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Le vidéaste français Maxime Gaudet a expérimenté la technique du timelapse pour réaliser une vidéo de 3 minutes sur Paris. Sur une musique composée par Note Forget, le film permet de visiter la plupart des lieux emblématiques de la capitale, de Montmartre à Beaubourg en passant par le Trocadéro.

Colourful chocolate bars are displayed in a transparent chest of drawers in this Tokyo shop designed by Japanese studio Nendo for a Belgian chocolatier (+ slideshow).

Nendo designed the shop in Tokyo’s Ginza district as the first overseas store for BbyB – the chocolate company set up by Antwerp-based Michelin-star chef Bart Desmidt.

The colourful packaging of BbyB’s flavoured chocolate are displayed like paint swatches, arranged within a perspex case that runs through the centre of the long, narrow space.

“Because the chocolates are all the same shape, the packaging is modular: five bars of chocolate slot neatly into each sliding box, and five boxes slot together into a cube,” said Nendo.

The designers replicated this idea and created a grid of sliding transparent drawers to display the square packets organised by colour.

“We turned the shop space into a three-dimensional version of the chocolate packaging,” said Nendo. “The chocolates seem to float in a transparent ‘chest of drawers’, placed at the centre of the shop.”

Customers pull out the drawers to select their preferred flavour from options including strawberry, pepper, lemon, passionfruit and basil.

The design of chocolate packaging is also printed onto white tiles, which cover the wall behind the display case.

The white interior is inverted at the back of the store, where a dark cafe provides a seating area for customers to sample their chocolate with a coffee.

A counter that begins in the shop as another presentation area extends into the cafe to form the bar. A short break in the surface accommodates the glass partition that divides the two areas.

“The design creates a seamless transition between the shop space, the packaging and the act of eating the chocolates, offering an organic, compelling experience,” said Nendo.

The project is the latest in a string of chocolate-related designs by the studio led by Oki Sato. The designer created a lounge area surrounded by a cascade of 2,000 chocolate-coloured pipes at Maison&Objet, where he received the trade fair’s Designer of the Year award earlier this year.

To mark the occasion, Nendo also created a set of chocolates that included treats with pointed tips, hollow interiors and rough textures. The studio has previously designed a set of chocolate pencils and an ice cream cake topped with a group of small chocolate houses.

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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this movie, designer and researcher Amy Congdon explains how tissue engineering could be used to grow new biological textiles for the fashion industry.

“I’m looking at how we might make materials such as leather in a new way,” she explains in the movie. “Rather than killing an animal you’d take cells, expand them in the lab and use that to produce your [material].”

“But you could also think about what kind of new material hybrids could we produce. Could you grow new materials that we can’t get from nature?”

Congdon‘s Biological Atelier project, which she developed as part of her masters course at Central Saint Martins, imagines the kind of fashion we might be wearing in years to come.

“It’s a speculative design project looking at a potential future for haute couture and fashion where we might grow luxury and bespoke materials,” she explains.

The collection includes a broach made from cells that the wearer might choose to graft onto their skin as well as a hybrid necklace grown out of a mixture of different animal scales and leather. “I was thinking about the different hybrids we might be able to create in the lab,” Congden says.

Congdon believes such materials could come to market “in the next ten to fifteen years”.

She is currently collaborating with scientists at King’s College London to explore how tissue engineering – a field of research exploring how replacement tissues or organs in animals and humans can be grown artificially – could enable her vision to become reality.

Biological materials could have a range of different benefits, Congdon says.

“You could engineer specific properties into them,” she explains. “They could be water repellent or you could engineer the colour into them so you’re not having to dye them.”

Developments in tissue engineering could also lead to materials being produced more sustainably.

“With any material you can grow it to the shape you need and then you don’t have the waste,” Congdon says. “We really need to acknowledge that we are living on just one planet, so we have finite resources. So we really need to think about new ways that we might produce materials and products.”

This interview was filmed in London at the Craft Council‘s Make:Shift conference, where Congdon was a speaker.

The music in the movie is a track called Trash Digital by UK producer 800xL.

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers is an ongoing collaboration with MINI exploring how design and technology are coming together to shape the future.

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To some, four years of design school sounds like a long time. But in the story of “The Accidental Designer,” we learned that Tom Sullivan became a successful designer/builder after spending eight years as a shipbuilder’s apprentice.

Shipbuilding is something like woodworking or furniture design on a massive scale. The art and science of shaping enormous timbers into structures that are both attractive and seaworthy requires an understanding of wood and tools—from handheld analog to massive machines—that most furniture designers will never have to grapple with. And while a furniture designer may learn the porosities of various woods to understand how each of them will accept stain and finishing, the shipbuilder must learn these things because if they get it wrong, their creations will sink. The eight years versus four starts to make a lot of sense.

So some of you may be interested to see Tips from a Shipwright, a YouTube channel that shows what these salty saw-wielding builders do and know. Filmmaker Halsey Fulton of Fish Hawk Films lenses Master Shipwright Louis Sauzedde, giving you a taste of what goes on in his shop. Like performing a bentwood lamination with oak, rather than steamed plywood:

Some of you work in shops with 14-inch or maybe 18-inch bandsaws, and maybe you’ve got a 3/4-inch, three-tooth-per-inch blade in there for resawing. Sauzedde’s monster Ship Saw has freaking 42-inch wheels pulling a 1-1/4-inch, 1 t.p.i. blade—that he sharpens himself, on the machine:

When shopping for wood, Sauzedde is wary of woods labeled as White Oak that actually might be Red Oak. What’s the difference, and how can he tell? Check out this surprising demo where he illustrates the two breeds’ very different properties:

That’s just a taste of what’s on offer. Everything from tool usage to finishing to restoring to the actual woodworking techniques are covered, with new videos popping up all the time. Next time it’s slow at work, or you’re just keen to learn something new and maybe find a new skill to master, check out the channel.