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Tag: Sydney
These items have all been tagged with the tag "Sydney", You can see other tags in the Tag Cloud| Aesop - Strand Arcade, Sydney |
| 2008-11-25 00:15:00 |
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Aesop continues to serve up award winning design with its new store in "The Strand Arcade" in Sydney. Each Aesop store has its own signature look defying the carbon copy stores that were so popular in the 90's and early 2000's. Respecting the store's neighbouring environment is important to Aesop and integration within the area is emphasised. March Studio's, Rodney Eggleston has again been offered the role to find the "store's soul" and bring it to life. He has made one of Aesop's highlight materials "Porcelain" the hero in this store by using the timeless, precious material for the tiles, small furnishings and floor. As always with Aesop, clean lines and only the necessary pieces of furniture and interiors are used allowing optimum space and movement. The complete range of skin, hair and body products are available in this store, so maximising the wall space was essential. The finishing results are a sublime gallery like offering that continues to push the retail boundaries. – Kate Vandermeer. |
| Cool Collaboration - The Death Set & Bang Gang 12 Inches |
| 2008-10-27 17:24:29 |
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The Death Set make music akin to being mauled by an enraged pitbull. It's a messy, violent and bloody mix of rabid gutter-dwelling punk and frenetic electronic noise that's consistently in your face. So when the Baltimore via Sydney group decided to link arms with infamous Australian party-starters the Bang Gang Deejays for a remix release on their self-established Bang Gang 12 Inches imprint, it was safe to assume that the final result of the hookup would be as twisted and terrific as the source material. With an enviable selection of technically and stylistically diverse remixers on board, each artist’s revision on the vinyl-only collection somehow manages to remain faithful to the Death Set's vicious energy and style, so much so that the partnerships between band and remixer seem believable and ultimately natural. From the squeal and bounce party-funk of Bonde Do Role's take on Distressed, to the robo-disco of Treasure Fingers' mix, and the glitch and grind of the G.L.O.V.E.S. remix, each wildly different remix still screams Death Set. The whole package is an impressively warped look through the eyes of the Death Set and into their raucous sound-meets-wall/face-meets-bitumen world. - Dave Ruby Howe |
| Yoga - Sydney Style |
| 2008-06-11 01:44:33 |
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Celebrate the winter solistice Sydney–style by taking a dawn yoga class on top of Sydney’s highest building, Sydney Tower. From Sydney Tower’s Observation Deck, yoga devotees will see the sun rise over the glittering Harbour city. If you have an aversion to early mornings don’t panic – dawn on this shortest day of the year – which last for nine hours and 53 minutes - breaks at 7am. If sunsets are more your thing head to the Tower for the 4.54pm sunset and watch the shortest day of the year disappear before your very eyes. By Lisa Evans. |
| Eat Fit Food - No More Excuses |
| 2008-01-09 10:52:37 |
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No More Excuses OK, so the holidays are over, and just like your best friend, when you ask us if those jeans make you look fat, we’ll say absolutely. And we know, especially after a solid month of cooking, eating, baking, eating, drinking and eating the last thing you want to do is figure out what to have for dinner tonight. The nutrition and health professionals at Eat Fit Food have devised the perfect balance between diet and exercise by preparing low fat, low carb meals and delivering them directly to you every day. Naturally anyone can sign up for Eat Fit Food’s services, but those of us who can hardly find time to eat three full meals each day and those of us who are tempted to snack on whatever is around throughout the day now have a beacon leading us to a world of healthful, nutritious food options. Each program can be tailored to meet personal preferences including increasing or decreasing portion size and special dietary requirements. Just imagine sliding on your sexiest pair of jeans and not even thinking twice about asking us how you look. By Andrew J Weiner (Eat Fit Food is only available in Sydney – mention The Cool Hunter and receive a 10% discount). |
| CoLab - Inspired Eyewear |
| 2007-06-26 09:10:48 |
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Consider it an antidote to the mass-produced “designer” fashions of Target and Wal-Mart. CoLab, an eyewear accessory collaboration, hand selects talented “street artists” from all over the world to become CoLab professors. These wisemen of design infuse their artistic aesthetic into the humble sunglass frame, creating a tantalizingly unique summer accessory. CoLab is a brand-new venture out of Sydney with the aim of creating matchless art disguised as fashion. For the Spring/Summer 2007 season, CoLab invited Perks and Mini (PAM) of Australia, EBoy of Germany, Geoff McFetridge of the US, Rockin’ Jellybean of Japan, and Neasden Control Center of the UK into their “Colaboratory” to create inspired eyewear. Each pair will be sold as a limited edition, with no more than 1000 pairs of each design sold. Come next season, CoLab will select an entirely different slew of artists. Each artist has contributed anywhere from three to five designs, culminating in a CoLab portfolio of 20 sunglass designs. Despite the commerciality of fashioning art into sunglasses, the project is inherently appealing to the underground artist as CoLab dictates: “There is no constraint, no rules to follow, no target market to appease.” The designs intimately reflect this freedom, from blue goggle-shaped “Eyes” frames by PAM, to decal-ridden EBoy shades, to vintage inspired oglers by Rockin’ Jellybean. The tragically hip lenses can be found through worldwide stockists, most notably, Paris’s Colette, which became CoLab’s first global stockist in January of this year. In its distinctive pursuit, CoLab has created a brand without a brand – a welcome respite to those beleagured by the choice: Ray-Bans or absurdly-priced “designer” shades. By L. Harper |
| Digital Origami |
| 2007-06-19 07:40:45 |
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The beauty of the art of Origami has always been the tradition of which its based on. The digital masters program at Sydney's University of Technology has appropriated the very tradition with it's digital origami. By asking students to study trends in parametric modeling, digital fabrication and material science, the team created an amazing display which reflects on the beauty and tradition of the Japanese art but delivers its aesthetics in a modern and current practice. The digital Origami exhibition is a progressive display of re inventing ancient traditions in digital parameters. Using 3500 recycled cardboard molecules, University of Technology design students, under the guidance of lecturer Chris Bosse, examined various aspects of architectural foundations through small elements of design. The result is a cool installation which examines space and the elements of design including arches, walls tunnels and traditional structures. The room full of Geometric paper shapes, placed on top of one another and adhered to ceilings and walls are brilliantly illuminated by expressive neon lighting which further emphasizes the angular structure of the work itself. Bosse cites the aim of the project as " testing the fitness of a particular module, copied from nature, to generate architectural space, with the assumption that the intelligence of the smallest unit dictates the intelligence of the overall system. By Andy G. See also WALL ART |
| STREET STALKER - Marti Keefer, Sydney |
| 2007-02-09 13:58:07 |
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| STREET STALKER - Juan Gonzalez, Sydney |
| 2007-02-09 12:32:49 |
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| STREET STALKER - Charlie Huveneers, Sydney |
| 2007-02-07 00:05:41 |
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