La source d’inspiration de cet ensemble de packaging est pour le moins romanesque: en 1914 en France, Henriette Caillaux assassine le rédacteur en chef du journal Le Figaro qui menait une campagne de dénigrement contre son mari. Le fait divers est présenté comme un crime passionnel à l’époque. Les graphistes mexicaines Sofia Villarreal et Cynthia Fernandez ont ainsi cherché à suggérer l’explosion des émotions, en lien avec le plaisir de la gourmandise.
It’s great to be around when manufacturing technology finally catches up to an idea that was ahead of its time. In the early 2000s, Italian industrial designers Piergiorgio Robino and Andrea Sanna created TERRA, a “chair” that’s made out of dirt and grass. It’s completely integrated into your lawn and you grow it yourself; it’s essentially just a cardboard buck that you fill in with dirt and shower with grass seeds.
But the cardboard forms were tedious to cut out by hand, and laser cutters of the time were too expensive. So Robino and Sanna sold the last one in 2005, then called it quits.
Now that laser cutters are more affordable, they’re Kickstarting another production run:
At press time there was less than 24 hours left to pledge, so by the time you read this, it may be finito. Then again, that may not matter, as you may not have pledged anyway: The asking price was €195 (USD $218) for the all-gone early-bird specials for the TERRA seat, going up to €250 (USD $279). The three-seater TERRA SOFA was €590 (USD $659). For a whopping €5,000 (USD $5,588) plus travel and lodging expenses, the duo will fly out to your site and design a large-scale TERRA lounge:
While the idea behind TERRA is undeniably great, the attendant prices might be too much for some to fork over.
Under the Kickstarter arrangement, Robino and Sanna will ship physical cardboard kits to the pledgers. But it might be cool if Robino and Sanna were to contact laser-cutter-equipped makerspaces around the world, and set up some kind of licensing agreement, whereby customers can purchase them directly from the makerspace, with a kickback going to Robino and Sanna. I have no idea how you’d audit such a thing, and how many units they could move given the current prices, but it seems that that’s how things might be in future. Manufacturing technology has caught up to the great idea; now we have to wait for business to catch up, too.
Microsoft has announced it’s joining the fight against online harassment by launching two new tools: “one for reporting hate speech so that the company can take it down, and another for requesting that the company reinstate content once it comes down……
Diagnostiquée bipolaire en 2013, la norvégienne Maren Klemp trouve dans ses photos un exutoire pour décrire les douleurs qu’elle ressent et ainsi illustrer celle des autres. Elle met en scène ses enfants dans son travail, ce qui leur permet de dialoguer et comprendre ce que ressent leur maman. L’artiste a également collaboré avec le professeur américain José Escobar pour produire un livre sur ce thème, Between Intervals. Vous pouvez découvrir l’intégralité de son travail sur son site.
Lilas was commissioned because the more ambitious Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta was behind schedule
Zaha Hadid‘s Lilas pavilion is the focal point of this year’s Beyond Limits exhibition at Chatsworth House – an annual showcase of contemporary outdoor sculpture, organised by London auction house Sotheby’s.
Now erected in the ground of Chatsworth House, the group of toad-stool like structures feature the curves that are characteristic of Hadid’s designs
The group of toad-stool like structures features the white curves that are characteristic of Hadid’s designs. It rises 5.5 metres above the ground, and has smooth sides that echo the design of Hadid’s 2013 Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
“For each of our annual Beyond Limits shows we seek to bring something new and thrilling to the experience, and the resurrection of Zaha Hadid’s seminal Lilas pavilion in such a historic location is one of the highlights this year,” said Sotheby’s curator Simon Stock.
“The public display of the remarkable structure, which has travelled from a royal park to a stately garden, is also a fitting tribute to such a pioneer in her field,” he added.
Other pieces in the exhibition include a large-scale light installation shaped like waterlillies by British artist Bruce Munro
Also included in the exhibition are sculptures by artists including Jed Novatt, Erwin Wurm, Joana Vasconcelos, Lynn Chadwick, Ju Ming, Wendell Castle and Charles Hadcock.
A reflective stainless-steel pavilion by Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias is present in a stretch of meadow
A reflective stainless-steel pavilion by Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias is present in a stretch of meadow, a female nude by French sculptor Aristide Maillol stands at one end of the lake and a large-scale light installation shaped like waterlilies by British artist Bruce Munro floats on the water’s surface.
A female nude by French sculptor Aristide Maillol stands at one end of the lake
A sculpture by American artist Jed Novatt is also included
Hadid was also the creator of the inaugural Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2000. Originally planned as a one-off structure, its success spawned an annual pavilion commission by the gallery that continues today.
Pencil Note is a notebook with a very simple polycarbonate cover that can house almost any full-sized pencil. The vacuum formed bulge on the cover provides enough space to tightly secure the pencil. Its shape also makes sure the pencil can be easily removed.
The Premise, a Forbes tech podcast hosted by Parmy Olson, is up to 23 episodes. In fact, the latest installment, which looks at the rise of Trello, came out today.
Starting in October, that program and three others created for the Women@Forbes network – The Limit Does Not Exist, hosted by Christina Wallace and Cate Scott Campbell, Mentoring Moments hosted by Denise Restauri and Hiding in the Bathroom hosted by Morra Aarons-Mele – will be stream to the additional, targeted audience of the Beverly Hills-headquartered PodcastOne network. Each show will debut on successive days during the week of Oct. 3-7. From today’s announcement:
“We’ve had a lot of ‘Oh, wow’ moments at PodcastOne,” said PodcastOne founder and executive chairman Norm Pattiz. “None bigger than this. An exclusive podcast partnership with Forbes is a very big deal for our network. The Forbes brand brings with it the history and credibility in not only business, finance and tech, but also sports, women’s issues and entertainment.”
For anyone unfamiliar with the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, statistics help paint a clear picture. Built back in 1917, it’s over 95 acres of land, warehouses, cargo and docks in South Brooklyn. There are similarities here to the Brooklyn……
If you really look at architecture, it’s nothing but vertical walls between a floor plane and a ceiling plane. If those walls were collapsible, your entire house wouldn’t be more than a meter in thickness. The ShelterPack is a disaster relief home that fits a bedroom (with 4 beds), bathroom, fully equipped kitchen, and a dining space (with furniture) into a slab just about 80 centimeters in height. The entire apartment can be set up in just a few hours by elevating the ceiling, and putting the walls in place.
The ShelterPack is ideal for places struck by disaster. When compressed, each pack is small enough to be carried in a semi-automatic truck. In bulk! Imagine giving comfortable homes to a 100 refugees/victims with just two such trucks!
Hail to the Sun est un projet réalisé au cours de cet été par le photographe Pierre-Louis Ferrer. En immortalisant ses sujets en plein soleil via des ultraviolets, l’artiste met en évidence tous les défauts de la peau et le travail du vieillissement sur l’organisme, pourtant invisible à l’oeil nu. Une superbe série, à la fois touchante et saisissante, à découvrir ci-dessous.
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