La firme anglaise Haptic Architects a installé dans son appartement « Idunsgate » un escalier en acier suspendu et flottant au dessus du parquet et du salon : un vrai objet design et minimaliste qui optimise l’espace. Des clichés de Inger Marie Grini et Simon Kennedy à découvrir dans la suite.
When the word “indigo” is mentioned, many of us think of its vivid hue and common use as a dye (for that perfect shade of blue jeans) although, unfortunately, most indigo we see these days is synthetic and not the natural pigment extracted…
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Illuminated glass droplets full of bubbles appear to fall from the ceiling in this installation by Japanese studio Torafu Architects (+ slideshow).
The Water Balloon installation at the Konica Minolta Plaza Gallery in Tokyo was created by Torafu Architects for the Eco & Art Award 2014 exhibition.
The designers worked with a glass artist to form a series hand-blown bulbs from recycled material.
Each fluorescent lamp is a different shape and patterned with bubbles created during the blowing process.
“The bubbles inside each unique shape help produce a distinctive ethereal light,” said the designers.
Suspended from wires at various heights around the small room, the 36 “water balloons” pulsate with light in the dark space.
“We strived to create a space where [visitors] can catch a glimmer of a new natural environment,” the designers added.
Photography is by Masaki Ogawa.
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A few years ago, I saw a picture of a desk that captured my eye. I can’t remember exactly where I saw it—perhaps it was this very blog—I just remember not being able to stop thinking about it. I searched the Internet to find out who had created this lovely desk and ended up on the website of Manoteca. Now, when I see something that I like, I have to tell the person who is behind it that I like their creation (or what they are wearing, or what they are singing, or what they are drawing, etc.) Call it what you will, OCD if you wish.
So I found the e-mail address for the person behind the brand, and it turned out to be a young woman called Elisa. Since then, we haven’t written much, but my curiosity for the person and the visions behind the brand is still there. So, here comes the second article about young ambitious entrepreneurs working within the creative field.
Core77: What led you to start Manoteca?
Elisa Cavani: Before creating Manoteca, I was working as a visual merchandiser for fashion companies, for more or less ten years. I traveled a lot and gained a lot of information. In those ten years, I met very respectable people with so much talent. Yet the structure of big companies crushed them—I saw many people forget the things they believed in and give up any kind of talent. I was scared because I could feel that it was happening to me as well, so I decided to “fire” myself and create something that I had had in my head for so long.
This was the beginning. I moved the furniture in my apartment and for a year I worked, lived and slept in the middle of tools and sawdust. To me, the pieces of my first collection represent the freedom of expression. I loved them so much. I spent my evenings watching them, cleaning them one by one, every single hole and crack in the material. I really treated them as if they were the most valuable things I owned. In fact, they still are.
Did your ten years of experience as a merchandiser have any influence on how you started your brand?
I didn’t think so initially, then I thought again and came up with a better answer. The visual merchandisers work with the visual language, they communicate feelings and moods but cannot use words. There is so much of this in Manoteca. There is a maniacal attitude, for which everything have to be perfect, and a meticulous attention to every detail. There is the organization and optimization of the time. There are the administrative and commercial skills, which I unwittingly absorbed and modified in favor of the brand. There is the knowledge of foreign markets that I have followed for a long time, the awareness that every person have different habits and cultural characteristics that you need to know, otherwise it is impossible to communicate. There are errors that I have made in the past, from which I can benefit today. There is a predisposition for solid and professional structure, which hasallowed the project to go around the world.
In retrospect, I should say ‘Thank You’ to my past.
Eone a conçu une collection de montres en différents coloris pour aveugles appelées « The Bradley Timepiece » qui fonctionnent avec une petite boule magnétique qu’on touche pour savoir l’heure. Le nom « Bradley » est un hommage à un gagnant des Paralympics qui a perdu la vue au combat en Afghanistan.
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If you’re the right person for this job, you’ll lead the creative design and direction of compelling products that are inspired, meaningful and brand right. You’ll also collaborate with Merchandising and Marketing to drive design and brand strategies. If you have 10+ years of prior experience in product design and leadership role(s), and have the skills to effectively manage and lead a team, this role in Kent, Washington might be perfect for you. Apply Now to find out!
Yes, its yet another socket fixture, but there is a lot of innovative factors in the Blind Adapter. The extension is designed to fit with existing electrical outlets and has an annular magnetic electrode so that the plug stays fixed onto the socket. Convenient Braille tags allow one to identify the appliance being plugged in, just to be double sure!
Blind Adapter is a 2014 iF Design Concept entry.
Designers: Ching-Tzu Tsai & Xien-An Chen
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It took a bunch of designers to figure out that a number of us fall off the wagon while following an exercise regime. Hence, they have designed a clever motivational and goal oriented skipping rope that keeps you on your course. The No Red No Stop encourages persistence and teams the rope with visual illumination, which acts as the encouraging factor.
This is how it works:
No Red No Stop is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept Winner.
Designers: Chen Xuyan, Fang Zhipeng, Gao Yuxiang, Lai Shengqi, Sun Duojun, Tang Chunhua, Yu Mengling & Zhou Tengjiao
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Illustrator Federico Babina has immortalised the faces of 33 prolific architects, including Zaha Hadid, Mies van der Rohe and Álvaro Siza, by creating portraits made up of elements from each of their buildings.
For the Archiportraits series, Federico Babina used architectural elements such as windows, columns, staircases and even floor plans to generate features including eyes, noses, frown lines and facial hair for a series of twentieth and twenty-first century architects.
Subjects also include Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind and Bjarke Ingels. The intention in each case was to convey personalities and moods, as well as a likeness.
“A portrait is like the mirror of the soul,” said Babina. “The shapes and geometries that are designed by the architect become features for drawing his [or her] face.”
The Italian graphic designer came up with the idea after picking out the lenticular eye shape from Oscar Niemeyer’s Museu do Olho. “I started searching shapes in architecture to build a portrait,” he told Dezeen.
An upside-down illustration of the Sagrada Família becomes the neck and chin of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, while Norman Foster’s nose is provided by the Gherkin.
Frank Gehry’s Dancing House gives the architect his right ear and Rem Koolhaas features a nose shaped like the CCTV Headquarters.
Alongside Hadid, there are only two other women in the collection; Eileen Gray is drawn with a neck made from her Black Block Screen and Kazuyo Sejima is shown wearing an outfit resembling the Zollverein School of Management and Design.
“I do not want to be unflattering, I just like playing with architects and architecture,” said Babina.
“Every little detail is a key component of the whole mosaic,” he added. “I tried to develop an expressive and allusive abstraction in which I combined planar structures with three-dimensional shapes to achieve a kind of metaphysical expression.”
Other architects in the series include Frank Lloyd Wright, Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Toyo Ito and Richard Rogers.
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