On Richard Blais’s blog he talks about his experience on Top Chef Masters. It’s actually a really good read to hear some one talk so passionately about food and working with people. Definitely worth a read.
Spanish designer Héctor Serrano‘s new temporary tattoos for children transform hands into colorful creatures. A modern take on the sock puppet, the wide-eyed caricatures of animals and monsters go on with water.
Serrano designed them for the U.K. gift company Worldwide, who launched them at this week’s New York International Gift Fair. Purchase a set of eight animals or monsters for £4 from NPW or contact Worldwide’s U.S. offices to find a local retailer.
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Guangzhou-based Danni Luo’s Embossing Braille Printer concept aims to make things easier for the sight-impaired. Input comes by way of a microphone on the business end of the device, and the conical shape makes that business end easy to identify. In Luo’s own words:
Most of the time, the blind can distinguish items by touch alone, but when they encounter items with similar shapes, they may have difficulties. The blind can also identify some items by smell or taste, but sometimes that can be risky.
Embossing braille printer is a handheld Braille printing device, which can help the blind to distinguish items with similar characteristics by using special embossed labels. With similar items such as pill bottles, CDs, or files, the blind can input concise external information through a voice-recognition recorder. This is printed onto a 25mm x 50mm label with embossed Braille characters and can then be stuck onto the corresponding items to avoid misidentification.
To celebrate Candy Land’s 60th anniversary, Hasbro has transformed San Francisco’s iconic winding street into a life-size version of the board game.
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As you may recall, we’re big fans of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design. Designed with mind-boggingly efficiency by Lyn Rice Architects, the building wraps a Greenwich Village corner in a bustling, shape-shifting campus hub/art gallery/event space, complete with an auditorium that is at once sleek and cozy. So we’re pleased to report that Parsons has selected a director and chief curator for the SJDC in Radhika Subramaniam, who will also serve as an assistant professor of art and design history and theory.
An independent curator, editor, and writer, Subramaniam most recently served as director of cultural orograms at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She was also the founding and executive editor of Connect: art.politics.theory.practice, an interdisciplinary art journal published by Arts International, and has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and New York University. “The New School is an extraordinary place of intersecting cultures, academic scholarship, and global social consciousness,” said Subramaniam in a statement issued today. “The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center has the potential to be a leading forum for ‘creative research’ that considers conceptions of intimate and public realms as well as physical and virtual space, and for responding with intellectual rigor to the questions of form and politics.”
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by Kiya Babzani
As we turn onto the dirt road to Sonny Barger’s house outside of Phoenix, AZ, the fear starts to sink in. I mean, he is Sonny Fucking Barger, the man that helped found The Hells Angels, the world’s largest and most notorious motorcycle club. Photographer Clay Gardner and I are there to shoot Sonny for an upcoming ad campaign for Self Edge (currently running on CH), but standing at his front door with three rabid-sounding dogs barking furiously at the mesh gate, we momentarily contemplated running back to the car.
Living in San Francisco my entire life and having traveled the world, I’ve never experienced the palpable tension of the motorcycle culture in Phoenix and the nearby Cave Creek area. Over the course of our forty-eight hour stay, every bar we went to seemed like a biker bar, but a true biker bar, not what we call “biker bars” in California. These were real gangs with real beef and real violence between them and it was everywhere. There was an air that something was amiss at all times. Large stacks of motorcycle culture magazines littered every corner of every cafe we stopped at and on every road guys in black leather vests ripped around corners with no helmet to protect them from the hot dry heat or the asphalt.
Before we have a chance to chicken out, Sonny’s wife Zorana opens the door and lets the dogs out, which only look and sound vicious. Walking into Sonny’s house is much like walking into a Hells Angels museum, complete with Hells Angel name plates, comic books, banners, badges and Harley Davidson trinkets.
We spend the next five hours photographing Sonny, starting with a ride out to the open highway, all the while telling us stories about everything from why he rides Victory bikes over Harleys to how Hunter S. Thompson was a coward. He requests that we take a few photographs of his gym so he can send the photos to his friend in prison.
Continue reading and see more images after the jump.
Designer Matthew White’s second project to blow us away is his unusual nesting Pot and Pan Set. “[Domestic space] problems multiply with the addition of roommates. Dinner,” White wryly observes, “can be one of the few social bonding experiences that bring cohabitating people together in a non-confrontational setting.”
Originally conceived of as a way to fit more people’s individually-cooked meals on a limited number of burners, White’s project could just as well be viewed as a way to cook more using less energy by dropping a pot and pan on a single burner. Aluminum construction means the shape of the pan doesn’t need to conform to the burner’s circle, yet heat will still be distributed evenly. Stepped grooves around the circumference of the pot rest on pegs within its nest, forming a defacto adjustable-height trivet that allows you to control the heat exposure by raising or lowering the pot.
The rest of White’s book is up on Coroflot. And if you missed it this morning, be sure to check out his Police Cruiser Interior Re-design.
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