Mar 26
BLACK WIDOW Armband
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Inspired by the classic lace decoration, BLACK WIDOW Armband is apart of an entire collection realized in polyamide using the 3D print technology. Eas..
Mar 26
Smart Design is seeking an Associate Director, Brand Communication in Barcelona, Spain
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Associate Director, Brand Communication
Smart Design
Barcelona, Spain
Smart Design, a global design consultancy with offices in New York, San Francisco and Barcelona, is looking for an Associate Director to lead and represent the Brand Communication group in our Barcelona studio. Associate Directors at Smart are responsible for leading and supporting multi-discipline teams to design experiences that are meaningful to people, authentic to their brands and feasible in the real world. The ideal candidate has serious credentials and a rich portfolio of design work, as well as EU work authorization… and Spanish fluency would be fantastic too.
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Mar 26
BarQue by K-studio
Posted in: K-studio, Restaurants and bars, slideshowsSlideshow: a chandelier made from jam jars hangs from the grilled ceiling of this barbeque restaurant in north east Athens by Greek architects K-studio.
The illuminated jars hang in front of walls patterned with square-cut wooden blocks, which were designed to resemble traditional butcher’s chopping boards.
A selection of mismatched chairs surround wooden tables, while stools line a grey tiled bar.
We’re featured quite a few restaurants recently where furniture is deliberately unmatching – click here to see one where no two items of furniture or crockery are the same.
Photography is by Vangelis Paterakis.
Here’s some more explanation from K-studio:
barQue
barQue sits on the corner of Harilao Trikoupi and Strofiliou in Nea Erythraia.
The cuisine revolves around barbequed meats. This was the starting point for our design and the branding concept.
Barbequing is a social activity, so the design opens up the kitchen and allows the choreography of the chefs to become part of the dining experience, with some diners even sitting along the kitchen worktop to eat.
A steel grille, reminiscent of a barbeque grill, acts as a false ceiling that accentuates the height and gives the space a dark, masculine weight.
A deep frieze of cut pine blocks, arranged as an abstraction of the traditional butchers chopping table, is suspended above the activity allowing continuity between the interior and exterior dining areas.
The glow of the wood-block frieze combines with varied pieces of wooden furniture and a large, glass-jar chandelier to warm the space, balancing soft, crafted and delicate textures with the rough black steel ceiling and the blaze of the grill from the open kitchen.
In collaboration with DGGD the branding completes the atmosphere by borrowing the font from the tool used to brand meat before hanging, to design the restaurant logo. The ‘Taste the Fun’ neon motto reminds everyone that barbequing is a sociable activity and that the preparation, grilling and eating of good quality meat should be celebrated.
Name: barQue
Location: Nea Erythraia, Athens
Designed By: k-studio
Branding: DGGD, k-studio
Lighting: Halo
Status: Completed 2011
Mar 26
International Conference on Typography
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The Association of Designers of the Region of Valencia (ADCV) is organising 5th International Conference on Typography. Under the title “Beyond the In..
Mar 26
Mar 26
“The only UK Olympics design-job that’s actually tolerable”
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“The Union Jack is an absolute gift to designers and they’ve ignored it”
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“Much more visually coherent than the traditional red white and blue palette”
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Mar 26
Comments
Posted in: RHS Comment Spot“Great, another Tetris project… ”
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“The space is not as fun as the facade expresses”
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“I’m a teacher and I can assure I would teach everyday for sure in this kind of environnement”
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Mar 26
Interesting Take on Emotion in Product Design: "Soap" vs. "Perfume"
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It’s nice to see even mainstream news organizations paying attention to the chronically underexposed design departments of major corporations. These days guys like Ralph Gilles and of course, Jonathan Ive get a lot more ink than we’d have seen a decade ago. Most recently Reuters got inside the design department at Samsung Electronics to talk shop with Lee Minhyouk, Samsung Mobile’s design veep.
While the meaty article looks at the expected areas of business differences between Samsung and chief rival Apple (the former manufactures their own components, the latter must outsource, etc.) and examines the mutual sue-fest the companies have recently engaged in, what most caught our eye was this analogy about product design:
To become a truly innovative company, Samsung needs to explore the art, as well as the science, of what it does, critics say.
“Samsung is like a fantastic soap maker,” said Christian Lindholm, chief innovation officer of service design consultancy Fjord based in Finland. “Their products get you clean, lathers well. However, they do not know how to make perfumes, an industry where margins are significantly higher. Perfume is an experience. Perfume is meant to seduce, make you attractive and feel good. You love your perfume, but you like your soap.”
One point hinted at in the article seems to be that Samsung is viewing design as a science that can be learned, but that they have not managed to harness capital-A Art. That’s a thorny problem that every design university Dean has grappled with, and Apple’s mastery of this issue creates as much profit as it does envy.
That doesn’t mean Samsung doesn’t understand the problem; it just means they’re not there yet. But at least one fun fact in the article shows they are trying to get there: Samsung’s designers get sent on inspirational trips to places like Iguazu Falls in Brazil and the Incan city of Cuzco in Peru! Now that’s a sweet gig, and for the sake of overworked ID’ers everywhere, I hope that becomes recognized as a recipe for design success!
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