Jessie and Tif admire the works / Tif holds a print by Amy Rice
The night before The Creative Connection started, Tif, Jessie and I went to see “Delightful” a pop-up show by Amy Rice and Jennifer Davis. It was aptly named, full of pretty yet interesting paintings, drawings and prints.
Jessie and Jennifer
“Plastic Classic Loop” Collection,” Pili Wu. Resin coated solid wood.
Reflecting the philosophy behind Hong Kong-based creative space Ilivetomorrow, the chimera is a mythological creature composed of multiple animals—the body of a lion with a tail that ends in a snake and a goat’s head that sprung from the beast’s back. Founder Nicola Borg-Pisani explains:
Our collaboration with designers, craftsmen and manufactrues is based on the synchronization of past, present and future…ilivetomorrow proposes to experience the production of fictional (not narrative) ‘objects’ and ‘environment’.
Wen Fang’s oversized bone and straw broom and mop.
At Beijing Design Week, the gallery produced a provocative show with a collection from European and Chinese designers that explored the theme of collaborative fictions. Along with some more familiar pieces from established designers, there was also a small handful of pieces produced in collaboration with Ilivetomorrow. (Warning, somewhat NSFW after the jump.)
Chimera Pavilion
751 D-Park
Park Building C
Through October 3rd
“Fire and Desire” pendant lamp, Pili Wu.
Freserique Morrel’s tapestry taxidermy. DAZ’s “Atlas” mirrors
“Main” wall sconce, David Dubois. Created in collaboration with ilivetomorrow
“A Change In Trade: Why the Linear and Prescriptive Innovation Process is No Longer Relevant in a Digital World.”
The design world is in a state of flux; the big agency and linear budget-busting approaches to solving problems are breaking down. New brands are born daily and old strategies no longer suffice to support them. This presents an exciting opportunity for the field of design to rethink its trade and either continue to innovate, or break.
David Thorpe, Oved Valadez, and Tom Lakovic of INDUSTRY discuss this shift in “A Change in Trade: How approaching design with an adaptive perspective is necessary in today’s design world.”
I told you already this morning… a whole lot of Asia this today! Sandy is a blogger living in Singapore ans she often visits Bangkok, today she shares two of her favorite caffees with us: *Parden Cafe and *Library over at the Bloesem Travel pages right here.
… and of course I have to show you one of Sandy's lovely handmade creations which she sells in her etsy shop.
Natural light diffuses into this house in Yokohama, Japan, through a grid of arched skylights in the ceiling.
The translucent acrylic panels cover the entire ceiling of the single-storey house, which was designed by Japanese architect Takeshi Hosaka.
Windowless timber walls line the interior, where four bedrooms and a study surround an open-plan living room.
A table at the centre of this living room has a glass surface that reflects the ceiling lattice overhead.
Ladders lead up from two of the bedrooms to a mezzanine loft, which can also be accessed via an adjacent staircase.
Another staircase outside the house connects the front door with the street two metres above.
Daylight House was awarded second prize in the AR House 2011 awards, behind a house covered in rubber – see that project here and see last year’s winner here.
This is the second project by Takeshi Hosaka on Dezeen in the last week – click here to see a house with small windows on the walls, roof and ceilings and here for all our stories about the architect. [add link once other story is published, or if this one is first then swap the lines from across the posts]
Photography is by Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc.
Here are some more details from Hosaka:
Daylight House
This is a house in which residents live under natural lighting from the sky.
The site is five minutes walk from the railway station, and it is surrounded by a mixture of detached dwellings and 10-floor condominiums and office buildings.
In this location nested in a valley between buildings, the light streaming down from the sky above felt precious.
A couple with two children planned to build their home in this spot.
The building was structured by laying a basic grid (approx. 1500mmx1600mm) over the site, and using a the volume of a single high-ceilinged room with a bedroom, kids’ room and study partitioned off using fittings approximately half the height of the ceiling.
The expanse of the entire ceiling can be felt from any room.
Light from 29 skylights (approx 700mm square) installed in the roof illuminate the room as soft light diffused through the curved acrylic ceiling plates.
The direct light falling from the clear square skylights cuts a distorted square image on the curved acrylic ceiling.
At the same time, the entire curved acrylic ceiling is uniformly lit with white light by selecting the distance between the skylights and the curved acrylic ceiling, their size, the color of the acrylic and the color of the interior panels after studying models and mockups to achieve the desired effect.
There is an air space between the acrylic surface and the roof, and forced air is used to eject air heated by the sun in summer out of the building, while movement of the air is stopped in winter to use the air layer as a thermal buffer to ensure the thermal environment indoors is stable.
Upon entering the building, there is so much light from the sky that it is hard to believe that the site is nested in a dark valley created by buildings. This house was named “Daylight House.”
Daylight does not simply indicate light from the sun, but refers to the beautiful light throughout the day.
The day begins with the rising sun, which then falls and sets, followed by the rising moon which gradually wanes until it is replaced by the rising sun the next day.
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The house provides a rich experience of the beauty of the light over 24 hours.
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Architect: Takeshi Hosaka
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Structural Engineers: Hirofumi Ohno
Client: Keigo Nishimoto
Name of the project: Daylight House
Exact definition of the building: a couple and 2 chirdren (boy & girl)
Location of the project: Yokohama , JAPAN
Construction nature: wooden-structure
Site: 114.92 m2
Building area: 73.60 m2
Floor area ratio: 85.04 m2
Building height: 5388 mm
No. of floors: 2F
Building function: house
Design: February 2010 – April 2011
Planning start: February 2010
Beginning of construction: September 2010
Completion: March 2011
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Vienna Design Week 2011: Vienna Design Week opens from Friday until 9 October. Here’s a trailer from the curators, featuring a dance performance involving one of the event’s signature painted chairs that will be stationed at event venues across the city. Watch the movie »
From space-saving storage to upcycled plastic buckets, fresh design spotted at Spain’s biggest design fair
A slightly more sober follow-up to last week’s report on anthropomorphic design spied at Habitat Valencia, here we’ve surveyed the best in clever furniture solutions from Spain. The following spans ideas for minimalists who don’t even want to own candleholders to those who never want to buy another bedframe, all tied together by their inventive take on common household needs.
Mentira Cadira’s Doce, simple nesting cubes, incorporates elastic bands that make stashing magazines and remotes easy. By skipping the complications of a drawer or pocket, the concept saves space too.
The modular design of “Veinte” allows for expansive storage in an unconventional shape. The round cylinders group together or stand alone as needed, providing bright pops of yellow, green and blue.
The all-in-one design of design collective Un4verde’s Candelara turns a simple taper “into a decorative, singular object” in and of itself. The built-in base catches drips and eliminates the melting and whittling that it sometimes takes to fit a candle into a holder. It’s available now from Un4Verde for €20.
Vandidoo’s elegant v-shaped rack is a shelf that’s anything but boring. Available in several colors, it holds objects at an angle, incorporating a simple dowel for even more usefulness.
Sometimes a simple hook is all that’s needed to transform an unused space into a clutter-organizing center. Adding contemporary looks to the age-old concept, Nachacht’s oak Pauli rack comes in two different asymmetrical versions.
Luis Eslava’s Cap light for Almerich features a symmetrical design, using the same A-line shape for the light shade as well as for a cup at the base. The added storage—for plants, pens or any other clutter—adds to the visual harmony.
The aptly-named Infinite bed by
Bm not only expands for growing families, but doubles as a built-in bedside table if you so desire.
Seen among Mexico’s standout student work from the Tecnológico de Moterrey, Cristina Diaz’ prototypes play on the adapted use of a common plastic bucket as a stool. Reimagining them as thrones and gilded stools, she calls the collection simply Sátira.
In just two weeks a new design conference will be held in Seoul, called the iDEA Herald Design Forum. Disappointingly they haven’t bothered to build a website to promote it, despite pulling in some design heavyweights—Karim Rashid, Chris Bangle—o speak at the conference.
The “Herald” in the conference title refers to the conference’s organizer, publishing company Herald Media, and while they’ve neglected to build a conference website, they’re at least attempting to promote the event by publishing an interview with Rashid through their Korea Herald newspaper arm. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
Q: A design war is raging in the corporate world. As seen in Apple, design superiority seems to equal product superiority. How do you predict the future global trend of industrial design?
A: I love this question and the idea of a design war. What frustrates me though is the fact that many companies honestly are in a war for business market share, but don’t realize that design is the only really brand differentiator today! Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc. are all lost when it comes to finding their own vernacular, their own brand identity. They have no idea how to differentiate themselves as Apple did. Also since all these hi-tech objects are dematerializing, and most of the internal components are ubiquitous and the same it is even more important to use design to create and take ownership of a brand.
Read the full interview, which is nice ‘n lengthy at 1800 words, here.
Allora qui è quasi tutto pronto per l’Eroica 2011. Quest’anno l’affluenza pare sia stata altissima, si contano circa 3500 iscritti tra stranieri, italiani e veterani di un tempo.
Grazie al supporto di LeCoq Sportif, CicliBigchief è stata invitata a far parte della squadra italiana del galletto vestendo la maglia nazionale.
Si parte questo Sabato 1 ottobre per le valli del Chianti mentre la gara vera e propria si svolgerà il giorno successivo con levataccia mattutina. Non vedo l’ora di farmi un giro tra i mercatini e pedalare tra queste meravigliose terre.
Vi terrò aggiornati con qualche tweet, le situazioni folli non mancheranno di certo…
For years I’ve been washing my dishes in a peculiar way to extend the usefulness of the water consumed. I soap each item up and set it on the counter without rinsing. When everything’s been soaped, I then rinse them in a stack, letting the run-off from one dish help to rinse the rest. When I’m finished I’ve got a large puddle of soapy clean water on the counter, where the dishes were waiting to be rinsed. I then sop that up and use it to wipe down the refrigerator, the backsplash, the trash cans, the floor, et cetera. I look at it as free Windex.
Spanish design collective La Muda has encapsulated this behavior in product form with their Ecucubo Sustainable Basin, a simple but brilliant concept for a sink whose drainage can be diverted into a bucket integrated directly into the sink’s form. Greywater can now be handily used to mop the floor, promoting what La Muda terms “eco-behavior.”
via treehugger
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