Novel Ideas

valérie buess is a swiss artist who lives in germany. for the last twenty years she has worked primarily with paper
creating intricate sculptures that often resemble urchins, coral and other underwater life. Re-Blogged from Design Boom

Someone’s Junk is Someone else’s…

I once asked an artist where they sourced all of the found objects they used in their art work  - “The word is Ephemera!” she replied, no wonder Art gets a bad name. Semantics aside, we expect all staff and students to participate in our 2nd Annual Art Exhibition – large format printing voucher for the winner.

Network Network!

A very useful online Creative Network site - updated by Chichester Artists.  A whole directory of contacts and goings on for: Dance, Art, Craft, Design, Film, Literature, Music, Photography etc etc!

Click on the image to take you to the site

ISSEY MIYAKE Vs COMPUTER

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has designed a range of clothing that expand from two-dimensional geometric shapes into structured shirts, skirts, pants (trousers) and dresses. More »

Musgum Dwellings

Another nugget from  the designboom blog – incredibly technical vernacular architecture from Cameroon – and not a computer (nor H&S) in sight

DEZEEN AGEEN

This image lifted from the DeZeen blog, ‘Drop Chandelier’ by Stuart Haygarth is made from recycled water bottles and which from a distance looks like a – what is the collective noun for Jellyfish? More:

Spin off

A ‘Pixel Art’ image from Design Crisis spin off Blog ‘Badassical‘ check them out for more visual noodling

Do you feel lucky, Steampunk?

Planning an antique Sci-Fi extravaganza look here for inspiration – a bunch of Steampunk gadgets to populate your daily life.

Amazing Sculptures

Another one of those moments when you wish you’d had that idea

Beautiful Booze

http://visboo.com/alcoholic-cocktails-under-a-microscope.html