The psychology of Design Attraction 1: Familiarization – Design for Flow & Imprint
Kristine Harper has written about comfort zone breaking aesthetic experiences as a human need. Within visual semiotics and design rhetorics this notion is referred to as “Defamiliarization” and it´s counter phenomena “Familiarization”. This idea, framed in the notion of “Flow” (Mihály Csíkszentmihályi), forms a theory that is useful when analyzing design and style. This theory...
Breaking the comfort zone
In my previous post I discussed whether aesthetic sustainability could be described as complexity, i.e. as an expression that keeps challenging what you expect when perceiving the world – and that drags you out of your comfort zone. The thought of a comfort zone breaking aesthetic experiences may seem odd. Most people would say that an...
Your Rainbow Panorama – a space without boundaries
Ever wondered what it would be like walking through a rainbow? I imagine this is exactly what Olafur Eliasson has made possible with his work titled “Your Rainbow Panorama” on permanent exhibition at Aros, a modern and contemporary art museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Olafur Eliasson describes his vision like this: “Your rainbow panorama enters into...
The sublime and the complex expression
My post on aesthetic sustainability finished with the following question: Is aesthetic sustainability only a matter of creating minimalistic, “clean” objects that you never get tired of looking at? Or can an aesthetically sustainable object also be an object that is so complex that you never feel like you are done with it? This is...
Urban artist ROA working on a show in Stockholm
The Scarlett Gallery is working on a show in Stockholm with the urban artist ROA. Right now he’s among the top five muralist/installation urban artists in the world, his most recent shows include Gambia and Australia and in the last three months of last year he showed in four continents. His work was at MOCA, LA last...
Art and Tech Combine to Create New Social Marketing Trends
The trend towards less invasive advertising and marketing strategies in the public sphere is certainly one of the more interesting design concepts to contemplate right now. These trends overlaps with technological innovation and commercialism in surprising ways. Starting with holosonic sound beams that were used to market the A&E show Paranormal Activity, people began to...
Second edition of Decadent Pigeons in Barcelona
Lisa Klappe and Joachim van der Hurk have been invited back to Barcelona to present a second edition of Decadent Pigeons. The exhibition will take place from 12 January till 2 February 2012 at Galeria La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain. They will set up an extended mix of static portraits, grubby films and living sculptures....
Cast away animals by Nina Tolstrup
A while ago designer Nina Tolstrup from Studiomama started a “pallet project” which was all about producing your own piece of furniture using discarded pallets. The essence was centered around sustanability and questioned our attitude concerning waste. As fun extention to the pallet project Nina started to make “off cut animals” from all these bits and...
Exhibition setting by Fabio Novembre for Steve McCurry at MACRO museum
Italian designer Fabio Novembre has created an exhibition setting for the solo exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry at the MACRO Museum in Rome, Italy. The setting is inspired by the nomads’ village with structures that merge with the aim to restore that sense of solidarity that you can breathe in McCurry’s photos. The exhibition setting...
New street art by Banksy
The British street artist Banksy has come up with some new work in London. This time Banksy makes political and social commentary on Black Friday, the shopping lifestyle and being under monitor threat. Via Unurth
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