Dezeen Screen: in this previously unseen movie filmed during the London Design Festival 2010, Dezeen interviewed London designer Faye Toogood at her Super Natural exhibition inside a disused garage. Watch the movie »
Klimp is funny, cozy, flexible and dynamic piece of furniture carrying a contemporary way of thinking and it is also weather as well as vandal proof. ..
 | We just love Poketo‘s array of artists series wallets, as well their up-cycled leather goods. So we were so excited to share these cute summer accessories with you in our latest giveaway. We asked you to make a shopping guide of your summer accessories essentials and we got so many cute collections and styles! It was hard to narrow it down, but after much consideration, we’d like to congratulate – and as the winners of the artist series wallets!
|
Jean Baptiste Durand explores “the social dimension of sound” in his project of the same name.
The problem with street artist Banksy is that he leaves most of his valuable street art on the street where terrible things might happen to it. Case in point, after both thefts and numerous incidents of having his very valuable work accidentally removed or painted over, such has happened again, and the cozy confines of his hometown of Bristol no less. This time around, the BBC reports that Saeed Ahmed, the new owner of building that once housed a nightclub, decided to clean up the walls a bit and in the process whitewashed a Banksy that the community had known and loved for the past decade. However, unlike with the other times this has happened, the building’s owner feels terrible about it and is reportedly looking into “options to see if the whitewash can be removed and the painting restored
He added: “I didn’t know it was valuable and that’s why I painted over it. I really am sorry if people are upset.”
We feel badly for the guy, but it’s also just given us a million dollar idea: we’ll create a Banksy look-up index and sell it to local business owners. They can consult it before painting over graffiti, just to make sure they aren’t sitting on a) a beloved piece of artwork by a famous artist, or most important, b) something that could fetch them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
Competition: we’ve teamed up with authors Kerstin Zumstein and Helen Parton to give away five copies of their upcoming book Total Office Design.
The 320-page hardback presents an international survey of 50 contemporary workplaces.
Accompanied by over 480 photographs, plans and illustrations, the book entries are organised into three sections according to the size of each project.
Each entry includes a profile of the creative architecture and design teams involved.
Total Office Design will launch next month.
To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Total Office Design” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.
Read our privacy policy here.
Competition closes 15 August 2011. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
Subscribe to our newsletter, get our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter for details of future competitions.
The following information is from the publisher:
Featuring 50 cutting-edge projects from around the world, this international survey of workplace design is the ultimate resource for anyone creating the workplace of today or tomorrow. Abundantly illustrated with plans and photographs throughout, the book is divided into three colour-coded sections. Part 1 showcases low-cost workplaces created for small companies. Part 2 is a collection of medium-sized projects, all of which place a strong emphasis on environmental sensitivity and getting the most from a restricted budget. Part 3 is a selection of offices designed for large companies; here too the aim is to be as eco-friendly as possible, as well as to provide spaces that promote productivity, creativity and enhanced interaction between employees.
The projects in each section are located across the globe. From Selgas Cano’s semi-subterranean, tubular office in a forest near Madrid, to the ‘living skin’ of Harmonia 57 in São Paolo, each project proves that our workplaces needn’t be boring, expensive or harmful to the environment.
About The Authors
Kerstin Zumstein is an editor and journalist specializing in design, architecture and travel. She launched the leading office interior monthly magazine onoffice in 2006. Helen Parton is a London-based design journalist and former features editor of onoffice magazine who specializes in design, interiors and the built environment.
Total Office Design
50 Contemporary Workplaces
Kerstin Zumstein, Helen Parton
489 illustrations, 423 in colour
23.0 x 21.0cm 320pp
PLC (with jacket) £24.95
August 2011
 | Amber Rose recently showed up at the Jamie Foxx celebrity event with a head full of big, voluminous curls. So of course we had to ask … Amber Rose – With hair or without? After a weeks worth of neck to neck voting, they have been tallied and it seems like Hivers think that she’s just as beautiful with or without, but her shaved platinum look has eeked into first place! And hair aside, we’re also digging Amber Rose’s sexy ensemble! We love the the hot pink strapless mini that she paired with nude platform pumps. Check out how to get the winning look here! |
KND – Kids Never Die.
L’autore di questo articolo è Alessandro “Buddy” Timpanaro, illustratore e graphic designer, e uno tra i fondatori di CocaColla.it, blog focalizzato sul design, l’estetica contemporanea e sulle culture di strada.
Dans le même esprit que son travail 3D Painting on Glass, voici une sélection des oeuvres les plus impressionnantes par l’artiste anglais David Spriggs. Il parvient à faire rentrer les spectateurs dans son univers jouant à merveille avec la peinture, le verre et les éléments.
Copyright Fubiz™ – Suivez nous sur Twitter et Facebook
It’s always a bit weird when celebrities decide they’re going to take an internship in some profession they’re not currently employed in. Architecture buff Brad Pitt sorta kinda (but not really in the slightest) interned for a while with Frank Gehry (though he really didn’t). Kanye West has taken on a number of apprentice roles in the fashion industry, most notably as a summer intern at Gap. Now it’s apparently Lady Gaga‘s turn. Clearly a bit more free from her Polaroid creative directing duties after the spring launch of one of her products for the company, Gaga looks to be following through with her plans to intern with Philip Treacy, the famous hat maker whose work was all the talk at the royal wedding. Months ago, it was learned that the singer had submitted her resume to the UK-based milliner, and now the internet is abuzz following an interview with Treacy recently did with The Observer, wherein it sounds a bit like she might actually starting showing up, working long hours, and fetching coffee. Though we don’t have the slightest doubt that none of those tasks will ever be performed by her (that’s what her interns are for). Here’s his answer about Gaga:
She plans to. She’s already visited me. This is what happened: one Monday morning, four burly bodyguards arrived — Lady Gaga’s security team — to check out the security of the building. I looked at them as if to say: what?! Who is going to take a pot shot at Lady Gaga? Anyway, she is young, talented and peculiar — which I like. The Brit awards were the next night and she said to her people (I loved this): “Can somebody buy me some brown underwear for tomorrow?”
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
