ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS

ENSAD was founded in 1767 and is now a fully fledged design faculty. The project team have been founded from different disciplines and have come together for the GLK project.

This is an excerpt of a live VJ mix performed with VJ Lady Firefly and DJ Spinoza at Eyebeam's Mixer event in NYC. It premieres my flying cutout series, including the flying octopus, flying mustache, and swiveling dancers. The full mix was about an hour long.

The street artist Invader came from France to L.A. recently and took a minute to explain his new Binary Code street art. This new media utilizes hi-tech Binary Code technology combined with his trademark lo-tech ceramic tile work as seen in urban centers all around the world.

Nice project from our friends from slashthree.com. Directed, designed, composed and animated by myaka, with music by NEO.

Our first stop over in Alberta/Canada was in Calgary. In the Art Central we found the AXIS art gallery where owner Rob showed us some really cool contemporary pieces of canadian and international art.

This work by Gera Frascaroli represents the intertwining life cycle of a $10 bill and a male. The bill returns to the male at different stages of his life to show how he reacts to money. Although the character realises that there is more to life than money towards the end, the character is actually in an endless and inescapable cycle.

8 artists gathered in Cape Town (South Arfica). Their theme: The fate of the earth.
Watch out for that cool project that was realized with courtesy of DISCOVERY CHANNEL.

Today in the morning, on Nov 6, the press conference for the very first Cologne Design Award (1. Kölner Design Preis) took place at the Museum of Applied Arts in the centre of Cologne. We already got back from the award ceremony tonight, so here you see some first impressions. A further video with the award winners and impressions of the gala will follow soon...

Aakashs street art mostly consists of isometric rectangles and squares. He selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry of the city itself. All execution of a piece is done on site with little to no planning.

The first Cologne Design Award was given to the best graduation projects by design students and come with prize money of 45.000 Euros. The award ceremony took place at the Museum of Appied Arts in Cologne on November 6.