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Friday, 8 May 2020

A Chef Walks Through the Emotional Steps of How To Make Sushi

How to Make Sushi outlines all the necessary tasks to assemble maki: slice your fish, spread the rice, bleed from avocado hand, sweat all over your workspace, spend years agonizing over perfection, and finally, slice your roll into bite-sized pieces. Enjoy?

Made by London-based director and 3D designer Jonathan Lindgren, the humorous animation provides a quirky look at mastering a craft. It’s complete with the basic kitchen skills like cleaning a knife and gathering ingredients, in addition to more emotional labor like ending a romantic relationship and rising early each day.

Lindgren said the instructional project began in 2018 when he created a few frames based on the lives of sushi chefs. After consulting with Luke Brown from The Soundery on a score and actor Yoshi Amao, the director created the short film. “Always being inspired by Japanese animation, this turned into an emulation of many years of reading manga and watching anime. Also seeing how the amazing craftsmanship and graphic design was used in Isle of Dogs definitely influenced me a lot while making this,” he said.

Find more of Lindgren’s amusing animations on Vimeo, and check out his other creative work on Behance and Instagram. You might also want to watch this time-lapse of the making of Isle of Dogs’s sushi scene. (via Uncrate)

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Yinka Ilori has been making models and learning to play the Nigerian talking drum during lockdown

Designer Yinka Ilori shares what he's been doing to keep busy during the coronavirus lockdown in this video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival.

Like many others around the world, the London-based artist and designer has been self-isolating and working from his home.

"I'm sure it's been a really tough time for lots of people around the world, trying to come to terms with the self-isolation situation," he said in the video.

"I've been trying to really reflect on things that I really care about and what's really important to me."

To cope with the lockdown, Ilori explains he has been reading and learning how to play the Nigerian talking drum.

"What I've been doing at home is reading a lot more and I've also learned a new instrument, which is called a Nigerian talking drum, which I will not be playing for you because I'm awful at it," said Ilori, holding up the drum and banging it to make his point.

Ilori has also been keeping occupied by making models for future projects which he says distracts him from the stress of the uncertainty.

"I've also been working on lots of models, making them out of geometric shapes," he said holding up a colourful model of a tower made from interlocking wooden parts.

"Just trying to relax my mind and think about other things that are not so stressful at the moment," he explained.

Stay positive and stay strong

In the video message, Ilori gives a word of advice to anyone struggling during the coronavirus pandemic.

"My advice to you watching this video will be to stay positive and stay strong and we will come through this together," he said.

Ilori's video message also features in the VDF launch movie alongside contributions from 34 other architects, designers and artists in lockdown around the world, including Stefano Giovanni, Es Devlin, Ini Archibong, and Bec Brittain. You can watch the full movie here.

Ilori is a London-based artist and designer who has become synonymous for his bold and colourful style that often references his Nigerian heritage, as in the case of his multicoloured wooden pavilion built outside the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London

His colourful style was also applied to a "forbidding" railway bridge in London's Wandsworth borough a bid to revive the area.

Ilori was also behind the exhibition design for the an exhibition celebrating black creativity in the UK at Somerset House in London and a playground for adults installed at the 2019 Cannes Lions festival in the south of France.

Ilori was also on the master jury for the design category at the 2019 Dezeen Awards.

Send us a video message

Dezeen invited architects, designers, artists and industry figures to record video messages from lockdown and made a montage of 35 video messages to launch Virtual Design Festival.

To submit your own message, see the brief here.

About Virtual Design Festival

Virtual Design Festival runs from 15 April to 30 June 2020. It brings the architecture and design world together to celebrate the culture and commerce of our industry, and explore how it can adapt and respond to extraordinary circumstances.

To find out what's coming up at VDF, check out the schedule. For more information or to join the mailing list, email vdf@dezeen.com.

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Unspun Wool Sculpted into Intimate Portraits by Artist Salman Khoshroo

All images © Salman Khoshroo, shared with permission

For Salman Khoshroo, carefully fashioning thick fibers into masculine portraits has a therapeutic effect. The Iranian artist, whose impasto paintings we’ve written about previously on Colossal, says his Wool on Foam series is born out of recent trauma and experience in quarantine. By sculpting the wool rovings into slight noses, puckered lips, and flowing hair, Khoshroo has evoked the delicacy and vulnerability humans face in precarious situations.

We live in fragile times, and I feel the need to find new materials and the mindset to reinvent my practice. Wool brings warmth and intimacy to these portraits and plays with provoking the nurture instinct. Making male portraits with this habitually perceived feminine material is part of a personal journey in re-interpreting the masculine condition.

The artist tells Colossal that he preferred to keep the pigmented rovings in their natural form, rather than spinning them into thread or pairing them down before use. “I laid the wool like floating brush strokes and these are the results. I guess coming to a new material without any predisposition makes it easier to create something without the burden of established techniques,” he says. Khoshroo sees these works as an extension of his established practice that produces similarly abstract portraits.

To follow his upcoming endeavors, which includes crafting larger wool sculptures, head to Instagram. Check out this process video on his site, too.

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Gad Line+ Studio perches white cloud-like pavilion to overlook sacred mountain in China

White membrane stretches over the curved rooftop of Jiunvfeng Study, a mountainside visitor centre built by Gad Line+ Studio above Dongximen Village in Shangdong, China.

A lightweight steel frame forms the delicate skeleton of the pavilion, which perches on a rocky ridge looking towards Mount Tai.