Wabi-sabi A Japanese tea house which reflects the wabi-sabi aesthetic in Kenroku-en (兼六園) Garden Wabi-sabi (侘寂?) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Description[edit] "Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of traditional Japanese beauty and it occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West".[1] "If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi The words wabi and sabi do not translate easily. After centuries of incorporating artistic and Buddhist influences from China, wabi-sabi eventually evolved into a distinctly Japanese ideal. Modern tea vessel made in the wabi-sabi style A good example of this embodiment may be seen in certain styles of Japanese pottery. Wabi-sabi in Japanese arts[edit]
La frénésie des imprimantes 3D Vous avez sans doute entendu parler du projet RepRap et de leurs machines au nom de scientifiques (Mendel, Darwin, Huxley...). Ces machines, dont les plans sont disponibles sous licence libre GPL, ont été lancées par l'université de Bath (Angleterre) et ont rapidement fait écho dans les communautés de bricoleurs. Elles permettent de chauffer et de faire fondre un fil de plastique qui sera alors déposé sur une plaque en plusieurs couches afin de représenter un modèle. Des exemples de modèles imprimés ou imprimables sont disponible sur le site thingiverse Les machines créées par Reprap ont été reprises ou sont inspirées par de nombreux projets, comme "Make magazine" pour en faire leurs makerbot. Bien que vraiment bon marché comparées aux imprimantes professionnelles, elles restent relativement coûteuses (de 800 à 1.000 €) pour le quidam. Depuis quelques temps, les projets fleurissent sur la plateforme de financement collaborative kickstarter.
Quilling - Turning Paper Strips into Intricate Artworks Quilling has been around for hundreds of years, but it’s still as impressive and popular now as it was during the Renaissance. The art of quilling first became popular during the Renaissance, when nuns and monks would use it to roll gold-gilded paper and decorate religious objects, as an alternative to the expensive gold filigree. Later, during the 18th and 19th centuries, it became a favorite pass-time of English ladies who created wonderful decorations for their furniture and candles, through quilling. Basically, the quilling process consists of cutting strips of paper, and rolling them with a special tool. It sounds simple enough, but special skill is required to create more advanced shapes like marquises, arrowheads or holly leaves. Reddit Stumble
Naissance d’un mythe de la bidouille Comme l'imprimante 3D, la carte électronique Arduino est une petite révolution dans le monde des adeptes du "do it yourself" ("faites-le vous-même"). Avec des choix philosophiques bien marqués : open source, économe, tournée vers les amateurs. L’histoire retiendra que c’est dans un bar d’une petite ville du nord de l’Italie qu’est né le projet Arduino qui, de manière totalement inattendue, est en train de révolutionner le domaine de l’électronique à l’échelle mondiale, puisque pour la première fois tout le monde peut vraiment s’y essayer et découvrir qu’il aime ça ! L’histoire retiendra également que rien de tout ceci n’aurait été possible sans le choix initial des licences libres qui a conditionné non seulement son bas prix et sa massive diffusion mais également son approche et son état d’esprit. Acteur et non consommateur, on retrouve ici le goût de comprendre, créer et faire des choses ensemble. La genèse d’Arduino The making of Arduino Le couteau suisse rêvé devenu réalité robot Arduino
Everything but the Paper Cut: Eye-popping Ways Artists Use Paper In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments. The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife", opened last weekend and runs through April 4, 2010. The focus is paper--and the way contemporary artists have used paper itself as a medium, whether by cutting, tearing, burning, or shredding. In all, the show features 50 artists and a dozen installations made just for the show, including Andreas Kocks's Paperwork #701G (in the Beginning), seen above. Here's a sampling of the other works on display: Mia Pearlman's Eddy: Ferry Staverman, A Space Odesey: A detail of a sprawling work by Andrew Scott Ross, Rocks and Rocks and Caves and Dreams: Lane Twitchell's Peaceable Kingdom (Evening Land): Béatrice Coron, WaterCity: Between the Lines, by Ariana Boussard-Reifel: A book with every single word cut out:
Beautiful REK bookcase grows with your library The REK bookcase by designer and architect Reiner de Jong is an elegantly designed bookcase that can be configured to accommodate a book collection of any size Image Gallery (5 images) The beautiful REK bookcase by Rotterdam-based designer and architect Reiner de Jong is an elegantly designed unit that can be configured to accommodate a book collection of any size with a minimum of wasted space. View all The case is actually composed of five discrete parts that fit perfectly together to form a solid block. The REK stands 202 cm (80 in.) tall, 36 cm (14 in.) deep and at maximum stretch is 228 cm (90 in.) wide. The bookshelf can be ordered directly from the designer. Source: Reiner de Jong via Boing Boing About the Author James lives in East London where he punctuates endless tea drinking with freelance writing and meteorological angst. Post a CommentRelated Articles Just enter your friends and your email address into the form below For multiple addresses, separate each with a comma
Inside Germany’s famed art school This article originally appeared on Imprint. T. Lux Feininger: Metalltanz, about 1928 - 1929. Gelatin silver print, 4 1/4 x 5 5/8 in. © estate of T. Those wild and crazy Bauhaus boys and girls, with their improv jazz band and beach antics and clownish poses. Virginia Heckert, curator of photographs at the J. This is my second column on the Getty’s Feininger exhibition. T. What feedback have you gotten to the student photos? People have been very pleased to see the student images. Edmund Collein: (Vorkurs Studierende Bauatelier Gropius, Winter Semester / Preliminary Course Students, Walter Gropius' Studio, Winter Semester), about 1927 - 1928. What’s the background of these photos? While the Getty Museum may not have found the appropriate opportunity in the past to exhibit these small treasures from our collection, since they were acquired primarily in 1984 and 1985, photographs of this kind are very well known. Irene Bayer-Hecht: (Bauhaus Students at the Beach), about 1926.
Designing from behind the Iron Curtain - Imprint This article originally appeared on Imprint. In the ’60s, two foreign design magazines were passed around America as though they were underground or samizdat publications. One was Graphis from Switzerland, the other was Projekt from Poland. Let’s focus on the latter. Why a book on Projekt? Formed in 1955, Projekt was one of the few publications to showcase the art and design of not only work from behind the Iron Curtain, but also of the West. Edgar Bąk also contributes a short essay describing how, as a designer growing up in Poland in the 1990s, he was surrounded by what he calls “shoddy” Polish design and “shiny” Western design. How long did the magazine publish? What do we learn from Projekt? What did you learn? Copyright F+W Media Inc. 2012. Salon is proud to feature content from Imprint, the fastest-growing design community on the web.
The World's Most Complex Architectural Columns Architect and programmer Michael Hansmeyer has undertaken a most ambitious project, designing an incredibly ornate and complex column with over 16 million individual facets! Hansmeyer has taken his initiative beyond the computer design phase and actually fabricated a full-scale 2.7 meter (8.8 ft) column made from stacked cardboard sheets. Check out the pics and information below for more details on this fascinating exploration. The project involves the conception and design of a new column order based on subdivision processes. An abstracted doric column is used as an input form to the subdivision processes. The input form is tagged to allow the subdivision process to distinguish between individual components. The result is a series of columns that exhibit both highly specific local conditions as well as an overall coherency and continuity. A full-scale, 2.7-meter high variant of the columns is fabricated as a layered model using 1mm sheet.
page corner bookmarks | I Could Make That This project comes to you at the request of Twitterer @GCcapitalM. I used to believe that a person could never have too many books, or too many bookmarks. Then I moved into an apartment slightly larger than some people’s closets (and much smaller than many people’s garages) and all these beliefs got turned on their naïeve little heads. But what a person can always look for more of is really cool unique bookmarks. Page corner bookmarks are cute, practical and deeply under-represented in the world.* They’re easy to make, easy to customize, and will set you apart from all those same-same flat rectangular bookmarks. If you like this tutorial, here are a couple others that might be up your alley. If you’re loving the toothy monster vibe, check out these simple monster heating bags, filled with rice or wheat and entirely microwavable, to keep toes or fingers or tummies warm during the chilly winter months. What you’ll need: Putting it all together: 1) Follow steps 2 and 3 from above.
Shooting Challenge Steel Wool 2 Mountains of Books Become Mountains I thought I’d seen every type of book carving imaginable, until I ran across these jaw dropping creations by Guy Laramee. His works are so sculptural, so movingly natural in their form, they’ve really touched me. His works are inspired by a fascination with so-called progress in society: a thinking which says the book is dead, libraries are obsolete and technology is the only way of the future. His thoughts: “One might say: so what? See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK Carving into the discarded stacks of books, he has created fantastic, romantic landscapes which remind us that though our fascinations and the value we put on different ideas have changed, we as a species have not evolved that much. “Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. See more of his beautifully meditative works at guylaramee.com. Via: etoday.ru