Voici “Jump”, la vidéo de fin d’études de Julien Regnard pour La Cambre à Bruxelles. Cette vidéo d’animation 2D sous TvPaint est doté d’un style coloré et intelligemment pensé. Une réussite visuelle qui narre les aventures de trafiquants interceptés par des forces de police.
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If you’re a member of the mafia who is currently imprisoned in Sicily, let us first say a) thank you very, very much for reading our site and b) we’re tight-lipped and not here to cause any trouble. Let us just consider this a friendly note, shall we? In an interesting/fun story, the Telegraph reports that the new head of a jail in Palermo wants to put in place a rule that will not allow the prisoners to wear clothing or accessories from designer labels. Apparently, because prisoners are allowed to wear their own clothes, members of the mafia imprisoned there have been “showing off their status with Louis Vuitton jackets, Valentino silk shirts and Adidas and Nike trainers,” which the new head of the jail is tired of. Here’s a bit:
“Why should the authorities be allowed to dictate what my husband wears?” one woman told La Stampa newspaper.
Another complained: “My husband will have to walk around naked because he only has designer clothes, not to show off but because they’re of better quality and they last longer. Why humiliate him in this way and make me go and buy all his clothes in street markets?”
Our questions is: how do you stop it? Couldn’t the prisoners simply transition into less flashy, but still designer-made clothing, with the logos a bit more subdued? And if that happens, will their be regular fashion checks and a registry of brands that are deemed less showy? And if that list gets out, will it ruin the fashion industry?
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To flag up Privacy International‘s new report on European attitudes to privacy, This Is Real Art has created a short film which illustrates the various data trails people can unwittingly leave behind during an hour of online activity…
Filmed as if a surveillance camera is monitoring a stream of data, the short describes how data is stored and shared when users update their social networks, use smart phone apps, or carry out internet searches. Organisations who can potentially access the data include internet search companies, the police and various third parties.
Since 1990, Privacy International has been involved in protecting the right to privacy, often by challenging the work of businesses and governments. They also compile an annual report on the privacy situation in European countries which results in a league table of each nation’s privacy credentials. To launch this year’s report, TiRA were briefed to “show the staggering amount of personal information we all unknowingly give away hourly to governments and corporations,” they explain.
“The current scandal about phone hacking is quite rightly causing outrage,” says TiRA creative director Paul Belford. “What is less understandable is why there isn’t also an outcry about all the information that’s legally taken from everyone every day. This film is designed to remind us just what we could all willingly reveal about ourselves to governments and corporations in a single lunch hour.”
The film will feature in the Sense & The City exhibition at the London Transport Museum this month. The show explores how new technology is shaping the way that people live, work and travel in the city. More on Privacy International at privacyinternational.org.
Regular readers may recall our blog post last year about photographer Dean Chalkley‘s New Faces exhibition of images of young, well dressed mods dancing around in a studio. Well, he’s been at it again, this time photographing young Northern Soul fans for a new show entitled Young Souls which is currently running at PYMCA‘s central London gallery, Youth Club, just off Carnaby Street…
Chalkley’s images look to celebrate today’s Northern Soul scene, a British phenomenon which goes back to the 60s but which is currently enjoying something of a revival as young music fans discover the music played at legendary clubs such as the Wigan Casino and Twisted Wheel in the North of England in the 60s and 70s.
As well as creating a new body of work depicting young soul fans doing what they love best (dancing), Chalkley wrote, produced and directed a short film also called Young Souls, working with cinematographer Benoir Soler and editor James W. Griffiths. The film can currently be seen on 125 Magazine’s website here.
“I didn’t set out to create the definitive story of Northern Soul, but I did aim to celebrate it,” says Chalkley of the Young Souls project. “The photographic aspect is a study focusing on the current burgeoning generation of young people getting into the scene, whereas the film brings the atmosphere and wonder of Northern Soul to life. I didn’t want to just recreate the past, but I did aim to produce timeless works that illustrate the culture as never before. It is great to show how people dance to Northern Soul music, but more importantly how it is a passionate experience, and how its devotees young and old are immersed in it.”
Young Souls runs until August 6 at Youth Club, Unit 2.1 Kingly Court, London W1B 5PW. For more information and opening times, visit pymca.com
To see more of Chalkley’s work, visit his site at deanchalkley.com
Show RCA 2011: footwear designer Victoria Spruce presented these sculptural shoes at the Royal College of Art graduate show earlier this month.
The collection combines shiny plastic shells with traditional leather soles and matte-leather linings that are revealed as the uppers twist and fold.
Dezeen is quite keen on crazy footwear – check out more stories about strange shoes here.
See all our stories about Show RCA 2011 here.
Here’s some more information from Victoria Spruce:
The collection was originally inspired by organic, flowing sculptures, giving the idea that the object could consist of one flowing continuous line and material.
Through using hard materials and new technologies combined with traditional shoemaking materials and techniques an element of contrast is highly visible yet working together as one.
Emphasised by the use of tonal matte leathers to line the plastic and traditional leather soles, the contrast between the modern plastic look and the traditional aspects becomes even further evident.
The result is a combination of hard and soft, a contrast of matte vs. shine, and an unlikely pairing of modern technology and traditional techniques creating sculptural and fresh new footwear.
Fashion Womenswear
Specialism: Footwear
Supported by: The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, Richard Paice and Daniel Rubin (RCA Footwear Scholarship).
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 | Summer is the time for weekend getaways, road trips and mini vacations. We’re all envious of the people that are flying off to the Caribbean or Hawaii. We’d love to lounge at the beach or pool and soak up some sun. A day of pampering at the spa sounds amazing. But alas, many of us no longer have the luxury of three-month-long summer breaks nor do we have the vacation days or money saved up to jet-off for a quick getaway. That doesn’t mean you can’t relax and unwind resort-style in the comforts of your own home and town, though! Grab a large umbrella, some suntan lotion and make your way to the nearest beach! Or light some candles and put on the soothing music and give yourself a luxurious facial at home. Need a little more excitement? Round up the gals and make your favorite mix drink and serve them up in a new set of cute cocktail glasses! The possibilities are endless on your staycation! And while a stayaction is a great way to decompress while saving money, we’re taking it one step further! Click on the slideshow to see some of our ideas and get inspired with our staycation picks, all under $50! |
Eidos Chair and Seating Design shows us a traditional typology but as we have designed for Charme Bathtub, flexuous and spun form, ergonomics and fun..
What’s the best way to pump a whole ton of money into a small town? Simple: pump a whole ton of money into building a gigantic museum with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art that people will flock to see. Such is apparently happening in Bentonville, Arkansas on the eve of the opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The massive Moshe Safdie-designed complex, set to open in November and founded by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, is pushing the town into high gear, as the AP reports that construction will begin in September on “a luxury hotel that will be designed to host travelers” and that the city is already “upgrading water and sewer lines for the hotel.” There are already more than a dozen places to hang your hat in and around Bentonville, but the city is likely (and perhaps rightly) expecting a big uptick in visitors this winter and wanted to have something a bit nicer than the Hilton on Walton Blvd. Though given that the Wal-Mart headquarters has long called the town home, we’re sure that that Hilton was already pretty nice. We just think it would be fun to see a Four Seasons or a Ritz in a town of less than 40,000 people. Yep, that’s the sort of thing that we find fun.
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Le studio Brand New School a imaginé cette vidéo de qualité pour la marque et la filiale d’énergie renouvelable portugaise EDP. Une collaboration avec le créatif Stephan Sagmeister pour cette création et animation de qualité. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Enrico Azzimonti appartiene a quella generazione di designer italiani 30-40enni di talento a cui, attraverso le pagine del blog, intendo dare sempre più spazio. Di lui avevo già parlato in un paio di occasioni ma ho preferito dedicargli un articolo più completo, anche perché ha da poco rinnovato il sito web. Dal ricco portfolio di Azzimonti, che è architetto, ho scelto i progetti di industrial design che preferisco. Progetti già messi in produzione, e casualmente accumunati dall’uso ricorrente della forma circolare.
Mi sono reso conto della coincidenza solo al termine della selezione, ma forse non è un caso perché a ben vedere Enrico Azzimonti fa largo uso di forme iconiche e di un tratto morbido. Nel sito del designer i lavori sono presentati in ordine cronologico e ho notato una continua crescita progettuale: i prodotti più recenti mi sembrano più maturi e concreti. Un buon auspicio per il futuro.
L’oggetto in copertina si chiama La ruota del tempo, è un calendario perpetuo formato da dischi in ceramica. Un oggetto forse di non immediata comprensione, ma formalmente ben riuscito.
Heron è una lampada prodotta quest’anno da Bilumen. Si tratta della classica lampada da tavolo snodabile che, a differenza di quanto avviene di solito, mette in evidenza il cavo che conduce l’elettricità alla lampada. La versione più interessante è sicuramente quella in cui il cavo finisce col trasformarsi nel profilo stilizzato di un portalampada, come a enfatizzare la sua funzione.
Solo Ora è un oggetto ibrido particolarmente riuscito; appeso a parete svolge la funzione di lampada, specchio e orologio. può servire a capire quanto tempo si passa davanti allo specchio o per rendersi conto che si è in ritardo e darsi una sistemata prima di uscire di casa. L’oggetto mi ha immediatamente ricordato il classico quadrante verticale delle bilance … forse con un pò di fantasia si poteva aggiungere anche questo uso?
Concludo con il progetto più recente: Psammos, una serie di elementi di arredo urbano ispirati alla bitta d’ormeggio romana . Un grande anello in pietra, ripetuto in posizioni e altezze diverse, può diventare parapetto, ormeggio, portabiciclette e altro ancora per inserire nei moderni luoghi di scambio un oggetto di sapore classico.
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