Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Link About It: This Week's Picks

The upshot of Internet wanderings by CH’s editors and designers over this past week, our list ranges from a hybrid vacuum-boombox to sculptures that radically reimagine the concept of the bust. 1. Journey to Zero TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman and automaker Nissan joined forces t produce Journey to Zero as a way for creative and inspirational thinkers to share their ideas on the …

Jeremy Dean: Futurama

Known during the Great Depression as "Hoover Wagons," artist Jeremy Dean's new series "Futurama" draws on the historical phenomenon of horse-pulled cars, repeating this lamentable bit of history with his own hybrid auto carts fashioned from the back ends of gas-guzzling Hummers and Escalades. At the recent Scope Miami art fair Dean showed life-like models—tricked out with quintessential details like functioning drop-down TVs and ostentatious …

Oscar Tuazon: Bend It Till It Breaks

Oscar Tuazon understands the aesthetic power of tension. The Seattle-born sculptor's latest exhibition, using primarily industrial and found materials, Bend It Till It Breaks builds on this theme with an ambitious installation in France. Having opened this month, "Bend It" consists of a four-part exhibit area plus the outdoor "sculpture wood." Tuazon designed his creation to awe visitors with an enormous "nave," a structure consisting …