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Ukrainian architects Sergey Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko covered the interior of this bar in Kiev with sticks.

Called Twister, the project also features a double-height restaurant, with curving booths on stilts above the regular dining furniture below.

Drop-shaped lamps are intended to represent rain.

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The information below is from the architects:

Twister restaurant

Design team of Serghii Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko have completed the interior for a restaurant in Kiev, where you can feel like baby bird while drinking cocktail or have a dinner at tornado top. This restaurant can be classed as modern European and offers a molecular kitchen style dishes.

The main aim while designing this restaurant space was to create an environment that is natural, modern and comfortable.This restaurant features two areas: a two-storeyed dining section and relaxing bar area.

Two-storeyed dining section was inspired by two natural phenomenas: tornado and rain. The space features six tornado shape balconies which create one dynamical upper zone with five dining cells. Restaurant walls lined with wooden slats create contrast balconies smooth surface.

Ceiling lamps imitate rain drops falling from the sky so complete atmosphere is very natural and ensures comfort. Spaces of the restaurant are calming due to the natural tones which extend throughout the restaurant: beige, ochre, garnet, brown.

The bar itself is made of wooden sticks stuck together among themselves. This wall decoration creates feeling of bird’s nest where you can feel warm and cosy. Armchair design remind us coniferous cones and forest. The whole place is made for relax and changing people’s mind to meditative spirit.

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv
total square: 421 square meters
project name: “TWISTER”

Main material: wood, concrete, metal,marble,plastic
Design team: Sergey Makhno, Butenko Vasiliy

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Last year, Jonathan Safran Foer’s die-cut novel Tree of Codes proved to be a triumph of print and production from publishers, Visual Editions. They recently released a short film showing some of the processes that went into making this unique book…

The die-cut technique is central to Safran Foer’s novel. In it he creates a new story from cutting text out of an existing work, namely Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles (a favourite book of Safran Foer’s).

To create Tree of Codes each page featured a different die-cut. Visual Editions worked with Die Keure in Belgium to produce the book, having been turned down by every other printer they approached – frequently with claims of “this book can’t be made” ringing in their ears.

So here’s a little film about what happens when you decide to make an extremely unusual book: one that despite the odds, can indeed be made. More on the book itself, here and The Trees of Codes’ microsite is here.

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Yabu Pushelberg has an opening for a 3D Artist who will create interior renderings for high-end hospitality and retail spaces. The ideal candidate is proficient in 3D Studio Max 2009 or newer and has a good triangle mesh flow, and good attention to detail. He or she also has a good understanding of UVW unwrapping and the VRay Render Plugin, including lighting, texturing, and material creation using VRay in an Interior/Architecture environment. Additionally, the 3D Artist must be able to read working drawings, CAD plans and blueprints and has a strong understanding of PhotoShop in order to create textures and perform colour corrections and post production to renderings.

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A beautiful intersection of craft and design, the Story Vases pair Swedish design collaborative Front and a collective of South African women to tell their personal stories through beadwork and glass. South African women’s organization Siyazama Project empowers traditional craftswomen in the KwaZulu-Natal province to address concerns about AIDS through their beadwork. Recorded by Front, the Vases are a rare document of daily life of women in rural, post-apartheid South Africa—dreams and hopes for self and family collide with stories of poverty, gender, HIV and unemployment.

“Each woman formed their own story into text by threading glass beads onto metal wires. These wires were made into vase-shaped moulds, into which glass was blown,” explains the designers. “Bead craft is an important part of Zulu tradition, not only as a means of expression but also of communication and telling stories. In the past, patterns and colours were woven into beadwork, symbolising feelings and ideas to lovers and friends, in a way similar to written language.”

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