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Room for One Colour

Room for One Colour by Berlin-based artist Olafur Eliasson is pretty much as minimal as installations get. (Unless you recount Yves Klein’s exhibition called The Void.)

In this work, Eliasson is perhaps expressing his dissastisfaction with the materiality of art, and the notion that an exhibition is about putting art into a space. Instead, he seems to be interested in using a space as the actual artwork. In this instance, he reconfigures the space using mono-frequency lights to transform it into a room filled with a single colour. I find this quite a clean, minimal and slick method.

Having seen this work in person earlier this year at the MCA, I can say from experience that it has a disorienting affect on people within and outside of the space. In the pictures, you can see how the lighting drains colour out of anything within the space.

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Metrofarm Bed

The Berlin-based Metrofarm studio created this bold walnut veneered double bed.

The bed was designed with a double function in mind: to be used as a lounge chair as well as a bed. The angle at the headrest allows you to go into an optimal chill position, as Metrofarm themselves describe it.

If the double bed is too much for you, there’s also a single bed, which is open on one side.

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Crown

The pendant light prototype Crown, presented at the Light+Building 2010 – 11-16 April 2010 – is made by Berlin based design studio Formfjord, established in 2006 by Engineer Fabian Baumann and Designer Sönke Hoof. In addition to furniture, lighting and accessories, Baumann and Hoof enjoy working in various fields: “Each project holds inspiration for another. The more different the jobs, the more fruitful and unexpected the synergies are.”

The pendant lamps of the Crown series attract attention with their fascinating play of coloured light.

The lampshade is made of laser cut and canted in the accordant angles metal, put together by 2 screws at the 2 endings of the plate. The narrow openings for the light and gives the lamp its remarkable airiness. A filter lets the inside of the lamp shade shine in colour.

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Kinetic Sculpture

Oooh this is nice!

The Kinetic Sculpture consists of 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires. Each sphere can be moved individually, and through some amazing software, moving shapes can be created.

The Kinetic Sculpture is created by ART+COM, a digital media design agency based in Berlin, Germany, for the BMW Museum in Munich, Germany.

ART+COM have animated a seven minute long mechatronic narrative – a dance in mid-air. (Thx, Floris!)

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YOUTOO

This prototype wardrobe, named YOUTOO, is designed by Berlin based Atelier Haußmann – founded by the brothers Andreas and Rainer Haußmann. Made from powder coated steel YOUTOO seems like a robust and multi functional furniture piece.

Time will tell when this prototype will be in production and available in Atelier Haußmanns shop.

YOUTOO is nominated for the interior innovation award at IMM Cologne 2010 – starting today until January 24th.

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Katja Gretzinger

Katja Gretzinger is a graphic designer living and working in Berlin, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland. She runs a small graphic design studio, aptly named the Katja Gretzinger Graphic Design Studio.

Her work shows a great eye for typography, composition and the power of colour.

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