"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?