I love the transparency of this chair.

Tom Price created these chairs by heating and pressing a seat-shaped form into a bundle of crumpled polypropylene sheets, polyester clothing and other products. 

These form a seriers of chairs using the same technique but with different materials.

All I want to say about creative30 is have a look.

PIG 05049

Christien Meindertsma has spent the last three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected resutlts were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelian, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.

Meindertsma makes the subject more approachable by reducing everything to the scale of one animal. After it's death, Pig number 05049 was shipped in parts throughout the world. some products remain close to their original form and function while others diverge dramatically. In an alsmost surgical way a pig is dissected in the pages of the book - resulting in a starteling photo book where all the products are shown at their true scale (1:1).

ISBN: 978-90-812413-1-1

www.theseflocks.com

Batia Sute is exhibiting at the Wallhouse here in Groningen. I still really need to go and see it. 

Ellie Irons
This weekend I went to the open day of the Frank Mohr institute. There I saw work of Ellie, she is an exchange student from the MFA at Hunters College.

It's been awhile, but I'm back for vacationing in South Africa. A land of diversity. Here are some pictures of the landscape and beauty of the country.

The wonderfull colours of South Africa.

Johanna Hondelink

Renier Padje

Maurits van Putten en Jeroen van Doorn

Liesel Bonhage

WEP

It's been a very busy period. 

We opened our new artists initiative so many peolpe came, it was awsome!

Tanks everyone for showing your intereset and all the hard work.

Sara Hillenberger

To describe the relationships between corresponding parts, the deeper symmetries, which are concealed by asymmetries on the surface, the theorist of evolution, Gregory Bateson, once talked about "the pattern which connects". He writes:"What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? And all the six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the backward schizophrenic in another?"

This quate is from the book Patterns in design, Art and Architecture.

Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York/Dutton:1979),p.8.

This morning I opend my mail to find that Mieke Fokkinga send me this link www.katieholten.com.

What I love about her work is the diversity in size. 

She makes books, drawings but also installations. 

Also if you click on statement in her site the word tomorrow is all you find. 

It is then linked to a weather forecasting site. 

Then you think did I miss something? and go back to her site...................

Go and have a look for yourself.

I loved it, her work has a red line running throught it very strongly but its not held together by some tekst.

Jill Bliss I found through a dutch magazine called 1o1 woonideeën.  She makes beautifull drawings that can be found on note books; walls and in exhibitions. 

www.loovvool.com is a design companey I found by flicking through some magazines. I loved this project they did.  They decribe their work as:

Loovvool builds distinctive brands & aspirational design solutions.

Loovvool Interactive develops innovative & captivating experiences.

XS-M-L

Diana van Golden, Charlotte Vonkeman en Marije Cnossen are XS-M-L. Their name reflect their clothing size litterally, but also their work method. Their designs play with the shift in size of functional objects, this creates new functions for these forms. 

One of the reasons that it's taken me some time to place new news on my blog is because I've been busy planning my first presentation. Carla Piebes was so kind to let me use her shop window for the new pattern that I created. The pattern is based on city maps and the way that roads connect each city with the next. By zooming out the connections take on shapes that we see in other forms like veins. I chose to screenprint the pattern on material to create a  link to the human body. The material becomes a layer of veins that connect different structures/organs/cities with each other.