Pour 7up et sa campagne « Feels Good To Be You », Raul Lemesoff, un artiste basé à Buenos Aires, a conçu un tank en le pensant comme une « arme massive d’instruction » afin de combattre l’ignorance et transmettre la culture. A bord de son tank (une ex Ford 1979 Falcon Lemesoff) converti en librairie et rempli de 900 ouvrages, il parcourt la ville pour offrir des livres gratuitement aux passants.
Dezeen promotion: the Wood Awards: Excellence in Architecture and Product Design is inviting architects and designers in the UK to submit entries for this year’s competition.
The Wood Awards recognises buildings and furniture designs completed in the last two years that feature timber as a principle material. Entrants have until 26 May to submit their work.
First set up as the Carpenters Awards in 1971 and relaunched in its current guise in 2003, the competition is not-for-profit and offers free registration for entrants.
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Wood Awards 2015 judges include RIBA Journal editor Hugh Pearman and London Design Guide editor Max Fraser.
Changes to this year’s programme include a revision to the furniture category to encompass all areas of product design, renamed Furniture and Product as a result.
A student award within this category has also been introduced, with a £1,000 prize for the judges’ winner and £500 given to a design voted for by the public.
Both the Furniture and Product and Buildings sections are split into a variety of categories for specific typologies, each with its own accolade.
The Arnold Laver Gold Award is given to an overall winner, with previous laureates including the Rothschild Foundation by Stephen Marshall Architects, The Hurlingham Club Outdoor Pool by David Morley Architects, and the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft by Adam Richards Architects.
Find out more and register to enter on the Wood Awards website before 26 May. Winners will be announced during a ceremony in London on 10 November. For updates about the awards, follow Wood Awards on Twitter.
Here’s some more information from the organisers:
The Wood Awards: Excellence in Architecture and Product Design – 2015 call for entries is open
The Wood Awards: Excellence in Architecture and Product Design launches its 2015 call for entries with exciting new categories and a high calibre panel of judges that will be evaluating and awarding projects made out of the only naturally sustainable material in the world.
Architects and designers from around the United Kingdom are invited to enter their wood-based projects into The Wood Awards, and have until 26 May to submit their entries. There is no fee to enter.
Established in 1971, The Wood Awards recognises, encourages and promotes outstanding design, craftsmanship and installation using wood in projects throughout the UK. With permission from the owner, anyone associated with an eligible building or furniture project completed in the last two years, can enter. Judges travel to visit each of the shortlisted projects and physically view the shortlisted products to ensure a thorough, final evaluation.
2015 sees exciting changes with the Wood Awards including new judges, revised categories and a new website:
» The Wood Awards has revised the furniture category as Furniture and Product to encourage a larger group of designers who work in a variety of wood products. Within this category there is now a Student Award, recognising the value of student work in wood with £1500 to be won (£1,000 for winner and £500 for people’s choice).
» For buildings, the Commercial & Public Access category has been divided into: Commercial & Leisure and Education & Public Sector. This year sees an additional Interiors category.
» The new chair of judges in the Furniture and Product category is Max Fraser. Max is a champion of design, working as a writer, curator and consultant to private and public bodies. He edits the London Design Guide under his publishing imprint Spotlight Press and, until recently, worked as deputy director of the London Design Festival.
The Wood Awards top prize, the Arnold Laver Gold Award, goes to the overall winner of winners. Previous Gold Award winners include: the Rothschild Foundation by Stephen Marshall Architects, The Hurlingham Club Outdoor Pool by David Morley Architects, and most recently, the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft by Adam Richards Architects.
Commenting on The Wood Awards, Andrew Laver says: “We are pleased to be associated with The Wood Awards for another year and are proud to sponsor the illustrious Gold Awards, which recognises the very best of what our industry has to offer. We will certainly be encouraging all our stakeholders – and the wider design and construction community – to take an interest and where possible get involved.”
The full list of the 2015 categories:
Buildings
Commercial & Leisure
Education & Public Sector
Private
Existing Building
Small Project
Interiors
Furniture and Product
Bespoke
Production Made
Student Designer
Judging
As the original and leading competition focused on the material in use, the elite judging panel of independent professional experts and specialists not only judge the entries but also visit the shortlisted projects in person, making The Wood Awards as meaningful and rigorous a competition as possible.
Sponsors
The Wood Awards is made possible by the major sponsorship from: American Hardwood Export Council, Carpenters’ Company, Wood for Good and TRADA.
Arnold Laver sponsors the Arnold Laver Gold Award which is the project that the judges deem to be the best of all the winners.
Other sponsors include: American Softwoods and Furniture Makers’ Company, Timber Trade Federation & the British Wood Federation.
www.woodawards.com
www.twitter.com/woodawards
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The MFA in Products of Design program at SVA, in collaboration with Field Experiments, will be doing a workshop in Bali, Indonesia this summer. With a focus on transnational and interdisciplinary exchange, the workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students, along with practitioners from any field of design, located anywhere in the world.The Design Summer Workshop explores and emphasizes alternative models for using design:
• Design as a tool to learn about culture and people
• Design as a way to build cross-cultural appreciation and understanding
• Design for mass communication (over mass production) as a way of sharing narratives and telling stories
There’s a ton more to learn more about the program, and it’s coming up quick! Check it all out here.
All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!
On Tuesday, Disney announced it had tapped Tim Burton to direct a live-action remake of Dumbo. After reading this news, I instantly remembered another Tim-Burton-related unitasker I saw at a white elephant gift exchange a couple years ago. It’s linked to Burton’s 2010 remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and it is a cruel unitasker that is sure to upset every candy lover who comes into contact with it. Introducing the Willy Wonka Chocolate Bar Wrapper with Golden Ticket Replica with No Chocolate Included:
Seriously, how twisted of a person must you be to give someone a faux candy bar? “Hey! I know you love chocolate so I got you a replica of a candy bar! There’s absolutely no chocolate in it at all. Enjoy!”
You might as well get some fake bacon for the bacon lover in your life or a model of a salad! As strange as Tim Burton’s movies are, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s behind the no-chocolate candy bar …
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The Associated Press has announced its 2016 political team, which is led by political editor David Scott. Below are the other members of his team.
Ahead of a performance tonight at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 71-year-old public radio dean Garrison Keillor chatted with City Paper arts editor Elizabeth Pandolfi.
Keillor describes his Upper West Side apartment as his reverse version of a “lake cabin.” He also recalls the critical boost he got from a New York publication:
“Getting published in The New Yorker back in 1969 was a huge influence on my career. The New Yorker was idolized in the Midwest and, having been published there, I got enormous credit in public radio and was given more license than I deserved.”
“In 1974, having written about the Grand Ole Opry for the magazine, I was allowed to do a live variety show on Saturday evenings. A great boon and I’ve clung to it. A Prairie Home Companion has guided my life for 41 years, it’s given me a host of friends. It’s made me happy on many occasions.”
Keillor also talked to Pandolfi about the bittersweet feeling of living in a town where the daily newspaper is dying a slow print death. Read the full convo here.
During our recent trip to Thailand and Tokyo by way of All Nippon Airways (ANA) we had the opportunity to survey the rich local art scene in Bangkok. There, we were lucky enough to meet with local Thai artist Nino Sarabutra. Working largely with……
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Me & You est un court-métrage de 7 minutes produit par Sorcha Anglim et réalisé par Jack Tew. Il relate les différentes étapes d’une histoire d’amour avec une caméra en plongée accrochée au plafond de la chambre du personnage principal : de l’engouement des débuts, à la rupture, en passant par les premières complicités, les premiers fous rires et doutes ainsi que la routine qui finit par s’immiscer dans cette intimité.
Making of :
Seung Mo Park est un artiste coréen contemporain qui vit et travaille à Brooklyn. L’homme imagine et crée d’immenses sculptures très originales en fil d’aluminium. Une collection à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
When I came across this print by Joey Hannaford, I just knew it would make an arresting cover. I love its graphic impact and the effect of overprinting the inks. The imperfection of the impressions shows off the beauty of wood type… and the XOX!? This issue is really “hugs and kisses” for the love of printmaking!
The background pattern is always inspired by the issue’s content, so I repeated a registration mark as the pattern motif. The bands of colours on the cover echo Joey’s print, with the blue band and yellow band mixing together to create the green corner accent.
Here’s an excerpt from the forthcoming article about Joey, written by Adrienne Breaux.
For Joey Hannaford, the printmaking process itself is a part of the exploration. All of her prints are monoprints—every piece is a single, solo, never-will-there-ever-be-another-like-it print. Because she inks the letters by hand, she claims she could not reproduce identical editions if she tried. She uses letterpress printing techniques not as a technical process to make reproduction easier, but as a vehicle for artistic expression. She sometimes refers to her work as “painterly letterpress prints.”
“I like the very accidental things that happen when I’m working iteratively. When I’m making the prints, it’s almost like a recording of the things I’m thinking about at that moment in time,” says Joey. “It’s using the printmaking process as an evolution of developing images rather than developing them to a certain point, ‘freezing’ them and then editioning them.”
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