Thursday, 20 December 2012

Gravity-Defying Land Art by Cornelia Konrads





"German artist Cornelia Konrads creates mind-bending site-specific installations in public spaces, sculpture parks and private gardens around the world. Her work is frequently punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to dissolve before your very eyes." (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/installation/page/6/)

Gates made by organic objects.

A Wall of Shattered Glass Floods a Benedictine Monastery




"Aerial is a new site-specific installation by Baptiste Debombourg (previously) at an old Benedictine monastery called Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany. Debombourg used numerous sheets of shattered laminate glass to mimic a frothy flood of water rushing into a room. Remarkably beautiful work." (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/installation/page/6/)


This installation looks so beautiful.
Only if it is made by real ice not by the glass, in freezing environment....

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Leaves, stones

Continues from the previous post, possibilities of using organic materials in graphic design.



My past project of leaving a message in a public place.
I used little stones I found around the place.


Leaf typography by Shiori Uchimura



Saturday, 1 December 2012

Insect Typography


After I had the lecture of sustainable design with scientific technology, I came up with the idea of using organic material for graphic design. It could be live creatures as well.


Insect typography by Stefania Marconi


Caterpillar letters by Nina Katchadorian



For the last video, although it's failed I like how the letters naturally fade out because the 'letters' are all alive. Thought I could use bees or ants instead.  Like if I put some honey in letter shape in natural environment, either bees or ants come to eat honey and at the same time they make letter shapes by themselves for a little while. Then when they finish eating the honey they all disappear. This idea could be used to leave a message in a natural environment for a short time super eco-friendly.