LOTO is a clever little mouse that goes from a flat disc to a conical device. It’s high on portability and compliments a laptop perfectly. Inspired by the leaf of a lotus flower, this wired mouse is impressive and should see the light of day!
Designers: ACE Group, iFace – Kim Jinseok, Jang Junyoung, Jeon Seyong, Koo Yoori, Park Jungjun & Shin Jungwon
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Afin de concrétiser son projet en l’honneur du London Design Festival 2014, la designer Dan Tobin Smith a organisé une donation d’objets sur internet. Les internautes ont donc pu se débarrasser d’objets en tout genre. Ainsi, l’artiste a tapissé le sol de tout ce bric-à-brac amassé. En les classant minutieusement par couleurs, c’est un sublime sol chromatique qu’elle a pu réaliser.
Dezeen Watch Store:The Bradley, the tactile timepiece nominated for Design of the Year and our fastest-selling watch, is now available in a striking all-black model exclusively at Dezeen Watch Store.
Originally conceived as a watch for blind people, The Bradley has since gained a fanbase in the design community and has reshaped itself as a timepiece for the fashion-conscious.
“We are really excited about The Bradley Black and personally, I really like it,” Kim said in an interview with Dezeen Watch Store. “The design is the same, but it has a very different feeling. It will really help us to move forward and make another step towards being a more fashionable company.”
Instead of traditional watch hands, The Bradley features two ball bearings that are rotated by magnets set inside the case. Its titanium face also has raised batons and no cover, enabling the wearer to tell the time by touch alone.
“I think we’ve done a good job presenting The Bradley as a fashionable timepiece, not just as a watch for the blind,” Kim said. “People say it’s pretty much the only wristwatch out there that lets you feel time.”
The timepiece was launched after a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter and is named after Bradley Snyder – an ex-naval officer who won gold and silver medals at the London 2012 Paralympic Games despite losing his eyesight in the Afghanistan war.
A collection of differently sized cuboids make up the volume of this family house in Shiga, Japan, designed by architect Kouichi Kimura to offer “versatile spaces” with “light and scenery” (+ slideshow).
Kouichi Kimura, founder of Japanese studio FORM, developed the residence for a hilltop neighbourhood overlooking a lake, so he wanted the interiors to frame curated views of the scenic surroundings.
“The customer requested that the view be fully utilised and that the space be opened, while not being bothered by the eyes of the neighbourhood,” said the architect, whose past projects include a house that is just 2.7 metres wide.
Rather than adding too much glazing, Kimura was keen to use both small and large windows to create a hierarchy of views, providing spaces with different lighting conditions.
“Scenery viewed through a window is greatly affected by the size or position of the window,” he explained. “It is therefore essential to consider what should and shouldn’t be viewed in the scenery framed by the window, instead of being stereotyped to [always] take in a large area.”
Windows on both floors of the two-storey residence, known as Scape House S, are framed by a variety of built-in furniture elements that create seating areas, shelving and tables.
Not all of the windows create views between inside and outside – one offers a glimpse from the ground-floor corridor into a home office, while a low-level window frames a view into the children’s bedroom.
A staircase winds up through the centre of the residence to lead up to the first floor, where the majority of the living spaces are located. It also acts as a partition, separating a living area, dining space and compact kitchen.
Wall, ceiling and floors throughout the house present an assortment of finishes, including polished concrete, ceramic tiles, wooden panels, and plastered surfaces painted in shades of white and grey.
A small study sits at the rear of the dining area. A balcony wraps around it, creating a non-rectilinear space from which residents can survey their surroundings.
Large storage closets can be found on both levels, while the clients’ master bedroom occupies a square space on the ground floor.
Externally, the building is clad in corrugated metal and is raised up on a concrete base. A long narrow window is positioned on the centre of the facade.
“The dynamic configuration with the box-shape volumes and rhythmical layout of the windows produces beautiful life scenes where light and scenery are taken in,” added Kimura.
When I first started writing for this wonderful blog, the one you are on right now, I started off by writing about co-creative processes in relation to education and learning spaces. One of the offices that contacted me in relation to these articles was STL architects, a Spanish architecture studio based in Chicago. I arranged a Skype call with the two directors of the office, Luis Collado and Jose Luis de la Fuente, and we ended up talking for over an hour as shared our previous projects, work methods, processes and personal experiences.
In this interview you will be able to read about their way of working, the strategies when entering a project and their latest project, developing a 20-year master plan expansion for Wilbur Wright College in Chicago, which started working on in the beginning ofJjune this year.
Background Info
The Wilbur Wright College is one of seven Chicago City Colleges, designed by Bertrand Goldberg architect studio back in 1986, all of which are currently undergoing a major remodeling. At the moment, the college hosts students from the age of 18 and up. It is divided into three different programs: – Credit programs – Continuing education – Adult education Course offerings range from African American Studies to Zoology.
The goal for the central authority of the Chicago City Colleges is to create a 20-year master-plan expansion, while the end goal with the expansion plan for STL is to “create spaces that promote learning.”
A 20-year master-plan expansion
STL’s mission is to create a 20-year master plan expansion for Wright College, which includes taking the university through a major transformation from the inside of the organization to the outdoor lawns. One of these changes is transforming Wright College from being one of seven city colleges—which allow the students the possibility of studying almost anything between heaven and earth—to focusing on IT, making it the IT hub of the Chicago universities.
In order to be able to handle this big change, STL had to dig their teeth into more than just the exterior and interior of the building—they had to study the existing structure of the organization to get a true understanding of how to create, and be a part of, a lasting change.
Based on previous experience, STL had prepared themselves for a rather stubborn, and difficult-to-please client, similar to the ones they had encountered in the past. But to their great surprise, that wasn’t the case this time around. The client, which in this case consists of administrators, stakeholders, students and the central authority of City Colleges, completely broke this perception by giving STL loads of encouragement and support.
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