Welcome to the blog of Johannesburg creative agency Nicework. A fine selection of the best creative ideas, art, design and advertising.
PGC and Richez Nous La Paix Gallery asked onoffcrew to create an installation in their gallery space. The final installation comprised of nearly 1000 green and coloured cones, white rabbits, little houses and that giant characters, all made from paper or cardboard.
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The Trinity Session’s two founding members, Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, are celebrating ten years of collaboration by exhibiting an archive of videos, photography, mind maps and artifacts on large projection surfaces. The exhibitions is being held at the soon-to-be Museum of African Design at 281 Commissioner Street, which is the newest addition to the Maboneng Precinct.
Make sure you visit before time runs out, the exhibition ends on the 25th of March. It’s free to the public and open daily from 19h00 – 22h00 daily.
Photography: Andre Pretorius
Chinese artist Li Lihong created this beautiful ceramic McDonalds logo, which explores the commercial Westernization of Chinese culture.
“Without sacrificing the beauty of his sculpture, he creates perfect visual metaphors in which the arches of McDonald’s co-exist comfortably, or not comfortably, depending on your point of view, with traditional colorful Chinese artistic motifs.”
People from around the world are being still to honour those affected by the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan. Still for Japan is a beautiful example of how students from VCU Brandcenter are letting the Japanese know that they are not alone. At the time of the post they had collected collected 12189 minutes for Japan. CSS3 and HTML5 in action.
Please donate your attention, thought and stillness for the next 60 seconds. www.stillforjapan.com
I recently stumbled across a Flickr Gallery of C215, real name Christian Guémy. He a French street artist hailing from Paris. His work is in London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brooklyn and even New Delhi. He works mainly in stencils but these look like they might have some hand painting. They have an almost Van Gogh feel.
See the full gallery here.
There are many beautiful things on the Internet. Not all of them make me stop and read an entire article. Bloom is one of the most touching things things I have ever seen. The delicate flowers really bring out the sadness and highlight the Sense of Place that the facility holds.
The Child Psychiatry unit with white tulips.
One of the tiny offices on the third floor, with orange tulips at mid-day.
Red Regina Mums in the hallway that was the last one to close—it used to be one of the busiest homeless shelters in Boston.
The basement of the building was covered with 5,600square feet of live sod, which was raked and watered throughout the day, and continued to grow.
In 2003 a building housing the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) was slated for demolition to make way for updated facilities. The closure was a time for reflection and remembrance as the MMHC had been in operation for over 9 decades and had touched countless thousands of patients and employees alike, and the pending demolition presented a unique problem. How does one memorialize a building impossibly rich with a history of both hope and sadness, and do it in a way that reflects not only the past but also the future? And could this memorial be open to the public, not as a speech, or series of informational plaques, but as an experience worthy of they building’s unique story?
To answer that question artist Anna Schuleit was commissioned to do the impossible. After an initial tour of the facility she was struck not with what she saw but with what she didn’t see: the presence of life and color. While historically a place of healing, the drab interior, worn hallways, and dull paint needed a respectful infusion of hope. With a limited budget and only three months of planning Schuleit and an enormous team of volunteers executed a massive public art installation called Bloom. The concept was simple but absolutely immense in scale. Nearly 28,000 potted flowers would fill almost every square foot of the MMHC including corridors, stairwells, offices and even a swimming pool, all of it brought to life with a sea of blooms. The public was then invited for a limited 4-day viewing as a time for needed reflection and rebirth.
The people at Colossal were so touched by this they got in touch and had a Q & A with Anna.
Calligraffiti by Niels Shoe Meulman created using a bucket of water and a broom. Well worth a watch.
Video: Adele Renault
Music: Kalyanji Anandji – Dharmatma Theme Music (Tommy’s edit)
Gaëlle Villedary created this amazing natural art piece in the French village of Jaujac to celebrate the 10th year of its arts and nature trail programs. The art piece is a green path made from grass, that connects the villages’ centre to its surrounding natural areas. The artwork comprises of 168 rollers of turf grass, spanning 420 meters (or nearly 1,400 feet), which weighs 3.5 tons!
Photographs: David Monjou
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The latest NICE Magazine is out and available for download! Our theme for this issue is “Handmade”. Expect a splendid selection of design, art, fashion, illustration, food and advertising, with a handcrafted or artisanal quality.
Follow these instructions to get your hands on one, it’s awesome and free!
For this issue we created not one, but four unique handmade covers – one is screenprinted, one is a lino print and the other two are stitched. We hope you like them.
NICE Magazine’s latest issue serves up a delightful mix of eye candy for you to enjoy. We feature Swedish photographer Annette Pehrsson, who takes captivating photographic portraits. We also interviewed Canadian painter Kris Knight and knitwear extraordinaire Yokoo, whose creative talents inspire and astound us. We’ve rounded up some exceptional illustrators, designers and artists, including: Jack Hudson, jiaakuann, Elizabeth Graeber, Hanna Oh and Maria Aparicio Puentes. If you are a design or furniture fanatics, our profiles on James Mudge Furniture Studio, Ceramik B, Varpunen, Rob’s Woodgrain Bikes and Studio Snowpuppe is sure to hit the spot. For those with a sartorial flair, we have showcased local jewellery studio Skermunkil and artisan bag company Artifact Bag Co. There are also some delicious features on chocolate makers Honest Chocolate and Cape Town ice cream company The Creamery. Last, but definitely not least, we satiate the appetites of all you stationary freaks with our articles on In Haus Press and Our Paper Shop. Our regular Ten Things and Print + Packaging features are also well worth a look see.
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