Take A Charcoal | Art & Design Magazine

Take a Charcoal publishes a carefully chosen selection of special art and design projects from around the world. Art and design in the broadest sense of the word, art and design that goes off the beaten path. Take a Charcoal brengt u een zorgvuldig gekozen selectie van bijzondere kunst en design projecten uit de hele wereld. Kunst en design in de breedste zin van het woord; kunst en design dat zich buiten de gebaande paden begeeft.

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A lone figure “marches” through various stages of architectural structures such as geodesic domes, stacked blocks and complex grids. In this animation called Walking City by multimedia studio Universal Everything (Matt Pyke), the city is seen as a living being that, despite of its continuous change in size and shape, keeps moving forward.

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Spruitje makes amazing little habitats and develops them into lamps and other objects.

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Yuri Suzuki (1980, Tokyo) is an electronic music producer, designer and an artist who works in London and Stockholm at the moment. His work touches both visual and audible disciplines and aims to make music visible or images hearable – whatever description you think is best.

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In his work Kengo Kuma wants to bring the Japanese building tradition, in which the use of materials, the joinings and the effects of natural daylight is so specific and particular, back in today’s modern 21st century architecture.

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In his work Sodeoka seems to look for the ‘mistakes’ digital devices can make. Images that linger, flickering colours and missing pixels.

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Liliana Porter (Buenos Aires, 1941) knows how to work with whatever she gets her hands on. In her oeuvre you can find installations, photographs, collages, video’s, prints and even paintings.

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Architectural modules coated with titanium dioxide reduces air pollution by Elegant Embellishments

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The sculpture Linea de Horizonte, created in 2006 by Spanish artist Javier Perez, is a series of 60 heads which gradually morph from a staring face form into a detailed face and back into a face form.

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Although name and art suggest differently, Jacob Hashimoto (Greely Colorado, 1973) was born and raised in the United States. He got his bachelor degree at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and held many group and solo shows ever since. His work contains massive installations, always adapted to the specifics of the exhibition space. The installations are both impressive by their size as fragile because of their material.

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Lighting manufacturer Crypsis launches its highly anticipated wireless lighting technology.

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Echo Yang attached brushes, pens or paint soaked cotton swabs to everyday moving objects in order to enable them to make their own artwork.

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On a tight location, just four metres wide, between high residential buildings in a densely populated business district of Tokyo, Nishizawa made a spatial green living work space.

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For the project ‘Imagine Being There (International)’ film makers Martin and Inge Riebeek asked random people about their idea of paradise.

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Little felt man Willy goes back to the naturist park where his mother died. He obviously is a little confused by memories and naked people running around and so he leaves the place to end up all alone in the woods. There he meets this fantastic creature with whom he starts a friendship.

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To carry out our tasks at a desk, we need electricity to be able to let our devices work for us and to have light while we work. Normally we connect this equipment to the network so they can actually do their job; not really sustainable. The Swedish Eddi Törnberg found the solution. For his thesis, at the Beckmans Collage of Design, he conceived a concept and created a set-up that generates the energy to power the electronics by working at the desk.

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In the heart of the “Schulberg”, Wiesbaden (D) lies a sculpture designed by Berlin based design studio ANNABAU for architecture and landscape architecture. The sculpture serves both as urban art, unifying the community, and as a playground, attracting people of all ages and ethnical backgrounds. The historical city of Wiesbaden inspired the playgrounds pentagonal form.

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When I saw ‘Black Moon Dead Sea’ for the first time, I was attracted by the combination of dreamy images happening in the actual world. I couldn’t see it as real fiction, because it was clear the scenery of the Dead Sea plays an elementary part in the video.