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A Sweet Roundup of Artistic Treats
WARNING: This article may cause you to frantically jet down to your local bakery. You might want to start tying up your shoe laces – just say’n. The succulent little treats you are about to feast your eyes on have been created by some of the worlds best pastry chefs, along with some of the worlds best soccer moms. Either way, this roundup of artistic treats is sure to make you leave some room for dessert tonight.
Matchstick Cookies By I Feel Cook
Rainbow Colored Lemon
San Diego-based food blog Kirbie’s Cravings has concocted Pizza Cupcakes
Lily Vanilli, A London based baker, created The Bleeding Heart Cake
Lucía Rallo and Aranxa Esteve of m-inspira made some Helvetica looking Jello typography
Cookie Monster Cupcakes
A brilliant hamburger cake by Lyndsay Sung over at her Vancouver based bakery Coco Cake Cupcake
Josie Tavares is a Wife, mother, software engineer, and self taught pastry queen. She whipped up these Blueberry & Coconut French Macarons for her family’s Superbowl party this year, and showcased them on her blog Daydreamer Desserts.
This rainbow colored pancake series is the masterpiece of Lisa Edsalv
Spanish food blogger Sandee, from La Receta De la Felicidad, has created these fun Egg Shell Brownies.
A Little Light Magic, Singapore
The Armenian Church | Lim Woan Wen
The Peranakan Museum | Michael Lee
Singapore Art Museum | :Phunk
School of The Arts | Grace Tan of Kwodrent
National Museum Of Singapore | whenligtswork+Luke Smith-Wightman
Five-Story Sculpture In A Custard Factory
The Custard Factory is a buzzing quarter in Birmingham which is home to a hive of young creative companies, galleries, and fine artists. A new five-story creation called the Zellig Sculpture, which contains three glass bridges and 2000 meters of steel tubing, has been created inside the factory by Nottingham based design firm Philip Watts. The sculpture consists of long white tubes which intersect as they reach from wall to wall in the atrium of the building. The glass bridges run along the same paths as the tubes while creating an awesome moment where visitors can intertwine themselves within the sculpture, and experience it first hand!
(Photography: Philip Watts)
Firewood Lights
Sometimes the hum of a dusty heating vent just doesn’t cut it when you want to cuddle up and get cozy in the wintertime. Well, until you have the dinero to install a state-of-the-art woodstove feast your eyes on this charming little string of lights. Rafael DeCardena’s Firewood Lights is just what the name describes – a lovely, glowing abstract version of a fireplace. Constructed of angular cut wood, the Firewood Lights are internally illuminated with a warm light. Now all you have to do is download crackling fireplace sound effects on iTunes, grab a mug of cocoa and you’re good to go! Oh, and scroll down, we included more of Mr. DeCardena’s new furniture collection below!
(Photography: Architecture At Large)
ICD + ITKE Research Pavilion 2011
The Institute for Computer-Based Design and the Institute for Structural Engineering and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart, have come together again to create a structure which embodies the idea of bionics. The structure is intended to be an “advance of the search for a natural structure,which has an especially efficient and adaptable character: light weight, while capacity and flexibility.” The two teams searched for a reflection of this concept in nature and after some digging, found it at the marina: the Sand Dollar. “Belonging to the family of sea urchins, it returns the prototype, at the skeletal structure of the resulting experimental pavilion ajar.”
The idea behind building the pavilion was an essential and integral architectural lesson to the students, in that the architecture students work closely with the scientists to understand biological pattern formations and how to incorporate that into architecture. The result is a multi-dimensional material system made of connecting facets of birch plywood – a 72-square-foot structural and artistic pavilion with seating for park visitors to stop and enjoy!
(ICD/ITKE Universität Stuttgart )
Disguise: A Series Of PVC Sculptures
Seoul based artist Kang Duck-Bong’s solo exhibition titled Disguise is a series of sculptures constructed out of small PVC pipes covered in urethane paint. The sculptures range anywhere from a man riding a unicycle, superman flying through the air, cars, and a man running, collectively intended to touch on the idea of “time and space dynamics.” Each piece is saturated with color to create an abstract version of it’s reality. Duck-Bong’s solo show is happening right now, until December 23rd at Gallery 4Walls in Seoul.
The Bloomberg Pavilion, Tokyo
Akihisa Hirata, architect of the new Bloomberg Pavilion “wondered what would happen if the walls were to keep growing upwards and present an uneven surface like ‘pleats’.” He dug into his imagination to create a white rectangular structure with a plethora of triangular connecting faces protruding from the it in the entry of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The metal white pieces were connected together using a relatively simple process, by connecting a series of isosceles triangles – even though the structure appears complex, it is actually quite simple in its construction.
(©2011 Takumi Ota Photography)
Wooden QR Code Stool
What happens when a two dimensional QR-code is transformed into a three-dimensional structure? This is the question that German designer Elena Belmann asked herself before she created this wooden QR stool. Then she pondered “Would this change its information content?” only one way to find out! She created a wood sculpture that is part architectural form and part scannable data. This wooden structure is also a lamp. Awesome!
FriendsWithYou At Art Basel Miami 2011
Last week, Art Basel Miami kicked off in it’s usual spectacular form. We’re talking a full week, where art and design lovers flock down to South Beach for glitzy parties, artistic surprises, exclusive shows, oh and the hot Miami sun! The unveiling of FriendsWithYou’s latest creation, “Inner Space, The Secrets Of The Unknown’ has caught our attention in a major way.
The Miami based art collective team has spent recent years poping up in different cities with their larger-than-life community of happy and colorful inflatables called Rainbow City, but their creativity surely doesn’t stop there. FWY, who is spearheaded by Samuel Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval, designs art, toys, websites, graphics, and apparel. Borkson and Sandoval proudly showed off their new collection “Inner Space, The Secrets Of The Unknown’, which involves colorful wooden sculptures, tiny metal characters, magical inflatable creatures, and and mind teasing prints. FWY Explained that “the pieces on display are figurative self reflective treasures, levitating in a space continuum, revealing something otherwise inaccessible.” These new works have opened up in FWY’s permanent art space in the Miami Design District.
Knstrct had the chance to catch up with Samuel and Tury to get some more insight about the duo, because we had some questions, that couldnt go any longer without answers….
1. If aliens came to our planet, and you could send only one person to be an ambassador, to talk them out of annihilating the human race, who would you send?
us
2. FriendsWithYou expresses their dream of pushing evil out of the world, we love this concept! What’s your game plan on kicking evil out?
Mmmm I think we do this in our personal lives. We don’t want to kick out evil. Sometimes it’s necessary. We just want to arm people with power and increase love and magic between all people.
3. Who do you like more, your mom? or your dad?
love them both differently.
4. Would you consider the TV series Jersey Shore a reality show? or a documentary?
It’s just awesome !
5. FriendsWithYou has actual copyrights to the term “Magic, Luck, and Friendship. Do either of you practice magic?
we both do.
6. FriendsWithYou partnered up with Pharrell Williams a few years back, how did this partnership spawn? How involved is Pharrell in the actual design process?
We are friends and future projectors. We dream big and love hard.
7. I ran into Pharrell one time in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, he’s handsome in real life, do you agree? (rate 1-10?)
Yeah he is handsome inside and out with a 10
The Field Of Lights
Like a vision straight out of the pages of a fairy tale, Bath’s Holburne Museum covered its grass with 5,000 flowering lights. Lighting designer Bruce Munro is the only talent capable of this glowing garden of blossoming beauty, which he titled Field of Lights. The bulbs are arranged in patches, all connecting to a central unit which dictates their colors. Each patch is a different color which creates a magical atmosphere!
The light bulbs are made of frosted spheres which are threaded with fiber optic cables, lit by a color projector.
The patches change colors throughout the night to a slow rhythmic beat which enchants holiday visitors.
Munro came up with the idea for this field of lights almost 20 years ago while on a trip to Australia. He was inspired by the way the empty desserts would bloom after rainfall, and hoped to recreate it with lighting.
The free exhibition opened to the public this past Saturday, and will stay lit through the holidays.
(Photography: Getty Images)
Painting The Wind
While windmills have been an outdoor fixture for centuries, they’ve never really gotten their ‘day in the sun’ so to speak. These poor suckers have been mere wallflowers in the landscape, forced to recede into the background like shrinking violets. Well, now it’s their time to shine with Horst Glasker’s Aero Art instillation. Brightly colored wind turbines shellacked in day-glow yellow and lime green pop on the landscape, appearing as bright sculptural objects to be reckoned with. “These big, colorful generators change attitudes, for they will generate not only power but an ‘emotional mantle’ and an enormously positive acceptance in those who live or work near them.”
An Insightful Interview With Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister is a veritable jackknife of skills. A renaissance man in his own right, the famed graphic designer and typographer’s design repertoire spans the gamut of branding, graphics, packaging and album covers. The Grammy-nabbing designer is also the author of “Made You Look“ and “Things I have learned in my life so far,” a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and of course he runs his design firm, Sagmeister Inc. with work featured in solo shows in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Japan, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, and Seoul.
We’re exhausted just thinking about it, which is why it’s no surprise that Sagmeister is currently taking time off for a little R&R in Bali. Knstrct caught up with him during his year-long sabbatical and he was nice enough to share some personal insight – his design heroes, inspirations, all-time favorite font and donning lederhosen, among other things.
Q. What is one essential that you always carry on you?
A. My fathers watch.
Q. The Internet… Has it made design better or worse?
A: Better. The audience is much more interested in design now because almost everybody is a designer themselves, – involved in type-choices and formatting questions etc. This technology driven change has not led to the predicted job losses for designers but to a desire for more sophisticated work from professionals.
Q. The iPad… Do you think print magazines can make a successful transition?
A. No. Right now it looks like consumers are not willing to pay for the kind of digital content most magazine’s have to offer in any meaningful numbers. But I am no expert on that at all.
Q. The art of the album cover… What’s next?
A. I always thought its going to be the cheaply producable, small file size graphic music video, one that looks great on the small screen and can be made by a very small team. I was wrong.
Q. Did you ever wear a lederhosen as a child growing up in Austria?
A. Yes. I even wore leatherhosen to work on my first day at a corporate job in New York. It caused a minor sensation (not in a good way).
Q. How many tubes of Neosporin did you go through after having the details of a talk xacto-ed onto your torso by your intern?
A. One.
Q. What is your favorite part of a sandwich?
A. The cheese.
Q. Did you ever dream of being anything besides a graphic designer?
A. A mountain bike.
Q. Who influences your work?
A. Tibor Kalman was the single most influential person in my designy life and my one and only design hero. 15 years ago, as a student in NYC, I called him every week for half a year and I got to know the M&Co receptionist really well. When he finally agreed to see me it turned out I had a sketch in my portfolio rather similar in concept and execution then an idea M&Co was just working on: He rushed to show me the prototype out of fear I’d say later he stole it out of my portfolio. I was so flattered. When I finally started working there 5 years later I discovered it was, more than anything else, his incredible salesmanship that set his studio apart from all the others. There were probably a number of people around who were as smart as Tibor (and there were certainly a lot who were better at designing), but nobody else could sell these concepts without any changes, get those ideas with almost no alterations out into the hands of the public. Nobody else was as passionate. As a boss he had no qualms about upsetting his clients or his employees (I remember his reaction to a logo I had worked on for weeks and was very proud of: “Stefan, this is TERRIBLE, just terrible, I am so disappointed”). His big heart was shining through nevertheless. He had the guts to risk everything, I witnessed a very large architecture project where he and M&Co had collaborated with a famous architect and had spent a years worth of work: He was willing to walk away on the question of who will present to the client. Tibor had an uncanny knack for giving advice, for dispersing morsels of wisdom, packaged in rough language later known as Tiborisms: “The most difficult thing when running a design company is not to grow” he told me when I opened my own little studio. “Just don’t go and spend the money they pay you or you are going to be the whore of the ad agencies for the rest of your life” was his parting sentence when I moved to Hong Kong to open up a design studio for Leo Burnett. These insights were also the reason why M&Co. got so much press, journalists could just call him and he would supply the entire structure for a story and some fantastic quotes to boot. He was always happy and ready to jump from one field to another, corporate design, products, city planning, music video, documentary movies, children books, magazine editing were all treated under the mantra “you should do everything twice, the first time you don’t know what you’re doing, the second time you do, the third time its boring”. He did good work containing good ideas for good people.
Q. Who is your personal hero?
A. As mentioned, Tibor Kalman, because he had the most guts of any designer I know and understood that spending energy on making sure that a design appears as designed is as important as designing it. Makoto Saito for selling the same photo shoot to different clients. Rick Valincenti for continuously doing ground breaking work. Paula Scher for designing the best project of her career (the type for the New Jersey Performing Art Center), after a 30 year career, last year.
Q. What work are you proudest of?
A. Likely the whole “Things I have learned” series. The individual projects were a pleasure to design and create, lecturing and exhibiting them was a pleasure, I was pleased with how the book came out and even now, 10 years after we started the series, I have a good time talking about it. We also got a lot of positive and steady feedback about it.
Q. Have you seen any of the Twilight saga (be honest here)?
A. No. And I am not quite sure why this question requires particular honesty.
Q. Where did you put your three Grammy awards?
A. Two are on an a book shelf, the third destroyed when my dog sat on it.
Q. What is your guilty pleasure?
A. Including at least one lie when answering interviews.
Q. What does wasted time look like to you?
A. Like a lemon wafer.
Q. What advice would you give up-and-coming graphic designers?
A. Dont take any advice from tried-and-true graphic designers.
Q. What is your all-time favorite font?
A. My own hand writing.
Q. Can you successfully play an ‘Alphorn?’
A. No. But my first design job, when I was 15, was at a magazine called Alphorn.
Q. Ever caught any unsavory shenanigans on the live cam in your office?
A. Only rehearsed ones.
The Conch: A Wave-Like Sea of Bells
The ‘Atoll’ open plaza at the Mapletree Business City in Singapore needed some sprucing up, and local architecture and design team FARM brought an interesting solution to the table called The Conch. “This particular image keeps playing in our heads : An idyllic stroll along the beach, we chance upon a conch, we hold it to our ears and listen to the sounds of the sea.” The team built a series of outdoor steel sculptures in the plaza pavilion which “presents itself as a highly fluid, wave-like sea of bells – its shape also reminiscent of the trumpet’s elegant sprouting form.” FARM explained. Beyond the soothing and intriguing aesthetics of the sculptures, another cool feature is that The Conch is a poetic wind instrument, enabling one to listen to the ‘sea’, to the slight movement of the air. Each of the ‘Conch’s’ bells comes together to the ground collectively as stalks. They are dotted with funnels where one can put their ears and listen to the wind. Behaving like nature and taking from nature, the Conch is reactive and interacts in its own ways to people.
(Images Provided By FARM Architects)
A Paper Skull
D-Sturbed is a gang of artists who came together back in 2006 to share ideas and exchange different points of view on art. Under the D-Sturbed umbrella is artist Matthieu Jacobs, who has created the Paper Skull Sculpture – an origami-like approach to constructing an angular skull out of onyx paper. The Skull comes finely packaged in a DIY kit, leaving the construction up to the builder. If you are artistically challenged, fear not, the construction of the skull is designed to be entirely user-friendly. A few bends, folds, and voilá! You have a metallic black cranium.
(Imagery Provided By D-Sturbed)
Sweden’s Big Yellow Bunny
Sweden’s OpenArt Biennale recently kicked off in the town of Orebro. The organization brought in Florentijn Hofman, a design firm best known for their larger than life sculptures and clever statues, to create an enormous yellow bunny in the middle of the town square. The bunny provides a new focal point to the public space, which once was the Statue of Engelbrekt (currently standing behind the rabbit). The sculpture provides a new experience to people who regularly use this space for shopping, restaurants, and church; Florentijn Hofman is encouraging Orebro visitors to examine the space both with the bunny, and then again after its removal.
The 43 foot high rabbit is hand constructed with Florentijn Hofman’s team and 20 volunteers. The sculpture is made on site, of all local materials, wood, some metal, wood shingles, and paint. Each wood shingle was screwed on, one by one! It’s only when you are up close that you can understand the detail and precision that went into its making.
Florentijn Hofman is also the team responsible for these other amazing larger than life sculptures that have been seen in different places around the world!
(Image Credits: Florentijn Hofman)
Kii Arens Pop Pillows
Famed Pop-Art Designer, Kii Arens, who has always had a proclivity for Rock-N-Roll aesthetics has now released limited edition pop-styled silk pillows! If you think you’re unfamiliar with the works of Arens we assure you, you’re not! He has been heading up pop art in the music scene since the 70?s, designing album covers, t-shirts, posters, and artwork for music greats like Cheap Trick, Sheryl Crow, R.E.M., Helmet, Liz Phair, Soundgarden, Seal, Van Halen (with Sammy… boo-hoo), Marilyn Manson, Everclear, and more. Arens’ artwork is featured in museums around the globe and is now coming to a living room near you! You can snag these limited edition Pop Pillows here, but they’re only on sale for three more days!
(Images Provided By: FAB)
Atelier Markgraph Designs For Germany’s Youth
The Federal Republic Of Germany’s House Of History is shining a spotlight on what it’s like to be a young German through their latest exhibition by Atelier Markgraph. The exhibition titled “17: Being Young In Germany”, examines how it feels to be young, and to find and shape your personality. The designer used roughly 800 exhibits, interactive media instillation, and music, to present growth from the 1950′s to the present. Whether it is sexual rebellion, religion, or education, each section of the instillation is designed with it’s own mood or feel reflecting the topic.
(Photographs Provided By Atelier Markgraph)
Lounge Poolside With A Skull Chair
Parisian designers Léa Padovani & Sébastien Kieffer are the dynamic duo behind Pool, a firm producing thought provoking furniture and designs such as their cheeky S.T.Q.T.V.M chair! A typical poolside chair carved into a skull face! The two founded the firm based on mutual principals: “outside the box thinking, with a goal to explore associations between objects, architecture and images. Beyond the obvious presence of an object.” The chair is constructed out of fiberglass and is said to represent the emblematic monobloc chair reinterpreted as an expression of vanity.
The Beehive In The Garden
At 62 rue Saint-Antoine sits The Hôtel de Sully, a gorgeous, private mansion, in the Louis XIII style, located in the Le Marais, IV arondissement, Paris. Although the opulent hotel was erected in the 1620’s, the historic relic now boasts a uniquely modern instillation titled, Dance of Bees, or ‘La Danse des Abeilles.’ French designers Vaulot&Dyèvre constructed the electric blue, hive-like structure of woven beech wood, evoking the feeling of a cage, and the boundary between man and bee. The designers elaborate further, “The understanding of reciprocity that is at work in nature drives man to define new territories, to leave room for nature and to create space.” The poetic piece pays homage to the ornamental nature of the beehive, the nucleus from which life springs forth. We’re not the least bit surprised that the instillation has set the design world abuzz.
Cradle: An Art Instillation In Santa Monica
We’ve all had something hanging over our head at some point. Well, Ball-Nogues Studio has taken the term to new heights… literally. If you happen to be walking the streets of Santa Monica, you just may see Cradle, a new art instillation that features an aggregate of mirror-polished, stainless steel spheres functioning structurally as an enormous Newton’s Cradle.
Cables originating from the same point on the exterior wall of a parking structure suspend all of the balls simultaneously. The team at Ball-Nogues Studio explains, “Aside from the Newton’s Cradle reference, we wanted the overall shape to elicit things that we thought might be slightly provocative when inserted into the glitzy Santa Monica urban landscape.
On one hand, the installation resembles a big banana hammock (the type worn by unashamed men at the beach) and on the other it suggests the female reproductive system.” the team goes on to state that “Cradle is as much a sculpture as it is an approach to making experimental structure in the post-digital era. We were interested in exploring ways of producing large scaled self-organizing structures.”
James Jones, the lead fabricator on the projects explained that their fabrication process was a bit like the process of slip casting ceramics except instead of pouring ceramic slip into a mold they ‘poured’ hundreds of spheres. To their knowledge, this was the first time this technique has been used.
The next time you’re ambling through the streets of Santa Monica, keep your head up, design is in the air.
(Photographs Credited To Monica Nouwens)
Sol LeWitt Exhibit In NYC’s City Hall Park
The tulips have bloomed, the trees are green, and the sun is blazing! Yes New Yorkers, summer is here! And this summer, The Public Art Fund has turned our beloved City Hall Park into an outdoor museum exhibit featuring one of the world’s greatest modern artists, the late Sol LeWitt. The park is storing a collection of LeWitt’s 27 most famous pieces of art throughout his career. It is the first outdoor exhibit detailing his extraordinary career.
LeWitt was a leader in the Minimalism and Conceptualism movements, with specialized mediums ranging from photography, to works on paper to wall drawings, and 3-dimensional structures that explore different geometric forms such as pyramids and cubes. The selected pieces have been featured in museums around the world including London’s Tate Modern, Amsterdam’s Musée National d’Art Moderne, and Paris’ Centre Georges Pompidou. The Public Art Fund makes navigating the exhibition fun and easy with a free iPhone application that will walk you through the pieces and their meanings. In addition to the application, guests can call a phone number that provides an audio tour. If you’re itching for a walk in the park, now’s the time.
Splotch 15, 2005, Acrylic on Fiberglass: “The organic form and bright color of Splotch 15 create a remarkable contrast to Sol LeWitt’s iconic white modular structures. Nevertheless, the form and color distribution were generated through a typically LeWittian system of projections from a two-dimensional base. First, the artist drew a highly irregular, eccentric outline as the footprint of the structure. He then devised one segmented plan within that outline for color and a second plan for height. Using three-dimensional computer modeling software, his Brooklyn fabricator constructed the work. The resulting exuberant form is the surprising result of the marriage of these two systems of color and height.” -Public Art Fund
Complex Forms, 1987, Painted Aluminum: “Sol LeWitt became interested in making irregular structures in the mid-1980s. For the Complex Forms, the artist drafted a two-dimensional polygon and placed dots at various locations within it. As the form is projected into three dimensions, those interior points are elevated into space at different heights. The elevated points dictate the seams of the object’s multi-faceted surface. The Complex Forms introduce irregularity into LeWitt’s structural vocabulary – an idea that is further explored, for example, in Splotch 15, 2005, in this exhibition.” -Public Art Fund
Three x Four x Three, 1984, Painted Aluminum: “The large-scale open cubes of Three x Four x Three perform a simple numerical operation – the addition and subtraction of one element – while simultaneously altering their configuration. Three cubes connected on a horizontal axis and three cubes connected on a vertical axis frame four cubes each connected on two sides. This stepped, triangular form is further elaborated by Pyramid (Münster), 1987, in this exhibition.” -Public Art Fund
Pyramid (Münster), 1987, Concrete Blocks: “In 1982, Sol LeWitt began to work with concrete blocks. As a common, readily available building material, it appealed to him as a modular component with which to build large-scale outdoor structures. Pyramid (Münster) was originally installed in a botanical garden for the Skulptur Projekte Münster, an important decennial exhibition in Germany. The artist first discussed this kind of form – horizontal steps of progressively decreasing width – in a 1966 article entitled “Ziggurats.” Different perspectives reveal the structure as a stepped pyramid or half-cube, suggesting the convergence of architecture and sculpture in LeWitt’s work.” -Public Art Fund
Louis Vuitton’s Ostriches Grace 5th Ave.
Shopping on the famed 5th Avenue can be a zoo at times, and this month is no exception. Louis Vuitton is giving people the bird, and not in the standard NYC fashion. Larger than life ostriches and eggs are gracing the windows, displaying Vuitton’s spring and summer shoe and accessory collection. London based creative agency Chameleon Visual produced the stunning display. It’s just one expertise in their repertoire of skills that include design, production and installation of visual concepts. The prehistoric animal was hand crafted by the team who meticulously sculpted the faces and painted the legs a gilded gold. The cheeky ostriches are playful and yet surreal, their long necks traveling through window displays, and dipping into the ground only to come up again in a different location. Their over sized eggs are vertically lined in front of tufted pink velvet walls, hatching the season’s latest accessories! Chameleon’s display for Louis Vuitton translates into the concept of rebirth, which essentially is what the season of spring is all about.
(Images Provided By Julia Chesky)
A Paper Instillation at Bremen University
For their 350th year anniversary, The University of the Arts Bremen created a striking paper instillation over their library staircase. The thought processes behind the sculpture made of folded paper shows the connection of the traditional storage medium with the digital information world. The constant stream of inquiries passes on this vertical axis, the four levels of the building. The random sequence of incoming search terms triggers associative text and imagery. In effort, the library at Bremen is trying to evoke an interactive element between students and the library by using visual stimuli to peak interests.
LANG BAUMANN PAINTS THE STREETS OF VERCORIN
A beautiful encounter between the traditional world and contemporary art. The streets of Vercorin, a small ski town in Switzerland, were painted by design legends Lang Baumann. Vercorin was hosting a fair in the town and wanted to bring in a design team to create something outrageous. They called on Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, the creative duo that make up the Lang Baumann to transform their streets. The painted streets were intended to be a powerful juxtaposition against the old world feel of the charming town, and the design team succeeded at that!
(Photographs provided by Lang Baumann)
