Festival of Speed!

This is a pretty sweet {sculpture for Audi} at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England. It was created by designer Gerry Judah and stands at 32 meters high and weighing 44 tons! It was created to mark the car brand’s centenary, featuring a vintage Audi on one end and a modern car on the other, racing into the sky.

Bocci

Omer Arbel was trained as an architect in the late 90s - in 2003 he founded a multidisciplinary design studio focused on blurring the boundaries between architecture, industrial design, and materials research. In 2005, Arbel became Creative Director at {Bocci}. His creative approach, prototyping, fine craft, manufacturing and distribution, has led to creating a collection of conceptually driven lighting, furniture, electrical accessories and objects. His work has gained a significant presence and impact within the design community. Aside from the beautiful lighting, I love the new approach to electrical outlets not having the ugly cheap looking plastic cover!

Brussels in Bloom

Each year a truly spectacular sight is created in the Grand-Palace, Brussels. More than 3 million flowers are used to create these 300 meter flower carpets. The patterns are based on medieval carpet designs.

Recycled Art

These works of installation art by {Tara Donovan} are so inspirational and look really cool too! She uses everyday manufactured materials such as tape, Styrofoam cups, and drinking straws to create these amazing large scale sculptures that create biomorphic forms. As far as her process goes, Donovan chooses the material before deciding what she will do with it. She has said that she thinks "in terms of infinity - of the materials growing and expanding." I came across her work on the {2Modern Design Talk Blog}

Crazy?

I think this artist may be borderline nuts crazy - but absolutely amazing just the same. {Motoi Yamamoto} started this form of art following the death of his sister. In Japanese culture, salt is not only a necessary element to sustain human life, but it is also a symbol of purification. He uses salt in this way to create large scale patters on floors. He also uses it in baked brick form to construct large interior structures. Motoi views his installations as exercises which are futile yet necessary to his healing, especially the labyrinths.