Thanks to everyone who made it out to celebrate our “Sweet 16” NY Design Week party at the Phaidon Store last night—especially those that stopped by our Hand-Eye Supply stand and modeled the safety glasses for us!! You made our night!
More party safety shots!
Stunning paintings by artist Alex Kanevsky. More after the jump.
Se vi son sempre piaciuti gli occhiali che indossa Terry Richardson, senza troppi giri, Moscot ne ha prodotto una replica in edizione limitata, 350pz numerati a 290$ caduno.
Li trovate qui.
Designer Carl Burdick’s amusing bluetooth headset takes the technology-as-jewelry trend, smashes it into the Retro Objects movement with an old-school telephone form factor, and adds a dash of ’80s Executive Desk.
It’s just a concept from the Los Angeles-based Burdick, but assuming the technological innards could be worked out, we could see this being Kickstarted in a big way.
Korean designers Joon&Jung have hand-crafted this set of speakers by strapping punctuated ceramic cubes onto a stack of twigs.
The combination of materials gives a slight echo to create a more natural sound.
More stories about speakers on Dezeen»
The following is from the designer:
The Natural Speaker, by Studio Joon&Jung, 2011
New trans-material works with deep understanding with effect
Natural resonance porcelain speaker
The idea for the ‘the natural speaker’ derived from the desire to create an absolutely unique, handcrafted speaker for the interior space. Whereas a lot of speakers are constructed to produce a rather fat bass and sharp high tones, we felt the sound was kind of stuck inside the speakers, missing a natural vibe and ambiance.
During the development of the ‘the natural speaker’ we discovered the great properties of porcelain as a speaker casing, providing a clear resonance and mellow sound.
Amplified inside the ceramic and wood transmission construction, the sound gains a slight echo, creating a natural feeling of resonance, resembling the distinct flair of an acoustic instrument right in front of you.
Each set of pieces is individually crafted by hand and each procelain casing checked for best amplifying performance. If you value a balanced midtone sound and a speaker with a ‘feeling’ for your music, you will surely enjoy the ‘the natural speaker’.
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| Ceramic Speaker by Nendo | Headphone by AIAIAI and Kilo Design | Speakers by Tristan Zimmermann |
Ospitata negli edifici dell’antico Canapificio Veneto, la Tipoteca Italiana è nata per dar vita a iniziative che valorizzano la tipografia. Si vuole, infatti, documentare il significato, l’origine e lo scopo del lavoro dei progettisti italiani di caratteri italiani, dalla rivoluzione industriale ai giorni nostri. E’ principalmente un luogo privilegiato di raccolta di caratteri da stampa, ma non solo: archivio, museo, officine di restauro e di stampa, laboratorio e biblioteca sono le molteplici realtà di uno stesso spazio polifunzionale.
Tif – Tipoteca Italiana fondazione
Via Canapificio, 3 – 31041
Cornuda (Treviso)
While most furniture designers carefully avoid beetle-infested wood in their salvaging quests, Jesse Hooker embraces it with open arms.
This weekend, Brooklyn-based Hooker & Co. debuted their STAGG table at the Bklyn Designs booth at ICFF. Fabricated from salvaged steel for the metal base and tapered legs, and reclaimed barn maple for the main slab, the table comes in five reclaimed wood types and four lengths. The STAGG table is their first departure from exclusively making one-off pieces, which is a definite challenge when using reclaimed materials. While their work is not all insect-infested, this particular piece has dark swathes of beetle-made patterning, and is the direct product of envisioning something beautiful in something previously considered “damaged.”
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Someone’s new identity for PR agency Resonate was made using £1000 worth of flowers, liquid nitrogen and explosives
We’ve seen (and enjoyed) quite a few super slo-mo videos of things being blown up here at CR over the past few years (Dan Tobin Smith’s Exploding Teddy story for Kilimanjaro being a highlight). And there are plenty more on YouTube. But Someone‘s new identity for PR agency Resonate puts the idea to appropriate use, the idea being that the agency takes one story and disseminates it in hundreds of different ways (although presumably not destroying something beautiful in the process…).
Working with photography group Sorted and effects specialist Pirate, Someone froze bouquets of flowers using liquid nitrogen then detonated them with explosive charges.
For the technically minded among you, the stills were captured on a Canon 1DS mk 3 using a bank of Bron Colour High speed strobe packs. They were all wired to a trigger that fired the explosives first, and then the camera and strobes at a few thousandths of a second later.
The images are shown here on business cards (front and back)
DVDs
and on the website
Video was also shot (at 2000 frames per second).
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