Mosstika - Urban Greenery Guerrilla

A green portrait made by Mosstika.

Detail of the portrait

The Baroness O. Sisters have always had some affinity with greenery. That’s why we designed a roofgarden-coffee table in our early days for Ecoworks. And you should have seen the modular cubes of vertical gardens we came up with! The project was never realized and it’s too bad we lost the images… 

Anyhow, we did not have the technical background (nor time and money to invest in research) to make greenery survive longer than a week or so, but what this lady does is exactly what we were dreaming of!  

As her firm Mosstika describes itself: “Mosstika Urban Greenery is a NYC based collective of eco-minded street artists, using guerrilla tactics to evoke the call of man back to nature.” Together with József Vályi-tóth, Edina Tokodi (Hungarian) keeps on rolling on the urban green waves of Brooklyn.  

Funny note: on their website they call it ‘gorilla’ tactics. :)

Urban greenery!

Ok, this one is hanging in a museum but wouldn’t it be amazing graffiti? 

Some other work for your and mine interior:

The chandelier was made for a D&A show in LA. 

This one is just so very cute. It was made for the D&A show in NY. 

Make sure you visit her website! 

And uhh… if you see stuff like this show up in the urban space of Brussels one of these days… it wasn’t us! :)

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Information is Beautiful

The website from David McCandless (British, born 1971) called Information Is Beautiful, offers a wide variety of information put into another perspective. Here are some examples of graphics that caught my attention:

Venice will be gone soon but that’s not a surprise, is it? 

This wheel of colors related different emotions (numbers) and cultures (letters). Good to know red and passion are everywhere the same! Love might be red in the Western world and Japan, in Hindu it’s green!  

This last graphic: ‘The Hierarchy of Digital Distraction’ represents certain forms of communication that you will prioritize/you will be distracted by over others. For example: a phone calls usually takes your mind of a chat session. Reading an email will be interrupted when you receive an sms… All the rings and sounds screaming for your attention were mapped into this graph. Funny though that ‘device failure’ is the most distracting! Conclusion: our world is full of distractions - just pick the battles that are right for you!

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David Lynch and Christian Louboutin - Fetish

 

Walking around on the Nacht van het Zoute in Knokke, Baroness O rediscovered some forgotten design gems at the Christian Coppens’ pop up store. Made in 2007, these shoes are a perfect example of the creative work that can come out of a collaboration between artists from different fields. In this case movie director David Lynch and shoe designer Christian Louboutin worked together on this project which they named ‘Fetish’. 

Louboutin is famous for designing beautiful shoes with red soles. Lynch makes dark, sensual movies with a mysterious twist… Together they created these amazing looking, sexy shoes… with a dark twist to it! 

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Hush!

 

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Tahtaaaah Welcome to the brand new Baroness O.After 3 months we felt that the layout of or blog became quite boring. Offcourse boring doesn’t equals Baroness O. so we needed to make some changes.With some hard work, a little bit of trust and some pixie dust we created the new sparkling Baroness O. We hope you like it! Keep in touch because new post will follow soon.A* & L*

Tahtaaaah Welcome to the brand new Baroness O.
After 3 months we felt that the layout of or blog became quite boring. Offcourse boring doesn’t equals Baroness O. so we needed to make some changes.
With some hard work, a little bit of trust and some pixie dust we created the new sparkling Baroness O.


We hope you like it! Keep in touch because new post will follow soon.

A* & L*

Melt down

Who said chemistry wasn’t exciting? I’m sure it wasn’t Tom Price. This London based designer based his latest collection on melting, which resulted into some very nice designs.

The Thinker Table by Tom Price

The Thinker Table consists out of black, white and grey polypropylene tubes. They have been melted into a smooth flat tabletop. Besides that these tubes form three-dimensional pixels of two-dimensional image or in other words the face of the Greek philosopher Socrates. 

Can you see him?! :)
Next to this table Tom Price also designed a series of chairs. The PP blue rope chair is created by heating and pressing a seat-shaped former into a woven ball of blue polypropylene rope. This one is absolutely Baroness O. her favorite one!

PP blue robe chair by Tom Price

He used the same techniques to create a PP tube chair and PP sheet chair. 

PP tube chair by Tom Price


PP sheet chair by Tom Price
Is my explanation to difficult, no problemo! Just watch this video below, a design documentary Tales of the Hunt by the Belgian designart dealer Victor Hunt.

 


 
So next time someone is telling me chemistry is boring and to difficult (hello sweet memories!), I’ll definitely refer to Tom Price.
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What happens to an object that is deliberately created with an error? It becomes art! Jeremy Hutchison, a London based artist, contacted various factories around the world and asked they if their workers would produce an incorrect version of the products they make every day. He would accept whatever way they found to make this product incorrect.    This project is all about creating deliberate miscommunication. It’s about the workers and their connection to the product. It’s a combination of art, design, mass-production, function and dysfunction.       Initially, the companies contacted were a bit confused about his intentions. Are your required combs not used for combing hair? All this resulted in some various incorrect products. Some have been destroyed while others are more playful.        If you’d like to visit the exhibition, you can find more info at Paradise Row.  A*

What happens to an object that is deliberately created with an error? It becomes art! Jeremy Hutchison, a London based artist, contacted various factories around the world and asked they if their workers would produce an incorrect version of the products they make every day. He would accept whatever way they found to make this product incorrect. 

 

This project is all about creating deliberate miscommunication. It’s about the workers and their connection to the product. It’s a combination of art, design, mass-production, function and dysfunction.    


 

Initially, the companies contacted were a bit confused about his intentions. Are your required combs not used for combing hair? All this resulted in some various incorrect products. Some have been destroyed while others are more playful. 

   

  
If you’d like to visit the exhibition, you can find more info at Paradise Row.
 

A*

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