When Anna Robertson was volunteering in Ghana’s Accra, she heard the word “yevu” a lot—and now, the local Ewe term for “white woman” is the name of her brand. Founded in 2013, ); return…
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Voici une série de photographies réalisée par le photographe Baixiang Chen, intitulée « Grace ». L’artiste photographie une danseuse classique en plein travail dans une salle de danse. Les clichés sont à la fois naturels et gracieux et présente tout l’univers de la danse classique.
« A Rather Lovely Thing » est un court dessin animé réalisé par Cesar Martinez qui raconte l’histoire du chagrin d’un personnage ayant perdu sa petite amie. Sur une belle musique de I Monster – « Heaven », nous le suivons dans un deuil qui nécessite un petit tour dans l’espace.
Photo by Alex Welsh
This article was originally published in the C77 Design Daily, Vol. 1, Issue 2, on Saturday, May 17.
By Ali Morris
“There’s really something deeply personal about them,” says LA-based arts writer-cum-curator Su Wu looking at her carefully curated selection of weird and wonderful ceramics. Twenty-two designers from across the globe have each sent her anything between two and 40 pieces of their work to sell at her pop-up shop at Sight Unseen OFFSITE last week. Varying in shape and style, each design tells a story about its origin as well as the makers themselves. “With ceramics you have to make something, throw it into the fire and hope that it comes out as something good, and I think that’s reflected in the personalities of people who make pottery,” she muses. “They’re used to a certain amount of accidents and unplanned outcomes. I may be a total crunchy Californian but that’s a really appealing thing to me.”
Wu uncovered many of the participating designers while researching for her inspirational art, fashion and design blog, ‘I’m Revolting,’ as well as through writing stories for online design magazine Sight Unseen. Noticing that a lot of Wu’s contributions to the site were ceramics-focused—which Wu says was totally unintentional—it was Sight Unseen founders, Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, who first broached the idea of Wu running a pop-up ceramics shop at their show during NYCxDesign.
Photo by Alex Welsh
« Mother Fucking Dalle » est un projet d’animation extrêmement bien exécuté et réalisé par SOUVIENS TEN-ZAN. Sur une très bonne musique de Mothas la Mascarade (ft. Tonio, Lomepal & Georgio) – « Good Time », nous suivons deux hommes cagoulés errant dans un univers rural singulier et plein d’imagination.
SOUVIENS TEN-ZAN est composé d’Arthus Pilorget, Pierre Pinon, Johan Ravit, Valentin Stoll, Arnaud Tribout, Vincent Tsui, Caroline Cherrier et Hugues Opter. Sound design de Martin Pinon.
Curiosity Club with Nial McGaughey is tonight! Nial is the maker of the fine and odd Hovercraft Amplifiers, and we’re thrilled for him to throw down on his pastiche of tech and art. We’ll be covering loud sounds and “braingasms”—obviously worth showing up for that.
Nial McGaughey: Strummable Braingasms: Using Limitations, Leftovers and Lemons to Create the World’s Loudest Artwork
6pm PST
At the Hand-Eye Supply store
Or Streaming online
Independent food continues to be on the rise. Small-batch producers of everything from pickles to popcorn are are finding a wide audience across the world; and in doing so, turning the corporate food industrial complex on its head. At the forefront of this…
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Japanese firm International Royal Architecture (IRA) minimised partitions and balustrades inside this split-level house in Tokyo to make the interior feel as spacious as possible (+ slideshow).
Located on a small corner plot in Setagaya, KKZ House was designed by IRA to provide a generous three-storey residence for a family.
To achieve this, the architects developed a split-level plan featuring several double-height spaces. This created a basement floor that boasts clerestory windows, as well as a pair of upper levels with floor slabs that don’t meet all four walls.
“Connecting these floors with voids, which run through the entrance hall and above the kitchen, makes the residence so spacious,” said the architects in a statement.
Externally the house appears as a rectilinear box with a white-rendered surface. One corner looks as if it has been sliced away, leaving a glazed recess that accommodates the building’s entrance.
Inside, a mid-level platform leads up to a simple living room and kitchen on the middle floor, or down to a basement level proposed as a children’s bedroom. Simple metal railings provide the only balustrades, so residents can easily clamber or jump between these floors.
A master bedroom is located on the uppermost storey and features glazed partitions on two ends, allowing light to filter through from the room below.
The architects chose 180-millimetre-thick laminated veneer lumber (LVL) beams – a kind of engineered timber similar to plywood – to create solid floor slabs that are supported by cantilevers, rather than with columns.
“With this simultaneous design of the floor and the ceiling as a single slab, though simple it is, one can feel the presence of the structural materials,” said the architects.
A variety of different materials were used to provide floor and wall finishes throughout the building. These vary from poured concrete and wooden panelling, to dark tiles and basic white plaster.
The house also features a secluded roof terrace, as well as a series of small windows that can be camouflaged behind plain white shutters.
International Royal Architecture was founded in 2010 by architects Akinori Kasegai and Daisuke Tsunakawa. Past projects by the studio include a house shaped like an arrow.
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As companies like Nike, Google, and Apple rush to be at the forefront of wearable technology, a group of startups and tech incubators are making a strong case for why consumers may need to look elsewhere…
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