Sysiphos

The Sysiphos project is a modular kinetic object.The modules are interchangeable and can be connected in various combinations.Gear ratio transmitions ..

Dezeen’s top ten: primitive designs

There’s a bit of a primitive vibe going on at the moment so for this month’s top ten we’ve compiled our ten most-read stories about caves, rocks and sticks.

1: in pole position is this holiday home in Spain that was cast in the ground and hollowed out by a cow, designed by Anton García-Abril of Ensamble Studio.

2: in second place is this pavilion with a cave-like interior by Melbourne designer Callum Morton.

3: there’s another cave-like interior in third place, this time an apartment in Paris by Paul Coudamy.

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4: next up is this concrete coffee-maker by Shmuel Linski.

5: at number five, Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto of BCXSY dress up as cave-folk to launch their Change! collection of furniture.

6: sixth place goes to these ceramic kitchen knives inspired by Stone Age tools, designed by Matthias Kaeding.

7: seventh most popular is Arik Levy’s Rock Series of furniture.

8: this ring with three interchangeable rough diamonds by Sruli Recht is in eighth place.

Bronze Age by Philippe-Albert Lefebvre

9: these fire tools cast in bronze and iron from branches by Philippe-Albert Lefebvre are ninth most-popular.

10: and in tenth place are these plastic vases inspired by archaeological finds, designed by Sjoerd Jonkers.

That’s all for now – another top ten coming up next month.

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Rapha x Paul Smith A/W 2010

Cycling clothes get dandy in a collaboration joining two renowned British clothiers

by Summer Seventysix

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Yesterday we got a sneak peek at the latest from Rapha, the British makers high-end cycle clothing. It featured pieces from the upcoming AW10 range and a much anticipated collaboration with Paul Smith, on show at Rapha’s soon-to-close pop-up cafe in Clerkenwell. Our man on the ground picked his favourites.

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Following the successful release of a line of accessories, the Paul Smith clothing tie-up is for the next two seasons, and the man’s signature color purple was very much in evidence combined with Rapha’s own pink flourishes, and a decent dose of black. The stand-out examples can be seen above: a mid-weight merino jersey, flamboyant polkadot silk scarf and a beautifully cut rain jacket, all designed to fit in with Rapha’s move to provide more options for the city cyclist.

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With that in mind, the brand also unveiled its new jeans, which have been two years in the making. Made of a specially developed water-repellant, shape-maintaining, denim-style fabric, they include a place to hold your D-lock. Once turned-up, they also reveal a none-too-subtle Rapha logo, and reflective pink seam.

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Our favourite piece from the new Autumn-Winter season, though, is the new merino cyclocross jersey. Rapha recently hooked up with bike brand Focus to sponsor a cyclocross team in the US, and this jersey features their signature candy-stripe color scheme on black background. Also available is a full bodysuit, for those feeling particularly brave.

All the new gear is expected to start appearing on Rapha’s site from the start of September, as well as in selected stores.


In Summer Fun Issue, Creative Review Plays Designer Dress-Up

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Monsters and monkeys and paper dolls, oh my! The August issue of Creative Review includes all of these things and more, in what the magazine is billing as its “Summer Bumper Book o’ Fun.” The fun starts at the front cover, which features surfing monsters from the mind of Stefan Bucher. Inside, the designer chats about obsessional behavior, the magic of chance, and responsibility in design. The CR funsters are also hosting an online treasure hunt to find five of Bucher’s monsters secreted about their website. Back on the page, there are games and puzzles galore, including connect the dots, instructions for a round of design studio I-Spy, and the aforementioned sneaky simians hiding in one of Johanna Basford‘s impossibly intricate trees. Soak up the more serious stuff (including a photo essay on the wild wild Midwest and an interview with novelist Will Self) before cutting out the festive mask on the back cover and staging elaborate, design-based scenarios for the young creative couple of paper dolls (pictured) created by Elliot Thoburn of Peepshow. For those who definition of fun does not include defacing imported periodicals, the issue includes URLs for downloading and printing the interactive bits.

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UnBeige + Your Smartphone = Fun

cell phone rainbow.jpgSure, UnBeige is published online, but we actually compose all of our posts on a pair of candy apple red Olivetti typewriters before turning them over to Eero, our technology-savvy web monkey, who somehow beams them into cyberspace (he also handles all of our links). Now Eero tells us that UnBeige and the rest of the mediabistro.com blog family have joined the future with mobile-optimized sites that are easily browsable on your iPhone, Blackberry, or Palm. Should you routinely carry one of these devices on your person, you need only type unbeige.com into the browser to be automatically redirected to our mobile-friendly page. The mobile optimizations are in beta, notes Eero, so if you have any problems reading UnBeige on the go, please drop us an e-mail.

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Maker Faire Detroit is here!

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A bizarre way to package sparkling wine

pIt’s a Friday, so I feel free to rail out at what I see as ridiculous or wasteful design, especially projects that get tons of blog attention for being “stunning.” I don’t know what Colier Sparkling Wine’s eco-credentials are, but this packaging can’t be green; the A HREF=”http://www.beautifullife.info/industrial-design/sparkling-wine-collections-colier/?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter” bizarre container/A the bottle comes in, “targeted to [sic] business women [sic],” looks like a carbon-fiber egg./p

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pFor God’s sake look at the size of this thing. Imagine handing this big black egg to a female executive in congratulations. If someone handed this to me as a gift I’d have them removed from the premises. And what’s with the egg metaphor? Also what are you supposed to do with the egg after you take the bottle out, use it as a purse? Keep it around to show guests? “Look, it splits down the middle!” This thing doesn’t make any, freaking, sense!br /
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The Palace

Exquisite craftsmanship honors the Industrial Revolution in this luxury timepiece

by Meehna Goldsmith

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Designed by complications maestro Christophe Claret, the Palace is the latest addition to the luxuriously retro watch line Jean Dunand. The timepiece, inspired by the dynamic Art Deco age (the company’s name references a famed artisan of the time period), embodies the spirit and style of the glamorously functional arts movement. Even the name is a shout-out to London’s Crystal Palace, which was built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and set the stage for the era.

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Sourced from a range of classically Jean Dunand geometric shapes, consistent with the Art Deco ideals of function, craftsmanship and the highest grade of materials, the watch also references imagery from two iconic films of the era—Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” and Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times”—each giving life to the machine and its tools.

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The Palace’s movement takes aesthetic cues from the architecture
of the Eiffel Tower, with plates supported by tiny pillars to suggest the reinforcement of a
massive, cast-iron structure. From the profile, the watch even resembles the great tower’s base. But the Industrial Revolution and its fascination with mechanized function anchor the thematics of this timepiece. The eye wanders over a landscape of tracks, wheels and a chain, evocative of those used on the chain drives of vintage Indian and Vincent motorcycles.

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Exhibiting his trademark mechanical virtuosity, Claret powers the Palace with a manually wound, one-minute flying tourbillon with a 72-hour power reserve.
True to the company’s motto, no two watches share the same materials or design, making each one a truly unique piece in the collection and helping to justify the $417,000 price tag. It’s available through select retailers around the world.


Day Night

Voici le dernier court-métrage de Pixar après l’excellent Partly Cloudy. Sobrement intitulé “Day & Night” sur une réalisation de Teddy Newton, il a été lancé à l’occasion de Toy Story 3 au cinéma. Il met en scène le jour et la nuit, réunis ensemble. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.



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Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

University of Lincoln graduate Sebastian Cox has made a range of furniture from unseasoned coppiced hazel wood.

Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

Presented at New Designers in London earlier this month and entitled Products of Silviculture, the range consists of two chairs, a lamp and a hat stand.

Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

The Suent Chair (above) has a steam-bent solid hazel frame and a seat made of woven green hazel, which can be replaced as it wears out.

Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

The back and seat of the Kerf Chair (above) are made of sawn hazel branches joined to the frame without glue, so that the structure strengthens as it dries and shrinks.

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The Rod Desk Lamp (above) has a stem made from a steam-bent hazel branch and a shade made of hazel fibres.

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Here’s some more from the designer:


‘Products of Silviculture’

My work embodies a strong ethos of sustainability. For this project I have used coppiced hazel as my primary working material – a material that is strong, light, entirely renewable, and grows in abundance in the UK.

The challenge in this MA project was to find creative ways to utilise this material. To do this I combined my furniture making skills with the traditional methods used to manipulate green hazel, along with a bit of creative imagination.

I see a move to a more sustainable material culture possible in several ways – using environmentally benign materials; lower impact processes; and designing products that are durable, both physically and emotionally. During the design process, this final point of being durable became the overriding idea – essentially sustainable design should avoid landfill. To make products emotionally durable they must be engaging; providing a platform upon which a relationship with the product can be built. This collection was designed to achieve this with aesthetic interest in detailing within a simple form and each piece willingly accommodating wear or patina. Being lightweight, both aesthetically and structurally, and unobtrusive were also important within this ethos – visually and physically lowering the impact of each product.

This collection also aims to promote the use of hazel as a contemporary material – an abundant resource that, I feel, is hugely overlooked in this country.

Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

‘Suent’ Superlight Chair

Steam bent hazel, woven hazel, lacquer finish.

This piece is designed to be visually and physically lightweight – weighing only 1.8kgs. The simple form is intended to make the chair unobtrusive, so it will ease into any interior space and will not be susceptible to premature disposal brought about by heavily style-led design. The frame is made from solid hazel that has been steam bent and shaped by hand, and is constructed using traditional mortise and tenon joints. The woven hazel seat gives detailed aesthetic interest and represents the traditional methods used for thousands of years to manipulate green wood. It has also been designed to be removable so it can be easily replaced with as it wears.

Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

‘Kerf’ Chair

Machined hazel rods and poles, lacquer finish.

This chair is a demonstration of an interesting area of my research. It uses the same form as the Suent chair but shows a totally different process. The panels on the seat and back are made from sawn hazel rods and are assembled without glue, using the shrinkage of the green wood as it dries. The profile of the rods are still visible in the panels which gives the piece varied texture and aesthetic interest.

Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox

‘Rod’ Desk Lamp

Hazel rod, hazel fibres, copper core, LED bulb and components.

This piece was the result of a lengthy design process in which I was trying to find ways to make an adjustable lamp using limited materials and processes. The weight of the lamp shade tips forwards to grip onto the stem, simultaneously connecting the copper wire and illuminating the LED bulb. The stem is a steam bent rod, and the shade is made up of hazel fibres. All components are as standardised as possible so this piece can be easily repaired and the bulb is 12volt LED so there is no risk of electric shock or overheating.


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