Wired’s site just got a complete makeover. The site features responsive design, a cleaner look and six sections, including Business, Design, Entertainment, Gear, Science, and Security. It’s the first Wired.com redesign since 2007.
Each Wired.com section has its own unique appearance; it gives the site the feel of a newspaper, which is a different and welcome approach. The sections now constantly refresh with content. In a note about the revamp, editor Scott Dadichexplained that “the new section fronts should become your dashboards for the day’s news and feature stories.”
The new Wired.com is also swift — testing revealed that pages loaded 16 times faster.
The revamp was two years in the making, and judging by our exploring, the team nailed it.
At Design Indaba, an event filled with creatives and media innovators, Casey Neistat is a bit of a rock star. Conference-goers approach the 34-year-old New Yorker to gush over how much they like his work. His talk about his films and the virtue……
For a long time, ingesting cannabis usually meant indulging in a pot brownie. But the realm of edibles has gone chic and quasi-mainstream thanks to brands like Dixie Elixirs. Combining a foundation in the medical world with a firm footing in scientific……
Conçu en collaboration avec la designer danoise Cecilie Manz, B&O PLAY de la marque Bang & Olufsen dévoile un haut-parleur portable intitulé Beolit 15. L’appareil est la suite logique du Beolit 12. « Less is more » sont les maîtres mots de ce produit minimaliste en apparence et très performant techniquement.
Le graphic designer méxicain Ricardo Gonzalez est spécialiste en matière de typographie et de calligraphie. Il mélange les genres, explore de nouvelles techniques de lettrage en s’essayant sur divers supports qui illustrent son humeur du jour. Une sélection variée de ses ouvrages est à découvrir dans la galerie.
Le photographe Matthew Emmett est derrière le projet de photos Forgotten Heritage : il parcourt l’Europe à la recherche d’architectures et de coins abandonnés, vides et oubliés. Il considère tous ces sites industriels comme des vestiges cachés de l’architecture, comme un héritage à préserver de la même manière que les ruines.
South Korean designer Jeonghwa Seo has designed a collection of desktop accessories made of Jeju Island basalt by local artisans, with shapes referencing the volcanic landscape.
Bookend
The Basalt range by Jeonghwa Seo comprises a paper weight, coasters, a bookend, a pen holder, a pen tray and a business card tray.
Each is carved from natural stones by craftspeople in Jeju, the largest island in South Korea, and given an underside coating of black acrylic to prevent scratching the desk surface.
Bookend
“I was interested in the quality of local materials,” Seo told Dezeen. “Especially the materiality of the basalt, which gave me lots of inspiration for this project.”
Card tray
“The island has a long history of stone craft, but recently the craftspeople don’t have enough work to do with their skills,” he continued. “I wanted to make consistent work for them by designing useful and marketable objects.”
Card tray
The flat hexagonal coasters and hexagonal prism paperweight mimic the island’s coastal rock formations.
Coasters
Triangular forms seen in the pen tray, bookend and business card holder reflect the 386 volcanic peaks on Jeju Island, itself formed as the result of a volcanic eruption off the southern coast of the Korean peninsula.
Coasters
The pen holder, with a trio of slots for writing implements, is based on “jeongjumeok” – stone pillars with three holes made for supporting wooden bars. These pillars stand either side of pathways that lead to homes on the island, named “ollae”, and act as gate posts.
Paper weight
“This collection is focused on promoting the local material and craft,” said the designer. “The objects are already in production by craftspeople in Jeju, so I hope this product can be successfully launched to the market so that [they] can continue.”
Paper weight
The packaging for all six items reflects the strong geometric shapes and monochrome colour palette of the collection.
Pen holder
The range was developed as part of a design project supported by the Korea Craft and Design Foundation, a public institution founded to establish the identity of Korean creative arts.
Pen holder
Previous projects by Jeonghwa Seo include a collection of stools and tables made using 12 different materials in 15 different combinations, and a range of benches that explore the structure and shapes of seating.
Brazilian architect Marko Brajovic has fixed thousands of bright red shoelaces to the undulating ceiling of this Camper footwear shop in Melbourne (+ slideshow).
São Paulo-based Atelier Marko Brajovic created the store interior as part of Camper Together – an ongoing project by Spanish shoe brand Camper that invites architects and designers to create unique products and store interiors.
Behind the stark white and glazed frontage of the shop on Lonsdale Street in Melbourne, 30,000 red shoelaces were attached to a false ceiling to create a series of varying curves and dips.
According to the architect, the design was intended to reference the brightly coloured fringing often used to decorate Brazilian carnival floats and costumes.
“We looked towards the festivities found in traditional Brazilian folklore,” studio founder Marko Brajovic told Dezeen. “The environments and spaces involved in these festivities were created using dense layers of coloured stripes.”
The studio was asked to overhaul several stores for Camper using the same concept. To individualise each installation, they created different ceiling shapes based on local weather phenomena.
For a shop in Brazil they created a wave-shaped ceiling, while in the Melbourne store the studio made use of parametric 3D modelling software – used to produce curved shapes in architecture – to convert a satellite image of a cyclone into an undulating form.
This shape was recreated in the store by tying laces of different lengths to a mesh base, attached to the concrete beam structure of the ceiling.
“We were asked to design a concept store that could be adapted in several locations, maintaining always a coherence,” explained Brajovic. “So our concept was creating a ‘think global, act local’ project.”
“I researched a lot about natural phenomena in Australia and one image that came to me very strongly was a satellite image of a cyclone,” he explained.
The tip of each lace was attached to the mesh with a cable-tie, while the ends were left to dangle freely.
Pendant lights with white bell-shaped shades were integrated into the design, poking through the fringing to illuminate the shop display.
Behind a shiny red counter at the back of the shop, a row of long laces was suspended from the ceiling to the floor, functioning like a curtain into the stockroom.
Long white shelves were added around the edge of the shop floor to display shoes and boots, while benches with reflective sides and light-grey upholstered seats were built into angular mirrored arches in the centre of the space.
An angular concrete box has been stacked on top of a rectilinear one to create the form of this yachting club facility near Buenos Aires (+ slideshow).
The clubhouse was designed by local firm Estudio Ramos for a plot in the Nordelta district, a gated community within the suburb of Tigre to the north of the Argentinian capital.
The building sits on a peninsula that extends into a waterway connected to the Paraná River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean at a nearby delta.
It provides facilities including a gymnasium, changing rooms and storage on the ground floor, while a restaurant and lounge area are positioned on the upper level to optimise views of the marina.
“While the ground floor placement follows the silhouette of the site, the first floor is rotated to catch the best orientation,” explained architect Ignacio Ramos.
The thrusting shape of the upper tier, which angles upwards at the front and rear, was influenced by the dramatic profiles of classic yachts.
“Our main inspiration for the building’s morphology came from the geometric sail shapes of the America’s Cup vintage ships such as the Reliance, designed by Nat Herreshoff,” said Ramos.
Reliance was a racing yacht that defended the America’s Cup in 1903, thanks to an innovative design featuring long overhangs at each end that enabled her total sail area to be drastically increased.
The diagonal lines and pointed surfaces of Reliance’s sails are particularly recalled in the shape of the roof, which projects above a narrow balcony leading to a terrace on the roof of the gymnasium.
The exposed reinforced-concrete surfaces slope back to capture more of the views and the sun, before transitioning into a timber ceiling that offers a warm contrast.
Large glazed surfaces are set in dark aluminium frames and vertical louvered screens are positioned in front of windows where sun shading is required.
Inside, a simple palette of concrete and wood allowed for low maintenance spaces that complement the building’s exterior.
A glazed double-height entrance hall contains a staircase with open treads. There is also a barbecue area, sheltered beneath a cantilevered section of the upper storey.
Launched in 2011, The Mary Sue, a leading genre entertainment site for women, must now make do without its founder. That”s because Susana Polo (pictured) has chosen to move on to Vox Media’s video game vertical Polygon to serve as the site’s first entertainment editor.
“We’ve been covering entertainment for a little bit,” Polygon EIC Chris Grant tells FishbowlNY via telephone. “We’ve dabbled. There’s a lot of adjacency. Batman isn’t just a game, it’s also movies and comic books.”
“What we’ve never done is spend the time to formulate an entertainment coverage strategy,” he continues. “What are the boundaries? Which movies do we cover? Susana’s expertise and experience of covering and managing that beat will help us properly answer those questions.”
Polygon was founded in 2012, a year after The Mary Sue. According to comScore, year-over-year traffic increased 137% between January of last year to this year. The Vox Media site has taken flight at a time when so-called nerd culture is also crossing over to the mainstream, via TV series like The Walking Dead to Game of Thrones. and much more.
Grant says a recent hint of his audience’s appetite for entertainment came via a pair of Polygon posts about Joseph Kahn‘s 14-minute R-rated Power Rangers deboot Power/Rangers. “Our first item quickly raced past a million page views,” Grant says.
Polygon has a full-time staff of around 20, including one London based senior reporter, and uses very little freelance content. Grant, previously with AOL’s recently folded Joystiq, says that on a monthly basis, no more than one or two pieces are outsourced.
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