Jul 30

Label Love: Fashion Meets Architecture With CHROMAT

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imageIt’s sexy. It’s edgy. It’s Chromat. Started by two architecture students from University of Virginia, Chromat is an experiment of human form and the unique structures and shapes it can take. Chromat features a strong architectural undertone in all it’s collections, but each collection is truly unique and intriguing in it’s own right. Using bright colors, somber colors, innovative silhouettes and additional exterior build-ons, student turned designers, Becca McCharen and Emily Kappes, not only show their creativity in merging architecture with fashion, but manage to keep it sexy and chic the whole time. Personal favorite is the S/S 2010 Collection: Cities and Cages. Corset like contraptions in black piping are fitted over body-conscious dresses, then flaring out to a crinoline like silhouette. Dresses range from black and white to soft greys and the occasional pop of red or fuchsia and are feminine and sometimes frilly, up until the bondage-inspired cage add-on. While some of the pieces do scream S&M a little too much for my tastes, the pieces that do it right are so right. It’s sexy, it’s edgy. It’s the S/S 2020 collection from Chromat and definitely worth checking out! Click on the slideshow to see some of my favorite ‘Cities and Cages’ pieces!

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Jul 30

Felix Vorreiter’s handheld skywriter

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pMore proof that it takes (x) years to make an overnight success: Karlsruhe-based communications designer A HREF=”http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffel-x.com%2Fsl=detl=enhl=ie=UTF-8″ Felix Vorreiter/A invented the txtBOMBER back in 2005, but it’s just in the past few days that it’s exploded onto the blogosphere./p

pWhat is it? It’s basically a handheld skywriter that prints on walls using an Arduino processor and seven markers. Pretty damn rad!/p

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Jul 30

Troika’s palindromic, kinetic sign for the VA Museum

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pa href=”http://troika.uk.com/”Troika’s/a newly installed two-way sign for the VA museum in London is simple, quiet, and mind-boggling all at the same time, “a kinetic object consisting of three revolving parts, together forming the VA monogram. With each half turn, the monogram de-constructs and reconnects itself turning into a mirrored palindrome.”/p

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Jul 30

Workspace of the Week: Bed above, desk below

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This week’s Workspace of the Week is JoelVardy’s 9.5′ x 9.5′ bedroom office:

With college students around the globe getting ready to head back to dorm rooms the size of shoe boxes, I thought it was a good idea to feature JoelVardy’s terrific workspace. The lofted bed and desk he built himself, and details about its construction are on his website. He’s using a Kawasaki Paddock Chair, which I’d never seen before but that looks incredibly comfortable. Thank you, JoelVardy, for submitting your office to our Flickr pool.

Want to have your own workspace featured in Workspace of the Week? Submit a picture to the Unclutterer Flickr pool. Check it out because we have a nice little community brewing there. Also, don’t forget that workspaces aren’t just desks. If you’re a cook, it’s a kitchen; if you’re a carpenter, it’s your workbench.

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Jul 30

This Just Inbox: Wagon No. 1, a mason bag with wheels

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pSomething fun for Friday: we love this charming take on a cart, a mason bag crossed with a radio flyer that functions almost like a picnic basket. a href=”http://www.welcomelosangeles.com/”Welcome/a, a design brand based in Los Angeles, is producing a series of these wheeled carrying devices, each one a remix of an existing “icon of carraige.” The first one? A mason’s bag with a bright blue trailer./p

pFrom Laurel Broughton, the designer:/p

blockquoteThe WAGON series is a curated bricolage of style and function that merges playful aesthetics with the timeless need to carry and convey. Each WAGON is modeled after an icon of carriage– WAGON No.1 starts with the honest mason’s bag and adds wheels and a friendly demeanor for chores about town, lazy picnics or at-home downtime. WAGON No.1 is an all duty companion, an updated wheel-y bag if you will./blockquote

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pAvailable directly from a href=”http://www.welcomelosangeles.com/”Welcome/a./p

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Jul 30

The Painful Death of the Paper Book is here.

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As a lifelong reader I’ve been wary of digital books. I thought that the enjoyment of reading was somehow attached to the physicality paper. I was wrong.

Last month I downloaded the kindle app to my iPhone and bought my first e-book with single click. No more visiting bookstores, or waiting for the Amazon box to arrive. I had an immediate neurotransmitter rush. Instant satisfaction.

I imagined that books were different than music or movie files. I now recognize it’s part of the same system. 10 years ago nobody knew that you’d be carrying around your whole record collection in your pocket. Now I can have my library too.

Reading on a device has made me read twice as much as before. I can whip out my book while standing in line instead of playing backgammon. I can search. I can highlight without ruining my copy.

I’ve read 5 books in less than 30 days. I’m addicted!

I usually read in bed and actually prefer reading on iPhone’s minuscule screen than holding a heavy book while adjusting a book-light and flipping from one uncomfortable position to another.

I know what your thinking: Get a Kindle, or an iPad. No! I like the small form factor and the lightness.

In 10 years paper books will be like vinyl records: only for romantics and the hardcore. So jump on the bandwagon, and read more. I know I will.

More evidence: E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon.

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Jul 30

SIGGRAPH 2010: Real sand, virtual bugs

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pemGuest post by Paul Fraser./em/p

pAfter hours of walking the a href=” http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/”SIGGRAPH 2010/a expo aisles, you just need to unplug and have a little playtime in the sand. One exhibit located in the Art Gallery of the conference provided a sandy oasis from the sea of computer graphics and electronic do-dads. br /
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a href=” http://www.squidsoup.org/bugs/”emGlowing Pathfinder Bugs/em/a, an interactive art installation created by Anthony Rowe and the digital arts group a href=”http://www.squidsoup.org/”Squidsoup/a, allowed participants to manipulate the topography of a sandpit, which would change how projected virtual bugs respond in real time to their surroundings. /p

pUsing a haptic 3D interface, the piece was designed to encourage participants to look after, control, and even breed the bugsmdash;sort of like you would with a a href=” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi”Tamagotchi digital pet/a (remember those??). But most people just enjoyed lifting the bugs up high and then letting them splat against the sand./p

pThe piece definitely was a crowd pleaser. Perhaps future sandboxes or other play areas will be commonly equipped with portable projectors, sensors, and software that allow kids to play in both the real and virtual worlds./p

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Jul 30

Frog Design is seeking a Senior Visual Designer in Amsterdam

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pstronga href=”http://www.coroflot.com/public/job_details.asp?job_id=27554referral=C77blogpost”Senior Visual Designer/a
brfrog design/strongbr /Amsterdam, Netherlands/p

pQualified candidates will share our belief that design is as much about behavior and emotion as it is about utility and ease of use. Senior visual designers provide leadership in concept development, creation of original art and wire-frame interaction model, project design/development, and QA. They are responsible for the development of innovative navigation systems, interface designs, typography, and screen or page layouts for software, application, web sites, and other interactive media. They will push the state-of-the-art with every creation and thrive in our fast-paced studio. /p

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Jul 30

Monolith Tables

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A monolith is a geological feature such as a mountain, consisting of a single massive stone or rock, or a single piece of rock placed as, or within, a..

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Jul 30

Walter Dorwin Teague Is Ready for His Close-Up

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kodak beau brownie.jpgPrepare your viewing devices for a forthcoming documentary about Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960), the pioneering American industrial designer who shaped everything from early Kodak cameras and Texaco’s art deco gas stations to the Boeing Stratocruiser (we’ve posted below a vintage news report concerning the introduction of the “flying hotel”) and the 1939 World’s Fair. “Teague’s inspirational life is a daring story of the American dream,” says Jason Morris, an assistant professor of industrial design at Western Washington University in Bellingham. He is now at work on the hour-long feature, which will tell the story of Teague’s life, his rise to prominence, his mid-life transformation, and the stories behind some of his greatest designs. And there’s no shortage of industrial design intrigue! Adds Morris, “This story will be told chronologically through the decoding of a mysterious drawing that Teague did in 1926.”

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