Focus sur le directeur artistique italien Federico Mauro qui présente son dernier projet personnel : une série d’illustrations représentant des gens célèbres au travers de leur simple paire de lunettes. Une création divertissante à découvrir sur son portfolio et en images dans la suite de l’article
Tomorrow is the big day for cycling fans the world over: in just over 12 hours, nearly 200 of the top cyclists in the world will embark on the first stage of the 100th Tour de France, which will start for the first time in Corsica (in fact, this will be the first time the Tour has visited the Mediterranean island.) The riders will log some 2,100 miles over the next three weeks as they travel throughout the scenic French countryside, including a double ascent of the iconic Alp d’Huez (perhaps to compensate for its omission from last year’s route); I recommend the New York Times‘ race preview and Peloton‘s “Tour by the Numbers.”
With Tour footage is always a quick YouTube query away and the Bicycle Film Festival underway in New York this weekend, here are a few related vids to psych you up not only for the centennial Tour but just, you know, riding a bicycle in general. First up, via Coolhunting, is a timely short film about Rapha Condor JLT team, providing an “intimate portrait of veteran rider and team leader Kristian House and up-and-comer Felix English.”
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Le Festival Myprovence est un concours de création organisé chaque année par Bouches-du-Rhône Tourisme. Photo ou création graphique, tous ceux qui le souhaitaient ont proposé leurs créations sur le thème « bain de foule ». Guillaume Martial, Benoit Paillé et Alexandre Ciancio ont décroché les premiers prix.
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As we saw in yesterday’s Humans Are Awesome video, the human body is capable of some incredible stuff. But it’s weird to think of how even the mundane activities we perform are quite biomechanically sophisticated. Running sideways with a football and throwing it to your buddy who is sprinting in a different direction, riding a bicycle, or even the mere act of getting in and out of a vehicle require myriad instantaneous microcalculations that prove how in control of our bodies we are.
Humanoid robots, on the other hand, are not. But DARPA still feels the humanoid form factor has some merit for robots, at least those designed to work in disaster areas. While attaching a fire hose to a water source, for instance, hands with fingers come in handy, as do legs you can use to step over and around the hose as you do it. And if you’re going to send ‘bots into the Fukushima reactor to shut it down, it’s best if the can manipulate equipment designed to be worked on by human-shaped bodies. So the DARPA Robotics Challenge asked entrants to propose how humanoid robots can realistically complete simple tasks.
You’ll realize what a daunting task this is when you see this very weird footage of a robot trying to get into a car. Look how long it takes this robot known as Atlas:
Not weird enough for you? Here’s some alternative methods (and in the third, it almost looks like the robot is flipping off the camera):
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News: leading Italian furniture brand Driade has been rescued from bankruptcy by a private finance company.
Driade, which has worked with designers including Philippe Starck, Fabio Novembre and Ross Lovegrove, collapsed last year with debts of €1.7 million and closed its prestigious showroom on Via Manzoni in Milan.
This week investment company Italian Creation Group injected €7 million to rebuild the company, taking 80% of the firm’s equity in the process, according to Milano Finanza.
The group, headed by high-profile businessmen John Perissinotto and Stefano Core, now plans to relaunch the brand.
Driade was founded in 1968 by Enrico Astori and was for a long time one of the most glamorous and adventurous of the Italy’s design-led brands, producing furniture, lighting and homewares.
The company, based in Fossadello near Piacenza, produced iconic pieces including Starck’s three-legged Costes cafe chair (1984) and Tokujin Yoshioka’s monobloc Tokyo-Pop collection (2001).
Core has now become president of Driade while Astori has been named honorary president. His daughter, Elisa Astori, is now creative director.
The rescue comes at a torrid time for the Italian design industry, with many of its small, family-owned companies struggling to stay afloat. After borrowing heavily during the boom years, many of them are seeing sales collapse in the key Italian home market.
In an interview with Dezeen last month Claudio Luti, founder of design brand Kartell, said many Italian firms made a “big, big mistake” by failing to focus on export markets or raise sufficient capital to expand.
“They have perhaps invested too much in innovation and not enough in things like international marketing,” said Luti, who is also president of Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair. “In the past, the companies were profitable, and it was enough to sell to markets close to Milan. But it was a mistake.”
He added: “Also in Italy you have to realise that the policy was not to push capitalism. It was all about small family companies. They didn’t raise capital or list of the stock exchange. There was not this push. On the contrary, it was about staying small. It was a big, big mistake.”
Earlier this month Kartell announced plans to open 50 new stores in China.
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