Marc Coffee Table

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Marc Coffee Table

Marc Coffee Table

This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: Wayfair, Ode Magazine, Rodale

This week, Wayfair is hiring a visual web designer, while Ode magazine is looking for a new art director. Rodale needs an interaction designer, and ALM Media is in search of a graphic designer. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Fast Track to the Mobile App: car-pal+ and Blackbelt update

Reporting by Yin Ho

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona started this week, with three of our winning apps, car-pal+, Cash Hound and Social Mints, on display as a part of the Microsoft showcase. They are loaded on Windows Phones for conference-goers to play with. And, as of last week, car-pal+ is now available on the Windows Marketplace! This last article in the Fast Track to the Mobile App series covers the development process of car pal+ and Blackbelt.

For the design competition, Alan Asher and Chris Barlett of car-pal+ wanted to create an app that would be useful to a large audience and could be developed over a short timeline. The audience they decided to build for were car owners, with specific app functionality for fuel and maintenance tracking. Since neither were familiar with the Windows Phone platform, they spent time playing with the phone in stores, watching YouTube videos on phone how-to’s, and getting a feel for the Metro user interface style before they began designing. They first diagrammed their high-level workflow on paper, and then wireframed their app screens.

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After playing around with the Windows Phone Software Development Kit, the two decided to work on the application without the help of a Microsoft developer. Though neither had developing experience, they found the existing documentation on AppHub and MSDN pages incredibly helpful, and decided to pursue a learning opportunity. With full-time jobs, the two met via Skype nightly to work on the app. With an eye towards having it in the Marketplace by the end of February, they decided to roll out their app in phases, adding fuel price and enhanced maintenance features with time. They expect to release an update for car-pal+ within the month.

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Mark Salerno of Blackbelt is currently working with a Microsoft developer to complete his app. The level-up business productivity app takes the form of a game and requires two operating screens: one for a supervisor and another for the player. Like a referee or ‘sensei,’ the supervisor can set objectives, create incentives, and monitor the productivity of their ‘players.’ The player’s portal is where they can view their ‘mission’ and meet goals to advance through (in the spirit of martial arts) different ‘belt’ colors.

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Desert Mat

Mat with grooves patterns based on the dry desert floor. These grooves collect liquids that are spilled on this. And thanks to its modular system it i..

Dezeen’s top ten: spectacles and shades

Dezeen's top ten: spectacles and shades

This month our readers’ opinions were divided over the open-source WikiGlasses made of 18mm plywood (top right) so here’s a roundup of our most popular stories about spectacles and shades. 

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1: in pole position are these Sire glasses made of water buffalo horn, which readers labelled “simultaneously fabulous and disturbing”.

W-eye by Matteo Ragni for MAWOOD

2: second place goes to the W-eye reading glasses, made from layers of wood and aluminium without any hinges.

Sun Cutter by Markus Kayser

3: Royal College of Art graduate Markus Kayser is in third place with these sun shades that he made in the desert, cutting the material by focussing a beam of sunlight.

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4: Yves Béhar’s VerBien range of spectacles that will be distributed free to children in Mexico is in fourth place.

WikiGlasses by Lynton Pepper

5: this month’s controversial story on Lynton Pepper’s WikiGlasses comes in fifth. Tell us what you think here.

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6: in sixth place are these biodegradable spectacle frames made of human hair by Studio Swine.

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7: next up are these frames made from a single sheet of titanium with no screws, joints or hinges by Icelandic spectacle company Reykjavik Eyes.

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8: more from Iceland – these hand-cut Carrara marble eyeshades for the blind by Sruli Recht are in eighth place.

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9: the penultimate entry in this month’s top ten is a pair of shades made from a concertina of thin plastic by BCXSY.

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10: and finally, tenth place goes to these beaded shades by Thorunn Arnadottir, which feature QR codes directing photographers to make a charity donation when they snap the wearer on their smartphone.

See all our top ten stories »

Then Darkness Fell

Macabre drawings modeled after discarded photographs from Scott Hunt

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Artist Scott Hunt turns flea market photographs into modern-day allegories. In his new series of charcoal drawings currently on view at Schroeder, Romero and Shredder Gallery in New York, Hunt presents images that are enigmatic, humorous and occasionally discomforting. The black-and-white figures of “Then Darkness Fell” draw inspiration from turn of the century realism as well as film noir.

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Hunt’s preoccupation with discarded photographs is driven by his desire to “save” anonymous people and objects from obscurity. By identifying elements of each photograph that he finds intriguing, Hunt removes them from their original context and uses them to create a new drawing. This creative process gives a second life to other people’s forgotten memories. “My subconscious narratives often reflect a dark, mysterious, and intrinsically Gothic view of America; suburbs leach danger, authority figures evince moral turpitude, nature threatens, and the surface of all things belies the more messy, complicated realities of being human,” explains Hunt.

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Hunt’s aesthetic borrows heavily from the 1940s-60s, and is often fueled with an underlying dark awkwardness. Themes of alcoholism, racism, violence and exhibitionism can be found throughout the collection of highly composed drawings. Despite their macabre nature, the works are saved from being unrelentingly gloomy by a consistently wry sense of humor. “Then Darkness Fell” will be on display through 17 March 2012.

Schroeder, Romero and Shredder Gallery

531 West 26th Street

New York, NY 10001


Peter Weyland TED Talk

This is awesome. It’s a promo for the movie Prometheus.

Build Your 100-mile Dream Home

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You’ve heard of the locavore diet: only eating what’s available within 100 miles of you. Now there’s loca-arch (yeah, we’re still looking for a catchy name), a movement that supports new building with only the materials available in your immediate environment. Want Italian marble countertops? Unless there’s a quarry nearby that can provide something similar, you’re going to have to either find an alternative or move to Italy.

To promote the idea, the Architecture Foundation of British Columbia launched an international competition to design a 1,200-square-foot, four-person home that uses only materials made or recycled within 100 miles of Vancouver (much like the 100-mile locavore diet challenge, also born in Vancouver). While everyone’s in a tizzy over getting LEED certified, ‘locavore architecture’ is a much more sustainable approach.

According to GOOD, “although a large percentage of the world’s population live in homes made from local materials, the idea of intentionally setting geographic restraints on modern building materials is a relatively novel idea. One example of an existing 100-mile house is the home built by naturalist and writer Briony Penn in British Columbia, just across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver. With help from builder Michael Dragland, she applied the principles of the diet to the 1,150-square-foot home she recently built on Salt Spring Island.”

Penn said that while the experience of building the house was fun and allowed her to engage with her community, it wasn’t always easy. “The most difficult things to find within 100 miles were insulation and light fixtures,” she said. She had many items custom-made, and, at the end of the day, spent $300,000—much more than she would have on a traditional house. Still, she has no regrets. “If you just say, ‘Here’s my budget,’ and then you build smaller, but sweeter, it’s just a simple case of changing your parameters and values. Instead of trying to push for maximum space at the cheapest price, you push for maximum quality and you settle for less space, and honestly, you don’t miss the space.”

Ready to go back to basics and enter the competition to build your own 100-mile home? Submissions are due by the end of April. The first prize winner gets $5,000, which may not buy enough local timber for the whole frame, but if you’re the kind of person who enters a contest like this, my guess is money is not a major motivator. Or, sit this round out and see how Penn built her 100-mile dream house.

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Kimball Art Center

Voici le travail de B.I.G. Architects qui a pu penser l’architecture du nouveau “Kimball Art Center”. Situé dans l’Utah aux USA, le batîment au design original d’une surface de 2,800 m2 est à découvrir dans la suite dans une série d’images et de simulations.



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Dezeen Screen: Philippe Malouin

Dezeen Screen: Philippe Malouin

Dezeen Screen: the latest instalment in our series of interviews with exhibitors at Dezeen Platform features London-based Canadian designer Philippe Malouin, who showed his modular bowls made of waxed concrete at Dezeen Space last autumn. Watch the movie »

You can now watch the entire series on Dezeen Screen here.