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Designer Matt Booth creates hypotrochoids (the curved shapes that Spirographs generate) using self-built tools and programs. The results of his experiments have now been made into a series of prints by Print Process…

“It all starts with a rough idea of what I want to achieve,” says Booth, “it’s then over to Flash for some experimenting before building the full tool with controls. The beauty of programs such as Flash are the limitations – they produce the unexpected interesting results.”

“The hypo tool has simple parameters, such as the radius of the circles that create the design, along with their spin speeds,” says Booth. “I then hit play, watch it animate and see what results when it finishes. When I get close to something interesting adjustments are made to the values until I have it just right. When I’m happy with the design it’s saved out of the tool as a vector piece of artwork.”

A2 prints are £30; A1/£60; A0/£120. Available from the Print Process site, here. Booth’s website is mrbooth.co.uk.

Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to convert a Basel warehouse with their design for an extension that will zigzag across the roof like a bolt of lightening.

The Danish architects propose to convert the industrial Transitlager building into offices, apartments and galleries.

The apartments are to occupy the three new upper floors and will open out onto triangular rooftop gardens.

Four storeys inside the existing concrete warehouse will house offices and galleries, facing a new public square proposed by site masterplanners Herzog & de Meuron.

Other projects by BIG on Dezeen include a power plant that doubles up as a ski slope and a centre for women’s sports – see more projects by BIG here.

Here’s some more information from BIG:

BIG Transforms Transitlager In Switzerland

BIG wins an invited competition to renovate and extend an existing 1960′s concrete warehouse situated in a Basel industrial district which is being transformed into an alternative Arts District.

Located in Basel’s upcoming Dreispitz neighborhood, which is envisioned as an attractive and inviting urban quarter in Herzog de Meuron’s master plan from 2003, the existing 18.000 m2 ”Transitlager” built in the late 1960s is to be renovated and extended by up to 7.000 m2 for residential and commercial purposes.

The development is undertaken by St. Gallen -based real estate development company Nüesch Development for the landlord, the Christoph Merian Foundation and investor the UBS (CH) Property Fund – Swiss Mixed ‘Sima’.

The winning entry which included engineers Bollinger Grohmann and HL Technik was chosen among proposals from Harry Gugger Studio and Lacaton Vassal among others.

The Transitlager’s surrounding industrial area is characterized by the geometries of infrastructures – the intersecting railways, loading docks and turning radiuses that weave through the city and create a puzzle of linear buildings with pointy corners and staggered façade lines into an untraditional and adventurous urban area consisting of galleries, restaurants and creative businesses.

The iconic character of the existing Transitlager, its generous surrounding public spaces, and connection to the city’s botanical garden makes the building a natural focal point of the Arts District.

By re-programming and extending the former warehouse into a multifunctional series of floors for various uses, BIG proposes a cross breed of art, commerce, working and living.

Two distinct buildings on top of each other form a mixed-use hybrid with activity and life 24 hours a day.

“We propose a transformation of the Transitlager that builds on the industrial logic of the existing building and of the surrounding area. The extension doubles the size of the Transitlager and becomes an opposite twin – based on the same structure, but with a different geometry. The combined building becomes a spectrum of optimal conditions: From open and flexible plans to tailor made units, public programs to private residences, vibrant urban space to peaceful green gardens and from cool industrial to warm and refined. ” Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner, BIG.

The wide dimensions of the former warehouse, the mix of programs, the structural limits and the sun orientation creates a typology that is neither point house nor slab – a folded geometry adapted to the specifics of the existing structure and optimized for daylight and views.

The staggered edge and pointy ends echoes the geometries of the industrial buildings of the neighborhood, creating a surprising familiarity with the heterogeneous surroundings.

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Italian industrial designer Massimo Battaglia goes by Givingshape for his independent line of product design work. We were fans of his “Pratonzolo” desktop organization solution from earlier this year, and his latest design, “Popi,” is also worth a gander.

It’s essentially an umbrella that folds into its own handle, purportedly solving “all the problems related to foldable umbrellas improving comfort and portability.” The advantages are twofold: the handle is larger and more comfortable, and the umbrella doesn’t require a separate storage solution since it keeps its own case dry. “Operation is simple: just pull the top cap and pull out the umbrella as if it were a common folding umbrella to close it again just do the reverse.”

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If pharmacy packaging leaves you feeling perplexed about what you’re taking, then these medicine packets named after symptoms rather than ingredients will be right up your street.

Graphic designers Pearlfisher refreshed the minimalist packaging for pharmaceutical brand Help Remedies, adding colour-coded graphics that illustrate the sizes and shapes of pills or plasters inside.

Other designers promoting stripped-back packaging include Antrepo, who created conceptual labels for well-known supermarket products – see that story here and more stories about packaging here.

The following information is from Pearlfisher:

Pearlfisher refreshes the packaging for Help Remedies as part of the national Take Less campaign.

Pearlfisher has refreshed the packaging for Help Remedies – the New York City-based boutique pharma company and creator of minimalist medicine – as part of Help’s national Take Less campaign.

Founded in 2008, Help Remedies disrupted the staid and samey look of the existing pharma category with a bold but simple range of products titled after the symptom it is meant to solve (e.g) Help I have a headache.

Help is taking the pharma world by storm again with its new Take Less campaign. In a category that traditionally pushes more, extra, bigger, faster, the new Help Remedies campaign is pushing forward with a bold and unique message that less is sometimes more – less drugs, less dyes, less coatings.

As part of the rollout of the Take Less campaign, Pearlfisher was tasked with refreshing the packaging for the existing product range and for the addition of new variants to the portfolio – including Help I have a stuffy nose.

Jonathan Ford, Pearlfisher Creative Partner, says, “We have refined the identity and colorcoded the embossed pill shape to make the overall brand architecture more visually strong and to give the brand better stand-out and immediacy of recognition. The design evolution dials up Help’s equities, creating an ownable secondary language through the pill iconography, that will be used across further brand touchpoints and communications.”

Nathan Frank, Founder, Help Remedies, comments, “As a small company rolling out nationally, our packaging is our most important piece of communication. That being said, to litter it with bullet points would go against everything we stand for. Pearlfisher has done a great job in enhancing our identity so that it communicates everything we have to say without having to spell it out, literally.”

The Help Remedies product assortment featuring the new-look packaging will debut this Fall in Walgreens nationwide and select Target stores to complement existing distribution in nationwide retail outlets.

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