Epiforma est un studio de design portugais fondé par Felipe Ferreira & Francisco Ribero. Avec Meanwhile Curiosities nous montre qu’en plus du graphisme, ceux-ci sont capables d’imaginer des meubles et set designs de grande qualité avec ce projet coloré ‘Meanwhile Curiosities’ à découvrir en images dans la galerie.
You’ve still got more than two months to catch the Museum of the City of New York’s “City as Canvas” exhibition of graffiti from the Martin Wong collection. For a bite-sized dose, pick up a copy of the latest issue of Time Out New York, on newsstands today, which features an original cover by George “SEN One” Morillo. The graffiti artist, a lifelong Upper West Sider, was an ideal fit for TONY‘s uptown-themed issue. “Being born and raised uptown, and seeing the gentrification process all my life and seeing everybody coming up, it fits who I am,” he tells the magazine. “That story connects to my story.”
As for how that story connects with the street art of today, Morillo points to the humble origins of slick tools with names like Krink and Grog. “We made markers by popping the balls out of roll-on deodorant, putting in the soft stuff from school erasers, and filling the containers with ink. Those techniques, as primitive as they might seem, led to the markers they sell now,” he says. “Vandals created an industry, and it all comes out of the Upper West Side.”
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Initially introduced in 2013, the Moxie from Kohler combines a traditional shower-head and wireless speaker. Now, to make the experience even better, Kohler recently introduced the recordOutboundLink(this,…
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Creative people who love sketching can rejoice as Adonit bring us a brand new stylus: the Jot Touch with Pixelpoint. It is essentially a new stylus that combines a discless fine point tip with features like pressure sensitivity and shortcut buttons. Recommended for digital artists, the biggest advantage is its fine point tip.
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As we all know Adonit recently partnered with Adobe, so this stylus is also the first third-party stylus that’s Creative Cloud connected. This is quite a feather in their cap and an industry first too.
Designer: Adonit [ Buy it Here ]
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Japanese architect Yoichi Yamamoto has suspended colourful strips of wood from the ceiling of an Issey Miyake boutique in Tokyo, which from certain angles look like five solid chairs (+ slideshow).
Yoichi Yamamoto designed the installation for the window of Issey Miyake‘s Ginza boutique Elttob Tep.
Like Yamamoto’s previous installation for the store, which involved creating the illusion of chair legs by painting them on the ground, the project uses perspective to trick the eye.
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“I was interested in the philosophy of Issey Miyake who designs dresses with a dimensional method and I wanted it to have some relevance to my previous work 2D/3D chairs,” Yamamoto told Dezeen. “Random pieces which are only vertical and horizontal have abstract beauty.”
Yamamoto used Japanese cypress wood for the installation, for its “light weight and precision”, painting the pieces in bright colours to coordinate with the boutique’s clothing and accessories.
The sections of wood were hung in place using a combination of stainless steel wire and monofilament – more commonly known as fishing wire.
Vertical strips form the legs and backrests of the chairs, while horizontal pieces create seats that have been used to display a collection of coloured and metallic bags.
The installation will feature in-store until the end of June.
Issey Miyake has collaborated with numerous architects and designers for past shop installations, which include a series of interlocking coloured sticks by Emmanuelle Moureaux and a display of 2D shapes by Tokujin Yoshioka that fold into structured dresses.
Photography is by Yoichi Yamamoto.
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When studying industrial design, you’ll find most programs will have you build at least a couple of pieces of furniture, whether you’re a Furniture Design major or not. But the main output always seems to be in wood or metal, with most programs simply too short on time to teach the art of upholstery.
So it’s helpful, we think, for the aspiring but inexperienced furniture designer to see how upholstered furniture comes together. Your program has undoubtedly taught you rudimentary wood-joining, and maybe you’ve learned to weld and finish with an angle grinder, but there’s an entire science of straps, webbing, springs, nails, tacks, foam, glue, fabric, buttons and thread you may have never seen. Here are three different pieces being assembled by Shanghai-based Novaz Furniture.
First up, a bed frame with an upholstered headboard and footboard. It starts off with the woodwork and glue-ups you’re probably already familiar with, but the second half covers the upholstery:
Since 1998, Zurich-based optician-turned-designer Sven Götti has been dreaming up shapes and concepts (releasing about 40 new models each year) that tickle his fancy. At first glance, götti Switzerland frames look pretty conventional with clean lines…
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Have you ever experienced a Doctor Fish pedicure? It’s basically this school of fish in a tub of water, where you soak your feet in and they come and nibble on the dead skin of your feet. Based on this idea is the Pecera Robot Fish Washing Machine, a very interesting concept that doesn’t require any detergents and saves water.
The concept is a part of the 2014 Electrolux Design Lab competition.
Designer: Chan Yeop Jeong
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Eggpicnic est le nom d’un duo de designers basé à Sydney composé de Camila De Gregorio & Christopher Macaluso et qui imagine avec un talent fou des jouets et peluches tous plus réussis les uns que les autres. Découvrez une sélection de leurs différentes créations dans l’article.
This flexible seating structure by Finnish designer Kirsi Enkovaara can be rolled and folded into a plethora of configurations to support the body in comfortable or strange positions (+ movie).
The Body is Kirsi Enkovaara‘s graduation project from the Design Products course at London’s Royal College of Art and was designed to encourage people to reevaluate how they sit.
The six-metre-long ribbed structure can be transformed into any shape and retains its position so the sitter can perch or lie on it in any way they find comfortable.
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“From early on we learn what is the right way for sitting in our own culture and have seats that encourage these ways of sitting, but often we can find ourselves sitting in very odd positions in standardised seats,” Enkovaara told Dezeen.
“This seat provides an opportunity and encouragement to let a person dictate the way of sitting. It encourages awareness how a person and an individual body likes to sit and provides a platform for interaction and research into individual ways of sitting,” she added.
A flesh-coloured strip of canvas with seams stitched along its length is filled with grains of rice that help the structure hold its shape once positioned.
The friction of the granules inside the fabric tubes creates a rigid form with enough movement to shape itself around the user’s body.
Enkovaara said she experimented with other granular materials for the stuffing including various sizes of plastic pellets, but settled on rice because of its ability to maintain a solid structure.
“The rice inside ensures that while seated the structure moulds to your body and even the more unconventional positions can be comfortable,” the designer explained.
“Rice is a renewable and very accessible material,” she added. “Throughout history it has been used in Japan in pillows offering a more ecological and economical option to foam.”
Folded shapes add height to create surfaces for sitting or for use as backrests, while twisted forms provide enclosed spaces for burrowing into.
Stretching the shape out to form undulating elongated surfaces allows it to be used like a chaise longue, while rolling it up offers more conventional seating options.
The simple shape of the unfolded product was designed to offer optimum flexibility so the user is able to adapt it to their own body shape and enjoy finding the most comfortable configuration.
“While designing it, I went through multiple variations of the basic shape from round to more complex shapes but all of them ended up restricting the way it could be bent and shaped,” said the designer. “I find the beauty of this product being when the simple form turns into various complicated configurations as a result of human interaction.”
Enkovaara said she is now aiming to refine the product in the hope of finding a manufacturer who can produce it for the domestic market.
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