Dans la lignée du Audi E-Tron Spyder, voici ce concept et prototype de vélo électrique très impressionnant par la marque Audi au nom « E-Bike Wörthersee » doté d’un cadre en carbone, d’un moteur de 2,3 kw et d’une batterie lithium. L’ensemble de ces caractéristiques permet d’aller à une vitesse de plus de 80 km/h.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Dezeen are media partners for the London series of Pecha Kucha talks, and the next one takes place on Thursday 24 May at Clerkenwell Design Week with speakers including architect Nigel Coates, architecture publisher Peter Murray and designer Benjamin Hubert.
The event will start at 7pm in the Farmiloe Building at 34 St John Street, the event’s main venue where you can also find our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up – more details here. Entrance is free but please register in advance for entrance to Clerkenwell Design Week.
The evening will be chaired by Icon magazine editor Christopher Turner and speakers include:
»Anthony Dickens
»Marc Krusin
»Benjamin Hubert
»Nigel Coates
»Peter Murray
»Phil Coffey
»William Knight
»Kevin Haley
»Annabelle Filer
Deriving its name from the Japanese term for the sound of ‘chit chat’, PechaKucha was devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture, and consists of a series of presentations where each participant shows 20 images for 20 seconds.
There’s been a veritable deluge of newsprint publications coming into CR towers in the last two weeks so thought we’d share a selection with you…
First up is the Frieze Projects newspaper. Frieze Art Fair held it’s first New York event earlier this month entitled Frieze Projects New York. For the event, Frieze invited eight international artists to respond to the location of the show, Randall’s Island in the East River, and turn the island park into a an experimental platform for contemporary art. Mulberry, the event’s sponsor, produced this unbound, newspaper-like publication (designed by Construct) to introduce each artist and their approach to the commission…
S.E.H Kelly is a two-person men’s clothing company based in East London. It’s publication, Some British Makers Vol. 1, features photos taken and info gleaned from visits to a small clothes-making workroom in North London, the only maker of horn buttons in the UK, and two woollen mills in Yorkshire.
“We tend to make our printed stuff with Newspaper Club,” says Sara Kelly of the project, “and they just printed this for us, to introduce ourselves and the kind of craft we employ to the stores in Japan who stock our stuff.”
Here are some images:
For any of our readers who don’t know, Newspaper Club was founded by Ben Terrett, Russell Davies and Tom Taylor in 2009 to make it easy for designers (and non-designers too) to make their own newsprint publications. Also hot off the Newspaper Club press is this self-promotional mailer by illustrator Andy Smith – a 12 page newsprint publication that shows off 12 of Smith’s poster designs:
“Business is certainly booming at the moment,” says Newspaper Club MD, Anne Ward when we asked if the unusually high influx of newsprint projects to CR towers was reflective of a rise in interest in the services they offer. “May is usually our busiest month but this May our orders are at least double last year’s,” she adds.
Paper-obsessed artist Rob Ryan has also taken advantage of Newspaper Club’s services – we just got the first issue of his studio’s new quarterly publication S.P.Q.R. which is available from Ryan’s Etsy shop for the princely sum of £2.
“Basically, it’s going to be a collection of pictures and words that I’ve been working on within the preceding three months,” explains Ryan. “Anything that I draw or design always starts its life as a note or a scribble somewhere in a note book and I’m kind of hoping that this project will become more like that, a printed notebook of thoughts and ideas,” he continues. “Ninety percent of my notebook stuff is rubbish and really quite embarrassing, so don’t expect too much,” he adds.
Despite his modesty, the first issue of S.P.Q.R. is full of lovely imagery – and also a short written piece by Ryan in which he explains how he ended up working almost exclusively with cut paper.
Last but not least is another first issue newspaper from a design studio, also printed by Newspaper Club. The Moon on a Stick, by Cheltenham-based ASHA (the studio behind the recently held first Cheltehham Design Festival) is by far the most ambitious of all the publications shown in this blog post – it’s 72 pages for a start, making it quite a big ask in terms of engagement time.
Essentially, The Moon on a Stick is a vehicle for showcasing projects ASHA has worked on and, despite an initial worry about delving into such a lengthy own-trumpet blowing exercise, it’s actually pretty engaging, thanks mostly to a playful approach to design and layout. Each feature sports different combinations of headline, display and text typefaces which stops it from being visually bland and kept me leafing through.
Also, peppered among the many case studies of ASHA projects are nuggets of editorial gold like the Best in Class spread that shows two great CV packs the agency received from graduate hopefuls, showing that creativity when applying for a design job really is worth the effort. Here are some spreads:
For more info about Newspaper Club and how to create your own newsprint publication, visit newspaperclub.com
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The May issue of Creative Review is the biggest in our 32-year history, with over 200 pages of great content. This speial double issue contains all the selected work for this year’s Annual, our juried showcase of the finest work of the past 12 months. In addition, the May issue contains features on the enduring appeal of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, a fantastic interview with the irrepressible George Lois, Rick Poynor on the V&A’s British Design show, a preview of the controversial new Stedelijk Museum identity and a report from Flatstock, the US gig poster festival. Plus, in Monograph this month, TwoPoints.net show our subcribers around the pick of Barcelona’s creative scene.
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Buy design. Goods for sale at the new online home of the Shop at Cooper-Hewittt.
Whether you’re in the market for a hollowed-out half dollar, a megaphone-shaped iPhone speaker, a “living necklace,” a magazine designed to double as stunning wrapping paper, or a silicone-filled ostrich egg (Father’s Day gift alert!), the new Shop at Cooper-Hewitt has something for you. With its physical home in the throes of a $64 million renovation, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is expanding into new realms, from Governor’s Island (where on Saturday, it will open the highly anticipated “Graphic Design—Now in Production” exhibition) to cyberspace. It’s the digital realm where the museum has relaunched its famously well-curated shop, overseen by newly appointed director of retail Robert Nachman. The Cooper-Hewitt tapped Marque Creative to design the new site, which features seamless checkout, integrated member discounting, and enhanced search capabilities. “A true design destination for online consumers, the Shop offers a selection of works by established and emerging designers that will surprise, delight, and inspire,” said associate director Caroline Baumann in a statement announcing the relaunch. Plus, shop purchases are sales-tax exempt and all proceeds go to support the museum’s educational goals and mission—as if you needed more reasons to splurge on a hand-beaded Hella Jongerius bowl.
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PLOF is an eco-friendly and durable way to reuse different types of production waste. Colorful textile leftovers are shredded into smaller pieces and ..
From Broadway to Rockaway, Pelham to Freshkills, 8.2 million people call New York City home. On the occasion of New York Design Week 2012, Core77 takes a moment to survey the landscape of all five boroughs with an open call to designers to represent their hometown. Since its very beginnings, the city has been a trading grounds—a venue at the crossroads of ideas, commerce, materials and innovation. The 35 designers representing nearly as many neighborhoods in the ALL CITY ALL STARS continue to explore that space, negotiating technologies, materials, histories and futures in the crucible of a dynamic city. Interpretations may vary, but the voice of New York City is as bold, inquisitive and imaginative as ever.
Collapse est un film court expérimental dont le design et l’animation 3D sont de Selfburning. Avec un sound design signé CypherAudio, cette vidéo joue avec les formes et les couleurs, dont principalement le rouge, pour créer un univers étrange. Une création originale à découvrir dans la suite en vidéo.
Hand-drawn designs expand to knee-high, anklet and kids’ styles
Since we discovered Sweet Marcel’s over-the-knee socks in 2010, the Texas-based designer has expanded into knee-highs, anklets and Wee Marcel for toddlers.” Anklet socks are the hottest thing in Japan now and selling like crazy,” Sweet Marcel’s founder and designer Amy Anderson told Cool Hunting.
Sweet Marcel’s knee-highs are produced in the traditional textile heartland of North Carolina with yarn from locally milled cotton. The over-the-knee socks and children’s line come from a family-owned textile mill in central Turkey where Anderson travels frequently to oversee production. Each hand-drawn design is named after an influential figure, like Wee Lucienne, which takes its name from Lucienne Day, the 20th-century British fabric designer.
Sweet Marcel’s expanded product line is available in about a selection of U.S. boutiques and online from the site; each pair comes packaged with a vintage safety pin “too cool to not keep”. Prices range from $10-$20.
Lucienne Day, circa 1952The work of Lucienne Day inspires a lot of contemporary interpretations, but it always worthwhile to know more than the surface of a designer’s work. Day’s work is part of Designing Women: Post-War British Textiles: a current exhibition at the British Textiles Museum. The book Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers in Modern Design by Lesley Jackson (Chronicle, 2001) is also worth adding to your library.
Around the web:
• Lucienne Day 1917-2010, remembrance in the Guardian
• Robin Day obituary
• An interview and home tour of Robin and Lucienne Day with Wallpaper magazine, December 2008.
• V&A Lucienne Day archives
• Classic Textiles‘ reissue of some iconic designs
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