A l’occasion de la sortie du teaser de Star Wars : The Force Awakens, nous avons pensé à réunir pour vous le meilleur de l’univers de Star Wars. Depuis la sortie du premier opus réalisé par George Lucas en 1977, la saga n’a cessé d’influencer le monde des créatifs. Des marques à l’architecture en passant par la photographie, des dizaines et des dizaines d’artistes ont puisé leur inspiration dans cette série de films.
On first glimpse of the HashKey—perhaps as a result of Kickstarter overexposure—my heart sank under the weight of my tumbling faith in humanity and fear for its future. Fortunately, on closer inspection, I found sweet salvation in the realization this was, of course, a product conceived with an eyebrow raised and a tongue in cheek (see also).
Whilst, of course, nobody in their right mind is going to dedicate one of their ever decreasing number of USB ports to such a device, the HashKey makes an amusing observation of the low prioritization of the hashtag key on traditional Qwerty keyboards, especially in contrast to their mobile equivalents—I dread to think of the number of fledgling Twitter adopters copying and pasting the symbol. Whether the (overhyped?) hashtag will ever be promoted to a higher prominence in keyboard culture is yet to be seen, but I can already hear the cogs in the brains of Microsoft’s and Samsung’s innovation teams turning.
Time and again you have passively participated in the Red Dot Awards via the editorials and updates of the Awards Night. This year, Yanko Design and the Singapore team of Red Dot Awards: Design Concept, decided to do things differently. I had a team trail me, while I went about capturing the essence of the event and talking to the winners. It was delightful to see the sparkle in their eyes and the jubilant smiles. What struck me the most were Lucid Design’s Amit Mirchandani’s words – “Winning a Red Dot definitely gives you that edge, it makes a difference.” Hit the jump for the video and to know more.
Le studio de design graphique basé à Barcelone Atipus a imaginé une identité unique pour une musicothérapeute sociale et éducatrice Celia Castillo. L’identité est basée sur des représentations graphiques des exercices rythmiques que Celia utilise pour traiter ses patients. A découvrir en images.
Concrete was cast over engineered wooden boards to give a textured finish to the walls of this apartment block in Zurich by Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann.
Gus Wüstemann designed the four-storey apartment building with a double-layered concrete shell.
Both outer and inner walls were cast over oriented strand board (OSB) – a kind of engineered wood particle board – to create what the architect describes as “a rough, almost organic surface”.
The building is named Stone H Apartment, after its distinctive H-shaped facade. It creates three new homes in a residential area north of Zurich’s old town centre.
The structure was built into a slope to facilitate garden access for the pair of apartments that occupy the ground and first floors, while the two uppermost storeys form a duplex penthouse.
Contrasting with the textured concrete, the penthouse floor was cast in smooth concrete and set slightly back from the main facade.
Each of the three apartments is centred around a large open-plan living space with an integrated kitchen and has its own private terrace or balcony, which all face out towards the street.
Large windows have been arranged symmetrically across the front and rear facades of the building, where the living spaces are located, while smaller squares of glazing on the sides and corners bring light into bedroom and bathroom spaces.
“The goal was to achieve spaces you normally only get in private houses, but not in an apartment building,” said Wüstemann, whose past projects include a home overlooking Lake Zurich.
“We wanted the living rooms to be outside rooms with maximum views and optimal exposure to receive the light. This while keeping the upmost privacy in the dense context of the city,” he said.
In the first-floor flat, a concrete bench at the rear of the space also offers residents a step up into the back garden, while the ground-floor home features access to banked gardens at the front of the building.
Kitchen islands for each apartment have been made using textured concrete, while storage units have been constructed from OSB to echo the imprinted surfaces of the concrete.
The floors were created from poured concrete, offering a smooth surface underfoot.
“The different cast surfaces enhance the feeling that the living room is actually an outer space,” said the architect.
In the bathrooms, the bath tubs and sinks are submerged into blocks of textured concrete.
Light fixtures are recessed in the concrete formwork to create indirect illumination that can be spotted around the edges of the concrete slabs above the bath, as well as in strips over the kitchen.
Multifunctional felt containers cute, handy and sustainable! Imperativo is fun because you can assemble your own box, folding the felt surface and ins..
Spinner is a compact phone that measures only 4.7inches and is 7mm thin. Constructed out of aluminum and plastics, the main focus of the design is on the clean interface and camera module, which can be rotated. In a day and age where we have both front and back cameras, it might seem redundant to spinner, however let’s humor the design and factor in cost reduction, better resolution and output from it. What do you guys say?
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A Gifu, au Japon, Bandesign a imaginé un café aux façades reflétant l’environnement fleurie des alentours, grâce à un système de miroirs polis qui se confrontent. Des façades qui s’adaptent et s’illustrent en suivant le fil des saisons, des cerisiers et du voisinage, à découvrir plus en détails dans l’article.
News: designs have been revealed for one of Zaha Hadid‘s smallest new structures – an advertising billboard for a stretch of road in west London that the architect says will “create a new genre in the roadside advertising canon”.
Zaha Hadid was commissioned by outdoor advertising company JCDecaux to design to design a “curved and flowing” billboard for a narrow plot of land on the south side of West Cromwell Road – one of the main routes into central London from Heathrow airport.
Described as a “unique double ribbon structure”, the sign will feature a single digital advertising screen facing west, housed within twisting bands of thick sheet metal with a matte finish to reduce glare from sunlight and vehicle headlights.
According to planning documents submitted to the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea by JCDecaux, the billboard’s structure will be a “monococque” that “allows for the steel structure and facade panels to be integrated into one shell and thereby provide an overall reduction in structure size to create a slimmer form.”
“The form entails a twisted ribbon wrapping around the screen with its display capable of blending into the form, enhancing the form and moving beyond the traditional rectangular advertising format,” said a statement from Zaha Hadid Architects.
“The contrast between the organic structure and its surroundings enhances the character of the area, which adjoins one of the busiest trafficked routes into London. Its distinctive features can act as an iconic focal point to an area that is currently uninspiring and suffering from an overall sense of neglect and dearth of identity.”
A strip of lighting across the curved back of the structure will illuminate the pavement, replacing existing traditional lamp posts. Pedestrian lighting will also be integrated into the landscaping and a brick planter at the end of the site nearest the junction between Earl’s Court Road and West Cromwell Road.
The choice of metal as the main material for the project means it can be pre-fabricated off site in large sections. The project has been altered according to guidelines provided by the borough during a pre-application process.
As well as showing advertising images, the screen will be made available to Transport for London for promoting safety messages and travel updates and will be used to show work by local artists, designers and architects on monthly rotations.
“The aim in this scheme is to develop an inspiring and striking built form that crosses the line between media platform and public art. The proposal represents a significant investment in the site and the development of an architectural form that will create a new genre in the roadside advertising canon,” said the architects.
An existing pavilion building, used mainly to host two 12-metre-long advertising spaces on the roadside facade, will be completely demolished to make way for Hadid’s design.
“The demolition of the existing building and its replacement with a slender designed structure to create a more open rear footpath will significantly improve the experience and safety for pedestrians,” said the architects.
The Kensington and Chelsea planning committee is due to make a decision on the proposals on 20 January 2015.
This AirDog drone may soon have a bit of unwelcome competition
The web is abuzz with news that GoPro is expanding beyond cameras into aircraft. As drone-loving videographers already attach GoPros to their own quadrotor rigs, the San-Mateo-based company figures they may as well get in on the action by producing and selling their own drones. The specs are vague, but the Wall Street Journal reports that GoPro is working on “multirotor helicopters” that will ship late next year, reportedly for more than $500 but less than $1,000.
It’s possible that the move came about in reaction to China’s SZ DJI Technology Co., the world’s largest drone manufacturer. DJI observed that many of its customers were attaching GoPros to their products; that company then started producing their own small cameras and selling them along with the drones.
It’s also possible, however, that GoPro was working on this before DJI started to muscle in on their territory. The Journal, by the way, warns that when GoPro goes drone, competing drone manufacturers may be motivated to stop supporting the GoPro in favor of going the DJI route. Ah, competition.
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