Après leur clip de I Won’t Let You Down, OK Go revient avec une video promotionnelle pour les magasins de meubles chinois Red Star Macalline. La publicité est une référence visuelle à leur vidéo The Writing’s on the Wall, mais mis en musique sur un remix de I Will not Let You Down par Dan Konopka.
La graphiste portugaise Sofia Ayuso a fait une série d’illustrations de personnages issus de célèbres thrillers et films d’horreur. Horror Related Characters présente des portraits réalisés avec des lignes noires, sous formes d’icônes sans visage. A vous de deviner les noms qui correspondent à chaque buste.
Characters : The Addams Family, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wicked Witch of the West, Billy The Puppet from Saw, Edward Scissor Hands, Death, Freddie Krueger, Samara from The Ring, Chucky, Zombie, Mummy, Michel Myers, Sweeney Todd, Patrick Bateman from American Pyscho, Dark Knight’s Joker, Red Queen, Ghostface, Hannibal Lecter and the twins from The Shining.
American furniture brand Emeco is to sue Ikea for damages for allegedly copying a chair designed by Norman Foster.
The American company alleges that Ikea’s Melltorp dining chair, by Swedish designer Ola Wihlborg, is similar to its 20-06 Stacking Chair, designed by Foster in 2006.
Emeco has filed a design right and copyright infringement case against the Swedish furniture giant at Munich District Court in Germany and a hearing is scheduled for September.
Pennsylvania-based Emeco, which specialises in aluminium furniture, is seeking damages and wants Ikea to cease manufacturing the product.
“A hearing is scheduled for September in Munich,” Emeco chairman Gregg Buchbinder told Dezeen. “We have started an action against Ikea in Germany for damages and to stop making the chair.”
In a statement, Josefin Thorell from Ikea’s group corporate communication department said that Ikea “never deliberately copies products”.
“Ikea does not comment specifically on any upcoming or ongoing legal proceedings,” she said. “However, on the subject of design, Ikea never deliberately copies products sold by other companies or designers. Design is of greatest importance for Ikea and is an integral part of the Ikea vision and business idea.”
But Alev Öztas, Emeco’s vice president of sales and marketing, said that, in his opinion, the Ikea chair was “very, very similar” to Emeco’s product. “When [people] see that very, very similar model in an Ikea catalogue at a completely different price range, of course it damages our business,” she said.
The 20-06 Stacking Chair, designed by British architect Norman Foster, is a slimline tribute to Emeco’s iconic Navy chair, which is also known as the 1006 and was first introduced in 1944 for use on US Navy submarines.
Both Emeco chairs are handmade from 80 per cent recycled aluminium using a proprietary 77-step process, which involves forming, welding, grinding, tempering and finally anodising and hand-brushing the metal.
Like its predecessor, the 20-06 has an estimated lifespan of 150 years but uses 15 per cent less aluminium and weighs just 3.2kg. It retails in the UK for around £540.
Ikea’s stacking Melltorp chair features a powder-coated steel frame and a polypropylene seat and backrest. It weights 5.6kg and retails for £20 in the UK.
Emeco has resorted to legal action to protect its designs on several occasions in the past. In 2013 it reached a settlement with US furniture retailer Restoration Hardware, which it had accused of copying the Navy chair. Restoration Hardware agreed to cease selling the product.
In 2014, Emeco reached settlements with two more furniture companies that it had accused of copying the Navy chair and the Philippe Starck-designed Kong chair. In the same year home-rental brand Airbnb removed a set of aluminium chairs from its San Francisco headquarters after Emeco pointed out they were fake Navy chairs.
In a video interview with Dezeen in 2013, Emeco’s Buchbinder expressed his frustration at firms that copied his products.
“In today’s marketplace people are looking for economical things, and I understand that and there’s a market for that,” he said. “It’s something that, as a manufacturer that puts a lot of time and effort into the development and research and everything else, is a very hard thing to swallow.”
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We get it. Things happen. Work piles up. Free time gets stolen by unexpected occasions and visitors. If, for whatever reason, you didn’t catch the Regular Deadline for the Core77 Design Awards yesterday, don’t worry. You still have time to enter and win!
You could be 7 days away from securing one of these for yourself. In fact, you have until 9pm on Tuesday, March 31st to put the finishing touches on your project and submit it to our discerning teams of juries. As you prepare your entry, check out our Guide to Create the Perfect Core77 Design Awards Entry. In it you’ll find valuable information about the sections you must fill out before you can submit your entry, what to think about when filling out the Project Details section, what file types your images need to be and a much more. Think of it as your own personal sherpa, guiding you to the trophy atop Mount Design Awards…. or just an incredibly helpful blog post.
The next seven days will go by faster than you think, so don’t wait until the last minute. Enter today!
G-Force and Robotech were revolutionary in the animation world, and mind-blowing to those of us raised in the ’70s and ’80s. Well before CG, the “camera” in those shows could do things we’d never seen before: A long shot of battling spaceships would suddenly zoom in on one craft, bringing us inside the cockpit and coming to focus right on the pilot’s eyeball, his widening pupils reflecting explosions.
And the aesthetic was so distinct. Insanely detailed line-dense drawings, though the lines themselves were never crisp, looked to be hand-drawn with a blotting pen; the shading was never achieved by smooth gradations but by abrupt juxtapositions of solid colors; the low framerates called on our juvenile minds to fill in the animation blanks, coloring in how a tumbling spaceship managed to flip and soar across the screen in just a few frames.
UK-based Paul Michael Johnson was apparently a student of these shows. The talented animator has spent nearly half a decade creating this TIE Fighter short that completely nails the ’80s anime aesthetic, right down to the sound design and the wailing electric guitars. It has to be seen to be believed:
Johnson, who goes by the handle MightyOtaking on Deviant Art, has spent his weekends for the past four years drawing and animating the project. It was a complete labor of love, and as he writes:
Don’t support me on Patreon, because I don’t have one! And don’t donate to my Kickstarter, because I don’t have one of those either. Instead, if you enjoyed this, give someone at your workplace, uni, school or whatever a random bar of chocolate or can or Coke or something. Seriously, it’ll probably make their day. That would totally make my day.
All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!
My family eats a lot of kale. It’s the one vegetable I can set in front of both my kids that they will devour and ask for more. I don’t know why, but I’m not complaining, especially since they aren’t big on eating red meat and kale is packed with iron. Anyway, a few years ago, I learned a ridiculously simple trick for how to de-stem an entire head of kale in usually less than a minute using only your hands. The trick is so easy that it makes the Loose Leaf wholly unnecessary when de-stemming kale:
How is the Loose Leaf a unitasker? If you have two hands and have enough grip strength to use the Loose Leaf, you have no need for the Loose Leaf. The device and the simple trick pretty much employ the same concept, except one requires you to spend money on the special tool pictured above, waste time and energy using and cleaning it, and then sacrifice some of your space to store it … and the other doesn’t.
What’s the simple trick? Let an adorable child demonstrate it for you:
That’s it, easy peasy! No knife or Loose Leaf needed to de-stem the kale and nothing to buy, clean, or store. Woo hoo, hands!
Thanks to reader Amy for bringing this unitasker to our attention.
Post written by Erin Doland
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The New York Times recently cut 100 from its newsroom staff in an effort to reduce costs. For those above the fray — like publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. — the days aren’t so cloudy. Proving that there’s always plenty of money at the top, Sulzberger is about get paid $6.8 million for the 2014 fiscal year.
Sulzberger’s big payday — a 28 percent increase over 2013 — will set in once Times Company shareholders gather on May 6 for an annual meeting.
WWD reports that Sulzberger is due a base salary of $1.1 million, $2 million in stock, $2.3 million in non-equity pay, $1.3 million in pension, and $186,405 in “other compensation.” Man, what we wouldn’t give to have a section on our paychecks for “other compensation.”
Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand’s Prime Minister, is not a fan of the country’s media. One month after proclaiming that he could shut down every outlet if he wanted to, Chan-ocha doubled down.
According to Reuters, Chan-ocha — who took office after toppling Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in a coup last year — explained to a group of reporters “You don’t have to support the government, but you should report the truth.”
When Chan-ocha was asked what he would do about those journalists who do not follow the government’s guidelines, he replied “We’ll probably just execute them.” Tough, but fair.
We’re big fans of Bomani Jones, so it’s exciting to hear that he’s getting his own national radio show. Jones will host The Right Time with Bomani Jones weekdays at 9 pm. The program will be available via ESPN Radio.
Jones’ show will feature “provocative opinions, relevant guests and listener interaction while discussing topical issues,” according to an announcement.
Jones’ show is part of a new weekday lineup for ESPN Radio. The Sedano Show, hosted by Jorge Sedano, kicks things off at 7 pm. It is followed by The Right Time, with The Freddie Coleman Show — hosted by Freddie Coleman — wrapping things up at 11.
Howard Kurtz has an exclusive first look at Out Came the Sun, actress Mariel Hemingway’s forthcoming memoir. He calls it “remarkably candid” and “anything but a gauzy memoir.”
There’s some explosive stuff in the book about Woody Allen. Hemingway also shares an even more blatant in-kind memory involving her Star 80 director:
They [Hemingway, Bob Fosse] were drinking one night at the Beverly Hills Hotel and Fosse wanted to go upstairs: The elevator let us off at my floor. I let us into my room. And then, for the next 15 minutes, I ran rings around the couch while Bob Fosse chased me for purposes of sex. ‘I have a boyfriend,’ I said.
That didn’t dissuade him one bit… ‘Well, I’m not interested,’ I said.
This stopped him for a moment. He steadied himself on the couch and looked at me. ‘I have never not [blanked] my leading lady,’ he said.
Hemingway’s retort: ‘Meet the first.’
The book, with a title that is cleverly evocative of The Sun Also Rises, comes out April 7. Along with a companion tome aimed at younger female readers, Invisible Girl. Read the rest of Kurtz’s piece here.
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