Pixelated Floor Art

These rugs are a new edition to the Spanish rug company Nanimarquina. They have always had some really funky designed rugs, but this one is by far my favorite.

They look like pixelated digital art zoomed in. These rugs have their source in photographic enlargement, giving the pieces a digital and technological look. Depending on the light or time of day, a glance captures the random union of one part of the 26 colours that make up the rug, always creating surprising groupings that are surprising to the eye; really shocking optical effects.

An interesting piece of art to grace any floor.

They remind me of Dali's infamous painting "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea" which at Twenty Meters becomes a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

Chupa Chups By Salvador Dali

Spanish Enric Bernat founded Chupa Chups, a lollipop company in 1958. The name comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning "to suck".

Bernat got the idea of a "bonbon with a stick" from a cursing mother as her child got sticky hands from melting sweets that it wiped off on his clothes. He came up with his lollipop idea as he thought that, at that time, sweets were not designed with the main consumers, children, in mind.

The shopkeepers were also instructed to place the lollipops near the cash register within reach of children's hands - instead of the traditional placement behind the counter.

The Chupa Chups logo was designed by one of my favorite artists Salvador Dalí :)