Daily Poetics

Read me the bit / again about the thing / that is pure ... / read that bit, the thing / we cannot turn our eyes to, / you begin it.

"Founded in 1991 as a collection of artwork and images hand-assembled by a group of friends in a one-room apartment in New York City, Visionaire has since grown into one of the most highly sought-after fashion and art publications in the world. The New YorkerVisionaire magazine as "a creative playground for leading designers, artists, photographers and thinkers," adding "it's a gallery in print. A cabinet of irresistible curiosities. A daring iconoclast dressed to thrill." For this latest issue, 52 curators ... have selected seven artists. Each artist contributes one image for a total of 365 images by 365 different artists, which are assembled as an electronic calendar that displays one image for each day of the year...." -Visionaire

Title Quote: John Holloway

via www.artbook.com

... must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses ...

Doshi Levien - Principessa.

"* * Contact * previous * 1 * 2 * next Project Principessa A daybed consisting of many thin mattress layers referencing the Hans Christian Anderson tale of Princess and the Pea. Designed for Moroso and presented during Salone '08 in Milan."

Title Quote: C.S. Forester

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst - ... Words, words, or I shall burst.

Ryuta Iida / Lithospher - Works.
Title Quote: George Farquhar

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Nicole Dextras : About.
Art by Nicole Dextras

 

Title Quote: Gloria Steinam

If we go down into ourselves, we fine that we possess exactly what we desire.

a view to: Inspirations.
link via dear ada
Title Quote: Simone Weil

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Link: Mizzonk Workshop. Title Quote: John Cage

Approximately 60 clay pots are contained in a wooden box specifically designed for the artwork. The wooden box is for both display and storage. This artwork, A Perfect Arrangement, is interactive and therapeutic (see photos). It allows viewers to use their imagination to create their own artwork.

Artwork comes with a display platform. Limited editions, numbered, titled and signed by the artis

I have a vocabulary all my own. I “pass the time” when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

Link: I.D. - Student Design Review 2008.

“This is tragic. I don’t want to shred the past!” exclaimed Chochinov when he saw Susanna Hertrich’s design. Part calendar, part clock, part paper shredder, the device— which takes 24 hours to turn each day into hamster bedding—yields a poetic yet tangible reminder of the passage of time. While researching hibernation as a possible cancer cure, Hertrich wondered if long naps might be looked to as the next fountain of youth (the metabolism slows to such an extent that the aging process is delayed). If so, she asked, “Would there be a need to remind people to actually live their lives? Would people start to count awake seconds in the future, just like people today obsessively count calories?” A microchip allows Chrono_Shredder to work at a constant rate; like time, it can’t be paused. “Cinematic and very poignant,” Zurkow said.

titlel quote: michel de montaigne

Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you really love.

Link: PLATINA.
title quote: rumi

"What have you done for love's sake?

24 contemporary jewellery artists have responded to that question and their answers are open for every one to share.

The theme exhibition "Things we do for Love" is being presented on Gallery Platina for the fourth year. Preceding exhibitions have included painters, archaeologists, contemporary composers and performance artists, among others. This year the exhibitions is represented by a multitude of Swedish and international contemporary jewel artists.

These artists has been asked to share an experience or show something that they think that the spectator will feel an urge to tell their loved one." -platina

Miro Sazdic-         Löwstedt

”I         love you, means nothing”

"Use your         imagination and tell what you think about me."

Leonor Hipólito

      

"Gesture
        Closeness
        a moment undefined
        I feel the rhythm in the tips of my fingers
        Passionate beat caressing me
        Your hands poles of my desire
        Threads weaving my feelings
        Warm is my heart
        Each step I give traces a loop on the ground
        Each touch I wish a gesture of love"

             

'since feeling is first / who pays any attention / to the syntax of things / will never wholly kiss you. '

Link: Donna Ruff: book objects.

Romance and Fatherlaw

"Found books, laserprints on kozo paper"

Title Quote: ee cummings

In describing someone’s character, I reveal my own.

Link: Dezeen » Blog Archive » Color Rings by Itay Ohaly.

"Color Rings by Israeli designer Itay Ohaly are pieces of jewellery carved from layers of coloured paint applied to a wooden table.

Ohaly spends months applying a layer of acrylic paint per day, then slices through the thick surface to create the raw material for the rings.

The rings often include slices of timber from the table beneath the paintwork." -dezeen

Title Quote: Mason Cooley

The Poet in his Art / Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

Link: Tigidi.

"paint or die but ...
Love Me."

Title Quote: W.W. Story - The Unexpressed

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development

Link: Strange-Carafes.

title  quote: Jonathan Swift

A lively understandable spirit / Once entertained you. / It will come again. / Be still. / Wait.

Link: flexibility - renewable clothing by fernando brízio.

"flexibility - design in a fast changing society
ex carceri 'le nuove', turin
june 29 - october12
http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it/

'flexibility - design in a fast-changing society'  is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in conjunction with the city being named the 'design world capital for 2008'. the show consists of nine projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri 'le nuove'.

 

renewable clothing by fernando brízio

by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time. within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it."

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Link: It's Nice That.

"The results of an extensive exploration with shadows, the One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow. Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice. The time-based nature of the poem–and the visitor’s time-based encounters with it–allow viewers to have different experiences either seeing a stanza of the poem or getting the whole poem. All of these possible experiences are equally valuable and have meanings unique to the individual. This technique has the potential for producing particular effects and meanings within an architectural environment. Without the use of a source of power other than the sun, this project uses light and shadow to push the boundaries of communication and experiential delight." -One Day Poem Pavilion by Jiyeon Song

Title Quote: Robert Penn Warren

In my beginning is my end.

Link: index.

"The project 'Come Rain or Shine' is comprised of two products; walls and floors in wood, and tiles of felt in plaster or concrete.

They both work in conjunction with the natural elements - allowing nature itself to bring pattern and decoration to exterior or interior surfaces.

Through employing the effects of nature as a means to mark a surface, the potential for the natural elements is facilitated to play a part in creating decoration - this results in organic embellishment without harm to the environment.

This work lends itself both to exterior walls where they have exposure to the outdoors enabling the patterns to evolve over time, or pre-weathered decorative surfaces as a feature within the interior."

Title Quote: TS Eliot

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Link: Peg Pencil.

"The project was to explore the perception of intuitive feeling between people and objects.  These pencils were explored from different points of view including memory, behavior, humor and product language." -Peg Pencil

Title Quote: Joyce A. Myers

t went to pieces all at once—All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst.

Link: Multistorey.

Title Quote:

Oliver Wendall Holmes

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel

"Eric Kass calls himself an artist. he has lived for 37 years in Indiana .You may have seen his work 15 times in national magazines, or in 18 books, or possibly in over 20 art shows and galleries. You could also have seen him on the street and not even known it. He has 15 years of varied design experience crafting award-winning, hard-working brands, identities, book covers and packaging for a wide range of national patrons from start-ups to in-house to"

 

"--- i provide lovingly crafted brand experiences that capture your essence and present it in a highly unique fashion tailored to fit you and only you --- i sculpt the details while keeping my mind on the big picture considering each individual point of contact ( logo / site / stationery / package etc. ) and how it all adds up to one powerful pulpit to present your position --- you’re special, a one-of-a-kind, and i can help make sure everyone knows it with always intriguing and never forgettable print and digital communications --- the work we create together will be cherished by you and coveted by your customers for years to come ---" -Eric Kass

funnel blog funnel paper goods

Quote: Jaques Maritain

 

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind. -Epicetus

Link: The Thing Quarterly :: About The Thing.

"THE THING is a quarterly periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors ( Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan ) to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped in brown paper packaging by the editors and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service.

THE THING’s current year of subscriptions ( issues 1-4 ) will begin in August with a project by the performance artist and filmmaker Miranda July, whose first feature length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. The subscription year will continue with projects by visual artists Anne Walsh, Kota Ezawa, and Trisha Donnelly."

What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raise and support, / That to the height of this great argument / I may assert eternal Providence ... -Milton

Link: TSANG Kin-wah.

In the Dark, In the Darkness

Tsang Kin-wah

If the world is broken its just cause hearts get broken. And I wonder what for when all I feel is love inside. -Poe, Rise and Shine

Link: Paul Loebach.

"Paul Loebach was born in Des Moines, Iowa in into a long line of German carpenters ...

Paul says about his work: 

“I’m through with editing down the world. My work represents a new process of design for the basic purpose of trying to understand the emotive complexity of people, the meaning of our manufactured environment, and its material consequences”.

Broken Mirrors    ... Street refuse given new life. Found pieces of broken glass are inset into reclaimed heart pine utilizing a tricky secret fabrication process. "

I sit alone a lot, but I do not mind it. I'm just waiting for my something clean to fill this emptiness, but it's been so long, I think I may never find it. You worked for a bit, I could look in the mirror and smile, I felt complete with you near me ...

Link: Penelope Umbrico.

Mirrors (from catalogs)

"Mirrors, 2000-02, are images taken directly from catalogs displaying room suites. The images are scanned, the mirrors isolated from their surroundings, and skewed back into a flat perspective, bringing them into the space of the viewer. The images are then enlarged to the dimensions of the actual size of the mirror being sold in the catalog, and mounted face forward to non-glare plexi-glass. In the catalog these images are used as a peripheral device to elicit desire. As objects in the gallery, these images become the objects of desire. All the seductive trappings arranged in the original mirror’s reflection become surrogates for the missing reflection of the viewer - the viewer witnesses his/her own erasure."

It is our responsibility to be magicians, to be jesters, to be alchemists, to create hope where there is only illusion, to create reality where there are only dreams. -Marcel Wanders

Link: Marcel Wanders studio, quotes.
The contemporary renaissance of humanism, Marcel Wanders
Foreword in: Marcus Fairs ed. Twenty-First-Century Design, London: Carlton Book, 2006.

god invented the giraffe, the elephant, the cat. he has no real style. he just goes on trying things. -picaso

Link: furniture design and interior products.

*"Fret" flat speakers Speaker Info- Flat speakers designed for MP3 players (also suitable for any type of personal stereo or surround sound for your TV.) System incooperates a sub whoofer with integrated amplifier and 2 Fret flat speakers.

*Coffee Table Info- Features a writable white globe for use with whiteboard pen (included). Frame in powder coated steel in green, orange, red, grey, white or black.

*Chandeliere Info- Made from perspex and electric flex in black or white.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him -emerson

Link: Vetri International Glass — JEFF CRANDALL.

Jeff Crandall began his career as a poet, and became actively involved in glass art while working as a grant writer at the Pilchuck Glass School. He now works in Seattle, as both a nationally recognized poet and an accomplished glass artist. His Poet's Bottles beautifully represent his abilities in writing and in glass.

via mocoloco

(this joy...that is born of nothing...) -andre de bouchet

Link: Collage Chandelier. via design sponge
by david wiseman

If solid happiness we prize/Within our breast this jewel lies/And they are fools who roam./The world has nothing to bestow;/From our own selves our joys must flow -nathaniel cotton

Link: frederikmolenschot.nl.   

Solid Poetry by Frederik Molenschot

When these concrete pavers become wet, the pattern within reveals itself...

The aesthetic 'attitude' is restless, searching, testing- it is less attitude than action: creation and re-creation. -nelson goodman

Link: story | wreck this journal.

Insturctions

"In 2006 I set out to create a book that was completely experiential. I didn’t know what that would mean when i started. I had become tired of reading (and writing) about creativity and decided to make something that would make it impossible for you to be a passive observer, (how many books have we read but not acted on?). I thought about a book that was somehow integrated into the users everyday life, both as a way of documenting it but also to encourage new experiences.

Over the course of several months I took a small journal with me everywhere and added prompts to it that were based on wherever i was at the time. The idea was to use whatever was at your disposal at any given moment, no need for special art supplies or tools. If you are in a park, use the grass under your feet, or some pebbles and dirt. If you are at the office use office supplies. The act of creating can be implemented in any setting. As it progressed the book caused me to question what it means to create. in it’s simplest form any mark can be an expression of some kind. but what most excited me were the pages that told the simplest of stories, about a physical experience of being human (searching in your pockets and using whatever exists there, documenting the present moment whatever it entailed). the result was more of a conceptual piece in journal form. a journal that required the user to act and move, to think (and at times to not think). definition

Creative destruction is a term that refers to the act of making a physical change to an object, blank page or space. It is based on the premise that if you alter an object in some way, you are in fact participating in a creative experience (regardless of the outcome). The intent of creative destruction is to move beyond aesthetic judgements of whether a mark/alteration is good or bad, but instead to allow the mark to exist as documentation of a physical experience or as kind of expression. While the term “destruction” has historically had a negative connotation, in this context it is used to imply simply “alteration”..." -keri smith

wallter

Link: Wallter / Fold Bedding.

"Wallter Rectangle wall applications The geometric, wood-based applications add a third dimension to the wall on which they are composed, commanding light and shadow in an inventive way, turning the space in to something original. The Wallter Rectangles are another new design. The 5 piece set can be composed on a wall to add a geometric element. The rectangles can also double as photo frames. The largest rectangle in the series is designed to fit a standard 5” by 7” picture. The next size down holds the very popular 4” by 6” photo. 3” by 5”, and business card size round out the set. The photos can easily be popped in and out of the frames for those that want to effortlessly display their latest favorite pictures. No glass and no cropping of the pictures make this an easy way to show off your vacation photos."

other patterns...

 

The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one. -ben okri

Link: :: Blanc&Reed ::.  

"our design philosophy at Blanc&Reed is to navigate the relationship between the past and present through the unique interpretation of the objects in our lives.  In each of our objects we strive to create a sense of connection with the user.  We are inspired by stories from the past, which in turn help us create objects with a narrative in the present moment..." -b&r

twig light, curve, cl music machine, flow, curious table