Winter Pudding Bombe

Shortly before Christmas, while everyone is locked in the kitchens and prepare for the feast, the little elves of the DF365 sneak in Jamie Oliver's festive web site and steal one of the best recipes for holidays!

Diego Rivera

125th Anniversary of Birth 1886-1957

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL9JLugE8s8

"Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture"

Luke Jerram's multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, live arts projects and gifts. Living in the UK but working internationally since his career began in 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe

Almost eight months since the massive 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake hit Japan Luke creates the

"Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture".
The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake.  He constructed the piece by taking the design from a nine minute span of seismometer data from the earthquake and creating a 3D image with a computer aided design program. Then he printed the design using a rapid prototyping machine. The sculpture will be presented at the Jerwood Space in London for a show called Terra. Exploring how data is read and can be represented and interpreted, the artwork is one of a series of data visualization sculptures Jerram has recently created. Next month Jerram will be artist in residence at the
Museum of Glass in Washington where he hopes to create this work as a limited edition in glass.

Home dressed from SS2012 catwalks

Explore the ss2012 catwalks and decorate. Enjoy just a small piece of inspiration from 7 shows and find ways to adjust the style to fabrics, pillows flooring and everything.

Dream Big by Pete Fecteau

Pete Fecteau is a designer by day. He attended Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan and attained his BFA in Digital Media Design in 2007. His design portfolio can be seen at http://buttonpresser.com. He mainly works as an interactive designer and helps build online and mobile experiences. Pete also loves illustration, painting, and sculpture and finds time between work to create more traditional art aside for his Rubik's Cube mosaics. His wife Caitlin and he were married on August 27th, 2011 in Brighton, Michigan they both relocated to San Francisco in January, 2011 were Pete had been awarded a fellowship with Code for America.
Upon graduating college, Fecteau accepted a position as design integrator at Spout.com, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Spout.com was later sold and the group became Pomegranite Studios. Pomegranite Studios, owned by Rick Devos (son of Amway co-founder Dick Devos), created ArtPrize, the world's largest art competition. ArtPrize's inaugural year in 2009 drew 1,262 artists and Fecteau, having history with the organization and a deep-seeded interest in art decided to volunteer his time helping with registration of voters and artists. Fecteau knew that he would want to compete in the 2010 competition but was failing to find a competitive concept. During the time he was volunteering, Fecteau went home to sleep and had a dream where he was using Rubik's Cube to create something. Pete had been solving the Rubik's Cube as a hobby since his time at Spout.com. Upon waking up, Fecteau set to document the idea and brainstorm other areas of the concept to make it well-rounded.
The mosaic is made of 4,242 officially licensed Rubik's Cubes. It measures 19 'x 8'6 "x 2.25" (5.8mx 2.6mx 5.7cm). It weighs roughly 1000 pounds (454kg). Each cube has been "reversed solved" or twisted so that one of the faces maps it's nine stickers into the total image, 38,178 stickers total. The construction process took a little over 40 hours and the final installation to about five and a half hours with 6 volunteers helping. The cubes were rented through the You Can Do The Cube organization. The mosaic was on display during the 2010 ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan USA from September 22nd to October 10th. There were roughly 30,000 people who came to view the mosaic during that time. "Dream Big" placed in the top 50 out of 1,700 + entries. The mosaic was left intact for a month after the competition in an attempt to sell it. The pending sale did not materialize and the mosaic was disassembled in late November and the cubes were shipped back to their originating points.

Elisa Egreja

Elisa was born in 1983 in Brazil. Lives and works in Sao Paulo. Her work characterized by 2 things, strict photorealism and love of nature. The palette indicates almost immediately the origin of which clearly affect her work, deep blue and geometric patterns ¨decorate ¨ the fantastic scenes which creates her worlds. DF365 looking forward for her next work.

MAD MEN

Copy Mad Men style only with pieces from ZARA all under 90 euro. All vintage props sold from ETSY shop.
The series set in 1960s New York, the sexy, stylized and provocative AMC drama Mad Men follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising, an ego-driven world where key players make an art of the sell.

The Rolling Dinner

The brand Veuve Clicquot is now well established, with a great story to accompany the famous champagne began in 1772.
  At the age of 27 years Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin,widow of the founder,  takes the small home brewers,  and becoming one of the first
entrepreneurs of the region. The Madame Clicquot with boldness and innovation creates a famous champagne that today retains its DNA.

Nowadays a simple idea from the renowned brand revolutionizes Berliners. The Rolling Dinner is an authentic yellow 50's Airstream camper that hangs around the streets of Berlin and the air is filled with culinary delights and spirits. The first stop was the Fashion Week, which was clearly to be more than a success. The food street is upgraded with magic, if you run the yellow camper not forget to taste "Crepe de Bastille" and "Trüffel-currywurst".

Phillips Microbial Home

The Microbial Home Probe project consists of a domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional design solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting and human waste. “Designers have an obligation to understand the urgency of the situation, and translate humanity’s needs into solutions. Energy-saving light bulbs will only take us so far. We need to push ourselves to rethink domestic appliances entirely, to rethink how homes consume energy, and how entire communities can pool resources” says Clive van Heerden, Senior Director of Design-led Innovation at Philips Design.

The bio-digester kitchen island is the central hub in the Microbial Home system. It consists of a meth¬ane digester which converts bathroom waste solids and vegetable trimmings into methane gas that is used to power a series of functions in the home.

The larder concept is a system designed to keep ‘living food’ fresh, by using natural processes (as opposed to dead food in the refrigerator). The larder consists of an evaporative cooler and vegetable storage system built into a dining table.

The Biological Age
While the electro-mechanical age may have caused the problem, it could also help us find the solution. Technological development has enabled us to mimic nature’s processes. Now all that is lacking is a collective change in consciousness to take us into a Biological Age, one where materials can repair themselves and where by-products are no longer waste but fuel for other systems. We are going to live through this epoch change whether we choose to or not. Failure to adjust our thinking, and with it our behaviors, will force the earth to exercise its self-correcting mechanisms over us. Necessity, as the old adage goes, is the mother of invention. Only one question remains: what part do we want to play?

Type Navigator - The Independent Foundries Handbook

A new tool for designers and clients presented by German publishing house Gestalten

Type Navigator features inspirational visual examples of fonts in use. A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the book. Is a valuable reference for agencies, designers, consultants, and customers who are looking for an overview of the modern typefaces currently available and the innovative people and companies behind them. The selection criteria were the quality of work, the originality, diversity and crucial role played by how interesting it was the business of each company according to the introductory note by Jan Middendorp. The book was presented at a special event held in Berlin, where among other things, spoke several of the area of typography as Lucas de Groot, Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura.

Features of the book
320 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM with 100 typefaces from 20 foundries

Fast Fashion

Alfie
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best friends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style

Disney Villains

Graham & Brown, the UK's leading wallpaper company, collaborates once again with renowned Biba founder Barbara Hulanicki to create a capsule collection of flock wallpaper celebrating the dastardly delights of the dark side of Disney.
Inspired by the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty with a touch of Graham & Brown magic, Hulanicki brings to life the magnificent Maleficent and her cunning feathered sidekick, Diablo. Depicting the most powerful and sinister characters of all Disney Villains, the new wallpaper collection is deliciously wicked, perfect for a Halloween makeover.
This limited edition collection is exclusively available only for Europe as sold online from Graham & Brown UK site.

About Barbara

Born in Poland , but raised in England, Barbara Hulanicki began her career in Fashion in the early 1960′s working as a freelance fashion illustrator covering all the important fashion collections for the major publications of the day, including Women’s Wear Daily, British Vogue, the Times, the Observer and the Sunday Times. In 1964 she founded, with her late husband, Stephen Fitz-Simon, the famous boutique BIBA. Since then, her bio does not stop filling with new pages from the wealth of activity in the area of design.

THE KNITTED SCULPTURES OF SANDRA BACKLUND

SANDRA BACKLUND is a fashion designer graduated from Beckmans college of design in Stockholm. From 2004, year of her graduation, founded her own label. Winner of the french prize at the "1997 Festival International de la Mode et de la Photographie de Hyeres"  known as the European festival dedicated to the alternative fashion and photography. Backlund's clothes looks more like sculptures than fashion items. Forms are the characteristic feature of her work. Until recently oversized knitted clothes belonged to the cocooning trend almost exclusively. Labels like the one of Sandra Backlund's dare to break the fashion frontier reminds at the same time that we need to return back to the natural materials.

* 1) Photo : Kristian Loveborg
   2) Photo: Peter Gehrke

Athens Museum of Modern Arts

In October 2013,  23 months from now delivered in Athens the new Museum of Modern Arts in the building that for decades housed the brewery FIX.
Contractor is ultimately the construction company Aktor, that brought out and construction of the new Acropolis Museum. The architectural design of the new museum made by 3SK Stilianidis.
The modern art museum founded in 1997 but started its operation in 2000 with the founding Director Mrs. Anna Kafetsi. The foundation came to fill a huge gap left by decades of a similar institution for contemporary Greek and international art in Athens.

As a permanent home of the museum selected the abandoned for decades malting Fix at Syngrou avenue.
The EMST immediately began intense exhibition activity. From 2000 to 2003 housed in the basement of the Fix factory, and since 2003 has presented exhibitions in many different places in Athens such as the Athens Concert Hall and the School of Fine Arts.
From September 30, 2008 temporarily established in the building of the Athens Conservatory until completion of the reconstruction of the former building FIX.

The museum's collections, set up from scratch, including an important nucleus of works by Greek and foreign artists such as Ilya and Emilia Kampakof, Yannis Kounellis, Bill Viola, Kostas Tsoklis, Mona Chatoum, Nick Kessanlis, etc., and constantly enriched.


What is the notorious BUILDING FIX?

In 1863 John Fix build the first  beer factory in Greece  in Kolonaki a neighborhood in central Athens. After his death his son Charles Fix, expanding his business, makes the 1893 a new and great for the era factory in the same place where now stands the existing building on the west bank of Ilissos and south, a short distance, pillar of the Olympian Zeus. At that time the region was unstructured. The neighborhoods south of the Acropolis, which includes this area began to grow after 1900 to 1910.

The success of the firm of Charles Fix during the first decades of the 20th century resulted in the continued expansion of the plant by 1920 in any one position.

By the mid 1950's, the residential fabric of the city gradually spread and covered the area around the factory. However the area still retains low densities with  two-storey houses, just before the mass of the system of compensation, which decades has changed completely the character of the area.

In the mid 1950's era industrial reconstruction, decided to major renovation - restoration works and the planning of this project entrusted by the family Fix to the architect Takis Zenetos (1926-1977), the leading representative of postwar modernism in Greece. The design of Zenetos emphasized the horizontal dimension of Fix building along the  Avenue Sygrou and Avenue Kallirois glazed with horizontal lines. Furthermore, it sought merely to house an industrial unit but within the overall philosophy interested in the future operation of the building under different conditions in subsequent seasons.

In late 1970, the Brewery moved out of Athens and the whole building, but then in excellent condition, was evacuated.

Over the years became obvious signs of neglect and deterioration of aesthetics, by posting billboards in facades and visible damage to the inner and outer shell of the building.

Vintage Is The Trend

Amazing back to the future illustrations under the name "Alt/1977: We Are Not Time Travellers" . A collection of posters created  by Alex [Michael] Varanese a designer who loves red more than you do.  

Hel Looks

Hel Looks is a street (art)  style blog from Helsinki. Documents individual, unique looks and styles from a pure gothic nation. The blog was started in July 2005 and it's created by Liisa Jokinen and Sampo Karjalainen. DF365 found it extremely interesting almost inspiring. Explore the outfits!

www.hel-looks.com