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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: Continuum – Joey Zeledon
Location: West Newton, MA, USA
Category: Speculative Objects / Concepts
Award: Notable
The Coat Check Chair recombines the plastic hangers and the steel closet rod from a standard closet in a way that creates a new purpose. Coat Check Chair brings these ordinary objects out into the open and features them in a way that is unexpected and useful.
The idea for this concept is actually rooted in my childhood. I clearly remember my mother scolding me for draping my coat and other articles of clothing over the backs of chairs and onto the floor. Thus, creating small behavior change was a big mindset in the overall approach to this challenge.
Core77: How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
Luckily, the speculative concepts category winners were announced during the work day so all I had to do was put my digital sketching on hold, flip to Core77, sit back, relax and enjoy the show. It was so much fun to hear my name announced by a live jury. My reaction was a healthy dose of validation with a serotonin aftertaste.
What’s the latest news or development with your project?
I am currently shopping the chair around, looking for the right investor or company to license the design. I believe the design could be a fun and useful addition to any retail dressing room.
What is one quick anecdote about your project?
It was the moment I realized just how awesome a children’s version of the chair would be, a smaller frame and smaller hangers for smaller clothing. It could make tidying up their rooms a bit more enjoyable.
Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.
Back in April we dedicated an issue to the best logos ever. Now we are turning our attention to their written equivalent and, again, we need your help. So what do you think are the best slogans ever?
They are the epitome of the copywriters’ art: the hopes, aims and very essence of a campaign or an organisation distilled into a pithy, catchy phrase of exaclty the right number of words. A great slogan, whether it is advertising a product, appealing for volunteers to fight for king and country or appealing for votes can be an enormously powerful thing.
Slogans become part of our everyday lives, like the catchiest tune, they worm their way into our brains.
For our January issue we are going to compile a list of what we feel have been the greatest slogans ever and we’d like your nominations. We’re looking for slogans, remember: phrases that have been used to define organisations or that have been used in multiple ways for long periods, not just headlines on one-off ads or lines from speeches (though they might start off that way).
So what have been the best? The most memorable? The most effective in the way that they have mobilised people or changed perceptions? Please give us your nominations in the space below. Here’s a few suggestions to get you started
Thanks for reading the CR Blog but if you’re not also reading the magazine in print, you’re really missing out. Our October issue includes the story of Blackpool’s Comedy Carpet, a profile of Jake Barton whose studio is currently working on the 9/11 Memorial Museum, plus pieces on branding and the art world, guerilla advertising coming of age, Google’s Android logo, Ars Electronica, adland and the riots, and loads more.
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Beijing Design Week 2011:a tricycle modified by Canadian artist Nicholas Hanna mimics the Chinese custom of writing temporary messages on the road with water.
A computer strapped to the handlebars of the Water Calligraphy Device allows the rider to type the Chinese characters they wish to spell out.
These characters are transmitted electronically to a set of valves, which release water droplets in programmed patterns as the trike moves forward.
Two large containers positioned at the back of the device store the water.
The project was inspired by water calligraphy practiced in parks around China, where passages of poetry are spelled out on the ground for onlookers.
Hanna unveiled the tricycle for Beijing Design Week, which begins on 28 September and finishes on 3 October.
Another water-carrying tricycle was designed by Bill Moggridge, whose cycle purifies the liquid instead of releasing it.
Here is some more information about the Water Calligraphy Device from the festival organisers:
Water Calligraphy Device – an ubiquitous form of transportation on show at Beijing Design Week
For Beijing Design Week, Canadian Media Artist Nicholas Hanna brings a fun and innovative transports means to Beijing. The Water Calligraphy Device (水!法器) is inspired by the Chinese custom of writing calligraphy in public spaces with a water brush as a contemplative and poetic act. Calligraphers writing passages of poetry, surrounded by a group of onlookers, are a lovely presence in Beijing parks.
The Water Calligraphy Device combines the inherent beauty of an ancient form of writing, a refined public art practice with the mystery and magic of mechanisms.
The device is mounted on a flat-bead tricycle (三!”) which is a ubiquitous form of transportation in Beijing. Passages of Chinese characters are input to a computer. Custom software on the computer processes the characters and transmits them to an electrical system that actuates an array of solenoid valves. The valves release droplets of water on the ground as the tricycle moves forward, thus forming Chinese characters that slowly pool together and eventually evaporate entirely.
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It’s been a few weeks now since starchitect Santiago Calatrava announced that he would be walking away from the Denver airport’s massive South Terminal Redevelopment Program, in which he’d laid out preliminary designs for the estimated $650 million project that is set to include things like “a commuter-rail station, a public plaza that links with the existing terminal, and a 500-room Westin hotel.” When we first learned of the exit, we knew some time would have to pass before the typical pleasantries and reported words of amicable separation made way for things to get a bit more rough and tumble. And how right we were. The Denver Post‘s Eric Gorski has filed this great recap of the situation as it stands now, with questions being raised over what exactly the city received after paying $12.9 million to Calatrava for what’s described as work “still in the conceptual phase”, how the architect spent that money and how it was billed, and the item we think would be the most interesting to watch from the start: the debate over who exactly owns all the plans and ideas the architect had put together. As the Post reported upon news of Calatrava’s exit, the architect’s “initial contract for the project stipulates that the design and intellectual property rights belong solely to Calatrava and his firm.” We’re guessing this is only the start to an issue that should last some time (anyone remember how drawn out the Chicago Spire debacle was?).
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In a run-down area of Philadelphia, a beautiful image of a snowy landscape adorns a shabby brick wall. Why is it there? It’s all part of an intriguing new project by photographer Tim Simmons
The image used on Simmons’ mural at Green St and N 5th Street in Philadelphia, shown top
Simmons’ landscape photographs (which subscribers will remember from our February 2008 Monograph booklet) appear in various locations thorughout the city, including on an old water tower and on billboards. By infiltrating images of natural beauty into spaces normally used for advertising or into unlikely urban settings, Simmons hopes that viewers will be taken by surprise and may be prompted to think about the relationship between the natural and urban environments.
Mural at 727 N 2nd St, Philadelphia and image featured (below)
Mural at 727 N 2nd St, Philadelphia and one of the images featured (below)
Installing the mural
Mural at N American St and Poplar, Philadelphia and image used (below)
Water tower mural at N 3rd St Phialdelphia and image used (below)
A simultaneous billboard-based exhibition of more works from the series is also running in Los Angeles.
Billboards at 1520 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles
Simmons was invited to create a project by The Anthropologist, a website set up by Philadelphia-based fashion retailer Anthropologie as ‘an online space that supports the work of inspiring individuals’.
The Philadelphia arm of the project was also backed by the city’s remarkable Mural Arts Program which funds artists to transform public spaces (and which we wrote about in our January 2010 issue).
Billboards on the Delaware Expressway in Philadelphia (image used on the first one below)
Thanks for reading the CR Blog but if you’re not also reading the magazine in print, you’re really missing out. Our October issue includes the story of Blackpool’s Comedy Carpet, a profile of Jake Barton whose studio is currently working on the 9/11 Memorial Museum, plus pieces on branding and the art world, guerilla advertising coming of age, Google’s Android logo, Ars Electronica, adland and the riots, and loads more.
And, if you subscribe to CR, you also receive our award-winning Monograph booklet every month for free.
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Un impressionnant travail d’architecture par la société Kinzo Berlin pour les nouveaux bureaux corporate du siège d’Adidas à Herzogenaurach, en Allemagne. Des passerelles de verre, un environnement d’intérieur ainsi qu’un système de meubles très épuré pour les 1 700 employés.
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Although it premiered earlier this month at the Toronto Film Festival, Gary Hustwit‘s latest documentary, this time about city planning and entitled Urbanized, is just starting to kick off its worldwide tour, meaning it’s apt to become the subject of nearly every design-based conversation for the next few months, like with Helvetica and Objectified were before it. Starting in New York last week with a screening as part of the Urban Design Week, Hustwit is personally taking the film around to cities around the US (and one stop in London), out until early November. If you happen to live near a major metropolis, and can get tickets quickly enough (thus far every screening has sold out), you should be able to catch it. In the interim, you should start seeing a bevy of reviews from both bloggers and traditional media outlets. The LA Times‘ resident architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, just filed his review, saying that it’s “a sharp, good-looking documentary” and that it “ranks among the smartest recent analyses of mass global urbanization and its discontents,” though he’s a bit miffed that the film doesn’t even include a second about Los Angeles, something the critic finds a glaring omission. Though we wouldn’t be surprised at all if this happens in any number of cities, given that there are only a finite amount Hustwit could cover (“What about Cleveland?!” we’re imagining the Plain Dealer‘s critic is, albeit perhaps wrongly in comparison to LA, already thinking). Here’s the trailer:
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