Mujjo: Dutch Craftsmanship For The Mobile Generation
The modern office is in the cloud. The rise of platforms like DeskMag and DeskWanted show that the new design office is flexible, independent of place and fluidly organized. The Dutch company Mujjo offers great equipment to get the mobile generation going.
A Roller Blind For Billboards
French street artist The Wa has spiced up the streets of Milan with a new, rather critical artwork — he recently installed a roller blind at a digital city billboard. The 'Curtain', as Urban Shit calls the work, enables passers-by to decide themselves whether or not they want to see the advertisement.
A Hotel High Up In A Crane
An extraordinary hotel will open its doors in North Amsterdam soon. On the NDSM Wharf, one of the city's former ship-building areas, three rooms will be built high up in one of the wharf's monumental cranes.
BLA BLA Presents: Your Very Own Pop-Up Movie!
BLA BLA is an interactive movie installation by Montreal-based director Vincent Morisset. It has been presented in museums in Rotterdam and Tokyo, but in Montreal it was set up outdoors for the first time as part of the International Digital Arts Biennial.
In Stores Soon: The Flying Car
If you followed Pop-Up City three years ago, you may remember this piece we wrote about Terrafugia's early developments in building a flying car. The company recently announced that a prototype of the 'Transition' street plane completed its maiden flight on March 23 in Plattsburgh, New York.
Wall Street Streets
Along the lines of the 99% movement (which inspired his 'Seating for the One Percent' project), Sebastian Errazuriz adds his own contribution to New York’s street lines. The Chile-born artist and designer transforms lines into dollar sings by painting a white letter 'S' across each line.
Urban Hacktivist Launches Shopping Cart Playing Fields
From libraries to crosswalks, Florian Rivière plays with our conception of public space in a way that makes it more fun for everyone. Unless you’re a pigeon. This one is certainly more for the sporty folks out there. ‘Don’t Pay, Play!’ takes some blacktop, some tape, and some shopping carts to make some miniature playing fields.
Charlotte Mann’s Hand-Drawn Wallpaper Designs
A messy environment can have destructive effects on your productivity, but isn't a clinically white room also depressing? The British artist Charlotte Mann seems to have the solution. Mann paints densely detailed 1:1 scale drawings of rooms on wallpapers with a black marker.
#IABR — F.A.S.T.: A Pop-Up Paradise For Surfers
Take an empty lot at The Hague's beach boulevard, some containers and cabins and the totally chill and relaxed vibe surfers are known for. The mix of these ingredients has resulted in F.A.S.T. (Free Architecture Surf Terrain), a pop-up village on the beach that has grown into a center of surf-related cultural activities. F.A.S.T. recently won VPRO's Droomstad People's Choice Award, a competition that was held as part of this year's International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) program.
Street Art Meets Origami In Paris
Check out these lovely rainbow origami street art creations by Mademoiselle Maurice. After spending one year in Japan, she was inspired to bring these colorful geometric figures to the streets of Paris.
We, The Tiny House People
'We, The Tiny House People' is a full-length documentary in which TV producer and Huffington Post blogger Kirsten Dirksen explores "the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops".
Color Jam: A Color Explosion In Chicago’s Public Space
Colourful urban interventions are probably the best kind: they’re bright, they’re fun, and they’re wonderfully unconventional. We’ve written about painted bus loops in Bratislava and painted roadways in small Swiss villages before, but this one just takes the cake. American visual artist Jessica Stockholder (who was partially trained in Vancouver, I might add) brings us Color Jam, an art piece that will span hundreds of metres and be located on sidewalks, roadways, and the sides of buildings this Summer in Chicago.
What’s In A Bench?
The bench: a hyper-common piece of street furniture that has been made polymorphic, transformed into a live-tweeting machine, and designed to be more like a chesterfield. Benches are everywhere, and it makes sense to try to re-invent it. This recent re-invention of the ever-present public seat comes from Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein. The benches are designed in unconventional ways, not offering an immediately obvious sitting strategy for the passer-by.
Hipcescu: City-Marketing For An Imaginary Metropolis
Recently we tweeted about a postcard that we received from a mysterious city called Hipcescu. Later we found out that this place, also known as 'the City of a Thousand Suns', is the brainchild of Amsterdam-based copywriter and creative director Olaf Zwetsloot.
Bubblegum On The Water
Back in 2009, we expressed our love for inflatable constructions and ‘bubbletecture’. Merijn Hos (presenter at edition #11 of PechaKucha Amsterdam), joined forces with Utrecht-based artist Renée Reijnders to create an installation of 50 floating and colorful balloons for the cultural night 2010 in the Amsterdam suburb of Almere.
