Hasta La Ideas

This week, Jet.com is hiring a visual designer, while Forbes is seeking an associate designer. Zinio needs a graphic designer, and MakerBot is on the hunt for a digital art director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

• Visual Designer Jet.com (Montclair, NJ)
• Associate Designer Forbes (New York, NY)
• Graphic Designer Zinio (New York, NY)
• Digital Art Director MakerBot (Brooklyn, NY)
• Graphic Designer Piaggio Group of Americas (New York, NY)

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A l’Atomium de Bruxelles, nous pouvons admirer la très belle installation de lumières LED « Out of Control » conçue par le collectif Visual System, l’auteur de science-fiction Stéphane Beauverger et sa nouvelle « Hors Contrôle » qui a inspiré cette installation. A découvrir à travers de superbes photos et deux vidéos sur une composition de Thomas Vaquié.

Crédits :
Visual System : Julien Guinard, Vincent Obadia, Benjamin Lorthioir, Pierre Gufflet, Ambroise Mouline, Joachim Correia, Tom Modeste, Sébastien Escudié, Valère Terrier.
Music : Thomas Vaquié.
Based on the original novel by Stéphane Beauverger.
Director : Henri Simons.
Technical Director : Johan Vandenperre.
And the entire Atomium team.

“There was no discussion” over the choice of architect Zaha Hadid to design the new exhibition at London’s Design Museum about how women in positions of power use fashion, according to its curators (+ slideshow).

“She sort of chose herself,” co-curator Colin McDowell told Dezeen during a press conference at the museum this morning. “She is such a force for originality and we wanted something that was up to the exhibition, because it’s a very strong one.”

London-based architect Zaha Hadid has designed the space and provided a set of outfits for Women Fashion Power, which opens at the Design Museum tomorrow.

“Really there was no discussion about it,” continued McDowell, a prominent British fashion writer and curator. “She was splendid, she behaved in exactly the way you’d want Zaha Hadid to behave. We never saw her. We saw the people who worked with her and we got messages passed backwards and forwards. It was an Olympian performance and I’m afraid I loved that.”

Hadid is among the 26 women that McDowell and Donna Loveday, head curator at the Design Museum, asked to contribute at least one outfit for the display and provide an explanation about their selections to be shown alongside.

“Initially, I knew that Zaha had an incredible wardrobe, which we were keen to get access to,” said Loveday. “But then we had the thought, well actually wouldn’t it be fantastic to ask Zaha to design the exhibition for us. I was very keen that we had a woman design the exhibition and a woman that’s designed the graphics within the exhibition [Lucienne Roberts], that was really important.”

Other women who have lent their clothes include Princess Charlène of Monaco, fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Diane von Furstenburg, gallerist Pearl Lam, Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet, and the first female mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who officially opened the exhibition this morning.

Among Hadid’s picks is a cream-coloured cape by Italian fashion house Prada, while Princess Charlène selected three outfits by Swiss brand Akris including a grey evening dress she wore to the pre-wedding dinner of Prince William and Kate Middleton – now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – in 2011.

Their garments are displayed on mannequins towards the back of the exhibition space, which Zaha Hadid Architects divided into three sections defined by “explosions”.

“We looked at many ideas surrounding women, fashion and power,” Zaha Hadid Design director Woody Yao told Dezeen. “We thought about recreating a dress, but in the end we came up with the idea for the explosions.”

White vertical partitions and plinths emanate from three points around the space, along with black lighting fixtures suspended from the ceiling.

“The entrance is a vanishing point, so you see all the lines converging towards you,” said Yao.

Information is displayed on sheets of translucent neon-yellow plastic, while sections of mirror are used on surfaces around the gallery.

A timeline examining the past 150 years of women’s fashion, from Victorian bone corsets to high heels by designer Christian Louboutin, is located in the area closest to the entrance.

Pieces worn by Princess Diana, former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli are shown alongside archive photographs and film footage.

The evolution of the “power suit” for women is also documented, from the first designs by Coco Chanel in the 1920s to the present-day iterations worn by businesswomen and politicians like former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

“It’s important for the visitor to follow a certain path through the experience to understand the fashion history,” Yao said.

“We worked with Zaha and her team very closely,” added Loveday, “and they have come up with a very bold, dramatic exhibition design that fully reflects the idea of power through fashion.”

In the final section, a movie produced by film maker Ruth Hogben is shown across a collection of wall-mounted screens.

The exhibition will be open to the public from tomorrow until 26 April 2015 at the Design Museum’s home on Shad Thames.

The museum will leave this building in 2016 to move to a new Kensington location, where it will offer visitors free entry to its permanent collection under a new UK VAT refund scheme.

Hadid’s company bought the Shad Thames building last year to house the archive of the architect’s work after the museum relocates.

Earlier this year the Design Museum named Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku as its Design of the Year 2014, a decision director Deyan Sudjic defended following widespread criticisms of the award on human rights grounds.

Photography is by Mirren Rosie.

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In the non-square, non-level, non-plumb world we live in, the Stanley FatMax laser level is one of the handiest tools I own. Can’t remember what I paid for it—mine is way outdated—but it was less than a hundred bucks, and X/Y only.

On the other end of the cost scale, a California-based company called Origin Laser Tools produces extremely expensive high-end laser levels. Optomechanical engineer Tim Litvin started the company in 2010 with the aim of making laser levels that would be the best of the best—with locally-sourced parts and construction:

Our laser’s mechanical parts are CNC-milled by a local machine shop, a local circuit board manufacturer fabricates and assembles our custom electronics… even the hand-checkered wooden grips are the product of a local craftsman. Almost every other component is also made in the United States. The components are finally assembled, by hand, here in Santa Cruz…

Our laser tools are an investment, made by craftsmen, for craftsmen. We hope they’ll become a tool that you’ll look forward to using, every day.

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Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with US print studio 08 Left to give readers the chance to win one of five graphic posters influenced by travel, transport and airports from around the world.

Founded in 2014, 08 Left takes its name from an instruction a pilot would be given on an airstrip – a theme that is reflected in the studio’s artwork, t-shirts and household accessories, which are based on airports, military bases and air traffic control towers.

The studio has put together over 350 designs, including graphic images of airports in Los Angeles, Barcelona and Rio di Janeiro. Posters can also be customised by selecting different colour palettes through the company’s website.

“The prints are for the lovers of flight, travel, and exploration,” 08 Left co-founder Ryan Miller told Dezeen. “Airports are bold in their size, their scope and their sheer power. There is nothing like a jet engine, let alone hundreds of them in one spot.”

Competition winners will receive an unframed 24 by 36-inch airport print of their choice. Each poster is designed at 08 Left’s studio in Washington state and hand-printed in California with high-quality ink on enhanced matte paper.

Competition closes on 25 November 2014. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. The winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

Here is more information from 08 Left:

Each poster is hand-printed and handled, to make sure that only the highest quality is offered and sent out.

The matte paper and high quality of inks make for a vibrant image which looks great both framed, and au-natural.

» Over 350 designs related to airport all over the world.
» Fully customisable.
» Themed around travel, airports, air traffic control and seeing the world.
» Specialising in art and metal prints and offer coasters, pillows, and t-shirts as well.
» We love to travel, love people who travel, and think the experience is worth remembering in art form.
» We also love aviation and all things related.

www.08left.com

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