Durant l’été dernier, le photographe français Karl Hab a eu l’occasion de survoler au-dessus de Los Angeles avec un très petit hélicoptère. Voici sa série « Los Angeles Helicopter Ride » capturant des moments rares de cette ville et de ce que vous ne pouvez pas voir depuis le sol. Plus de détails dans la suite de l’article
by Mya Stark Like a modern-day fashion Midas, everything Joseph Altuzarra touches seems to turn to sleekness and sophistication. He launched his eponymous luxury ready-to-wear brand, in 2008 when he was a mere slip of a…
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Although it launched nearly a year ago, I’m surprised that an app called How.Do didn’t turn up on our radar—after all, an app for making quick’n’dirty how-to tutorials is right up our alley. Thankfully, co-founder Emma Rose Metcalfe reached out to us on the occasion of the launch of How.Do Two.Oh (Version 2.0, that is), which was released yesterday on the occasion of iOS7 and the World Maker Faire this weekend. (Supported by venture capital, her fellow co-founders Nils Westerlund and Edward Jewson round out the Berlin-based team.)
Viewable both through the free app and online, the Micro Guides are concise user-generated slideshows with audio, an ideal format for step-by-step tutorials and on-the-go reference guides. Insofar as the app hits a sweet spot in the maker/fixer/lifehacking movement, the How.Do team will be reporting from World Maker Faire tomorrow and Sunday, offering a unique window into the festivities at the New York Hall of Science—follow them on Twitter @HowDo_ to get the scoop!
As busy as they are this weekend, Metcalfe took a few moments to share her thoughts at this exciting time for the growing company.
Core77: What inspired you to create How.Do in the first place?
Emma Rose Metcalfe: How.Do is the intersection of my MFA research in sharing and distributing meaningful experiences and Nils’ interest in the challenges of scaling projects for large communities. He had left SoundCloud to finish his studies at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship where the two of us met. Long story short, we came home from a design bootcamp in India wanting work on something together. We shared the belief that knowledge is deeply personal. The space created between the emotional power of sound and the fantasy of image is incredibly profound—we wanted to harness that to make sharing and learning feel good.
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London Design Festival 2013: Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka has developed a range of resin and wood furniture for Established & Sons.
Jo Nagasaka of Tokyo practice Schemata Architecture Office peels away parts of the surface of Douglas fir boards to expose the grain, before encasing the wood in brightly coloured epoxy resin. The addition of the resin transforms the uneven texture of the wood into a smooth and practical surface, while variations in the depth of the peeled wood affect the intensity of the resin’s colour.
The new coffee table, side table, credenza and chair combine the resin-covered wood with simple geometric frames to create updated variations on a project that Nagasaka presented at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2011.
The furniture is on show at Established & Sons‘ north London showroom as part of the London Design Festival, alongside an installation of pulsing fluorescent lights controlled by analogue switches by Faye Toogood. See all of our stories about Established & Sons »
Amsterdam designer Roel Huisman is also showing a desk made from resin with a lamp and vase embedded in its surface during LDF, while Tord Boontje has created a series of resin surfaces covered in patterns created using magnetism.
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There are a lot of award shows in advertising, and it’s easy to feel fatigued. But before you turn away, the Tomorrow Awards actually offer something different from the usual awards fest, by showcasing work that is genuinely pushing the boundaries of the industry.
The Tomorrow Awards were launched in 2010 by Ignacio Oreamuno, executive director of the Art Directors Club and IHAVEANIDEA, with the intention of celebrating work that gives an indication of “where things are going” in advertising. There are no categories, the judges are simply looking for the most innovative projects each year.
Five projects have been awarded this year, by a panel of judges including Fernando Romano (CCO and partner at Naked Brazil), Sune Kaae (senior technology director at R/GA), Sophia Bendz (global director of marketing at Spotify), Joel Lunenfeld (VP of global brand strategy at Twitter), and Amani Duncan (VP, brand marketing at CF Martin and Co). Below are details of the five winners.
Omote 3D is “the world’s first 3D portrait studio”, created by Party in Japan. A pop-up shop in Tokyo was open for two months and visitors to the store, which included Pharrell Williams and JJ Abrams, could call by and get 3D figurine portraits made. More info on the project is here.
Cinder, created by the Barbarian Group in New York, is an open source C++ library for creative coding. It has already been used to create large-scale interactive installations, intricate data visualisations and mobile apps. More info is here.
The Empty Shop was created by Loducca in Brazil as an unusual means of collecting charity donations. Visitors were invited to bring clothes to the store, which was then emptied each night. By the end of the drive, 3.2 tons of clothes had been collected. More info is here.
The Swebus Train Switch, created by Åkestam Holst in Sweden, gave discounted tickets on Swebus buses when trains, the company’s main competition, were late to the station. Each delayed minute equalled one per cent discount, and if a train was cancelled, the bus ticket was free. The campaign ran through winter 2012. More info here.
The Natalia Project by RBK Communication in Sweden uses social media in an innovative way to draw attention to human rights abuses. More info on the project is here.
ADC in New York will be hosting an event, ‘Art & Tech – Welcome to Tomorrow’, tied into the Tomorrow Awards on October 10.
Ben Johnson a crée un mur en typographie pour Project:Rhino, un espace de co-working dans le centre de Toronto. La vidéo en noir et blanc réalisée par Asterisk Media montre l’artiste en plein processus créatif, du croquis à la réalisation de la fresque à la peinture et au marqueur. Un très beau projet en images et en vidéo.
I’m sure you’ve heard the adage “opposites attract.” In my experience with home organizing, I’ve found that opposites do attract more often than not. One person is usually a neatnik — thrilled by clear surfaces and closet organization. The other is a pack rat — inspired by the endless potential of stuff, glorious stuff! When these two extremes live together, sooner or later, conflicts arise. How can you make it work? Surprisingly, it has very little to do with the stuff itself and a lot to do with mindset.
The first trick is to realize that neatniks and pack rats are two completely different species, so to make living together harmonious, you need to think about habitats. A bird and a fish may be able to live comfortably in the same house, but not in the same container. Put the bird in the bowl and she’ll drown. Put the fish in the cage and she’ll asphxiate. To make it work, both parties must agree on a standard for common areas and carve out a place where one can sing and the other can swim.
THIS ROOM IS FOR WATCHING TV, READING, AND PLAYING GAMES
Anything not used for these purposes must stay away!
No matter how successful you are at establishing shared and separate zones, you are still likely to run into differences of opinion about both. Before becoming combative over any stuff-related arguments, remember why you are together — love, money, you lost the key to the handcuffs, whatever. The point is, there is a reason you are living together. Remembering that reason may help you calm down when you are feeling frustrated. Try the practice of gratitude, in which you intentionally focus on the blessings in your life, no matter how small. This makes less room in your head and heart for the negative voices and can improve your patience and sense of well-being. When you are in a good place, you are less likely to say snarky things that will get the other person’s defenses up. Let me assure you, once the defenses are up, change is just not going to happen.
Lastly, consider the fact that objects are like ink blots. Rarely do two people see the same thing and what they do see depends largely on past experiences and perspective. The overflow of crafting supplies looks like crazy-making chaos to one person, but is a beautiful harmony of endless potential to another. The clear counter-tops that make one partner hum with contentment remind the other of a sterile hospital stay when no one came to visit. So you must be patient with each other. Say what you see and ask the other person to do the same. Try to see the space through each other’s eyes, and, please, keep your sense of humor. If you need an outside perspective, ask a neutral third party or hire a home organizer or other professional to be your mediator.
With large doses of patience and humor, you will be able to see the other’s sleek scales or resplendent plumage and recognize how truly glorious our differences make us.
It is important to note that if the health and safety of household members is compromised by behavior at either end of the spectrum, the above strategies are not enough. Please consult a professional with licensed credentials in these extreme circumstances.
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With its fresh Project Projects-designed identity and website in place, the RISD Museum (formerly known as The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design) is getting hands-on with publications. Yesterday’s “Design the Night” event in Providence celebrated the launch of Manual: a journal about art and its making.
The academic arts journal-meets-design magazine, helmed by editor-in-chief Sarah Ganz Blythe with S. Hollis Mickey, will be published each fall and spring, using the museum’s collections, exhibitions, and collaborations as an impetus for essays and interviews, artist interventions, and archive highlights.
The inaugural “Hand in Hand”-themed issue (pictured) draws upon the expression first recorded in the 16th century, and includes cartoonist James McShane on the intaglio printing process, curator Elizabeth Williams‘ peek into the museum’s archive to reveal the production designs of Gorham Manufacturing Company, and curator Kate Irvin‘s exploration of Bauhaus artist Gunta Stölzl‘s proposal for a double-weave textile.
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by Davis Adams In light of the launch of its new 4 Series coupe, BMW invited CH to the Pacific Northwest to spend some time with what will surely…
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Sam Songailo a imaginé cet espace incroyable à la galerie Fontanelle à Adelaide en Australie. Une installation étonante, s’inspirant avec talent l’imaginaire du jardin zen en y ajoutant des éléments visuels dynamiques. Le projet « Zen Garden » est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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