Links: Alien Buildings

Another week, another batch of links! This one is a big one so strap in and get ready! We’ve got some beautiful and eerily alienesque architecture, some gorgeous business cards, books, books and more books as well as beautifully delicate packaging.

Published on the 21st of February, 2009 in Links

5 Brilliantly Fantastic Responses

    Jack from eyeflare

    That Russian beach-side apartment building really is like something from Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner. Wonder what they were thinking approving the drawings? “Let’s make it as weird as possible!”?

    Alex Charchar

    haha, I guess weird can either become something unique or something whacked out, depending on how it’s looked at after some time?

    In the interview it’s mentioned that one of the reasons why some of them were designed that way, but you don’t see many like it elsewhere, is because they were pretty disconnected from the rest of the world at the time.. they might have thought it was the happening thing? heh

    Esben Thomsen

    The former soviet culture had alot going for them, just a shame that its so unexplored in the west.

    Kim Høltermand photos might seem alien, but for a dane they are rather familiar :)

    Alex Charchar

    I guess that for the west, the topic of the soviet culture can seem a little.. mmm.. touchy, perhaps? An area people don’t want to explore too deeply? Kind of like the design used my Nazi Germany.. there was some seriously strong branding going on, but it would be a touchy subject to bring up.. luckily Steven Heller recently put a book together about it all, heh.

    So there are a lot of similar buildings in your part of the world, Esben?

    Esben Thomsen

    Well Im a dane, so yes its not unfamiliar at all.

    Hm it is perhaps a touchy subject, but in reality not every piece of soviet artwork was propaganda or even anti something, as always things are more complicated from what one might imagine. The reason for this is perhaps that the union did survive for quit some time.

    But communism did have strong or stronger roots in europe than it did in usa, even to this day (at the moment a old former communist party turned socialist, is the most loved by the people in the polls :-p ).

    But it would be a very interesting subject to explorer, from a design point of view, but getting the materials might prove difficult.

I would be so delighted if you were to contribute