Brand66http://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/en-US2012-02-18T05:33:54ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Lux cruise on the Amazonhttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/lux-cruise-on-the-amazon.htmlMichael Rylander2012-02-17T15:58:42ZDesign TravelWhile the words Amazon and Luxury don’t often hang out together, Aqua Expiditions is trying to change that. Their ship, the Aria, looks like something out of a Design Within Reach catalog. 

]]>Subway map view of U.S. Highwayshttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/subway-map-view-of-us-highways.htmlMichael Rylander2012-02-15T04:10:29ZVisualizing the U.S. hightway system in the style of the London Underground is one of those jolly good ideas that I wish I’d thought of. Hats off to Cameron Booth.

]]>Pedro Campos gets realhttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/pedro-campos-gets-real.htmlMichael Rylander2012-02-09T18:15:52ZArtI find these photorealistic paintings by Pedro Campos irresistable. Kudos for taking an everyday plastic bag and turning it into something rich and lucious. All the paintings are oil on canvas.

 

]]>Lego realismhttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/lego-realism.htmlMichael Rylander2012-02-06T16:38:00ZArtGrinning this morning at these charming LEGO sculptures by Bruce Lowell. I’m always amazed that when the artistic sandbox narrows, the results are often spectacular. 

]]>Ixxi arthttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/ixxi-art.htmlMichael Rylander2012-01-30T13:56:15ZArtixxi is a modular system that joins cards together in a pattern to create wall art. Simply upload your own image or choose from their catalog. The image is then enlarged and divided onto the high quality matte paper. Each printed card is 20 x 20 cm (close to 8 inches square) and joins together with small plastic x’s and i’s to produce a wall piece or room divider.


]]>Transmedialehttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/transmediale.htmlMichael Rylander2012-01-24T19:31:41ZAnimation VideoLove this crazy animation for Transmediale, an annual festival which celebrates the relationship between technology and culture.

]]>45 RPM wedding invitationhttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/45-rpm-wedding-invitation.htmlMichael Rylander2012-01-18T17:15:48ZDesign PrintAnd the award for Most Creative Wedding Invitation That Comes With its Own Sound System goes to …

Designer Kelli Anderson wanted to create something magical for the wedding of friends Karen Sandler and Mike Tarantino. Folded just so, the card turns into a manually operated paper record player that plays a song recorded by the future bride and groom.

Details about the trials and tribulations of creating the piece at Kelli’s site.

]]>Lego, meet Hitchcockhttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/lego-meet-hitchcock.htmlMichael Rylander2012-01-10T19:35:52Z
The detail in these brick sculptures from !snap! is amazing. And incredibly, no Legos have be alter, painted, or cut. Each diorama consists of 110 to 130 thousand pieces and took around 600 hours to build. 

“The third installment of this abandoned house series continues its textural exploration of decay with a Victorian home engulfed in mud. The mud travels through the first floor, tears down a front wall and oozes over the porch side, taking with it the contents of the house.” — Mike

 

]]>Sticker shockhttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/sticker-shock.htmlMichael Rylander2012-01-02T21:01:30ZArtThis installation for the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane is simultaneously a modern art home run and an interior designer’s nightmare. Artist Yayoi Kusama constructed the large home environment and painted it white. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands of colored stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation.

The Obliteration Room runs through March 12. Via Colossal.

]]>Fibonacci on icehttp://www.brandsixtysix.com/brand66new/fibonacci-on-ice.htmlMichael Rylander2011-12-25T00:40:36ZJim Denevan’s mission was to create the world’s largest work of art. His canvas? The world’s largest lake. Jim and his team decorated 9 square miles of the frozen Siberian lake with circles based on the Fibonacci sequence. The result is, in a way, less impressive than the process. Crew members had to brave sub-zero temperatures and hurricane-force winds. Some of the gusts were so strong, they actually blew away the art work. The project was recorded in a documentary and book.

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