by Highlights the top 10 videos of 2022
Throughout the year, Designboom presented a large number of projects in the fields of architecture, art, design and technology in motion picture format. From a stunning time-lapse video of Mr. Doodle that takes us to his Doodleland in Kent (a completely enclosed house with a black and white cartoonish stamp), to DARIUSTWIN’s stop motion animation of a cowboy skeleton wandering through California through magical portals, the short films take us and more. More importantly, over the past 12 months, designboom has captured the imagination of its readers. Continuing our annual recap of the BIG stories of the year, we review the TOP 10 videos featured on designboom in 2022.
NEW YORK SUNSHINE X DICKIES PRESENTS SUN BODYED IN TEXAS CLOTHING COLLECTION
New York Sunshine has teamed up with world-renowned workwear brand Dickies to launch a limited-edition clothing collection called ‘SUN DYED IN TEXAS’. The newly introduced series is the second installment of a collaboration between the famous clothing company and the New York-based art collective. The first part was completed in the summer of 2021 with two temporary physical installations on a private plot of land within the arid landscape of Marfa. The project, which was built in June and demolished in September, featured a statue in the shape of a house and a billboard that read ‘ONE MORE DAY IN HEAVEN’. Both pieces were wrapped in Dickies blue twill fabric, which gradually lost its original look due to sun and weather conditions. This modified fabric was used to create a wide range of fashions including trousers, jackets, vests, shirts, socks, hats and more.
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THE HYPNOTIC, AERIAL HYPER-LAPSY OF BURNING MAN 2022
After the lows of a two-year epidemic, Burning Man returned to the Nevada Desert in August 2022, washing the arid lands with a psychedelic array of colors and lights to celebrate the theme of “Waking Dreams.” The annual non-profit event brings together a global pool of artists, producers and community organizers to build the temporary Black Rock City following the ten Burning Man principles; these include self-confidence, self-expression and civic responsibility. An estimated 800,000 attendees made it to the 2022 edition, turning the desert into a dystopian sci-fi landscape. San Francisco-based Filmmaker Jesse Chandler attended the festival with one goal: to catch a hyper-jump with his drone, show off hypnotic day-night activities and lighting displays. Despite a few challenges and a short week of interruptions, Chandler’s latest video “Above the Dust” deftly captures what Burning Man is all about.
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THEO JANSEN’S WIND-POWERED STRANDBEESTS TURN INTO FLYING CREATURES
Each spring, Theo Jansen’s impressive wind-driven skeletal structures come to the beach to provide an update on their evolutionary development. ‘I do all kinds of experiments with wind, sand and water in the summer’ said Theo Jansen. “In the autumn, I got a little smarter about how these beasts survive the conditions on the beach. At that point I declare them extinct and they go to the graveyard.” Jansen tries to embed real life into his creations, and his ultimate goal is to free them to live independently on the beach in large herds. He understands that this won’t be possible in the near future, but he explained his goal in an interview with National Geographic a few years ago: “Give me a few million years and my Strandbeests will live completely independently”.
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STELLA VAN BEERS TURNS A GRAIN SILO INTO A TWO-STORY COMPACT HOUSING
Alternative life meets creativity upcycling for the ‘Silo Living’ project by design academy eindhoven graduate Stella van Beers. A familiar sight in the countryside, he channels childhood fascination with these farming pots Dutch Van Beers transformed a seven-foot granary into a two-level watchtower. Housing. Added a spiral staircase and a double door for access to the residence. Van brewers also gave the silo a circular peephole for rooftop views. Inside, the small silo house features a light-filled living area on the lower floor and a sleeping area on the top floor, accessed by a staircase.
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Z-TRITON INTRODUCES THE MARKET READY VERSION OF ELECTRIC CAMPER, TRAILER AND BOAT COMBO
Latvian design studio Zeltin presents the ‘Z-triton 2.0’, the market-ready iteration of the amphibian e-camp. This newly introduced model is shaping up as an upgraded model mobile unit merge house, bootsand tricycle all-in-one and offers the freedom to travel both on land and in water. Z-triton aims to change the way people relate to nature, especially in today’s world where there is a worldwide epidemic and a constant desire to escape in a self-sufficient and autonomous way.
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HANKOOK’S VERSATILE WHEELBOT MOVES 360 DEGREES, CHANGE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY
Korean tire and technology company Hankook He is trying to change the future of mobility by designing the versatile tire WheelBot, a 360-degree movable tire that can be attached to vehicles. this robot The wheel slides smoothly in any direction and this can change the parking game, for example, as drivers who find parallel parking difficult can stop their cars and now dock in the limited parking space without the need to turn the steering wheel furiously. to get a good angle. Hankook Tire says it developed Wheelbot as the company’s first step towards using technology to urbanize its projects and its vision for future mobility. Wheelbot uses robots as its main driver, and the company assures it can be driven and tested.
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MR. DOODLE MANSION IS FULLY COVERED WITH ITS OWN BLACK AND WHITE CARTOON SIGNATURE
British artist Sam Cox (known as Mr. Doodle) takes us to his Doodleland in Kent. descriptive illustrations of figures and symbols. With his characteristic black and white cartoon signature, the artist has covered every part of his home, from ceiling and walls to kitchen utensils, inside and out. As he mentioned, it took him two years to complete this stunning project, which was a childhood dream. For this ambitious project, the artist used 900 liters of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint (for exterior), 286 bottles of black drawing paint (for interior) and 2296 pen tips. As the artist shared with the media, he only used four different sizes of pens, which are refillable and replaceable nibs.
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MAGAZINE STOP MOTION WESTERN IS MADE FROM OVER 600 LIGHT TABLES
A cowboy hat skeleton wanders California at night through magical portals and collects gems under a starlit sky. This ‘fiat lux’ story is a light painting stop motion It was created by DARIUSTWIN, a company founded by artist Darren Pearson specializing in light painting mediums and products. The stop motion animation consists of 11 scenes and took a total of 686 lightpaintings. photos to do. Each long exposure photo is taken directly from the camera and arranged side by side to create movement.
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A LIVE FACILITY CONTROLS A MADE WITH AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT ARM
David Bowen’s ‘Plant Machete’ installation allows a living plant to move its machete in an industrial space. robotbionic-like arm. The setup implements a control system that measures the electrical noises found in the live philodendron. This system uses an open source microcontroller attached to the plant that reads the varying resistance signals along its leaves. The movements of the machine are performed using a special technology that converts electrical signals from the plant into real-time motion. Embedded patch sensors pick up electrical signals from the leaves and transmit them to the machine, which includes several joints that determine how the blade sways, sticks, slices, and interacts in space.
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GREGORY OREKHOV LAUNCHES 250 METERS LONG RED CARPET ON SNOWY RUSSIA VIEW
‘Nowhere’ a folk art installation by artist Gregory Orekhov In the Malevich park in Moscow, Russia. The project stretches as a 250-metre-long red carpet made of polypropylene stretching across the snowy forest. Surrounded by the vast natural landscape, the carpet looks like an endless line drawn on a white canvas. Walking along Gregory Chekhov’s red carpet, visitors take on the role of monarch. However, in the end, they become too fascinated by the surrounding landscape to pay attention to themselves. In this way artist He emphasizes that the desire for fame, wealth and power is unimportant when it comes to the size of the universe and nature. But ‘nowhere’ cannot be limited to a single comment. Through this installation, Orekhov asks the audience: ‘Where is the red line, the forbidden line that should not be crossed under any circumstances?’
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