I am buying a super-pass. I love Children’s’ imagination, especially the check code on the front of all the machines.
At our house. Gum leaves are ‘tickets’ and tree branches, are bad witch’s walking sticks.
Posts Tagged ‘design’
Cardboard Arcade anyone?
April 11, 2012Helena Perez Garcia : Interview & New Art
April 4, 2012A while back we featured some works by Helena Perez Garcia, and liked them so much that we contacted her for our brisk interview. She was quiet happy to contribute to our humble site and here are the results. Please check out her website – it, itself, is an amazing piece of design and illustration.
Interview (email) with Helena Perez-Garcia, April 1st 2012.
Panda: Your art is amazingly visually and mentally inspiring, what inspires your work?
Helena: Lately, I’ve been very inspired by literature. I always have next to me a notebook to write down quotes or ideas that cross my mind while reading. I also find inspiration in art and cinema.
Panda: Behind the art, how do you unwind, or is that part of the process?
Helena: For me it is very important to unwind when I am stuck. In that case I stand up and do something different, like going for a walk, hanging out with friends or going to the cinema. Those activities are really part of the process, because lots of ideas usually come to my mind while doing so.
Panda: If you could have an intimate dinner with any 4 living people who would they be? What would you guys eat and drink?
Helena: That’s a difficult question, because most of the people I admire are dead. If I had to choose I would say Jarvis Cocker, Barbara Kruger, Stefan Sagmeister and Paula Scher, I bet they have very interesting things to tell about the art and design world! I would have a vegetable lasagna, ice tea and anything with chocolate.
Panda: What music are you listening to at the moment?, what was your first musical memory?
Helena: At the moment I am listening to the last albums by Lykke Li and Death Cab for Cutie, and also to Niños Mutantes. My first musical memories are the lullabies my mother sang to me when I was a kid. I also remember the cassettes of spanish songwriters that my parents played in the car while heading to our holiday destinations.
Panda: Finally, is there any art or design medium that you have never used that you would love to?
Helena: There are so many different techniques I would love to try! Like engraving, silk screen printing, embroidery, collage…
Included with Helena’s responses were some beautiful art works to feature here on Pandainabattlesuit! Enjoi!
Thanks so much for the candid responses to our interview questions!
Although they are not probing they give a good insight into the differences of the artists we feature and the fact that these great artists/designers/architects support our site by participating is very rewarding!
Anastasia Arquitetos. Residenciais.
March 15, 2012[via Design Milk]
Stumbled across this beautiful work of art which only lead me to even more beautiful works of art over here at Anastasia Architects, like the Novosite, ?if that is its real name.
A little bit. It looks like its the way housing should have gone in the seventies, had bauhaus rule all empires in the western world. Aside from that it looks extremely liveable. I know I post a great deal of houses that look beautiful but I reality even the minimal ones would be great to live in but great doesn’t always equal comfortable.
The indoor balcony is always a smash hit, and especially given the retreat is upstairs and away. almost like a modernistic treehouse of sorts.
The house look really elegant but at the same tim eeasy and comfortable to live in which I think a lot of architects are missing the point on these days.
Perhaps it has something to do with the furnishings as well, I have now doubt but the contours, angles and living space layout contribute greatly to how you go on to furnish your home, and how those furnishings accomodate your weary legs.
Make sure you head to their site, and view Villa Castela, in all is cantilever beauty. and view the site in Brazillian, it adds to the experience.
Stars, Sunset, Mountain, Skyline
February 17, 2012Shut your eyes.
Now imagine you have just told yourself to go to bed. You walk across your perfect polished concrete floors, up your small ladder or stairs, through your little bedroom entry hole, yes entry hole, not door, lay down, and close your eyes, or keep them open because the view is far too perfect to shut them.
I guess this is what the Architects at this house a little bit had in mind. The sleeping retreats, each one of the four has its own unique out look.
The Four eyes house is not only beuatiful to look at, but as an inanimate object stimulates your brain by placing a context on other wise nothing spaces. Yes you can creat a bedroom that is spacious or a bedroom that is warm but these bedrooms, create a different environment all together that engages you visually.
It is just a really great idea.
I am a bit caught up looking at houses this week I am sorry.
More can be read about the Four Eyes House either via, Design Milk, or via the Amazing architect Edward Ogosta’s Site here
The idea is basically that all four bedrooms each have their own outlook, one being the sky and stars at night, one being the skyline of the near city, the 3rd being the mountain scape, and the final and fourth incorporating the horizon intune with the sunset.
Even the surrounding landscape is blended without theatrics or bizarre gardens, or succulents, it is just nice looking dirt, and a nice looking lap pool.
from Nanami Cowdroy
February 17, 2012We have just received email from Nanami whilst she is busy, and while we are happily and patient waiting for her to return the blessed interview questions (no rush I promise).
Here is a video she has alerted us to after being featured artist by Smirnoff Vodka.
Enjoi
And don’t forget to frequent Nanami’s Website
Private Minimal Cube
February 17, 2012[Via Design Milk]
This place is just amazing. Have I said that before on this site? surely not.
it seems as though through the restriction in space and the high density population the amazing current Japanese architects, are become a form of ‘zen master’ of minimal form and clean non clinical warmth.
Shinichi Ogawa and Associates, are responsible for this master piece, and as can be read in this beautiful article at Design-Milk .
Having a tree encompassed by the house (which includes smoked glass no less) is one of those dream boat things that you hope and prey that by some fortune you can install into your house, even if it is only on a window in a door between the garage and the street.
The rest of Shinichi & friends work is equally amazing, but lets not forget the fact that some terribly talented builders and his team with amazing attention to detail have work from the plan to create this building and give us a glimpse of what minimal heaven may look like if we are sent there after reading or watching too much grand designs.
Going to be planting a tree in our living room as soon as Mrs Panda agrees
iPhone-SLR [mattebox]
January 27, 2012I like this app. It is simple and elegant, and has all the mod cons of a lot of other iPhone cameras, without the wanky ‘real camera look’ to put your off.
Don’t get me wrong I really do like and use the Procamera app, and well who could go past Hipstamatic, but this one just wins.
The pictures that I have taken with this app far out perform any other pic with iPhone.
Some samples taken from the website show exactly the great quality pictures that can be taken but it is more the interface that gets me in.
The simple and screen-wide view finder, has minimal information and the buttons are concise and tell you only what you need to know, it takes a little getting used to, but once you are aware of all the information at your gazing eyes reach, then you can just use it like a normal camera. It even lets you know what ISO that you are shooting at, and the distance (macro etc). Getting to used to the lock and slide action only took a few shots and then was abused by myself in exploiting the artificial light capture on different scenes.
The adjustments take a little practice to get good results but for professional camera peeps that know how to rock the D-SLR functions this should be a breeze, for me it was a case of using the sliders, saying oh..thats cool!, and then saving the picture. The app gives you the ability to adjust the last picture that you have taken, and then if you like the settings of adjustment that you have come up with you can save it.
The ability to be able to set your white balance then lock it to take a shot of another scene is magical, and the slider controlled adjustments can recreate most filters available on the app store at present, sans ticket tape label and funny glasses of course.
The app designed by Ben Syverson took two years for him to develop and refine it back to the minimal app it is. It is apparently based on the Hexar, which is a great camera I am told, that was simple and easy to use but still created beautiful photography.
There is also a web-based tool at Mattebox.net that allows you to mimic the adjustment found on the iPhone app. I like it all. I recommend it, but don’t for a minute be expecting speech caption bubbles, 1970s toy camera filter or clipart rabbit ears.
Stop SOPA. The Creative Web Based Protest
January 19, 2012Whilst I did indeed, close my site yesterday, well in a manner of speaking, not that anyone noticed, but so did a lot of big namers in the cyber space wonderland.
In doing so they not only flexed there internet reach and impact they also pushed their creative Black out style flare on web design and its use to reflect to protest.
I think my favourite was definitely XBMC with their spotlight styled find the message.
In my humble opinion. Google could have tried harder.
Here are some screens, I hope the message got through. Censoring the internet would indeed censor the great collective minds that think of peaceful protest options like this.
WordPress.com - very nicely played.
Wiki was probably the biggest loss, with some very amusing tweets from young sub intelligent tweeps wondering if it was gone forever, and wondering what they would do for information.
didn’t acutally see this in action, but nice touch.
XBMC - the torch light was movable. v cool.
simple but effective.
nice and easy – great message probably the one i wish I had thought of.
‘Triple Soya Chino Frappe’ Anyone?
January 19, 2012
I found this a little while ago. I cannot remember where, sorry if it is one of the excellent blogs I read daily, but I just can’t So I will instead now turn my attention to stating the fact that even if you didn’t actually use it for its real purpose, that it would still be excellent to own.
This is an espresso press. Espresso any where any time with or without power.
It is the Presso, and can be purchased here
It looks really great and if you are into all things manual labour and are willing to throw out your nespresso cube then this is a great tlaking point for your to buy and put into beautiful coffee making action
Children’s Art
January 14, 2012
Every time I sit here doing craft with either one of the turtles smallfries’ I love the honesty that come out.
Today we made a card for a friend.
A three year old wanting to give a four year old friend a card. if that isn’t the cuties thing you’ve heard all week you’re not trying.
Children don’t care about messing about resources and table space. The floor counts for table space too so if any extra room is needed a slight adjustment is made.
They will literally glue whatever the fuck they want where ever the fuck they want. Colours don’t matter continuity doesn’t matter, and where the glue gets put definitely doesn’t matter.
I love it. As laborious as doing ‘craft’ is every minute of every time we do craft is a insight into my little turtles’ minds.
They just only want to make the person it is intended for happy. That is all.
Heart craft.
And eating glue.
Attention to detail is in the butterfly.
