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Product Design Engineer
Henrybuilt
New York, New York

Henrybuilt is seeking a highly-skilled, architecturally-trained, engineering-minded professional to be the primary liason between design and production. Suitable candidates must be highly organized and detail oriented, self motivated and ambitious, capable of establishing and meeting their own deadlines and skilled in understanding the value of detail as it relates to a whole design. We are seeking a person interested in a long-term career with Henrybuilt. This position is based in Manhattan.

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Découverte de ces très belles illustration avec ce court-film et clip intitulé “Countdown”, grâce à une direction et un travail d’animation par Céline Desrumaux sur la musique d’Apparat “Granulard Bastard”. Des références variées de Chris Ware, Stanley Kubrick ou Godfrey Reggio.

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• Kaeloo Animation
• Animation of Posters
• Blik Animation

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On September 10, The Economist published the article “Great digital expectations” discussing the consumer shift from print to digital books:

In the first five months of this year sales of consumer e-books in America overtook those from adult hardback books. Just a year earlier hardbacks had been worth more than three times as much as e-books, according to the Association of American Publishers. Amazon now sells more copies of e-books than paper books.

As someone who reads an average of three books a week, I have embraced digital books and advocate their use for numerous uncluttered reasons. First, my library allows me to check out digital books for free using their Overdrive service. (Yours probably does, too.) Not all digital books are available this way, but I still use this service a great deal for research and books I wouldn’t usually buy. And, I can download the books at home and skip the drive to the library. Second, digital books are usually less expensive than print books because you’re only paying for the content not the paper and binding and ink. This keeps more money in my wallet, which I like, and saves a few trees (although the components in my digital book reader probably aren’t super environmentally friendly). Third, digital books keep physical books from cluttering up and overwhelming my bookshelf. I love having books in the house, especially children’s books for my son to read, but my house is a home, not a library. I don’t need all books on display. Fourth, and this is my favorite benefit, my digital reader weighs the same if I choose to carry one book or three dozen books with me at a time. I can read whatever book fits my mood, without having to lug around multiple physical books in a bag.

That being said, I still acquire a lot of books in print. Any book that isn’t available in digital form that I want to read, travel books, children’s books, and cookbooks still end up in my house. These come in on a one-in-one-out basis, however, as I am out of bookshelf space.

Speaking of bookshelves, not only are publishers responding to consumers desiring digital books, but so are bookshelf manufacturers:

Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase. The flat-pack furniture giant is already promoting glass doors for its bookshelves. The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually read.

As a way to curb book clutter, have you made the switch (or a partial switch) to digital books? Could a digital book reader help you to get an out-of-control book collection down to a more meaningful size? As someone who consumes a ridiculous number of books a year, digital books have certainly saved space in my home and office, as well as kept some money in my pocketbook. (FYI: I primarily use a Kindle, but for library downloads I use my laptop since they’re usually research related.) Are you surprised to learn that Amazon sells more digital books than print books? What might be keeping you from making the switch to a digital reader?

Check out the full article.

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New Zealand furniture brand Resident will launch their inaugural collection at designjunction during the London Design Festival next week.

The collection includes the Flyover Table, made of two folded sheets of steel that slot into upright fins, the Hawk table and chairs in oak and an upholstered armchair called Felix.

The cantilevered Spar lamp completes Resident’s first collection and was inspired by the rigging on sailing ships.

Designjunction will take place at Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA from 22 to 25 September and Dezeen Watch Store will be there – more details in our earlier story.

Here are some more details from Resident:

Established in 2011, Resident is a contemporary design and manufacturing company based in New Zealand. Specializing in Furniture and Lighting, Resident draws from the eclectic inspirations of selected designers to produce a clean, crafted, functional and thought provoking collection. Bringing a fresh point of difference to the European design scene, Residents’ products add value to the spaces where people live, work and play. Our company is committed to research and innovation with the goal of finding new materials and techniques and applying these to producing iconic products of real originality, that will last forever. The majority of our products flatpack for safe and easy shipping, and are distributed to the world from a UK hub.

The Resident brand will be launched exclusively and for the first time at this years London Design Festivals’ designjunction event. The spectacular Victoria House basement will be the venue for this showing of the brands maiden collection. A total of 8 products in 15 variations will be on display.

These products originate from three designers, Simon James, Jamie McLellan and Jason Whiteley.

Resident will provide a fresh, bold and original point of difference that will pave the way for a future of creativity, commitment and design excellence.

The company will serve the world from a London distribution hub and all products will be in stock and available to purchase immediately following the exhibition.

Designjunction. 22-25 September, Victoria House Basement,
37-63 Southampton Row, WC1B 4DA

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Series One by Another Country	Furniture by Scott, Rich and Victoria	Lightwood Chair by Jasper Morrison

Gary Hustwit’s new documentary film Urbanized, about the design of cities, premiered last week at the Toronto International Film Festival. Build has designed the identity for the film, the official poster and a set of four limited-edition prints…

Urbanized is the third film in Hustwit’s design film trilogy, following the hugely popular Helvetica and Objectified. It will screen in the UK in October: visit the website at urbanizedfilm.com for more details. Build has designed a two-sided poster for the film, shown above. The limited-edition silkscreen prints (below) are A2 in size and printed on super-bright Colorplan stock in a numbered edition of 100. They retail at $125 each (or $400 for all four) and can be ordered via the Urbanized site.

CR in Print

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