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Dec 30

There’s an App for That: World War II Posters

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Rare is the design buff who can resist a good World War II poster (full disclosure: we’ve lost entire weekends to History Channel marathons in which grainy Hitler footage featured prominently), from the classic “Loose Lips Sink Ships” variety to the less catchy call to “Save waste fats for explosives.” A number of U.S. libraries have made their WWII poster collections available online—we like that of Northwestern’s Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department—but the Brits have gone us one better. The Imperial War Museums (IWM) recently launched the first in a series of apps devoted to Great British Posters from the Second World War. Developed by Artfinder and available as a free download at the App Store, it brings 30 posters from the massive IWM collection to your iPhone or iPad, where you can scroll, pinch, and zoom to your heart’s content on graphical implorations to Keep Calm and Carry On, grow your own vegetables, and walk short distances. The app includes the stories behind each poster and details on its designer.

Got an app we should know about? Drop us a line at unbeige@mediabistro.com

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Dec 30

Core77 2011 Year in Review: 15 Things to See Before the End of the Year

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Wrapping up our Year in Review, we’ve rounded up our top 15 things you must see this Friday before you checkout to ring in 2012!

1. How Pencils are Made

2. Kawamura Ganjavian’s Ostrich for the new Working-Resting Paradigm

3. Sweden’s Hotel of Treehouses

4. Rube Goldberg x Social Media = Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine

5. With +Pool, Design Trio Aims to Make Manhattan’s East River Swimmable

6. A Truly Amazing Paper Record Player Invitation

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Dec 30

High Speed Reel 2011

Posted in: Charles Bergquist, high speed, Olympus iSpeed 3, slow

Coup de coeur pour le projet du designer Charles Bergquist qui nous propose cette vidéo “High Speed Reel 2011″. Tournée en Californie avec un Olympus iSpeed 3, cette vidéo impressionnante en slow motion est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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Dec 30

iGATE

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cantilever sliding gate with coloured led lighting and personalizable perforated metall filling: ‘design your own gate’

Dec 29

dancing rabbit

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Dec 29

Core77 2011 Year in Review: Fine Furniture, Brilliant Lighting and Design from Around the World

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Furniture and lighting are more or less the bread and butter of an industrial design blog (though these days, we might extend the metaphor to include other grains—products = pasta, technology = rice, etc.)… which is to say that they’re always there, even when, say, Apocalypse dominates the headlines. Besides the major furniture and design fairs (more on that below), the Year in Furniture included a Standing Desk Shootout and a comprehensive six-part interview with Brooklyn-based manufacturers (literally hand-makers) Hellman-Chang… in addition to the usual weird and wacky designs that are fit to publish.

The age-old material of wood is as good a place to start as any: in 2011, it served as a medium for left-field commentary, a subtractive panton, a crazy curve, a plywood pod and nest-esque warping. Similarly, reclaimed materials took on various forms: preserved to polished, de-militarized or simply turned sideways.

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Lighting

Lamps, more than any other object, looked like “other things”… including the lampshade itself, which inspired several skeuomorphic lighting designs: the cluster-like “TamTam” ceiling lamp, the futuristic “LED Shade Lamp,” the humble “Sympathy for the Bulb” and Light Light’s ever-popular levitating lamps. (We also saw functional abat-jours in glass and steel, among other materials.)

As for other other things, some of our favorites lamps took the form of an open-ocean predator, a pair of fly kicks and a maritime marker. They also took more abstract biomorphic forms, 3D printed or otherwise.

Indoor lighting also converged with upcycling in 2011: designers reinvented plumbing fixtures as steampunk lighting (twice over), while some designers transformed recyclable materials into elegant pendant lamps and minimalist desk lamps.

Still, the truly illuminating Liter of Light project, developed by students at MIT, is probably the most significant—i.e. socially impactful—lighting designs we saw in 2011.

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Chairs

The chair, on the other hand, was subject to dozens of material explorations: aluminum wire, cork, laser-cut steel, Twintex, recycled PET bottles, piano keys, circuit board, salvaged signage and even empty space itself. A chair made of discarded candy wrappers turned out to be as tasteful (if not as tasty) as one made of candy.

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Dec 29

The Joys of Earthquake-Free Architecture

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Admit it: That’s the most bad-ass conference room you’ve ever seen, and one that you’d never see in California. Designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and constructed in tectonically-stable Copenhagen, it’s part of Danish bank Nykredit’s headquarters, which features a total of three such rooms cantilevered over the atrium.

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Dec 29

2011 review: April

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Our most popular story in April was a giant timber canopy by Architects J. Mayer. H in Spain. Scroll on for our roundup of the rest of the month.

Casa-Lude-by-Grupo-Aranea

The number two slot is also taken by a project in Spain, this time an apartment that sits on the roof of another house.

D-house-by-Panorama

Another house was the third most-viewed – a contemporary cliff-top house in Chile.

Sugamo-Shinkin-Bank-by-Emmanuelle-Moureaux

The colourful horizontal projections of this Bank in Tokyo by architect Emmanuelle Moureaux attracted fourth place on out list.

House-in-Casavells-by-05-AM-arquitectura

A split-level terrace house in Girona, Spain by 05 AM Arquitectura is the fifth most popular story from April.

See all our stories from April 2011»
March 2011 review»
February 2011 review»
January 2011 review»
See our review of 2010»
See our review of 2009»

Dec 29

Dishes Concept

Posted in: dish, dishes, Jean-Francois De Witte

Découverte du créatif Jean-Francois De Witte qui a eu l’idée de jouer avec les ustensiles de cuisine afin de leur donner l’apparence de petits personnages. Un résultat simple mais efficace autour d’une série de clichés. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.