UCSD Arts Libraries

Architectural Jelly Design Competition Winners

This leaves me slightly speechless…who knew?

The winner, by Anna Liu (it’s a jelly version of Fresh Flower, the mobile pavilion designed for the London Festival of Design 2008):

and more..

Via Dezeen via NOTCOT

Vanishing America

Beautiful pictures from Michael Eastman are currently on view at DNJ Gallery in Los Angeles. Vanishing America is images of those beautiful heartwrenching small town beauties that are swiftly falling down or coming down.

These pictures kill me, but be sure to visit his site to see all of his work as his Cuba series will also blow your mind.

Via Materialicious

Magical Confluence! Best Thing Ever!

Well, to me anyway. I LOVE Charlie Harper and am obsessed with birds and birdwatching, so this is the most amazing combination (again, that would be to me in particular..) ever! The Charlie Harper Cornell Labs of Ornithology poster!!
“At age three, Charley Harper fell head-first from the scecond-story window of the family farmhouse onto a stump, which was unaffected by the crash. He was, too, his parents thought, until a few years later when he announced that he wanted to be an artist.”

Found Via the amazing and great Dinosaurs & Robots

Best Font Ever?

Nice new two weight display found via Grain Edit

Book Sculptures

Intricate, incredible, detailed book sculptures by Nicholas Jones..

For an interview & a ton more amazing pictures, go here. Found via DesignSponge.

Best Font Ever?

Found this at NOTCOT this morning..hilarious!

Crocheted Coral Reef

A friend forwarded this article to me from the New York Times on a group of people who have crocheted a giant 3D Great Barrier Reef to highlight the ongoing destruction caused by rising sea temperatures, pollution and global warming. It’s modeled after the AIDS quilt with many people all over the world contributing using a variety of techniques and materials.

One, “a geoscientist and a former mathematics teacher and sheep farmer in Australia who creates algorithms to calculate the length of yarn she’ll need before spinning and dying the wool from her own sheep” seemed very in tune with “Daina Taimina, a mathematics researcher at Cornell who had learned to crochet as a child in Latvia, (who) realized that by continually adding stitches in a precise repeating pattern she could create three-dimensional models of hyperbolic geometry. For the first time mathematicians could, as Ms. Wertheim said, “hold the theorems in their hands.” The exhibition is currently in Chicago but will be coming to New York and hopefully the West Coast soon.

Link to the Exhibition Site

Charley Harper Illustrations

NotCot posted on Grain Edit’s post of their Flickr set of Charley Harper illustrations from The Giant Golden Book Of Biology. Harper is one of my favorite illustrators of that time–

Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery

From BoingBoing
Art galleries have been showing the work of graffiti artists for quite some time now. Right now, large graffiti pieces are also on display in the “hallowed halls” of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. The pieces, by Tim Conlon and Dave Hupp, are part of an intriguing new exhibition titled Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture. Along with graffiti, it features the work of a poet, photographer, filmmaker, and portrait artist. Seen here, “CON” (Montana spray paint on Sintra panel, 182.9 cm x 609.6 cm).

From Smithsonian:

Since museum officials were hesitant about artists spraying paint directly onto the gallery walls, the works were instead executed off-site by two local artists, Tim “Con” Conlon, 33, of Washington, D.C. and Dave “Arek” Hupp, 34, from Baltimore, who have both been spray-painting (or “tagging”) trains and bridges since they were teenagers. Continue reading Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery…

7,200 bananas

From MAKE

Stefan Sagmeister’s works are on display @ Deitch in NYC, January 31, 2008 — February 23, 2008 @ 76 Grand Street, New York. The bananas you see here are real, all 7,200 of them on a giant wall - it smelled like 7,200 bananas too, slightly rotting -

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, an interactive exhibition by Stefan Sagmeister, opens at Deitch Projects on January 31, 2008. The exhibition will include works that have a life of their own, transforming throughout the exhibition as viewers engage with them. Continue reading 7,200 bananas…