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Baron Haussmann
I’m going through one of these recurrent phases when I think I really ought to spend more time on the blog. So here is a new batch of images: a series inspired by the beautiful Parisian interiors of the Haussmann era. I was going for something elegant and slightly mysterious. But instead I wonder if ...
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Some thoughts on Creative Cloud
I’ve just spent some time on CGTalk reading through miles of overwhelmingly negative comments about Adobe’s decision to drop Creative Suite and move exclusively to Creative Cloud, its cloud-based subscription model. While I normally tend to stay clear of such discussions, I thought I would make an exception this time and give my two cents ...
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Hayes Davidson hiring!
Not that many visualisation studios that were founded in the 80′s have survived to tell the story. London-based Hayes Davidson is one of them, making it a veteran of the CG scene. Now you could be part of this story, too. The nice people at Hayes contacted me a few days ago about an opening ...
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Making of “The Museum”
Another day, another Berlin landmark… This one – Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie – was done for Ronen Bekerman’s Maxwell competition last summer, ending in the second spot. Ronen has just published the making-of, which might be of interest if you use Maxwell or are curious about it. For me, this was by far ...
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Here a few images done last year, the latest in a series about re-creating modernist architecture in Berlin and beyond. Known today as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), this building is the work of US architect Hugh Stubbins, a student of Walter Gropius in Harvard. It was erected in 1957 ...
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Happy New Year Dieter!
This, like the images in my previous post, started as part of a broader homage to Dieter Rams, the iconic German designer of Braun fame (the shelving systems, armchair and sofa, coffee table and record player are all his). In the course of working on this piece (as usual, over an extended period of time ...
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Snow White’s Coffin – or getting vintage right
Since I haven’t posted anything substantial here for a while, and since I’m now up-and-running with the new workstation, I thought I’d answer a few questions some people have asked about the vintage materials I’m using on a lot of my assets. Clearly, this won’t be “Materialism 2″, but it will show you a few ...
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Update
Some people (my family included) may be forgiven for thinking that I have vanished from the surface of the earth. Such rumours are widely exaggerated. In fact, I have been busy migrating to a new workstation and turning the old one into a slave. The power horse in question is an HP Z820 with the ...
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Reading mat
Blogging is a fine thing, but even after all these years, nothing quite beats seeing one’s oeuvre on paper. I’ve had a few bits and pieces appear in ye old medium lately, ranging from the informative to the introspective. At the workmanlike end of the spectrum, you may want to check the workshop I produced ...
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Fold it
I seem to be seeing a lot of foldable chairs these days. Not sure why. They pop up in cool places around me and land in my inspiration folder on a near-daily basis. So here is my take on it: Two new chairs in the warehouse. The SE-18, above, is cheap and ubiquitous in architect ...
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Two-Tone Tree
Summer is turning into autumn at alarming speed in my neck of the wood. As I was strolling through the city the other day, trying to imbibe the feeling, I couldn’t help notice how most of the trees were not assuming their autumn shades in a uniform way. Rather, it seemed the chlorophyle was first ...
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“European Loft” hits the Warehouse
After a lot of cleaning and tweaking, I have now put my second full scene up for sale in the warehouse. “European Loft”, like “Chicago Loft“, is based on existing architecture; in this case on a conversion of a burlesque theatre by Piero Lissoni. And like “Chicago Loft”, it is a minimalist space, with a ...
