object Archives - claudeverett

Panda Mask

ImageDecember 6, 2021March 28, 2024taoobjectproduct, 2021, vogue

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Panda mask @ Vogue+ December 2021

One Calendar Every Month Every Year

ImageDecember 12, 2018March 6, 2024taoobject, researchcalendar

New Calendar

December 12, 2018September 17, 2020taoobjectproduct, think twice, 2018, design, calendar

Let’s say you would live for 100 years, and you would start to use calendar from day one. In this case, you would use at least 100 normal calendars, maximum 44 Calendar Rolls, or, 1 New Calendar.

quiz: on which date was this photo taken?

And that’s not the end of the story. After 100 years, you can surely pass your New Calendar to someone else who can surely pass the no-longer-yours New Calendar further down.

a blackbird from pasturo to shanghai

ImageOctober 17, 2018March 5, 2024taoobjectanimal, graphic, public space, bird, art, think twice, architecture, urban, 2018

calendar roll in body memory

StatusJune 4, 2018September 17, 2020taonews, objectproduct, beijing, news, 2018

Calendar roll is now available in Body Memory!

// 29 Chaer Hutong east, Beijing, China
// y.zhou@bodymemory.co / +86 10 63010521
// wed-sun 14-18 pm

Calendar Roll

March 8, 2018March 6, 2024taoobjectproduct, gift, sale, 2018

We rolled two years and three months into one roll. As you expected, it’s called Calendar roll.

We use minimum package to help you avoid thinking on “oh the package is so cute, what should I do with it? it’s a shame to throw away!”. No logos too — you know it’s from us.

Orange’s Mushroom

January 6, 2018September 17, 2020yokoobjectart, think twice, nature, 2016

Amanita citrus sinensis, commonly known in english as orange’s mushroom. It might remind you its lovely tasted, posh but a little bit tricky cousin Amanita caesarea, commonly known in english as Caesar’s mushroom. If you happen to know Chinese, you may find that orange’s mushroom and Caesar’s mushroom unreasonably share the same name in Chinese. Nothing can be more confusing than that. Despite name and appearance, they have nothing in common.

Granted Calendar

January 9, 2018March 24, 2024yokoobjectproduct, 2016

People write plans on calendars. That’s why many calendars leave spaces for writing. But it’s boring. That’s why you only do it on the first 2-3 days every year:

1 January: Change myself this year
2 January: Must write down my plan everyday

A horror story: Imagine you are 100 years old and you take out 100(-6) different looking calendars and found the same thing written on the same place, while the rest were left empty.

The Tower

January 17, 2018March 23, 2024taoobjectpublic space, 2016, user participation, china, wuhan, installation

In his 30s, our artist friend CK asked us to design his apartment. In our near 30s, together with his new media studio, we did an illuminated tower in Wuhan.

Surely, at the beginning, nobody knew there would be a tower.

The Tower (video)

ImageJanuary 18, 2018March 23, 2024taoobjectpublic space, art, 2016, china, wuhan, installation

Instant Holiday

January 6, 2018March 22, 2024yokoobject, researchlife, 2014, think twice, interior, prototype, valsassina

Thanks to the big window facing east, our bedroom is filled with sunshine from early morning till noon in clear days. During the period of not being too cold, say from late spring to early autumn, we would open the window and let our pillows sunbathe there.

Tree Pot

January 19, 2018March 22, 2024taoobjectart, 2014, think twice, nature, sculpture, italy, appropriation, snow, pasturo

If you couldn’t find anything strange, please think twice.

In front of the building we live, there are three trees, two birches and one cherry, standing in snow. We collected some snow and made a pot for the cherry.

Auguri, Via Castagneti!

January 7, 2018March 22, 2024yokoobject, researchgraphic, public space, art, 2013, communication, pasturo

Castagneti is the name of the street where we live. This project was done two months after newly settling in the area, during the Christmas period of 2013.

Strange faucet

ImageJanuary 17, 2018September 17, 2020taoobject, researchgif, experiment, product, diy, life, think twice, 2013, appropriation, prototype

Cold

January 15, 2018September 17, 2020taoobjectart, 2014, think twice, sculpture

We made Cold to celebrate Yoko’s birthday. Yoko had been thinking for having a pinwheel for a long time. Therefore we decided to DIY some and put them together in a meaningful way.

It was just another autumn-like summer day in Valsassina, wet and chilly. A trembling character came into our mind. It was 冷 (lĕng), a Chinese character meaning cold in English. We made it out of pinwheels and put on the wall where strong wind arrives. In this way it materialized man’s sensation of ‘cold’ in an interactive way, and at the same time make the room even colder…

Cover Me!

January 7, 2018March 22, 2024yokoobject, researchproduct, diy, think twice, 2013, appropriation

Tao got an iPhone from his uncle ages ago. It ended the good old days of using his B&W NOKIA. Tao had thought to get a cover, but the price made him hesitant.

Rooming a Space

January 15, 2018March 22, 2024taoobject, researchpublic space, 2012, product, workshop, milan, research, user participation, communication, italy

In the limited time of site survey, architects collect information by observing, taking notes, sketching, photographing, taking video, talking to locals etc.. When they are back in the office, they make sense out of them, giving birth to reports, diagrams and site models. By then, the whole team get a good understanding of the site especially by looking at the site model talking about the site, away from the site.

Snow Mari

January 7, 2018March 18, 2024yokoobjectpublic space, art, 2014, nature, sculpture, snow, valsassina

At the starting point of the lovely cycling path stretching all the way from Pasturo to Taceno, there is a Mari.

Lamp B

ImageJanuary 11, 2018March 18, 2024taoobjectproduct, diy, life, milan, 2011, italy, appropriation

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Lamp B, 2011

Lamp A

January 7, 2018March 18, 2024yokoobject2012, product, diy, milan, think twice, italy, appropriation

The second house we lived in Milan was a super tiny one, about just 20 m². Small as it was, everything had to go vertical: Washing machine on top of fridge; bed on top of a slab across bathroom and wardrobe, connected with the living room with a moveable wooden ladder; orange tile on top of bathroom, indicating you could sit there eating watermelon in summer; of course, you could lie or sit or put things on top of the wardrobe too.

Although it was so small, it had almost everything to support our life: except the fridge and the washing machine we talked before, there were a tiny balcony, a ceiling fan, an oven, a shower room, a bidet, and so on. We loved it.

It only lacked of a lamp.