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A few months ago we presented an interesting project called the Rainbow Bookshelf, a beautiful example of organizing books by color. Today here is another interesting way to play with colors created by Jim Lambie. Jim Lambie, a Scottish artist, is best known for his striped vinyl floor pieces, which have covered the floors and stairs of multiple gallery and museum spaces in the United States and Europe.The artist meticulously adheres vinyl tape to the floor in a geometric pattern that responds to the building’s architecture.The project presented in this post is called “ZOBOP!” and is a dizzying installation of meandering parallel strips of colored tape laid on the lobby floor and up some stairs of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Published by Michael 08 Oct 2008 in Ideas

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38 comments:

  1. to: Free Stuff Free Samples says:
    May 9, 2009 at 4:25 am

    I agree, if you wife get involve into the decoration, you might wakeup in the circus one morning ;)

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  2. Free Stuff Free Samples says:
    April 3, 2009 at 3:06 am

    Wow being freaky myself that is unbelievable. I can’t show this to the wife or I might be busy for a long time.

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  3. Gilles says:
    March 19, 2009 at 3:51 am

    This taste would be good in the year of 1960 hippy time and LSD,
    But now we livw in the space age,so put this colorful design in a frame
    to put on the wall of the basement…

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  4. Raymond says:
    December 4, 2008 at 7:27 am

    Interesting…,but it would be too risky to walk on it.

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  5. Caryn says:
    November 29, 2008 at 9:10 am

    I love bright colors and I like the idea, but I can see where this might get annoying & obnoxious over time. Maybe using the idea but shoosing fewer, more subdued colors would be better.

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  6. Wolfie Rankin says:
    October 25, 2008 at 5:01 am

    Yeah, Vertigo. I wouldn’t like it, I got the “Wow, I don’t want to walk down those too fast” thought. Though it’s a very acid-trippy 70s sort of design, possibly 60s? and some might like it.

    As for the gay bar comment, if I were designing a gay bar, I’d go with something softer, those leather men are all big softies hehe!

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  7. Sven says:
    October 16, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Very eye-catching :)

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    October 16, 2008 at 4:09 pm

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  9. Britt says:
    October 16, 2008 at 2:29 am

    I saw a floor like this at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC but the colors were more fluorescent/neon. It was actually pretty amazing. Not saying I’d want to live with it, though.

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  10. boxerdude says:
    October 16, 2008 at 12:17 am

    appallingly poor taste. i can’t fathom how ANYONE thought that was a good idea. firstly, why you would ever want to make your STAIRS the focal part of your home is beyond me. secondly, to attempt it THIS was is astounding.

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  12. Tom E says:
    October 13, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Yeah – they won’t get sick of that in a year.

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  13. CLS says:
    October 12, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    I love it! I’ve always had a soft spot for stripes in bright, bold colors. This is just the epitome of cool as far as I’m concerned. I’m already trying to figure out how to copy it and put in my hallway or kitchen floor. It’s all about thinking out of the box…

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  14. Ideal says:
    October 10, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Wow, that is about the most scary thing I’ve ever seen. Yikes.

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  15. Joseph Smith says:
    October 10, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    Sorry, but it’s a bit freakish

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  16. james says:
    October 10, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Very impressed, some people may not like it, but it takes real talent to come up with and carry out ideas like this. WELL DONE :)

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  17. Great Piece! says:
    October 9, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    Amazing Work. Well Executed. Intriguing Palatte.

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  18. JP Max says:
    October 9, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Hot DAMN! This is so so so GOOD! I love the colours! But having said that, clumsy person like myself will probably fall down these stairs ALL the time!!

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  19. really? says:
    October 9, 2008 at 4:36 am

    Making the stairs a focal point, cool. Making your stairs look like the entrance of a gay bar, lame.

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  20. free stuff says:
    October 8, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    I love it!! Retro all the way baby.

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  21. PJ says:
    October 8, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Stairs like those would be the death of me. Literally. They’d make me dizzy, I’d lose my footing, and that would be that.

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  22. peter says:
    October 8, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    What happens when you smoke too much pot…

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  23. Ashley says:
    October 8, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT TITTIES!

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  25. Your Mom says:
    October 8, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    I would burn my house down if it had these stairs in it. Ugliest, most dangerous, most poorly-executed design ever.

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  26. Zephyre says:
    October 8, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    “YIKES!” was my first and only thought on this. *shudders*

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  27. Shandooga says:
    October 8, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    It’s like a Venus flytrap for old people. Why not just skip the vertigo and jump out the window?

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  28. Shane says:
    October 8, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    extraordinarily tacky

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  30. Staicu Ionut says:
    October 8, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    If you are drunk and you want to get down on the stairs, you should call on 911 first to be waited by an ambulance :D

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  31. Ian says:
    October 8, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Wow!

    That’s awesome and eye-catching.

    I’m not sure about the durability aspect, but if water-based polyurethane would hold to it, you could use that to “cure” the installation. Then, you would just need to re-coat once a year to keep a fresh, scuff-free finish.

    Definitely time consuming to create though.

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  32. truthofz says:
    October 8, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    This is so sick! All I need now is a little flute to play when I need to call the Oompa Loomas over!

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  33. Shadus says:
    October 8, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    That is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen bar none.

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  34. valros says:
    October 8, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    OMG I would so love this if it were tetris, now that would be awesome.

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  35. Ryan G says:
    October 8, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    That’s pretty cool.

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  36. Flo says:
    October 8, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    So this means that every colour is made from one tape? Lot’s of work. And I’m wondering how you have to prepare the stairs to make it last longer than five times to scratch it off…

    Do you have any information on this?

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  38. Vamos says:
    October 8, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    Dizzy-making striping on a stairs, no thank you.. Like the idea, but it’s just a bit too much for me..

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