On paper, self-taught jewelry designer Guiliano Capogrossi Colognesi has all it takes for his company, Disegno Gioia, to be successful. He presents beautiful and creative design concepts and has a working website on which to showcase them, but the products—with price tags of anywhere from $100,000 to $25 million—won’t…
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OMA has revealed designs for a department store in Kuwait City that draws inspiration from the galleries of a traditional Arab market.
The Exhibition Hall project, led by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Iyad Alsaka, proposes a three-storey shopping centre inside the existing 360° Mall and will include a public events space as well as shops.
Retail galleries will be laid out in long passages like a historic souk and will be divided using partitions with circular cut-outs.
Each floor will be naturally lit and the entire store will feature a translucent facade.
Construction is set to begin in 2014, with completion scheduled for later the same year.
Foster + Partners worked on a similar concept for The Souk shopping centre in Abu Dhabi, which combines high-end boutiques with independent local food and craft markets.
OMA also previously developed a masterplan for a new mixed-use quarter in Kuwait City. Other projects in the Middle East were outlined by Iyad Alsaka in an interview we filmed at the studio’s exhibition at the Barbican in London. See more recent projects by OMA, including plans for a new skyscraper in Shenzhen.
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Here’s the full statement from OMA:
The Exhibition Hall, a new retail concept in Kuwait, by OMA
OMA is designing a new department store concept in Kuwait City. The Exhibition Hall, in the popular 360° Mall, will showcase the creativity of the region alongside international fashion brands through a flexible curated retail space, featuring cultural programs, exhibitions and installations. The project is led by OMA partners Iyad Alsaka and Rem Koolhaas, in partnership with Tamdeen Real Estate Co.
Above: floor plans – click above for larger image
The Exhibition Hall, as both department store and public event space, aims to re-establish the historic Kuwaiti connection between culture and commerce to form a contemporary public forum for the city. Comprising 9,400m2 over three floors, the Exhibition Hall will be suffused with natural light during the day, and present a glowing aspect to the street at night through a new translucent façade.
A series of galleries – reminiscent of the long passages of the Souk – will introduce a space which brands can develop as they wish. Multifunctional partition walls with circular cut outs will accommodate transversal access and offer exciting shifting views. Within this polymorphous environment customers will discover curated galleries devoted to cultural events.
Above: concept section
The Exhibition Hall continues OMA longstanding interest in inventing new possibilities for retail spaces, which includes the Prada Epicentres in New York and Los Angeles, department store boutique designs for Viktor & Rolf and Coach, and an exhibition on the history of Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
The project is developed with Kuwait’s 360° Mall management, Majed Al-Sabah and Giacomo Santucci, and overseen by OMA project architect Alessandro De Santis. Construction is scheduled for the beginning of 2014 and will be completed within the same year.
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As our society seems to grow more tech-enhanced by the minute, so too are we burdened with more gadgets that represent extensions of our bodies (not to mention a host of newfangled gestures and body language). Citing water and impact as the major weaknesses of electronic devices, Luke Mastrangelo recently designed a backpack that offers protection from both, based on a distinctive form factor that follows from its polycarbonate skeleton. “What we carry, why we carry and how we carry has changed dramatically. Prism is a personal project, reflecting on this notion; seeking to answer both a digital and analog challenge.”
The 1000D cordura nylon and embedded solar panels aren’t breakthroughs by any means, but combined with the internal polycarbonate frame and thoughtful details, the Prism represents a nicely executed personal project, largely unconstrained by manufacturing considerations. Regarding the construction, Mastrangelo told us
The polycarbonate frame was CNC cut out of a sheet of 1/4″ thick Lexan, and bent into shape on a cold-steel bender. It’s entirely removable, which was a manufacturing decision to simplify the sewing process. Basically the fabric skin is stretched taught over the frame, and then zipped up around it, which keeps the whole system in tension, providing a tesseract of sorts for your laptop/tablet on the inside (think old school egg-drop style). The backpack is 100% functional, the lights, solar charger, rain-proofing, etc.
As we saw with Crumpler’s laptop bag, the laptop compartment can be accessed from the side for the sake of expediency.
Martin De Thurah a réalisé le clip du morceau « Retrograde » de James Blake, single extrait du nouvel album Overgrown qui sortira le 8 avril. Visuellement très réussie, la vidéo colle parfaitement à la musique et permet de faire rentrer le spectateur dans une ambiance mystérieuse teintée de science-fiction. Plus dans la suite.
Rare is the design angle on a presidential address, but last night’s State of the Union included a shout-out to 3D prototyping. Early in the speech President Obama highlighted recent gains in domestic manufacturing jobs–more than 500,000 have been added in the past three years–offering examples of in-sourcing in progress at Caterpillar, Ford, and a little company in Cupertino. “This year, Apple will start making Macs in America again,” he said [cut to shot of a grinning Tim Cook] before turning to his administration’s manufacturing preservation initiative:
Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There’s no reason this can’t happen in other towns. So tonight, I’m announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Departments of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. And I ask this Congress to help create a network of 15 of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is made right here in America. We can get that done.
To which approximately half of the audience responded, “Yes we can!”
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Richard Woods and Sebastian Wrong have created a collection of chairs that wouldn’t seem out of place in a cartoon.
Woods‘ signature bold patterns representing wooden planks are printed onto every surface of the wooden seats, with a black line along every edge to create the effect of an illustration.
All four chairs are the same simple shape, but each is a unique colour and has a slightly different pattern.
The furniture is on display at Gallerie VIVID in Rotterdam until 17 March 2013.
Sebastian Wrong made the news last year when he resigned from his post as design director at Established & Sons.
Our recent stories about chairs include bent wood seats that look like they’re wearing capes and one inspired by cooked spaghetti. See all our stories about chair design »
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Per il Baltimore Love Project troverete sui muri della città americana questi dipinti di mani che formano la parola LOVE. Il concept era stato pensato dall’artista Michael Owen nel 2008 e riproposto in questi giorni.
Direttamente dalle isole di Cipro, sale da cucina in packaging hipster.
Design agency Construct has created the brand identity, logotype, packaging, website and art direction for new ‘juice cleansing’ company, Radiance…
When we first clapped eyes on the smart looking bottles and the branding, we weren’t sure whether we were looking at products you should drink or wash with. However, a visit to the Radiance website explains all: it turns out that Radiance juices have been formulated to be drunk and cleanse – but on the inside.
The idea is that you buy a one, three or five day course of organic, cold-pressed raw juices (with the lids of each bottle numbered to guide you through the course) that help you “detox, energise and manage weight naturally”.
See more of Construct’s work at constructlondon.com.
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The February issue of CR magazine features a major interview with graphic designer Ken Garland. Plus, we delve into the Heineken advertising archive, profile digital art and generative design studio Field, talk to APFEL and Linder about their collaboration on a major exhibition in Paris for the punk artist, and debate the merits of stock images versus commissioned photography. Plus, a major new book on women in graphic design, the University of California logo row and what it means for design, Paul Belford on a classic Chivas Regal ad and Jeremy Leslie on the latest trends in app design for magazines and more. Buy your copy here.
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