Art Lebedev Studio’s latest product, so new it’s not even on their site yet, is the “Flashkus.” Unlike the current and somewhat ridiculous trend of making USB drives jewelry-like and cladding them in precious materials, the “Flashkus” is made from cardboard, perhaps acknowledging that these things are not exactly going to become family heirlooms. Added bonus: You can write directly on the thing.
via electronic beats
My fellow Canadians, I have been receiving your queries about the status of your magazines! Even my mom is emailing, “where’s my magazine?” I realize they are taking longer than usual to reach our Canadian subscribers and I have alerted the mailing house to look into it. Thanks for your patience; the Canada Post system is truly the definition of snail mail.
If you have placed a recent Canadian subscription order through our website (late January and onward) then these copies are sent from our fulfillment house per usual.
Please note that the delivery times for all orders placed in the shop are also at the mercy of the postal system here in Canada and abroad. I push the orders to the fulfillment house as soon as possible, but once in the mail I cannot know how long each shipment will take: winter storms in the eastern USA, heavy snowfall in the UK, floods in Australia… these things delay individual shipments and are beyond anyone’s control.
If I could hand-deliver the magazine to each and everyone of you, I would. It causes me great stress knowing that so many people are still waiting, but I have to trust that the mailing and fulfillment houses are doing their jobs in getting orders out as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
This is one of a new series of photographic and video works by Trevor Jackson that comprise the graphic designer, music producer and DJ’s first solo show of non commercial work. Entitled Nowhere, the exhibition will run at London’s KK Outlet from March 4-26…
“Graphic design is essentially problem solving, you’re responding to a brief and reflecting the client’s personality and opinions,” says Jackson. “As much as I still enjoy that process, this new work is expressive and at times cathartic – something that has little place in much of my commercial work.”
Full details at kkoutlet.com
Electronic-music-composer-meets-product-designer Yuri Suzuki (responsible for the read/write pens and barcode books we posted late last year) has posted the results of his workshop “Re-Designing a Domestic Sound-Scape,” conducted as the final part of his residency at Iaspis in Sweden.
Suzuki and participants used with the “seemingly trite sound of a door bell” as a means to begin to exploring all the sonic opportunities in the domestic landscape around us:
What effect would a whispering or moaning doorbell have? How would we interpret bird songs or the sound of barking dogs – as visitor or host? What happens if the first impression is disturbed by an unexpected sound? Can the sound of a doorbell have an effect on the very notion of hospitality? All participants will have the possibility to produce a door bell of their own during this one-day workshop. Material for a doorbell development kit, such as acrylic block, solenoids, various actuators and switches, will be supplied.
The results aren’t meant only for the ears—they have visual, material and mechanical properties that delight, suggesting that if we start with sound, new discoveries in designing for other senses may follow.
See more of this workshop after the jump and at Suzuki’s flickr and vimeo sites.
“‘Redesign’ has become a dirty word in magazine publishing. Our new Body section has been in the works for four or five months. It’s like adding on to a house—in this case, it’s a gym. Let’s say, it’s going really well, the gym looks amazing, and then you look at the rest of the house, and you think, I just kind of want to change this, and do small tweaks. That’s what we did to the rest of the book—gave a little polish to the existing architecture.”
–Dan Peres, editor-in-chief of Details, in today’s issue of The Daily Front Row
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A next-gen Segway in unicycle form
Like a stripped-down Segway, Inventist‘s new Solowheel is geared for the mobile urbanite. The “self-balancing electric unicycle” operates through gyroscopic technology, which a 1000-watt rechargeable lithium-ion battery powers. On a full charge (which takes about 45 minutes), the Solowheel lasts two hours—but the battery actually recaptures energy when going downhill.
Weighing only 20 pounds and consisting of little more than a simple wheel with a fold-up foot platform on either side, you can easily throw it in your backpack or briefcase once you reach your destination, or carry it by its convenient handle.
Solowheel will be available stateside March 2010 and will sell for $1,500.
Photography by Cemal Okten for Core77
Returning for it’s fourth year at the Design Museum in London, the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition opened yesterday presenting around 100 projects which fall into seven categories – architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. The winners for each category, and an overall winner for the best design of 2011 will chosen by an international jury and announced on March 15.
Core77 readers will be very familiar with the nominated entries. This year’s highlights include the One Arm Drive System for wheelchairs by brothers Mark and Jon Owen, the YikeBike by New Zealander Grant Ryan, Nendo’s Thin Black Lines furniture series, and the energy saving light bulb Plumen by Samuel Wilkinson. Of course the iPad and Dyson’s Air Multiplier Fan are going to be tough products to beat.
Check out more of our favorites in the gallery and if you’re in London in the next few months, the exhibition is an absolute must for designers and design fans.
Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011
Feb. 16 – Aug. 7, 2011
Design Museum
Shad Thames
London
SE1 2YD
>> view gallery
One of the sub-specialties of Netherlands-based Zecc Architects is what they call Re-Use Cultural Heritage. They take existing structures — a school, a laboratory, a watertower, a church and the de rigueur factory — and turn them into living spaces while still maintaining the character of the original.
Zecc’s philosophy is about design having strength in the elements you can’t see:
The strength of a tree equals the depth of its roots. Our architecture is the same. Zecc works from three ground principles: what we build is functional, sustainable and engages all senses at the same time. Uniting these three principles often seems an impossible assignment. However, this is the core of Zecc’s strength. We call it Grounded Architecture. Architecture with a strong foundation. With deep roots. Since these bring forth the most wonderful ideas.
Hit the jump for more shots of our faves, or check out their book here.
The suite is a symmetry.The structure of the chair are formed by a horizontal symmetry.
Stockholm 2011: designer Mia Gammelgaard of Copenhagen showed this wooden chair with leg warmers for Swedish firm Blå Station at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week.
Alongside the Hippo chair Gammelgaard launched a matching three-legged table named Potamus.
Blå Station ran a competition to design leg warmers for the chair, voted for by visitors to their stand at the fair.
Linnéa Regnlund’s winning leg-warmer design is shown in the image above.
Stockholm Furniture Fair took place 8-12 February. See all our coverage of the event »
Here’s some more information from Blå Station:
Hippo & Potamus
Design: Mia Gammelgaard 2O1O A new friend in wood. Rounded lines that are friendly and welcoming, Hippo, is a wooden chair that takes the distinctive lines of a traditional Swedish stick-back chair and adds a generous helping of light- hearted modernity.
Hippo balances between the graceful poise of a ballerina and the strength and stability of a hippopotamus.
It was first shown at the Danish Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition, “White-Out” in Copenhagen on 29 October 2010.
The table Potamus, is presented for the first time at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011.
The table is the perfect partner for Hippo chair and can be used in, for example, cafés or restaurant settings.
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