Avec ce savant mélange entre design et typographie, voici « Bliss Table » un projet de table imaginé par Adam R. Garcia, aussi connu sous le pseudonyme The Pressure, et construit par Simon Yuen chez ADX Portland. Cette création très réussie est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
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Avec l’aide de 37 étudiants de l’Hyper Island Motion Graphics Stockholm, la réalisatrice Lucy McRae a mis en images le clip « My Yoko Ono » de Reptile Youth. Avec des manipulations visuelles réussies, cette vidéo en stop-motion permet de mettre en scène avec humour le duo musical. A découvrir dans la suite.
Product News: the Pebble smartwatch, the project that raised the most money ever on crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, has gone into mass production and is set to begin shipping on 23 January.
Pebble Technology CEO Eric Migicovsky made the announcement yesterday in a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which was broadcast to the project’s backers via a live stream that you can watch here.
“We’ll be manufacturing at the top rate of 15,000 Pebbles per week,” he said, meaning it will take six to eight weeks to ship products to the project’s backers, after which the company will begin fulfilling pre-orders placed via their website.
New features announced include a magnetometer for compass-like functions and ambient light sensors, plus an accelerometer so the back-light can be activated by tapping or flicking the wrist.
The Pebble smartwatch syncs with an iPhone or Android device, allowing users to wirelessly operate the phone and alerting them to incoming calls, text messages, emails and push notifications from apps. It can also tell the time.
The production version has a 32 millimeter LCD screen with a monochrome, back-lit e-paper display covered by a polycarbonate lens. The interface is controlled by buttons on the sides, with “up”, “select” and “down” functions on the right and the “back” button on the left.
It’s waterproof enough to wear swimming thanks to a magnetic charger that means there are no holes in the case and it runs for seven days on one charge. It comes in red, white, black, orange and grey, and the polyurethane strap can be interchanged with any standard watch strap.
In May 2012, Pebble became the most funded Kickstarter project of all time and raised $10,266,845 from 68,929 people in just over one month. The product was originally meant to ship in September 2012, but the company blamed the missed deadline on the unexpectedly high numbers they had to produce after the funding campaign’s runaway success.
Interest in watches that sync with phones has been growing, with rumours speculating that Apple may be working on a smartwatch and products like the LunaTik for converting an iPod into a watch already on the market. See all our stories about watches.
Another product launch that’s been attracting a lot of attention at the Consumer Electroncs Show, which continues until tomorrow, is a fork for dieters that vibrates when you eat too much or too fast.
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With the EARLYBIRD Deadline only 3 weeks away, we are excited to unveil this year’s Core77 Design Awards Jury Captains! Although these individuals need no introduction, we are honored and thrilled to have them lead the charge for this year’s design awards program!
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The Core77 Design Awards proudly offers 17 progressive categories honoring the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. From Consumer Products to DIY, Service Design to Writing & Commentary, the Core77 Design Awards provides designers, researchers and writers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their efforts. We also offer 15 designated student sections within our 17 categories. And with globally distributed jury teams, the individuals who will be considering your work are expert practitioners in the field.
Today we’re announcing jury captains from FIVE of our categories. Stay tuned in the next weeks as we share our full Jury Captain lineup! Without further ado:
INTERIORS & EXHIBITIONS
Judging location: Mexico City, Mexico
» Andrés Mier Y Teran, Jury Captain
Principal at Grupo MYT
Andrés Mier Y Teran is Founder and Principal at MYT Diseño, an architecture, design and construction firm based both in New York and Mexico City. MYT Diseño started off as a design and build firm in Mexico City, but has evolved to encapsulate almost all aspects of design in a project. From sketching a new concept to it’s final construction, as well as identity, marketing, graphic and industrial design, the firm now is able to create a holistic design experience. Some of the most notable works by the firm in Mexico include the concept for Soumaya Museum interiors, The Monument to the Mexican Revolution, La Imperial and Moshi Moshi. And in New York, Taka Taka, Antojeria La Popular, Vive la Crepe restaurants and Stella Filante store.
Mier Y Teran studied Interior Architecture at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, furniture design in Copenhagen and Architecture in UNAM, in Mexico City. He worked in Tokyo and in Paris with Philippe Starck before earning a Masters Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2008. Andrés has been frequently published, was awarded the gold medal for a five-year trajectory in Interior Architecture by the Mexican National Association of Interior Design in 2006, and more recently the 2011 Prix Met Penninghen for his Professional Trajectory 2001-2011 by ESAG in France.
INTERACTION
Judging location: London, United Kingdom
» Anab Jain, Jury Co-Captain
Director at Superflux
Anab is a Director at Superflux and founded the studio in 2009. Leading the Consultancy’s client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab’s self-initiated conceptual projects, she hopes to realize the studio’s vision as a new kind of design practice, responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. She has led interaction design projects for clients such as such as Microsoft Research, Sony, Nokia and the Prince’s Foundation. Originally from India and educated at the National Institute of Design, Anab gained her MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has been honored as a TED Fellow and has won awards from Apple Computers Inc., UNESCO and ICSID. She has presented her work at the MoMA New York, National Museum of China and London Design Festival, amongst others. She lectures at various design schools around the world and has presented at conferences such as LIFT, PICNIC, Playful, SIGGRAPH and FuturEverything.
» John Ardern, Jury Co-Captain
Director at Superflux
Jon is Director and Lead Creative Technologist at Superflux. He gained an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2006, with a distinction for his dissertation on ‘Emergence’ and its role in design. Jon leads the creative and technological development of projects at Superflux. In this role, he has worked with a diverse range of clients such as Sony, Snibbe Interactive, Demotix and the Government of UAE, whilst experimenting with new technologies such as augmented reality, prosthetic vision and synthetic biology in the studio’s Lab. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA New York and V&A London, and has won prizes from UNESCO and New York’s Social Design Network. He has lectured at the Architectural Association London, MAD Faculty Genk, Belgium and Kitchen Budapest Hungary.
SERVICE
Judging location: Milan, Italy
» Ezio Manzini, Jury Co-Captain
Coordinator at DESIS Network (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability)
For more than two decades, Ezio has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Most recently, his interests have focused on social innovation and he started, and coordinates DESIS, which is an international network on design for social innovation and sustainability.
Throughout his professional life, he has been at the Politecnico di Milano. Parallel to this, he collaborated with several international schools. Currently, he is Honorary Guest Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, Jiangnan University in Wuxi, COPPE-UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Professor at Parsons, the New School for Design in New York.
» Anna Meroni, Jury Co-Captain
Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano
Anna Meroni is an Architect with a Ph.D in Design. She is also the Coordinator of the POLIMI-DESIS Lab (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano. Assistant Professor in Service and Strategic Design at the School of Design, she is part of the board and faculty of the Master of Product Service System Design, Co-Director of the Master in Strategic Design and Director of the Master in Social and Collaborative Housing. In her role as a visiting professor in universities worldwide, she has more than a decade of experience as investigator in research projects. Her focus is design for sustainability, with emphasis on design activism for social innovation.
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
Judging location: Århus, Denmark
» Simon Kavanagh, Jury Captain
KP International Development & Education Design at Kaospilots
Born in Dublin, Simon Kavanagh received his B.A. in Art and Design Education (a joint degree which incorporates three years of Visual Communication) at 21. For the next six years, Simon worked as a Creative Director in an Irish Multimedia company, Interact. It was during these years that he designed, programmed or managed approximately 600 multimedia titles in the business, educational, IT, online-Gaming, leisure and banking sectors for such clients as Oracle, Microsoft, Chase, Reuters, Esat (02), and Masterfoods and set up divisions in NYC and Paris. He then became a consultant in R&D for Windmill Lane Studios in the areas of Interactive Television, Content Management systems and online gaming before moving to Paris to further his studies in digital media and art. He re-embarked on the educational path in Shanghai where he lectured a British degree in new media, design and culture for three years, until he sought and found the most experiential and leadership education in the world, Kaospilots. He continues to explore alternative approaches to education and pedagogy with the long term goal of transferring this knowledge back into art and design education.
STRATEGY & RESEARCH
Judging location: San Francisco, United States
» Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque, Jury Captain
Executive Creative Director at SYPartners
Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque is responsible for the originality and creativity of SYPartners’ work; setting the overall creative vision for the firm and leading her team of multidisciplinary designers to conceptualize and bring to life transformative strategies, stories and ideas. She also plays an active role in the work itself—helping the Gap reimagine its store environment and customer experience, assisting GE with cultivating a culture of innovation, and working with IBM to design the award-winning THINK exhibit. Susana is also a member of the board of directors on AIGA and was recognized by GDUSA as one of 25 “People to Watch in 2012.”
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Commissioned by the British Fashion Council, Manchester-based design studio Music has created the branding and creative for this week’s London Collections: Men, the biannual, week-long menswear showcase that has developed out of Men’s Day at London Fashion Week…
Music created the visual identity for London Collections: Men (LC:M) when the initiative launched last year and, as it did for last year’s inaugural event, it created all the advertising, event branding, printed materials and online concepts for this week’s LC:M activity.
The logo for LC:M takes the form of a hexagonal monogram that appeared this week on badges, wristbands, signage and all collateral.
The form of the LC:M monogram also informs the initiative’s current campaign photography created in collaboration with set builder Sarah Parker, still life photographer Sam Hofman and stylist Luke Day. The shots appear in the January edition of GQ magazine and also in this week’s LC:M program, designed by Music:
Of the shoot, Music’s Adam Rix says that the sculptures, designed as a subltle nod to the LC:M logo were “painstakingly built up, deconstructed and adjusted in-camera over several hours until the correct balance and composition was found.”
Boxes and frames are also evident in the editiorial design approach to the program…
…and yet more boxes and frames were utilised in the spaces where various designers were exhibiting in London’s Hospital Club during the event:
Music has worked with the British Fashion Council since being retained by the organisation in 2009. “A lot of credit has to go to BFC’s CEO, Caroline Rush,” adds Rix of the project. “It’s her vision and the value she and her team put on considered design and branding that makes the outcomes of our projects like this so rewarding.”
CR in Print
The January issue of Creative Review is all about the Money – well, almost. What do you earn? Is everyone else getting more? Do you charge enough for your work? How much would it cost to set up on your own? Is there a better way of getting paid? These and many more questions are addressed in January’s CR.
But if money’s not your thing, there’s plenty more in the issue: interviews with photographer Alexander James, designer Mirko Borsche and Professor Neville Brody. Plus, Rick Poynor on Anarchy magazine, the influence of the atomic age on comic books, Paul Belford’s art direction column, Daniel Benneworth-Gray’s This Designer’s Life column and Gordon Comstock on the collected memos, letters and assorted writings of legendary adman David Ogilvy.
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Industrial Designer
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Neihu District, Taiwan
ASUS is seeking an industrial designer who is extremely refined in aesthetics, both in mind and in hand, and skilled at hand sketching/prototyping, 2D & 3D modeling/rendering, and image post-production. The ideal candidate is empathetic to user values and needs, capable of working under high pressure, self-disciplined and well organized. The designer should be a team player who can build on each other’s ideas and is passionate to make a difference in a large corporation
Focus sur le concept store « Hit Gallery » situé à Hong Kong. En effet, le designer italien Fabio Novembre a pensé ce design incroyable avec une belle utilisation du bleu mais aussi du noir et blanc. Ce projet (première boutique en Asie d’Ittierre Spa) est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Royal College of Art student Gabriele Meldaikyte has designed a set of interactive exhibits for a museum of iPhone gestures (+ slideshow).
Above: tap gesture
“There are five multi-touch gestures forming the language we use between our fingers and iPhone screens,” says Meldaikyte. “This is the way we communicate, navigate and give commands to our iPhones.”
Above: scroll gesture
She used wood and acrylic to make five 3D objects that recreate the physical actions required to operate a touch-screen smartphone, using newspaper clippings, book pages and paper maps to represent the data being manipulated.
Above: pinch gesture
“I believe that in ten years or so these gestures will completely change, therefore my aim is to perpetuate them so they become accessible for future generations,” she explains.
Above: swipe gesture
The project was presented at the V&A museum during a Friday Late evening event at the end of November.
Above: flick gesture
Originally from Lithuania, Meldaikyte is currently studying on Platform 17 of MA Design Products at London’s Royal College of Art, tutored by Ian Ferguson and Martin Postler. She is due to graduate in June.
Other ways of operating a smartphone on Dezeen include Dominic Wilcox’s stylus that straps over his nose for using his iPhone phone in the bath.
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