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Our local contributors gathered round the fire for a celebration of the fall issue of UPPERCASE magazine.
Special thanks to Mark Hamilton of Woodpigeon for leading the group in song; Deidre Martin for her contributions to this issue and in helping organize the get-together; and to Glen Dresser for his expert bonfiremanship.
Dispelling the age-old adage that “the end justifies the means,” the Italian exhibit Manifesto instead embraces the ideology that “getting there is half the fun,” displaying the works of 13 successful designers and the process involved in achieving their final product.
Offering an intimate glimpse at the methods designers employ, the goals they strive for and the tools they use, Manifesto aims to showcase the hard work and difficult process that masters of design ensue, providing a realistic overview for young creatives.
The curators gave each designer full reign to create a personal manifesto, a word that commands three meanings in the Italian language—a public poster, a programmatic piece of writing, or something obvious and transparent. Considering all three elements of the word, designers such as KesselsKramer, Ellen Lupton, Stefan Sagmeister and Daniel Eatock (to name just a few) put forward inspirational and insightful credos that are as meaningful to the exhibit as they are individually.
Check out more images after the jump
Manifesto
Through 31 October 2009
XYZ Gallery
Via Inferiore, 31
31100 Treviso, Italy map
tel. +39 328 02 81 184
A l’occasion du London Design festival, voici ce concept de luminaire pensé par le designer Markus Tremonto. Cette série intégre du papier électroluminescent comme source de lumière. Une simplicité au service d’un style déco très pixellisé. Plus d’image dans la suite.
 | At the New York premiere of Inglorious Basterds, the always on-point Emma Roberts kept is casual-chic with a bit of a fashion-forward flair. Emma kept her look youthful with a pair of skinny jeans paired with a heather gray ruffled top. She dressed up the look with a sharp blazer, black patent pumps, and a simple cocktail ring. While some more accessories would have made this look a bit more fashion-forward, keeping it clean and simple created a more sophisticated and polished effect. A look like this one is definitely sharp enough to work for day and sexy enough to work for night. Keep it simple like Emma or kick it up a notch with an edgy pair of pumps and some standout accessories. Check out my slideshow to get the look!Check out my slideshow to get the look! |
Last up in inventor Emil Jacob’s Flex-Seat designs for airplane interior layouts is his Economy configuration. I was worried Jacobs would give us non-Business-fare-paying common men the design shaft, but even his Economy layout strives to give passengers more room through the simple concept of vertical staggering.
By simply elevating every other row (and removing one seat from the raised rows, to accommodate stairs on either side) Jacobs provides a heckuva lot more room, not to mention storage space. The elevated seats can recline fully, since the space directly behind them is empty air; the lower rows recline by scooching forward. The lower seats also fold vertically to access the storage bins in front of them, and again, this removes the need to stand in the aisle and load overhead compartments, which should reduce boarding times.
And now for a little about Jacobs himself. The inventor came up with the idea for Flex-Seats while stuck on a cramped overnight flight where he eventually resorted to sleeping on the floor.
“From down there I saw all this space,” Jacob explained. “I thought that there has to be a better way to do it; there’s so much space it’d be absurd not to use it.”
After tinkering with the layout plans of different airplanes, the Flex-Seats were born. Jacob, now owner of Jacob Innovations LLC, has a few airlines currently looking into his new designs.
The Epoch Times has a brief piece on Jacobs and his system here.
by Julie Wolfson
Beautiful and haunting, Sara Antoinette Martin‘s work depicts gorgeous women with long eyelashes sitting next to fish with teeth, skulls and mythic sea creatures. An animal skeleton dances with a chupacabra (a mythical hybrid creature) drinking red wine. An adorable dog wrapped in bandages sits on a bed of roses.
Upon the release of her new skins for Infectious and her plans for Alternative Press Expo APE and upcoming shows, we asked Sara to tell us more about her imagery, her plans for the future and working with Tara McPherson.
You grew up in Eastern Long Island and now live in Brooklyn. In what ways does your environment makes its way into your work?
I grew up on boats on the Great South Bay. I used to surf and fish and go beach camping. That is a big influence on my work, it is always about the water. I know how to sail. I learned on sunfishes. You can get kind of the same rush riding a bike, but nothing really beats being out on the water. Brooklyn affects my work because I am exposed to so much art.
What is a recent image or symbol that struck you to include in your work?
I like trying to adapt symbols and turn them upside down and play with them until they have a different meaning. My lady heads, for example, are piles of skull heads in bathing caps that have gills behind the ears.
Recently, I started doing a painting of this ball of seaweed. It looks like an iridescent yarn ball. For the show at Last Rites, I painted a girl with it coming out of her stomach. It represents that pit of depression that gnaws at your insides, a little ball of dead seaweed. For my next series of paintings, I want to concentrate more on portraiture. That’s the next direction.
Read more and see more images after the jump.
Here are a couple more configurations of inventor Emil Jacob’s Flex-Seat designs for airplane interior layouts. The Business-Flex 2 configuration is a tweak on the first set-up we showed you that allows for longer beds and does incorporate some overhead storage.
Jacobs’ Upper Deck configuration is designed for interiors with less headspace, for example, the upper deck of a 747. Seats are staggered not quite as high as in the other designs, but again, the layout allows for copious storage space while still providing privacy and two-meter-long beds.
And what about us poor slobs in Coach? Stay tuned.
Back in early May, we told you that Peter Morrison and the gang at the very large architecture firm RMJM had plans in place to weather this economic storm we find ourselves in. And against all odds, it appears to be working. While nearly every other major architect or firms are seeing their high-profile projects either disappear or get chopped in half, RMJM has just announced that they’ve gotten the go ahead in Russia to begin work on the tower at Okhta Center in St. Petersburg. The hold-up had been over building height laws in the city, which have now been revised to fit Okhta in. When finished, it will be Europe’s tallest tower and is expected to cost more than $2 billion to get there. Though, with all things mixing “big” and “architecture” anymore, we’re certain that everyone involved, although sounding optimistic for the press, is likely always aware that these shadowy economic gremlins could swoop in at any second and rob the project of its life just as it has with so many others like it.
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New York City’s Garment District is in danger of becoming another manufacturing-community-turned-commercial-district, threatened by Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to consolidate the garment manufacturers that operate there to just one building, potentially eliminating this vibrant cluster of skilled workers in Midtown.
Jean Lin, editor of otto, has posted an article about the details and implications of this plan and what you can do to save the Garment District. An excerpt:
With garment manufacturing largely moving overseas to Asia, the remaining manufacturers in New York have shifted their focus to high quality production with attention to detail and design. Not only do well known fashion designers such as Vera Wang, Nicole Miller, Proenza Schouler and Marc Jacobs depend on the garment center for production, but smaller, independent designers have depended on their valuable working relationships and precious friendships to bring their indie designs to life. Smaller labels simply do not have the volume of product to go overseas. In short. We need more than one building. A lot more.
Read the rest of her article here, or, if you’re getting anxious, head directly here to Save the Garment Center to find out how to get involved.
When it comes to layout, the typical airplane interior is no different than the earliest movie theaters: Unimaginative, mindless rows of seats. It’s hardly an efficient use of space, and does anyone you know actually enjoy flying?
Inventor Emil Jacob is proposing a radical shake-up for airplane interiors with his new system of using the vertical as well as the horizontal space of an airplane cabin. Whether in Business or Economy class, Jacob’s designs stagger passengers vertically, providing more legroom and privacy.
His Flex-Seat design, which “can increase the density of a conventional Business Class by up to 50%” provides benefits even while packing more bodies in: each passenger has more room and privacy, and luggage is stored under movable stairs, reducing loading time (no more standing in the aisles while accessing overhead compartments). The amount of luggage storage space is also vastly increased, designed to encourage passengers to carry everything on-board, eliminating the baggage claim hassle at the end of the flight altogether. And the flex seats don’t require reclining mechanisms; when it’s time to stretch out, the seats have beds attached to them at 90 degrees.
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