This DIY Halloween costume has been making blog rounds since Tyler posted it a couple days ago, but it’s too good not to share here. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based designer—a photographer by trade—has designed exactly what it sounds like: a fully functional Nikon camera costume.
Tyler would also like to thank the “awesome beard behind the sign” Card, Adam Barr, who documented the project in a similarly DIY making-of video:
Ennesimo porta riviste. Questo viene regolato in altezza a seconda del contenuto. Design by Christian Lessing.
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Dezeen Wire: fifteen international design teams are in with a chance of redesigning one of three sites on Washington’s National Mall following the announcement of the shortlist for the National Mall Design Competition.
Architecture practices competing on the shortlist include New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Snøhetta of Norway.
The competition aims to renovate three key sites in America’s most visited national park, which is home to some of the capital’s most famous landmarks including The Lincoln Memorial, The Washington Monument, The Jefferson Memorial and other monuments honouring former presidents and America’s war heroes.
Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, Bob Vogel says: ”The National Mall Design Competition will be a new chapter, providing sustainable design that respects historic landscape and structures.”
A jury of experts in landscape design, urban park design, historic preservation and the arts will judge the competition, with the winner to be announced in May 2012.
You can see the full list of shortlisted teams on the National Mall Design Competition website.
Philips has put together a fascinating, comprehensive and holistic green home system called the Microbial Home Probe, now on display at Dutch Design week. The conceptual domestic ecosystem tackles the issues of energy, lighting, food preparation, cleaning, and human waste disposal, embodied in a series of different components, with some impressively outside-the-box thinking.
The Bio-Digester Island is moveable kitchen island that serves not only as a food-prep station, but doubles as the home’s energy hub. The cutting board surface directly adjoins a vegetable waste grinder, which in turn feeds into a “digester” that uses bacteria to break down organic waste. The resultant methane gas is used to power the gas range, heat household water, and run the overhead lights.
The Larder is both the dining room table and an indoor garden, meant to supplant a refrigerator by providing a no-electricity-required evaporative cooler in the center of the table, whose cooling action is paradoxically powered by heat from the methane digester mentioned above. Overhead, fresh vegetables are grown in varieties that depend on what the local climate will allow.
Dezeen Wire: 11 design teams including OMA, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw Architects and HOK have been shortlisted in a competition to redesign the public spaces at Chicago’s Navy Pier development.
The 11 candidates were chosen from over 50 entries by multidisciplinary teams consisting of landscape architects, urban, graphic and lighting designers, art curators and architects.
Steve Haemmerle, Executive Vice President of Navy Pier Inc. said: “We are looking for teams that have exhibited design leadership and an innovative approach to the design of passive landscapes, urban civic spaces and active commercial environments. The teams on our shortlist have a significant record of accomplishment and standing within the design community.”
The announcement of the winning design is set for February next year. Details of the shortlisted teams are included in a press release from the Navy Pier Inc, which you can see here.
A new anti-drink driving campaign from New Zealand succeeds by not patronising its main audience and recognising how young people can find it difficult to tell friends not to drive drunk…
Clemenger BBDO Wellington’s spot for the New Zealand Transport Agency aims to encourage young people to speak up if they feel someone they know is about to drive when drunk.
The impact of saying nothing is played out in the ad tongue-in-cheek style as a young man comes to terms will all the things that will happen to him should his friend be killed in an accident. Not the schmaltzy route this – instead, the man winces at the fact that he will probably have to live with his friend’s family and that his friend’s ghost will no doubt be on his case.
The spot, directed by Steve Ayson via The Sweet Shop in Auckland, is delivered brilliantly and, unusually for a drink driving campaign, with plenty of humour. But the campaign comes out of some fairly blunt statistics that the NZTA has for drink driving in New Zealand – and is the reason that the cast largely features Maori actors.
According to them, “over 40% of all drink-driving crashes involve drunk drivers under the age of 24 years. In all fatal or serious injury-related crashes in 2008-2010, 82% of the drinking drivers in those crashes are male. 34% of all drinking drivers in those crashes, and 38% of the young drivers, are Maori. One in five (19%) of all drinking drivers in crashes are aged 15-19, another 24% are 20-24.”
Executive creative director: Phillip Andrew
Copywriter/art director: Bridgid Alkema
Copywriter: Mitch Alison
Agency producer: Martin Gray
Assistant producer: Georgina Otto.
Producer: Larisa Tiffin
Director of photography: Crighton Bone
Editor: Peter Scribberas at The Butchery, Melbourne
Post-production: Toybox, Auckland
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British architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith have completed the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, UK.
Maggie’s Nottingham is located beside Nottingham City Hospital and is scheduled to open next week.
The walls of the building comprise four interlocking ovals, elevated above the ground and clad in green glazed tiles.
Paul Smith furnished the centre, adding brightly coloured walls and patterned armchairs to sitting rooms, a library and therapy rooms.
Like other Maggie’s Centres, the building also includes a large kitchen, where those affected by cancer are invited to come for a cup of tea and a chat. Maggie’s was founded fifteen years ago and his is the second of three centres opening in the UK this year, following one recently completed in Glasgow by OMA.
Here’s some more information from Maggie’s:
Fashion designer Sir Paul Smith, architect Piers Gough and Sarah Brown to open Maggie’s Nottingham on Wednesday, November 2.
The official opening heralds a new era of cancer care and support for people affected by cancer across the Nottingham region, bringing hope and solace to thousands.
Located next to the Breast Institute at Nottingham City Hospital, Maggie’s Nottingham will complement the treatment on offer at the hospital, offering an evidence-based programme of support to help people through the emotional and practical complexities of a cancer diagnosis.
The centre, part of Maggie’s Joy of Living campaign, of which Sarah Brown is the patron, is the ninth Maggie’s Centre in the UK and is designed by architect Piers Gough CBE, Founding Partner at CZWG Architects llp.
The near symmetrical design and generous height allows Maggie’s Nottingham to have a sense of space and balance. The elevated oval building of glazed ceramic tile floats over a smaller basement, with plants growing up the sides. Balconies will extend from the kitchen and sitting rooms and provide places from which to look out onto the landscape, which is designed to use scent and texture to create a secluded and uplifting area for people to enjoy.
Piers Gough said: “The light, peaceful and non-institutional design of Maggie’s Nottingham will be a sanctuary for all those who walk through the door. Sheltered by trees, the centre will be a homely, comfortable space next to the busy hospital, where anyone affected by cancer can come to relax. The centre is a safe space where visitors can engage with nature while being sheltered from the elements. From the outside the playful appearance will entice people to take a look through the door; once they do the harmony of light and space will create a uniquely welcoming environment.”
Piers Gough CBE is a well-known architect and was a personal friend of Maggie’s founder, Maggie Keswick Jencks. He is famous for his bold and imaginative architecture and has created a playful, open plan design for Maggie’s Nottingham.
Nottingham-born fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has designed the interior for Maggie’s Nottingham. His design will include photos taken during his travels round the world.
He said: “I am delighted to be involved in creating this centre for people living with cancer and their family and friends. It will be a great resource for everyone and a fantastic new addition to the city. Piers Gough is an incredible architect and it has been a joy to work together on the design.”
Maggie’s Nottingham will serve the Mid Trent Cancer Network, situated next to the Breast Institute at Nottingham City Hospital. The Mid Trent Cancer Network covers the populations of Nottingham, North Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire – an area of approximately 1.3 million people. Within this area, there are over 4,000 new cases of cancer a year.
Maggie’s Chief Executive Laura Lee said: “People across the region have put a tremendous effort into fundraising to make this centre a reality and today the local community should be proud of the lasting legacy they have created for the thousands affected by the devastating consequences of cancer. Our thanks must go to The Nottingham Post and Lynette Pinchess who have been fantastic in raising awareness and rallying support within the community.
“Maggie’s proven programme of support will act as an antidote to the isolation and despair of a cancer diagnosis. Piers Gough has designed a truly unique environment, which will help to facilitate this support, by making people feel safe, inspired and valued. Under one extraordinary roof, Maggie’s will help people to find their way out of the hopelessness of cancer.”
To celebrate the opening of Maggie’s Nottingham, Paul Smith has designed an exclusive pair of bone china mugs which are inspired by the homely interior he has created for Maggie’s. Available in two designs, the mugs feature a ‘Dog at Home’ and a ‘Cat at Home’ print and are available from Paul Smith’s Willoughby House Shop in Nottingham and online at www.paulsmith.co.uk. 20 per cent of sales will be donated to Maggie’s.
2011 is a landmark year for Maggie’s, as the charity celebrates its 15th birthday and its growth to 15 centres which are either open or in development. In the space of 15 years, Maggie’s has helped nearly half a million people to build a life with, through and beyond cancer. There are three new centres opening this year which will greatly increase the level of support available to the growing cancer population of the UK.
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| Maggie’s Gartnavel by OMA | Maggie’s Centre by MJP Architects | Maggie’s Centre by Rogers Stirk Harbour |
National pride shines through in a collection of subtle shoes
The young duo behind Ylati Footwear perfectly mix traditional Italian craftsmanship with their love for sneakers. Supporting the Made in Italy push for homegrown products in their own subversive way—try reading the label from right to left—Ylati looks to the skilled masters in Italy’s Campania region, who use handmade processes to achieve a casually refined aesthetic.
Clean design and a precise balance of materials and textures defines the collection’s sharp, understated aesthetic for casual trainers with some polish, and both the fall and upcoming spring collections are based on pale neutral palettes, with details like contrasting soles and an unexpected Oxford eyelet addition to a suede low-top.
The collection is available through Ylati’s e-shop with prices starting at 165€.
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