May 29
MONOLITE necklace
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Inspired by the childlike gathering of pebble stones. MONOLITE appeals more weighty than it really is. The ensemble of printed stones is made in fines..
May 29
Home by Dachi Papuashvili
Posted in: UncategorizedVoici une maison créée par Dachi Papuashvili couverte de bois, produisant toute l’énergie nécessaire à l’énergie solaire, et récupèrant l’eau de pluie. L’artiste a créé un endroit à la fois paisible, en osmose avec la nature et aux matériaux naturels. Une magnifique création à découvrir dans cet article.
May 29
Apple buys Beats and plans home control system to rival Nest
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News: tech giant Apple has bought Dr Dre’s Beats headphone company for $3 billion in the same week that details emerged of a project that will turn users iPhones into a remote control for their houses.
Apple has finally confirmed its deal to acquire Beats, with its founders – producer and entrepreneur Dr Dre and record industry executive Jimmy Iovine – joining the tech company as part of the agreement.
The Financial Times initially reported that the two companies were in talks three weeks ago, triggering widespread speculation about Apple’s move back into the music business.
Industry insiders suggested that Apple was more interested in developing the streaming service that Beats has been working on than its headphone products – a theory that appeared to receive confirmation in comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook.
“[With Beats] we get a subscription music service that we believe is the first subscription service that really got it right,” Cook told tech site Re/Code. “They had the insight early on to know how important human curation is. That technology by itself wasn’t enough — that it was the marriage of the two that would really be great and produce a feeling in people that we want to produce.”
“We always are future-focused,” he added. “So it’s not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It’s what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.”
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In recent year Apple’s iTunes, which acts as both an online store for digital music downloads and a mobile media library, has been fighting off growing competition from music streaming services like Spotify.
In its latest digital music report, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) found that revenue from music streaming services had grow by more than 50 per cent in the last year, while revenues from downloads fell by just over two per cent. It reported that there were 28 million individual users of subscription streaming services in 2013.
Earlier this week, the Financial Times also reported that the tech company was working on a system to turn users iPhones into remote devices to control the heating, air condition, lighting, security systems and other appliances in their homes.
Described as a “Jetsons-style” home automation system, the project was due to be unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on June 2, according to the FT.
It is being viewed as a rival to Google’s Nest – the home climate system bought by the search giant in its January acquisition of Nest Labs for $3.2 billion – and Samsung’s recently revealed Smart Home collection, which includes connected fridges, washing machines and TVs that can be controlled via a smart watch.
“Apple has been talking to a select group of other device makers whose smart home products will be certified to work with its forthcoming new system and then be sold in its retail stores,” said the FT.
Late last year, Apple’s patent claim on “a system and method of determining location of wireless communication devices/persons for controlling/adjusting operation of devices based on the location” was published online.
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May 29
SeARCH creates grassy dome pavilion for Rotterdam Architecture Biennale
Posted in: UncategorizedDutch studio SeARCH has created a dome-shaped pavilion covered in grass and filled with plants, as part of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam that opened to the public today.
Located at Rotterdam’s Museumpark, Yourtopia was designed by SeARCH as a utopian 21st century house. It is intended to reference indigenous architecture around the world – from igloos in the Arctic to underground dwellings in China – but also to encapsulate nature.
Speaking to Dezeen at the opening, studio founder Bjarne Mastenbroek said he wanted to create a simple and cost-efficient building that would show that “architecture can be a luxury and not just a commodity”.
“The whole idea is linked to the way that [Mexican architect] Luis Barragán built villas in Mexico City. What we like about these is that if you reduce the size, these could be modest houses,” said Mastenbroek.
The exterior of the house is covered in grass, creating a manmade hill that extends up from the lawn. A large circular skylight sits over the peak, topped by a large saucer-like roof that offers shade from direct sunlight and filters away rainwater.
A protruding doorway leads visitors inside the building, where they can discover a huge thicket of tropical plants and trees sitting beneath the skylight.
“One of the questions we asked was, why does a house need windows?” Mastenbroek told Dezeen. “This one provides plenty of light, and the sky becomes your view.”
The need for a fast construction prompted the team to use a steel frame, although they originally planned to build the pavilion with prefabricated concrete panels. This would allow the house to be easily reproduced.
It will be open for a least five months, over which time the architect plans to add furniture or even invite guests to stay.
Yourtopia is the first of a planned series of temporary pavilions that will be created as part of future biennales. The sixth International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) will run until 24 August.
Dezeen’s trip to Rotterdam was courtesy of Visit Holland.
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May 29
Creative Mornings: David Kelley on the Growing Role of Design… in Everything
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Photos by Bekka Palmer
By Chris Beatty
On Friday, May 16, Joel Towers, Dean of Parsons the New School for Design, and Tina Roth Eisenberg, the ‘Swiss Miss‘ behind Creative Mornings, welcomed David Kelley to speak at the New School’s newly opened Tishman Auditorium. Despite the early wakeup call, over 600 guests showed up for the largest Creative Morning ever.
Hailing (somewhat unsurprisingly) from California, Kelley is a founder of IDEO and the creator of the d.school at Stanford University. He began his talk by comfortably declaring that he was not going to present using any slides and that he enforces a no-slide rule for student presentations at the d.school.
Kelley is a natural storyteller came to industrial design with a background in electrical engineering. At first Kelley was mesmerized by the magical, “as if out of nowhere” process of design; however, in reality, he spent many of his early days toiling over beige computer enclosures for Silicon Valley tech firms. It was then that he realized that design was pigeonholed as an object-centric process that routinely neglected the needs of its users.
Through his design practice, Kelley began to address this by carefully mapping the experience of a person using the product. By stepping back and thinking holistically about the product, the problem could be reframed, contextualized, and ultimately simplified. At the core, it was this thinking that allowed IDEO to nurture a human-centered design process that put the user, not the product at the center of the design process.
Kelley with Tina Roth Eisenberg
May 29
Cool Hunting Video: David Sena: A master tattoo artist who also "paints" with fire
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Several years ago, we visited artist David Sena’s studio to peep behind the curtain and find out about his unique process. Sena (who has given a…
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May 29
Santini & Rocha Arquitetos modernises Beira-Rio Stadium in preparation for the World Cup
Posted in: UncategorizedBrazilian office Santini & Rocha Arquitetos has added a lightweight roof with a leaf-shaped structure to the Beira-Rio Stadium in the city of Porto Alegre ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on 12 June (+ slideshow).
The Beira-Rio Stadium was built in 1969 as a home for football club S.C. Internacional and renovations were already underway before Santini & Rocha Arquitetos was engaged to oversee the project and ensure its completion in time for the World Cup.
Fans had requested that a roof be added and suggested that the stadium’s infrastructure needed modernisation. In addition to the roof, the architects removed and replaced the concrete lower tiers, installed new VIP facilities, and upgraded plumbing and electrics.
The steel roof structure that extends above the stands, ramps and turnstile areas replaces a previous solid roof that only covered parts of the stands.
A PTFE membrane with transparent sections between the main structural supports allows daylight to filter through to the stands and creates an unbroken surface that reduces heat absorption and results in a uniform temperature inside the stadium.
The roof is also self-cleaning and channels rainwater to tanks from which it can be used for flushing toilets, helping to reduce the stadium’s water consumption.
Four existing ramps have been preserved and now lead to circulation areas that extend around the entire stadium and provide access to catering and retail facilities.
Seventy suites have been added, along with a museum, media room, shops and 14 towers that connect all levels and have been designed to enable the stadium to be evacuated within eight minutes.
The new capacity of the stadium has been reduced from 56,000 to 52,000 and the pitch has been upgraded with improved turf and drainage.
The stadium was inaugurated by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke and will host five matches during the tournament.
Photography is by Marcelo Donadussi and Gabriel Heusi.
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May 29
Want to Change the World? Work for LEGO in Shanghai, China
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Do you want to change the world? This is the greatest opportunity to make a difference in the boys’ world through innovating and conceptualizing new play experiences! You will create and develop exciting new Play themes to enhance the LEGO Brand. This role embraces management of the entire product development cycle that strives to create, develop and deliver the best play experience for boys aged 5-11, rooted in the LEGO Group’s core values.
With the LEGO Bricks and Mini-figures at the core of these new experiences, you will be on the frontline of delivering quality concepts and design based on briefs set by the Design manager. If you are a dedicated professional with an imaginative mind who wants to take play seriously, this opportunity can offer you the building bricks for a great career! Apply Now.
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May 29
Kalen Hollomon for Capsule SS15 : The NYC-based mixed media artist creates provocative collages with vintage adverts
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Each season, fashion and lifestyle tradeshow Capsule commissions a single artist to create an exclusive body of work to be featured on invites, signage and printed newsletters distributed during stops in New York, Paris, Berlin and…
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May 29
Sight Unseen commissions Memphis-influenced print collection
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New York 2014: American magazine Sight Unseen asked designers to add bold prints to fashion and furniture designs using digital customisation company Print All Over Me.
The collaboration between Sight Unseen and Print All Over Me for the magazine’s New York exhibition earlier this month resulted in a collection of prints that harked back to early 1990s fashion.
“The big comment we got was ‘oh, this reminds me of [TV show] Saved By the Bell’,” said Jesse Finkelstein, who founded Print All Over Me with his sister Meredith.
Print All Over Me’s digital printing service allows anyone to upload any graphic they chose, and have it printed onto white garments and accessories.
For this project, designers created patterns for garments and furniture pieces that were printed onto fabric and upholstery using the service.
The bold colours and strong graphics used for the prints and the styling of the photoshoot are reminiscent of those used by members of 1980s and 1990s Italian design movement Memphis.
“Memphis was definitely a unifying theme amongst the prints, and I think this speaks generally to a nostalgia,” Finkelstein told Dezeen. “We’re obviously seeing a 1990s moment in fashion, but its references are a bit more tech and future inspired. The group of prints shown at Sight Unseen represent a similar touchstone but far less ominous.”
The same influence could be seen in a number of projects across the Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition and the style was back in favour at Milan design week last month.
“Memphis is clearly back and I feel that while the furniture and industrial design community has been ready to embrace, fashion has lagged, which is interesting because I often feel that fashion tends to be the trend driver,” Finkelstein commented.
“Promoting this aesthetic wasn’t our intention, however, by virtue of working with a lot of designers that create textiles and materials for home, I think we were tapping into that current.”
Designers Camille Walala, Louie Rigano and Saskia Pomeroy were asked to apply all-over prints to bomber jackets, dresses, T-shirts, backpacks and other clothing. Brooklyn studio Snarkitecture also created a range of prints for garments.
Seattle designer Erich Ginder modified his faceted Dot/Dash lamp to display a digital illustration by Santtu Mustonen and Will Bryant created a series of beanbag chairs.
Graphic designer Damien Correll created a squiggly blue pattern printed onto the leather sling seat of a new wooden chair by Brooklyn brand Fort Standard, while fashion designer Ellen Van Dusen lent one of her colourful geometric prints to four new outdoor seats by Eric Trine.
Finkelstein believes that the resurgence of bolder prints is driving simpler shapes in clothes themselves – something he dubs the “Instagram effect” – which will eventually influence furniture design.
“The Instagram effect is very real,” said Finkelstein. “There’s clearly a flattening of design, where prints are becoming responsible for dimension and scale. So in fashion shapes are becoming simpler, and the prints are driving much of the visual interest and I would imagine that this will also have an affect on home and furniture design as well.”
The collection was shown at the Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition during New York design week – see our pick of the designers and studios from the event.
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