Art & Culture, Australia, Design

The Stompstone Song: Beautiful Music From The Playground

No Comments 16 May 2010

Although Alfons van Leggelos’ Dance Tiles aren’t exactly a new idea, the ‘Stompstone‘ Video below is just another example of the creativity and innovation that can spawn from music making public exhibits. Australian-born cellist Janice and German guitarist Andreas of Birds of Lidingö are seen above using the Stompstones to create a surprisingly catchy tune [...]

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Art & Culture, Australia

(Pics) Melbourne City Drain Painters

No Comments 16 May 2010

Quick to state they are not “taggers, graffiti artists or vandals”, the Melbourne City Drain Painters are a group of light artists that turn their love of urban exploration into visual wonders. Vowing to respect the locations they explore and shoot, the small group travel below the city through a number of concrete drain networks, [...]

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Art & Culture, Australia, D.I.Y., Design, Product Design

Trash To Treasure With makedo’s Modular Connector System

No Comments 16 May 2010

makedo is an Australian-based company that allows users to create forms and spaces using found objects and their modular connector clips.  Available online, their kits contain clips, pins, hinges and a tool, which can turn everyday trash into works of art.  Hoping to use “design to inspire social change through playful creativity” the creator of [...]

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Architecture, Art & Culture, Australia, Environment

Corners: The Billboard Project

No Comments 07 December 2009

Urging the public question their environment on a daily basis, the CORNERS project is a series of billboards installed from the airport along the ‘gateway’ leading into Sydney city. A collaboration between five local architects, the project was derived from a similar public art exhibit by Barcelona-based architect Manuel de Sola-Morales, and formed as part [...]

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Art & Culture, Australia, Youth

12yr Old Art Wonderboy, Moofus

No Comments 10 November 2009

Moofus is a twelve year old artist from Sydney. Too young to get a “real job”, Moofus began selling his prints to raise money for the International Animal Rescue and “help the bears”. With a number of brightly coloured prints for sale on various websites, the talented teen – who just started high school, has [...]

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Art & Culture, Australia

(Pics) Lettered Lane in Surry Hills

No Comments 06 October 2009

Thanks to ‘ml’ of Darlingurst Nights for finding this mysterious street art installation in Sydney’s Denham Lane. The text and portraits appeared sometime last night in the Surry Hills laneway. So far, no one has claimed the artwork as their own, but the ‘SC’ initials painted on the curb may point towards local vintage seller [...]

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Advertising and Branding, Art & Culture, Australia, D.I.Y., Design, Entertainment, Worldwide

The 5 Feed: Wrigleys Branded Creativity Aggregator

No Comments 06 October 2009

Not your average brand website, The 5 Feed is the Australian website for Wrigleys ’5′ gum. Designed by marketing communication group Clemenger BBDO, Wrigleys put aside generic product web design for a site “you’ll actually want to keep heading back to.” Hobo Gestapo, Isobel Knowles, Aeons, Crozynski, and Lilian Darmono are just some of the [...]

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Art & Culture, Australia

Melbourne’s Street Art Evolution: Crate Man

No Comments 06 October 2009

‘Crate Man’ is another great example of Melbourne’s diverse street art scene. Constructed from vibrantly painted milk crates, the huge figures have been found scaling fences, hanging off cranes, perched on rooftops and even fishing in a creek. Generally positioned within viewing distance of freeways or railway lines; Crate Man’s creator/s is still a mystery, [...]

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Art & Culture, Australia

(Pics) Public Toilet Gets Covered by Guerrilla Knitter

No Comments 06 October 2009

Last year PSFK wrote about Knitta Please – the worldwide guerrilla knitting collective who wrap and detail urban-based objects in bright yarns. Sydney-based suburb of Darlinghurst recently received some of their own knitted magic from the hands of Newtown knitter Denise Litchfield. Wrapping Sydney’s oldest functional underground “heritage toilet” in Taylor Square, Litchfield started planning [...]

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Art & Culture, Design, Environment, Jewellery

Bio Accessories of the Urban Weary

No Comments 06 October 2009

Industrial designer Ben Landau and felt / soft sculpture artist Brittany Veitch have created a range of wearable living couture accessories to bring elements of nature into urban living. Each Bio Accessory has a living component of which the wearer must tend to, whilst the accessory works to block the unappealing aspects of urban living; [...]

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