Une belle animation typographique, sur l’initiative du magazine National Geographic, pour le cap franchi cette année des 7 milliards en population mondiale. Un aperçu de la croissance et de ces tendances démographiques, de la géologie ainsi que les impacts sur la planète pour demain.
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Emerged from the idea of really taking time to read your children a bedtime story. A foldable chair with the perfect reading light. No matter the en..
 | Black lace is one of those fashion trends that’s a bit tricky look to pull off because you risk looking like a Twilight fangirl, even if you’re all grown up. Jessica Biel, with her black lace dress from Oscar de la Renta, gives us some clues on how to wear black lace successfully. First, normal hair and make-up are a must. Her hair is dark, but it isn’t shoe-polish black, and it’s done in a nice, loose style with curled ends. Her makeup is fairly neutral: no black lipstick (or blood red). And her fashion accessories really help her keep this look romantic rather than goth. The sparkly bracelet, ring, and clutch really make the look special-occasion-worthy, and her heels are simply dressy, not ‘statement’ shoes.
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If you’ve found that traveling to New York or Chicago or Miami for their various furniture and interior design expos has become routine, with all those same exhibitors every year and all the regulars wandering the booths, maybe you should start thinking about booking a flight to Iran. The nation is trying their hand at inviting foreign producers as part of their “first technical exhibition of office furniture and interior decoration,” held for three days at the end of the month at the Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds. Reportedly, in addition to local designers, via the Iran Furniture Manufacturers and Exporters Union, they already have 145 foreign firms lined up to participate, coming from both Europe and Asia (no mention of US involvement, which doesn’t come as too great a surprise). There isn’t much more information available beyond those few details, but we’re going to keep our eyes peeled for when photos, post-exhibition, are hopefully posted. We’re curious to see what an Iranian international furniture/interior fair looks like.
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Le sportif William Trubridge est devenu le 1er humain à avoir plongé en apnée à 100 mètres, sans aucune aide pour se propulser. Un record du monde pour sensibiliser au sort des dauphins d’Hector, l’une des espèces menacées d’extinction. Une vidéo sur la bande-son d’Hans Zimmer.
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While the New Year’s celebrations, long weekends and awards from the Queen were a great start to 2011, there’s also some sad news to report. Grant McCune, one of the lead visual effects designers from the original Star Wars film passed away last week, after having battled pancreatic cancer. McCune won an Academy Award for his work on the iconic film, and was responsible for designing and creating the beloved character R2-D2, among others, as he served as the movie’s head model maker. After having gotten his start in the business helping Steven Spielberg create shark models for Jaws, the designer went on to work on a vast number of films for the next thirty years, including Big, Ghostbusters 2 and even Caddyshack.
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As we’re all easing back into our routines (or still working like a crazy woman, in my case), I’m back on the blog to share with you a glimpse at issue 8. Behold all 116 pages:
I’m doing the last proofread before it goes to the printer tomorrow. hooray! I’ll keep you posted about when it is mailed to subscribers, but it will likely be near the end of the month.
Thanks for renewing your subscriptions or starting new ones! It is very much appreciated and makes all this hard work worthwhile, knowing that so many like the magazine.
The beginning of the new year turned out to be a pretty great start to 2011 for a handful of British fashion designers. Among a huge batch of people from miscellaneous fields, at least five designers were handed various awards at Queen Elizabeth‘s annual New Year’s honors. Among them, Alice Temperley, Tanya Sarne of the label Handwritten (and made famous for her previous label, Ghost), and shoe designer Beatrix Ong, all of whom received Member of the Order of the British Empire nods. The founders of the retail chain Lush, Mark and Margaret Constantine, received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire award. And perhaps most interesting and surprising, is designer Katharine Hamnett taking home a Commander of the Order of the British Empire award, honored for her t-shirt designs, popularized in the early 1980s for their protest statements and encouraging of civic engagement. After receiving news of the award, she told the BBC: “I kind of tend to pooh-pooh these kind of things but at the same time it’s frightening how nice it is.”
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This lightweight lamp by French designer Léonard Kadid uses a book as a base.
Called Bookmark lamp, the object is made of a single piece of plywood, bent in two places.
Kadid has also designed a table inspired by molecular structures, with wooden poles branching out from the centre to form legs and supporting arms for the table surface, which is made of steel.
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Here’s some more information from the designer:
BOOKMARK LAMP – The bookmark lamp is a table lamp which use another book as a base. Baseless means material saving.
MOLECULE TABLE – Inspired from the Newman’s space molecule representation, the table is the result of a structural study about minimum, stability and nature optimum.
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| Drawing Lamp by Thomas Feichtner | Zorro by Stephanie Knust | Otto by Paolo Cappello for Miniforms |
Wow the first Monday in 2011, let me start by wishing you a healthy, lucky, lovely and amazing New Year…may all your dreams come true… and 0h-boy did I do some dreaming last week, I spend a lot of time in our bedroom, much needed rest, not that I'm sick anymore but just relaxing with magazines, some movies and playing with my boys upstairs. A wonderful Holiday break it was and I'm completely ready for a brand new year here on Bloesem and on BloesemKids.
I hope you and I will keep inspiring each other, being creative together and share our ideas via Bloesem, twitter, facebook or email… here's to a brand New Year of blogging!
My parents are currently here with us and she and I enjoyed seeing the images in my baby-book…here she was walking in the Amsterdam Vondelpark with my sister and me laying in the stroller. All the images are snap-shots from our bedroom. Hope to see you back tomorrow!
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