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Distinctive Dimmer

Toss out your industrial light dimmer for something a little more tech-y and fun like the Aurea! This contemporary dimmer users touch-screen technology and intuitive controls to give users the flexibility to customize their lighting. Use a single touch for on/off or trace a finger over the spiral to dim on 1 of 6 strengths. Its size and styling aren’t for everyone, but look no further if you’re simply in the mood for something entirely different!

Designer: Eduardo Rincon-Gallardo Martinez


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Portraits of Kids Submerged Underwater

Avec l’aide de quelques enfants très créatifs, Alix Martinez a tirée des portraits d’enfants, non pas sur la terre ferme, mais submergés sous l’eau. L’artiste arrive avec amusement et imagination à recréer des scènes sportives comme le golf, le football et le tennis. Une magnifique série à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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No. Six Depot Coffee: Creatively roasted and blended coffees in small batches from the heart of the Berkshire Mountains

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When it comes to roasting coffee, smaller quantities often yield better results; with the roaster able to pay closer attention to the process and variances in beans. For Buenos Aires-born Flavio Lichtenthal, owner of No. Six…

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B-LINE to launch latest products in Milan

B-LINE to launch latest products in Milan

Dezeen promotion: Italian furniture brand B-LINE will exhibit its latest product range at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month.

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Park chairs and Park stools

B-LINE is to showcase German studio Neuland Paster & Geldmacher‘s Park range of outdoor seating formed from thin steel rods, which has been extended to include stackable stools in two heights.

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Park stools

The brand has also begun production on a series of 1960s creations by Italian designer Joe Colombo, including a soft upholstered pouf with contrast cross stitching and a stackable container module with a cylindrical hole.

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Crossed pouffes. Also main image

Colombo’s injection-moulded plastic trolley is being introduced in a smaller size and lime green colour.

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Crossed pouffes and Park chairs

B-LINE will be located at Hall 6 Stand C37 at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile from 8 to 13 April.

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Boby XS

Photography is by Andrea Pancino, Claudio Visentin and Ioannis Schinezos.

For more information about B-LINE and its products, visit the website.

Here’s some more information from B-LINE:


2014 new entries – among fresh projects and attractive variants

B-LINE has a totally progressive view and has always proved that the value of an object transcends the historical moment in which it was designed. It is the very idea of design, as interpreted by the Paduan company, in setting itself on a different plane where quality, functionality and originality make each
of the products immune to the trends’ precariousness. A contemporary appearance and, at the same time, universal in content.

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The products’ catalogue enumerates artists that have written the history of design (from Joe Colombo’s Boby and Multichair to Rodolfo Bonetto’s Boomerang and 4/4), famous designers on the international scenario and introductions that set the spotlight on new Italian realities.

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Ring storage units

2014 now counts on three new products and a significant series of interesting variants on the theme, applied to successful existing products. Collaboration with the German duo Neuland Paster & Geldmacher has been renewed with an extension to the Park family and, finally, two of Joe Colombo’s projects that had always been safely tucked away among the treasures of the Joe Colombo Studio, are being launched: a pouf and a container module.

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Close up of Ring storage unit

Ring by Joe Colombo, 1964

A versatile container module, Ring consists of a painted steel plate shell and two oak shelves. On its own it can also be used as a low table; by stacking it with other modules, its capacity is increased, and can be used for wall fittings or for creating partitions. Version with swivel casters also available.
Colours – white/oak and anthracite grey/oak.

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Ring storage units

Park by Neuland Paster & Geldmacher

In galvanised and painted steel rod, Park is a stackable stool with interesting lines, sober and rigorous, just as the chair from which it evolved. It features a slender footrest and its light appearance is sustained by the sled frame on which it rests.

Suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, it is available in two heights, one for the home (66 centimetres) and the other for bar use (77 centimetres). Colours – white, black and deep orange.

B-LINE to launch latest products in Milan
Park stools

Crossed by Joe Colombo, 1963

A soft upholstered pouf with contrast cross stitching, Crossed is available in two sizes, one square-based and one rectangular: by using multiple element combinations, differently shaped and coloured arrangements can be created.

Its water-repellent wooden base and an opportune choice of fabrics make it suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.

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Crossed pouffes

Boby XSmall

Boby, Joe Colombo’s injection moulded ABS plastic trolley storage unit is reintroduced in the new lime green colour, and offers a new set of three oak wooden shelves to level the upper section and to provide it with a touch of warmth. A new height is introduced as well: thus the single-section Boby is born, called BOBY XSmall. This is ideal as a bedside table, perfect for storing small objects.

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Boby XS in different colours and arrangements

Sit and stock with B-LINE

Two seats and a container module according to the Joe Colombo Studio and Neuland Paster & Geldmacher.

Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile is the leading venue at which you can exhibit your own new entries to the most qualified public. Since its first participation, B-LINE organises meetings with designers and press presentations for its most interesting products and now, in 2014, the formula is repeated with a day dedicated to the press.

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Gemma lacquered chairs, awarded the Good Design Award 2013

On Wednesday 9 April from 11am to 2pm the designers of the two innovations introduced to the catalogue will be present at the B-line stand: authoritative names in international panorama, such as the architect Favata, leading light of the Joe Colombo Studio, and the Neuland Paster & Geldmacher duo.

This is not the usual press conference, but an occasion for directly experiencing the best of the company production, for exchanging a few words with key designers and for getting in touch the exhibitor.

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Woopy leather chairs

Apart from a selection of products from the new B-LINE catalogue, at an exclusive preview, the Paduan company will exhibit the Ring container module, the Crossed pouf (Joe Colombo) and the Park stool (Neuland Paster & Geldmacher). As simple, direct and clean-cut as are the names chosen, so is the research on these products maniacal down to each detail.

The result is pure design, no frills, very B-LINE. Where? At Hall 16 Stand C37.

www.b-line.it

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Creating a pre-travel checklist

I always find the days before a trip to be hectic, but with a checklist I can take a quick glance at it and make sure I didn’t forget anything I meant to do. It’s great to have a checklist detailing what you want to pack, but a checklist of things to do in the days before a trip is helpful to keep you organized.

The following are some items from my pre-travel checklist. It is based on being a single person with pets but no children, and a neighbor who will bring in the mail when she comes over to feed the cats. I’ve excluded any trip planning — making hotel reservations, deciding what I want to do while there, etc. — because those actions were completed during the travel-planning stage.

Home preparation:

  • Update cat/home care instructions as necessary.
  • Make sure there’s enough cat food and kitty litter.
  • Decide if there are any bills to be paid before leaving (and then pay them). Alternatively, schedule payments electronically to go out at appropriate dates during my trip.
  • Check thermostat levels and adjust as needed.
  • Clean out perishables from refrigerator; use them up or give them away.
  • Take out the trash.

Packing preparation:

  • Makes sure I know the luggage rules for my airline.
  • Get prescription refills as needed.
  • Make sure all the over-the-counter medicines I want to take have not expired; replace if need be.
  • Buy any gifts I want for people I’m visiting.
  • Check the weather forecast for my destination.

Electronic devices preparation:

  • Charge up any electronics I’m taking with me.
  • Load any documents I might want to Dropbox.
  • Get all contact information for my destination into my cell phone.
  • Download any apps I want that are specific to the place I’m visiting.

Additional travel preparation:

  • Arrange transportation to the airport, if needed.
  • Get maintenance done on the car, if needed.
  • Get a haircut, if needed.
  • Remove unnecessary things from my wallet.
  • Remove unnecessary keys from my key ring.
  • Mail off my absentee ballot, if traveling at election time.

Just-in-case preparation:

  • Make sure relevant people have my travel itinerary and know how to reach me.
  • If I’m traveling internationally, make sure those people also have a copy of my passport.
  • Make sure I have a hard drive with a recent full backup in my safe deposit box.

Preparation regarding responsibilities to others:

  • Make sure any roles I serve in organizations will be covered while I’m gone.

Early preparation, for international travel:

  • Make sure I’m OK on passport and visas, if needed.
  • Understand immunization requirements, and get any that I need.
  • Understand any other health issues, and prepare accordingly. (For example, are there any concerns about the drinking water?)
  • Learn a few key phrases in the language of the place I’m visiting, if it’s not English.

Additional preparation for international travel:

  • Call credit card companies and tell them charges will be coming in.
  • Decide if I need to use my cell phone — and if so, figure out how to do that most economically.

Why create such a checklist, especially when it’s all pretty much common sense? Because I’ve had a few close calls when I’ve forgotten to do things that would have seriously disrupted my plans. One time, I didn’t realize my passport was about to expire, right before an international trip. Fortunately, the friend I was traveling with noticed it in time for me to get a renewal. And, I once got a last-minute immunization at the San Francisco International Airport, right before boarding a flight.

There have been less serious incidents, too. Many years ago, I found myself in New Orleans during an unusual cold snap, without warm-enough clothes. I’ve also found myself running around at the last minute getting a new bottle of Advil and a tube of Neosporin.

I got tired of having this type of thing happen, so now I have a checklist. What is on your pre-travel checklist? Share your must-do items in the comments.

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Not Art by Warsheh

Le projet Not Art est le fruit de la collaboration entre les jordaniens Mothanna Hussein et Hadi Alaeddin, réunis sous le nom de Warsheh. Voulant combiner des peintures classiques à des représentations géométriques minimalistes, ces œuvres jouent sur le Nombre d’Or, afin de proposer de très beaux visuels.

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Taco Bell takes on McDonald’s in cheeky new ad

Deutsch LA has created this amusing new spot for Taco Bell, which initially seems like it’s going to be a generic ad featuring various men extolling the virtues of the Mexican fast food’s chain new breakfast menu. But then they announce their names…

Let the fast food ad wars commence! (But only if all the ads are as funny as this.)

Double O Bike Light: Celebrated British designer Paul Cocksedge introduces a sleek, circular bike light

Double O Bike Light


While there’s been no shortage of innovations in the bike light category in recent years, there’s always room for improvement. Taking a rather unorthodox approach to the bicycle safety essential, UK’s Paul Cocksedge hopes to introduce the );…

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Play Fruit Paper

Tutti Frutti! Play fruit est le nom de cette superbe série de créations réunissant de nombreux fruits de papier. Un rendu très réussi proposé par Mr.Printables, qui invite même à télécharger gratuitement les patterns de ces créations, afin que les petits et les plus grands puissent les faire eux-mêmes.

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