Mar 11
Mar 11
Share the Noise in Your Life
Posted in: UncategorizedTchotchkes, photos & other tangible objects are all effective when it comes to reflecting on our memories, but what if you could hear your memories rather than see them? The Backtrack concept explores this alternative sensory approach to preserving memories. Equipped with GPS, the device detects the user’s location & records audio when specified. Users then define the precise emotion they were feeling at the moment. The device saves each recording with an “emotional tag” that can then be shared on social media to let others in on the sound of your experience!
Designer: Maria Romero Pérez
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Mar 11
A Wee Bit of Genius
Posted in: UncategorizedRyo is proof that big things come in small packages! This tiny adapter takes the hassle out of fumbling to plug your USB in correctly. It fits any standard USB cable and provides instant relief from playing that ridiculous guessing game again! According to the designers, the average persons wastes 30 MINUTES a year trying to get it right. So take back control of your life and get a Ryo!
Designer: ryo tech
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Mar 11
Human Scale Touch Screen Installation
Posted in: UncategorizedCréé par The Barbarian Group, CenterStage est un écran tactile de taille humaine conçu pour présenter les appareils Samsung dans des environnements de vente au détail. Une création visuellement impressionnante permettant de mettre en avant les produits, réalisée en partenariat avec le directeur créatif Lutz Vogel et la maison d’effets visuels Method.
Mar 11
Incredible Wooden Turntables for Vinyls
Posted in: UncategorizedLe designer Kent Walter et son fils, du Silvan Audio Workshop, ont lancé un projet sur Kickstarter pour financer des tourne-disques faits avec un mocreau de bois de noyer et une plaque en verre où on pose le vinyle. Un bel objet à la fois moderne et rustique, à découvrir.
Mar 11
Heads Sculptures in Hand-Carved Pencils
Posted in: UncategorizedL’artiste Salavat Fidai, basé en Russie, réalise des petites sculptures à la main sur les mines de ses crayons noirs. L’artiste a accordé beaucoup d’importance aux détails de chaque personnage pop-culture, portrait connu et objet sculpté. Un projet qui rappelle celui des sculptures Crayola, à découvrir.
Mar 11
Ashley Heather reclaims precious metal from circuit-boards to create jewellery
Posted in: UncategorizedDesign Indaba 2015: jewellery items in this collection by South African designer Ashley Heather are made from silver salvaged from discarded electronic products.
The rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings and cufflinks offered by Ashley Heather‘s eponymous brand are all made using recycled precious metal.
Related story: Studio Drift’s Obsidian mirror made from chemical waste
Heather works with a large metal refinery, which she claims is the only facility of its kind in Africa, that extracts the metals found on unwanted electronic circuit boards and produces a high-quality silver.
“Circuit boards use quite a bit of silver because it’s a good conductor of electricity,” Heather told Dezeen at the Design Indaba Expo where she presented her collection last month. “There’s a huge amount of circuit boards currently going to the landfill. We’re processing them, reclaiming all the precious metals.”
The refining process begins by dismantling the waste electronics by hand. The components are then separated for recycling and the circuit boards are shredded before being fed into the furnace.
All of the metals, including high quantities of copper, are collected as a sludge. The precious metals are separated and purified, then melted again in the final stage.
The silver obtained at the end of the refining process is of a higher purity than mined silver, according to Heather.
“Mined silver is usually 99.99 per cent pure,” Heather said. “By the end of our refining process, it’s 99.999 per cent pure.”
“It’s actually a beautiful silver to work with,” she continued. “It has none of the impurities that you sometimes come across. Our refining process is quite consistent.”
The metal is mixed with a small amount of copper to create sterling silver, which can then be handcrafted into jewellery using traditional silversmithing techniques.
“That little bit of copper just gives it the strength it needs to make durable jewellery,” said Heather.
Her simple designs include cufflinks with rectangular concrete insets, a necklace with stalk-like pendants and rings in various geometric shapes.
“They’re very Minimalist,” said Heather. “I’m very interested in clean lines and simple shapes, reducing a design down to its absolute necessary elements.”
Heather plans to extend her range to include items made from gold reclaimed in a similar way.
In a movie filmed by Dezeen at Design Indaba 2013, the event’s founder Ravi Naidoo explained the importance of upcycling in South African design during a tour of Cape Town’s Woodstock district – where Heather’s studio is based.
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Mar 10
Jujumade
Posted in: UncategorizedYou should know by now that we, at Bloesem love all things ceramic..so we were so thrilled to discover Juliana Hung, the creator behind Los Angeles-based Jujumade, and her lovely line of hand sculpted ceramic and leather accessories. Simple yet unexpected is how we would like to describe Julie’s designs. We love the simplicity in them and how she never fails to add a playful touch to each of her designs. We are dreaming of wearing all of them!
P.s. please do not be confused with Studio JuJu which we are also big fans of!
A short description of yourself and what you do.
My name is Juliana Hung, but everyone calls me something different! Nicknames range from Julie, Jules, juju, ju, jujubee, ju bear- the list goes on and on, but the prefix always stuck. I started the jujumade blog about 2 years ago and eventually this lead me to creating my own line. I wanted to document all the things that I found interesting, and things that I was making. Mainly it was a way for me to keep track of everything inspirational and creative. I was working full time as an industrial designer, and that required me to be very precise and technical. So after work when I was free from that, all I wanted to do was work with my hands and be completely outside of computers and machines! Working with ceramic and leather are the perfect fit – I can morph things into shape with clay, and sew flat sheets of leather into something wearable! What I create is inspired by the potential of the material I am working with.
The motivation behind jujumade is to create something unexpected, playful, yet completely wearable. The collection ranges from bags, bangles, necklaces, earrings, and newly added hand woven straw hats – a little something for everybody!
Pieces from the Jujumade Spring/Summer 2015 collection.
Could you share with us 3 of your favorite spots in your city?
1. South Pasadena Farmers market – it is small but full of great stuff
2. Huge Tree Pastry – this is where I get my taiwanese breakfast fix!
3. Fiore Market Cafe – Best roast chicken sandwich!
Are there any design hangouts or places you can go to meet other creatives where you live?
I do some of my work at a communal ceramic studio, and it is always so fun and inspiring to see what people are working on! You also get motivated by what people set out to do. I also have great friends that also have their own design ventures and that is also a great resource to bounce ideas off of.
What is one important lesson you have learnt on your creative journey?
I think it is so important to be constantly be exploring new ideas, I think this keeps me going and keeps things interesting. I don’t put everything I make into my collection, but everything I’ve worked on helps push me forward one way or another.
If you can learn any tips on how to run your own business, absorb it, learn it, ask for it. I never really learned how to run a small business, I’m learning as I go but it is definitely the hardest part.
Is there a piece of advice you would share with budding designers who are still in school or thinking of quitting their day job?
Just go with it! I figured, if we don’t try while we can, then there will always be regret.
Do you remember the moment you decided you wanted to do what you are doing now?
I always knew I wanted to start something of my own, but after graduating from Art Center College of Design, I just didn’t know how or where to start. While working after graduating, I started experimenting with different crafts and also took several different classes. Everything really came together when I starting picking up clay again, and somehow the idea of mixing clay and other materials really interested me. I found that what I created seemed special to me, different and I could call it my own.
Where do you find inspiration? Perhaps a favourite blog or website?
When I was working full time as a industrial designer, I remember always looking at blogs every morning before I started working (it was like a morning ritual) and admiring the makers. Some day! I said to myself. I don’t read blogs as much anymore but I love I’m Revolting, she is a good friend and has such a great eye.
Inspiration comes from everywhere! I was playing with my friend’s baby girl, and her puzzles inspired me to create some necklace pieces that you can shift around. I’ve always like the idea making things adjustable, customizable – so all the necklaces are adjustable in some way- you can play with the spacing of the beads, shorten or length to what ever you like!
Finish this sentence — “if we could, we would…”
if we could, we would surf and eat donuts all day!
.. Jujumade
Mar 10
Wedding Chapel Made with 100 Carved Wood Panels
Posted in: UncategorizedA Hiroshima, Nikken Space Design a construit la ravissante chapelle « Power of Flower » destinée aux mariages et dont la beauté réside dans les ornements boisés muraux. Taillées et sculptées à la main, ces arabesques ont été conçues à partir de 100 panneaux de bois et imitent les feuilles d’un arbre inspirées des motifs traditionnels qu’on peut trouver sur les kimonos.
Mar 10
Equestrian centre on Australia's south coast features a curving rammed-earth wall
Posted in: UncategorizedA curving wall of rammed earth channels a stream of water around the edge of this horse riding centre near Melbourne, by London studio Seth Stein Architects and local firm Watson Architecture + Design (+ slideshow).
Located on the Mornington Peninsula just south of Melbourne, the equestrian centre is framed by the reinforced wall of rammed earth – a material created by building up layers of compressed soil.
Related story: Grooming retreat in Mallorca offers “ritual of self-cleansing” before and after horse riding
The wall runs along the entire rear facade of the building and extends out to meet a small pool of water where horses can cool off. A groove in the top of the wall integrates a stream that flows out to create a simple fountain.
“We are interested in working with ecological materials that will harmonise with the surrounding context and provide very little maintenance,” studio founders Seth Stein and Robert Watson told Dezeen.
“Reinforced rammed earth – a low-moisture mix of natural soil and cement compacted around reinforcing bars – is used quite extensively in Australia and in particular in regional Victoria.”
“It’s more cost-effective than off-form concrete and, once a 600-millimetre tier of wall is compacted, the wall is structurally stable and able to take load, as opposed to a wet-formed concrete wall that typically requires 28 days to reach its design strength,” they said.
The project was commissioned by a client based in the UK, so it made sense for the two architects to collaborate on the design. The brief was to create a complex sympathetic to the surrounding rural landscape, but also one that would be durable against the elements.
The building’s curving plan, which is shaped like a back-to-front J, allowed stables and other rooms to be arranged in a simple row around the southern edge of the site. They wrap a semi-circular lawn that functions as a paddock, as well as a large arena for jumping and event practice.
In addition to the lawn, a patch of gravel provides an area for tying up horses. It sits alongside the pool of water, which offers the animals a place to cool down and have a drink.
“The crescent shape provides a relatively compact plan form, given that stables are invariably arranged around communal external spaces,” said the architects.
The building was constructed with a primarily timber framework. Partition walls were also created using wood, offering a warm contrast to the pale grey of the rammed earth, while zinc was used to create the slender mono-pitched roof.
There are six stables in total, as well as a feeding room, a laundry area and a tack room where items including saddles and bridles can be stored on hooks along the earth wall.
A separate barn, also sheltered beneath the zinc roof, creates space for stable vehicles, plus straw and hay storage.
The site had to be levelled and drained before construction could begin. This enabled the creation of a small lake near the centre, with a bird island sanctuary at its centre. There are also underground tanks for storing and recycling rainwater.
Photography is by Lisbeth Grosmann, apart from where otherwise indicated.
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