I love this project from artist Jan Vormann. Vormann spent three years travelling the world repairing walls and monuments with Lego. This is the kind of content most brands dream of!
Since the project began theree years ago more and more people have asked how they can get involved, so Vormann has set up a new section on his site for all the crowdsourced entries.
I wonder if Lego have seen this? How about offering a Lego set with the url on the side of the bricks for anyone wanting to get involved in the dispatchers project.
So I’ve signed up for a little experiment, over the next month I will strip my wardrobe down to only six key items (excluding undergarments, swim wear, work-out clothes, work uniforms, rain/outdoor jackets, shoes and accessories).
As soon as I read uberblond’s post about the experiment I wanted to get involved I’ve been thinking about a sort of capsule wardrobe for a while now and about spending a bit more on a few amazing pieces instead of buying multiple fast fashion fixes. I love how Grace Kelly used the same handbag over and over again as well as treasuring all of her dresses and I want that quality over quantity in my wardrobe. There is a bit more about why I wanted to take part over here.
So I’ve picked my six items below. One of the six is a dress to wear for a wedding so its down to five really. I’ve gone for jeans, two tshirts a leather jacket and a dress that can be worn when hot/cold dressed up or dressed down.
Contrail is a small bright bike accessory that attaches above the wheel of a bike and covers the bicycle wheel with a layer of chalk designed by Pepin Gelardi.
The concept focuses around the idea of safety in numbers. By using this device, cyclist will have a visual path to follow which keeps them out of the way of traffic – similar to what happens when a dirt path appears in a grassy field after lots of people have taken the same shortcut.
It reminds me of this stunt in Berlin a few months ago. Not sure about the safety concept, I just want one to make pretty chalk art.
Brick Lane London, the flourishing hub of London based creativity is the perfect location for creative graduates to showcase their work. From June 4th to July 28th it will be overrun with fresh faced hungry grads exhibiting their work at the Free Range Exhibition
Free Range was set up by Tamsin O’Hanlon in 2001 to support new creative talent. The show takes place every June and July at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, which provides the perfect opportunity for art and design graduates to showcase their work to both the public and industry.
Shows rotate weekly over the 8 week season and are curated by discipline, including design, graphics, photography, art and interiors. The first week kicked off last week and I got to meet one of the new graduates to find out what inspired his project.
In a world where we can connect with 400 of our facebook friends at the click of a button it’s nice to still have those flashbacks and memories triggered from something that happens in your day to day life.
John Sutton, a design graduate from Goldsmiths London has taken this idea and collected a series of anecdotes where people use these situational associations to maintain their relational closeness.
Sutton was interested in the physicality of these memories and focused on this idea to create three new areas of design.
A particular memory turns a person’s anecdote into an object for a specific situation. John took the anecdote of his friend Emily who whenever she hears a slurping noise, thinks of her grandmother. John created 12 different types of mugs that all create specific slurping noises. This particular memory has been turned into an object that whenever used will trigger that memory.
In another piece John used his tutor’s story about childhood trips to McDonalds. His friend would always steal his chips and dip them in his strawberry milkshake – to turn this into a universal situation John created a chip flipper that people can use to try and get their chips to land in a milkshake.
Finally the universal particular uses something that’s universal to everyone but creates a very particular situation.
John took an anecdote about the first time a friend was going to sleep with his girlfriend and creates a very particular situation. Simulating a teenage bedroom with curtains, UV lights and wallpaper a person can place themselves right in the middle of this very particular situation.
With everything becoming increasingly digital, especially the way we connect with our friends, it was great to hear John’s talk about the affect this has on our relationships and why he chose to create an experience that can only happen in the physical world.
I am in love with this new Cadbury ad for Flake. It looks more like a high fashion ad campaign or installation and has nothing to do with chocolate. But then again neither did gorillas or eyebrows.
I love cycling to work and since getting my bike a year ago now I have turned into a bike stalker. It doesn’t matter where I am I’m obsessed with the colour shape and design! These saddles designed by Kara Ginther will definitely turn some heads!
Ginther achieves these designs using a combination of wood cutting and lino tools to carve the designs in leather and latex paint to colour the saddle. Pretty.
Two minute film for the Dulux Lets colour project. The people in the film are not actors, they are real people who rolled up their sleeves to transform their community. I’ve already written about how much I love the project and watching this film has only increased my excitement about it.
The film was shot by multi-award winning director Adam Berg over four weeks in Brazil, France, London and India.
The project is exhibiting at the Dundee degree show from 22 May to 30 May. Due to the amount of people requesting to buy the product Joanna is now seeking investment to turn the project into a real product.
