Wanderlust

Reflecting on our Earth Day prints we came across Breathing Earth, an interactive real-time web simulation of humankind’s environmental impact.  Displaying estimated CO2 emissions and population statistics within an easy to use web interface, when prompted by a mouse cursor, specific country information is displayed, offering detailed birth / death and carbon emission statistics.  Countries flash red when they emit over one-thousand tonnes of carbon-dioxide.

Sourcing their information from the CIA World Factbook and United Nations Statistics Division, the Breathing Earth simulation is an innovative big-picture education tool on our global carbon footprint and environmental impact.

Source: psfk.com

We have been busy preparing the way for some great new artists but we are never to busy to drop a little thank-you to the people that have been supporting Wanderlust online. Check out some of these inspired blogs and magazines.

The Sub Studio Design Blog Edited by Anna Corpron and Sean Auyeung “a compilation of products, furniture, jewelry, architecture and artists that float our boat.” A great mixture of influences and inspirations.

My Love For You is an art blog curated by Meighan O’Toole. Cataloging low brow and contemporary art, featuring q&a’s, studio visits and daily posts about artists from all over the world.

The Import This blog is “a regular outpouring of the best in inspirational design, interviews with the globe’s hottest talent and spotlights on the most creative studios around”

Better Living Through Design As featured in Time Magazine Katy and Kris say “We look through hundreds of sites each week to find the best products in the design world that are available immediately for purchase online”

Svpply is a retail bookmarking and recommendation service. Filtered through the collective wish lists of our members, this is shopping in style.

Creative Boom is an online magazine and network community that aims to celebrate, inspire and support the creative industries throughout the UK and the rest of the world.

Four international artists have created the arttower, Europe’s most spectacular open air gallery: 2000m², 48 m above the streets of Berlin: Flying Förtress, Honet, Sozyone and Craig ‚KR‘ Costello. No mean feat… theres more here.

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For those of you not in the UK you can check out some of the amazing maps featured on BBC 4’s ‘The Beauty of Maps’ on YouTube. This clip features maps created in the digital world including the most complete map on the Internet and the largest map of the universe.

The Wanderlust Earth Series was created in part using data capture software which tracked mouse movements over a period of hours and days. The resulting images produced the crater like shapes seen below in a draft of Antarctica, freezing time in a static frame.

Wallpaper are taking another step forward in interactive and personalised publishing. You can design your own front cover for their June edition through a slick interface designed and developed by Kin
www.kin-design.com. This app could have lots of uses and the simple drag and drop system take much of the hassle out of the design process.

The Boston Globe run a staggering photo series of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf of Mexico. The scale of this disaster is difficult to comprehend even with these sweeping aerial view.

This is an impressive portfolio by artist and urban obfuscator SpY.  An artist from Madrid SpY who began exploring the city scape as a graffiti artist in the 80’s who gone on to explore in a witty and sometimes subtle tone our relationship with our environment .”His work involves the appropriation urban elements through transformation or replication, commentary on urban reality, and the interference in its communicative codes.” Well worth a look.

The Sprüth Magers gallery in Berlin is currently showing a new series of work by Andreas Gursky, the exhibition features six new large-scale works by the German artist inspired by the blue void of ocean displayed on an in-flight monitor during a flight from Dubai to Melbourne. A true cut and paste style assemblage “Gursky used high-definition satellite photographs which he augmented from various picture sources on the Internet,”. There is something familiar about this image… Maybe its this.

Back from a wind swept Bank Holiday to find this really interesting project in the inbox. Shape The Hive is an interactive digital artwork that invites people from around the world to create and submit individual creations online that will be combined into a larger piece for an installation of enormous scale. The honeycomb-shaped project aims to connect artists, skewing the now ubiquitous format of social media it allows people to share and communicate in an individual but ultimately connected way.

To support the 9th SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival, graphic design studio Transmission has set the dial to 40 years from now and commissioned 22 artists to each create thought provoking and original work. The Exhibition ‘Life in 2050‘ is on at the Proud Gallery London. Check out there competition entries for some more interesting interpretations.