Electro Kicks

Designed for bicyclists and joggers, Adam Nagy’s Lacoste Laser Cruiser shoe features electroluminescent fabric that not only gives the shoe head-turning style, but an added layer of defense and safety. Much brighter and longer lasting than glow-in-the-dark plastic, the EL fabric can be activated and deactivated by the wearer so they are glowing only when they want to be seen. Simply hold the heels together for a few seconds and BAM- Tron lighting at your feet!

Designer: Ádám Nagy


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Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

London Design Festival 2013: new studio Brose~Fogale has launched a valet stand, dresser and set of mirrors, which were installed in an east London boutique last week (+ slideshow).

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

Brose~Fogale‘s Camerino Collection includes a valet stand that balances on a horizontal bar and props up against the wall.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

Clothing can hang from poles that stick out from the central stem.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

It also has two shelves for shoes or accessories in front and a circular mirror to one side near the top.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

The dresser has legs at each end that match a circular copper-tinted mirror, which sits atop a third stand protruding through the surface of the table.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

The mirror is also available in a hand-held version, shaped like a table tennis bat with a wooden handle, or as a tabletop model with a small tray at its base.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

Separate trays for loose change and other small objects also feature in the range, as well as angled coat pegs with rounded ends.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

All are available in natural wood or painted in bright colours.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

Brose~Fogale launched the collection during this year’s London Design Festival following a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

For the festival the studio installed its range in Shoreditch boutique Start London, with furniture placed in the window and around the store.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

Aiming to emulate an artist’s dressing room, the pieces were populated with Start’s garments and accessories.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

Other product collections launched during London Design Festival include Noble & Wood’s debut collection of crafted furniture, plus concave bookcases and chairs with hotdog-shaped legs by Joined + Jointed.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

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The Artist’s Dressing Room

Start London joins forces with up and coming design studio, Brose~Fogale to celebrate the London Design Festival 2013.

Brose~Fogale, a partnership between designers Matteo Fogale and Joscha Brose will take over Start’s store windows from 14 to 22 September, showcasing their new Camerino Collection and reinterpreting the idea of an artist’s dressing room with their modern, contemporary furniture.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

The installation is titled “The Artist’s Dressing Room”, which translates to Camerino in Spanish and Italian. Kate Moss before a fashion show, Marilyn Monroe preparing for her next hollywood shoot – the name instantly evokes images of glamour and excitement. It is this special place, and the five minutes before the curtain gets lifted that are magical, full of concentration, excitement and glamour.

Camerino Collection by Brose~Fogale

Brose~Fogale, through their inspiring and original display will be recreating this scene in the Start Womenswear boutique located at 42 – 44 Rivington Street, and allowing the public to catch a glimpse of this intimate and never before seen moment.

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Heidi Bucher’s Mummified Homes: The Swiss artist’s laborious and poignant look at shedding skin and memories

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In 1993 Swiss artist Heidi Bucher passed away at 67 years old, leaving behind a portfolio of thoughtfully executed work. Bucher began making rubber latex casts over parts of houses comprising her life back in the…

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German Ghost Cars from the Future, by Kat Bauman

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Reporting by Kat Bauman

This season, Germany is for car lovers. Last week’s Frankfurt Auto Show saw the debut of a slew of new cars—some slated for production, some beautiful, high-functioning pipe dreams. Audi, a fatherland favorite, unveiled several new models, including an A3 E-tron plug-in hybrid, coming soon to an America near you, and a sick 700hp Sport Quattro Concept (above), coming someday to… something, maybe.

A few days later, Audi pulled the curtain off another new but utterly functionless car. As people milled about the vehicle-stacked white spaces of Munich’s Die Neue Sammlung International Design Museum, I squinted at a shining wall studded with 1,800 miniature aluminum rally cars and begrudgingly considered the intersection of cars and art.
Another unambiguously car-shaped object, full-sized and covered by a dramatic white dropcloth, hovered high on the wall. The shrouded figure was the focal point of the evening and of the museum’s new permanent exhibit on vehicle design, the spooky centerpiece of the new “Audi Design Wall.” Its unveiling marked a re-opening of the museum, now a century old and home to seven collections of rare and groundbreaking objects in design. And so, between fiddling with the headphones for real-time English or Chinese translation (hey, growing markets, how ya doin’?) and eating small geometric foods off small geometric plates, we were treated to a little piece of engineered engineering history.

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Dedications were made by Audi lead designer Wolfgang Egger, Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, a technical development board member at Audi, and Dr. Florian Hufnagl, director of The Pinakothek Der Moderne (the design museum’s parent institution). Each mentioned the company’s design-minded history, the link between history and future. The spectacle was consummated as all three pressed an Audi-logoed white button, dropping the veil to reveal the star of the Audi Design Wall: a totally unexpected white dummy version of the new Sport Quattro Concept. Shocking? No. Thrilling. Slightly. Art? Maybe it was something in the geometric food, but I was potentially open to that interpretation.

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Something new, something old. Something silver, something matte white to symbolize open-ended future creative development.

This institutional partnership particularly makes sense if you’re familiar with Audi’s history. As the story goes, the spark for Audi began in 1899, founded by August Horch, an engineer who quit working for Karl Benz (yes, that Benz), and then his own eponymous company, to pursue greater creative freedom and technical advancement. As in most German industries, war and a fluctuating market wreaked havoc with both the innovation and the ownership of the company, but Audi was one that survived. By the early 1930s, it was one of four companies sublimated into the massive Auto Union brand, along with Wanderer, DKW and Horsh.

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Lukas Farlan Photography

Le photographe Lukas Farlan nous propose des clichés d’une beauté incroyable. Particulièrement doué pour immortaliser des paysages, l’artiste vivant en Italie parvient avec des séries d’images prises dans les Alpes à capter notre attention et nous faire instantanément voyager. A découvrir dans la suite.

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City Guides Spotlight: Los Angeles: Tips for getting lost in a city that has it all

City Guides Spotlight: Los Angeles


Sponsored content: The city of Los Angeles—which sits in sunny SoCal as one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world—is known for going big in just about every way. For all of…

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London cable car passenger numbers fall by half

News: the number of people riding the Wilkinson Eyre-designed Emirates Air Line has dropped by half since last year, fuelling criticism that the project is not fulfilling its intended role as a key part of London’s transportation infrastructure.

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According to Transport for London, passenger numbers on the Emirates Air Line for the week ending 21 September 2013 were 25,046, compared with 47,604 for the week ending 22 September 2012.

The figures are the first to give an accurate indication of the cable car’s popularity one year on from its launch, discounting the inflated numbers that resulted from last summer’s London Olympics when weekly passengers reached over 180,000.

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The cable car, which links the O2 arena at Greenwich Peninsula with the ExCeL centre at the Royal Docks, was described before its launch in June 2010 as “a unique and exciting new addition to London’s transport network,” by Transport for London commissioner Sir Peter Hendy.

However, the ridership statistics suggest that it has not been embraced by commuters and remains well short of its capacity to transport 2,500 people an hour in each direction. Critics of the £60 million project have pointed out that the cable car’s current route can be made using London Underground’s Jubilee line in two minutes for half the price.

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Sir Peter Hendy has admitted he is unhappy with the numbers, pointing out that “passenger journeys for periods 3, 4 and 5 were 4 per cent down against budget.”

Commenting on the possible future of the cable car, leader of the Liberal Democrats at the London Assembly Caroline Pidgeon said: “If the cable car is to have any success in the long term it should either be run and operated as a privately run tourist attraction, or instead operated as an integral form of public transport, where people with a travelcard or a relevant pass can use it for free.”

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Route of the Emirates Air Line

Measures are being taken to address the poor ridership, including selling advance tickets online and partnering with the O2 arena to offer combination tickets that include different attractions.

Other projects by Wilkinson Eyre Architects on Dezeen include an elliptical timber-clad museum for a Tudor warship on England’s south coast, and last year’s World Building of the Year – Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. See more Wilkinson Eyre Architects »

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Thinking about buy-and-return habits

You go shopping, buy a bunch of things, and bring them home. Later on, you decide to return a number of items. That’s a great way to unclutter, right?

Well, sometimes — and sort of.

Certainly, you’ll want to return anything that’s defective. I bought some shoes online earlier this year and they looked exactly like what I wanted. But when they arrived, I found out they squeaked when I walked. Fortunately, I had bought them from a site that makes returns very easy.

On the other end of the spectrum, some returns are questionable, even if stores accept those types of returns. I don’t think it’s okay to buy a dress, wear it to a special event, and then return it. Nor do I think it’s okay to buy a nice TV right before the Super Bowl and then return it after watching the game. Some stores are fighting back against this practice, as The Cut reports:

Bloomingdale’s has had enough. … So they’re attaching three-inch black-plastic tags to visible places on clothing, like the front bottom hemline. … The new devices on Bloomingdale’s clothing are unhidable; once removed, they cannot be reattached. No more wearing and returning, unless you decide to pretend “visible tags” are a new trend.

But many other return situations are less straightforward. I’d never really thought about the problems returns can cause until I read a discussion on Ask Metafilter, where a number of members who worked in retail shared what goes on behind the scenes. Here are just two of the many perspectives:

I can talk about retail for clothing, two industries I worked retail in. For clothing, if the garment was still selling at full price, and showed no signs of wear, we would re-tag and sell it again at full price. If it were no longer selling at full price, we would re-tag and sell it at the current sale price. If it did show signs of wear but we were obliged by policy to accept it, we’d deeply discount it, donate it or just throw it in the trash.

I can tell you from my experience in working at Restoration Hardware and at a few convenience stores/pharmacies: a good portion of stuff is thrown out. Everything that is possible to put back on the shelf is (unopened, like-new packages, unworn clothing, unused cushions and the like) and all products that can be returned to the manufacturer are. This is, at least at those stores, maybe 40% of returns. Everything else is logged and thrown away. We are trying to find more avenues to donate returned items, but most items that are returned are thought of as liabilities. … If you’ve tried on headphones, they were chucked. I mean, would you want to buy something that someone else had put in their ears?

Another thing I just learned is that a number of retailers are using a program called The Retail Equation aimed at helping to eliminate return fraud and to control what the company calls returnaholics. Some of these returnaholics may have a problem with compulsive shopping and need help in fighting that condition.

But most of us can be more thoughtful about our initial purchasing behaviors. If we don’t buy things we don’t need we won’t have to return those things we later don’t want, irrespective of the reason. Additionally, do we have valid reasons for the returns we do wish to make? Or, are we needlessly creating more work for the stores, and causing good merchandise to wind up in the trash? Would donating the item to a charity that needs that item be a better way of handling the unwanted merchandise?

Of course, if you need to return defective merchandise, you’ll want to be very aware of the store’s return policy. I overlooked this recently, and bought some non-returnable “fits all sizes” socks, which didn’t come close to fitting me. I wound up donating them to charity. When making purchases, you’ll want to check for:

  • Whether the item is returnable at all.
  • How long you have to make the return.
  • If a receipt is required.
  • Whether you’ll get cash or a store credit.
  • If there’s a restocking fee.

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Our Annual Back-to-the-Workshop Deal – 5 Days Only – American-Made Combo of Apron + Safety Glasses for $19

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Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply store puts this deal together once a year so come grab the workshop necessities while saving the big bucks. This pair of items typically goes for $40 but is over half off until the end of the month—that’s in 5 days!

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Oberon Safety Glasses in Your Choice of Three Colors
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Dezeen Mail #171

Dezeen Mail #171

Kanye West’s move into architecture and Zaha Hadid’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery (pictured) feature in the latest issue of our Dezeen Mail weekly newsletter, along with news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.

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