Tag archive: CONSUMPTION
FUTURE FASHION MALLSLots of people will argue that trips to the good old mall will never go out of fashion. Think again. Malls should step their game up to deal with the upcoming competition of online stores. Last month the Westfield mall in London launched the first-ever digital shopping event that celebrated the future of fashion and …
Wunder Wurst by SlinkachuThis miniature installation is made the latest work from london-based artist slinkachu. situated in Stuttgart, Germany. It’s a small food cart called ‘Wunder Wurst’. The little people who work there are carrying around sausages to their food cart, that aren’t exactly made out of meat, it are rats droppings! The cart is situated by a dumpster. …
:MENTALKLINIKLast week I was reading a magazine and was very touched by this article about a design duo :mentalKLINIK. :mentalKLINIK is an artist duo from Istanbul. Yasemin Baydar (*1972) and Birol Demir (*1967) established their own space in 2000 in İstanbul to present their artistic and theoretical approach. mentalKLINIK regularly runs exhibitions and exhibition models …
sex sells?New Condoms, a clever Tumblr blog by Max Wright, photoshops the tag lines of famous brands like Nike, McDonald’s, and M&M’s onto condom wrappers. Essentially, when presented in this context each slogan takes on a whole new and surprisingly sexual meaning. It just goes to show that placement of an ad campaign plays a large …
All you can get!The debut issue of VIRGINE Magazine is now out, featuring this ‘All You Can Get’ editorial by Ryan Yoon. Styling by Hissa Igarash. Really love it! Less is just not more! www.thecoolcollector.blogspot.com
Shopping BikeNot revolutionary, but quite funny and handy! Personally I would like to see a version with a more girly bike, but it’s a cool alternative for the cargo bike! Too bad there are no drive-through-supermarkets yet! If you want to DIY your own shopping bike, check out how on this site! via www.zieak.com with credit …
The ‘washed up’ projectThe images above look esthetically beautiful but there is more that meets the eye!Washed Up is an ongoing project by Mexican-born, New York-based artist Alejandro Durán that addresses the issue of plastic pollution making its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve. With more than twenty …
Organize that shopping!Arranging and ordering objects seems to be the new trend in arts lately, organizing things and creating new order and structure seems logical in today’s world where old structures are changing very quick! Though I really love watching these artworks I never post them because I really don’t know what to say about it! Therefor …
Jiri Gellers nihilistic post-punkpopStrongly inspired by pop culture, Finnish artist Jiri Geller defines himself as “an outsider, a punk rocker”. Geller is also an artist who has both managed to stay close to Finnish aesthetic strengths and traditions and also detonate his own unique brand of post-national, mind-fucker nihilism. It’s not revolutionary but it looks very beautiful to …