Hasta La Ideas

We love our coffee! Period. Of all the innovative cook-tops, washing machines and cleaners, the java maker has won the competition hands down. Three out of the ten most inventive appliance concepts from 2013 has something to do with coffee. Nothing like a steaming cuppa brew to get the day going! Here’s the recap for you to follow…

Trea – Premium Alcohol Stove by Michael Kononsky

ECO Washing Ball – Food Sterilizing Balls by Yeonjin Jo

S.I.A.M. – Energy Saving Induction Cooktop by Hye-Rim Lee and Tae-Ryung Byun

SOLO – Compact Laundry System by Chanhee Han

Piamo Espresso Maker by LUNAR

Puri – Sea Water Desalinating Bottle by Younsun Kim, Kangkyung Lee, Byungsoo Kim and Minji Kim

The TopBrewer Coffee Machine by Scanomat

Novel Folding Kettle by Stanislav Sabo

Electrolux Hand Tree Air Purifier by Alexandr Kostin

COMBI – Robotic Vacuum Cleaner by Gwang Chae Jung

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(Best of Appliances in 2013 was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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Watch your back, Richard Estes. A photo and, at right, the resulting Pixelist painting.

Make 2014 the year that your Instagram masterworks break free of their pixellated prisons and start a new life as…photorealist oil paintings! That’s the transformative promise of Pixelist. The startup offers handmade oil paintings of any image you can capture or create, with “commissions” starting at $150. How? A bunch of willing and able Chinese painters sourced by founder Will Freeman, an Emory grad now based in Hong Kong. He made time to answer a few questions about the burgeoning business.

How did you get the idea to start Pixelist?
Pixelist came from a love of all things custom and creative. We’ve spent years designing our own clothes, shoes, furniture, and art and hunting for the best craftspeople to bring them to life. So we were naturally attracted to the idea of harnessing the popularity of Instagram to revive commissioned painting.

That part really describes me and my years in China and Hong Kong. But my business partner, Conor Colwell, originally came up with the idea. Conor and I used to work together and would always bat around startup ideas on our lunch break. I took him to visit one of China’s “art villages” in Shenzhen and he was hugely impressed by the painting quality. Conor has always been into Instagram, so he thought it would be a great way to immortalize photos people already loved. I loved the idea because I was already deeply into getting things custom made.
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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

This week, MRM is hiring an art director, while Living In Media is seeking an editorial graphic designer. Photo District News magazine needs a designer, and the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association is on the hunt for a marketing communications writer. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

• Art Director MRM (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Magazine Graphic Designer – Editorial Living In Media (Colts Neck, NJ)
• Designer Photo District News (New York, NY)
• Marketing Communications Writer Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (Whitestone, NY)
• Designer Cultural Vistas (New York, NY)

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Deceptively simple and highly adaptable, the Bee9 Tablet Desk 2.0 is designed to redefine not what a desk is, but where you can put it. Its simple yet effective tablet sliding system adapts to the user’s needs quickly and easily. The drop-leaf design’s material frugality and small footprint make optimum use of limited space, making it perfect for the apartment or small studio. Watch it in the making!

Designer: Bee9

The Making of The Bee9 Tablet Desk from bee9design on Vimeo.

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Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London stole the limelight when it reflected the September sun onto cars parked nearby and caused them to melt.

Walkie Scorchie

The tower was re-nicknamed the Walkie Scorchie for this “death-ray” effect, which a CGI artist declared he predicted a year before it struck.

Viñoly himself then admitted he knew the problem would occur, but said he didn’t realise the beam would be so hot.

Kanye West

In an interview on BBC Radio 1, Kanye West revealed he is frustrated he’s not taken seriously as a “real designer” and that he plans to move into architecture.

Peter Saville announced he is working with West to create a new visual identity for the rapper, who asked Saville to “do a YSL” for him.

Most popular

The cast-iron facade of Paul Smith’s Albemarle Street store in London received the most views in September.

Also popular was a holiday home in India constructed from concrete with local basalt stone mixed in.

Paper-thin shutters fold out from the walls of the narrow timber house in Tokyo that was in third place.

Zaha Hadid’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery extension in London’s Kensington Gardens also got a lot of hits.

A bright white house in Japan designed with a squashed diamond shape to maximise space without overlooking the neighbours finished off the top five.

Dezeen’s month

The London Design Festival took place in our home city, so we were out and about reporting from the various exhibitions and installations like the Escher-style staircases outside the Tate Modern gallery.

The installation’s designer Alex de Rijke explained the project in a movie we filmed for our Dezeen and MINI World Tour, for which we also spoke to Kieran Long about why the V&A museum acquired the first 3D-printed gun.

Long joined our list of Opinion columnists along with Dan Hill, Alexandra Lange and Justin McGuirk in September, and we also launched a mobile-friendly responsive version of our site.

See all our stories from September 2013 »

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