Cartoon Design, and art illustration

Cartoon and Design meet for advertising, illustrating , and for communicating .

Here are some examples of how these two forms of visual art, that create beautiful images and presentations.

The "COR" building.

There is a new building in Miami's Design District. Unlike most its buildings, this one is a lean, green , eco machine. It is a collaboration between Chap Oppenheim architecture and design, energy consultant Bruno Happold, and structural engineer Ysreal Seinuk. The forty million dollars 25-story , "COR" building , will include mixed-use of residential and commercial spaces, with of course the integration of green technologies. The new technologies include wind turbines, photovaltic panels (works with light) , and a solar hot water generation .

Placed within a beautiful landscape of the city of Miami , the building will seek to attract creative and design-oriented businesses, and professionals to the interior of COR features, commercial, and residential spaces. However, the prices are quite expensive ranging from 400 000 to 2 million dollars. Each residential unit will include Energy Star appliances, recycled glass tile flooring, and bamboo-lined hallways. COR supports 113 residential units, 20 100 squares feet of office space and 5 400 square feet of retail space ( already having a furniture store and a cafe ). Its completion was estimated in 2009.

This shows the contribution of Design in eco or "green" projects. I believe that Design has the power to attract people into green products or green habits, not necessarily with such a magnificent building, but with smaller things present in our everyday life ( like recycling , green cars and so on).

Limited Edition Experiences

Like Art Basel and Design Miami ( taking place in Miami), now a new exhibition is taking place; The Limited Edition Experiences , is an event that brings a posh lineup of famous fashion houses and creators to the Design District . This unique event will bring for the first time almost a dozen labels ,and brands ,that will have opened pop-up sores, which are temporary places offering limited edition products. It takes the place of a 18-block neighborhood to do so, and of course, is now turned into a fashion destination .

Gucci, Proenza Schauler , Christian Dior and more will participate in the event. Indeed, Design District retailers will participate , and have design showrooms that have their "special" exhibitions . Limited Edition includes cultural programming, public lectures , and free-standing stores and The Factory , where many brands will install their pop-up boutiques in the historic Moore building (which also launched Design Miami for the fair's fist three years).

This event is mainly based on Design District that will also include galleries.

If you have the chance to go: It is open to shoppers from 11 a.m to 7 p.m , but closed on monday December 13 and 20 . It's held in the Moore Building, 4040 NE Second Ave, Miami.

LaCie's key-shaped USB drives

Awesome design for USB keys!

"Black Math" , by Andy Gilmore .

New York based Andy Gilmore known as a draftsman, designer and musician.With important clients, as Times Magazine, he has established a solid reputation with his works being featured in countless publications, and shows and exhibits around the world. His brilliant art embraces geometric and kaleidoscopic visual experience. Being a musician, music inspired him by the physics of sounds and acoustics. The feeling is surreal, futuristic and feels out of this world. His work emphasizes works and innovation in art, that could not exist without computers. Moreover ,his art has a message and is a type of design expression.

This shows in one of his latest projects entitled "Black Math" , that was shown at the Pool Gallery in Berlin , starting July 6th till august 22nd of summer 2009.

Here are some of his designs from "Black Math":

Barami

Barami is a furniture store in Old-Montreal, located on St-Jaques and Notre Dame (just a few minutes away from the port). Their business runs with having workshops copying famous designs, of the most famous designers, including the Eames , Le Corbusier and Barcelona Chair. They offer a great variety of styles, greatly inspired from iconic designs.

Selling for cheaper, these famous and fabulous designs are available to more people . The furniture designs are mainly modern and contemporary pieces.

Their prices are much lower then the original pieces ( their sales do down to more then 50%).

This is another workshop and business inspired by Design , and which i think shows the importance of design in our world , and in our lifestyle.

For more info about the shop here is the website:http://www.baramifurniture.com

Art Deco , The Modern Style ( Modern expression)

Art Deco, the art design movement developed in 1925 till 1940, greatly affected decorative arts , such s graphic arts, visual art, and more. As a part of decorative art and a part of design, furniture was greatly influenced by Art Deco . Opposing to Art Nouveau which had carving lines and floral motifs , Deco embraced simplicity and beauty of efficiency rather the decoration. It led to the formation of a"New design-philosophy", having its main elements influenced by the "machine". Most famous and advanced designers in the 1930's such as Pierre Charear and Rene Herbst (along with architects and designers formed the Union des Artistes Modernes.), became anti-past style and anti-ornament. Indeed , in favor for the machine and the "beautiful in the useful"

Rene Herbst - Shadow Chair

1928, nickel-plated steel tube and elastic rubber cord.

However, this did lead to more innovations: the French designer Le Corbusier and his associates ( who where considerd the pioneers of "design") used massively more material as steel and aluminum , glass, and plain though leathers , to form stackable and transformable furniture ( which is very common the the 21st century).

Moreover, it is said that Art Deco started in 1925 because of the Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, the show that year gave Art Deco its name.

Le Corbustier

Considered as one of the more aristocratic of Deco designers was Ruhlman . He produced superb work with furniture that has the same equivalence of the french court designers of the eighteenth century , specially with cabinet markers such as Reisner. In decorating he undertook a unique, new , and individual style with color-schemes. Unlike vivid colors usually used in Art Nouveau, he was interested in the harmonies of black and gold, grey and silver, brown and white. This will dramatically change the look of a room the piece of furniture is in, because it gives it a fresh modern look.

Ruhlman, CB130

Macassar ebony, gilded wood, ivory, mohagany.

Ruhlman , CB125

Macassare ebony,ivory, tortoiseshe, Elm burl

Art Deco has established itself with the different designers embracing it in their art. It is a new type of art , which had its own business and production . Indeed, it expanded and got popularized for a wider range of clientele. Department stores had workshop of their own to create the same famous designs , and techniques for cheaper.

Designers like Pierre Legrain , preferring to design table, and cabinet lacque more then cabinets, was inspired by African models . He was more interested in original, simple, and elegant furniture using pale sycamore and chrome.

Pierre Legrain, Chair

wood, bars and iron tacks.

Deco is evidently very inspiring to many artists and designers, which use it not only to make furniture or different type of artwork , but to express themselves. Like every genre of art and style it sets its own mood, that leads to feeling the comfort and influence of design on us.