These days, a lamp should do more than just shine! That’s the idea behind Oma. It offers limitless control of indoor lighting by allowing the user to create their own atmospheric presets. Its built-in fingerprint reader recognizes each individual user’s identity and automatically adjusts to their preferred lighting preferences.
However minimal in form, Oma is highly functional with touch sensors in unexpected places. You can adjust the color, intensity, and temperature of the light by simply sliding your finger on the base of the lamp to set the parameters of the chromatic circle, the saturation and temperature level. Save up to 10 combinations with just a touch of the fingerprint reader!
Google has just unveiled the first headset for its Daydream VR platform: Daydream View, shipping in November for $79. The Google Daydream View VR Headset is a smartphone-powered VR. Like Google Cardboard and the Gear VR, the Daydream View is an empty VR headset that requires a smartphone to work. A phone slots into the Daydream View while the phone’s display and computing hardware drive a VR experience. Unlike most competing headsets made from hard plastic, the View is primarily crafted from a lightweight, breathable fabric that keeps you comfortable and lessens the “robot” look often associated with VR. It comes with a simple controller…(Read…)
Comme tous les mois, le journal anglais The Guardian propose à ses lecteurs de leur faire parvenir leurs plus beaux clichés de voyage. Une sélection est effectuée par la suite et publiée sur le site web du média : The Guardian’s Readers Travel Photography Competition. Découvrez ici la compilation des meilleures propositions du mois de septembre, entre jolis paysages et aspects culturels intéressants.
L’architecte McBride Charles Ryan mélange son domaine de prédilection avec la sculpture pour son projet Klein Bottle House, qu’il a décidé de situer à Rye, près de Melbourne en Australie. De l’extérieur comme de l’intérieur, les contours du bâtiment sont extrêmement bruts, formant des angles très géométriques tant au niveau des murs, des fenêtres que des plafonds. Un rendu qui s’apparente presque à de la sculpture, chaque courbe étant étudiée avec minutie, et qui relève autant de l’architecture que de l’art.
Dezeen promotion: this year’s Global Futures Forum will feature workshops, debates and presentations lead by creative industry professionals, including London Design Festival director Ben Evans and Wired UK editor David Rowan.
The Global Futures Forum will take place in Shoreditch Town Hall, London, on 12 October 2016.
The one-day event will feature presentations, debates and workshops on a variety of sectors, including food and drink, sales, eco-technology and the arts, curated by London-based consultancy agency The Future Laboratory.
Editor of Wired UK, David Rowan, will present at Global Futures Forum 2016
Dezeen are media partners for the event, and readers can receive a 30 per cent discount on tickets by entering the code DEZEEN-30 when purchasing online.
David Rowan, editor of Wired UK, will reveal the secrets of the greatest entrepreneurial minds he has interviewed, while Melissa Dick, editorial director of Style.com, will consider how direct-to-purchase content is changing the way that we shop.
Other speakers include the director of London Design Festival Ben Evans, who will demonstrate how design enables us to plan for the future
Other speakers include the director of London Design Festival Ben Evans, who will demonstrate how design enables us to plan for the future, and chairman of Elmwood, Jonathan Sands, who will discuss how to future-proof products through customer-centric design.
The founder and CEO of Design Hotels Claus Sendlinger will examine how innovations in one sector can be used to drive and dominate thinking in another.
London-based The Future Laboratory, the consultancy agency behind Halt, has curated projects for this year’s Global Futures Forum
The Disruptors’ Labyrinth will feature the top 20 start-ups and early-to-market names selected by The Future Laboratory’s Insight Team as the next Uber, Airbnb or Google.
These include futuristic fashion label Neuro, and visual artist and designer Pamm Hong – who will present her app Watermelon Sugar that visualises a user’s browsing history as a digital organism.
The Future Laboratory has selected its top 20 start-up brands, including the nutritionally complete food brand called Huel, for the event
Senior members of The Future Laboratory’s strategy team will also lead Innovation Lab workshops that are designed as quick ways to develop a potential project.
The Global Futures Forum will takes place at Shoreditch Town Hall, London, on 12 October 2016. Dezeen readers can receive a 30 per cent discount by entering the code DEZEEN-30 when purchasing a ticket online.
Read on for more information from the organisers:
Innovative practitioners in design and business will come together in London on 12 October for the Global Futures Forum, a unique event designed to provoke, inspire and guide disruptive strategy.
The designs, like Pamm Hong’s Watermelon Sugar app, are described by the curators as the next Uber, Airbnb or Google
Curated by respected trend forecasting agency, The Future Laboratory, it’s a day-long session of radical keynote presentations, influencer panel debates and expert-led workshops. Dezeen readers who want to soak up the insight and perhaps cultivate their own market disruptions can take advantage of 30 per cent discount off tickets.
Speakers include Ben Evans, Director of London Design Festival, who will demonstrate how design enables us to plan tomorrow’s scenarios today, and Jonathan Sands, OBE, chairman of Elmwood, on how to future-proof products through customer-centric design. Claus Sendlinger, founder and CEO of Design Hotels, will examine how innovations in one sector can be used to drive and dominate thinking in another.
These design influencers are part of a broad line up of speakers, strategists, creatives and brands-to-watch across multiple sectors from luxury to food and drink, in disciplines from sales to eco-technology and the arts. Innovation and creative thinking will be embraced in its widest sense throughout an immersive day of fun, future-focused strategy and surprising presentations.
Post-chemical pharmacy Biocol Labs by Lisbon-based Studio Ah-Ha, is also a “Disruptor”
Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, will speak on the sunshine and shadows of the innovative mind, while Luke Robert Mason, director of Virtual Futures, will look at the possibilities of trans-humanism. David Rowan, editor of Wired UK will spill the secrets of the greatest entrepreneurial minds he has quizzed. Melissa Dick, editorial director of Style.com will consider how direct-to-purchase content is revolutionising the way we shop.
Design creatives who want to look into the myriad possibilities of the future will find the Global Futures Forum a rich seam of inspiration, visual stimulus and food for thought. The event is an opportunity to recalibrate and frame product design within the totality of customer experience.
Its supplements treat ailments such as fatigue and indigestion using only plant-based ingredients
“It’s no longer enough to have carefully designed products, brands now need to focus on crafting experiences in order to drive consumer engagement and loyalty,” says Hannah Robinson, visual editor at The Future Laboratory. “This is leading to a rapid expansion of the role smart design plays in business and is also leading to convergence between sectors – from retail to fashion, beauty to beverages.”
The event is designed to help attendees ride the tides of incoming consumer and technological change in ways that are profitable and meaningful. The Future Laboratory co-founders Christopher Sanderson will show how tomorrow’s complex and ever-changing Mega Forces can be mapped, measured and harnessed, while fellow co-founder Martin Raymond will reveal how trends can be identified and used as part of a strategic innovation process.
Other start-up brands include the non-alcoholic drink brand Seedlip
The emphasis of the day is on techniques and lessons that can be put into practice after the event to innovate products and redefine categories. Networking is high on the agenda, and connections will be forged with the innovators, thought-leaders and next-generation disruptors who are set to make the future happen.
Designer Keiichi Matsuda’s Hyper-reality video is a vision of a world immersed in augmented reality
The Global Futures Forum takes place across multiple spaces including the subterranean Disruptor’s Labyrinth where visitors can meet and witness the top 20 start-ups and early-to-market names selected as ones-to-watch. These include the futuristic fashion label, Neuro, which uses a mix of advanced 3D software and technologies from the video game and film industries, enabling designers to create hyper-customised garments digitally; and visual artist and designer Pamm Hong, presenting Watermelon Sugar, a speculative app that visualises a user’s browsing history as a digital organism.
A break for refreshments is far from the humdrum sandwich platter: visitors will enjoy their food while feasting on Naked Lunch – a Live Literature performance, in which actors, dancers and sound artists transport them into the future. In the process, they will eavesdrop on the some of the big issues such as AI, GM, and Big Data Culture.
While Toast Ale, which is crafted from slices of unsold bread, addresses one of the UK’s food waste issues
Elsewhere, the hands-on Innovation Labs are designed as quick ways to boot camp a potential project or innovation methodology. With bookable sessions focused on food & drink, beauty, retail and luxury, the workshops will be led by senior members of The Future Laboratory’s strategy team. Attendees will learn a series of easy-to-implement Opportunity SWOT tests, Playback Roadmaps and Innovation Game Plans that facilitate the conversion of trends into future market opportunities.
The Global Futures Forum takes place in Shoreditch Town Hall, a Grade II-listed Victorian building just a short walk from Old Street, Hoxton, Shoreditch High Street and Liverpool Street stations.
Wyoming architecture firm Carney Logan Burke designed this home on a rugged mountainside, which wraps around a giant boulder. Find out more about Boulder Retreat »
American firm Ward + Blake Architects completed this residence and guest house in western Wyoming, which features rustic materials and sweeping views of the surrounding mountains. Find out more about Safir Residence »
Carney Logan Burke also created this vacation estate for a New York family, which is oriented to provide dramatic views. Find out more about Shoshone Residence »
US studio Abramson Teiger created this rural Wyoming home that consists of low-lying volumes made of glass, concrete and weathering steel. Find out more about Wyoming Residence »
A climbing wall runs up one side of this corrugated metal-clad house in Jackson – the third project in our roundup by Carney Logan Burke. Find out more about Cache Creek Residence »
Architect Bing Thom, designer of several major buildings in Vancouver, has died aged 75 following a brain aneurysm.
The Hong Kong-born architect, who had been based in Canada ever since emigrating there as a child, suffered the aneurysm earlier this week during a visit to his birthplace, and passed away in the company of his wife, Bonnie.
His legacy includes a series of projects in Vancouver, including the Guildford Aquatic Centre and the Surrey City Centre Library, as well as the Arena Stage Theater in Washington DC and the Tarrant County College campus in Texas.
Bing Thom Architects described its founder as “one of Canada’s most admired and accomplished architects”.
“Bing Thom was a dedicated and artful city-builder whose global reputation was closely tied to Metro Vancouver, a region he cared for deeply and did much to protect and to improve,” said the firm.
“He saw himself first as a public servant and held a fundamental belief in the transformative power of great architecture to uplift not only the physical, but also the economic and social conditions of a community,” it added.
“His positive impact will continue to be felt both in the communities in which our projects are built, and in the profound influence he had on his many colleagues and so many others.”
Thom recieved his architectural education at the University of British Columbia and the University of California.
He travelled around Asia after graduating, working in the offices of Fumihiko Maki and Arthur Erickson before returning to establish his own firm in 1982.
His portfolio includes numerous public project in Canada, including the Aberdeen Centre in British Columbia, and the Sunset Community Centre and Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, both in Vancouver.
His firm is also adding a building to Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, the Xiqu Centre, which will be a facility dedicated to Chinese opera.
His accolades include the RAIC Gold Medal, one of Canada’s most important architectural prizes, which he received in 2011.
Few of us can have complete control over our daily schedules. Work and family obligations, doctor appointments, and various other things will often dictate where we must be at certain times and what we must be doing.
But when there is a chance to make scheduling choices, it’s helpful to recognize when you’re at your best for certain activities (creative work, exercise, etc.) and then build your schedule based on that knowledge.
Your “productive hours” are very important. Think about when those are, and then practice maniacal devotion to work during those hours. …
One of the saddest mistakes in time management is the propensity of people to spend the two most productive hours of their day on things that don’t require high cognitive capacity (like social media). If we could salvage those precious hours, most of us would be much more successful in accomplishing what we truly want.
Ariely wrote that those two most productive hours are usually in the morning — the first two hours after you’re fully awake. But people are different, and being aware of what works best for you is what’s key.
A number of people find that starting the day early makes them more productive, and some of them start their days very early, indeed. Hilary Potkewitz had a recent article in The Wall Street Journal about people who choose to wake up around 4 a.m. For example:
Peter Shankman, a 44-year-old entrepreneur and speaker based in New York City, is usually out of bed a few minutes after 4 a.m. Twice a week he meets a buddy for a 10-mile run in the dark around lower Manhattan.
The city’s streets are usually deserted, providing a nearly distraction-free space for thinking. “If I’m busy dodging people or noticing who’s passing me, my ideas won’t come,” Mr. Shankman says.
By 7 a.m., he claims he is “showered, fed, watered and sitting at his desk.” …
The flip side is that he is in bed by 8:30 p.m.
Others find they function better later in the day. On the Lifehacker website, night owl Mike Vardy wrote:
As someone who does a lot of writing, I have found that I’m at my best in a creative sense later in the day, once all of my essential actions and errands have been taken care of. I call it my “Finally Time” — I finally have the clarity of thought, quiet I need and time I want to get my great work done.
That’s my own preferred schedule which is why I’m writing this post around midnight. I also find that trying to exercise early in the day just doesn’t work for me, so I’ve given up trying to force fit myself into that kind of schedule.
Some people work best by breaking up their day. YouTube creator and podcaster CGP Grey has found that afternoon is his worst time for getting his writing done, so he does that work in the morning (starting quite early) and the evening, taking the afternoon off. Such a schedule is obviously much easier to implement when you’re self-employed, but even people who have that flexibility might hesitate to stray so far from the normal workday pattern. But if an unusual schedule works better for you, why not go for it?
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