Un étonnant concept de packaging réalisé par l’artiste Jorn basé à Düsseldorf, transformant les bouteilles d’alcools, comme Jack Daniels ou Absolut Vodka, en packaging d’emballages de laits en carton. Une série intitulé “Ecohols” à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC—home to the recently-opened design exhibition “Talk to Me”—needs no introduction to any art or design enthusiast. Their in-house Department of Advertising and Graphic Design, on the other hand, is almost entirely invisible, yet they deserve just as much recognition. From life-sized typography to murals on apartment buildings, and from exhibit design to limited-edition newspapers, the Department is a powerhouse at delivering art to patrons in the form of an exquisitely wrapped gift.
There is certainly an art to maintaining a balance between drawing visitors into a museum, keeping their attention, and providing information, while disappearing behind the actual exhibit—the work itself—when need be. To this end, the majority of the Department’s design work for the entrances to MoMA’s exhibits is bombastic and hard to miss. What I find interesting, though, is how one best leads a patron through an exhibit (whether through psychology, design, or both) while keeping the art on display and the conversation it has with its visitors the most important part of the experience.
Seoul designer Jeongmi Lee has designed a conceptual domestic robot that steals your duvet in the morning and poos all over the floor. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen.
The robotic vacuum cleaner would be tied to the duvet and equipped with a timer to make it run away when the alarm is activated, pulling the covers with it.
The robot would be able to change its own filters after cleaning the floor, ejecting the used ones in little brown cardboard packages.
Here are some more details from Jeongmi Lee:
This project was conducted in order to search for new possibilities of home appliances.
Our home appliances are always the same. Washing machines continue to spin and refrigerators steadily cool down things. Sticking to what they are good at is not wrong, but isn’t that a bit boring?
Therefore, I decided to reconsider the relationship between me and home appliances. ‘A robot cleaner’, to be precise. He, according to my description, is quite cute. Watching him work makes recall a cute puppy. (Sure, there are designs that visualizes cockroaches in the market.) Anyway it’s sad to see such a cute product work on cleaning only…
For him (or a robot cleaner in this case), I ask for a morning call, hoping that our relationship gets elevated to the next level. However, unfortunately, he does not have any ‘voice’ devices. All he can do is ‘run’ and ‘absorb’. Okay then.
I bring up a memory of my mom waking me up every morning when I was young by taking away my blankets. Perhaps he could do that as well! How? I simply tie him to the blanket with a string. He simply has to run when the alarm rings. Then my blanket will get dragged away by him.
Ah, there’s another cute thing about him. He can poop. As you know, we all have to replace tissue filters of robot cleaners ourselves. However, my robot cleaner can automatically extract them, which is amazingly convenient.
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| Eco-pods by Howeler + Yoon and Squared Design Lab | Doomsday by Kacey Wong | Outrace by Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram |
We first reported on what we’re calling “vroom tones”—artificial noises that electric cars are required to generate for safety reasons—back in ’09 and ’10, and it hasn’t turned out the way we wanted. What we hoped was that e-car owners would be able to download different sounds in the manner of a ringtone, leading would-be sellers to come up with some truly creative vehicle noises.
Instead Ford has picked four engine sounds for their new Focus and posted them on Facebook, asking you social-network-using whippersnappers to rate which ones you like. The sounds are so disappointing I won’t embed them here, but you can hear them at the link above. They sound like airplanes dithering around on the runway waiting for a take-off slot; they might as well add a fifth one of a guy saying “BOR-ring” in a singsongy voice.
Am I the only one that wants to hear an electric car that sounds like this, below?
Après les différentes photographies, série et projets autour de la populaire “Super Mamika”, voici la nouvelle série du photographe français Sacha Goldberger. Une sélection de clichés présentant des joggers avant et après leur effort. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Mirrored walls conceal a photography studio at the centre of this clothes store in Malmö, Sweden, by architects Arrhov Frick.
The mirror-clad studio is mobile and can be slid into different positions around the Très Bien shop floor.
Garments and shoes are displayed on stainless steel tables and racks, which can also be reconfigured.
New clothing lines are photographed in the hidden studio then uploaded to the retailer’s online shop.
Housed inside a former textile factory, the shop has weathered timber floorboards that contrast with a new concrete floor in the entrance lobby.
Similar clothes stores recently published on Dezeen include a London boutique with rails made of scaffolding and a Japanese shop split in half by a zig-zagging wall – see all our stories about retail interiors here.
Photography is by Åke E:son Lindman.
The following information is provided by the architects:
Très Bien shop – Headquarters
Architecture/ Concept
Très Bien Shop’s collections are displayed in a building with great character and space in central Malmö, Sweden.
The space has previously housed a textile factory as well as a flea market, which becomes apparent when checking out the well-worn wooden floor. When we started the project, the space was divided into a number of different-sized rooms with skewed logistics and hierarchy. The new architectural concept gives the room functional logistics and clear, built-in flexibility.
Très Bien Shop is a growing company, and it was impossible to determine exactly how the space would be used one or two years from now. Therefore, we designed a very flexible layout.
Currently, the majority of Très Bien Shop’s sales are made online and there’s a need for regular photo shoots to keep the web shop updated. Therefore, a new photo studio plays a central role in the design and is the only room dividing the overall space.
The photo studio is mobile and can be slid to different positions and adjust the space between warehouse and store. The exterior of the studio is paneled with mirrors, making it subtly disappear, and making it useful from all angles. The designed furniture features—racks, tables and shelves—are made in stainless steel and are designed as loose, moveable furniture. The entrance to the shop has a solid, glossy concrete floor. The weathered wooden floor of the store/warehouse section has been left intact and act as a contrast to the mirrors, concrete and stainless steel.
The idea is that the environment should serve as a somewhat anonymous and subtle complement to clothing collections of diverse character.
Location: Friisgatan 6 Malmö, Sweden
Year: 2010-2011
Status: Built
Program: Retail store/ photo studio/ storage/ office space
Area: 400 Sqm
Team: Johan Arrhov, Henrik Frick
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I’ve been composing this post in some form in the comments for years. I know that most of our readers don’t read the comments, so I’ve felt comfortable dropping bits and pieces in there. I’ve also talked about it in one interview, but that was also years ago, and I think most people missed it. I don’t like to talk about it publicly, but I’m going to. It’s time.
I’m physically handicapped.
I qualify for a handicapped license plate and I took special education gym classes in elementary school and employers have to legally accommodate for my special needs. I have a genetic disorder that makes my physical life frustrating and complicated.
That being said, most people who have even met me in the world beyond the computer screen have no idea. I’ve been on national television and millions of viewers have missed it. The reason most people have no idea is because I am very good at hiding my affliction. I’m not ashamed of my disability, I simply refuse to let it be what defines me or let it get in my way.
I have an extremely rare skin disorder called Epidermolysis Bullosa (I think there are less than 3,000 of us in the world). Specifically, I have the Dominant Dystrophic form of EB. It sucks. It is not something you want. Low levels of friction can tear the skin right off my body. My 2-year-old son stepped on my foot the other day and degloved the skin completely off my big toe. I’ve been injured doing boring things like brushing my hair and walking. I regularly get blisters the size of silver dollars, and larger. I have gnarly scars all over my body and am usually wearing one or two bandages every day. Sometimes an injury is so bad that I’m confined to bed or a wheelchair. I live in constant risk of injury and infection.
I should also note that I have a better-than-average form of the disorder. I’m over 30 and I’m alive. I have a normal life expectancy as long as I stay as healthy as possible (the healthier I am, the easier it is to heal). I work for a company that offers a group health insurance plan, so I have access to medical care I can afford. I’m also surrounded by caring family and friends who provide support whenever I need it.
So what does this have to do with uncluttering? To quote Carl Jung out of context, it means “nothing and everything.” It means nothing because my reasons for being an unclutterer have very little to do with your reasons. We each come to this site for whatever desire propels us.
Conversely, my handicap means everything to uncluttering. It’s a good bet this site and my book wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for EB. When I was born, not a lot was known about my disorder. Doctors told my parents and me that I would likely die during childhood. And, to be fair to the doctors, many people with my disorder do die during childhood. What the doctors didn’t know at the time, though, was that not all cases of EB are created equally. My exact mutation of the disorder is kinder to its victims. Regardless, I woke up every morning of my childhood thinking that today might be the day I die.
Obviously, today could be the day anyone dies. We are all mortals. But, even so, most of us don’t wake up each day consumed with thoughts of our deaths. These thoughts have manifested in me an uncontrollable pursuit for the most remarkable life I can fit into whatever time I have on this planet. I am not willing to let anything — clutter, someone else, fear — distract me from the life I desire. Additionally, I want to help other people realize that they can clear the clutter and pursue the life they desire, too, but without having to be obsessed with thoughts of their own mortality.
Life, even if we live to be more than 100, is short. Doodads and trinkets and stress and things we don’t want in our lives shouldn’t keep us from the things that really matter. We all should be able to fill our time with moments of happiness, being responsible for those we love and cherish, and living a fulfilling life.
If it weren’t for my frustrating genetic disorder, I doubt I would have the view of life that I do. I’m sure it would have been easier for me to be caught up in the mundane, to pretend that I’m immortal, and to waste my time on things that don’t matter to me. Am I glad I’m handicapped? No. But I realize that being so has benefited me in unconventional ways, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.
Whatever reason brings you to this site and wanting to rid your life of clutter, I hope my advice and the advice of others in the comments and on the forums is helpful. My hope is that our community helps you discover a way to get rid of distractions and pursue the life of your dreams.
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Truly tough cheeseboards born and made in New York
Take two food-obsessed Brooklynites with a family history in rock mining, add an entrepreneurial spirit, and you have Brooklyn Slate Company. In 2009 co-founders Kristy Hadeka and Sean Tice started making cheeseboards using slate from Hadeka’s third-generation family quarry in upstate New York. The two saw the idea as “the perfect opportunity to participate in the local food movement” and since have hired on an intimate group of artisanal craftsman to help create elegant boards in their South Brooklyn studio.
After cutting down larger slabs, each platter is then hand selected for proper thickness and ideal hue. And because of the specific geological location of the source quarry, all cheeseboards are available in either a smokey black and dark red color, with red being unique to the New York Slate Valley.
Aside from the obvious aesthetic advantage over traditional wooden serving trays, the non-porous properties of slate make it impervious to mold and fungus while also resisting decay and discoloring over time. Due to their natural origins and minimal processing, each product is one-of-a-kind, having unique shapes, cuts and colors.
The finishing touch, a soapstone pencil included with each cheeseboard offers a clever route to identifying your freshest find from the local farmer’s market. Available for just $26, look to Brooklyn Slate Company online for stockists. While you’re there check out their slate coasters and garden markers that sell for $20 and $12, respectively.
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