How does one flatten the world? Everybody whose working on artwork and designwork today is trying to make the world smaller for themselves. It’s making connections, taking confusion away from the world, figure things out for other people AND themsleves so that the environment they live in is simpler. The person we’re speaking about right here in this thread’s got the world pushed down and flattened – almost. Not that he didn’t make it the whole way, no! He stopped pushing right before the end to reach his means! This project is called “Foreshortened Space” and it’s done in wood by Ron van der Ende.

It’s brilliance.

Now this is wood construction, all put together, 3D, done so fabulous it’s an optical illusion. But it’s gotta be deeper than just that trick. This is gorgeous. Each of the works you see here are only the newest of a series of works that spans back a few excellent years now. Each of these works in the gallery are inside the last 12 months, most of them from 2010.

Then, double down! This guy mister Ron van der Ende has a very similar viewpoint of self-empowerment on the internets, take a read:

This website [http://ronvanderende.nl/] was built blogstyle in WordPress by Ron van der Ende with a homemade theme and some WP plugins (Fast and Secure Contact Form, Home Page Link, My Category Order, My Page Order and xili-tidy-tags). The theme was created with the help of this tutorial and a lot of playing around with the css style sheet). I think visual artists should consider taking charge of their own (web)representation as a natural part of their field.

And why not?

Its cheap, quite (but not too) easy and just plain fun!

As you may have guessed, http://ronvanderende.nl/ is where you can see more works by Ende. It’s a really simple, tops online portfolio. If you’d like to just mail him straight away, shoot an email to http://ronvanderende.nl/?page_id=148 – that’s his contact form.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies wood category.