Sep 02
FLIP
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A three fold floor cushion. Use it as stool, foot support, lounge chair or laptop table. For everyone who likes living playful and flexible
Sep 02
Words to keep you motivated
Posted in: UncategorizedListed below are the most common pieces of advice I give to people on the topic of uncluttering. With a three-day weekend on the horizon for those of us in the States, I thought that some encouragement might be appropriate. Have a great holiday, everyone!
- You don’t have to unclutter in one fell swoop. Many projects, spread out over weeks and months, will get you the same results as if you had tackled it all at once.
- Benefits of uncluttering can include being better organized, less stressed, and having fewer things to clean. When you walk into a room, you’re able to relax because there is a place for everything and everything is in its place.
- Your motivations and visions for your uncluttered life are your guiding star when taking on uncluttering projects. Keep your eyes on your goals and you’ll find that uncluttering has less to do about the stuff and more about the life you want to lead.
- You can do it!
- You don’t have to unclutter alone. Seek out friends, family, or organizational professionals to help with motivation and keep you focused on your uncluttering goals.
- Keep things in perspective. If you relapse and get bogged down, don’t become frustrated and beat yourself up over it. Start again tomorrow. This is home and office organization, it’s not brain surgery. There are worse things in the world than not succeeding your first time with an uncluttering project.
- The person with the most amount of stuff at the end of his or her life doesn’t win an award.
- The person with the least amount of stuff at the end of his or her life doesn’t win an award, either. Living an uncluttered life doesn’t mean that you have to live an ascetic life. Simple living is about getting rid of distractions that prevent you from enjoying a modern, luxurious life. It’s about smart consumption, not no consumption. To paraphrase Albert Einstein, “Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.”
What advice, motivations, or thoughts have helped you to be more organized? Let us know what has influenced you!
This post was originally published in August 2007.
Post written by Erin Doland
Sep 01
This watch has two identical hands bands!
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From not just a design point of view, but even a manufacturing and servicing standpoint, the twin band watch is sheer genius. Its exactly identical bands give the watch a beautifully minimal and no-nonsense aesthetic along with bilateral symmetry. It also makes manufacturing easier because you only need one type of mold for the band and the clasp, because the bands and clasps on both sides are identical. This also allows for a lower rejection rate, reducing waste because all the bands are the same as opposed to a separate right and left band. For a customer, swapping bands becomes easier because you don’t have to buy a set of bands anymore. You can buy individual pieces… this also means watch wearers can customize their bands with a variety of colors with absolute ease! Sheer genius, isn’t it?
Designer: Xiaoxi & 2-LA Design
Sep 01
Glass-half-full kinda cutlery
Posted in: UncategorizedIf illusions help curb excess consumption and reduce wastage, so be it! Studio Playfool’s conceptual cutlery is designed to trick users into feeling like they’re eating a large portion of food when it’s just half of what they’re actually consuming. Dietitians have been long employing similar techniques to make people cut down on unhealthy food, but Studio Playfool’s Half/Full was designed to make a much more direct visual statement.
They say with time the population will only increase and going by how we as a species have already exhausted the Earth’s allocated resource budget for this year (we did so on the 2nd of August), unnecessary consumption needs to, and will probably out of dire desperation, stop. The Half/Full was designed as a way to “future-proof our appetites”. Obviously these aren’t going to be sitting in our homes on our tables any time soon, but I can only pray that it doesn’t come to that!
Designer: Studio Playfool
Sep 01
Dashcam Footage Showing What Happens When You Roll a Towed Camping Trailer
Posted in: UncategorizedRemember this incredibly effective demo that we showed you last year?
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In just seconds and using no words, the presenter makes the viewer clearly understand how to, and how not to, distribute the weight on a towed trailer.
Sadly, here’s a real-life demonstration, without the hand to reach in and stop it:
“Dad and his two kids were ok,” writes the trucker who posted the video. “Gives you a good idea of how long it takes to slow down a heavy laden truck going 65mph.”
Sep 01
A Robot-Led Funeral, What 500-Year Flooding would Look Like and the Wild & Wacky Structures of Burning Man
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Core77 team spends time combing through the news so you don’t have to. Here’s a weekly roundup of our favorite finds from the World Wide Web:
Solving how fish swim so well may help design underwater robots.
GM will break ground on a 360,000 sq ft expansion of their design center in 2018.
“What 500-year flooding could look like around five cities.”
A wicked visualization of Citibike trips taken citywide.
Burning Man 2017 is in full swing_running from Aug 24 through Sep 4th. Dezeen showcases some Instagram photos. And here’s the full feed of photos. Internet connectivity on site is sketchy. Expect more photos in the coming days.
Interactive Robogami is a tool from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) that aims to let people design, simulate, and then build simple robots with a “3D print, then fold” approach.
Toppling monuments, a visual history.
A review of the Ettore Sottsass exhibit, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.
Exhibit Columbus is an annual exploration of architecture, art, design, and community featuring 18 outdoor, site-responsive installations as well as events and programming from Aug 26 through Nov 26. Takes place in Columbus, Indiana.
Things to buy. Things not to buy.
Understanding how hurricanes are CATegorized.
Hot Tip: Discover more blazin’ hot Internet finds on our Twitter and Instagram pages.
Sep 01
New York Textile Month returns September 2017 with city-wide event programme
Posted in: UncategorizedDezeen promotion: New York Textile Month is back for a second edition, with talks, exhibitions and retail opportunities “celebrating the revival of textiles” available to the public throughout September 2017.
Following the first edition last September, which comprised 77 events across the city, New York Textile Month 2 is set to involve even more museums, galleries, showrooms, retailers and design studios.
Dezeen is media partner for the festival, organised by Li Edelkoort – a trend forecaster and dean of hybrid design at The New School: Parsons School of Design – who started the initiative to bring attention to fabric innovation.
“The wild and vibrant New York Textile Month 2 is an eventful agenda organised around the culture of cloth,” she said. “The mood is up and creativity is on the loose, celebrating the revival of textiles.”
This year, some of the city’s most popular museums – The Met, MoMA, Cooper Hewitt, New Museum and many more – will mount textile-related exhibitions to coincide with the festival.
Talks about smart garments, sustainable production and technical weaving will provide topics for discussion.
Designers and brands including Lori Weitzner, Print All Over Me and Knoll will host open studios, allowing the public behind-the-scenes glimpses of their work and production processes.
A pop-up at ABC Carpet & Home will give artisans from around the world the opportunity to present their products, while the Young Talent! exhibition will present the work of graduates from six schools in Europe and the US.
Capitalising on the city’s reputation as a hub for textile innovation, Parsons is due to introduce a two-year MFA Textiles programme in 2018.
“New York is the breeding ground of global talent,” Edelkoort said. “Its different art institutions and design universities are brimming with innovation and exceptional projects in expressive textile design, exploring ever-changing ways to bring fabrics to the fore, and collectively defending textiles as an intrinsic part of life and style.”
For more information and a full list of planned events, visit the New York Textile Month website.
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Sep 01
Isay Weinfeld reveals irregularly stacked tower block for São Paulo
Posted in: UncategorizedBrazilian architect Isay Weinfeld has designed a tower for São Paulo comprising four irregularly stacked volumes fringed with greenery, which is expected to complete later this year.
Construction is already underway on Weinfeld‘s mixed use tower, which is positioned in the city’s Jardins area just one block from the main avenue – Avenida Paulista. It was designed for São Paulo-based real estate developer Reud.
The quartzite tile-clad tower, which has been under construction since 2014, houses offices as well as a 230-seat theatre, restaurant, bar and cafe.
“The synergy created by different uses, which generate flow and occupation at complementary times, keeps the lively space,” said Reud CEO Fernando Tchalian.
The four varying volumes that make up the tower each provide different sized floor plates that range from 450 to 594 square metres.
On the floors where the volumes meet and overlap – the fourth, 10th and 18th – Weinfeld has created plant-lined balconies, while tree-dotted public space circles the tower’s base.
“Such a configuration reflects an independence and a difference between volumes, still giving an impression that they are floating,” said the developers.
The building is elevated off the ground by a series of columns and the central elevator shaft, which accessed beyond reception and provides access to the offices. A set of stairs leads to the theatre.
The tower’s second and third volumes, which house floors five to nine and floors 11 to 17 respectively, are reserved exclusively for offices.
The smaller fourth volume, which features only two horizontal strips of glazing, is houses a duplex office that occupies the building’s 18th and 19th floors.
A 229-space parking lot for staff and visitors sits across three floors below the building.
Weinfeld, who’s offices are based in the city, previously designed an apartment block comprising a similar stacked-block formation for São Paulo. His studio is also working on a number of projects in the US, including The Four Seasons restaurant in New York and the conversion of Miami’s The Shore Club into a luxury complex with condominiums, hotel rooms and poolside bungalows.
Project credits:
Architect: Isay Weinfeld
Developer: Reud
Construction: BN Engenharia
Commercialisation: Cushman & Wakefield
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Sep 01
10 parasitic dwellings that cling to other buildings
Posted in: UncategorizedParasitic structures rely on a host building for support or services. Here’s 10 of the best examples, including experimental housing for the homeless, a secluded artist’s studio and a house-shaped wooden hut affixed to the side of a hotel.
Manifest Destiny, US, by Mark Reigelman and Jenny Chapman
To push the boundaries of where an urban dweller could take up residence in a bustling city, artist Mark Reigelman and architect Jenny Chapman suspended a temporary, house-shaped wooden hut to the side of a San Francisco hotel.
Find out more about Manifest Destiny ›
CN Tower, Canada, by Quadrangle
This proposal by Quadrangle would see clusters of parasitic apartment units attached to the sides of Toronto’s CN Tower by drilling supports into the concrete, giving the giant communications building and tourist attraction a pixellated appearance.
Find out more about CN Tower ›
Hidden Studio, Spain, by Fernando Abellanas
When building his own studio, Fernando Abellanas chose an unexpected location – the underside of a graffiti-covered bridge in Valencia. The self-taught designer has made use of the concrete infrastructure to form a roof and walls.
Find out more about Hidden Studio ›
To combat the soaring cost of living in tropical cities, Bangkok studio All(zone) designed a series of low-budget micro dwellings that can be assembled in unfinished high-rise buildings that are often home to squatters.
Find out more about Light House ›
Homes for the Homeless, UK, James Furzer
Modular pods that hug the sides of existing buildings provide temporary shelter for London’s rough sleepers in this proposal by architectural designer James Furzer, who says the structures could be made from salvaged materials to save on production costs.
Find out more about Homes for the Homeless ›
Havre 77, Mexico, by Francisco Pardo and Julio Amezcu
An architectural “prosthesis” has been fitted to the top of a dilapidated brick building in Mexico City by local architects Francisco Pardo and Julio Amezcu, who have creating a co-working space that piggybacks the original three-storey house.
Find out more about Havre 77 ›
Piñeiro House, Argentina, by Adamo-Faiden
A young couple occupy the previously vacant roof of a Buenos Aires apartment block, in a pavilion-like dwelling designed by architecture studio Adamo-Faiden, which features glazed walls and an abundance of plants.
Find out more about Piñeiro House ›
Detached, Greece, by Dragonas Christopoulou Architects
When designing this back-to-basics hut, architects Panos Dragonas and Varvara Christopoulou swapped a rural location for the manmade landscape of chimneys and antennas by proposing the structure be raised above the rooftops in Athens.
Find out more about Detached ›
Oak Hill, UK, by Claridge Architects
Unlike other parasitic structures, this single-storey dwelling gives something back to the Hampstead apartment block that serves as host – its flat green roof provides a garden terrace for neighbouring residents.
Find out more about Oak Hill ›
Excrescent Utopia, UK, by Milo Ayden De Luca
This proposal by architecture graduate Milo Ayden De Luca is also aimed at homeless people. He suggests attaching lightweight, boxy structures to the sides of lamp posts and other street furniture in central London, to provide a space for sleeping and busking.
Find out more about Excrescent Utopia ›
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Sep 01
Sam Jacob and MINI create mirrored micro-cabin for this year's London Design Festival
Posted in: UncategorizedArchitect Sam Jacob has teamed up with MINI to create an urban retreat that offers visitors a space to research and relax during this year’s London Design Festival.
Jacob‘s Urban Cabin, which he created alongside the MINI Living team, will be installed in the courtyard of Oxo Tower Wharf – and will join the programme of London Design Festival‘s Landmark Projects.
His idea stems from wanting to show the differences between the way London was in the past, and how it is at the present moment.
“I’ve always been interested in combinations, juxtapositions and fusions; in how projects can draw on different references and forge alternative possibilities,” said Jacob.
“Often this means bringing apparent opposites together to create unexpected alliances and design languages. The aim is to open up the possibilities of design while also making reference to the world around us.”
Through his installation, Jacob aims to provide Londoners with a research space equipped with facilities inspired by the amenities that they might not have access to.
A shared kitchen is based on the city’s abundance of food markets, while a micro-library addresses the decreasing number of public libraries that have faced closure following funding cuts.
The exterior of the building is based on the rich combination of facades seen across the city, while the interior is designed as a nod to “British eccentricity”. Also on the outside, mirrored surfaces will reflect the cabin’s surroundings.
“The mirrored surface of Urban Cabin is playing with the reflections of its surrounding, while the interior is an interactive space designed to understand and evaluate the personal needs of the London urbanite,” said Corinna Natter, an experience designer at MINI Living.
London Design Festival takes place this year from 16 to 24 September. It’s the second time that MINI Living – a research project by the automotive company that explores the future of cities – has taken part in the festival.
The project began with an installation during last year’s Milan design week, and at London Design Festival 2016 they worked with architect Asif Khan to install “forests” in see-through boxes across east London, designed for those who don’t have access to parks or gardens.
Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio, and a professor of architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago. The London-based architect and Dezeen columnist was formerly a director of the now-defunct FAT alongside Sean Griffiths and Charles Holland.
The practice disbanded in 2013 after 23 years, but during their time together, they designed a housing block in England where an assortment of building typologies appear to be stacked on top of one another and an exhibition dedicated to architectural copying for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.
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