Not exact matches
Designed by New York - based firm Roman & Williams, the Ace has a truly unique
design aesthetic: the lobby reflects the building's
history with a mural of filmmaker and painter Harry Smith who lived in the building when it was the Breslin Hotel, while guest rooms have a more utilitarian feel, with repurposed pipes serving as everything from a makeshift closet to desk legs.
The familiar inspirations come from a wider
history of the franchise, encouraging new
aesthetic details that flourish within the typically clever stage
designs — stages that claim as much space for frantic multiplayer sessions as they do for those looking to painstakingly search out more solitary secrets.
Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist
designed furniture that question the nature of the
aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for
aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the
aesthetic history of photography.
The works speak to reproducibility, authorship, or simulacra in that through the process of their making, they engage specifically with the discarded marginal
histories of graphic
design as
aesthetic and material commodities to be valued, collected, preserved, and violated.
This is by
design, according to the pillars of AFRICOBRA's
aesthetic philosophy as described by founding member Barbara Jones - Hogu's 1973 manifesto titled «The
History, Philosophy and Aesthetics of AFRICOBRA.»
Within her digital images, sculptural pieces and installation works Scott references numerous
aesthetic styles from the
history of decorative arts and
design including as Post-Impressionism, Colour Field painting, postmodern décor and present - day pop iconography.
Harlem, NEW YORK — Critically acclaimed architect David Adjaye, who
designed the Smithsonian National Museum of African American
History and Culture which is scheduled to open next year, has brought his celebrated minimalist
aesthetic to Harlem.
Given how much effort Apple has put into the iPhone X's
design, shrinking ten years of
aesthetic history into a single handset, it's tempting to keep it case - free so you can enjoy all that.
If
history is any indication though, we may be seeing this
design aesthetic with an upcoming Samsung flagship very soon.
Porsche
Design already has a
history of partnering with manufacturers on limited edition smartphones, though the most publicized were BlackBerrys that sought to stand apart through
aesthetic alone.