Bang Bang Pegboard

I like this modular pegboard shelving system. Designed to store and display objects, tools, clothing and artifacts any way you choose. The Bang Bang Peg Structure’s movable dowel pegs provide a customizable space for humans to organize their kit.(Read…)

Thomas Mailaender's Sunburn Art

Artist Thomas Mailaender was once described as “an insatiable and compulsive collector of photographs and sociological patterns.” For his project titled Illustrated People, Mailaender applied original negatives from the Archive of Modern Conflict to his subject’s skin, by shining a UV lamp over them, he sunburned the images onto their bodies. Images from the book “Illustrated People” can be seen here.(Read…)

Multi-Functionnal Ping Pong Table

Huzi Design, est à l’origine d’une table de ping pong atypique. En effet, en plus de sa fonction de base, elle peut aussi bien fait office de table basse ou de tableau noir à craie pour les enfants. De par son design, ce produit baptisé « Ping Pong » saura ravir petits et grands.

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Movie Posters That Spoil the End

Dawid Frątczak est un directeur artistique polonais passionné de pop-culture. Il travaille depuis 2012 sur une série de posters intitulée Spoiler Posters Collection, qu’il qualifie « d’irritante » à l’égard de tous ceux qui n’auraient pas vu les films dont il est question. Chaque poster révèle en effet la fin du film, avec un dessin suffisamment explicite pour être compris de tous : de Donnie Darko à Star Wars en passant par 300 et 127 Hours.

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A Library-Abyss Under the Ground

Pour son installation dans le cadre du festival « Sculpture by the Sea » à Aarhus, au Danemark, l’artiste suédoise Susanna Hesselberg a choisi d’installer une bibliothèque « profonde », recouverte d’un verre et creusée dans le sol et la terre. Les spectateurs peuvent contempler les livres comme le fond d’un puits de mine. Intitulée When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down, cette oeuvre présente une dimension funeste et fait référence à la chanson de Laurie Anderson – « World Without End ». Cette installation sera exposée jusqu’à la fin du festival : le 5 juillet.

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Friendship Between Owlet and Kitten

Au Hukulou Coffee Shop à Osaka, au Japon est née une amitié peu commune. Un hibou et un chaton ont tissé une relation amicale profonde. L’établissement est en réalité un « Owl Cafe » qui permet d’y amener son hibou. Cette pratique devient de plus en plus populaire au Japon et dans certaines villes dans le Monde.

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Stockholm airport proposal elevates runways among city rooftops

Graduate shows 2015: airport runways are raised above the streets and waterways of a new Stockholm city district in this conceptual proposal by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Alex Sutton (+ slideshow).

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

The proposal, named Stockholm City Airport/Airport City, envisages a future where commercial aviation becomes more integrated into the fabric of the city rather than being relegated to the outskirts.

To demonstrate this, Sutton proposes a new airport in the Swedish capital where small terminals, city-wide baggage systems and short-length runways slot in around offices, apartment blocks and cultural buildings.

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

“Travel demand in the aviation industry is set to double by 2030 and continue increasing exponentially into the future,” explained Sutton. “In order to satisfy demand and the increasing importance of the airport on local economies, capacity in the industry needs to increase.”



“This project uses Stockholm, one of the fastest growing cities in Europe, as a testing ground to establish a fully integrated urban airport as part of a new city district, in a time when aviation technology is such that aircraft and airports could operate from within our cities.”

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

The proposal was developed as part of Unit 16 at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Students were asked to develop a utopian dream and consider the steps necessary to make it a reality.

Sutton chose to explore the future of the airport on the basis that the typology has become “mundane and ordinary” due to its ubiquity.

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

The proposal claims that, by using a system of elevated taxi-track systems to move aeroplanes around the terminals, engines could be disengaged until take-off and would hence produce far less emissions and noise.

“This project responds to the developments that are being made in aviation today, such as the local flight context, take-off and landing, aircraft ground movements, security, passenger processing and ground operations,” Sutton said.

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

“These can inform new architectural opportunities for the airport design, that provide a better relationship between the airport, the city and the traveller,” he added.

The airport would be supported by a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system – a series of pods that move along rail tracks – so that passengers don’t need to drive. These pods would also serve aircraft gates.

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

Self-service baggage kiosks would be located alongside PRT stations, as part of a smartphone-controlled automated system that removes the stress of carrying luggage around.

“Digital developments such as personal digital bag tags, pre-prepared remotely from the airport, allow passengers to effectively drop-and-go,” said Sutton. “The system then uses the digital information to take the bag directly to the relevant aircraft gate, where it will be automatically sorted and loaded onto the aircraft.”

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

A system of waterways are proposed beneath the elevated taxi-tracks, retaining Stockholm’s traditional water culture and also providing an alternative mode of transport, while cycle routes are integrated within the masterplan.

“The track system is raised up to create a physical barrier between the city and airport infrastructure for security, but also to create a sense of the magic of flight, with these amazing machines passing gently above,” added Sutton, citing Frankfurt and Amsterdam Schiphol as examples of existing airports raised over roads.

Stockholm City Airport by Alex Sutton for The Bartlett graduate show 2015

Sutton’s project is the latest in a series of imaginative airport proposals to emerge in recent years, with others including a combined airfield and shipping port, and a drive-through airport that processes planes like a car wash.

The designer was one of nine final-year students on Unit 16, which was tutored by architects Josep Mias, Johan Berglund and Dean Pike. Other projects to emerge from this year’s Bartlett graduates include a new style of architecture for atheists.

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Harvey Nichols features genuine CCTV shoplifting footage in new Rewards ad

High-end department store Harvey Nichols has become renowned for creating surprising, cheeky and sometimes controversial ads that get people talking. Featuring real-life CCTV footage of shoplifters, Its latest spot, created to promote its new Rewards app, continues its provocative approach.

 

 

The spot, shown above, features genuine footage of ‘stylish shoplifters’ – as the press release puts it – at work in the store. Their faces are obscured by animated masks courtesy of the Layzell Brothers (see CR April 2013). As the ad progresses, the thieves are shown being chased and caught by security guards. The ad’s tagline then appears: ‘Love freebies? Get them legally.’

It would be very easy for a brand like Harvey Nicks to do beautiful, glossy, bland ‘fashion’ adverting. But that has never been their game. This, thanks to ad agency Adam&EveDDB, is the store that gave us the Sorry I Spent It On Myself campaign, as well as the ‘walk of shame’ spot and a print campaign showing women wetting themselves with excitement at an imminent sale. You may not always like their approach, but it’s never boring and they seldom play it safe.

I can’t help wondering whether the cartoon additions fully conceal the identities of the shoplifters though, and the aggressive nature of the pursuit and arrests is certainly attention-grabbing, shall we say.

Beneath the audacity of the approach there also lies a touch of threat – that this is what awaits you if you do try and steal from Harvey Nicks. So think on.

 

Credits:
Agency: adam&eveDDB
CCO: Ben Priest
ECDs: Ben Tollett, Richard Brim
Creatives: Colin Booth, Ben Stilitz
Directors: Layzell Bros
Production company: Blinkink

New Star Wars Trailer Reveals Tons of "Real Sets and Practical Effects"

With the new Star Wars trailer already at 69 million hits, the creators knew they’d have to release something special for last week’s San Diego Comic-Con, the annual geek gathering that can generate mountains of buzz. Filmmakers typically do this by treating Con-goers to new footage, but director J.J. Abrams opted instead to put together a behind-the-scenes reel.

The surprising reveal is just how many “real sets and practical effects” the filmmakers have gone with. One might imagine a sci-fi spectacle as big as this one to be loaded up with green screen and CGI; instead we’re treated to a look at an army of tradespeople, their full-size starships and even the Millennium Falcon being knocked together, 1:1, out of plywood. Not to mention Han Solo getting behind the wheel again while director Abrams peers at him through the windscreen:

Frames of Reference

With the reopening of the Cooper Hewitt last December, museumgoers can once again roam the halls of Andrew Carnegie’s magnificent Upper East Side mansion—and now, thanks to a collaboration between the Cooper Hewitt and Warby Parker, they can even do it while sporting a pair of eyeglasses inspired by the mansion and its original owner.

Warby Parker decided to develop the new Cooper frames after its design team was given a tour of the renovated mansion and granted access to the Cooper Hewitt’s archive, which included the original eyeglasses worn by Carnegie himself. Since everything turn-of-the-20th-century is now hip again, it wasn’t too difficult to imagine the style appealing to today’s consumer. “We were really inspired by the design aesthetic of eyewear during that time period, the early 1900s, late 1800s—very small, simple wire frames, which is something and that we already do a bit here at Warby Parker,” says Shannon Malone, the company’s director of product strategy.

The team started sketching, first drawing designs in Illustrator to get a feel for the aesthetics, then moving to CAD for 3D files of the frames. Those files were sent to one of Warby Parker’s partners overseas, who manufactured samples and sent them back to the team in New York. Although the Warby team knew that they would only be introducing one new style, they designed and prototyped more than 20 versions—all centered around Carnegie’s original frames, but also drawing inspiration from the mansion itself. Pulling from the crown molding and other ornamentation found inside, the designers created a variety of embellishments, ranging from trimmings on the bridge that went further up the nose to heavy foil designs or filigree-type elements around the lenses. Finding an elegant balance between decoration and function proved to be the main challenge of the project, as many of the more elaborate features left the frames too distracting, or too heavy. After user testing, the team decided to abandon many of these elements in lieu of a simple approach, moving the primary detail to the temple arms.

“One thing that is important about this frame is that the shape itself be very wearable,” Malone says. “When we get a series of samples in, we do what we call prototype testing, where we have people with different face shapes and sizes try them on to see how they look on them. It was really remarkable that [the Cooper frames] looked good on just about everyone.”

One of the details that did end up making it into the final design was a coil running along the arms of the frame, which was taken from another pair of vintage glasses Warby had in its office. In its original design, the coil was used to make the frames tighter around its wearer’s head, but their purpose in the Cooper is purely aesthetic. “We just loved how it looked so much that we applied it to the temple on Cooper,” Malone says. “The coil that we used is more sturdy so it’s not going to bend [like the original], but it just looked really, really beautiful.” The frames are made from a lightweight Japanese titanium in Heritage Bronze, a color inspired by brass details found in the Carnegie Mansion, and then wrapped in wire to create the coiled effect.

Titanium castors, assembled with a soldering process, attach each piece. Screws are added afterward to hold the hinges and lenses in. Tortoiseshell acetate temple tips were inspired by the mansion’s mahogany floors. Starting from a full sheet sourced from a family-run Italian factory, the acetate is then cut down to size and individually shaped to create the temple pieces. The final metal frame has a matte finish, achieved through rounds of sandblasting and polishing.

“Because we had so many types of details that we could use and that we liked, it was hard to narrow them down and make the frame simple, stunning, easy to wear and beautiful—but still using some of the design elements that we were excited about,” Malone says. “I think we ended up doing a good job of picking design elements that really make the glasses wearable and pay tribute to the Cooper Hewitt and their history without going overboard.” The frames were revealed during an event at the museum at the end of June, and are now available online starting at $145.