2024-12-22T03:26:24-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/17270592/artcube-by-brandon-shigeta-winner-of-the-golden-astro-boy-award-2011 bshigeta 2011-08-18T04:55:38-04:00 >2022-03-14T10:01:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b1/b14h1m7udywjit25.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> In case you had missed LA's Little Tokyo Design Week back in July, here is the winner of the design week's grand prize, the Golden Astro Boy Award, in detail: <a href="http://www.ltdesignweek.com/blog/2011/7/31/brandon-shigeta-awarded-the-golden-astroboy-award-at-little.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ARTCUBE</a>, an interactive installation by Los Angeles-based designer Brandon Shigeta:</p> <p> ARTCUBE contains a novel interactive sculpture comprising photographs of the artistic processes and techniques captured by Brandon Shigeta.&nbsp; Stacked into random arrays forming a single cubic massing the sculpture includes hidden signed cards and custom artwork on the surface of the postcards by artists. Perhaps qualifying the exhibit as the heaviest photographic exhibit ever, the sculpture consists of approximately 65,000 postcards of approximately 80 various images to be removed by visitors as souvenirs. The sculpture provides visitors with participatory spatial and tactile experiences in which they remove their favorite images to change the overall form of the mass to reveal new images below. A ceiling mounted camera will record a time-la...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/13348315/little-tokyo-design-week-starts-today Paul Petrunia 2011-07-14T13:19:18-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9l/9la4pfb25t42o1b9.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City (LTDW) celebrates the power and energy of cutting edge design and technology now emerging from Japan and its intersection with current trends materializing in Los Angeles. Design&rsquo;s ability to move us towards a more sustainable and creative urban lifestyle is at the heart of this four-day festival, which will be open to the public from July 14 &ndash; July 17, 2011 (VIP Preview Night: 7/13).</p></em><br /><br /><p> If you're in or around Los Angeles from now until Sunday night, and aren't afraid of a little <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlLZ4RWyyAw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">carmaggedon</a>, make sure to come check out the really fun line-up. I'll be presenting at the Pecha Kucha event on Saturday night along with Pecha Kucha founders <a href="http://www.klein-dytham.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham</a>, local architect <a href="http://www.bestorarchitecture.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Bestor</a>, and many others that have not yet been announced. Say hi!</p>