I had the pleasure to meet the extremely talented Hiroyuki Hamada yesterday and learn about his fascinating sculpture work. Some of  his works lead me to reminisce  about the early “Star Wars” aesthetics and i find them strikingly beautiful!

Visit Hiroyuki’s site for more information and impressions.

Streetart might be claimed dead… but i rather like the work of Berlin based Artist “Evol” who uses cardboard or old electric cabinets as the medium to create and reproduce a certain urban aesthetic… applying spray paint and stencil…

Check him out at Wilde Gallery Berlin (currently at SCOPE NY)

Now go and buy some ART! Via 20×200

Seen at Canadian House & Home, totally loving the way Massimo Vitali got in the mix… and that they keep their sheep in the living room!

This smooth, simple oak table has a musical secret under its hood– lift a door on its side and you’ll expose a full, 88-key electric piano.  The Piano Table by Georg Bohle is one of the most inventive pieces of furniture we’ve seen in some time, merging the musical with the modern.

Perfect for the Revival of the “Salon Culture” that i’ve been preaching about! All i got to do now is learn to play… or listen to Diana (Click it!)

via the coolist

The Vitrahouse by Herzog & De Meuron… or what else could happen… when two of the local architecture and design firms get together to build a house…

www.vitra.com

Working with the idea that the history of art is often lost in the broad view of things, Immer started taking a closer look at how people view that history , what exactly they might be looking at and started “toying” with it.

I wish he would start a service, where you could hand in those old paintings you inherited from your gramps and transform that attic dust collector into an edgy main floor centerpiece!

More of his works… William P. Immer

01. Good design is innovative.
02. Good design makes a product useful.
03. Good design is aesthetic.
04. Good design makes a product understandable.
05. Good design is unobtrusive.
06. Good design is honest.
07. Good design is long-lasting.
08. Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
09. Good design is environmentally friendly.
10. Good design is as little design as possible.

This and more design wisdom by Dieter Rams, the godfather of minimal design, is currently on display at the London Design Museum. The exhibition runs until March 7th 2010 and showcases Dieter Rams landmark design work for ”Braun” and “Vitsoe”.

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Or what happened when Spencer Tunick did a shoot and nobody showed up…

“Immaculate” by putting himself on the pictures, Ruben Brulat uses his naked body to express this feeling of anonymity he experiences in the La Défense neighborhood in Paris.

“When i started taking photographs of myself, it became obvious that it was easier to understand the malaise i had in these places, by getting naked i was feeling in total symbiosis. The more i was taking shots, the more i was understanding. Because, creating a fiction, may bring you closer to reality.”

Not sure i get his concept…lol… but i do like the aesthetics of Ruben Brulat’s work.

Cézanne couldn’t tell you what an apple looked like, not empirically (who could?), but his paintings shocked audiences by conveying what apples looked like to him. Painter Silke Schöner turns landscapes on their heads with extraction, paving fields and sky with empty plains of space that we can fill in.

Silke Schöner was born in 1968 in Krefeld, Germany. She has worked as an artist in Kassel, Germany since 1989 and has been widely exhibited in Germany, Japan, and the U.S.

Read an interview with her at The Morning News