Cool Hunting
| 26 January 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Peter Marigold: Make/Shift Shelving
by SummerSeventySix
I first met Peter Marigold at Disturbance last Spring, which was a showcase for design students from the Royal College of Art at London's Great Eastern Hotel. Even though I didn't write about it at the time, I was really impressed by Peter's design for a shelving system where individual wedge-shaped units slot together and expand to fill the space in which they're used. The inspiration for Make/Shift, he told me, came from the way things were stored backstage at a theatre and the prototypes he was showing at the time were built from pine.
Peter has since graduated and I'm really pleased to say that his genius idea is now being produced by flexible furniture specialists Movisi. Instead of wood, Make/Shift is now made out of a foam-like material called Arpro, and you can buy the relatively inexpensive kits in black, white or pink. Ideal if you move around a lot or (like me) you're useless at putting up conventional shelves.
Make/Shift is available online from Movisi
Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers: An American Portrait
by Tim Yu
Chris Jordan started 2007 with a new photographic series that lenses contemporary American Culture via the absurdity of some very American statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption), 61,000 Hummer logos (equal to number of Hummers sold in 2005), 2.3 million Americans in prison or a trillion dollars spent on the Iraq war. Jordan portrays these statistics by incorporating them visually in a large intricately detailed photographic prints assembled from thousands of smaller images. You may have seen this kind of imagery before but most likely not in this context. Such images have a more profound and lasting effect than the abstract and disconnected feel of the raw numbers alone.
Visit Chris Jordan Photography to see more of this and other works. This latest series is still in its early stages and new images will be posted on his site as they are completed. He is currently exhibiting some of his work at the Tufts University Art Gallery.
Pictured above left, "Denali Denial" depicts 24,000 logos from the GMC Yukon Denali, equal to six weeks of sales in 2004. Above right is a full-size details of the far left corner of the lake.
Devandervar Hoodie
by Ami Kealoha
In our first installment featuring a pick from the the hard-to-come-by items available at new NYC store Project No. 8, we bring you the pullover sweatshirts from Copenhagen label Devandervar. The patchwork hoodies are available in men's sizes for $120 from Project No. 8 (+01 212 925 5599).
Meat and Potatoes Heaven and Hell Tee
by Ami Kealoha
"Heaven and Hell" is a reversible limited edition t-shirt and print that's new from Los Angeles design and ad firm Meat and Potatoes. Created for a celebrity lounge at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards in December, the four remaining from the event will be auctioned to benefit Meals on Wheels today, 26 January 2007, at 4pm EST on Ebay. Each long sleeve tee features an image of a red skull and crossbones on one side and an white angel on the other, both made from a detailed reproduction of a Renaissance painting. The women's version (pictured) is screenprinted on a soft grey shirt with a collarbone-bearing scoop neck that adds even more rocker chic. Men's come in black for a more bold contrast and both, like all their tees, come with a matching screenprint of the artwork.
Search Ebay for “meat and potatoes heaven and hell shirt” or seller "bgirlladyt" to pull up the four auctions (one each of small in medium in men's and women's)which start at $100 and will last for seven days.
Retromobile
by Tim Yu
Christie's International Motor Cars is holding Retromobile, the world's foremost classic car show, in Paris on 16-17 February 2007. The highlight of the show will be the 1939 Auto Union D-Type (above) which is thought to be one of only three in existence.
Commissioned by Adolf Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche, it was the first of its kind to place the driver in front of the engine with four wheel independent suspension. Dominating grand prix across Europe in the 1930s and surviving the Second World War, it is considered to be among the most important cars ever to pass under the gavel. It is expected to become the most expensive car ever sold at an auction.
For more info and a look at some other cars included in the show visit Chrisite's.
For those of you in/around New York City, today (26 January 2007) is the last day the car will be on view at the Audi Forum. Take a look before it's flown back to Paris. There is also an interactive feature about the car here.
Audi Forum
250 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
map
Retromobile 2007
16 February 2007, 7pm (Automobilia)
17 February 2007, 8pm (Motor Cars)
Porte de Versailles
Parc des Expositions, Hall 7-3
Paris, France
