This clever public art piece was created in Berlin by artist Aram Bartholl. His project Map takes the Google map marker and blows it up into real space. It’s nerdy internet mapping + Claus Oldenburg!
Photos above from Bartholl’s site datenform.de.
Archive for April, 2008
The main intersection in Ruiru, Kenya.
By the airport in Placencia, Belize.
Stacks of flattened boxes on Mott Street, Chinatown. Someone would win a prize if they came up with a less waste-producing way of delivering produce… I’m thinking a giant catapult…
Design 21 had a call to design a furoshiki, a traditional Japanese cloth used to wrap everything from groceries to gifts. What was once just artful is now eco-friendly, and the 3 x 3-foot cloth will be used to commemorate the upcoming environment summit in Kobe, Japan. Typography becomes the pattern in this contemporary version I made using the 3 R’s. When the cloth is folded around various objects, the ginormous letters are cropped to form bold and modern new shapes!
The first step to being a big famous artist is having an artsy profile picture to match. I like me a good piece of punctuation so I’ve posed with one of my favorites. Exclamation points can really make a difference. Really.
My public art Hours Away is officially part of the Koltsovo International Airport in Russia. Neat! Photos above from www.artpolitika.ru.
…and others don’t. The Egg Man. Capetown, South Africa.
At Pier 40, Hudson River Park. Hee hee. Transforming the word “permits” was particularly visionary.
