CreativeMindS United: The Great Indoor Awards 2009

Tokujin Yoshioka (work seen below) may know how to make a consumer/memeber of the general public stop in their tracks outside a store window, but these interior designers certainly know how to take your breath away once you step inside.

'Giving recognition to the best interior design worldwide, The Great Indoors Awards is an international, biennial, interior design award. The total amount of prize money is €30,000.'1

"The Great Indoors Award is intended to provide the interior designer with a platform of some stature, as well as to prompt debate and disburse information on interior design. The aim is to reward work of excellence and, at the same time, to show this work to the world. We hope to motivate and convince potential clients from both the private and the public sectors. Above all else, we want The Great Indoors to give the profession of interior design the status and position it deserves. An unambiguous name would be nice, too. "1

-Guus Beumer, Director of Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht and Director of NAiM/ Bureau Europa

& Robert Thiemann, Editor in chief of Frame magazine

 These are just some of the nominees!

Firm: 3XN (DK) Project: Saxo Bank, Copenhagen 2008 Client: Saxo Bank

Firm: i29 Interior Architects and Snelder Architects (NL)

Project: Poetry in Motion, Amstelveen 2009 Client: Panta Rei College

Firm: Panorama (CN) Project: DJS, Hong Kong 2008 Client: China Resources Retail Group Co., Ltd.

 

*some of the winners*

Firm: Office for Metropolitan Architecture - OMA (NL) 

Project: Prada Transformer, Seoul 2009 Client: Prada

(winner of the Show and Tell -Reatil catagory)

Firm: Design Spirits Co., Ltd. (JP) Project: Beijing Noodle no. 9, Las Vegas 2008 Client: Beijing Noodle

(winner of the Relax and Consume - Leisure category)

  Firm: Design Spirits Co., Ltd. (JP) Project: Beijing Noodle no. 9, Las Vegas 2008 Client: Beijing Noodle

Although I'd prefer to seeing these spaces in the 3D, the photos have left me a bit speechless.

Creators, participants and winners of The Great Indoors Awards, your outta sight.

1 Beumer, Guus, and Robert Thiemann. The Great Indoors 2009. Web. Dec. 2009. http://www.the-great-indoors.com/.

CreativeMindS United

My mission is to pass along sites, blogs, music, people, places and products I've come upon that I feel is outta sight. I love it when creative minds join forces to create new platforms for other artists to stand upon.

I also love graffiti art and those artists who take their work to the streets so it can be seen and enjoyed (for FREE) by everyone. However there are many who do not share my opinion and use their high political position to stomp upon the creative minds who only wish to illuminate the street with beauty through out the world.

...unless the aRtwork is commissioned..but once the piece is assigned and has had to be approved by committee after committee..its just not the same...

I can't exactly say that these artists are entirely outta sight because if you've been lucky, you might have already seen their work while walking down you street.

If not, you can get you fill of awesome street art from around the world with the help of the Wooster Collective.

Check out the artist featured on woostercollective.com. They're outta site!..kinda

woo·ster (noun)

A street in the Soho section of New York City

col·lec·tive (noun)
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.

The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.

(above and below)

Armsrock's latest work, done during the the Glow- Forum of Light in Art and Architecture, in capture citizens of Eindhoven engraved with an etching needle on a series of 18 x 18 cm photo-slides, The slides developed in black and projected with Pani projectors through out the city of Eindhoven.

(sited from www.woostercollective.com)