Down a dark set of stairs, just off the NYC Museum of Sex’s main lobby, a new temporary exhibition from Peruvian artist and puppet-maker Ety Fefer transports guests into otherworldliness. “); return…
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Drawing is about muscle control, and muscle control comes from reps. Which is why Professor Gary, our Drawing teacher at ID school had us draw hundreds, then thousands, of cubes in perspective. And once we’d gotten those down to his satisfaction, we drew yet more cubes in perspective, then started filling the planes with ellipses.
There is no shortcut, he taught. If your circles suck, draw 10,000 of them and at some point they’ll stop sucking.
Well, turns out there is a shortcut, at least for drawing circles of a few specific sizes. Not much applicability for ID sketching, but it was clever enough that we at least had to show you:
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects designed this wedge-shaped museum near Aarhus with a planted roof that rises from the sloping landscape to create a site for picnics in summer and sledging in winter (+ slideshow).
The new home for the Moesgaard Museum was conceived by Henning Larsen Architects to house a collection dedicated to prehistory and ethnography that was previously accommodated in a nearby manor.
Positioned on the side of a hill in the suburb known as Skåde, the building is partly submerged in its rural site and features a roof that slopes more steeply than the terrain to create an angular section.
The roof is covered in grass, moss and flowers, and interrupted by apertures that form terraces, allowing natural light to enter exhibition spaces arranged over three storeys.
Towards the top of the roof, a horizontal section juts out to form a lookout point offering vistas of the surrounding countryside and Aarhus Bay, from which the museum’s profile is visible.
During the summer months the roof can be used for picnics, barbecues, lectures and other events such as the traditional Midsummer’s Day celebrations. In the winter, the snow-covered slope will provide an ideal site for sledging.
Inside the building, the terraced layout is intended to reference “archaeological excavations gradually unearthing the layers of history and exposing lost cities.”
The museum’s entrance leads to a 750-square-metre lobby that spans the entire building and contains a ticket desk, cloakroom and cafe situated around the wide central staircase.
The staircase connects the lobby to exhibition spaces on the levels above and below, and also houses a display of seven anatomically accurate models depicting various stages of human evolution.
A glazed section of the wall adjacent to the staircase fills the lobby with daylight and incorporates doors that open onto a large terrace carved into the angled roofline.
A permanent exhibition dedicated to Denmark’s Viking history is situated in the lower galleries, which feature 12 metre ceilings that can accommodate large-scale exhibits including burial mounds and sets recreating parts of Viking towns.
On the level of the foyer, a large multipurpose hall described by museum director Jan Skamby Madsen as “the biggest of its kind in northern Europe” can be used to host temporary exhibitions and conferences or other events.
Henning Larsen Architects has also recently been appointed to oversee the development of a train station for a new city near Copenhagen and to deliver a town hall for a Swedish city that’s being relocated after mining caused the ground below to be destabilised.
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Basée à Seattle, l’artiste Carol Milne a inventé une technique pour concevoir des sculptures en verre représentant du tricotage. Elle fait d’abord un modèle en cire qu’elle met dans un moule et qui peut résister à une forte température. Ensuite, elle fait fondre une partie de la cire et intègre du verre à l’intérieur du moule. Elle place le tout dans un four à céramique à 1400-1600 degrés Fahrenheit. Et pour finaliser son travail, elle laisse la sculpture refroidir pendant quelques semaines.
Intriguing future book alert! According to the readerly repast that is Publishers Lunch, designer Ayse Birsel has inked a deal for Design the Life You Love, “a playful, creative, interactive book that teaches readers how to use Birsel’s own design process to think like a designer, and design the life they love.” The co-founder of Birsel + Seck, an expert at deconstruction at reconstruction, will publish the volume with Ten Speed Press.
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Louise Fili has done it again. The designer of all things bello, including stunning packaging and branding for the likes of Jean-Georges, Tiffany & Co., and Sarabeth’s, turns her Italophilic eye to signage in the pages of Grafica della Strada: The Signs of Italy, new from Princeton Architectural Press. The chunky yet compact book is a photographic diary of sorts, revealing the most inventive restaurant, hotel, street, and advertising signs spotted by Fili over three decades’ worth of Italian travels. “These signs chart the highs and lows of Italian typography, from a classically elegant gold leaf script for a Turin jewelry store to a very spirited (and unreadable) type rendered in orange and blue dimensional plastic letters for a shop selling doormats in Rome,” notes Fili by way of introduzione. “From the sublime to the ridiculous, each and every one, in its unique way, is dear to me.”
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With London Design Festival having wrapped up only a couple of weeks ago, we headed over this week over to the other LDF in Łódź, Poland. Although the design scene of Poland may be relatively in its infancy, this year’s festival in Łódź—the country’s third biggest city, pronounced something link ‘wodch’— marks the 8th year for the event, the words ‘Brave New World’ having been chosen as title and theme of this edition.
A large part of the festival hub in Łódź this year has been handed over to London-based designer and thinker Daniel Charny—founder of studio From Now On and rebel rousing advocate of the maker movement—to create a prototype of his proposed ‘Fixhub’ spaces. Building on the models and cultures of public makerspace like FabLabs and Repair Cafe, Charny’s Fixhubs are part fix-shop, part library and part gallery brought together in a one stop shop for communities to be inspired, informed and equipped to action to extend the lifespan or usefulness of their belongings.
With lots of making workshops going on and a rack of materials to read, the gallery portion of the space showcased a wide range of making and hacking projects—a collection that Charny believes points to the coming of age of the maker movement. Likening the process to the early days of filmmaking, all the novelty and wacky experimentation (arguably much need to allow for learning) is finally giving way to works of much greater significance.
Launching officially at Dutch Design Week, Belgian studio Unfold gave festival goers in Łódź a sneak peek of their incredible ‘Of Instruments and Archetypes’—a set of instruments that measure physical objects and transfer the dimensions to a digital model in real time, allowing users to then send these files off for 3D printing. On show with the video of the tools in action was a selection of vessels hacked with tools, different objects having been used for handles.
Belgian creative agency Dift has enlisted furniture brands including Artifort and Ikea to turn the rooms of a school set for demolition into temporary hotel suites during Biennale Interieur 2014 (+ slideshow).
Dift‘s Eyes/Nights Only project for the Kortrijk design event is located in one of the oldest parts of the city’s Broelschool, which was formerly a nunnery.
The abandoned building will soon be knocked down to make way for luxury flats, but has been repurposed for the 10-day festival.
Dift decided to bring life back into a series of rooms over two floors. “Our rationale was creating affordable sleeping space for designers and design lovers,” studio co-founder Bert Pieters told Dezeen.
“We quickly understood our focus should be creating inspiring rooms. We wanted it to be a haven for those who are on the road during events like the Biennale Interieur, and a nice exhibition to visit.”
By day, visitors to the biennale can explore the spaces. Then after 9pm, the exhibition closes so guests can get comfortable in their lodgings for the night.
There’s also a two-hour slot in the mornings between occupants leaving and visitors arriving for the rooms to be cleaned and tidied.
To furnish the rooms, the agency approached furniture brands to come up with interpretations of a hotel room using their own products – sometimes singularly, and sometimes in pairs or groups.
“We started contacting different brands to see what their take on a hotel room might be,” said Pieters. “Most of them were enthusiastic as soon as they visited the building.”
The Broelschool’s original features – including colourful walls, ornate cornicing and patterned tiles – are different in each room, though are slightly dilapidated. The brands had to adapt their own styles to complement these palettes and materials.
“The great thing is people often don’t see immediately which brand it is and are surprised by the brand’s approach,” Pieters said.
Swedish furniture company Ikea‘s space is built as a filing cabinet for dreams, using its Nornas modular storage system in green to form tall partitions on both sides of the sleeping area. Small toy sheep are suspended over the bed to help the occupant drift off.
On the other side is a lounge and dining area, where grey sofas are scattered with cushions is various shades of green and a dark trestle table sits on the patterned tile floor.
The Arbijt room designed by Olivier Roels is built as a raised wooden structure, broken up by gauze panels into different zones for sleeping and dressing.
An ornate green-painted room is filled with simple neutral furniture by Dutch brand Artifort, while the Old Master’s Room has been kitted out by Antwerp store Espoo using minimal Scandinavian pieces and lots of plants.
For the smallest room in the project, Dift designed a graphic wallpaper print based on the glasswork of the building and designer Ilse Acke added translucent curtains striped with the colours of the surroundings.
Belgian store Ydee brought in furniture from its collection by Danish brands Muuto and Normann Copenhagen to complement the pink hues of Boss Paints‘ latest range, which have been used to redecorate the walls and ceiling.
Two beds in this space are arranged head to head at an oblique angle across the room, separated by a shelving unit made up of wooden boxes.
One pastel-coloured space is minimally furnished by Belgian lighting brand Vormen, while Orac Decor is displaying its coving products around the room and on the headrest in another.
Samsung and Atelier Belge teamed up to kit out the laundry room, and the lobby features furnishings by Durlet.
Eyes/Nights Only is open for the duration of Biennale Interieur 2014, which continues until 26 October.
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Mocci provides 3D printed jewelry but takes it a step further by gold plating the end result. Let me clarify. The 3D print is actually used to create the molds that inform the master. Once you’ve got the master, you can pretty much replicate it and do anything you want with it. 3D printing enables the designer to quickly alter and customize the design. They’re currently running a Kickstarter campaign and their first collection celebrates geometry and the year of the horse! Hit the jump!
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