parts can be combined in a variety of ways, such as stacked, to function as shelves or a room divider within public and private

Headbutt by Abdessemed

Everyone knows the great former football player Zinedine Zidane and his unfortunate gesture moved to Marco Materazzi in the final of the World Cup 2006. The artist Abdessemed carries a bronze statue of about 5 meters, entitled "Headbutt" representing the altercation between these two people.This work goes against the traditional statue in honor of some of important victories. It is an ode to

Amazing Stairs Design

A small selection of stairs, just for inspiration Friday. More photos here

kristoffer tejlgaard + benny jepsen: people's meeting dome

'people's meeting dome' by kristoffer tejlgaard and benny jepsen, bornholm, denmarkimage courtesy of kristoffer tejlgaardthis year's people's meeting in bornholm, denmark, is intended to spark debate and discussion about the future of housing. with a need for a venue, danish architects kristoffer tejlgaard and benny jepsen wanted to not only provide the space in which the event would take place,

Venus of Cupertino at Tent London 2012

As part of the London Design Festival, CONTEMPORIST visited the Tent London design event, where British designer Scott Eaton exhibited his Venus of Cupertino iPad docking stations.Description from the designerThe Venus of Cupertino is a sculptural docking station inspired by the curvaceous forms and symbolism of ancient Venus figurines – she is a fertility goddess for the technology age.Each

"Diamond Wood" by Tesler-Mendelovitch

Tesler-Mendelovitch is an emerging "textile design team [who] research and experiment a wide range of materials to create entirely new end stage products for industry and art." Their latest project, "Diamond Wood," is a series of tables and stools that are made from a new flexible wood surface. The layered veneer material is "lightweight and sustainable and composed of a thin, flexible, yet

Chelsea Workspace

Program: Bespoke desk and storage system for a private home officeLocation: London, EnglandYear: 2011Status: CompleteThis home office for a private personal investment advisor responds to the clients brief of a discrete yet sculptural design solution for a home office by conceptually draping a dynamic surface over an orthogonal arrangement of the required home office elements including a work

Express to Impress: Spectacular Curtain Door by Matharoo Associates

“Knocking at the Curtain Door” is an expression that you probably won’t hear too often. TheMatharoo Associates, an architectural firm from India completed one of the most interesting doors you will ever see. We have spotted this astonishing project on Design Milk and we decided to share this experience with all of you. The Curtain Door is a contemporary piece of art and as the name says it,

Out of the Woods at the V&A museum

London Design Festival: every scrap of material and minute of production time was carefully recorded during the manufacturing of these twelve wooden chairs, helping the Royal College of Art students that designed them to measure each one’s sustainability.Above: Floating Chair by Bobby Petersen and Tom GottelierTop: Well Proven Chair by James Shaw and Marjan van Aubel The data was used to produce

Ostrich Pillow by Kawamura-Ganjavian

This squishy headgear by Spain and Switzerland-based studio Kawamura Ganjavian creates the perfect conditions for a power nap at your desk, at the airport or in the library (+ movie).The Ostrich Pillow’s padded sides allow the wearer to take a warm and comfortable nap. The eyes and ears are covered while pockets provide a cosy space for hands when leaning on a desk.“Seeing as we all spend more

ArχipelagA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.AmniosyA (marino MORETTI, marco CARRATELLI, natalia GIACOMINO, lucia LUNGHI, elvira PERFETTO, lorenzo PIANIGIANI, & leonardo PILATI): ArχipelagA it’s an unconventional bridge, we started thinking about the aggregation and the interaction of different element. In greek ἀρχή it’s the starting point of everithing, the primary idea. So starting from a single plane

Walnut And Sycamore Veneer Shaping Nautilus’ Perfect Proportions

Marking a successful collaboration between innovative construction techniques and computer aided technology, the Nautilus II Table constructs the second attempt to imagining an organic-inspired furniture design. True to its inspiration, “Nautilus was born in an environment of artist freedom” – Newhaven-based designer Marc Fish expresses his love for perfection in this exceptional piece of

3-D Printed Microsonic Soundscapes, Music Translated Into Form

Realitat’s Microsonic Landscapes use 3-D printing machinery and algorithmic mapping to arrive at physical manifestations of recorded musical sound. These handheld sculptures are unique amongst one another because each represents the formalization of a different musical recording. In this instance, each recording is actually a full-length album; the albums chosen were picked according to