Michelberger Booze Company

Description lovelypackage

Designed by Michelberger Hotel | Country: Germany

“The Michelberger Hotel is a hotel in Berlin which has a design studio inside as part of its business. The studio does all the design work for the hotel and for its many other projects. We’ve been in Creative Review and D&AD amongst others.

Brief: The Michelberger Hotel together with The Preussiche Spirituosen Manufaktur in Berlin, have partnered up to create a new brand – the Michelberger Booze Company.

For our first product, we have created a pair of herbal schnaps drinks based on two old, forgotten recipes. Michelberger 35% is a golden liquid, a herbal liquor, smooth, earthy and warming and Michelberger 45% is a herbal distillate, clear, airy and invigorating.

The drinks are a complimentary pair, so the designs are more or less a symmetrical reflection of one another. The brand lives in the world of old German fairytales and so one bottle is set in a forest and the other in the mountain so as to reflect the qualities of the respective drinks. A drink is like a mask, it lets you feel something else or even become someone else, and so the visual concept is based around two masks – a wolf in the forest and a bird in the mountains.”

Stitch and Wooly by Susanne Westphal

Description designmilk

These Stitch and Wooly chairs by Susanne Westphal are her final graduate project from the University of Art and Design Burg Gibiechenstein. She asked the question “Why do we have less time then ever before, although we invented time saving things?”

The unfinished chairs are a reminder that we need to take time with things so each chair gets completed by the user. Using wool, one can stitch and upholster the chairs, and the more time that is spent on them, the more comfortable and attractive they are. By taking your time constructing the chairs, they teach you to slow down, relax, and unwind.

Photos by Sascha Linke.

Portraits by Loretta Lux

Description trendland

From The Omen’s devilish Damien to those chilling twins in The Shining, there’s always been an unsettling connection between children and the genre of horror within popular culture. This is something that artsit-turned-photgrapher Loretta Lux captures brilliantly in her surreal portraits of young children. Loretta’s work is carefully created through a combination of different techniques including still life painting and digital manipulation, sometimes taking up to three months to complete.

Each piece has a distinct vintage appeal, incorporating pastel-soaked tones and doe-eyed youngsters reminiscent of stylised Renaissance art and Old Master paintings. Both haunting and compelling, Loretta gingerly portrays a sense of dark fantasy with ghostly subjects that hover curiously on the line between the real and the imagined.

More information at www.lorettalux.de

45 Feet above the ground

Description illusionscene360

“Tiger & Turtle – Magic Mountain” is a large walk-in sculpture designed by Heike Mutter/Ulrich Genth. This gigantic roller coaster inspired installation has been on display to the open public (since November 13th) at Heinrich-Hildebrand-Hohe in Duisburg, Germany.

Under nuclear threat

Description luzinterruptus

The installation Radioactive Control was created for the Dockville Festival in de Hamburg which tried to demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan, has brought into question the safety systems at the nuclear power plants.

With our mysterious army of 100 illuminated radioactive figures, which advanced threateningly on the natural environment of the festival, we wanted to invite reflection regarding the use and abuse of nuclear energy, cheap in economic terms, but which can cause grave secondary effects for the environment and health, forever irreversible.

Germany has been the first developed country to announce the total abandonment of nuclear energy by 2022, we know that this was not an altruistic decision and has a lot to do with the creation of new and innovative industries, which will make them pioneers in the market. But just in case they change their minds, we already know that what politicians legislate today, they change tomorrow with impunity, we wanted to simulate, for the festival, a life under the constant threat of nuclear accidents.

Thanks to the people of the Dockville organization for their help and support in putting together the installation and their hospitality during our stay and to all the volunteers who donated their time and abilities so that in the end our army stayed afoot, with a military air, for the month that the festival lasted.

The photos are by Gustavo Sanabria. In a few days we will add more information with video and more photos of the installation.

Time of installation: 6 days.
Damages: none.
Exhibition time: 30 days.

oldbookillustrations:

William Strang, frontispiece from The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, London, 1895.

(Source: archive.org)

(via phibious)

oldbookillustrations:

I thought of examining the fruit which I had seen the eagles eat.

William Strang, from The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, London, 1895.

(Source: archive.org)

(via phibious)

oldbookillustrations:

These dreadful animals knowing, I presume, the force of our troop, advanced very slowly…

William Strang, from The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, London, 1895.

(Source: archive.org)

(via phibious)

Martin Pfeifle Art Installation

Description trendland

German artist Martin Pfeifle‘s art installation always relate to their environment, the exhibition space itself becomes his art piece while allowing viewers to move around it. During the last couple years, Martin has created some beautiful installations always playing with colors and geometric elements.

His latest ‘Rotemartha’ installation was installaed in the former imperial abbey of Aachen-Kornelimünster.

It consists of a series of long tinted film strips in six different shades of red. The strips are tied together to create a supper long band that stretches throughout one entire floor of the abbey.

MICHAEL KUTSCHE

Short Bio

Michael Kutsche is an award-winning Conceptual Artist/  Illustrator and 3d Artist located in Los Angeles who has worked for the vfx industry since 1998. His experiences reach from art directing and animating commercials and music videos to character design for feature film projects. He just finished his work as a character designer on Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”(2010) and is currently working on “John Carter of Mars”(2012), directed by Andrew Stanton. Clients : Sony Imageworks, Dreamworks, Marvel Studios, SEGA, BMW, The Creative Assembly, Saatchi&Saatchi

Credits & copyright Michael Kutsche