Jun 20
Drip Lamp by Gemma Fabbri
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The new edition of the iconic pendant lamp Drip, presented in the new colors of the 2014 Ex.t collection: mimosa and blue velvet. Used as a single uni..
Jun 20
Realistic Garfield
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Jun 20
Harley-Davidson Electric Motorcycle
Posted in: UncategorizedVoici le nouveau projet de la célèbre marque Harley-Davidson : LiveWire, une moto tout-électrique. Le projet « LiveWire experience » sera présent dans 30 villes à travers les États-Unis, où les clients potentiels pourront tester la nouvelle moto et partager leurs opinions.
Jun 20
Sabaoarch build three-metre-wide concrete house in Tokyo
Posted in: UncategorizedJapanese studio Sabaoarch has built a concrete house with tiny windows on a narrow strip of land in Tokyo (+ slideshow).
The Wall of Nishihara occupies a sliver of sloping land between two streets in Shibuya, Tokyo, so Sabaoarch enclosed it in concrete walls, which are punctured with tiny windows to give the residents privacy but still bring in light.
Rooms are arranged on half levels going up the structure, and a folded metal staircase weaves between them, introducing height into the centre of the house. The architects liken the circulation route to climbing a tree.
“The multi-levelled house is connected by a rope of stairs. The experience is like climbing up a tree to the sky, looking at the surrounding scenery,” said architect Masanori Kuwabara.
The external concrete walls were moulded against slats of timber to give the facade a friendlier, more textured appearance.
Inside, small windows on both sides of the house bring in light, and larger windows offer views outside to balance a sense of enclosure with openness.
“While the exterior feels like a closed space, the house connects its inhabitants with the city,” said the architects. “The wall is both substantial in its mass, and has a sense of transparency.”
The irregular shape and placement of the windows is also intended to make the building feel more organic, and timber flooring and stair treads help to make the exposed concrete interior feel warmer.
The house has two rooms on half levels on the lower-ground floor, and a living room on the ground floor. The living room opens on to a small garden enclosed by concrete walls, which taper together where the two streets meet outside.
A kitchen-diner occupies the half level above, and the bathroom is at the top of the house. It opens on to a small terrace, which has stairs continuing up to the roof.
Photography is courtesy of Sabaoarch.
Here’s some text from the architects:
The Wall of Nishihara, Tokyo
This house on an upper hill in Tokyo stands on a small site with a three-metre width between two roads.
We have created the space for dwelling in the small gap where residents could live in securely.
At first, we have visualised a thin and strong wall as a membrane which contends on the borderline between architecture, person, substance, and phenomenon.
The depth exists in the thinness and material strength exists in bordering weakness. The wall is both substantial in its mass, and has a sense of transparency.
The unevenness of the exterior is made in laps by using a cedar mould, on the concrete wall to create the shade on the rough texture. It seems that the wall with the worn opening is parasitic on the residence, with the surrounding hedge forest around the site.
In order to make the domain in which man can live in the narrow place of a both-sides road, the detail of an opening-wall which wraps the body was able to be considered, maintaining relationship with outside.
The small window dug on the concrete wall brings a feeling of inner depth and darkness, which trees as the origin of a dwelling make. Finally, they developed once the structure of space with the darkness, which trees have, and became a trial which is reconstructed as an architecture.
As a result, while the exterior feels like a closed space, the house connects its inhabitants with the city.
Architect: Masanori Kuwabara, Sabaoarch
Structure engineer: Matou Hayata
Structure: reinforced concrete
Storeys: three (lower-ground floor, ground floor, first floor)
Site area: 40.12m2
Building area: 24.06m2
Total floor area: 78.06m2
Site: Shibuya, Tokyo
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Jun 20
Pint-size Portable Audio With a Punch
Posted in: UncategorizedNo larger than the palm of your hand, the Maru speaker concept is the compact choice for BIG sound. Within its minimal frame is a hallow space concealing a 360° speaker for multidirectional, hi-def audio that sounds larger than the source. Its form not only envelopes a space in music, but keeps the delicate parts out of harms way. Its sleek, modern look and straightforward functionality are minimalistic perfection!
Designer: Darrien Tu
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Jun 20
Get Noticed in a Moment
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Moment Smartwatch, that is! While other smartwatch designs seems stuck on replicating the classic watch form, Moment is more similar to a bangle or wristband(don’t worry guys, it’s extremely gender neutral). This thinking outside the box allows for use of a flexible e-paper display with maximum efficiency, a larger message board for easy reading and, best of all, a FULL QWERTY KEYBOARD! Not to mention, a whopping 30 days of charge, biometric apps, an inductive charging system and more! It’s coming soon, so check out the vid for more!
Designer: Momentum Labs
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Jun 20
Yen Chen Chang's knitted sensors control everyday electronic products
Posted in: UncategorizedRoyal College of Art student Yen Chen Chang has used conductive yarns and threads to create tactile interfaces for electronic products that work by stroking, stretching or squeezing knitted objects (+ movie).
Knit Sensors was Yen Chen Chang‘s graduation project from the Design Products course at London’s RCA, and involved experimenting with conductive textiles to provide a more tangible alternative to touch screens and other typical interfaces.
“This project aims to encourage people to re-imagine how different electronics could be when integrating different sensing technology,” Chang told Dezeen.
“I wouldn’t say that it does a better job in sensing signals compared to other computing components, but textile is something that we are so familiar with, and so conventional that it could easily go into our daily life,” he said.
The yarn used by Chang comprises 80 per cent polyester and 20 per cent stainless steel, and is commonly used in wearable technology products such as conductive gloves that can operate touch screens.
The designer began his project by exploring the possibility of knitting standard electrical cables into self-supporting structures, which he realised generated a small amount of resistance because of the complexity of their intertwined surfaces.
Recognising that manipulating the surfaces affected the amount of resistance, Chang began to explore the possibility of weaving with conductive yarns connected to sensors that translate actions like stretching and pulling into voltage changes.
Three prototypes were developed to demonstrate the potential for the woven sensors to be applied in everyday scenarios to control household products.
“I looked into our daily life where these motions take place and re-imagined scenarios where these textile sensing interfaces could change the behaviour patterns of how we use electronic objects,” said Chang.
Squeezy Juicer is a simplified juicing machine connected to a large knitted ball that powers the juicer when the ball is squeezed.
Tension Lamp features a dangling woven rope with a voltage running through it that is altered by pulling on it. The rope is connected to an Arduino micro-controller that dims the lamp according to the voltage changes.
A carpet made from conductive yarn controls a fan in The Touch of a Breeze, which is intended to evoke the feeling of grass and a light wind. Stroking the carpet harder increases the strength of the breeze.
Chang also applied the technology to a wearable music device based on the simple gestures used in the music rhythm game Guitar Hero, which are similar to those used to play a keyboard and a guitar.
Touching two triggers with the right hand produces notes that can be modulated by folding over the fingers of a glove on the left hand to make contact with sensors on the palms.
The designer said he is interested in using his research to create products for the entertainment or clothing industries: “There are some well-known sportswear companies that produce knitted footwear and it would be exciting to develop wearable technologies with them,” he said.
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Jun 20
Alessandro Zambelli launches hexagonal Woodspot table lamp
Posted in: UncategorizedItalian designer Alessandro Zambelli has designed a lamp with a hexagonal wooden shade that extends over its light bulb like a hood to meet the surface of a table.
Alessandro Zambelli designed the Woodspot table lamp as a hexagonal pyramid that has had both its top and bottom diagonally sliced off.
“It could be the iconic meeting point between the rectangle of a frame and the cylinder of a stage spotlight, a shape in between,” Zambelli told Dezeen.
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Both made from pine, the shade and the base support one another, like the a photo frame with a prop behind.
Light from the bulb is cast onto both the natural wood interior of the shade and the surface it sits on.
The designer says his starting point for the design was a series of paintings called The Empire of Lights by surrealist artist René Magritte, which all feature a single street lamp glowing in a dark landscape.
“The emerging beam lightens the solid materiality of the wood and casts a warm and compact pool of light in the surrounding darkness,” said Zambelli.
Each lamp is made by hand, and the shade is available in pastel green, pink or white.
Zambelli will present Woodspot at Maison&Objet in Paris later this year for Italian brand Seletti. The designer also launched a lighting project at the most recent edition of the biannual design fair – a series of lamps with 3D-printed nylon shades that diffuse glow.
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Jun 19
Ex-Men: Jean Grey
Posted in: UncategorizedProfessor X tries to seduce Jean Grey telepathically. Feat. Deanna Russo…(Read…)
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