Tag Archives: installation

Parisian Disco


Thanks to Herrjaapmans I found out about Michel de Broin’s installation ‘La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel’. For the occasion of the…

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Be Nice To A Girl, Buy Her A Ring


After fashion design had to save Amsterdam’s Red Light District back in 2008, now it’s the jewellery designers turn. Talented jewellery makers were given cheap spaces…

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Meet Sniff The Digital Dog

In case all dogs will extinguish, interaction designers Karolina Sobecka and Jim George have a solution. They’ve created Sniff, a brilliant lifelike projection of a dog…

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Terrarium, A Sonic Experience Dreamscape

Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it.

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Spiderman In The Urban Jungle

The French artist Sébastien Preschoux has come up with a beautiful collection of spanned string projects in all sorts of dreamy spatial situations. We found out…

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Redesigning The Sky, Part 2

Talking about artificial rainbows effects, this picture here is really amazing. Its shot at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego, by Gary Johnson aka Madebackwards.…

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Redesigning The Sky

What can rainbows do for the city? The rainbow is absolutely one of nature’s most funny inventions. Its beauty is maybe too much for human understanding. As a symbol, the…

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A Bulb Of Crystal Light In Amsterdam

Dutch artist Giny Vos recently finished her latest light project in Amsterdam. The work called ‘Crystal Palace’ is a magic bulb of light consisting of 256…

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Living Life Vertically


Tiago Primo and his brother Gabriel have slept, worked and eaten on the side of a building in old center of Rio de Janeiro all summer…

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How Bus Shelters Become Art Installations

For the occasion of the Artists Taking The Lead fund, designers Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu have proposed an installation of approximately 40 1.75m x 1.3m LED panels…

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The New Style Mobile Office

We’re unlucky to have chosen a name for this blog that is mostly associated with the paper-sort of pop-up architecture. You’ll understand what I mean by this video…

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Rotterdam’s Floating Rooftop

In a tour with my students through the city of Rotterdam, we passed this amazing rooftop floating in the Rotte (the river that Rotterdam gave its name). This…

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Heading For A Landscape Of Experiences

“The Japanese always seem to lead the list with weird and wacky ideas” is stated on the Optical illusions weblog. In addition, I would like to…

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The Erotic City: Taking Love to Another Level

As kick-off of the upcoming art event Liefde in de Stad, organised by concert hall Paradiso this month in Amsterdam, we’d like to introduce…

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Intimacy Shelters

On this blog we’re looking for an interpretation of the Erotic City. Within this third post regarding that topic, we freely interpretate the public installation shown above. 

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