365 days of a Bike

Get a bike. Lock it to a post. Take a pic every day for a year. And this is what happens. Nice experiment by Red Peak Branding. [via swissmiss]

Morphing Logo - WORKac

Dynamic / morphing logo by Project Projects for the New York city based architectural practice WORKac. The moving shapes playfully reflect the multidisciplinary strategies of the design firm. A grid of nodes is continuously used in different forms, shaping a black filled outline with the company name: WORKac. For print, the studio picks from twelve forms they use. Visionary.

Space Sprawl

In the 1970 NASA envisioned possibilities to colonize space: building giant spaceships, orbiting around the sun. The image shows a diorama scene from the Haus der Natur, in Salzburg. For Space colonization, it seems, people in the 70ies could not think of something different than living in a private suburban (row) house. Even in space we insisted on questionable urban planing ideas.

(for more images see Space Colony Art from the 1970s at NASA)

No bulk mail, please!

"No direct mail, please!" - drawn by hand. A Swiss way to avoid bulk mail - seen at the amazing Siedlung Halle, in Bern, by Atelier 5.

Hans Hollein is an Artist

"Hereby I confirm that Hans Hollein is an artist" - Joseph Beuys. (postcard seen at the Hans Hollein exhibition, at the Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel).

Hollein is the only Austrian architect who won the Pritzer prize (in 1985). He is known for the quote: "Alles ist Architektur!" (Everything is architecture!). "With his (Hollein) request, 'architects have to stop thinking in terms of buildings only' (1966), the universal artist Hollein has transposed the maschine-based architecture and art of modernity into the era of media-based communication and information technologie (Peter Weibel, curator). In 2012 it might be useful, to re-think that.

Frohe Weihnachten! Happy Xmas!

(do it yourself) lightpainting. Done at Hamerlingpark, in Vienna. Happy Holidays!