Le studio de design Berg vient de présenter cet excellent concept Little Printer, une petite imprimante thermique au format inédit avec une connexion sans fil au Web. Elle permet d’imprimer les dernières titres d’actualité, des jeux et notes. Disponible à partir de 2012.
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2011 has been a hard year. Global Revolution! Natural disasters! Bankruptcy! What’s next? We’re not hedging bets for 2012 just yet, but in case things don’t turn out the way you’d expected, we’ve got you covered. Core77’s Ultimate Gift Guide has everything you need to get through these hard times and survive through the… end times?
Today’s pick is from Allan Chochinov: Allan Chochinov is the editor in chief of Core77 and Chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
What’s better than a family friendly project that is also a survival essential? The paracord is essentially long lengths of nylon rope macrame’d into a belt, bracelet or necklace—think 8 feet of cord woven into 8 inches of compactness. Prepping for the year ahead, we say kumbaya. Start with a bracelet, watchband or belt. (That belt weaves up 100 feet of cord!)
See the full gift guide HERE.
A special Thank You to this year’s Gift Guide sponsor: Felt & Wire Shop offering a selection of curated paper goods direct from designers.
Design studio Berg has announced a new product, the Little Printer, which will be available for purchase in 2012. According to Berg’s blog, the Little Printer “lives in your front room and scours the web on your behalf, assembling the content you care about into designed deliveries a couple of times a day”.
The film below shows the Little Printer in action:
Users configure the Little Printer from their mobile phones, and the product launches in partnership with Google, the Guardian, Nike, Arup and foursquare. The Little Printer will receive personalised information from these sites, and presumably other sources as it gets up and running. It is the first product that uses the ‘Berg Cloud’ technology, a new way of connecting and controlling wireless products in the home. The Little Printer wirelessly connects to a small box plugged into a broadband router, which is controlled by a mobile phone rather than a PC.
“We love physical stuff,” say Berg on their blog. “Connecting products to the web lets them become smarter and friendlier – they can sit on a shelf and do a job well, for the whole family or office – without all the attendant complexities of computers, like updates or having to tell them what to do.”
We’ve yet to see the Little Printer in action: judging from the film we do wonder whether a small paper print out will be able to contain the huge amount of news, opinions and ideas that come at us digitally every day. And people will undoubtedly flag up the question of paper wastage. But, having said that, paper still holds a huge place in our lives; as Berg puts it: “Paper is like a screen that never turns off. You can stick it to the fridge or tuck it in your wallet. You can scribble on it, or tear it and give it to a friend.”
More info on the Little Printer is at the Berg website, bergcloud.com/littleprinter/, where you can also join the mailing list to be the first to be informed on news about the product launch.
If you enjoy reading the Creative Review website, we think you’ll enjoy reading the magazine even more. The December issue of CR includes a profile piece on the independent creative scene in Liverpool, a major interview with Dutch book designer Irma Boom and a great piece on ‘Poster King’ Edward McKnight Kauffer. You’ll also find articles on Dentsu London, a review of the Walker Art Center’s Graphic Design: Now in Production show and a fascinating debate on the clash between design and advertising betwen Wally Olins and CHI’s Dan Beckett.
And if that wasn’t enough, the issue also includes a FREE paper toy for readers to cut out and customise.
If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.
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This idyllic pine house by the sea outside Stockholm has a glass-fronted lookout loft on its roof.
Completed in 2008 by Swedish architects Waldemarson Berglund, the two-storey Villa Plus is clad entirely in roughly cut Swedish pine that will grey with age.
Only one room occupies the rectangular first-floor loft, while bedrooms are on the ground floor alongside bathrooms and a large open-plan living room.
A separate bedroom is located at the back of the house and can only be accessed by crossing the wooden outdoor deck.
Timber feet raise the building and deck above the ground to prevent flooding when the tide is high.
Some other Swedish houses from our archive include a house with glazing that is flush with the ground and an island cottage with a raw timber interior – see more projects in Sweden here.
Photography is by Åke E:son Lindman.
The following information is from Waldemarson Berglund:
The building settles in the outer extension of the archipelago near Stockholm, in the borderland between land and sea.
The surroundings are simply water with some rocks and little islands cutting through the surface.
The scenery is very dramatic and horizontal. Every change in weather and light is directly reflected by the sea.
Facing the challenge of building so close to the water, the house lands on the site very pragmatically.
Standing on columns, if the sea goes wildly it simply runs under it.
The client’s wishes of catching the sea and creating calm and contemplative spaces lead the design.
The house faces openly the sea, turning its back towards the city and the urban life.
Even though being modernly designed, it is built in a traditional and uncomplicated way.
This is due partially to the difficult (sometimes impossible), access, depending on the wind and waves.
The harsh weather conditions, with wind, water and ice, also conditioned the choice of materials, taken from the nature around it.
The load bearing walls are built from hand-picked panels of swedish pine, cut to a rough surface. In time, the wood will turn grey, becoming a part of the great surrounding environment.
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This bookcase was second place at the “VI Bienal Nacional de diseno” in Mexico (2011)
Découverte du travail de Mikael Colombu avec sa réalisation du clip illustrant le morceau “The Knowing” de l’artiste The Weeknd. Graphiquement très impactant, les images permettent de donner de la profondeur au morceau. Un résultat réussi à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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This is the third post in a 7-part series from Panthea Lee of service design consultancy, Reboot. In The Messy Art of Saving the World, Lee will explore the role of design in international development.
One year after the devastating Indus Valley floods, Reboot traveled to Pakistan in 2011 to design a better way to distribute humanitarian aid. The disaster had killed over 1,700 people and left over 20 million more homeless. When we arrived, the formal refugee camps and aid organizations had long since packed up and left, but millions of people were still camped out in makeshift shelters next to the piles of rubble that had once been their homes.
The international community pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in relief funding, but the majority of those we spoke with had gone without the aid they needed (some had never seen a dime). In order to create a better service model, we had to understand why.
What we uncovered was a strong example of how research and design can help the international development community not only solve pressing challenges, but discover and act on new opportunities.
We had been tasked with improving an aid program run by a global coalition of public- and private-sector partners, who distributed emergency funds through preloaded debit cards. The results had been mixed. On one hand, the debit card method promised a fast, easy and secure way to get aid to the people who needed it. It was ambitious and life-saving: Over US $230 million was disbursed to families in need in the first 70 days alone.
But on the other hand, the program was complex, involved multiple actors and was enacted in rural locations with poor infrastructure. Breakdowns were inevitable. We spoke with flood victims who waited in line for entire days only to discover that the ATM machines had stopped working and that their families would go hungry for yet another night. Opportunistic officials demanded hefty “handling fees” from textually or technologically illiterate families who needed help retrieving their aid funds. Some people qualified for aid but were denied because of glitches in the system; we met one such man who had walked 16 hours to Islamabad to plead his case with the government, unsuccessfully.
United Bank Limited (UBL), a leading Pakistani bank which had spearheaded the relief program, engaged Reboot to address these challenges. From the beginning, we understood that the root cause of many shortcomings was a lack of understanding: Corporate executives in Karachi and government officials in Islamabad had little knowledge of the rural, poor Pakistanis receiving aid and the contexts in which they lived. Without this understanding, it was impossible to design or deploy an effective system.
Thus, we began with an intensive design research process to better understand the flood victims—and the bank, too. (People don’t talk enough about empathy for your client, but it’s critical). We spoke with victims in 26 towns and villages, engaging with nearly 300 Pakistanis from all walks of life, from imams to street cleaners to loan sharks to vegetable merchants. Simultaneously, members of our team embedded within UBL to better understand its vision, needs and capacities. We spoke with staff of all levels and functional areas—everyone from the call center operators to the executives in charge—and we experienced first-hand how tough it is to run an aid program.
The London Games will dominate the coming year so it’s perhaps no surprise to see that Leicester-based Stocks Taylor Benson has given the 2012 calendar for paper company Antalis McNaughton an Olympic theme
Each month focuses on a graphic treatment of an Olympic event with various print finishes and techniques including foil blocking, embossing, spot UV and screenprinting (for example on the longjumper’s sand in April, below) used throughout.
The calendar will be sent to over 7,500 printers, office supply dealers, designers and creatives around the UK
Read our posts on the 2012 Olympics artists posters series here and here. See some alternative designs from Kingston students here
If you enjoy reading the Creative Review website, we think you’ll enjoy reading the magazine even more. The December issue of CR includes a profile piece on the independent creative scene in Liverpool, a major interview with Dutch book designer Irma Boom and a great piece on ‘Poster King’ Edward McKnight Kauffer. You’ll also find articles on Dentsu London, a review of the Walker Art Center’s Graphic Design: Now in Production show and a fascinating debate on the clash between design and advertising betwen Wally Olins and CHI’s Dan Beckett.
And if that wasn’t enough, the issue also includes a FREE paper toy for readers to cut out and customise.
If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.
Here’s the cover for Issue #12 (out in January) illustrated by Anne Smith!
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