Il designer londinese Oscar Diaz ha disegnato questo morbido porta penne in silicone la cui particolare forma bassa permette ai piccoli oggetti come graffette e puntine di non scomparire all’interno del cilindro. Prodotto da Doiy, disponibile in tre colori diversi: rosso, nero. bianco.
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Une excellente initiative par les magasins Westfield avec cette superbe vidéo de promotion retraçant plus de 100 ans de mode et de styles en 100 secondes. Une évolution à travers les époques dans ce montage très réussi. A découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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Johnny Kelly has created this delightful animation for Chipotle Mexican Grill, which features a specially commissioned cover of Coldplay track The Scientist, by Willie Nelson…
The film tells the story of a farmer who slowly turns his farm into an industralised animal factory, before deciding to opt for a more sustainable future. Nelson’s version of The Scientist was commissoned especially for the film, and is available to download here, with all proceeds from the sales going to the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation, which is “committed to creating a more sustainable and healthful food supply and to raising awareness concerning food issues”.
And here’s a time-lapse film recorded by Max Halstead during the shoot at Clapham Road Studios UPDATE: unfortunately the time-lapse film has now been taken down from Vimeo so we have removed the link here.
Credits:
Creative director: Todd Hunter
Creatives: Jesse Coulter, Ricardo Viramontes
Direction and design: Johnny Kelly
Production company: Nexus
Eames Executive Chair aka the Time Life Chair.
Yesterday we posted about a manufacturer called Infurn and their Eames pieces, which we mistakenly believed were legally licensed. It has since come to our attention (thanks to our sharp-eyed readers) that the company appears to be producing illegal replicas out of China and routing them through the UK in an attempt to exploit a perceived loophole in copyright laws. Core77 does not condone such practices and I regret my error in posting links to the company.
“Herman Miller and Vitra are the ONLY authorized manufacturers of Eames designs worldwide,” writes Herman Miller’s Retail Director Marg Mojzak. “All of the beautiful designs mentioned in the post are currently available at Herman Miller’s own store.”
So folks, please click through and have a look at the lesser-known—and completely legal—Eames designs right here including…
the solid Walnut Stool…
and the elegant Segmented Table.
All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!
The September issue of Real Simple magazine was the source for this week’s unitasker. Listed in the article “6 Items to Simplify Your Life” was the dipr:
The dipr is a spoon that holds your sandwich cookie while you dip it in milk, coffee or any other liquid that you like. The dipr also allows you to have a germ-free dunking experience since your fingers don’t have to touch the liquid anymore.
I think the little dipr is pretty cute, honestly. However, since it only works with sandwich cookies like Oreos and Hydrox, it seems to be more clutter for the kitchen than a tool to simplify your life. I’m also not sure how it’s really any different than a regular spoon, which you already own.
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James Rosenquist’s “The Richest Person Gazing at the Universe Through a Hubcap” (2011), one of 26 works donated to the Artists for Haiti auction (Photo: David Zwirner)
Earlier this year, actor Ben Stiller and gallerist extraordinaire David Zwirner teamed up to organize Artists for Haiti, an art auction to benefit huminatiarian efforts in the wake of the catastrophic January 2010 earthquake that took 230,000 lives. Months of work on the project have paid off in the form of a jaw-dropping selection of 26 pieces—most created specifically for the sale—that will go on the block at Christie’s on the evening of Thursday, September 22, in New York. Artists including Jasper Johns, Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Cecily Brown, and Raymond Pettibon have donated works, and they’re not standard benefit-auction fare. Mamma Andersson has contributed a haunting oil called “Night Train” (2011), and Neo Rauch is represented by a breathtaking new canvas of alienated souls poised to break into song in a technicolored forest. In “Le juif errant” (2011), Francis Alÿs depicts a figure traversing a map while carrying the built world on his shoulders. The canvas could function as a new identity for Architecture for Humanity, one of several nonprofits and NGOs that all of the proceeds from the Artists for Haiti auction will support. Learn more about the auction and check out all of the works in person at David Zwirner (September 6-14) or at Christie’s (September 17-20). Click here to watch Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer, who has written a text in the Artists for Haiti auction catalogue, discuss the situation in Haiti during his recent appearance on Charlie Rose.
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Double-aging and distilling makes for this ultra-smooth sipping rum
If how quickly our bottle of Brugal’s 1888 Ron Gran Reserva Familiar went is any indication, you’ll keep this tipple within easy access at the front of the liquor cabinet. The perfectly-balanced 1888, one of the smoothest rums we’ve tasted, is the upshot of five generations of experience in one masterful blend. Double-distilled and double-aged (first in American oak barrels followed by Spanish sherry casks), this Brugal projects a light sweetness and isn’t overbearingly smoky or spicy. The aging process brings out the rum’s full flavor without overly complicating the taste, making it an excellent sipping rum.
Topping off the elegantly beautiful bottle design, a weighty gold-toned cap lends a sense of quality that adds to the rich experience of this delicious drink. An annual limited-release rum—the label indicates the lot number and year of production—and at only $50 a bottle, the 1888 reserve is a great value for its exceptional taste. Already selling in New York, 1888 will hit stores around the U.S. beginning mid-September 2011.
Boston studio Ruhl Walker Architects have completed a wildlife recovery centre in Hawaii.
The centre provides a facility for the treatment of native wildlife, as well as rooms for research, training and education.
The walls of the building are covered with fibre-cement panels and transparent corrugated polycarbonate.
A sheltered terrace separates the education room from the main building and leads out to a garden where native plants are grown.
Large openings in the walls also open the education room out to the garden, while narrow slits create a large louvered window in the fibre-cement facade.
Another building from the Dezeen archive to house animals is a giraffe enclosure at a Rotterdam zoo – see the story here.
Photography is by William Ruhl.
Here are some more details from Ruhl Walker Architects:
The Hawai’i Wildlife CenterHalaula, Hawai’ianticipated completion, November 2011
The Hawai’i Wildlife Center is a non-profit conservation organization which will operate Hawai’i’s first wildlife recovery center when this building is completed in late 2011. Located in Halaula, North Kohala, on the Big Island of Hawai’i, the HWC is dedicated to the conservation and recovery of Hawai’i’s vulnerable, too often endangered native wildlife through hands-on treatment, research, training, science education, and cultural programs. The new complex will consist of three integrated and sustainably designed components: a wildlife care and response facility, an interpretive and outreach lanai and native species garden, and an open-air education pavilion.
The design of the HWC is an abstraction of the archetypal Hawaiian commercial architecture of the nearby towns of Hawi and Kapa’au, with a planar front facade concealing conventional (affordable) shed and gable-roofed forms behind. The front facade of the HWC is a collage of flush fiber cement lap siding and trim of varying dimensions held apart to enhance natural ventilation to the open air education pavilion, lanai, and staging porch. At the education pavilion, these fiber cement slats are modulated to create an oversized ‘window’ facing the street. Behind the main facade, the walls of the treatment facility are sheathed in locally fabricated corrugated steel, while the walls of the staging porch and education pavilion are sheathed in translucent corrugated polycarbonate. The HWC will be naturally ventilated and cooled by the dependable trade winds, its water will be stored in catchment tanks and solar heated, and its non-emergency electrical needs will be met by roof mounted photovoltaics.
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Client: Hawai’i Wildlife Center
Architect: Ruhl Walker Architects
Associate Architect, Construction Administration: Rhoady Lee Architecture and Design
Landscape Architect: Umemoto Cassandro Design Corporation
General Contractor: Tinguely Development, Inc.
Construction Manager: Meridian Construction & Development
LEED Certification and Development: Ryan Associates General Contractors
Structural Engineer: William Blakeney Structural Engineers
Civil Engineer: Peter JK Dahlberg, PE, LLC
Mechanical Engineer: Mark Morrison And Associates
Electrical Engineer: Smithsonian / SAO
Wastewater system and solar photovoltaic engineering: Kohala Engineering
Land Survey: Pattison Land Surveying Inc.
Windows and doors: Coastal Windows
Plumbing Fixtures: Kohler
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