Art Student Freak Out, Smashes Painting
No idea if this is staged or anything but watching this was so satisfying. I’m sure we all have entertained doing something like this during crit. Skip to 2:15 for the good stuff.
“This is fucking bullshit!”
h/t: hyperallergic
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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving. This is counterintuitive, because complaining about deadlines is a near-universal pastime.
I’d like the head I’m building to be animatronic. The lips would curl back and the jaws would open and snap out, just like in the movie…I know how each of these actions should work individually, but I keep getting stumped when it comes to choreographing them all to operate together. And when I’m stumped without a deadline, I tend to let things go.
Adam Savage - Mythbuster and Special Effects Designer extraordinaire [x]
Autotypography by Darius Ou.
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life-of-an-architecture-student:
Look at all that chipboard I got at the end of the semester. Money saved! Seniors left so much behind, thanks guys!
Architecture school: 90% work, 10% salvaging leftover materials.
leopolitandynamite asked: Can I do a shout out on your blog? I'm looking for ground plans of the overwater conference center of Stefano Boeri (House of the Sea, La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy, 2008-09). I'd be forever grateful! :D Big thanks!
I’d be glad to help! :)
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Installation at the entrance of Art Stage 2013 designed by Architect Yann Follain of WY-TO
“Today, more and more, contemporary art is crossing borderlines and becoming more difficult to define…Increasingly, art is merging with design and architecture. We thought, why not use that in a structure at the fair?” - Art Stage Singapore founder and director Lorenzo Rudolf [x]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/32ed9032fb9e293b239c13b84c9203e2/tumblr_mmq6nhtofN1qb9te7o1_500.jpg)
Installation at the entrance of Art Stage 2013 designed by Architect Yann Follain of WY-TO
“Today, more and more, contemporary art is crossing borderlines and becoming more difficult to define…Increasingly, art is merging with design and architecture. We thought, why not use that in a structure at the fair?” - Art Stage Singapore founder and director Lorenzo Rudolf [x]
La boisson officielle du créatif.
L’inspiration vient en buvant.
The question is - what do you put in that cup?
— Frank Lloyd Wright (via catastrophe-urben)
The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced today that it has commissioned Diller Scofidio + Renfro to plan an expasion into the former site of the American Folk Art Museum. Last month, MoMA stated its intention to raze Folk Art Museum building, an acclaimed design by Tod Williams Billie Tsien that was completed in 2001. The announcement leaves the fate of the building in question, but opens the possibility that it could be spared.
Folow up to this post. This is excellent news! Let’s hope we can trust DS+R to handle the Folk Art Museum building sensitively. I’m just glad that the building isn’t (hopefully; probably?) going to just be torn down.
Holy shit. I discovered this book in my local design book store today. WHY DIDN’T I FIND OUT ABOUT THIS IN YEAR ONE! It has all the essential information you need when you’re still struggling to find your way around the maze of line weights, representation, drawing, tools, model making and materials (to name just a few).
Anyway, even at the end of third year, there’s still information in it that’s pretty useful.
(It’s bloody thick, by the way.)
Studio Craft and Technique: The Architecture Student’s Handbook by Miriam Delaney and Anne Gorman
Zaha Hadid building pirated in China
Several months late (don’t know how I missed this, must’ve been studio*) but I’m guessing this is a first. On the left, Hadid’s Wangjing Soho Project; on the right, the Meiquan 22nd Century.
German news site Spiegel Online quoted Zhang Xin, head of Chinese developer Soho China and the client of Hadid’s Beijing building, as saying: “Even as we build one of Zaha’s projects, it is being replicated in Chongqing.”According to Spiegel Online, Xin made the comments at the opening of Hadid’s Galaxy Soho complex, another project for Soho China which opened in Beijing in October last year. Xin added that the Chongqing project is being built faster than Hadid’s original design.
*Always a good excuse
Do you wrestle with taking creative risks? How do you balance doing something because it strikes you personally versus doing something overtly reflective of the film’s subject? When do you hold to a vision and when do you experiment?
I always experiment and I always push. That is what the client wants and it is what I am being paid to do. But if I ignore the brief, then anything I do becomes worthless to them. Or if I design something that is too abstract and self-inflated then it becomes meaningless no matter how beautiful it is. It has to communicate and it has to be interesting and stimulating — in that order. It is funny though that we call these “creative risks” — I think the only risk you take is when you ignore the client. And if you are going to do that then you better also have their version or you may get fired from the assignment. It’s a matter of trust, that’s all. And once that is established most smart clients will give you freedom.
- Danny Yount [x]
An insightful quote about the designer/client relationship from an interview with the creative director of Prologue Films, that designed the titles for Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man.
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