L’artiste Matthew Chambers fabrique à la main des sculptures de vaisselles en céramique qu’il superpose et juxtapose sous plusieurs couches et avec un mouvement circulaire. Sans esquisse pré-dessinée, il crée sur le vif, grâce à une roue de potier sur laquelle il appose une dizaine de couches de céramique pour en faire une structure solide.
Modern furniture and fittings are paired with stone walls and exposed roof trusses inside this old Spanish farm that Dom Arquitectura has transformed into a residence and guest house (+ slideshow).
The old house is one of just 20 residences of a tiny village in La Cerdanya – a historical region in the eastern Pyrenees where industry traditionally centred around agriculture.
Related story: Weathered steel and traditional stone combine in Zest Architecture’s restored farmhouse
Barcelona-based Dom Arquitectura was tasked with transforming a series of small buildings, including the farmhouse, a barn, a warehouse and a hay storage space, to create a home for the client and several accompanying guest suites.
“Our client wanted to rehabilitate the space set,” explained studio founder Pablo Serrano Elorduy, whose previous projects include a shoe shop in a converted butchers.
“We kept the volumes of the existing buildings, rehabilitating their facades and roofs and redistributing all interior spaces,” he said.
The buildings all centre around the old farmyard, known as a badiu, which now becomes a private courtyard where residents and guests can interact with one another while taking in the landscape.
There are four suites in total – two in the main house, and another two split between the smaller buildings. Each features two storeys, allowing bedrooms to be kept away from living and dining spaces.
“The idea is to create large spaces, in a rural environment, where the surrounding privileged views become part of the interior,” said the architect.
Some walls and surfaces have been replastered and painted white, but many of the stone surfaces have been left uncovered. New wooden flooring has also been introduced and this extends up the base of the walls in some areas.
A mixture of modern pendant lighting and basket shades hang down between the exposed wooden trusses to create low-level lighting.
New staircases were created from folded steel, while stable doors and window shutters are made from wood.
The studio also introduced tiling, with splashes of red, green and blue interspersed with shades of cream and yellow ochre.
Photography is by Jordi Anguera.
Project credits:
Architect: Pablo Serrano Elorduy
Interior designer: Blanca Elorduy
Collaborators: Carlota de Gispert
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Depuis 2008, la firme Airbnb basée à San Francisco connecte les individus avec des expériences uniques de voyage à travers le monde. Cette fois-ci, ils collabore avec la compagnie aérienne KLM pour offrir la chance de passer une nuit dans un avion. A découvrir .
Our latest pick of new graphics work includes an open-source identity for an exhibition in Brisbane, branding for global education initiative #UpForSchool and a contemporary new logo for the Swedish Handicraft Association…
Burst Open
Brisbane creative collective Inkahoots has created what it claims may be the first ever augmented, performative, open-source identity for Burst Open, an open-source design exhibition at Brisbane’s Gallery Artisan.
To create the identity, Inkahoots invited people around the world to create a typographic ‘O’ and a statement about open-source design. Fragments of the various ‘O’s were then used to create the exhibition logo (below), while images and text were used to make an interactive animation projected onto a window in the gallery.
The animation is controlled by movement: ‘O’s morph in response to visitors rotating their arms and tracing an ‘O’ in the air while raising arms pauses the film, displaying the name and location of the creator of that ‘O’ and their statement about open source design. (The posture participants begin with when tracing the arc of the letter is also the semaphore symbol for ‘O’). As well as forming part of the exhibition, it’s a great way to encourage people inside:
Exhibition graphics and signage (shown top and below) feature materials and processes commonly used in open-source design, such as plywood, acrylic and etching:
And Inkahoots’ Jason Grant says the collective identity offers “an expanded collective engagement with the exhibition’s themes. It resists the smothering ideology of ‘branding’ while allowing for visual manifestations of identity that incorporate time, space and the body. And it’s fun!” he says.
#UpForSchool
#UpForSchool is a new campaign launched by Sarah Brown’s education initiative A World At School, which aims to put pressure on world leaders to deliver on an agreed Millennium Development Goal to provide every child in the world with access to education by 2015. The campaign invites members of the public to pledge their support in person or via an online petition, and is hoping to collect 24 million signatures.
Brand consultancy The Partners devised the campaign name and identity, which has so far been applied to t-shirts, badges, stickers, posters, banners and a film promoting Up For School. The identity is based around an image of a schoolbook pointing upwards, with a colour palette inspired by children’s textbooks.
“The #UpForSchool brand is an energetic, inspiring identity, and part of the increasing trend for charities to step away from emotional appeals to frame their brand and mission in a bold, affirmative manner. By creating a positive buzz that invites participation rather than financial donation, the #UpForSchool brand provides a platform for the millions of young people to connect and make their voices heard,” explains The Partners.
The name is also designed to be used as a call to action, such as ‘Sign Up For School’ and ‘Stand Up For School’, as shown in the clip below:
Swedish Handicraft Societies
Malmo studio Snask was recently tasked with designing a new logo and identity for the Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies, a not-for-profit group which aims to promote and preserve traditional craft. The association recently celebrated its centenary and in 2013, decided to group its various activities – from educational programmes to retail shops – under one name.
“With over 17,000 members, 22 regional offices and eight retail shops they had a big challenge to gather everything under one brand,” says creative director Fredrik Öst.
Instead of opting for a hand-drawn or traditional logo, Snask designed a flexible 3D ‘H’ that can be constructed using any combination of materials. The yellow and blue colour palette provides a nod to Sweden’s national flag, but is coupled with black, white and grey for a more contemporary feel.
“We changed the associations of Swedish Handicraft from old butter knifes and knitting into everything made by hand, thus creating something modern but with a rich history of knowledge and experience,” adds Öst.
The identity has also been applied to a range of merchandise and Snask has created some colourful graphic patterns for use on tote bags, wrapping paper and packaging:
The Wellcome Collection – The Institute of Sexology
The Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition, The Institute of Sexology, claims to be the first UK show uniting the research and work of pioneers in the study of sex, from Sigmund Freud and Alfred Kinsey to German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (who also founded one of the first organisations promoting the rights of sexual minorities).
The exhibition runs until September 2015 and aims to chart how sex has been observed and analysed from the 19th century to the present day through a brilliantly bizarre collection of objects spanning art, science, film and photography. Artefacts include erotic prints and pottery, sex manuals and studies into the sexual behaviour of animals, as well as campaigns launched to promote safe sex during the Aids pandemic.
The exhibition graphics were art directed by John Morgan Studio and are suitably clinical, with bold white type and warnings of “material of a sexual nature”. To promote the show, The Wellcome Collection has also installed large scale questionnaires in Shoreditch, which invite passers-by to tick boxes indicating their sexual preferences, while a teaser released online provides a playful glimpse of the content on display. Objects are also showcased in a hardback book (designed in-house and overseen by John Morgan), which features the same bold type alongside suggestive imagery.
Images via The Wellcome Collection
The Institute of Chartered Engineers Benevolent Fund
London studio Powell Allen has rebranded the Institute of Civil Engineers Benevolent Fund, which provides financial advice and support for ICE members and their families. The system is based around a yellow speech bubble, also designed to look like a hard hat, which is used to highlight the various services the Fund offers.
“[The Benevolent Fund] does great work but this wasn’t reaching or being recognised by enough people. We created a brand to make the organisation more approachable, understandable and relevant,” says creative director Christoper Allen. The Fund’s new website launched last week, and the identity has also been applied to a range of information packs alongside black and white illustrations. It’s a simple but effective system, providing the Fund with a much clearer and stronger tone of voice.
30 years of Carter Wong
To celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, London design studio Carter Wong has released a charming pocket sized book, 30 memorable years, showcasing some of its finest work to date. The book includes a look at work for Walls, Ortmans Young, Formula 1 and Twinings – as well as a glimpse of Carter Wong’s first job sheet:
It’s a lovely reminder of some great projects and a charming way to celebrate the studio’s milestone. You can also read more about the studio’s work in our November issue (shown below), in which we talk to founders Phil Carter and Phil Wong and managing director Sarah Turner about combining craft with great ideas…
No more strapping and restrapping over and over while you’re commuting. The Wolffepack is the world’s first and only backpack that swings your stuff to the front but stays strapped to your back to give the user better access, more comfort and greater security. Need to sit? Swing it around! Someone acting shady on the bus? Secure it on your chest. Need something in your bag? Swing to the front for easy access. See it in action —>
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The hands-free FLOTE ipad/tablet stand has a clean design and is as sophisticated as the technology that it supports. Referred by many as a work of art, it is by far the world’s premium brand of adjustable tablet stands.
Take high quality music wherever you go with this luxurious limited edition of the SWITCH in black copper by Native Union. This stylish piece is a portable Bluetooth speaker, a professional conference call device and a mobile power bank all in one!
In an attempt to re-create the 19th century legendary design of the wrist strap that was used to carry pocket watches, (Also known then as “Wristlet”) the Wristlet Watch was born!
The Cubit STEEL Watch has an interesting parallelogram shaped dial. You’ll love this on your wrist!
Skye is a WiFi receiver for your music dock that allows you to stream and control your favorite tunes from your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone or iTunes (Mac or PC) in your WiFi network with AirPlay and DLNA support.
The ZIIIRO Eclipse Watch is inspired by one of natures most amazing and unusual phenomenon, the Eclipse. Now be enthralled by this experience right on your wrist everyday!
Now here is a great idea to measure your creative output! The Sharpener Jar can be used to sharpen your pencils as well as act as measurable data for work accomplished. We can expect the unexpected with this very useful creation!
‘I love you more than salt!’ Pay tribute to an inevitable part of your kitchen with the Pinch, a gourmet salt cellar and pepper shaker set.
MacBook Airfelt is a stylish way to protect your Macbook Air 13″ or 11″. Designed with both beauty and protection in mind, this chic sleeve features a unique magnetic touch.
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Un peu comme les terrariums de Matteo Cibic, le designer Tim van de Weerd a réalisé des pots pour plantes vertes reposant sur plusieurs pieds longs et fins qui prolongent les racines. Les pots « Monstera » ont été construits en argile époxy, ce qui a permis d’en faire un objet solide et stable. Des petits monstres à découvrir.
I’m cheap, so I save all hardware and fasteners that aren’t bent out of shape or stripped. As I disassemble one DIY project and prepare to move on to the next, all of the old screws and such go into the sad “system” you see below, a collection of plastic containers. When they’re full I dump them out onto a tray and sort more precisely.
It’s a lame system, I know. And I became aware of just how lame when I saw this killer idea from “Wulf” over on the Craftster community:
At the shop where I work we just toss loose screws, bolts, nails and other bits and pieces of hardware from the workbenches and the floor into a bucket and, every couple of years when the bucket gets too full, somebody has to dump the whole mess out and sort everything back to where it belongs. When that job fell to me this Spring, I decided there had to be a better solution. So I designed a bin that would help to at least divide things by type to make the final sorting easier. Though built for an industrial situation, it would work equally well in the home craft room for jewellery findings, sewing notions, etc.
It seems that nothing can stop the Swedish startup juggernaut at the moment, as another piece of tech by Shortcut Labs gets its crowdfunding launch. Unlike many hardware offerings though, Flic is a simple premise at a winning price point. Essentially……
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Guidé par une citation de Marcel Proust disant que « Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux », le créateur Konstantin Kofta a réalisé ces deux collections de sacs hors normes, « Inertia » et « Platonic Solids ». Des structures géométriques, organiques, des couleurs neutres, des textures recherchées donnant forme à des créations futuristes.
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