sarah SCHNEIDER: the focus of this project is to create optical effects and views. in this space station these effects can generate a confusing perception of the different horizons. since there is a shift between the gravitational (artificial gravitation through centrifugal force) and the human (view) horizon, views can create a kind of augmented reality where the observer's reality collides with the reality of the scene he watches.

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sarah-schneider.blogspot.com

angewandte.at

a conglomeration of infinite parts within scaleless contexts comprise the drawings and sculptures of stephen talasnik.  through the excess of his work, talasnik describes his pieces as “forever unfinished, but always complete.”  each drawing is a palimpsest of architectural potential from which dense sculptures have started to be realized over the last 8 years.  inspired by scaffolding and futurism, talasnik's expressionistic forms leave architecture behind in their defiance of both gravity and orientation.

stephentalasnik.com

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

eskimoblood.de

marketa RICHTEROVA: carbon collection 6µm (micrometers) contains bracelets made from carbon fibre. the main constructive idea was to connect with a new material, which by its character makes it possible to activate concepts used only in science fiction. carbon fibre was primarily developed for aerospace industry, as the material is highly firm, flexible and very light. carbon fibre has much higher standards than convectional materials like metal, gold or silver for above-mentioned industry. As a result of this I was able to produce jewelery, which is very firm but light at the same time. Every bracelet has around 37 grams.

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marketarichter.net

leah RAINTREE: all of my work is invested in processes of growth, development and the invention of new forms. these smaller drawings act as specimens that allow me to identify behaviors and qualities to translate into larger drawings, sculptural works and so on.

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leahraintree.com

bart HESS: a new human archetype that embodies instincts and fetish is thus created, along with technologically armored skin. bridging the paradoxical space between hi-tech and organic life forms.

barthess.nl

delicate tripods injected with vivid color are the fruits of designer/artist arne quinze's collaborative project for die festalten verlag's "fragiles" exhibition at design miami 2007.  for this project, quinze collaborated with the bavarian glass blowers at kristallglasmanufaktur theresienthal in the creation of a family of one-off pieces.  each sculpture maintains a similar form with differentiation in color and the swirling muscles that ripple across the surface of each body.

arnequinze.tv

matt POST: investigating the opportunities that lie within two and a half dimensions, this project explores how articulated volumetric surfaces can create affect. by highlighting the relationships among digital tools, traditional materials, and decoration, this work displays how the relief can be used to integrate ornament into the contemporary high-rise. integration of the affects of softness and plasticity to the geometry of the facade contrasts the strict orthogonal repetition of the modern movement.

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mattpost.com

sarah SCHNEIDER: calligraphy is adding artistic expression to a technical matter of communication and is connected to ornamentation which generally uses natural motifs and rules of natural growth. the project develops an architecture that uses rules of natural growth and connects both growth and ornament, with a landscape environment, topologically and calligraphically. the ornament creates a symbiotic relationship with the existing environment by framing existing topographic features and at the same time giving a feedback to the landscape by creating topographical irregularities.

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sarah-schneider.blogspot.com

angewandte.at

suckerPUNCH: describe your project

lukas GALEHR & ajla KARIC: dust to dust is a contemporary re-interpretation of indigenous jewelry used in ancient rituals.  The materiality of the piece causes it to maintain a fragile and disintegrative character that relates to both artifact like qualities and contemporary artificiality.

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we-make-things.com

angewandte.at

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER:  blossom explores the opportunities present in the morphologies of floral entities as point of departure for the design of architectural conditions. inherent qualities such as florination, plication, venation and ornament form the ground for a variety of speculations on spatial conditions. the sensorial and spatial experiences co-notated with the manifold qualities of blooming flowers, from their topological qualities to the distribution of sepals and petals forming the body of the flower, are scrutinized for their architectural qualities and incorporated in the design of blossom.

from MOMA: monocoque is a construction technique whereby weight is carried by an object's skin instead of an internal structure. in this project, loadbearing areas are thicker, and veinlike, loadbearing elements have been built into the skin where needed. the composite prototype models, fabricated by a polyjet three-dimensional printer, represent three strategies the design and fabrication of single-shell structures.

materialecology.com

now on display at moma:
design and the elastic mind
moma.org

facets become smooth in the new reventon [or fighting bull] by lamborghini.   exquisitely curved carbon fiber panels are attenuated into distinct creases that accentuate the features of the car.  separate panels are not made to accommodate the form but to accommodate function in order to allow for single surfaces of multiple complex geometries.  features such as vents and headlights peel away from the smooth continuous surfaces into faceted objects.   as a result all functional components are integral to the overall sleek form of the design.


lamborghini.com

pointed petal-like forms swell and contract and flow from recognizable image into abstraction in the drawings and digital compositions of sougwen.  her work explores a rhythm and attention to detail that makes her forms seem ecological in their formations.  cells, veins, and almost-symmetrical parts reproduce perspectively on the page and seemingly extend beyond its boundaries.

sougwen.makura.org

the work of jort alexander braam shimmers with underwater swirls of color and translucency.  a sophisticated collage of digital 2d and 3d art allows for braam to create space within the page.  soft and blurry gradients weave through the foreground and background and are contrasted by fine articulate lines.  ambiguity and specificity play with one another throughout the ethereal digital-scapes.

avensys.org

a playful cuteness characterizes the gocco prints of inkdesigner.  he implements multiple prints on top of one another creating unique, unexpected overprints.  forms emerge from the dense field of multiple layers.  smiling octopi and drizzling hearts provide the rigorous, colorful designs with a refreshing humor.

inkdesigner

high gloss, voluptuous fast cars and hot chicks run rampant in the work of concept designer david simon.  with a history in the nuts and bolts of automotive design, simon's imagination has bred an entirely new species of exquisite vehicles.  conceptual in both form and function, simon's car designs are characterized by bulging candy-colored shells broken down through an unprecedented system of panelization.  the cars are accessorized with decals that wrap their surfaces and robo-women in panelized jumpsuits.

danielsimon.net

timothy SCHREIBER: e_volve_table’s design was inspired by natural fluid patterns and naturally grown forms.  this approach was translated into an initial digital model, which was subsequently optimized using digital structural and artificial intelligence algorithms.  special attention was paid to the organic, bone-like connections at the branches, where the complete ensemble splits up into its supports, which make the table demountable for transport convenience. 

timothy-schreiber.com

a delicate intricacy of line weight and overlap comprises the illustrations of criss garcia.  an organic continuity of line enables robust three dimensional surfaces to emerge from their density.  

verticestudio.com

tom WISCOMBE: the underbelly of the platform is articulated in a different way, according to a formal pattern logic of cells which become apertures for airflow capture. strong westerly and north-westerly winds on this waterfront site are directed into ducted air-intakes similar to those found in scramjet technology, which forces air into compression ducts in order to increase its velocity. This high-velocity air is used to run wind turbines at the back of the ducts which generate electricity to be used for the power needs of the project. overflow energy will not be stored in inefficient batteries but rather will be sold back onto the city grid.

emergentarchitecture.com

bloated monstrosities serve as the muse for the drawings and sculptures of john casey.  fleshy, anomalous protrusions are defined through a density of line broken through careful seaming that embraces the curvature of the figures. 

bunnywax.com

a savage innocence emanates through the pen and ink illustrations of marcel dzama.  bears, blood, girls and dismembered heads float through a stark child-like fantasy world of root beer browns and cranberry reds.  his narratives are non-linear with characters weaving though his images, often dying and then coming back to life.  dzama's work is that of an adult fairy tale where reality is skewed and violence is expected.

royal art lodge

davidzwirner.com

mesmerizing eyes caked with eyeliner pierce through high-gloss magazine spreads in the work of miles aldridge.  in his photographs beauty is amplified to the point of plasticity.  models read as mannequin androids frozen in his intensely saturated color palette.  over the top glamour is refashioned into stunning compositions of color, light and figure.  hyper-surreality explodes into vivid hues that beautifully juxtapose the porcelain skin of his subjects.   

milesaldridge.com

utilizing the computer as the medium instead of merely a tool, c.e.b. reas creates aesthetically sophisticated scripted images.  through processing, of which reas is co-creator, minimal text expands organically into exquisite compositions of overlapping textures.  varying from finite objects to infinite fields, the computational creations leave typical digital imagery behind in favor of a new formula for fine art.

upcoming exhibition: bitforms
opens march 6
bitforms.com

reas.com

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

the installations of alyson shotz oscillate between the natural and the artificial.  she investigates shimmering reflections and pseudo biological cellular structures through spatial objects.  her work resembles natural topologies that are then mutated through distortion of form and material.  space and light are refracted through material manipulations at a variety of scales as the object simultaneously interacts and defamiliarizes its surroundings

derekeller.com

if illustration and photography were to have a lovechild it would look a lot like the work of alberto seveso.  in his work, seveso contrasts the simplicity of the human figure with the complexity of his elaborate illustrations.   color and line acts as a parasite that invades the medium of the photograph.  the illustrations are not merely branded onto skin, but actually swallow it and shred it into swirling figurations.   limbs become lines and hair becomes pattern as the illustration occupies the middle ground between figure and field and allows the boundary between 2d and 3d to be completely dissolved.  

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

translucent liquid veils of color travel through space and time in the ethereal worlds of artist chris parks.  free of digital manipulation, parks creates sophisticated graphic compositions with mixed media suspended in liquid captured with photography.  as a former engineer, parks has turned his studio into a laboratory for the study of the complexity of liquefied forms and their interaction with other organic matter.  volcanic flows warp into sea anemones that extend into draping fabric dissolving expectation in his "fluid paintings."  through still images, parks captures movement beautifully before it inevitably disappears.

chrisparksart.com

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

juliaKOERNER: designing continuous growth through differentiation of parts, by accumulation of cells which are volumetric and porous at the same time; the mutant organs interlock with each other in an intricate way and connect to an overall continuous space.

cross over studio ws07/08
hernan diaz alonso
xefirotarch.com
mutter-museum extension philadelphia

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dieangewandte.at

ink stained beasts battle in the online collaboration between illustrators zak smith, shawn cheng, and nicholas di genova.  it is a battle of black ink on white fields in which hybridized creatures and worlds collide.  each consecutive illustration builds on the one before it through an undulating narrative that merges the artists and their styles.  with an identical palette and subject, the illustrators are able to develop new unique languages of detail within their scenes that becomes dependent on its adjacent illustrations.  its a playful, reductive experiment in the development of new technique. “though not exactly an exquisite corpse, it will be exquisite, and there will be many corpses.”

roadofknives.com

reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript, the typographic illustrations of marian bantjes are a mash up of computer generated and hand crafted designs.  tendril-like lines extend from type and expand and contract while wrapping and weaving through the space of the page.  contemporary interpretations of classical motifs characterize her work.  through repetition and subtle shifts of thematic and formal variation, patterns in her compositions emerge only to be defamiliarized in their reinterpretation.

bantjes.com

florenciaPITA with: zarmine n. NIGOHOSSIAN, tanja WERNER, clair SOUKI, ai AMANO, guillermina CHIU

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

florenicaPITA: alice is an installation that takes its form from a tale; its name comes from a narrative that creates multiple fictional landscapes. there is no literal relationship between the installation and the original story by lewis carroll, it is indeed an aim to capture the sensibility and atmosphere that is present in the story and embed the space with it.

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fpmod.com

the diverse work of evgeny kiselev oscillates between the rigors of symmetry and prolific excess.  several compositions begin with vivid tiled patterns that are mirrored again and again until they can no longer be contained and are forced to push beyond the confines of their logic.  others, emerge from a single outline that manifests the controlled lawlessness of the work.  each piece achieves a complexity of color and layer that continues to build infinitely into the space of the page creating a warping spatial depth. 

ekiselev.com

artists: leah RAINTREE
designer: ben KRONE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.

ben KRONE: bloom field is an artist/ architect collaboration where two dimensional lines and forms were interpreted and translated into three dimensional relief panels and then cnc milled out of corian.

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fabricator: associated fabrication

projecttosurface.com

gordon terry creates ornamented, aqueous landscapes in his paintings through a process dependent on the reaction of acrylic between two unique surfaces.  by abandoning typical painting conventions such as the brush, terry also disembodies the relationship between figure and field.  he allows figures/fields to form independently and congeal into cells and hybrids that seem protozoan in nature.

“i'm fascinated by the ways in which, for instance, my paintings can reference at once psychedelia, science fiction, modernism, the rococo, decadence, and hermetic texts--wholesome, natural beauty, and toxic, synthetic glamour."
-gordon terry

atmgallery.com

marcelo SPINA + Georgina HULJICH: located adjacent to the santa se entry of the a quarter mile southern california institute building [sci_arc], the new broad café and sci_arc student lounge will create an intensive atmosphere of light, color and material form hence inducing social exchange and enhancing body sensations.

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p-a-t-t-e-r-n-s.net

the dunny is a tabula rasa of plastic cuteness produced by kid robot and tattooed by artists and designers.  each dunny becomes customized through decoration of color and line with some shifts in pose and the occasional sword.  some artists, like david flores, break down the dunny through a network of lines that create a new reflective cellular armature while still referencing its original form.  others, including geoff mcfetridge, disregard form and cover the dunny with a repetitive, ornamental wallpaper creating new figuration within the dunny’s distinctive figure.  the dunny collections exist as a rogue’s gallery of hot graffiti artists, illustrators, and other mixed media designers such as queen andrea, kenzo minami, ferric, and deph. 

kidrobot.com

suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.

jtravis bennett RUSSETT: it is a nuanced distraction.

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approximatedisjunction

fabrication TEAM: aaron ragan, aaron forbes, yifan huang, jonathon gilliam, + qasem barc

expanding and contracting lines remap the topography of the human form in the drawings of toyin odutola.  odutola's often androgynous figures have familiar outlines defamiliarized through her language of line and shape that creates a new form of detailed musculature.  this musculature is sometimes contained, sometimes extended and sometimes multiplied through the inversion of the common conception of smooth skin. the lines create a cellular formwork which defines and wraps the skin of her subjects. 

toyino.com

michael c. place riffs on classic graphic design motifs through a craft-like approach to printed matter.  with his firm, build, he employs primarily text, line and blocks of color in his compositions.   through this stark palette and its sophisticated look at positive and negative space, a richness of overlap develops as a result of these simple, yet elegant moves.  a playfulness that includes vivid colors, little birdies and whimsical lines emanates through his work as yet another layer that gives each composition a fresh identity.  each piece defies boundary by oozing and continuing beyond the edge of the page - compositions appear endless. 

suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.

su-hou CHEN/neil COOK/melinda SANES: Accumulation of a new spatial dynamism.

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suhouchen.com

melindasanesdesign.com

perry hall blends art, architecture, and film in his process-based creations.  his pieces act as indexes of the properties of the materials with which he works.  he captures different liquids in still or moving images as they react to a myriad of stimuli including sounds, objects, and movement.  through these disruptions, microscopic landscapes emerge swirling in reaction.  unexpected lines and forms are created that have characteristics of the hand drawn but are actually the results of the intelligence of the given material.

lovebrain.net

flash artist erik natzke manipulates code in his explorations of shape and color.  repeating forms build figurative multiplicities which flicker through intense color gradients across the images.  natzke is also often shifting subject matter from pure geometries to line art to the abstraction of reality all while implementing similar code technique.  the detail and intricacy which emerges from the employed codes becomes amplified through natzke’s eye for color and composition. 

eriknatzke.com

with rob HENDERSON + studio LYNN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

brennan BUCK: technicolor bloom is a full-scale prototype that produces doubly curved, digitally-designed form using completely standard, scalable fabrication technology. it proposes a method and a set of aesthetic principles that extend the architectural potential of topological form by incorporating architectural systems such as structure, aperture, fenestration and construction directly into the project's geometry.

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technicolorbloom.com

zak smith is a punk rock porn star trapped in the body of a classically trained artist.  his work is scattered with mohawks and tattooed nude bodies while at the same time maintaining an unrelenting rigor that makes his work hard to ignore.  smith's use of selective vibrant colors against stark black and white drawings fill his pages almost to the point of overflow.  often working at the scale of a post card sized image, smith meticulously details every centimeter of the page with overlapping fields of patterns. the contact sheet of smaller images forms a larger piece amplifying the impressive density.  the flicker between the single images and the overall composition allows the patterns and colors to create a multiplicity of figures at various scales.

zaxart.com
fredericks & freiser

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER: the mobile exhibition design for the austrian winery boom provided span with possibilities to explore performative surfaces and economy of form. to fulfill the multiplicious demands span relied on the concept of minimizing the number of elements, implying the tasks in two surfaces. the design process resulted in an elegant topology of the surface, subsequentialy encoding the form. the machinic process caused undulating patterns, created by the milling path of the router, ensuing

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span-vox.com
span-arch.com

the prolific duo of michael cina  and michael young form the creative collaborative of weworkforthem.  by dabbling in diverse fields from architecture to performance art as well as entertaining a myriad of clients, weworkforthem has created an aesthetic that moves beyond that of the simply graphic.  line overlaps pattern and image melts into symbol in their complex creations.  weworkforthem's method is that of excess in both the density of their work and the amount of work that they produce.  their creations and overflow have found a home in their offshoot site youworkforthem where they sell the various manifestations of their designs.

weworkforthem.com
youworkforthem.com

richard sweeney utilizes the pliability of ordinary paper in his search for form.  stemming from an interest in origami as a child, sweeney explores intricacy as it emerges  through folding and creasing.  by taking cues from growth principles and his love of trees, his work often references the organic through unique interpretations.  this work demonstrates the potential of capturing volume through the manipulation of surface and sheet material. 

suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.

julia KOERNER + nora GRAW: designed from the inside of an intricate large single surface space, organized through a strategy of nesting and poché, to a three dimensional structural volume, which creates blurred depth through a gradient from relief to structure, dependent on the distance of the inner volume to the outer skin, which let the focus on the volumes or parts of it fall off gradually until they disappear in depth.

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dieangewandte.at/archlynn/
dieangewandte.at

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS and heather FLOOD: c-hub, or central hub, is a 19 ft. diameter table that is designed to serve a range of cultural, social, academic, and administrative needs of the school. with this in mind, the project was framed within the following conceptual bookends: 1) to behave within a well-defined range of individual to collective performance criteria and 2) to employ contemporary fabrication methods in order to increase organizational intelligence, programmatic capabilities and sensual delights.

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info@f-labworks.com
sciarc.edu

most of us use sharpie pens to label our cds while justine ashbee employs them exclusively in her organically grown hand drawn creations.  she lets each work begin with a single curve from which squishy, pulsating creatures emerge.  through the accumulation of line, ashbee creates images non-linear in both process and form.   her use of color and line weight give the drawings a sense of space as her forms undulate and pass through each other. 

through the study of the mid-century gridshell, emergent architecture has transcended tired form-finding techniques by rethinking both pattern and structure.  the hard edged facets of tom wiscombe’s previous work have gotten padded out in his novosibirsk pavilion.  softly faceted cushion like panels define a system whose density gradiates across the pavilion as the degree of curvature shifts.  this system enables the form to leave behind the conventional funicular in favor of a contemporary formal investigation where the subdivided pattern of the surface informs not only the form of the pavilion, but also its realization of structure, space, and aperture.

emergentarchitecture.com

breakdancing robots, pixilated skins, and pulsating plants proliferate the vivid worlds of 1st avenue machines. live action director arvind palep and executive producer serge patzak force the viewer to question reality within their seamless, surreal videos inhabited by intensely detailed creatures.  it is not until a plant blinks or human skin deconstructs that expectation is overridden.  the anticipation of the next frame and its new set of revelations enables their work to breathe and pulse. 

1st-ave-machine.com

in her architectural investigations as well as her graphic, product, and fashion designs, elena manferdini has established a language of both process and form that emanates throughout all of her work.  the majority of her work deals with pattern and its manifestation in three dimensional form.  similar to the classic tailoring problem of transforming sheet material to fit the curves of the human body, manferdini is constantly exploring patterns of perforation and the ways in which aperture can inhabit complex surfaces whether it be in a dress or a curtain wall.

ateliermanferdini.com

the dazzling reflections and refractions off the chrome bodies of xefirotarch’s spiders creeps out through the dark gallery at the mak center.  hernan diaz alonso’s work has finally found suitable context in the black abyss of the black gallery space.  the darkness renders the cast chrome forms’ figuration clearly.  done in collaboration with the uk center for manufacturing, the fabrication translates every oozing detail of hernan’s design exquisitely into the finished chrome pieces.

xefirotarch.com
uk college of design

suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.
 
philip MANA: a study into the creation of space and form through the mass-accumulation of dynamic (animated) self same objects each exhibiting its own developmental behaviors and luscious texture to create an overall affect.

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