Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Awards

I went to Object Gallery today - after spending 20 mins trying to get parking - and yes. Took some lovelyyy photos and had a look around. Thought it was a lot bigger than it was - still pretty good to see though.

aluminium fabric

for the love of design

can't say i'll be getting this tattoo any time soon hahaha

research research research

From all the stuff I've been reading about aluminium, I've decided to work on the area of the actual beauty, emotion and individuality that was once associated with the material, which has now been lost due to high industrialised associations with aluminium.

Being a metal, the connotations of this disregards any association of beauty, preciousness or emotion - all of which were what the material used to be considered of. It was used and considered great than silver or gold - reserved for the highest members of society like Napoleon III, who commissioned heaps of works to be made from the material. Now today you can go and buy the stuff in sheets from everywhere.

Alsooo, aluminium has been used throughout design history, from ancient bowls, French Jewellery, heirlooms, to furniture, building and construction.
It has been considered a material of change -- representing the change - particularly in the 1930s - within society -- yet also nostalgia of the past -- also another area I'm considering looking at.

oldest known and remaining piece of aluminium in art and design

Charles Christofle, in 1858, designed the centerpiece for Napoleon III.. it's one of the oldest remaining pieces of aluminium used in design existing today.

aluminium = golddddd

i never thought that learning about aluminium would have actually been interesting.. but considering how historically jammed pack this one little metal is, is crazy. never would have guessed that aluminium was actually worth and considered wayyyy more than gold.. gold!!!!!

i've been doing some research into the historical aspects of the metal - unbelievable some of the stuff that i found out about it - not too many visual stimulus to support the written info though - but pretty much i hope to deal with a few certain things within this project, including stuff like the complete appreciation of the metal in design history - it has been used so much in art and design to say so many things, the actual beauty and the preciousness of the material - highly influenced by its historical contexts - anddddd more stuff too

Hughesy loses it

Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, has gone and attacked reknown Tate Modern artist, Damien Hirst, saying his work is "tacky" and "absurd" (Daily Telegraph, Monday September 8 2008).

If you look at Hirst's work, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living -- which Hughes stated as being "world's most over-rated marine organism" (which is just a complete load of crap for him to say) -- it's not tacky - different maybe, but considering the conceptual nature of Hirst's art, Hughes is a massive twat for calling it tacky.

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

For the Love of God, 2007 (sold of $123 million)

Mother and Child Divided, 1993

Considering that Hirst is probably one of the best YBAs (Young British Artists) to merge out of Europe. To call his work absurd is slightly ironic, considering he aims to be a controversial artist.

My first ever blog-rant. But yeah, Hughes is a massive twat.

new occupation

this is the 3rd one i've designed.. i think i might become a tattoo designer.. and then become BFF with the Miami Ink boys hahaha

anddd there's more

speaking of exhibitions... just thinking of one i went to when i was in yr 12 for art.. pretty sure it was the 2006 Biennale art exhibition.. and one work that was showing was Anthony Gormley's 'Asian Field' - 180,000 little figures sitting in this open space in this warehouse.. was bloody amazing.. i honestly can't describe what it was like to see it; was one of the best installations i've ever seen.

exhibition time!!

today we took a lovely trip to the powerhouse to see a few exhibitions... mainly we looked at inspired! and also the Australian Design Awards.. and then quickly got distracted by the thought of Chinatown and all the Chinese restaurants hahah