Une mise en images magnifique basé sur le poème de Chateau Bezerra, dirigé et édité par le réalisateur Cole Webley. Un court métrage touchant et très visuel, le tout sur une musique d’Adam Taylor et une narration de Jessica Vizzone. A découvrir en images et en vidéo HD dans la suite.
One of the best things about design museums is that they usually have the best gift shops. I’ll admit that there are a few museums whose shops I visit without stepping into the museum itself, and if I lived in Berlin the Museum der Dinge would easily make that list. Literally translated it means the Museum of Things, and with case after case filled with regular, everyday household items dating back to pre-WWI Germany—with a special focus on those designed by the Werkbund Archiv—it lives up to its name.
One of the many lovely things in the museum gift shop is Reline, a collection of recycled tableware by Anna Bormann, a Berlin-based designer who specializes in experimental domestic concepts and home objects, many of which are made from porcelain. For Reline she set about collecting vintage and antique white porcelain dishes and tea things. She then creates mismatched sets by printing a pink line and recycle symbol on each piece.
“The idea is to reuse and upgrade all the random, left over white porcelain cups and other dishes,” says Bormann. “The simple vertical line is visible from most angles and gives an obvious indication of belonging to the different white set of parts. Once these different individuals are put together they become an original yet completely new tableware set, providing a unique atmosphere to the dinner table.”
Here are the first images of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that New York architect Steven Holl is designing for St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.
Maggie’s Barts will replace a former office block and the initial drawings show it as a cylindrical building with a bamboo interior and coloured glass windows.
Maggie’s was founded fifteen years ago to provide support to anyone affected by cancer and they now have centres all around the UK – see all the ones we’ve featured here, including Maggie’s Gartnavel by OMA and Maggie’s South West Wales by Kisho Kurokawa and Garbers & James, which both picked up an RIBA award last week.
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Here’s the full press release:
Steven Holl Architects reveal first designs for Maggie’s Barts
Maggie’s is delighted to announce that Steven Holl Architects has agreed to design the Maggie’s Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.
Steven Holl Architects is internationally-honoured with the most prestigious awards in architecture as well as publications and exhibitions for excellence in design.
The practice’s most famous works include the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki and the 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
Steven Holl is also the winner of the 2012 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
Maggie’s Barts will replace an existing 1960s block that was once used as offices which is located at the periphery of the square.
Steven Holl said: “It is a great honor to design a Maggie’s Centre and a very special challenge to be given such an important central site in London. The hospital has been at the forefront of medical understanding for centuries. We are inspired by the deep history of the area, and particularly the nearby St. Bartholomew the Great church which has been in continuous use with marvelous music since 1143. Our proposal is like a vessel within a vessel within a vessel. In the spirit of music, architecture can be a vessel of transcendence.”
Laura Lee, chief executive of Maggie’s said: “We are very excited that Steven Holl is working with us to design a Maggie’s Centre. It is also a huge privilege to be able to build a Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and we look forward to opening our doors and helping Londoners who are affected by cancer.”
Director of Barts Cancer Centre, Professor Nick Lemoine, said: “We treat an average of 3,100 new cancer patients every year so thousands will benefit from services offered at the new Maggie’s Centre.
“In addition to the physical effects of cancer treatment, patients and carers often require extra emotional support so I look forward to working with Maggie’s on this special partnership.”
St Bartholomew’s Hospital which serves a population of 1.5m in North East London is the oldest hospital in the country and has always been at the forefront of medical knowledge and understanding. It was the first hospital to train female doctors and the first to trial high voltage radiotherapy for people with cancer.
Today, it is home to one of the most advanced cancer centres in Europe with world-leading specialists and state-of-the-art technology.
Focus sur cette excellente série « Camera Gardens » par l’artiste brésilien André Feliciano. Il a pensé et réalisé ces compositions de fleurs qui sont en réalité des milliers de caméras miniatures. Un rendu simple, coloré et très réussi à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Gotta love this clever design by Product Tank! The Clamp Lamp was inspired by those silly collapsing toys that stand and fall with the press of a button. Like the toys, the lamp uses an internal system of cables that make it flexible when the lever is gripped or rigid when released. The user can bend it, move it, twist it, or turn it to the desired shape or light direction with one simple squeeze.
Designer: Product Tank
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Here’s a design that every guy, not just metrosexuals, will appreciate. Headcase combines the functionality of a hairdryer and infrared hair-growth stimulating technology into a sporty design that looks more like a power tool than a blow dryer (man-growl here). If it means preventing hair loss, you bet he’ll use it!
Designer: Filippa Vajda
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Designer Kőrös Benedek noticed that 99% of today’s vinyl players were designed for DJs and were really more suitable for mixing or scratching than playing music. His response was this compact player, designed for serious music junkies. While the Golden Era is minimal, it utilizes advanced technologies like DLNA and Airplay to bridge the gap between the MP3 generation and the golden era of music.
Designer: Kőrös Benedek
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Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie).
The control panel for the Tangible Textural Interface (TTI) speaker is embedded in a concave surface on one side. By pushing the fabric surface, the user can skip tracks, adjust the volume or select options on the equaliser.
On the other side, the speaker’s surface pulsates to the beat of the music and physically responds to selections made on the control panel.
Eunhee Jo recently graduated from the college’s Innovation Design Engineering course and the TTI speaker is on display at Show RCA 2012, which continues until 1 July.
See more stories from Show RCA 2012 here and watch course leader Miles Pennington give a tour of the show here.
Photographs are by Taehyung Kim.
Here’s some more information from the designer:
TTI by Eunhee Jo
Interactive surfaces makes everyday objects multi-functional and fun. Reactive technologies have now enabled normal interfaces with new functions and new possibilities. The role of the surface is changing radically, according to how it’s designed and incorporated with objects.
My proposal was to re-define the role of the surface in future lifestyle, exploring how surfaces can be an integrated as part of a product or environment.
TTI (standing for Tangible Textural Interface) is a new sound system that embeds a tactile surface. TTI has flexibility that enables people to physically touch and feel the response through the controls and physical morph of the surface. TTI delivers new aesthetics through integrated flexible surfaces as interface material unlike adapting conventional materials for interfaces such as plastic or glass. Unlike existing 2D interfaces, TTI has a curved 3D surface opening up new possibilities in making flexible forms and shapes within the interface.
TTI consists of 3 main functions, backwards and forwards, volume control and equaliser, having a physical feedback and control interface within one surface. As you control the functions, the left surface physically responds to the controls. Tactile surface also responds to the beat of the music.
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