So Hot Right Now // Translucent Buildings Made of Glass.I don't know about you but the thought of living inside a glass house seems just a little bit daunting. A person's home is a sanctuary - a place where you can cut loose, be yourself, and... you know, walk around in your undies goddamit. On...
Duddell’s Cultural Concept Destination in Hong Kong by Ilse Crawford.Duddell's Hong Kong is a cultural concept venue designed by the one and only Ilse Crawford. Despite Duddell’s undeniable opulence and grandeur, Crawford took her signature humanistic approach to design, where people are placed at the...
Design Free Thursday // Photos of Chinese Artists Reproducing Classical Sculptures.Italian photographer Chiara Goia travelled to Dong Cheng, a small village in China where artists are responsible for producing imitations of renowned classical sculptures. I ache for the irony, the beauty and the bizarre nature of these...
Design Free Thursday // Before They Pass Away by Jimmy Nelson.Jimmy Nelson is a photographer of people who set out to search for the world’s last indigenous cultures. His goal is to document these rapidly disappearing communities for future generations. Nelson's fascinating project, Before They...
Camper Flagship Showroom by Neri & Hu // Shanghai, China.The Camper store is a reinterpreted two storey traditional house, sliced in half and opening itself up to the "laneway" within the warehouse which it sits. The slice is expressed with a bright red rubber, which is the same rubber used for...
Video // Human Movement Data Translated Into Visually Expressive Motion Sculpture.Human movements expressed through dance and human relationships captured on camera with data translated into animated scenes of colourful motion...
Mercato Restaurant by Neri&Hu // Shanghai, China.Stripping back the layers of finishes that have built up after years of renovations, the design concept for Mercato Restaurant celebrates the beauty of the bare structural elements. Located within the first building in Shanghai built out...
Design Free Thursday // Conceptual Photography by Christian Ă…slund for Jim Rickey.These clever images are the work of Stockholm-based photographer Christian Ă…slund. Ă…slund recently shot and art-directed an ad campaign for Swedish shoe brand Jim Rickey. He utilised conceptual photography that pays tribute to old-shool...
Design Free Thursday // Jiadang (Family Stuff) by Huang Qingjun.For the last ten years, Beijing based photographer, Huang Qingjun, has been traveling to remote regions in China working on a fascinating project titled Jiadang (Family Stuff). Qingjun searches for families who would pose for him with all...
