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Lu Xinjian: City DNA
First of two posts looking at the work of artist Lu Xinjan from Shanghai.
Lu creates works based on abstract arrangements of symbols aesthetically, which are actually based on information and reality. In the City DNA series, maps of famous cities from around the world are codified with Lu’s unique design grammar.
You can check out all of Lu’s current collection of the ongoing series here
Next post on the artist’s work: Invisible Poems
New York City Garbage
Justin Gignac
“French artist Armelle Caron takes maps of cities and reorganizes the individual blocks into ordered rows. The process transforms a chaotic city into a unrecognizable, but systematic assemblage of shapes. I’ll be honest, the sizes of the images below don’t do the designs justice.”
(via l-ll-lll)
Dead Pixel in Google Earth
82 cm x 82 cm burned square
Helmut Smits
2008 - 2010
Soundcube
Bernhard Leitner
1969
Hans Hollein, Aircraft Carrier Projects, 1964
All of Hollein’s drawings in this book are from his Transformations series, created between 1963 and 1968. In each, an agricultural or urban landscape, often apparently barren, becomes the site for a monumental object. The drawings are visual parodies of Le Corbusier’s concept of architecture as an object in the landscape, an idea exemplified in his seminal book Vers une Architecture (Toward a new architecture), with its images of ocean liners, automobiles, and airplanes-examples of technological ingenuity that stand as singular objects, more worthy of an absolute and dominant place in the world than any other current example of monumental architecture.
Mimesis
Barbara & Michael Leisgen
mandala-like carpets made from google earth screenshots by David Hanauer
Mondrian Remixed (by Graphic Nothing)
from Decadence-graphy Bernd&Hilla
Assaf Shaham
from American Dream
Assaf Shaham
La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel, 2009
Michel de Broin
