Looking At Exhibition Spaces

This is a selection of exhibition spaces I have found by Peter Kogler. I was taken by these design in particular as the exhibitions themselves are like stand alone art works! I like how the term 'Thinking outside the box' has been taken literally, meaning that the artworks have been able to 'spill' from their canvases and leave their mark on the space. This has also given me an insight into different lighting styles in an exhibition rather than plain spot lighting (which may have been trendy 20 years ago but isn't very original nowadays)

This is one of my favorite images because there doesn't appear to be any physical signs of artworks on the walls, but the way that the lighting has been used to cast different shapes in different colours throughout the corridor is really quite original. Also it looks as if the walls have been covered in an almost circuit board print which is quite a nice touch (but I suppose it could just be the way that the lights are projecting?)

This is quite an interesting space, but I can imagine a lot of people would complain that it hurts their eyes...Live a little!! It makes me thing of what I would imagine the underneath of floorboards to look like with electrical wiring and piping all over the place. I know its probably not part of the design but I also quite like how the red fire extinguisher and fire alarm box stand out from the rest of the room. 

When I think of regular art galleries I think of plain white spaces with paintings or whatever artworks laid around for people to look at, but this isn't particularly the case in this design. I like how one of the walls has been covered in a printed paper, and works with a similar print have been laid on top of them. I have not thought of doing anything like this myself as I would imagine it to look terrible but looking at this I think it works really well!. Another thing that got me thinking is the height of the artworks themselves. I would always imagine people looking up at the works in an art gallery  but in this space it doesn't look as if people would have to (obviously I can't see the scale of the room when it is in use but from what I can see the artworks look really low!)

Cool Wine Store Design

I could only find one image online of this particular design which is disappointing, but I think it's earned its place on the blog! I'm not quite sure about the 'church' archways but I like how the plastics have been used to appear to create lights. It's hard to explain but when this sort of plastic is cut, the edges appear to glow when lights are shone through them. Perhaps if the plastic was black or clear and different coloured LED lights were shone through it then it would create more of an aesthetic piece, but even without that I think its a very nice and modern piece of furniture which a lot of people would like to look at!!

Like I said earlier this is the only photo that I could find of the wine cellar, but I am going to try and find out the name of the store to see if I can find amy more photos of it. I'll post them later if I do!!!

LED Video Dress!

Ive been looking on Pinterest again at a couple of things and then I came across this which I thought was a very innovative idea!. Although I've seen similar products on the market before, I have never seen something quite like this particular product. The dresses (By Moritz Waldemeyer & Hussein Chalayan) are fitted with 15,000 LED lights, embedded into the material to mimic the silhouette of the person wearing the dress.

Although this isn's a fashion blog, I thought that these would work really well in a retain environment. People are always talking about how to draw customers in using sight-lines and advertising etc, but I know for a fact that these dresses would catch peoples eyes, and then customers would be drawn in to see them!

The LED dress by Hussein Chalayan 

Hussein Chalayan's video dress on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The video dress during a Paris fashion show

Photo featured in the New York Times 

National Museum of Afghanistan International design Competition

I was doing some random research for uni tonight when I found these images of the 'National Museum of Afghanistan International design Competition' winning entry. Although it's quite a small scale design, it really took my eye in the way that the architect has approached the project. People generally thing that when they are designing a space that they should start from the bottom and work their way up, yet the architect of this design has decided to flip that and have a completely empty space at the bottom of the building, and create these large airy spaces on the first floor. I like their thinking... 

This is an internal view of the space where you can see that although the room it's self is quite small, there is room for a high curved ceiling with (although you cant see it really well) but quite a dominating lighting feature. I also quite like the plain colour scheme. It has a real feeling of modern clinical-ness that I find really aesthetically pleasing in design. 

Im not entirely sure of the nature of this concept, but putting that aside, this is one of my favourite images that I've seen because it kind of makes you need to do a double take to notice that there are no lower level floors, but instead they are all on the first floor. I could imagine these being some kind of holiday home abroad somewhere which would let the light flood the space with the half glass wall at the opposite end. 

Bar/Restaurant Lighting Idea - Very Cool!!

I've always been very interested in finding new ways to furnish Bars/Clubs/Restaurants etc. but it was actually tonight when watching Made in Chelsea that I saw something that has actually gave me a couple of ideas. Although I didn't catch the name of the place where I saw the lights I did get the jist of the theme. 

The design that I saw was in a wine tasting shop in London, and there was a very aesthetically pleasing lighting piece created using wine glasses. The glasses themselves were hung upside down with the bulbs in the heads of them. I have done a little bit of research on Pinterest and found a couple of products which follow the same basic theme which I think could also be used quite effectively.

These lights have been made of glass wine bottles that have been cut, polished, frosted, and reassembled. Jerry Kott has exhibited his work around the world and creates many interesting and beautiful pieces, in addition to his artistic and functional lamps.

A bad quality picture but I think this would look great (perhaps not in a night club) but maybe in a restaurant/deli kind of place. I really like the thought of 'mis-using' the wine glasses to create light features. One of my favorite ideas so far I think. Definitely 

This is a very simple idea, but I would love to use it in a brief to create a sort of replica of the 'Hogwarts Grand Hall' ceiling from Harry Potter. I could just imagine stepping into a bar and having all of these bottles filled with fairy lights hanging from the ceiling, and possible sticking out of walls etc. Very nice idea...