COSTUME COLLECTION BY JONGHO PARK
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South Korean designer Jongho Park’s latest project is this ‘Costume Collection’ of furniture pieces.
Playing with archetypes and familiar furniture forms, Jongho’s series of seating and lighting is also not quite what it seems.
“People enjoy abundance and safety from familiarity. But, the familiarity feeling also gives us the monotonous feeling and boredom at the same time.” Jongho explains.
So to combat this, Jongho has utilised unexpected materials for the chairs, lamp and small stools; the display stand of the chair, and the stool is manufactured in iron, but made to look like wood.
Fabric patterns and wood grain patterns, made using lasers, trick the eye here.
We do like a nice surprise…
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Happy Bunny Girl: Vogue Korea
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Vogue Korea’s classic spread ‘Happy Bunny Girl’ photographed by Lee Gun Ho featuring Jang Yoon Ju. The beautiful series portrays South Korea’s traditional wardrobe the Hanbok with a modern contemporary stamp. Featured back in February 2011.
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Kim Ki-Duk’s “Amen” — trailer
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A young woman journeys through Europe in search for… someone… Filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk is back with his latest experimental narrative Amen. Synopsis as follows (via San Sebastián)
“The most internationally renowned South Korean filmmaker, Kim Ki-duk, has shot his latest film entirely in Europe, His camera follows the bizarre, disturbing journey of a young Korean girl who comes to Europe to search for someone she has to follow to Venice and Avignon. A mysterious character who hides behind a gas mask follows her everywhere and harasses her all the time.”
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SAIESEO by Kim In Sook
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Kim In Sook is a Korean photographer who was born in Osaka, Japan. In Kim’s series, SAIESEO: Between Two Koreas & Japan (2008), she explores the issue of diversity and identity between Korean-born Koreans and Japan-born Koreans with the heavy history between the two nations.
From Kim’s site:
What do Koreans in Japan mean in South-Koreans?
Responses of South-Koreans toward ‘Koreans in Japan’ are usually divided into two types: ‘indifference’ and ‘extreme interest’. The latter generally show strong interest in Koreans in Japan, involving them with social or political issues. In fact, it might be impossible to force indifferent South Koreans to be interest in Koreans in Japan. And, it might be also difficult to expect that biased South Koreans free themselves from prejudices so that they see Koreans in Japan in the different perspective. In addition, vague image, misunderstanding and prejudices about Koreans in Japan, which still remain in general South Koreans, are that ‘they are people who live making money in Japan in spite of Koreans’.
However, isn’t now the time that South Koreans, Japanese and Koreans in Japan have to start recognizing the fact that Koreans in Japan are also ordinary people and live ordinarily?
Obviously, there is the diversity among Koreans in Japan. The diversity means that problems, which each Korean in Japan has, are various. Therefore, Koreans in Japan cannot be uniform, and each person should be drawn attention. As focusing on an individual, we can see ‘a human being’. However, Koreans in Japan have a thing in common. Like the title of InSook Kim’s exhibition, ‘in between’, says, they exist in ‘Sai(the boundary)’, that is, in the ‘boundary’. Both South Koreans and Japanese do not live in the boundary and do not need to live in the boundary. However, Koreans in Japan are born and live in the boundary regardless of their will. It is just so.
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Ink Remover Printer Concept
Description xydoKim Su Yeon has designed the printer concept that removes the ink from the printed-paper. The Ink Remover Printer uses the laser technology to clear the ink from the paper, so that it can be re-used. The printer has a big button labeled “Start” and a slot to feed your paper.Pin It
Wood in Motion
Description illusionscene360
Each sculpture has movement and rhythm, it is as if the artist Cha Jong Rye was conducting small pieces of wood into a magnificent symphony orchestra. His work is extraordinary!
Notes about the artist (published at Hada Contemporary):
Cha focuses on the dialectical relationship between wood and land, material and nature on the surface of her sculptures. There is a sense of poise and connectedness within the allotted spaces of these forms. Each component of the whole is masterfully carved to create part of a larger modular work reminiscent of an elaborate puzzle or topographical contour map. The relationship between each convoluted shape offers a poetic and strangely surreal vision of space and energy giving a conceptual clarity, which properly situates her within the context of environmentalism.
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Welcome to Pyongyang
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Pour faire des photographies en Corée du Nord, un des pays les plus secrets au monde, Charlie Crane a pu seulement capturer que ce que les autorités lui laissaient voir. Autour de lieux touristiques de cette dictatur
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The Natural Resonance Porcelain Speaker
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Natural resonance porcelain speaker – The idea for the ‘the natural speaker’ derived from the desire to create an absolutely unique, handcrafted speaker for the interior space. Whereas a lot of speakers are constructed to produce a rather fat bass and sharp high tones, we felt the sound was kind of stuck inside the speakers, missing a natural vibe and ambiance. During the development of the ‘the natural speaker’ we discovered the great properties of porcelain as a speaker casing, providing a clear resonance and mellow sound. Amplified inside the ceramic and wood transmission construction, the sound gains a slight echo, creating a natural feeling of resonance, resembling the distinct flair of an acoustic instrument right in front of you. Each set of pieces is individually crafted by hand and each procelain casing checked for best amplifying performance. If you value a balanced midtone sound and a speaker with a ‘feeling’ for your music, you will surely enjoy the ‘the natural speaker’.
Limited Producing from April 2011.
Special thanks for sponsoring and collaboration to : KIDP, MKE – Hyuntaik Lim – E.J. Jordan – Hyunwook Lee – Arjen Helder
Thanks for the introduction text to : Leon Laskowski
The product is released by : traagform®
Technical Spec : Class-T Architecture Amp – Single DC Supply (12v/3A, 100-240v, 50-60hz)
End Price for a pair of 2 speakers : €697.00
Please contact to us for order, question, business contact, info@joonjung.com
Credits & copyright Joon&Jung
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Cannes 2011 - Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store
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Advertising Agency: Cheil, Seoul, Korea
Brief from the client: Could we become No. 1 without increasing the number of stores? We made an in-depth study into Koreans once more. Korean are the 2nd most hard-working country in the world! For them, grocery shopping once a week is a dreaded task. So we decided to approach these busy and tired people.
Creative Execution: South Korea is a unique market. Even the most powerful global corporations tend to fail miserably in the Korean market. Walmart and Carrefour had to pack up their bags and leave. On the contrary, Tesco has been evolving itself, adjusting to the local market. It even changed the name itself, from Tesco to Homeplus! And at last, it grew to rank No. 2 in Korea! But Tesco had to overcome one obstacle? A fewer number of stores compared to the number one company, E-mart.
Creative solution to the brief/objective: Let the store come to people! We created virtual stores in subway station hoping to blend into people’s everyday lives. Our first try was busy subway station in rush hours. Although virtual, the displays were exactly the same as actual stores – from the display to merchandises. Only one thing is different, you use smart phones to shop! Scan the QR code with your phone, and the product automatically lands in your on-line cart! When the online purchase is done, it will be delivered to your door right after you get home.
Resultse: People could meet Tesco Homeplus wherever they go, not having to visit the actual store. Moreover they could make good use of the wasted times and enjoy their free time. After this campaign, on-line sales increased tremendously (Nov.2010-Jan.2011). Through this campaign, 10,287 consumers visited the online Homeplus mall using smartphones. The number of new registered members rose by 76%, and on-line sales increased 130%. Currently, Homeplus has become No.1 in on-line market and is a very close 2nd offline.
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Surreal Sculptures
Description fubiz
Découverte de Myeombeom Kim, un artiste qui aime créer des sculptures surréalistes avec beaucoup de poésie et d’ingéniosité. Il parvient avec ses oeuvres à dégager un univers intéressant. Plus de visuels de son travail à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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The Water Rippled Table
Description illusionscene360
he elegant “Ripple Effect Tea Table” was designed by Jeonghwa Seo and Hanna Chung. It was made with ash, plywood, earthen ware, and pure water.
Notes about the product design (from Seo and Chung’s website):
[…] The tea table attempts to deliver an interface for analyzing the way of considering cultural differences in psychological level through the process of design and form. Business organizations need to be culturally sensitive when entering new markets or tossing out new products. On a similar note, we here want the design fraternity to consider cultural nuances and mentalities when designing in order to make design more poignant and meaningful.
There is a belief by Asian people that small changes in an individual’s life can have an impact and have a certain effect to the whole community, which in a psychological term is called a “ripple effect”.
Hailed as the “Ripple effect tea table,” the table blends Eastern ritual with the social relationships. Each time you place the cup on the table surface, the ripples can be seen speeding up on the surface of the body.
The process that takes place when the ripples are formed and slowly expands to disturb the whole water layer then becomes the visual symbolism of a deeper psychological understanding of what we are trying to articulate in the design of this tea table.
Give the fact globalization is shaping the future of World Economy, a deeper understanding of a region’s culture and cultural differences as against other social structures will help one get on top of the heap.
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Cactus Paintings by Kwangho Lee
Description trendland
Korean artist Kwangho Lee‘s most recent work was creating the new cactus and landscape series. Lee has experimented with various techniques such as scratching, rubbing of the paintbrush, and tapping on the canvas whilst enlarging the subject to its extreme to make the cactus seem like a type of abstraction. As a result, the small cacti can appear animal-like, rouse a unique phallic aura, and be reminiscent of a monument or even a model from his previous work ‘inter-view’ series.
The artist has attempted to create not only a realistic transfer of the subject onto the canvas but to investigate the fundamental question of painting – the act of painting itself.
On view at kukje gallery, seoul.
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Description inkbutter
Korean artist Min Jeong Seo used molds taken from professional ballet dancers arms to create tattooed casts of porcelain. The porcelain arms in dancing positions are painted with Japanese Yakuza-style tattoo patterns. In combination, the two open each other up. Like a real tattoo that lies under the skin, the painted patterns lie under the porcelain glaze.
Click here to view more of Min Jeong Seo’s work.
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