8 Bit

Not ceramical, but who doesn't look back fondly at 8 bit? For your nerdy Valentines Day, of course.
From the Brainiacs at Think Geek. At least the flowers will last.

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Emergency Vase!

For those times when you desperately need a vase and just can't get your hands on one. These attachments for common bottles give your flowers the facade of respectability.
A winner of the red dot design competition, these accessories are by Ming Hong Yeh & Chung Ping Lai.
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Tied up in Knots

These knot vases are the creation of Judith van den Boom and Sharon Geschiere. if you will remember van der Boom was also the creator of the seats with porcelain pillows, recently.

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Don't give me any Tulip.

Sometimes I must feature the non cermaical.
I stumbled across these Acrylic vases and was fascinated. The really attack the notion of flower arranging, as well as the history of the Tulipiere. Plus I love that they are wall mountable.

Designed by Graham Johnson.
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Movable Type (of vase)

I'm always an advocate for pure functionality, but sometimes, even I give into whimsicality. 

This vase is called Borderline and is by Adrien Roveros and is great for fashionable people with limited shelf space. 


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Pop Your Collar!

"Three flower vases made in collaboration with Ceramic Japan, a firm in Seto, an area in Aichi Prefecture historically known for its ceramics. The three forms make up a family: a heavyset 'father', a slim 'mother' and a smaller 'child'. Each vase looks like an ordinary vase from one direction. Viewed from the other side, however, each has its own 'collar'. When we dress, our hair and clothing correspond to each other. These vases play on the similar relationship between the flower and the vase.The vases are unglazed white porcelain, for a clean, clothing-like texture."


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The Deep End of the Spool

This series of porcelain spooled thread vases are by Mara Skujeniece.

There is something I really like about the ambitions attempt to capture something difficult and extremely textured in the mold.  Getting that kind of texture requires a lot of failure in the process. As I have told my students, you need to fail to know how to do things right. 

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Gone With the WInd

Wow, 


This "Blown Away" vase by Moooi looks like a failure. But it is in fact a carefully developed and rendered piece, developed from thousands of computer renderings to make the blown away look.Blending the distortion of the shape and the surface decoration are beautiful.

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The blow away vase was born through a digital process of creating an impossible situation with impossible consequences.CAD modeling, animation and distortion all played a valuable role in the development of the form. To begin with anoriginal vase was created with CAD software and then subjected to a directional wind force that reshaped the form ofvase in a way that is impossible in reality. The animation of this was then paused in time, enabling technicians to usethis frame to model the new form, develop a highly intricate mould and then preserve the vase in the beauty of porcelain.

For when metaphor, is just too much to deal with.

Sometimes, some artists need to be direct and literal...


The notion of woman a vessel is one used through out history, Stéphanie Rollin and Plug Studio just decided to cut out all that laborious conceptualizing and got straight for the anatomy lesson.


Dr. Katz, Guess what you are getting for Christmas!


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Whirling Dervishes

These "Dancing Vases" by Robin van Hontem are made both in porcelain and in a series that is made with a polymers and Selective Laser Sintering. A pretty cool version of 3-D printing.



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