suckerPUNCH


		office park brooklynNEW YORK
sP: describe your project in one sentence. takuma KAKEHI: this project is the redesign of an office park typology into a communal social infrastructure questioning the significance of outdated corporate systems in the current social network driven by the technological advancement. [CONT] ta-kuma.com
		eleganTECH mexico cityMEXICO
eleganTECH conference in mexico city, october 8, 9 and 10 2008. reven and the tecnologico of monterrey campus xochimilco in mexico city invite you to attend. with:benjamin ball, marc fornes, alex pincus, brennan buck, pedro alvarado, and gabriel esquivel university auditorium - wednesday at 10:00 am auditorium of the national museum of anthropology - thursday 5:00 pm theoremas-gabe00fab.blogspot.com
		paint my house berlinGERMANY
rapper, actor, and magazine and fashion label entrepreneur, jaybo aka monk has lent his graphic sensibility to the paint my house project in berlin. cartoon hands wave in both action and form in their projection onto the berliner dom. as a temporal graffiti, the sea of plump, disney-fied gloves creates a second perspective across the facade of the building. this opposing depth of space defamiliarizes the conventional perception of the facade. circleculture-gallery.com
		hakoniwa tokyoJAPAN
dense, overlapping flows of shades of gray define the work of kahori maki. her figures gracefully sculpt lush, monochromatic forms equally as rich in the negative spaces that they create. the voluptuous vegetation creates an overgrown world of weaving throns and butterflies. k-maki.com
		matters of sensation new yorkNEW YORK
patterns (georgina HULJICH and marcelo SPINA ) presents matters of sensation @ artist space, a major group exhibition of contemporary architecture comprised solely of large-scale material objects. in view from september 25 to november 22, 2008 at artists space [38 greene street, 3rd floor, new york, ny 10013] exhibiting architects: davidclovers, emergent, gage/clemenceau architects, gnuform, hirsuta, höweler+yoon architecture, iwamotoscott architecture, mod, mos, murmur, ruy klein, sotamaa, su11, xefirotarch public opening: wednesday, september 24, 6-10 pm, in conjunction with soho night panel discussion:monday, september 22, 6:30 pm, columbia university gsapp [CONT] artistsspace.org/exhibitions
		fw 2008 new yorkNEW YORK
laird BORELLI-PERSSON: japan was again the starting point of the sisters' journey, but the happy, shiny, pastel-colored, and manga-inflected confections of spring gave way to "slasher" dresses in black, white, and bloodred. the mulleavys turned their imaginations loose on "the connection between the kabuki tradition and that of modern japanese horror films." yes, the gothic knitwear had a torn-web quality, and the torturous, sadomachistic shoes [a reworking of last season's] wrung winces from the audience, but the show was bigger than just that, more ambitious. string sculptures by the german-american artist eva hesse gave birth to the shaggy pieces with a primitive rag-doll look. romantic, full-skirted cocktail numbers looked like they could have been painted by the impressionist edgar degas. style.com/fashionshows
		love song londonENGLAND
non-FORMAT'S design philosophy: simplicity. we like to keep things simple. once we’ve sorted out the hierarchy of what we want to communicate, we tend to design things using very few layers, especially if one of those layers is incredibly detailed and aesthetically busy. when starting a new project, where do you look for inspiration? non-FORMAT: we draw inspiration from many varied sources but we would never want to be too strongly influenced by any single designer. it’s important not to look too closely at what other designers are doing. in fact, it’s a good idea to avoid looking at all. non-format.com
		a mixture of frailties londonENGLAND
susie macmurray is interested in ambiguity and in the kind of intrinsic duality present in many fairy tales. the sensuality of her work and its materials often elicits conflicting responses, while the sisyphean nature of her creative process is itself an integral part. constructed from perishable latex balloons and domestic rubber gloves, the three flamboyant performance garments presented (gladrags, icon and a mixture of frailties) make reference to protection, entrapment and mortality. their delicious opulence contains an underlying ambivalence concerning notions of beauty, desirability and power. fab_susie_m.htm susiemacmurray.co.uk on display: second lives: remixing the ordinary september 27 museum of art and design new york city madmuseum.org
		fw 2008 new yorkNEW YORK
tim BLANKS: all the socioeconomic evidence you can muster suggests it's no longer a man’s world. so browne's clothes emphasized male helplessness. you could blame the staging for the model who hobbled arduously around the rink in a mummy wrap of plasticized argyle, or the stilt walker who tentatively emerged for the finale with two choirboy acolytes keeping him upright, but mannequin mobility was also hindered by back-buttoning capelets, side-buttoning waders, papal skirts, and a suspendered onesie that elongated babywear for the adult male. (no fetish there!) [CONT] thombrowne.com men.style.com
		strange attractors brooklynNEW YORK
susannahBRESLIN: ...there is little distinction for him, it appears, between the personal and the professional. as a photographer, he has crossed the proverbial line, including himself - as voyeur and participant - in an on-camera life that utterly obliterates the distinction between object and subject, rendering objectivity an archaic term. with his rock star dalliances and a desire to marry high-art style and low-brow subjects, cubitt sits at the photographic edge. claytoncubitt.com eyemazing.com
		factory for tomorrow viennaAUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project. nora graw & maja ozvaldic & martina lesjak: the concept is based on exploration of the sectional relationship between inside and outside. the massing, with its orientation, reacts on the city and coast line and creates a diverse set of spatial conditions along the "s" axis. the building as a sequence, deals with the interweaving of two major components: plenum and shell. the designed pattern for the structural plenum reacts to the sun angles in terms of its depth, density and the way it is tilted. this creates not only a visual effect on the façade but different lighting conditions and shading in the building. [CONT] www.dieangewandte.at/archlynn
		wovensource viennaAUSTRIA
peter VIKAR: this project explores a thick structural facade system for a contemporary library in downtown of budapest. from one side it reinvents the operation - books are being locally printed and not stored - and relation to physical content, and at the same time it shifts the usage of the library towards a more city, and event oriented direction. [CONT] dieangewandte.at/archlynn
		voussoir cloud los angelesCALIFORNIA
upcoming exhibitionvoussoir cloud opens august 8, 2008, 7PM sci-arc the sci-arc gallery is pleased to present voussoir cloud, a site-specific installation by san francisco based architecture and design practice iwamotoscott in collaboration with buro happold. voussoir cloud’s design explores the coupling of potentially conflicting constructional logics – the pure compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material. opening august 8, this installation will be fabricated by iwamotoscott in association with sci-arc students. [CONT] www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php www.iwamotoscott.com
		ways sao pauloBRASIL
the swirling monochromatic forms of brazilian street artist herbert baglione manifest themselves in multiple ways from urban walls to adidas sneakers. his work capitalizes on the expansion and contraction of line as its curvature transforms to define figures and text. baglione says of his beginnings as an artist, "i started to draw over photos like putting horns in their head and knives in their hands, like every child does." if only all kids were fascinated with horns and knives. www.herbert.ind.br
		reflective formations san franciscoCALIFORNIA
maxi SPINA: at a time when contemporary digital responses in architecture often emphasize the total erasure of the seam in favor of the smooth, continuous form -suggesting an apparent new type of continuous magical wrap for buildings that would enable them to become literally seamless- the work presented in reflective formations is an endeavor to articulate architecture's corporeal presence and tectonic basis through a scalar system of subdivision, serialization, repetition and variation without at the same time weakening its capacity for representational values. [CONT] www.flickr.com/photos uc berkeley, college of environmental design exhibitions + symposia, spring 08. apr 9 - may 9
		dashed line osloNORWAY
dashed line, a series by graphic designer hans christian, thrives off of a density of line. the lines themselves are not simply dashed, but range in point and texture while remaining in a greyscale pallet. through an intense build up, these simple lines emerge to form fields with multiple readings shifting from single figure to pattern. monolithic shapes are panelized through lines that subtly trace the geometry of the forms in an intriguing fashion bordering on the clinical. dashed line arctichans.com
		gothic bullfight columbusOHIO
team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, dan STARCHER, tim COUSINO , terry LERNER, jessica DAY the original premise of the studio was to develop a performative surface using light as the main inspiration. my studio took a different approach and we began to investigate the idea of producing an emotional surface. this lead to the idea of investigating different effects try to have an ontological change from an architecture of thinking and process to an architecture of feeling. the response was to create a series of atmospheric installations. [CONT] theoremas
		centrepointe lexingtonKENTUCKY
team: paul PREISSNER (quavirarch), anton BAKERJIAN, ian MAHONE, rebekah SCHABERG, warren, WEAVER paul PREISSNER: organized by the university of kentucky college of design, a two day charrette produced this alternate proposal for the centerpointe development project in downtown lexington, kentucky. It decidedly creates a new form of public engagement and civic interactivity through the imposition of a massive volume of program which reframe the views to its context (instead of focusing attention inwards, the project assists with the outward observation of lexington). [CONT] www.quavirarch.com www.kentucky.com
		symbiote columbusOHIO
suckerPUNCH: describe your project: gabriel ESQUIVEL: The concept behind this project started by creating a cartoon character that has an overwhelming dream of being entrapped by a strange organism. The group started by looking at natural atmospheres of decay and shadows, like roots taking over ruins, or the ideas of some pattern taking over a surface this guided the research to look into architectural precedents that produced similar effects like the tassel hotel by victor horta where the geometry game of the two dimensional ornament of the wall that looks like a shadow and the three dimensional ornamentation of the stair rail. team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, jon BLISTAN, ryan WHITBY, steve CHRISTY, mike GRIESER [CONT] theoremas
		fragment.series wuppertalGERMANY
tim BORGMANN: my main target when working on free art projects is to deviate from the usual way of creating shapes/images with 3d programs, into a more intuitive, organic way like abstract painting. i gather my main inspiration from what i see during the work on an image. quite simply, i try a more emotional and less planned approach. [CONT] art.bt-3d.de features.cgsociety.org
		v san franciscoCALIFORNIA
leahOLLMAN: in contemplating how letters accrete into words and words into meanings, painter tauba auerbach depicts a variety of alphabets and semantic systems-from cuneiform to digital code-while leaving the essential mystery intact. taubaauerbach.com
		generative vila do condePORTUGAL
prickly orbs squirm through the recent generative compositions of leonel cunha. this work benefits from a variation of readings at multiple scales. at the macro scale his images appear to be of some mutated centipede, while at the micro scale each conglomerate of pixels reveals an amazing complexity. each figure is comprised of an infinite number of gray scale lines from whose shear accumulation these subtly creepy forms emerge. leonelcunha.no.sapo.pt flickr
		experiments antwerpBELGIUM
liquefied shapes frozen in space define the 3-d experimentations of artist tim muller. his forms ooze and drip through one another as the hover weightless with no directionality. looking at similar forms rendered in variations of solid and depth of field, muller's creations oscillate between object and environment. the inherent ambiguity of form, place, and context make these images all the more intriguing. timmuller.com/project/experiments
		superintendent tendencies viennaAUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: descibe your project. julia KOERNER +adam VUKMANOV + miljan RADOJEVIC: the project explores figure to figure relationships and their deformations caused by dynamic wind forces. it rigorously addresses the context of the site, cres/croatia, by nesting the volumes in linear production system and orientation dependent on existing winds which are the parameter of latent mutability and transformation of the shapes. volumetric continuity achieved by multi materiality, surface creasing, seams and structure porosity is defining the complexity of sustainable architectural processes incorporated within the building. Boat Fabrication Yard Greg Lynn Studio SS2008 dieangewandte.at/archlynn
		interactive heart minneapolisMINNESOTA
phosphorescent cells swarm through the microscopic worlds of hybrid medical animation. a throbbing heart cycles through various levels of opacity as an interactive teaching tool. as a body within a body the inner workings of the heart are revealed. mechanisms of disease float over landscapes and bounce through flesh-colored tunnels. these medical animations go beyond demonstration in the development of an exquisite aesthetic of the interior of the human body. video hybridmedicalanimation.com
		oxygen brooklynNEW YORK
wrists shattered by basketballs and hot pink gasoline comprise the print and motion compositions of jason salo. salo's work is comprised of a heavily layered intermingling of photos, vectors, and graphics that move through both page and video. even his static work appears to be exploding the picture plane of the page. salo defamiliarizes his very real subjects as they travel through his worlds of shooting stars and oozing cheese. themassacre.cc
		binaural londonENGLAND
suckerPUNCH: describe your project. daniel WIDRIG + shajay BHOOSHAN: binaural is an attempt to 'visualize' and physically manifest, aural information. [CONT] flickr.com/photos/danielwidrig data-tribe.net flickr.com/photos/watz/sets
		emerald plaza los angelesCALIFORNIA
tom WISCOMBE: the project is based on creating continuity between the three elements called for in the brief: a garden, a central sculptural volume, and a network of canopies. during the day, when temperatures can reach 120 degrees fahrenheit, this involuted, grotto-like space becomes an inviting sanctuary. indeed, in an environment where people often avoid the outdoors during daytime hours, this project offers a spatial and atmospheric solution. the surface of the roof transforms into a volume at the center of the plaza. this surface-to-volume transformation is an extension of an investigation into surface-to-strand geometries in recent projects. hybrid, transformative geometries offer a wider range of flexibility than surface, strand, or volume systems alone. emergentarchitecture.com
		icon londonENGLAND
futureFACTORIES: using rapid prototyping techniques, it costs the same to produce similar parts as identical ones, so why produce two products the same? envisage a future with "living" consumer products, forms that grow, change, and mutate on-screen. at any given moment a product may be frozen creaing a unique design, digitally manufactured and delivered to the door. an original...a one-off...a work of art? futurefactories.com
		the big valley los angelesCALIFORNIA
girlish innocence is shattered by bud tallboys in the latest work by photographer alex prager. in this set of pictures, prager places her timeless heroines in disjointed hypercolored contexts that leave the viewer feeling slightly disoriented. wigs and lipstick disguise characters that appear simultaneously familiar and unrecognizable as they pose in their pseudo-cinematic sets. each image is composed as a freeze-frame of a much larger narrative of a vintage plastic world. alexprager.com
		eve bracelet stockholmSWEDEN
claesson koivisto rune: aluminium is a fantastic material. strong. lightweight. beautiful. often employed in technical constructions and industrially formed and manufactured, but seldom seen in a context where aluminium’s beauty becomes apparent. the bracelet eve is formed of extruded aluminium. by rotating the raw extrusion and at the same time cutting it at different angles, a large number of bracelets with varying dimensions are made. in addition, we have chosen several variations for the surface treatment (anodising) to give the bracelets different characters. despite the fact that the manufacturing process is entirely industrial and the raw material is formed via a single tool the result is a jewellery series where each piece differs from the next—each bracelet is unique. claesson-koivisto-rune.se
		continue honoluluHAWAII
feric: design is not only a game, but also a tool by deconstructing the concept. it needs to be destroyed in a creative way. the structure of the objects would emerge by breaking up and reconstructing themselves. new possibilities and values would be found out through the process of reconstruction. compare the new model being reconstructed and the original one. a discussion would occur upon the topic. the discussion is open-minded and public. this is the core stone of the design. this is the core value of design. feric.com
		pinup patterns san franciscoCALIFORNIA
computer arts projects magazine: “some things stay consistent, though,” she adds, “like luxury and elegance,” before reeling off a comprehensive list of loves: “french victoriana. icons. solid gold. classic contemporary. femininity. textile patterns. pin-ups. colour combinations. si scott. deanne cheuk. andy warhol. baroque furniture. old magazines. vintage postcards. wild america. friends. family. love. lust. ornamental embellishments. decorative text. romance.” it may seem impossible to mix warhol with french victoriana, but a glance at some of stouffer’s magazine illos might convince you otherwise. “i’m always picking up new inspirations, learning, discovering. i’m kind of like a sponge.” she pauses. “one that can’t hold anything.” grandarray.com computerarts.co.uk
		gina light munichGERMANY
press release: the gina light visionary model has dispensed with the usual body elements found on production vehicles such as front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors, wheel arches, roof, trunk lid and rear deck. instead, a new structure with a minimum amount of components has taken their place. a special, highly durable and extremely expansion-resistant fabric material stretches across a metal structure. this new material offers designers a significantly higher level of freedom of design and functionality. . .the innovation of a flexible outer skin breaks new ground in automotive engineering. this revolutionary solution opens up new design, production and functionality potential. it has a major impact on the interaction between driver and car and enhances it by offering a variety of entirely new options. some elements of the substructure are moveable. [CONT] video
		mirror peoriaILLINOIS
a multiplicity of color and form characterizes the new work of erik natzke. distortions of natural forms overlap and distort one another in generative stills and animations. through repetition and overlap, patterns emerge and are frozen by natzke's eye. evolving from vector to image and back again, natzke's images blur the boundary between line and solid and enable them to be viewed as a single technique. eriknatzke.com
		the floating city of waterdog torontoONTARIO
tyler HILTON: what are you thinking about now? nicholas DI GENOVA: i'm coming up with a theme around some facts of science, but more from the perspective of a naturalist from the industrial revolution, the golden age of the natural sciences... ah, that doesn't really say much, i'm trying to put together large complex drawings based on science that is largely made up of myth and misinformation and religious oppression... to try to chart the natural world without a reliable basis of facts as a foundation... ah, man, these are new baby thoughts in my head. i need time to let them develop... interview: inqmnd.ca mediumphobic.com
		bloom san franciscoCALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your work sean CANTY: my work explores the compositional intricacies of line and figure ground relationships explored in graphic design and type, the attenuated lines and curvatures of car and product design, and the bridging of self similar bodies found in plants with the tectonics of architecture. [CONT] flickr.com/photos/spec26
		living museum viennaAUSTRIA
diploma s07 zaha hadid studio centro de la biodiversidad dieangewandte.at
		chrysanthemum new yorkNEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: describe your project. skylar TIBBITS: the chrysanthemum piece was generated through networking logic. a series of points were plotted based on site constraints while a series of closed curves were generated from a nearest neighbor algorithm. the z axis scale was transformed based on nearest/farthest proximity and directly relates to programmatic space versus circulation zones. color gradients demonstrate density and proximity across the network and are reminiscent of botanic growth. [CONT] sjet.us
		antlia : : : machine pneumatique torontoCANADA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project: christian JOAKIM: antlia is a constellation of oscillating mechatronic elements which operate in concert with information absorbed from the surroundings. this "machine pneumatique" exists in a constant condition of latency, a state of digitally filtered reverie, producing an extended composition of experience.modular components made of laser-cut impact-resistant acrylic and mylar materials aggregate to (in)form a hybrid environment consisting of robotic activation and open-loop communication with occupants. movement is achieved via fluidic actuators controlled by electronically conditioned supplies of compressed air. various sensors absorb data from the environment generating a layered reading of the space. [CONT]
		blobwall pavilion los angelesCALIFORNIA
sci-arc: blobwall pavilion is a collaboration between greg lynn form, machineous who developed the manufacturing method for the "bricks" and panelite who produced and distributed the architectural material. it is an innovative redefinition of the brick – architecture’s most basic building unit – into a lightweight object made of colorful plastic and reinterpreted into modular elements. the blob unit, or “brick,” is a robotically cut mass-produced hollow tri-lobed shape formed through rotational molding, which is then assembled with interlocking precision to form the wall. the blobwall pavilion is a contemporary wall system that recovers the voluptuous shapes, chiaroscuro and grotto-like textures of baroque and renaissance architecture in pixilated gradients of vivid color. on three walls of the installation, custom fabricated acrylic bubble cabinets will be installed to display small objects. blobwallpavillion.wordpress.com
		winning design: brancusi museum parisFRANCE
suckerPUNCH: describe your project. matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER: within constantin brancusis body of work is one specific characteristic that emerges on a regular basis: the application of constrictions as specific leitmotiv. these constrictions can be read in various ways, reaching from the definition of rhythmically repeating volumes, as in the endless column, or as description of curvilinear bodies, as in la negresse blonde and the notoriously famous bird in space series. these curvilinear bodies, voluptuous components and undulating elements, are seamlessly and continuously formed into beautiful waistlines, radiating in erotic tension. the design of the new atelier brancusi picks up the characteristics of constrictions and explores the opportunities, in terms of architectural space, provided by this technique of spatial formation. span-vox.com span-arch.com
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office park
brooklynNEW YORK

sP: describe your project in one sentence.

takuma KAKEHI: this project is the redesign of an office park typology into a communal social infrastructure questioning the significance of outdated corporate systems in the current social network driven by the technological advancement.

[CONT]

ta-kuma.com

eleganTECH
mexico cityMEXICO

eleganTECH
conference in mexico city, october 8, 9 and 10 2008.

reven and the tecnologico of monterrey campus xochimilco in mexico city invite you to attend.

with:benjamin ball, marc fornes, alex pincus, brennan buck, pedro alvarado, and gabriel esquivel

university auditorium - wednesday at 10:00 am

auditorium of the national museum of anthropology - thursday 5:00 pm

theoremas-gabe00fab.blogspot.com

paint my house
berlinGERMANY

rapper, actor, and magazine and fashion label entrepreneur, jaybo aka monk has lent his graphic sensibility to the paint my house project in berlin. cartoon hands wave in both action and form in their projection onto the berliner dom. as a temporal graffiti, the sea of plump, disney-fied gloves creates a second perspective across the facade of the building. this opposing depth of space defamiliarizes the conventional perception of the facade.

circleculture-gallery.com

hakoniwa
tokyoJAPAN

dense, overlapping flows of shades of gray define the work of kahori maki. her figures gracefully sculpt lush, monochromatic forms equally as rich in the negative spaces that they create. the voluptuous vegetation creates an overgrown world of weaving throns and butterflies.

k-maki.com

matters of sensation
new yorkNEW YORK

patterns (georgina HULJICH and marcelo SPINA ) presents matters of sensation @ artist space, a major group exhibition of contemporary architecture comprised solely of large-scale material objects. in view from september 25 to november 22, 2008 at artists space [38 greene street, 3rd floor, new york, ny 10013]

exhibiting architects: davidclovers, emergent, gage/clemenceau architects, gnuform, hirsuta, höweler+yoon architecture, iwamotoscott architecture, mod, mos, murmur, ruy klein, sotamaa, su11, xefirotarch

public opening: wednesday, september 24, 6-10 pm, in conjunction with soho night

panel discussion:monday, september 22, 6:30 pm, columbia university gsapp

[CONT]

artistsspace.org/exhibitions

fw 2008
new yorkNEW YORK

laird BORELLI-PERSSON: japan was again the starting point of the sisters' journey, but the happy, shiny, pastel-colored, and manga-inflected confections of spring gave way to "slasher" dresses in black, white, and bloodred. the mulleavys turned their imaginations loose on "the connection between the kabuki tradition and that of modern japanese horror films." yes, the gothic knitwear had a torn-web quality, and the torturous, sadomachistic shoes [a reworking of last season's] wrung winces from the audience, but the show was bigger than just that, more ambitious. string sculptures by the german-american artist eva hesse gave birth to the shaggy pieces with a primitive rag-doll look. romantic, full-skirted cocktail numbers looked like they could have been painted by the impressionist edgar degas.

style.com/fashionshows

love song
londonENGLAND

non-FORMAT'S design philosophy: simplicity. we like to keep things simple. once we’ve sorted out the hierarchy of what we want to communicate, we tend to design things using very few layers, especially if one of those layers is incredibly detailed and aesthetically busy. when starting a new project, where do you look for inspiration? non-FORMAT: we draw inspiration from many varied sources but we would never want to be too strongly influenced by any single designer. it’s important not to look too closely at what other designers are doing. in fact, it’s a good idea to avoid looking at all.

non-format.com

a mixture of frailties
londonENGLAND

susie macmurray is interested in ambiguity and in the kind of intrinsic duality present in many fairy tales. the sensuality of her work and its materials often elicits conflicting responses, while the sisyphean nature of her creative process is itself an integral part. constructed from perishable latex balloons and domestic rubber gloves, the three flamboyant performance garments presented (gladrags, icon and a mixture of frailties) make reference to protection, entrapment and mortality. their delicious opulence contains an underlying ambivalence concerning notions of beauty, desirability and power.

fab_susie_m.htm

susiemacmurray.co.uk

on display: second lives:
remixing the ordinary
september 27
museum of art and design
new york city
madmuseum.org

fw 2008
new yorkNEW YORK

tim BLANKS: all the socioeconomic evidence you can muster suggests it's no longer a man’s world. so browne's clothes emphasized male helplessness. you could blame the staging for the model who hobbled arduously around the rink in a mummy wrap of plasticized argyle, or the stilt walker who tentatively emerged for the finale with two choirboy acolytes keeping him upright, but mannequin mobility was also hindered by back-buttoning capelets, side-buttoning waders, papal skirts, and a suspendered onesie that elongated babywear for the adult male. (no fetish there!)

[CONT]

thombrowne.com

men.style.com

strange attractors
brooklynNEW YORK

susannahBRESLIN: ...there is little distinction for him, it appears, between the personal and the professional. as a photographer, he has crossed the proverbial line, including himself - as voyeur and participant - in an on-camera life that utterly obliterates the distinction between object and subject, rendering objectivity an archaic term. with his rock star dalliances and a desire to marry high-art style and low-brow subjects, cubitt sits at the photographic edge.

claytoncubitt.com

eyemazing.com

factory for tomorrow
viennaAUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

nora graw & maja ozvaldic & martina lesjak: the concept is based on exploration of the sectional relationship between inside and outside. the massing, with its orientation, reacts on the city and coast line and creates a diverse set of spatial conditions along the "s" axis. the building as a sequence, deals with the interweaving of two major components: plenum and shell. the designed pattern for the structural plenum reacts to the sun angles in terms of its depth, density and the way it is tilted. this creates not only a visual effect on the façade but different lighting conditions and shading in the building.

[CONT]

www.dieangewandte.at/archlynn

wovensource
viennaAUSTRIA

peter VIKAR: this project explores a thick structural facade system for a contemporary library in downtown of budapest. from one side it reinvents the operation - books are being locally printed and not stored - and relation to physical content, and at the same time it shifts the usage of the library towards a more city, and event oriented direction.

[CONT]

dieangewandte.at/archlynn

voussoir cloud
los angelesCALIFORNIA

upcoming exhibitionvoussoir cloud
opens august 8, 2008, 7PM sci-arc

the sci-arc gallery is pleased to present voussoir cloud, a site-specific installation by san francisco based architecture and design practice iwamotoscott in collaboration with buro happold. voussoir cloud’s design explores the coupling of potentially conflicting constructional logics – the pure compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material. opening august 8, this installation will be fabricated by iwamotoscott in association with sci-arc students.

[CONT]

www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php

www.iwamotoscott.com

ways
sao pauloBRASIL

the swirling monochromatic forms of brazilian street artist herbert baglione manifest themselves in multiple ways from urban walls to adidas sneakers. his work capitalizes on the expansion and contraction of line as its curvature transforms to define figures and text. baglione says of his beginnings as an artist, "i started to draw over photos like putting horns in their head and knives in their hands, like every child does." if only all kids were fascinated with horns and knives.

www.herbert.ind.br

reflective formations
san franciscoCALIFORNIA

maxi SPINA: at a time when contemporary digital responses in architecture often emphasize the total erasure of the seam in favor of the smooth, continuous form -suggesting an apparent new type of continuous magical wrap for buildings that would enable them to become literally seamless- the work presented in reflective formations is an endeavor to articulate architecture's corporeal presence and tectonic basis through a scalar system of subdivision, serialization, repetition and variation without at the same time weakening its capacity for representational values.

[CONT]

www.flickr.com/photos

uc berkeley, college of environmental design exhibitions + symposia, spring 08. apr 9 - may 9

dashed line
osloNORWAY

dashed line, a series by graphic designer hans christian, thrives off of a density of line. the lines themselves are not simply dashed, but range in point and texture while remaining in a greyscale pallet. through an intense build up, these simple lines emerge to form fields with multiple readings shifting from single figure to pattern. monolithic shapes are panelized through lines that subtly trace the geometry of the forms in an intriguing fashion bordering on the clinical.

dashed line

arctichans.com

gothic bullfight
columbusOHIO

team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, dan STARCHER, tim COUSINO , terry LERNER, jessica DAY

the original premise of the studio was to develop a performative surface using light as the main inspiration. my studio took a different approach and we began to investigate the idea of producing an emotional surface. this lead to the idea of investigating different effects try to have an ontological change from an architecture of thinking and process to an architecture of feeling. the response was to create a series of atmospheric installations.

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centrepointe
lexingtonKENTUCKY

team: paul PREISSNER (quavirarch), anton BAKERJIAN, ian MAHONE, rebekah SCHABERG, warren, WEAVER

paul PREISSNER: organized by the university of kentucky college of design, a two day charrette produced this alternate proposal for the centerpointe development project in downtown lexington, kentucky. It decidedly creates a new form of public engagement and civic interactivity through the imposition of a massive volume of program which reframe the views to its context (instead of focusing attention inwards, the project assists with the outward observation of lexington).

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www.quavirarch.com

www.kentucky.com

symbiote
columbusOHIO

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

gabriel ESQUIVEL: The concept behind this project started by creating a cartoon character that has an overwhelming dream of being entrapped by a strange organism. The group started by looking at natural atmospheres of decay and shadows, like roots taking over ruins, or the ideas of some pattern taking over a surface this guided the research to look into architectural precedents that produced similar effects like the tassel hotel by victor horta where the geometry game of the two dimensional ornament of the wall that looks like a shadow and the three dimensional ornamentation of the stair rail.

team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, jon BLISTAN, ryan WHITBY, steve CHRISTY, mike GRIESER

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theoremas

fragment.series
wuppertalGERMANY

tim BORGMANN: my main target when working on free art projects is to deviate from the usual way of creating shapes/images with 3d programs, into a more intuitive, organic way like abstract painting. i gather my main inspiration from what i see during the work on an image. quite simply, i try a more emotional and less planned approach.

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art.bt-3d.de

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v
san franciscoCALIFORNIA

leahOLLMAN: in contemplating how letters accrete into words and words into meanings, painter tauba auerbach depicts a variety of alphabets and semantic systems-from cuneiform to digital code-while leaving the essential mystery intact.

taubaauerbach.com

generative
vila do condePORTUGAL

prickly orbs squirm through the recent generative compositions of leonel cunha. this work benefits from a variation of readings at multiple scales. at the macro scale his images appear to be of some mutated centipede, while at the micro scale each conglomerate of pixels reveals an amazing complexity. each figure is comprised of an infinite number of gray scale lines from whose shear accumulation these subtly creepy forms emerge.

leonelcunha.no.sapo.pt

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experiments
antwerpBELGIUM

liquefied shapes frozen in space define the 3-d experimentations of artist tim muller. his forms ooze and drip through one another as the hover weightless with no directionality. looking at similar forms rendered in variations of solid and depth of field, muller's creations oscillate between object and environment. the inherent ambiguity of form, place, and context make these images all the more intriguing.

timmuller.com/project/experiments

superintendent tendencies
viennaAUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: descibe your project.

julia KOERNER +adam VUKMANOV + miljan RADOJEVIC: the project explores figure to figure relationships and their deformations caused by dynamic wind forces. it rigorously addresses the context of the site, cres/croatia, by nesting the volumes in linear production system and orientation dependent on existing winds which are the parameter of latent mutability and transformation of the shapes. volumetric continuity achieved by multi materiality, surface creasing, seams and structure porosity is defining the complexity of sustainable architectural processes incorporated within the building.

Boat Fabrication Yard
Greg Lynn Studio SS2008

dieangewandte.at/archlynn

interactive heart
minneapolisMINNESOTA

phosphorescent cells swarm through the microscopic worlds of hybrid medical animation. a throbbing heart cycles through various levels of opacity as an interactive teaching tool. as a body within a body the inner workings of the heart are revealed. mechanisms of disease float over landscapes and bounce through flesh-colored tunnels. these medical animations go beyond demonstration in the development of an exquisite aesthetic of the interior of the human body.

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hybridmedicalanimation.com

oxygen
brooklynNEW YORK

wrists shattered by basketballs and hot pink gasoline comprise the print and motion compositions of jason salo. salo's work is comprised of a heavily layered intermingling of photos, vectors, and graphics that move through both page and video. even his static work appears to be exploding the picture plane of the page. salo defamiliarizes his very real subjects as they travel through his worlds of shooting stars and oozing cheese.

themassacre.cc

binaural
londonENGLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

daniel WIDRIG + shajay BHOOSHAN: binaural is an attempt to 'visualize' and physically manifest, aural information.

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flickr.com/photos/danielwidrig

data-tribe.net

flickr.com/photos/watz/sets

emerald plaza
los angelesCALIFORNIA

tom WISCOMBE: the project is based on creating continuity between the three elements called for in the brief: a garden, a central sculptural volume, and a network of canopies. during the day, when temperatures can reach 120 degrees fahrenheit, this involuted, grotto-like space becomes an inviting sanctuary. indeed, in an environment where people often avoid the outdoors during daytime hours, this project offers a spatial and atmospheric solution. the surface of the roof transforms into a volume at the center of the plaza. this surface-to-volume transformation is an extension of an investigation into surface-to-strand geometries in recent projects. hybrid, transformative geometries offer a wider range of flexibility than surface, strand, or volume systems alone.

emergentarchitecture.com

icon
londonENGLAND

futureFACTORIES: using rapid prototyping techniques, it costs the same to produce similar parts as identical ones, so why produce two products the same? envisage a future with "living" consumer products, forms that grow, change, and mutate on-screen. at any given moment a product may be frozen creaing a unique design, digitally manufactured and delivered to the door. an original...a one-off...a work of art?

futurefactories.com

the big valley
los angelesCALIFORNIA

girlish innocence is shattered by bud tallboys in the latest work by photographer alex prager. in this set of pictures, prager places her timeless heroines in disjointed hypercolored contexts that leave the viewer feeling slightly disoriented. wigs and lipstick disguise characters that appear simultaneously familiar and unrecognizable as they pose in their pseudo-cinematic sets. each image is composed as a freeze-frame of a much larger narrative of a vintage plastic world.

alexprager.com

eve bracelet
stockholmSWEDEN

claesson koivisto rune: aluminium is a fantastic material. strong. lightweight. beautiful. often employed in technical constructions and industrially formed and manufactured, but seldom seen in a context where aluminium’s beauty becomes apparent. the bracelet eve is formed of extruded aluminium. by rotating the raw extrusion and at the same time cutting it at different angles, a large number of bracelets with varying dimensions are made. in addition, we have chosen several variations for the surface treatment (anodising) to give the bracelets different characters. despite the fact that the manufacturing process is entirely industrial and the raw material is formed via a single tool the result is a jewellery series where each piece differs from the next—each bracelet is unique.

claesson-koivisto-rune.se

continue
honoluluHAWAII

feric: design is not only a game, but also a tool by deconstructing the concept. it needs to be destroyed in a creative way. the structure of the objects would emerge by breaking up and reconstructing themselves. new possibilities and values would be found out through the process of reconstruction. compare the new model being reconstructed and the original one. a discussion would occur upon the topic. the discussion is open-minded and public. this is the core stone of the design. this is the core value of design.

feric.com

pinup patterns
san franciscoCALIFORNIA

computer arts projects magazine: “some things stay consistent, though,” she adds, “like luxury and elegance,” before reeling off a comprehensive list of loves: “french victoriana. icons. solid gold. classic contemporary. femininity. textile patterns. pin-ups. colour combinations. si scott. deanne cheuk. andy warhol. baroque furniture. old magazines. vintage postcards. wild america. friends. family. love. lust. ornamental embellishments. decorative text. romance.” it may seem impossible to mix warhol with french victoriana, but a glance at some of stouffer’s magazine illos might convince you otherwise. “i’m always picking up new inspirations, learning, discovering. i’m kind of like a sponge.” she pauses. “one that can’t hold anything.”

grandarray.com

computerarts.co.uk

gina light
munichGERMANY

press release: the gina light visionary model has dispensed with the usual body elements found on production vehicles such as front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors, wheel arches, roof, trunk lid and rear deck. instead, a new structure with a minimum amount of components has taken their place. a special, highly durable and extremely expansion-resistant fabric material stretches across a metal structure. this new material offers designers a significantly higher level of freedom of design and functionality. . .the innovation of a flexible outer skin breaks new ground in automotive engineering. this revolutionary solution opens up new design, production and functionality potential. it has a major impact on the interaction between driver and car and enhances it by offering a variety of entirely new options. some elements of the substructure are moveable.

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mirror
peoriaILLINOIS

a multiplicity of color and form characterizes the new work of erik natzke. distortions of natural forms overlap and distort one another in generative stills and animations. through repetition and overlap, patterns emerge and are frozen by natzke's eye. evolving from vector to image and back again, natzke's images blur the boundary between line and solid and enable them to be viewed as a single technique.

eriknatzke.com

the floating city of waterdog
torontoONTARIO

tyler HILTON: what are you thinking about now?

nicholas DI GENOVA: i'm coming up with a theme around some facts of science, but more from the perspective of a naturalist from the industrial revolution, the golden age of the natural sciences... ah, that doesn't really say much, i'm trying to put together large complex drawings based on science that is largely made up of myth and misinformation and religious oppression... to try to chart the natural world without a reliable basis of facts as a foundation... ah, man, these are new baby thoughts in my head. i need time to let them develop...

interview: inqmnd.ca

mediumphobic.com

bloom
san franciscoCALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your work

sean CANTY: my work explores the compositional intricacies of line and figure ground relationships explored in graphic design and type, the attenuated lines and curvatures of car and product design, and the bridging of self similar bodies found in plants with the tectonics of architecture.

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flickr.com/photos/spec26

living museum
viennaAUSTRIA

diploma s07
zaha hadid studio

centro de la biodiversidad

dieangewandte.at

chrysanthemum
new yorkNEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: the chrysanthemum piece was generated through networking logic. a series of points were plotted based on site constraints while a series of closed curves were generated from a nearest neighbor algorithm. the z axis scale was transformed based on nearest/farthest proximity and directly relates to programmatic space versus circulation zones. color gradients demonstrate density and proximity across the network and are reminiscent of botanic growth.

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sjet.us

antlia : : : machine pneumatique
torontoCANADA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

christian JOAKIM: antlia is a constellation of oscillating mechatronic elements which operate in concert with information absorbed from the surroundings. this "machine pneumatique" exists in a constant condition of latency, a state of digitally filtered reverie, producing an extended composition of experience.modular components made of laser-cut impact-resistant acrylic and mylar materials aggregate to (in)form a hybrid environment consisting of robotic activation and open-loop communication with occupants. movement is achieved via fluidic actuators controlled by electronically conditioned supplies of compressed air. various sensors absorb data from the environment generating a layered reading of the space.

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blobwall pavilion
los angelesCALIFORNIA

sci-arc: blobwall pavilion is a collaboration between greg lynn form, machineous who developed the manufacturing method for the "bricks" and panelite who produced and distributed the architectural material. it is an innovative redefinition of the brick – architecture’s most basic building unit – into a lightweight object made of colorful plastic and reinterpreted into modular elements. the blob unit, or “brick,” is a robotically cut mass-produced hollow tri-lobed shape formed through rotational molding, which is then assembled with interlocking precision to form the wall. the blobwall pavilion is a contemporary wall system that recovers the voluptuous shapes, chiaroscuro and grotto-like textures of baroque and renaissance architecture in pixilated gradients of vivid color. on three walls of the installation, custom fabricated acrylic bubble cabinets will be installed to display small objects.

blobwallpavillion.wordpress.com

winning design: brancusi museum
parisFRANCE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER: within constantin brancusis body of work is one specific characteristic that emerges on a regular basis: the application of constrictions as specific leitmotiv. these constrictions can be read in various ways, reaching from the definition of rhythmically repeating volumes, as in the endless column, or as description of curvilinear bodies, as in la negresse blonde and the notoriously famous bird in space series. these curvilinear bodies, voluptuous components and undulating elements, are seamlessly and continuously formed into beautiful waistlines, radiating in erotic tension. the design of the new atelier brancusi picks up the characteristics of constrictions and explores the opportunities, in terms of architectural space, provided by this technique of spatial formation.

span-vox.com
span-arch.com

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