Utilisant le Pentax 67, un appareil photo mythique, Maison Carnot nous invite avec cette jolie vidéo à découvrir la capitale de la France à travers le capteur de l’appareil, donnant ainsi encore plus de romantisme et de charme aux images. Une vidéo sympathique signée par Mathieu Maury & Antoine Pai à découvrir dans la suite.
Cornwall-based production duo Kinds. (aka Karen Warner and Mark Morrish) have sent us a great new track called Run.
Structurally ambitious, with interesting rhythms that build up and drop out in unexpected ways, the song is held together by Warner’s effortlessly catchy vocals that are a delight throughout.
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London design practice Studioilse has moved into Copenhagen design gallery The Apartment for a three-month residency (+ slideshow).
Studioilse has upped sticks from its south-east London home and moved to Copenhagen to take up residence in The Apartment, a former apartment taken over by the gallery that the studio has fitted out to look like a home again.
To fulfil the brief of the residency, Studioilse has created a lived-in atmosphere with design, people, kitchen suppers and lively discussions.
“We love the idea of approaching this project less as an exhibition or showcase and more as a residency,” said Studioilse founder Isle Crawford. “We’d like to inhabit The Apartment not just with our designs, but also with people and life.”
“Too much design today is showcased or exhibited rather than experienced or used. What attracts us to The Apartment setting is that this is a real apartment in a residential building and hence a setting where the furniture and objects all make perfect sense.”
Two new Studioilse designs made their debut when The Residency commenced this month: The Ilse Sofa for George Smith, and The Brass Cabinet for Jack Trench. Studioilse’s furniture collections for De La Espada and the Ilse collection for Georg Jensen also feature in the space.
“What ties everything we do together is a belief that good design supports human life and behaviour – be it a neighbourhood, a building, a space, a piece of furniture or a product,” said Crawford.
The Residency places the design in a domestic context that encourages use and interaction: up-and-coming chef Frederik Bille Brahe of Atelier September has been commissioned to cook a series of kitchen suppers in the space to encourage discussion about life and therefore about design.
“As a studio, we have a strong belief in the power of food, for bringing people together and encouraging discussion,” Crawford said. “Hence the idea of a restaurant makes perfect sense.”
A series of talks are also set to take place in the space, with proposed topics including: the power of a neighbourhood, what craft and skills mean today, buildings from the inside out, what wellbeing really means, and how to better engage all the senses.
“Our program of Kitchen Table Talks is another way of ensuring the residency is not just a furniture exhibition, but a more complete showcase of the Studioilse mindset,” explained Crawford. “We want to create a platform that encourages discussion in different areas that our work touches.”
“In today’s increasingly digitally reliant world, it’s becoming a rare luxury to get a group of people around the table to talk, in person, on a dedicated subject – sharing food, sharing opinions,” she added.
The Studioilse residency at The Apartment will run until 2 November.
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The book publishing industry may be shifting tectonically and perhaps irrevocably as we speak, but, as with vinyl, the cover endures as a canonical canvas for graphic design. The follow-worthy Casual Optimist recently brought a series of Gunter Rambow‘s amazing book-centric posters to our attention. Designed for the S. Fischer Verlag publishing house in the 70’s, these graphics exemplify the light touch required to pull off visual self-reference. These book posters tread between clean forms and surrealist art, walking the delicate line of sight gags without crossing into the crap zone.
Magritte would be proud…
It should go without saying that Rambow created these works of art before the advent of Photoshop and its epiphenomenal ‘bombardment,’ though it’s worth noting that the clever visual puns still hold up today.
…as would M.C. Escher.
For the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale (on now through 23 November), the exhibition’s curator Rem Koolhaas selected the arguably ambiguous theme of “Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014” as a guide for all participating nations. As one would…
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Japanese design studio Nendo has had a prolific year, adding a diverse range of new products to its portfolio, so we’ve rounded up ten of the best projects featured on Dezeen in the last 12 months.
Taking its name from the Japanese term for modelling clay, Nendo was founded in 2002 by Oki Sato and is best known for designing high-concept furniture, retail stores and exhibition spaces. But in the last year, the studio has added a string of unexpected and playful items to its output that have proven popular with Dezeen readers.
Draftsmen 01-Scale mimics measuring tools used by the professionals who create architectural drawings by hand, and is the first in a series of watches that replicate graphics from ruler increments.
“We hoped our design would function like a tool to help wearers measure time as they would measure length,” explained the studio.
Hour markers are printed directly onto the lenses of the 36mm men’s and 28mm women’s editions, and each watch comes with a calf-leather strap. Click here to find out more or order Draftsmen 01-Scale from Dezeen Watch Store »
As part of a collaboration with Walt Disney Japan, Nendo created a series of tables based on characters from the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
The Pooh Table collection comes in a variety of sizes and silhouettes that are intended to reference defining features of characters from the books and cartoons.
“To reflect the stories’ setting in the Hundred Acre Wood, the tables use natural-feel maple extensively, and come in sizes and silhouettes intended to recall the stories’ characters,” said the studio. Find out more »
Several months later, the studio created a series of Winnie-the-Pooh glassware for Walt Disney Japan as a follow-up to the Pooh-tables.
The studio designed yellow silicon bases and tops that depict the cartoon bear in action, which fit together with glass jars and cups.
“Rather than focus our design attention on the glassware, we chose to redesign the coasters and lids,” said Nendo. Find out more »
Proving that they can also design for real animals, Nendo created a three-piece collection of transformable dog accessories.
The range includes a double-sided ceramic bowl, malleable toy bones made from silicon and an artificial leather bed that pops up to become a little hut or can be used as a cushion. Find out more »
Using a traditional Japanese paper-making technique, the studio produced a collection of egg-shaped lamps that are smooth at one end and lightly wrinkled at the other.
Because of the specialised process used the make the paper, the lamps are so smooth that they “can be confused with white glass or plastic,” suggested the studio.
In order to create the unusual shape Nendo joined forces with Taniguchi Aoya Washi, a company in western Japan that specialises in making three-dimensional objects using the same technique. Find out more »
The SU stool is based on American furniture company Emeco‘s iconic Navy Chair and features aluminium legs as well as interchangeable seats, made from recycled and reclaimed materials.
“Emeco is about providing tools for architects and interior designers and I think SU is really in line with that,” Sato told Dezeen. Find out more »
The Tokyo-based studio collaborated with a traditional manufacturer of lacquered chopsticks from the town of Obama in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture, to release a series of contemporary chopstick designs.
Nendo devised six styles of chopstick including Kamiai, which uses a magnet to bind a pair together, and the flower-inspired Hanataba. Find out more »
This year also saw the studio design a wide range of eyewear including the Magne-hinge glasses, which use magnets in place of traditional screw hinges, making the glasses more flexible and durable.
“The temples release smoothly when pulled from the side, so that users can create different looks by purchasing temples in different colours and materials,” suggested the studio. Find out more »
Nendo and Spanish shoe brand Camper teamed up to make Eclipse, a range of tinted sunglasses that combine the hues of two translucent polycarbonate lenses over each eye.
“The lenses slide perfectly together without any space between them, thus avoiding any risk of air bubbles,” Nendo explained. Find out more »
A further venture into fashion design saw Oki Sato’s team create Envelope, a collection of suede and leather boat shoes for luxury brand Tod’s.
The shoes are fastened using a string system based on a postal envelope closure and feature a rubber sole, near-invisible stitching and a breathable mesh interior. Find out more »
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If you’ve ever been in a long-distance relationship, you know firsthand the challenges of coordinating across time zones to connect with parents, friends and partners. Phone calls are painstakingly scheduled, then spent catching up with a myriad of questions about the day-to-day in an effort to feel closer. Recently, a group of designers proposed a novel way to facilitate that connection: through a set of Internet-connected lights that reflect the weather conditions of another’s location.
Called Patch of Sky, the lighting collection was conceived and developed at Fabrica, a communication research center in Treviso, Italy, in a collaboration between six designers, strategists and developers: Leonardo Amico, Federico Floriani, Reda Jouahri, Alice Longo, Akshataa Vishwanath and Giorgia Zanellato.
“Fabrica hosts designers and artists from all over the world, thus distance and nostalgia are naturally recurring topics,” explains Amico. “Drawing from these conversations, we had the idea for Patch of Sky, an object that would silently connect people over distance, just by letting them ‘share the sky’ under which they’re living.” With that inkling of an idea, Amico and Akshataa invited the other four to join the team; collectively, they brought the project from ideation to fruition over the course of a year, completing it in early 2014.
The lights are made of painted wood and one-way mirror glass, and they come in three versions, for mounting on a wall or placing on a desk. Housed inside each device is an Arduino Uno and custom electronics that control an RGB LED strip. The purchaser of a light must first log in to a website with his or her own Facebook account (sorry Facebook holdouts, you’re out of luck), entering a key that will uniquely identify each Patch of Sky device. That device will then be associated with that Facebook user, displaying animations from the account’s most recent location. While they have yet to iron out all of the kinks, the Patch of Sky team envisions most customers ordering the product as a gift for a loved one, linking it to Facebook before specifying the recipient’s address.
The recipient of the light must connect a small device called the Berg Cloud Bridge to an Internet router. The Bridge will then facilitate a wireless Internet connection with the Patch of Sky—now able to continuously transmit data from the user’s Facebook account, pulling his or her location and retrieving the local meteorological conditions from a weather web service. That information is then generalized to one of 11 predetermined weather options, each linked to a lighting animation.
Featured on Yanko earlier this year, we’re excited to announce that the revolutionary nCycle has move to a prototype phase… which means one step closer to you! Conceived as the ultimate expression of automotive beauty for e-bikes, the nCycle incorporates only the very essence of the vehicle itself and discards all the superfluous elements. The result of this approach is a single, continuously flowing frame which simultaneously outlines and defines the e-bike as a viable next generation vehicle.
Designer: Hussain Almossawi & Marin Myftiu
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This week’s job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a construction project coordinator at Aesop, whose Shepherd’s Bush store (pictured) has walls covered with grey wool felt. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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