It all started in 1993, in an unassuming parking lot in Southern California with the premier of “Alive We Ride,” a video that captured skate, snowboard and surf culture with authenticity and veracity unlike anything of its time. Melding cutting-edge footage from an…
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Hopefully you’ve had enough time to submit your designs to the Core77 Design Awards after we extended the deadline to midnight on April 6. If the chance to win one of our awesome DIY trophies—which you can use to make giant Design Award chocolate bars—isn’t incentive enough, we’re offering a limited edition pre-release of our brand new “Designing Here/Now” book. You can get your own copy for $10 with any Core77 Design Awards entry. The flocked black-edge book is currently only available to 2014 entrants and features 448 pages filled with 500 past program honorees.
Les vidéastes français Simon Bonneau et Thomas Pons ont réalisé 7 vidéos réussies et très graphiques pour le groupe Moongaï et leur album intitulé « Cosmofamille ». Un projet appelé « Hypermonde » produit par CHIVTEAM et composé de 7 vidéos différentes à découvrir en exclusivité sur Fubiz dans la suite.
As France and China celebrate the 50th anniversary of their state relations, Art Paris 2014 (27-30 March at the Grand Palais) took the opportunity to shine the spotlight on the ever-evolving Chinese art scene. Around 90 artists were on show by ten galleries from…
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News: British graphic designer Neville Brody has created a typeface featuring a subtle pinstripe that will be worn by the England football team at the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil.
Neville Brody was asked by Nike, the designers of the two kits the England football team will wear in Brazil this summer, to create a typeface that will be used for the names and numbers of each of the players.
“The core inspiration was to focus on the intersection between flair and workmanlike reliability,” said Brody in a statement.
“The industrialised suggestion of a stencil was simultaneously based on a pinstripe motif, combining style with no-frills efficiency,” explained the designer.
The result is a curved typeface that will come in dark blue on the team’s all white home kit and utilises a diagonal pinstripe in a darker shade of blue to add texture.
The letters come in a san-serif font with a tall, narrow silhouette and tight spacing, while England’s three lions logo is incorporated into the large stencil-style numbers on the back.
“Small touches emphasise the idea of innovation, invention and surprise, built around a more geometric structure,” said Brody.
The kit was inspired by England’s all-white strip worn during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico and the knights of St George.
Silver is used in a metallic weave that surrounds the England badge and also depicts a single star, indicating the team’s single World Cup win in 1966.
“We wanted to add some small detail that echoed the glow of the armour worn by St George,” said Nike football creative director Martin Lotti in a statement at the kit’s release.
Satin tape is used on the shoulder seams to add a further design detail.
The away shirt comes in red and replaces the V-neck collar of the home jersey with a round one. Brody’s typeface will feature in white on the rear.
There is also an optical illusion of St George’s Cross, which Nike has said cannot be seen up close, coming into focus only when viewed from a distance.
The new home kit will debut in the friendly with Peru at Wembley on 30 May.
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Milan 2014: a patchwork of panels on Doshi Levien‘s Shanty cabinet for Spanish furniture company BD Barcelona references the temporary housing found in cities across Africa, Asia and South America (+ slideshow).
The Shanty cabinet hides a rational storage system behind a seemingly random series of panels that is inspired by the design variation found in informal settlements, where corrugated iron is used to create unique dwellings and colour combinations that change as they fade over time.
“A lot of people think that these improvised structures are ugly, that they have negative connotations,” Nipa Doshi told Dezeen. “We really like the beauty of the improvised.”
Corrugated iron is often seen as a cheap material in the west, but takes on a new value to residents in these homes said the designers. “To [the people who build these homes] this is a prestigious material,” explained Doshi.
The lacquered MDF cabinet features extruded aluminium legs and is set to be the first piece from a bigger collection that BD Barcelona will produce in the next year.
It is available in two different configurations – one with three shallow drawers on the right hand side which can be finished in multiple colours or shade of grey. The other has a concertina-opening cabinet.
The collection is a continuation of Doshi Levien‘s aesthetic, which seeks to combine a European approach to industrial design with a strong interest in handcraft and a “way of looking at the world that is not so pure,” said Doshi.
“It’s not a one-sided European design approach,” she explained. “There’s another world out there and there are many other ingredients we can use in design that are beautiful. It’s finding beauty in everything.”
The Shanty will launch at Salone Internazionale del Mobile fair in Milan next week.
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Justin Poulsen est un illustrateur de photographies conceptuelles, basé au Canada. Dans sa série surréaliste « Still Life », il fait sortir du sol une paille qui crache du pétrole, un livre devient un gruyère, une bouteille possède une langue et le corbeau d’Edgar Allan Poe sort de son poème. A découvrir dans la suite.
Nest is a kit-set hen house and supporting system designed specifically for first-time hen keepers in urban areas who can provide refuge for spent hens (hens considered unusable by farms). To minimize damage to the owner’s property, the house has been designed to rotate 360 degrees on a ground spike and bearing system. Other key features include a regulator in the roof to control light and air flow and a specialized slatted floor which allows dropping to fall through into a wood shavings mix that helps prevent odor.
The Nest is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept Luminary Winner.
Designer: Stacey Kenny
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With workbenches like Ron Paulk’s and Guido Einemann‘s around, is there any demand for an old-school workbench? Apparently so: Swedish company Sjöbergs does a brisk business in producing the traditional variety, with only slightly-modernized updates, like steel-cored, rubber-wrapped bench dogs (with half-round tops to accommodate angled workpieces), cork jaw protectors for the vise’s clamping surface, and precision steel hardware for the vise’s guts, ensuring they close perfectly parallel.
Though dated (if the soundtrack doesn’t tip you off), the following company video gives you a pretty good look at the bench:
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