If you give kids thousands of stickers what do you think they’re going to do with them?

This (originally) pure white room installation is the brainchild of Yayoi Kusama. For two weeks at the Queensland Museum of Modern Art children were given thousands of coloured stickers and the freedom to go crazy and decorate the room. The end result is amazing.

The Obliteration Room (cool name for a cool concept!) is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition.

If you’re in Queensland it’s worth a look and runs till March 12th.
More images can be seen at thisiscolossal.com

Quite simply a really nice idea well executed.
The idea is still king, we shouldn’t forget this.

Credit for find must go to @bohellberg

I found this really nice blog post on fastcodesign exploring and explaining the creative process behind the ‘face’ of IBM’s supercomputer Watson.

Watson recently featured on US quiz show Jeopardy, in one of the latest installments of the Human v Computer battles. IBM hired renowned digital artist/designer/technologist Joshua Davis to create a visual avatar for Watson.

The video in the blog is a great insight to the creative process and final visual execution.

Continuing this weeks theme of interesting info graphics, here are some revealing numbers for Apple’s iPad looking back over the past 12 months. An incredible sales prediction for 2014 if you take into consideration every other major manufacturer will have a tablet in the marketplace.

Originally created by OnSwipe.

New street trials riding short film by Danny MacAskill. Simply too good not to share.

I am off to Click London, Creative Review’s one day event exploring all things new and exciting in the world of digital. This year Click forms part of the first ever Internet Week Europe, A five day event which celebrates Europe’s thriving Internet industry and community.

There is a great line up of speakers covering a broad range of topics. I will try and capture as much as possible, if I can read my notes i’ll try and put a few things up to share.

If you’re in London town on a Saturday or Sunday till 14th November then you may be able to experience the worlds first hand painted 3D installation down on Curtain Road in Shoreditch. Check it out at MUTATE Britain and on the artist CHU site.

Since the David McCandless post on data visualisation I have been doing tons of research into info graphics and how to turn complex data into rich, clear and easy to understand visuals. I stumbled upon the portfolio of Nicholas Felton who’s work is really very nice, especially his annual reports.

I am liking these music quote posters from musicphilosphy. They’re nice and playful and you (well I do) tend to read the lyrics in the pace of actual song, which made me laugh out loud.

I only found out about this yesterday, the Anti Design Festival is happening around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch. Apparently there are a host of exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive etc.

This is what the website has to say “As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria. Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk.”

Go check it out.