There are a very small group of people who live in our society who see things in the way that we all see things in our heads, but have the ability to take those brilliant, beautiful twilight thoughts and make them real for all to experience. These people have the ability inside them to transform [...]
Read More artist, lighting designer, Satore Studio, Tupac Martir, visionaryPlease tell me you have seen this: Sewing Machine Orchestra from Martin Messier on Vimeo. Have you seen any more of this guy's work? "This guy" (and I imagine the thumbs up pointing back at himself for some reason) is Martin Messier. Martin's an artist, obviously, and his work is pretty darned neat. Check it [...]
Read More artist, digital, Martin Messier, media, Singer sewing machinesChris Jordan, an artist from Seattle who produces a lot of commentary work on consumerism, has produced a series of work called Running the Numbers. In this work is a painting called Light Bulbs, which makes commentary on the 320,000 kilowatt-hours wasted by the United States every minute through things most of us probably don't [...]
Read More artist, Chris Jordan, commentary, consumerism, electricity, kilowatt, kilowatt hour, light bulbs, wasteI love fixtures that use their shape to cast light texture into a room. Hence, I love this fixture by Ross Lovegrove, called the Andromeda Light. Ross made this fixture for Yamagiwa, and if you've seen the work on Ross's website, you would see it as another extension of his style. From Ross Lovegrove, via [...]
Read More artist, designer, Fixtures, Ross Lovegrove, shadow, texture, YamagiwaWow, I really like these lamps – Japanese art director Hideo Kawamura's On-Off Lamps are pretty awesome pieces of two-faced art, giving one look while off, and another while switched on. From Hideo's Coroflot bio: I am an Art Director working in Tokyo, JAPAN. After graduated from Musahino School of Art & Design, joined Tanaka [...]
Read More artist, designer, fixture, Hideo Kawamura, interior design, On-Off LampI've written about Lindsey's work once before lately – I just saw a post at Design Sponge talking about a few of her pieces, and announcing a show coming up for Lindsey this weekend. Lindsey is going to be at booth #1942 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in NYC this weekend. Check out a [...]
Read More artist, Fixtures, glass, glass light, Lindsey Adelman