Apr
4
2010
Artworkz and garments by fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura are sometimes indescribable, because of their complex aestheticism and simplicity in material usage. I find compelling in his work the way he treats different materials, each time producing different ‘style’ …

Cocoon Cradle – Mother Piece by Kosuke Tsumura for TokyoFiber 09
Photo taken from yatzer.com
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Mar
4
2010
It’s already a known thing that artists are sort of explorers… and scientists as well… I’m not taking into account now Leonardo and his flying devices… although I could… The region where I live still has a lot of wounds from the past, as well as many present issues to solve… Sometimes we like to play… When grown ups play, they usually do it passionate, even too passionate…

Origami Space Race by Saso Sedlacek, taken from Kontejner
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Jul
25
2009
Art project ‘An Endangered Particle‘ (2003-09) by photographer Barbara Blasin is a continuous project that begun in 2003 as a reaction to heavy landscape conflagrations in five tourist localities at the Adriatic coast: The island of Solta, Ucka Mountain, the Dubrovnik hinterland and the islands of Bisevo and Hvar) in Croatia.
Barbara Blasin: An Endangered Particle, photo: lomodeedee (cc)
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Jul
21
2009
Damir Bedalov and Mladen Donadini are fashion designers behind the manifesto Eco-design (in Croatian: Eko dizajn), project established in 2008 on sustainable and ecological approach to the clothing production and though, the culture of clothing.

Umbrella Dress, dress redesigned from umbrella
Eko dizajn (c)
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Apr
8
2009
Today’s Pocket cinema will host its first green blog post here (shame on me, I know!)… I’ve picked up this time documentary ‘Garbage Warrior’ about one of the forerunners of sustainable oriented architecture, bio-tech architect and the King of recycled world Mike Reynolds.

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