Coup de coeur pour le travail d’Antonio Vicentini, un réalisateur et animateur brésilien. Avec l’aide de BIlly Brown pour les illustrations, ce dernier nous propose de découvrir l’évolution des appareils photos à travers une vidéo en pixel art du plus bel effet.
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”I’m a bird” is another way of living and working. The idea of the product we were inspired by is a birdcage. When you sit at the desk you have a cl..
The jury has spoken, and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has just announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards. We’ll take a closer look at the honorees over the next few days, but in the meantime, here is the full list of winners who will be celebrated on October 17 at a gala dinner at Pier Sixty in New York.
Lifetime Achievement: Richard Saul Wurman
Design Mind: Janine Benyus
Corporate and Institutional Achievement: Design that Matters
Architecture Design: Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
Communication Design: Rebeca Méndez
Fashion Design: Thom Browne
Interaction Design: Evan Roth
Interior Design: Clive Wilkinson Architects
Landscape Design: Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Product Design: Scott Wilson
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Milan 2012: London designers 00:/ recently showed visitors to Milan’s most famous department store how to construct a wooden house from a downloaded kit of parts.
The self-assembly structure is one in a series from the WikiHouse open-source platform, which allows users to design, download and share templates that can then be printed using a CNC-mill or 3D printer.
The pieces then slot together without the need for bolts or screws.
If you fancy having a go and building this structure yourself, you can find the template here.
Hacked Lab program of workshops, talks and performances took place at La Rinascente from 17 to 22 April and included daily workshops and performances. See our earlier story about it here, or click here to watch our interview with curator Beatrice Galilee in our Wednesday TV show.
We also previously featured a set of open-source spectacle frames, which were made using the wooden offcuts of another WikiHouse project. See them here.
00:/ worked up the concept for WikiHouse at their offices in Shoreditch, where they were based for seven years before recently moving to a central London location.
Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.
More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.
Movie is by Alice Masters.
Celebrating it’s 175th Anniversary, London’s Royal College of Arts (RCA) staged the stellar show Paradise during Milan’s annual design week. Over 90 students and recent graduates from the Design Products program spread out on three floors and the courtyard of a former school to, “contemplate the discovery of something or somewhere wondrous.”
“Rallied by the desire for change and compelled by dissatisfaction with the present, RCA students will author their own atlases of paradise, landscaped by different paths in the quest for a better future.” Wonderfully, the future is paved with process-driven material solutions of the present as exemplified by five of our favorite projects from Paradise: Polyfloss, Sea Chair, Sedimentation Ceramics, Solar Sintering and NSEPS Furniture (which we covered earlier this week). Each of these projects explore new processes to introduce a second life for the materials of today. Paradise looks pretty bright as we follow these young designers into the future.
Silo Studio’s NSEPS Table Sculpture
The Polyfloss Factory is a simple enough idea: shredded plastic waste is fed through the chamber of a repurposed cotton candy machine to spin out polypropylene fibers. The “polyfloss” is then remelted to create new objects. Polyfloss gives plastics a new life through micro-manufacturing techniques and with a rainbow of color options, the material has been used to create decorative interior objects, textile-based wearables, and even headphones. The project is by Nick Paget, Emile De Visscher, Christophe Machet and Audrey Gaulard from the MA Innovation Design Engineering program.
Focus sur une nouvelle vidéo Venice in a Day, tournée en Italie par le créatif Joerg Niggli. Filmé avec un Canon G10, ce time-lapse monté avec la musique de Chris Haigh permet de montrer la magie de la ville italienne. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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Idyllic Reflections will become part of your daily routine, guiding you through a sporting injury. The beauty comes from it’s simplistic interfa..
Slideshow: these ridged metal walls enclose the facilities of an outdoor swimming pool that Spanish firm Arquitecturia have just completed in the town of Tortosa.
Located right beside a busy road, the single-storey building folds around the perimeter of the pool to maintain privacy for swimmers.
The building has a concrete frame, which extends beyond the entrance to create an exterior canopy.
Other swimming pools we’ve featured include one inside a ramshackle timber basin – see more here.
Photography is by Pedro Pegenaute.
Here’s some more information from Arquitecturia:
Exterior Swimming Pool and changing room in Tortosa.
The facility is located on the Jesus Road, between the Canal de l’Ebre and the Barranc de la Vall Cervera, and it is accessed from a public space prior to widening of the pavement on this road.
One of the aims of the project is to provide the pools a space removed from the Road and the wind, that overlooks the canal and the future of sports area, as well as to provide a good orientation to optimize its use. As such, the linear structure between the road and the swimming pools sets up as a backdrop that holds the area for outdoor activities.
The boundaries between inside and outside are explored by the structure of concrete and the facade system made of metal profiles. Between these two elements, there ase spaces like porches, patios, shades… areas of ambiguity that dilute and confuse the relationship between inside and outside.
The project is structured around the public space and entrance arcade, with the bar positioned to one side serving as a vantage overlooking the future running track, and the lobby on the other side, drawing the eye to the outdoor pools. The space outside the pools is shaped by a series of shaded areas that connect the three functional units: bar, changing rooms and lobby.
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The legendary designer on art and design, working with a rock star and staying fresh after 20 years with Kartell
Known nearly as much for his confident and quirky personality as for his innovative use of single mould injected polycarbonate, Philippe Starck has spent the last few decades changing the norm in product design. From an alien-like lemon juicer for Alessi to organically-inspired sofas for Cassina, Starck has expanded minds with innovative—and sometimes questionable—designs as one of the most prolific designers in contemporary culture.
While in Milan for Design Week we had the rare chance to catch up with the “über designer” himself during the debut of his latest collection for Italian furniture brand Kartell. Standing among a sea of cameras and curious fans, Starck reflected on his history with the iconic brand, working with a rock star-turned-furniture designer and the relationship between art and design.
Kartell is not a company, it is a philosophy. Thirty years ago I had this intuition that the future must be democratic, and I invented the idea of democratic design. Which is rising the quality, cutting the price and trying to give it to everybody. The only weapon, the only tool I found to do it was monolithic injected plastic. Twenty years ago it was not easy and the only company that had this philosophy was Kartell.
That’s why today everybody says that this booth is the center of the fair. Yes, it is because we deserve it. Because 30 years ago, even before the family of Claudio Lutti, Kartell had this vision. And I can tell you at this time it wasn’t very fashionable to speak about injected plastic this way—it meant cheap, bad things for low people and things like that. We had the courage to built a real proposal, a philosophical proposal, a political proposal. And finally we won. Because we are now at the beginning of the decline of Western Occidental civilization. People have less money but still want quality because we know what is quality, it’s difficult to change. And we must reinvent ourselves and reinvent our new economy of poverty. And Kartell is in the right place to do it.
Lenny is a friend of my daughter’s and finally after years she introduced me and we became friends. One day Lenny told me ‘I want to become an architect, a designer’. I said Lenny you are smart, very smart. When I see your different houses I am very impressed. Perhaps you can become a designer, become an architect. That’s why I brought him into the new SLS Miami Hotel and I brought him to Kartell. And you know where the design is boring him. You have thousands of models here and it’s always the same proposal—the same angle of view. Lenny can bring the fresh air of the night. Designers, we are from the day. He is from the night. We wake up at seven, he goes to sleep at seven. That changes the angle of view. We shall see. He is a young designer, he starts today. He has to work, so we shall see. But he is in a good position, he is very very smart.
It’s him. You know I don’t want anybody to tell me what I have to do. I don’t want to tell Lenny what he has to do. We gave him a chair. We gave him a nice opportunity to play with it and make what he wants. It’s life, we have to keep his freshness in mind.
Not the design. The life. Myself. I don’t try to be young, I try to be timeless. And to work with young people, to be married with a young beautiful wife, to have a young baby of 10 months—that makes me timeless, because I’m old now. That makes a difference. For example Friday morning we leave and Friday at noon I will be at my table working like a devil.
I’ve never just been about strict geometric, I’ve been known even more for organic lines. I have enough imagination to make both, or more. But this candle piece I made with Maggiar is about the magic of love. Because if you see the two pieces alone they cannot stand up, but together they make an art piece. This is about love. That’s why we decide to do it and I thank Maggiar for bringing this very nice idea, this very iconic and simple idea.
Clearly, it’s not the same word. It is not an art object, just a symbol of love. I am not an artist. I am just trying to be a designer, but it is not enough. And I’m not sure that the confusion now between art and design is very good for design. It is very good for art, because they have nothing more to say. But in design, finally we are more rich than in art.
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