“Shooting film is a little bit more exciting. It’s more precious, and it’s more technical. You take it out and even the assistant is proud. Everything seems to be more electric. With digital you shoot and shoot, and it doesn’t cost anything. The moment is not as precious.”
Titan is a lightweight pocket watch from the Hong Kong-based watch brand. The detachable black metal chain strap enables the timepiece to be worn as a pocket watch or as a pendant.
As with previous Ziiiro watches, the Titan dispenses with conventional time-telling techniques, replacing numbers with an LCD display. The face includes an outer ring which is divided into 12 segments, representing hours elapsed. The inner ring is divided into 60, each representing a minute. The inner graphic changes orientation from am to pm.
Although inspired by a classic style, the Titan continues to explore the Ziiiro approach: zero buttons, zero loose parts and zero numbers.
The 48 milimetres case is made from anodised aluminium and is available in five colours: cherry, black, azure, chrome and purple.
Two initials are merged so each be read from different angles in this 3D-printed metal jewellery (+slideshow).
Design agency Ultravirgo‘s Mymo service creates 3D monograms by digitally combining any two letters or numbers. “From the front, you see one character,” said the designers. “From the side, you see the other.” The monograms can be 3D-printed as small charms by New York company Shapeways.
Traditionally embroidered on clothing, a monogram is a 2D graphic combining two or more letters to form a logo. Mymo transforms these motifs into a 3D form, to be printed in stainless steel, silver or ceramic.
The steel and ceramic pieces are printed by gluing layers of the powdered materials on top of each other, while the silver designs are cast in a 3D-printed wax mould.
The pendants can be worn as a necklace, linked to a keychain or displayed as an ornament. The Mymo typeface was designed by Ultravirgo founder Patrick Durgin-Bruce.
Here is some more information from the designer:
Mymo reinvents the monogram with 3D-printed typography
Introducing Mymo. A modern, clever monogram that combines any two letters or numbers into a custom typographic sculpture for necklaces, keychains, and ornaments (to start). From the front, you see one character. From the side, you see the other.
Monograms used to be a badge of honor, embroidered on work shirts, towels, and stationery. But with their florid Victorian style and the move to mass production, they were left behind as an ephemeral fashion trend. But we love the concept of letters that carry personal meaning, so we’ve re-invented them.
Twitter may allow 140 characters, but a Mymo makes a statement with just two. We challenge people to decide what two letters or numbers best represent them. Initials? Kids’ initials? The dogs’? Age? Football jersey number? Birthday date? They make the perfect gift for weddings, graduations, housewarmings, holidays, wedding attendant gifts, new babies, mothers, fathers, and just because – allowing anyone to give a gift with personal meaning without needing to know too much about the recipient.
Mymo uses Shapeways to 3D print each item individually on-demand. The finished Mymos are made of sterling silver, stainless steel, or food-grade ceramic. Mymo makes 3D-printed objects more accessible to the public, combining great design with personalisation – without customers needing to learn how to use 3D software.
The Mymo type was designed by Patrick Durgin-Bruce of Ultravirgo, an award-winning graphic design agency in New York City with a penchant for typography. He has also created custom type for the United Nations and the University of Pennsylvania. New typefaces by other designers are in the works for 2014.
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American artist Phillip K Smith III has added mirrors to the walls of a desert shack in California to create the illusion that you can see right through the building (+ movie).
Photograph by Steve King
Entitled Lucid Stead, the installation was created by Phillip K Smith III on a 70-year-old wooden residence within the California High Desert.
Photograph by Steve King
Mirrored panels alternate with weather-beaten timber siding panels to create horizontal stripes around the outer walls, allowing narrow sections of the building to seemingly disappear into the vast desert landscape.
Photograph by Steve King
“Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert,” said Smith. “When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project begins to unfold before you. It reveals that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change.”
Photograph by Steve King
The door and windows of the building are also infilled with mirrors, but after dark they transform into brightly coloured rectangles that subtly change hue, thanks to a system of LED lighting and an Arduino computer system.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
“The colour of the door and window openings are set at a pace of change where one might question whether they are actually changing colours,” said Smith.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
“One might see blue, red, and yellow… and continue to see those colours. But looking down and walking ten feet to a new location reveals that the windows are now orange, purple and green,” he added.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
White light is projected through the walls of the cabin at night, revealing the diagonal cross bracing that forms the building’s interior framework.
Photograph by Steve King
Read on for a project description from the artist:
Artist Phillip K Smith, III creates Lucid Stead light installation in Joshua Tree, CA
After the long, dusty, bumpy, anxious trip out into the far edges of Joshua Tree, you open your car door and for the first time experience the quiet of the desert. It’s at that point that you realise you are in a place that is highly different than where you just came from.
Photograph by Steve King
Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project begins to unfold before you. It reveals that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
In much of my work, I like to interact with the movement of the sun so that the artwork is in a constant state of change from sunrise to 9am to noon to 3am to 6pm and into the evening.
Photograph by Steve King
With Lucid Stead, the movement of the sun reflects banded reflections of light across the desert landscape, while various cracks and openings reveal themselves within the structure. Even the shifting shadow of the entire structure on the desert floor is as present as the massing of the shack itself, within the raw canvas of the desert.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
The desert itself is as used as reflected light…as actual material within this project. It is a medium that is being placed onto the skin of the 70-year old homesteader shack.
Photograph by Steve King
The reflections, contained within their crisp, geometric bands and rectangles contrasts with the splintering bone-dry wood siding.
Photograph by Lou Mora
This contrast is a commonality in my work, where I often merge highly precise, geometric, zero tolerance forms with material or experience that is highly organic or in a state of change…something that you cannot hold on to… that slips between your fingers.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
Projected light emerges at dusk and moves into the evening. The four window openings and the doorway of Lucid Stead all become crisp rectangular fields of colour, floating in the desert night.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
White light, projected from the inside of the shack outward, highlights the cracks between the mirrored siding and the wood siding, wrapping the shack in lines of light. This white light reveals, through silhouette, the structure of the shack itself as the 2×4’s and diagonal bracing become present on the skin of the shack.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
The colour of the door and window openings are set at a pace of change where one might question whether they are actually changing colours. One might see blue, red, and yellow… and continue to see those colours. But looking down and walking ten feet to a new location reveals that the windows are now orange, purple and green.
Photograph by Lance Gerber
This questioning of and awareness of change, ultimately, is about the alignment of this project with the pace of change occurring within the desert. Through the process of slowing down and opening yourself to the quiet, only then can you really see and hear in ways that you normally could not.
These wooden storage boxes by Japanese designers Torafu Architects stack up to make little trolleys (+ slideshow).
Koloro Wagon storage units by Torafu Architects comprise three colour-coded trays with pivoting handles that allow them to be separated and carried like shopping baskets.
The L-shaped uprights of the handles will brace against the bottom of the box to stack the units vertically, with the cross-bars fitting into grooves on the underside of the box above.
The bottom grooves will also accommodate the axels of a pairs of wooden wheels to form a trolley.
“In today’s world, one space may be used alternatively as a dining area, work area, and child’s play area,” said the designers. “What we propose here is a moveable storage cabinet to suit changing lifestyles, in terms of functionality and individual needs.”
The trays come in sky blue, white, yellow, dark green, pink and grey.
“Given the variety of colours available, the boxes can be designated by colour according to the needs of the family,” said the designers. “One for a child’s toys, one for a mother’s hobby materials, one for a father’s business documents and so forth, or according to their purpose.”
Le studio de design Bonsoir Paris a imaginé pour le Bright Young Things concept store situé à Londres au sein de la chaîne de grands magasins Selfridges. Avec des utilisations originales et très réussies de modules gonflables, ces structures éphémères sont à découvrir en images dans la suite.
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