Recently launched with the mission to produce beautiful, simple objects for everyday use, General Manufacturing Concern is the latest project by former Best Made Co. designer Hunter Criaghill. The…
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Les équipes australiennes de Lyons Architects ont imaginé LIMS Complex, un projet estimé à 100 millions de dollars pour La Trobe University. Une architecture voulant rappeler les structures moléculaires pour correspondre aux activités scientifiques pratiquées dans le bâtiment, à découvrir dans la suite.
To celebrate our 15th birthday, Nucleo has created a special gift to share with all.Nucleo has made an affordable version of the latest project Histog..
Avec cette série « Fatescapes », le photographe Pavel Maria Smejkal enlève les protagonistes à l’origine au centre de clichés mondialement connus, témoignages de différents conflits. Le résultat offre des paysages vides, mais avec des lieux rempli de mémoire. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: recent design graduate Leanie van der Vyver speaks to us about her project Scary Beautiful, a pair of extreme, back-to-front high heels, which she presented at Design Indaba in Cape Town.
Van der Vyver, who comes from Cape Town originally, explains the concept behind the shoes, which she developed as part of her graduation project while at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. “In my thesis I wrote about how humans are constantly trying to reach perfection and the different ways that we practice control over our bodies,” she says. “I looked at what the high heel is traditionally doing and I pushed it over to see where sexy ends and grotesque begins.”
The project drew gasps and laughs from the Design Indaba audience in equal measure when van der Vyver showed video footage of a model walking in the shoes as part of her PechaKucha talk. She explains that the contorting effect they have on the wearer was a key part of the project.
“The effect of the shoe became more important than the shoe, so the shoe became a kind of accessory to the posture,” she says. “What was interesting was that it became an amplification of what the high heel does. So if the girl’s butt is slightly pushed out [when wearing high heels], in these ones she’s almost raring to go, with her butt lewdly sticking out and her legs animalistically flexed.”
Scary Beautiful followed on from an earlier project of van der Vyver’s, a pair of trainers designed to “inflict a gangster swagger” on the wearer (below). It was this project, she says, that made her realise that “you can actually do a lot more with fashion in terms of it altering the body and its performance.”
But while neither project is a serious proposal for new footwear, van der Vyver was surprised by the response Scary Beautiful received from the fashion industry. “People reacted in a positive way from the fashion side of things, they were very excited about it,” she says. “But the general public, not so much.” Read more about Scary Beautiful in our earlier story about the project.
This movie features a MINI Cooper S Countryman.
The music featured is by South African artist Floyd Lavine, who performed as part of the Design Indaba Music Circuit. You can listen to Lavine’s music on Dezeen Music Project.
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Pour son 15ème anniversaire, le studio de design turinois Nucleo a décidé de présenter une version d’une de ses oeuvres « The Histogram Table » en utilisant plus de 3 000 réelles briques de Lego à monter en suivant un manuel de 893 pages. Plus d’images de ce projet dans la suite de l’article.
Fact 1 – TouchOfModern is doing two exclusive Giveaways on Yanko Design, one today and the other tomorrow.
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Where do you use your laptop? Chances are… everywhere! Here’s an all-in-one solution for comfy working no matter where you are. The modular, foldable desk has storage for your device and quickly transforms to accommodate your position whether you’re in bed, on the floor, or at your desk. In a variety of colors, the elegant polypropylene and plywood design also makes it a stylish tote for your mobile workstation.
Designer: Thibaut Rouganne
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Designer Ramazan Kaya’s latest yacht concept exudes style, luxury and comfortable recreation, taking design cues from a car brand known for its subtle sophistication and technological innovation. The Audi yacht maintains a handsomely sculpted body, symmetry and minimal detail, but it’s the signature silver and racing red accents that hint to its S-line inspiration.
Designer: Ramazan Kaya
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The Nebula table is created from a combination of polygons that play with the viewer’s perspective, making the facade an interactive sculpture of sorts. Depending on the angle from which it is viewed, the glossy black surface also gives a subtle, clouded reflection of surrounding colors that resembles an interstellar cloud. Composed of fiberglass, it’s a sexy accessory inside or out.
Designer: Yovo Bozhinovski
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