Un pari osé par Citroën qui vient de présenter son nouveau concept-car Tubik, réinterprétant le célèbre utilitaire de la marque. Un concept de monospace futuriste et hybride capable d’accueillir 9 personnes, avec un habitacle facilement modulable. Plus d’images dans la suite.
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This is the third post in a 6-part series from Ziba’s Industrial Design Director, Paul Backett, on rethinking design education. Read the Introduction to the series, Teach Less, Integrate More here.
Every design school teaches the mechanics of sketching: line, volume, perspective, shading and so on. But when it comes to project work, most fail to teach students to sketch with purpose. This makes all the other exercise pointless. All too often I see sketches that look fine, but when I ask, “Why did you choose that form?” I get a shrug. As with research, students often see sketching as a step to complete, rather than a tool to be used throughout the design process.
Design has never been a linear series of tasks to be checked off. Experienced designers know that it’s more like a loop. It begins with research and problem framing, then falls rapidly into an iterative loop of exploration and refinement exercises, where ideas come to life and grow, gradually solidifying until they’re ready for the more linear finalization phase. As designers, we have to ride this loop repeatedly to find the right solution, and sketching is there at every turn. From an early thumbnail sketch at a brainstorm to refined detail sketches to final presentation renderings, it’s our best friend throughout the ride.
One of the things I ask my students to do before sketching is to build a design theme: a set of carefully curated products, attributes, materials and details that tell a clear story. It explains, for example, whether the product should be engaging and approachable or refined and technical; bold and powerful or so subtle it blends with the environment. Properly constructed, it becomes a designer’s ‘go to’ when sketching, setting up a brainstorm session, exploring form and refining details. From early on, design students should be in the habit of having one or more of these themes in front of them while they sketch, to reinforce the idea that sketching is only useful when it’s helping to realize an idea.
A surfing-film by Chris McClean & Mark Waters, poem “Uncommon Ideals” by Daniel Crockett, read by Jeff Hordley.
Une belle série de posters avec ce concept du graphiste Justin Barber. Voici une sélection de ces affiches humoristiques présentant de manière graphique ces mensonges du quotidien. Un projet baptisé “Truth and Lies” car avec des doubles phrases entres vérités et mensonges.
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Marlborough, UK
We’re looking for a talented and self-motivated 3D designer with a minimum of three years consultancy or in-house design team experience (packaging or product). The successful candidate will demonstrate creative thinking combined with the ability to develop your ideas into CAD quickly, accurately & beautifully (ProE, Solidworks, NX or Alias considered). We would expect you to be able to work independently and integrate studio skills with workshop to develop ideas for global brands within our experienced 3D design team.
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Plywood shingles create fish scales on the walls of a clothes store at Bondi Beach, Sydney, while spherical lights hang from the ceiling inside fishermen’s nets.
Australian architects MAKE Creative designed the shop interior for retailer Little Joe, in line with the branding style developed by ex-model Gail Elliott.
Shingle-covered walls are a feature of every Little Joe Woman store.
The fishing nets are in fact made from cords of black satin.
Walls inside the changing rooms are lined with a montage of photographs.
Austrian architects Superblock have also designed a building featuring scale-like cladding – see our earlier story here.
Photography is by Luc Remond.
Here’s some more text from MAKE Creative:
The latest Little Joe Woman store is located in the Beach House, a new arcade development that links the beachfront of iconic Bondi beach with the eclectic retail precint behind.
The Little Joe Woman brand, designed by ex-model Gail Elliott, has its origins in the Hamptons, origins that are reflected in the screen clad in shingles, an element that is repeated and reinterpreted in every Little Joe Woman store.
In the Bondi store, the store is housed in an exposed concrete shell, with a curved screen of raw plywood shingles wrapping around the space. The clothes display units act as a counterpoint to the unfinished quality of the space, with their sleek white powdercoat finish.
A contemporary reworking of glass fishermans’ floats forms an intriguing lighting installation over the main sales counter, adding to the urban beachside aesthetic. Created in-house by MAKE, a series of opaque glass spheres are knotted together with black satin cords.
The changerooms are lined with a signature collaged wallpaper created by MAKE especially for the Little Joe Woman stores. The wallpaper is built up from a series of layered sheets reproducing elements from Gail Elliott’s eclectic inspiration boards.
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| Pop-Out House by Mut Architecture | Sneakerology by Facet Studio | Japanse Winkeltje by Nezu Aymo Architects |
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com
Designer: Nokero International LTD – Stephen Katsaros
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Category: Products/Equipment
Award: Notable
The Nokero N200 is the world’s only bulb-shaped solar light with a single solar panel, recyclable Ni-MH battery powering four wide-angle LEDs. The low and high settings offer 2.5-6 hours of light on one day’s charge; with a feature that can be tilted toward the sun, giving superior charging efficiency.
I read Paul Polack’s book “Out of Poverty” and realized that 95 percent of the world’s engineers spend their time and energy designing products for only 10 percent of the people. I knew that I could use my talents to design something that can make a better world.
The problem is that billions live without reliable access to electricity, and most burn kerosene for light. These dangerous, unhealthy, and polluting lamps can be replaced with Nokero solar light bulbs, making a cleaner, healthier, more prosperous world. The challenge experienced was building a quality product that the most poverty-stricken people could afford. Yes, it was very exciting to come up with a product that is a safe alternative for families using fuel-based lighting has explosions and releases CO2 toxins creating an unhealthy atmosphere.
Core77: What’s the latest news or development with your project?
We are working with a Native American group and Eagle Energy to help bring solar power to some of the roughly 18,000 households without electricity on the Navajo Nation.
What is 1 quick anecdote about your project?
In western markets, our solar bulb is fun – it’s green, it’s environmentally-friendly. But once in a while, sometimes in a surprising way, we will realize the impact we are having on the lives of real people who live without electricity worldwide. Last October we were working away in our offices, heads down at our computers, when suddenly a little boy in a blue t-shirt came around the corner. When Tom, our media director, saw him, he stood up to talk to the boy … before he could speak, the boy ran forward and threw his arms around Tom’s leg.
The boy was from Uganda, and had come to America from Aggie’s baby home, where Nokero had donated a case of solar lights. His adoptive family came around the corner, tears in their eyes, and told us how much our bulbs had improved life at the orphanage. We take light for granted – but in Uganda light is a dangerous thing, and everyone at Aggie’s baby home knows someone who has been burned, disfigured, or lost their homes to fire from a kerosene lamp.
Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.
Owusu-Ankomah, Thinking the Microcron No.1, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 120 X 140 cm. Photo by Joachim Fliegner. Image Courtesy October Gallery London
Ghanaian artist Owusu-Ankomah will be showing a series of new paintings, laden with mysterious symbols and signs, at the October Gallery in London from September 15…
Owusu-Ankomah, Looking Back into the Future, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 200cm
Based in Bremen in Germany, Owusu-Ankomah’s art often depicts large scale human figures and for this new collection, Microcron – Kusum (Secret Signs – Hidden Meanings), each is surrounded and camouflaged by various symbolic sets and signs.
Owusu-Ankomah, Microcron – Kusum No.4, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 135 X 175 cm. Photo Joachim Fliegner. Image Courtesy October Gallery London
According to the gallery, for the new paintings Owusu-Ankomah has added well-known logos and Chinese calligraphy, as well as “visual signs of his own invention to the customary lexicon of ‘adinkra’ symbols, which each represent a particular concept used by the Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana. In the same Akan language, ‘kusum’, refers to sacred sites involved in the secret performances of mystery rites.”
The exhibition is on at the October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AL until October 29. More at octobergallery.co.uk.
Dezeen Wire: ahead of the Victoria & Albert Museum‘s exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 starting on 24 September, architecture critic Rowan Moore discusses the definition of the movement and its impact on contemporary architecture – The Observer
Korean designer Joongho Choi designed this chair to be carried over one shoulder like a handbag.
The curved wooden shell features a luggage-like ‘strap’ between the seat and backrest.
Obviously the protruding legs make this a particularly dangerous way to transport a chair and Joongho Choi says he simply meant to fuse furniture with fashion details.
Called Bachag, the design is in production with Boheumg Furniture.
For more bags click here and for more chairs click here.
Here are some more details from the designer:
Bachag Chair
Bachag was a part of iDEALGRAPHY project, 2010, to create mix & match style within furnitures and fashion.
It was aimed to show the contrastive image in between much different expressions.
It was designed to express structures, usability and looks of bags and to provide comfort and unity when it is sit as if one is wearing bags.
Material: Wood, Aluminum
Manufacture: Boheumg Furniture
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