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Category Archives: Design
Furniture that ‘looks and feels like human skin’ by UK artist Gigi Barker.
The ‘skin stool’ and ‘skin chair’ (made of soft, fleshy silicone impregnated with human pheromones, perfume or aftershave with optional removable mottled leather covers) sell for £440 and £1500 respectively.
UK-based photographer Thom Atkinson’s series Soldiers’ Inventories – an attempt to explore “the mythology surrounding Britain’s relationship with war.”
With the help of historians, reenactment specialists, collectors and private soldiers, the series (featuring soldiers’ kits laid out and documented in detail here) span 948 years from Hastings to Helmand Province.
Above: typical soldier’s kit from the Battle of Hastings (1066), Siege of Jerusalem (1244), Agincourt (1415), Bosworth (1485), Malplaquet (1709), Arnhem (1944), The Falklands (1982), Helmand (2014).
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The always upbeat Boeing X-32.
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A wood and steel bus bench sculpture made as part of Baltimore City’s Transit – Creative Placemaking program by Madrid-based collaborative group mmmm…
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An exhaustive compendium of their myriad monikers by Pop Chart Lab.
Giant version here.
‘Ideas by the Metre’ – a table fitted with a hand-cranked 45m roll of drawing paper by London based designer Henry Franks.
Experimental street markings in Washington DC by National Geographic.
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Quebec’s Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook transformed into Foresta Lumina – a magical illuminated trail by Montreal based studio Moment Factory.
The display includes a 2km trail through illuminated groves, peopled by shadowy figures and projected nocturnal shenanigans including an atmospheric portal installed at the end of the longest suspension bridge in North America.