Forms of Inquiry Project

London based designer Zak Kyes, Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design brings together new works by a range of international graphic designers who base their work in critical investigation. The exhibition features projects that have originated as self-propelled inquiry, either professional or personal, and have been developed into a myriad of media and forms including typography, writing/curatorial projects, installations, interactive works, publications and speculative proposals, that draw a relationship between architectural and graphic design.

Florian Kräutli curtain design

young designer Florian Kräutli developed a curtain which you can shape to any form, magnets embedded in the curtain fabric allow the user to shape the curtain innumerable ways, both open and closed.

enter Holiday Home

Institute for contemporary art, Philadelphia

The Holiday Home is an experiential installation exploring areas in which the holiday home departs from modern design conventions. The orthogonal surfaces of the archetypal house are extruded and skewed creating the sculptural armature within which the dichotomies of home and holiday home are played out. The new architectural shape emulates escapism, the expectation of a holiday as removed from everyday routine. Visitor movement through the installation activates unexpected view corridors and the multi directional shadows create unpredictable perspectives. The perception of time is intrinsically interwoven into the project as light conditions subtly modulate; the sense of season and time of day become more abstract, as you may find on holiday where time is unbound by the frameworks of contemporary patterns of living and dwelling.

Change what you got

packaging for Re-use is a product that recycles the cardboard your laptop arrives in by changing it into a protective carrying sleeve. Assembly is easy, and all necessary materials are included in the original packaging. The cardboard casing is treated with natural wax to protect it from spills, and instead of the usual polystyrene foam , Packaging for Re-Use utilizes sheep’s wool felt which can be recycled and composted. All it takes is a few simple cuts, folds, and glue to make the transformation. Check out the other pics to see how it works. From the portfolio of Eoin McNally in Dublin, Ireland.

New corrugated displaces

 

bookstores, Magma (UK) expanded its brand a few months ago by opening it’s first Multi-Purpose product shop, designed by architects Julie Blum and Nikki Blustin.

friendly shelving is made out of treated cardboard and these specially designed units (and counters and changing-rooms come flat-packed, to be unfolded and built up.