These incredible paper cut works by Risa Fukui are currently on show at the Pola Museum Annex in Tokyo, but we’d like them to come to a town near us please. Each piece is cut from a large translucent panel which can be viewed from either side, one side coloured, the other white, then hung to cast an interesting shadow on the floor below. They reminded me of Nahoko Kojima‘s work that we featured in a previous Friday Favourites, which was equally stunning. Found via Spoon and Tamago.
Thanks to Dan P for finding these pieces of furniture by German designer Samuel Triendl, who has made a clock, lamps and other items from cut out pieces from existing furniture: “Another “wish I’d thought of that” moment, such a simple idea, and yet so clever. Strangely beautiful abstract cut out shapes too, love the way you piece the new object out of the old one, and realise what the random shapes have turned into. Elegant, efficient, just a little functional. Deutschtastich.” Found via Dezeen.
This was a nice bit of promotion work from Cadbury. They celebrated the launch of their new Pebbles brand (think Minstrels crossed with Mini Eggs) by using them to build a massive chocolate sandcastle on Brighton beach. According to the Birmingham Post, it was made from from a quarter of a ton of fondant icing, 20 kilos of icing sugar and 90,000 Cadbury Pebbles, and was later taken off to live in Bournville, the home of Cadbury near Birmingham. Found via Design Taxi.
Also on the subject of sandcastles (and just because we are still just about in the holiday season), these Infinity sand sculptures by Carl Jara are pretty impressive. He recently won the Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting competition with the Infinity project, but check out some of his other designs on his Flickr stream, which include Sumo wrestlers, an Octopus, a horse and carriage, and other amazing designs. Found via Colossal.
For more erm, amazing and impressive sand sculpture check out our own efforts on the Amsterdam office summer away day…
I loved these delicate architectural drawings by Alyssa Dennis, who uses layers and objects to build up a dream-like image of imaginary buildings and constructed space. I loved the disjointed, slightly strange nature of these, the way objects that usually appear inside a building, float outside, and donkeys turn up in the kitchen. Found via It’s Nice That.
