Tableware as Sensorial Stimuli by Jinhyun Jeon in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Tableware as Sensorial Stimuli by Jinhyun Jeon in thisispaperstories.com
Cutlery design focuses on getting food in bite-sized morsels from the plate to the mouth, but it could do so much more. The project aims to reveal just how much more, stretching the limits of what tableware can do. Focusing on ways of making eating a much richer experience, a series of dozens of different designs has been created, inspired by the phenomenon of synesthesia. This is a neurological condition where stimulus to one sense can affect one or more of the other senses…
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Apartment in El Born, Barcelona by ARQUITECTURA-G in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Apartment in El Born, Barcelona by ARQUITECTURA-G in thisispaperstories.com
Accommodation of 34 m2 and 4.5 m in height, divided by a load bearing wall in two rooms of similar size, located in El Born in Barcelona. Assuming this separation, the housing project divides into two areas: The first consists of the kitchen and a mobile cabinet, which operates as a bar, kitchen side table and dining table. It is a social area linked to the driveway, which improves the electrical installation and use television to spread beyond the mere fact of cooking and eating…
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Albinos Project by Gustavo Lacerda in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Albinos Project by Gustavo Lacerda in thisispaperstories.com
For some years, albinism and its peculiar beauty arouse my attention. Since the beginning of 2009 I have been researching the universe of albinos and trying to bring them to the front of the camera. I chose the posing portrait in studio, valuing and seeking to mystify the production processs: costumes, hair/makeup and backgrounds. The idea was to put them clearly in the forefront, a new situation for those who have always been an outsider…
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Pure Filtering by Lukas Jager in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Pure Filtering by Lukas Jager in thisispaperstories.com
Filtering water consumes a great deal of time and energy. By visualizing this, Lukas Jager hopes to make people more aware of the process. His filtering bowls, made of clay mixed with sawdust, have been heated in an oven at 850 degrees centigrade. It gives the heated material a porous character which makes it suitable for filtering water…
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Arrangements by Bruce Ingram in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Arrangements by Bruce Ingram in thisispaperstories.com
The body of work highlights Ingram’s interest in the Japanese art form of Ikebana, through his creative response to the form of flower arrangement; Ingram has produced a series of collages that highlight his interest in the sculptural forms, composition and construction demonstrated within Ikebana…
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SH House by BaksvanWengerden in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
SH House by BaksvanWengerden in thisispaperstories.com
Amsterdam-based practice BaksvanWengerden has just completed the ‘SH HOUSE’, an enlargement to an existing home in a village between Haarlem and the north sea coast in Bentveld, The Netherlands. Constructed in 1932, the masonry exterior is topped with a gable roof with overhanging eaves…
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A Natural Order by Lucas Foglia in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
A Natural Order by Lucas Foglia in thisispaperstories.com
Lucas Foglia grew up on a farm on Long Island just 30 miles from Manhattan. His parents were part of the post 1960’s “back to the land movement”. Much of the area surrounding the family home became increasingly urbanised, but his parents continued to strive for selfsufficiency. “While malls and supermarkets developed around us, we heated our house with wood, farmed and canned our food, and bartered the plants we grew for everything from shoes to dental work”…
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Reformed Objects by Adrien Petrucci in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Reformed Objects by Adrien Petrucci in thisispaperstories.com
“My process transforms the object from serial and anonymous to unique and intimate. With this gesture, I introduce human deviance within the inert industrial material and shape. The personal handwriting I developed is at the core of my design process.”
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Unfocused by Wonmin Park in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Unfocused by Wonmin Park in thisispaperstories.com
“Society demands a certain focus from us, whereas I like the effortless beauty that is created by not focusing on a particular thing,” says Wonmin Park. His answer to today’s constant pressure to concentrate is Unfocused, a table made of molded resin treated to create a ‘blurry’ look. The effect is similar to frosted glass, with a dark shadow organically emanating from a fixed point…
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Apartment in ‘el Putxet by ARQUITECTURA-G in THISISPAPER MAGAZINE
Apartment in ‘el Putxet by ARQUITECTURA-G in thisispaperstories.com
ARQUITECTURA-G was commissioned to transform a 150sqm groundfloor studio into an apartment. In the context of a low budget, the key decision was to act only over the interior layout and the floor. The original walls of the house have remained intact so the intervention, basic but categorical, consists in the articulation of space by a set of vertical planes…
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