Architec Tradure

Category: craft

  • 12JanRemembrance of an absence

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    In my sculpture work, I combine the material representation of a souvenir and its effect over time. I print on plaster molds a series of clothing on life-sized frames. The pieces of clothing carved in the plaster come from people I care for. Their prints represent their passage in my life at a point, and the mold essentially keeps the shape and the textural significance of the clothing.



    final installation (2007)

    More pictures.

    My paper on a selection of sculptures for Helen Mirra, VES, Harvard University, (Cambridge, MA, USA. December, 2006). Remembrance of an absence


  • 04FebFrom Rubix cube to pixel picture

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    When the product meets the digital, a multitude of Rubix cubes becomes a mario brother pixel picture …

    By space-invaders

    Process …


  • 29AprJapanese books

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    Cute Japanese books I found on amazon.jp!


  • 29AprJapanese books

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    Cute Japanese books I found on amazon.jp!


  • 30AprReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything

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    Beautifully designed ReadyMade book by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne.

    Written by the cofounders of ReadyMade magazine, this is a book of all original material that revolves around the reuse of six building materials—paper, plastic, wood, metal, glass and fabric. This hybrid of how­to, editorial and historical content yielded a design that is simultaneously smart and fun, structured yet chaotic, sophisticated yet accessible.

    In the spirit of ReadyMade’s reuse ethos, the book itself is a reusable object, with the spine serving as a ruler—inches on the front cover, centimeters on the back. Since the book’s content swings wildly from do­it­yourself projects and scientific diagrams to lifestyle articles, historical timelines and random sidebar nuggets of information, we deliberately pushed ourselves out of the usual structural comfort zones of contemporary book design—limited typeface use, repetitive grid structure, white space—to see how much variety the piece could sustain and still be coherent. – Aiga


  • 30AprReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything

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    Beautifully designed ReadyMade book by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne.

    Written by the cofounders of ReadyMade magazine, this is a book of all original material that revolves around the reuse of six building materials—paper, plastic, wood, metal, glass and fabric. This hybrid of how­to, editorial and historical content yielded a design that is simultaneously smart and fun, structured yet chaotic, sophisticated yet accessible.

    In the spirit of ReadyMade’s reuse ethos, the book itself is a reusable object, with the spine serving as a ruler—inches on the front cover, centimeters on the back. Since the book’s content swings wildly from do­it­yourself projects and scientific diagrams to lifestyle articles, historical timelines and random sidebar nuggets of information, we deliberately pushed ourselves out of the usual structural comfort zones of contemporary book design—limited typeface use, repetitive grid structure, white space—to see how much variety the piece could sustain and still be coherent. – Aiga


  • 13JunBlogging in Motion

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    I met Diana Eng at the seamless fashion show in 2006 when my team and I presented Taptap: the scarf that hugs you back! She was showing an impressive inflatable dress, a gown that fits the body to later inflates …

    Photos from the rehearsal & Photos from the show that I took during the event.

    One of her newest project, Blogging in motion, is a purse which involuntarily blogs your day. Each time the wearer walks 30 steps, the purse takes a photograph and automatically uploads it to a blog online. Time and GPS location for each photo can also be added to the blog. At the end of the day, blog readers can trace back through the wearer’s footsteps by viewing the photographs taken during the day.

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    Project by Diana Eng, Emily Albinski, Audrey Roy, Jeannie Yang and Yahoo Research Berkley.

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    Posted by Cati Vaucelle @ Architectradure


  • 07MayDesign a multi touch pad in 15 min

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    I love this type of video tutorial. Here is a tutorial on how to make your own multi touch pad in 15 minutes using a web cam, cardboard box, a piece of glass and software. I think some regular ambient light is needed! Also the next step, not the least difficult, is to have the software running. The idea is when you place you fingers on the surface, you create shadows with your fingers. The webcam detects these shadows, sends the image to the tracking software to track the shadows as they move around.

    Below are some basic info to start:

    Materials

    * Cardboard Box

    * Piece of Clear Flat Sturdy Material (ie. Glass, acrylic, plexiglas)

    * Paper (ie. printer paper, tracing paper, almost any paper)

    * Webcam or Video Camera

    * Computer

    * Optional Picture Frame

    Finger Tracking Software

    * Touchlib Beta v2: – Written by David Wallen

    * Download, unzip and copy the config.xml into your touchlib directory

    More by AudioTouch – Via.

    Posted by Cati Vaucelle @ Architectradure

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  • 13JunBlogging in Motion

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    I met Diana Eng at the seamless fashion show in 2006 when my team and I presented Taptap: the scarf that hugs you back! She was showing an impressive inflatable dress, a gown that fits the body to later inflates …

    Photos from the rehearsal & Photos from the show that I took during the event.

    One of her newest project, Blogging in motion, is a purse which involuntarily blogs your day. Each time the wearer walks 30 steps, the purse takes a photograph and automatically uploads it to a blog online. Time and GPS location for each photo can also be added to the blog. At the end of the day, blog readers can trace back through the wearer’s footsteps by viewing the photographs taken during the day.

    blogging.jpg

    Project by Diana Eng, Emily Albinski, Audrey Roy, Jeannie Yang and Yahoo Research Berkley.

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    Posted by Cati Vaucelle @ Architectradure


  • 30JunOrganic prosthesis

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    Grow On You by LucyandBart.

    LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

    Playing with suggestive photography for high impact, they seem obsessed with the body metamorphosis. I call their work organic prosthesis, because they mainly use organic material in their body extension. For instance, they grow seeds on a fabric, which gives the impression of a body grown of grass and soil. The following pictures show the germination from day one to day eight.

    germination_day_one.jpgGermination

    I love their work with foam. The foam transforms the body in a gentle way. Here the artists embrace the prosthetic impulse …

    Body and foam

    Posted by Cati Vaucelle @ Architectradure

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