PAPERSHAPERS

Oh the excitement of seeing this video (about 8 minutes)! Worth the wait.

Scion Presents: 'PAPERSHAPERS' curated by Giant Robot

Papershapers is a group show featuring ten artists who work with paper-not "on paper." The exhibition will feature works that are cut, torn, folded, and sewn into unique creations.

Featuring:
Shin Tanaka, Hunter Stabler, Polly Verity, Annie Vought, Ana Serrano, Richard Sweeney, Peter Callesen, Brian Dettmer, Ryohei Tanaka

Show Run: April 11 - May 2 2009

Scion Installation LA
3521 Helms Ave @ National
Culver City Ca 90232


[Video and Text extracted from Scion]

Nume at Fuori Salone del Mobile 2007

nume's cardboard city Fuorisalone, 2007

We have recently posted about the Polyhedal House from nume and cannot resist sharing about the exhibition at the Fuori Salone del Mobile 2007 that preceded its launch.



The Crea il tuo spazio (Create Your Space)exhibition-workshop, was held along the curved arcades flanking the Rotonda della Besana, one of Milan's greatest example of 18th century architecture. Located in the historic centre of the city, the interactive exhibition introduced play elements of white cardboard that took shape and meaning through the participation of children.

The white surface offered endless interpretative solutions as a blank canvas on
which to express creativity and imagination. we hope it can inspire you as much as it helped us!

via nume, Reuben Miller and kidsmodern.

Sounds of Silence

Installation: Petra Eichler and Susanne Kessler
Light design: Herbert Cybulska, Gregor Roth
Sound design: Martin Bott

Sounds of Silence is a series of installations by Petra Eichler and Susanne Kessler, between October 2005 and December 2006. The series inaugurated with Sound 1, held at Weißfrauenstraße 12 (near Willy-Brandt-Platz) in October 2005, offering "the kind of silence people only dream of".

Watch a documentary (Quicktime 5.9 MB) of the installation here.

The installation works with the silent strength of the fragile. A forest clearing exchanges its familiar materiality and exposes its fragile and poetic side. Out of layers of white paper silhouettes, a natural landscape evolves. The visitors can move through the layers, but only slowly and carefully, otherwise the paper and the situation is torn apart. A light and sound collage immerses the space in a dawn-like atmosphere. Let the images speak for themselves.

At the invitation of Droog Design, Susanne Kessler and Petra Eichler designed an additional paper forest for the Milan International Furniture Fair in April 2006, which had five layers, each 16m x 3.26m.



sound 1 for Droog Design at the Milan International Furniture Fair 2006

The Hangaram Design Museum of the Seoul Arts Centers bought this forest for its collection and presented it at Designmade 2006.

[images and text extracted from Sounds of Silence]

UPDATE: The designers have recently completed a window display project for the Van Cleef & Arpels' flag ship store in Paris. Find the details at our mein™ design blog!


For more information, visit Sounds of Silence.

Detour - the Moleskine City Notebook Experience

Some of the most amazing inspirations comes from sketchbooks. The raw ideas conveyed, coupled with the intimate experience of looking at other people’s notebooks is very satisfying.



Abigail Hunt trained at Loughborough University School of Art and Design and now lives and works in London. Her work often uses text and books and relies on the need for repetitive process, yet continually questions notions of finite detail and artistic integrity. Recent pieces have seen whole books cut meticulously into fine strips and others, hand cut into delicate patterns.





Chris Dent is an illustrator fascinated by city environments. He uses a range of intricate mark making, creating energetic visions of city life. Chris recently graduated from Camberwell College of Arts where he gained a BA in Illustration. Chris is the co-founder of a new collective called HYBRID BUNNY – a group of illustrators and designers which is responsible for icy2.com, a project for all illustration students at Camberwell College of Arts to show off their portfolios.


Detour, is an exhibition of 70 illustrated Moleskine notebooks. This unique show took place at four separate sites - making a path through central London, in 9-22 October 2006. Curated by Raffaella Guidobono, the notebooks’ authors kindly participated to the Detour exhibition supporting lettera 27. lettera 27 is a nonprofit foundation encouraging the right to literacy, education, and access to knowledge and information.

For more information, visit Detour, Moleskine and lettera27.