Hasta La Ideas

ECO Storage is just made using recycled wood and natural glossy finishing, without any metal structure. Infact it’s fixing togheter by interlock..

Unstated Statements 02 is the second part of a project by fashion and jewelry designer Femke De Vries to make ambiguous statements with clothing used most commonly as a platform for expression. Unstated Statements 01 is a series of t-shirts with holes cut out of them, and 02 (pictured here) fills plastic name tag holders with a sheet of gold or silver instead of a tag.

Though one could argue these statements are the opposite of “unstated”, we do like the mix of texture, blankness and banality expressed in these projects.

The pins will be available at Design Miami at the Nektar De Stagni temporary Jewelry Salon between December 2nd and 5th.

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Sarah’s Story, Motor Neurone Disease Association

The winners of this year’s BTAA Craft Awards are in, with Bare Films’ hard-hitting ad Sarah’s Story for the Motor Neurone Disease Association picking up the gong for Best Crafted Commercial of the Year. Sarah’s Story also won best Sound Design for Aaron Reynolds @ Wave.

House Party, Adidas

Reflecting the economic climate, the BTAA this year are simply releasing the winners info online, rather than via its usual gala ceremony. Among the other big winners this year is Nima Nourizadeh, who won the Best Direction award for his excellent House Party film for Adidas, while Simon Ellis won the Best New Director gong for his impressive set of online films, Choose A Different Ending, for Anti-Knife Crime.

Choose A Different Ending, Anti-Knife Crime

And here are the rest of the winners in full:

Best Animation: Aaron Duffy & Russell Brooke for Audi Q5, Unboxed

Best Performance By An Actor and Best Camera Operator: Robert Carlyle and George Richmond for Johnnie Walker, Walk

Best Performance By An Actress: Aimee Parkes for FCO, Check In

Best Editing: Richard Orrick @ Work for Barnado’s, Break The Cycle

Best Cinematography: Alwin Kuchler for Adidas, Every Team Needs The Spark

Best Production Design: Tino Schaedler for Syfy, House of Imagination

Best Casting: Hannah Birkett Casting for Cadbury’s, Eyebrows

Best Colourist: Adam Scott @ The Mill for Fonecta, Immigrant

Best Computer Animation: Smith & Foulkes for DfT, The Boy Who Didn’t Stop, Look and Listen

Best Costume/Wardrobe and Best Stunts: Grazia Materia and Franco Salamon for Stella Artois, Triple Filtered

Best Live Action Special Effects: Mark Mason & David Payne @ Asylum for Sony Bravia, Extreme Detail

Best Original Music: Jonathan Goldstein for Zurich, Consumer

Best Use of Recorded Music: Ant Moore @ Factory and Ted Heath @ RKCR/Y&R for Radio 2, A Bit of a Mash Up

Best Video Post Production: The Mill for VW Golf, Fight

For more info on BTAA, visit: btaa.co.uk

Featured Forum Topic of the Day:
Generational Communications
by skyarrow in general design discussion

I have taken notice lately of a trend of younger people (not just designers) relying more and more upon email for communications with others…I am sort of a “middle ground” in terms of age and I use both email and phone calls to conduct my business…I am fascinated by the difference that these two generations have in the way they do things. I don’t think it’s just a “potato / patato” thing – I suspect there is a larger cultural/psychological shift happening.

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I feel guilty posting things that are clearly designed only for the rich, but I saw this one and just had to have it (well, for the blog). The Opera is a wickedly collapsible mobile living thingamajiggy (they insist it’s “not a tent, not a caravan and not a motor home”) designed by Belgium’s Enthoven Associates and manufactured by hand in the Netherlands. And while it packs up small, it opens up pretty large:

The dimensions of the Opera are magical. When it has opened and levelled itself by electric power – inside 5 minutes and without tent pegs, stabilizer jacks and loose tent poles – what you see is a residence measuring 7 metres long, more than 3 metres wide and 3.5 metres high with every conceivable luxury: two first class and electrically adjustable beds that become one with a single simple movement, hot and cold water, ceramic toilet, LED lighting and a mobile hob and barbecue….

There’s also an espresso bar and a wine cabinet in case like, you get thirsty.

If you’re eccentric-rich, I suggest you buy one of these and plunk it down in the middle of an American trailer park, for one of the most assymetrical forays into Keeping Up With the Joneses ever.

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