L’artiste suisse Fabian Oefner, nous présente ‘Disintegrating’ et ‘Hatch’, 2 projets réalisés pour la MB&F M.A.D. gallery. Un travail d’une précision incroyable, proposant des images de voitures de sport réalisées à la main, explosées et démantelées dans l’espace. Des créations impressionnantes à découvrir dans la suite.
It’s December and that means the holiday travel season is fully upon us. It’s great to reunite with family and friends, see new places (or old ones) and enjoy some time away. That experience can be more organized when you plan and record your adventures with a portable, neatly organized journal.
I started keeping travel journals when I visited Paris for the first (and only) time about five years ago. Reading those old entries and looking at the tiny keepsakes brings back memories I might not have otherwise, and keeps all my memorabilia from the trip limited to one book. It could be done digitally, but as I’ve admitted before, I’m a big fan of physical journals. (Though, digital journaling fans can find helpful links toward the bottom of this post.)
Moleskine City Notebooks. This is the notebook that got me started with using a journal for travel. Moleskine produces a pocket-sized, hardcover notebook for several cities around the world (Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Seattle). Each features lots of blank pages for you to fill, but also includes subway maps, unit conversion charts, street maps, and an alphabetical street index. My favorite feature is the transparent, peel-and-stick sheets of plastic that can be placed over a map. Mark it up with points of interest, phone numbers or anything else that relates to the area in question. It’s very handy and the hard cover means it is up for rough-and-tumble travel.
The Journey Journal. Here’s a very clever idea from Etsy’s Cracked Designs. Inside you’ll find 13 pages to recored your experiences — perfect for short holiday visits -– plus a pocket for stashing souvenirs. But, what’s really cool is the cover. The notebook comes with six pins and a length of string that can be used to plot your journey on the notebook’s cover. Several maps are available.
Smythson’s Travel and Experiences notebook. As far as journals go, this one is definitely fancy. With the the gilded pages and a lambskin cover, you’ll want to keep the Smythson around for a long while. And why not? Some adventures deserve such fine preservation. It’s available in three colors and has a Moleskine-like ribbon bookmark.
The Scratch Map. This isn’t a journal per se, but I absolutely love it. When you make it back home from a trip, you can scratch the thin material away from the area you just visited. Three maps are available: The world, the USA, and Europe. Since it looks great hanging on a wall, it’s a relatively clutter-free way to remember your travels.
The Scratch Travel Journal. If you like the idea of the Scratch Map but really want a notebook, consider the Scratch Travel Journal. It combines scratch-able maps with blank diary pages, a packing checklist, and pockets for memorabilia storage. Plus, it looks great.
Mosey for iPhone. OK, I had to add one electronic journal. While I love Rego for keeping track of specific points of interest, I use Mosey for chronicling my journeys. It’s a really fun and great-looking app that doesn’t take up any physical space in your home. When you arrive at a given destination, you begin taking photos. Those shots are gathered into a single adventure, or “Mosey.” You can note locations, cauterize and tag for easy review later and even review adventures posted by other users if you choose. And no, you needn’t visit Timbuktu to get something out of it. A day with the family is a valid and worthwhile use case.
If you plan to travel for the holidays, consider planning and recording your journeys in an organized fashion. Have fun, and if you use something I haven’t listed here, let me know in the comments section. Be sure to check out our other posts on organized travel in our archives to find tips on packing, planning, and even returning to work afterward.
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Dezeen promotion: design brand Luminaire is presenting work by designers Tokujin Yoshioka, Patricia Urquiola and Daniel Widrig at an event in its exhibition space this Thursday evening, to coincide with Design Miami.
The Design+World event will showcase products in Luminaire’s range, including Yoshioka’s Elements tables with surfaces balanced on angled supports.
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola’s recently published Time to Make A Book compendium will be available alongside art and design titles by Phaidon.
Sinuous 3D-printed body adornments by designer and architect Daniel Widrig will debut at the event. Widrig’s Kinesis collection features undulating forms that wrap around the neck and over the shoulders, created using selective laser sintering.
Other pieces on display will include blown-glass ornaments by Italian studio Fabrica and glass pendants that look like fishing floats by Nao Tamura, plus more glassware by a variety of designers.
The event will take place from 6-9pm on Thursday 5 December 2013 at Luminaire Lab, 3901 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida – RSVP to attend here. Find out out more about the event on the Luminaire website.
Keep reading for more information from Luminaire:
Luminaire’s continued commitment to promoting good design and education culminate with the third instalment of Design+World, a comprehensive exhibition exploring how today’s designers are interpreting materials, technologies and production methods to create work which expands on the traditional boundaries of design. The exhibition will include works by Tokujin Yoshioka, Patricia Urquiola and Daniel Widrig. As well as exploring the culture of glass with Fabrica’s Drawing Glass, Nao Tamura’s poetic glass lighting and a selection of limited edition glass pieces from our own collection. Additionally, we will welcome Phaidon books to the showroom, bringing a preeminent voice in art and design to the design district.
We look forward to meeting you this year at Design+World, and experience how innovation and imagination unite to impact the future of design across the globe.
Thursday 5 December 2013, 6-9pm
Luminaire Lab, 3901 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida
Daniel Widrig
Luminaire is thrilled to welcome London and Berlin-based designer, architect and artist Daniel Widrig to Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach 2013. As part of the installation, Design+World explores how today’s designers interpret materials, technologies and production methods to create work that expands the boundaries of design. Widrig’s lightweight and unique 3D-printed jewellery collection Kinesis complements the vision of this exhibition perfectly.
The soft, undulating pieces embrace the neckline and shoulders as an exoskeleton. Kinesis pushes the limits of selective laser sintering (SLS), gracefully transforming digital systems into wearable landscapes so artful, avant-garde and surreal that it feels otherworldly. The expressive, sinuous movement of Kinesis and its architectural character are akin to his early work as an architect when alongside his mentor, Zaha Hadid, he led a number of award-winning architectural projects, products and other designs.
Widrig graduate from the Architectural Association in London in 2006, and that same year started working with acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid. In 2009 he opened his own studio with a dedicated team of specialists in a broad range of fields including fashion, furniture, sculpture, stage design and architecture. Embracing digital systems since its early days, the studio holds a unique position in the field and is widely considered to be in the vanguard of digital art and design. In 2011 he worked with the fashion designer Iris Van Herpen to create an extraordinary series of 3D printed dresses, which was named one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2011 by Time Magazine.
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You might know Jessica Walsh for her graphic design work, but it’s more likely that you religiously (and tearfully, at times) followed her viral side project “40 Days of Dating” with fellow designer friend (even post-breakup) Timothy Goodman. The latter project has blasted her name around the Internet and in conversations worldwide—Warner Bros even recently bought the film rights to the project. But her graphic design starts a conversation on its own. The attention to surreal detail in her ad campaigns, subway posters and branding projects puts her on the “designers to follow” radar.
Dezeen Guide: Dezeen is hitting the beach for Design Miami this month. We’ve got eight other events listed in December, and have updated the guide to include more festivals and trade shows for 2014.
We’re already in Miami for the final leg of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour and will be reporting on America’s biggest design fair kicking off tomorrow – stay tuned for coverage!
Next week we’ll be posting the latest gadgets and technology for the body from the Wearable Futures event in London.
Here’s a list of the events taking place in December:
» Lisbon Architecture Triennale: until 15 December 2013
» EXD’13 Lisbon: until 22 December 2013
» Business of Design Week: 2-7 December 2013
» Design Miami: 4-8 December 2013
» Moscow Urban Forum: 5-7 December 2013
» Shenzhen/Hong Kong Biennale: 6 December 2013 – 28 February 2014
» Very Hong Kong Festival: 7-15 December 2013
» Wearable Futures: 10-11 December 2013
» Conflict & Design: 15 December 2013 – 9 March 2014
These are the new events we’ve added for 2014:
» Toronto Design Offsite: 20-26 January 2014
» Ambiente: 7-11 February 2014
» Alldesign Istanbul: 21-22 February 2014
» Munich Creative Business Week: 22 February – 2 March 2014
» Melbourne Indesign: 22-23 August 2014
» Wearable Technology Show: 18-19 March 2014
See all events in Dezeen Guide »
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Massachusetts design studio Nervous System has developed a method of 3D-printing jewellery and garments with articulated joints so they automatically change shape once removed from the printer (+ movie).
Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of Nervous System describe their Kinematics project as an example of 4D printing, an emerging area of research which involves printing three-dimensional objects that automatically transform from one shape to another.
Although it’s long been possible to create larger structures by 3D-printing them in sections then manually assembling the components, what sets 4D printing apart is that the finished object will self-assemble or transform into a pre-determined form.
“4D printing refers to 3D-printing something in one shape that is intended to be in another shape,” creative director Jessica Rosenkrantz told Dezeen. “The design transforms into its final configuration without manual labour. The shape it is printed in may be advantageous for various reasons: faster, cheaper, or printing larger objects in a smaller volume.”
Nervous System are currently working on a dress that can be printed in one piece despite being much larger than the space inside the printer and have also developed a range of jewellery with articulated joints that automatically adapt to the form of the body despite being printed in flat sheets.
The designers first developed software to give any 3D model a flexible structure, made from tessellated triangles linked by built-in hinges. A second process then folds the model automatically to compress it into the smallest possible volume, optimising the use of space inside a 3D printer. The object simply unfurls into its intended shape once lifted out of the printer.
They named the process Kinematics after the branch of mechanics of the same name – also referred to as the geometry of motion – that describes the movement of objects but not its cause.
“We think the greatest advantage of Kinematics is that it can transform any three-dimensional shape into a flexible structure for 3D printing,” Rosenkrantz said. “The system then compresses the structure down through computational folding.”
To create the dress, a 3D-scan of a person’s body forms the basis for a digitally modelled garment, to which the tessellated pattern is applied. The rigidity and behaviour of the final dress can be controlled at this stage by altering the configuration of the triangular hinged mesh: the way the material will drape as a result is simulated on-screen. This digital model can then be folded into a much smaller shape using computer simulation software and printed in compressed form. When the dress is lifted out of the printer, it will unfurl into its intended shape.
“Compressed designs offer benefits not only for production but also for transport,” Rosenkrantz added. “It holds great promise for the creation of flexible wearables but could also be used to enable the production of other large-scale structures in today’s small-scale printers.”
Nervous System began developing the Kinematics concept last year in response to a brief set by mobile phone manufacturer Motorola to create customisable 3D-printed products.
The pair first produced a collection of nylon jewellery derived from the tessellated hinged triangles. The pieces emerge from the printer in a stack of flat sheets but the articulated structure allows them to to fit around the shape of the body.
They developed an online application so users can customise the jewellery designs themselves by selecting different module shapes, altering the density of components in selected areas, changing the profile of the design by dragging the outline around, specifying the size and deciding on the colour.
The price of the product is recalculated with every alteration and once happy the customer can order it to be produced by Nervous System. A second free application allows users to experiment with Nervous System’s templates and print the results at home.
Rosenkrantz and Louis-Rosenberg then developed the principle by adding the ability to fold the design down to its smallest possible spatial configuration. They intend to print their first dress in January.
Photography of the jewellery is by Jessica Weiser.
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Calvin Chu pitches Palette at the HAXLR8R Demo Day in San Francisco. All event images by the author for Core77.
If you were to take apart the hardware on your computer, you’d see a microcosm of the world. A simple look at a laptop computer on SourceMap, the popular software for sourcing the materials and components of just about any object and where those pieces come form, reveals an incredibly complex trade route: Unlike software, which can be hacked together regardless of location, hardware requires a lot of moving parts, from raw materials to manufacturing to assembly. It’s a process that criss-crosses the globe until the final product arrives in our hands, ready to use.
Shenzhen is a key focus of HAXLR8R, which bills itself as “a new kind of accelerator program.” Accepting applications twice a year from hardware startups around the world, it provides seed funding of $25,000 (with opportunities to increase that amount through additional funding paths), office space and regular mentorship on a variety of topics, from building products to pitching them. Most importantly, it offers an opportunity to live and work in Shenzhen, interacting directly with manufacturers who have the ability to take the product to scale.
“JDFI also applies to us,” notes the accelerator program’s website, as they list out the services and equipment they provide, including a laser cutter, 3D printer, CNC machine and in-house services like product design and small batch assembly and testing, not to mention the basic tools of business. HAXLR8R is very much a project about doing and making at the highest levels. And as I explored in my recent column, this intermixing of disciplines and processes undoubtedly makes for better designs.
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This house situated in an old fishing village in Sweden features pale pine floors, high ceilings and a wood-burning stove inside a concrete block (+ slideshow).
Swedish studio Sandell Sandberg designed the house as part of the Wiklands Backe development, a cluster of 11 homes located in the coastal village of Kivik on the southern tip of Sweden.
The house centres around the cast iron stove, which sits in a large concrete block in the centre of the front room with its flue exposed by the full height of the building. “The high ceiling makes the interior rather unique despite its traditional shape,” said the architects.
An open-plan kitchen is located towards the rear of the space, furnished with white cabinets and a marble worktop.
On the first floor mezzanine, a lamp hangs from the apex of the pitched roof to illuminate a study area overlooking the front room.
The master bedroom is tucked away at the rear of the ground floor, while two more are located upstairs and feature angled skylights.
Turquoise tiles form a diagonal pattern across the walls and floor of the bathroom.
Sandell Sandberg has developed three standard house types for the Wiklands Backe development. With a floor area of 140 square metres, this is the smallest of the three designs and is being replicated for five other properties.
The exterior of the house is divided into two sections. The front of the building is clad with Danish hand-crafted brick whilst the back features black pine on the ground floor and a grey zinc roof.
“The reason why the buildings have been divided in this way is to break down the scale,” Wiklands Backe’s Theresa Digerfeldt-Månsson told Dezeen. “They should connect to the ‘style’ and tradition of the old fishing villages on the Skane east coast – villages that are characterised by a great variety of volumes and materials.”
All roofs are pitched at an angle of 45 degrees to comply with local planning regulations.
“The aim of the project has been to develop houses that connect to the tradition of the fishing village without copying it and to build houses that are perceived as attractive today as they will be within 100 years,” added Digerfeldt-Månsson.
A small garage is included with this property and sits alongside the house.
Photography is by Skeppsholmen Sotheby’s International Realty.
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