Prince n’a pas toujours été une star planétaire. En 1977, par exemple, sa discographie ne contenait qu’une démo du morceau Soft & Wet. Suffisant pour le photographe Robert Whitman, qui s’est empressé de photographier ce jeune artiste en qui il avait su déceler le génie avant tout le monde. 40 ans plus tard, Whitman livre ses photos au magazine i-D.
Basée à San Fransisco, Astrid Endeavor est une créatrice de bijoux hors pair. Ses colliers aux formes géométriques prennent vie à la tombée de la nuit lorsque l’artiste peut broder au calme. Le style retro de la broderie allié aux motifs modernes et colorés font le charme de ses pièces. C’est l’accessoire parfait pour égayer une tenue! Retrouvez toutes les créations d’Astrid Endeavor ici.
Originaire du Colorado, le photographe Jamie Kripke est pluridisciplinaire : il excelle à la fois dans les portraits, la photographie de sport et de paysages. À l’honneur ici, sa série Hunting & Gathering, qui dépeint tout en couleur son aventure quotidienne aux États-Unis, où il met un point d’honneur à capturer chaque détail, cadre plaisant ou ressenti qu’il vit ou aperçoit.
Janice Sung est une illustratrice basée à Toronto dont le travail est inspiré par son amour de la mode, des gens et de la nature. Douée en portrait, ses récits créatifs explorent différents mondes et personnages. Voici quelques exemples de son travail. Pour découvrir le reste de son oeuvre, rendez-vous sur son site et sur Instagram.
s an Industrial Designer for QBP, you will have a key role in utilizing human centered processes to design innovative and technologically advanced products. Expect to work on a variety of projects ranging from small parts and accessories, soft goods, and complete bicycles.
In the market for a new home for his family some years ago, industrial designer Duncan Jackson purchased what you might call a fixer-upper: Martello Tower Y, a massive Napoleonic-era circular fortification situated on the cost of Suffolk.
England began building these Martello towers all along their coast in the early 1800s, anticipating that the French fleet would come knocking. Even though they never came Tower Y, like many others, was left standing because it’s kind of a hassle to tear down something that’s made out of a million bricks.
Jackson enlisted the services of architecture firm Piercy & Co, renovated the structure and even drilled a four-meter-long diagonal clerestory shaft into the wall. Have a look at what they’ve done with the place:
Pretty darn sweet.
It appears that Jackson didn’t stay too long, however; while the renovations were complete by 2010, he sold it in 2014, and the new owner is renting the space out for vacationers. This is basically the 19th-Century version of that nuclear missile silo that was turned into an AirBNB rental.
For those of you doing small-batch production work, here’s a super-informative video on how you can take a single solid part, then create molds for it so that you can not only reproduce that part, but also take out most of the unnecessary mass beneath the surface. “This makes the part more economical to cast and produce,” says industrial designer Eric Strebel, “particularly when you have to make 130 of them.”
Here he shares the benefits of long experience with a bunch of clever tips and tricks on how to do it efficiently:
When you picture New York City you probably don’t envision greenery, but in fact the city has some 5.2 million trees in parks, lining streets and in people’s yards in the outerboroughs. Each year, as in nature, a number of them become damaged by storms or age and must be felled.
Because there has been no direct link between the Parks Department and furniture makers in need of the stuff, all of that potentially-usable lumber gets chainsawed up and thrown into a woodchipper.
Enter RE-CO BKLYN, which now serves as that link. “We work with local arborists, tree services and city parks departments to locate downed trees and trees slated for removal locally,” the company writes. RE-CO trucks out to the site, lightens the removalist’s load by selecting suitable trees, then hauls their bounty back to their facilities, where they slab the trees and kiln-dry them to a moisture content of 6-8%, which is what furniture makers are looking for.
I call it a win-win-win-win: The removalists save time and money by having less material to process and haul to the landfill; the tree didn’t go down in vain; RE-CO employs people and stays in business; and local furniture makers get to purchase local wood at lower prices than if it had been shipped in from faraway forests.
Another neat thing about RE-CO’s operation is that they know exactly where each tree came from, and they make everything including pricing transparent. When you go to their website, it states each each slab’s origin. They photograph each slab, cite its overall dimensions, list the board footage, board-foot price and overall price per slab. Furthermore you can of course search by species. It makes it very easy to peruse their entire collection and drill down to what you’re looking for.
Their detailed cataloguing is very well-thought-out, in contrast to the websites of NYC’s two big lumber suppliers, Rosensweig and Adriatic, whose websites are clunky, outdated and do not present the information in a way that’s easy to assimilate. RE-CO’s website is designed as if they really considered what a person looking to buy wood needs to see.
The reason why RE-CO “gets it” and the others don’t is probably because RE-CO was started by a group of designer/builders, and hence know exactly how inventory ought be presented to potential buyers. You can see some of their work here, and 360 Woodworking (which sadly appears to have gone bust) has a two-part podcast interview with RE-CO co-founder Roger Benton that you can still access here. Benton’s got some great stories about how the company started and some of the challenges they’ve faced, and it’s well worth a listen.
This bicycle shackled to a signpost on Crosby Street seems to be owned by a creative cyclist.
It has been brutally cold lately here in NYC, and the rider has fashioned insulated hand-shields for the handlebars.
It’s not uncommon to see local delivery people hack something like this up, but they are usually made out of common plastic shopping bags.
In contrast, this has been made from a bubble-wrap shipping envelope. I imagine the bubbles confer greater insulation.
I took a quick peek inside their satchel to gain some clue as to the rider’s identity–are they a deliveryperson, a messenger, a civilian?–but didn’t want to look too long as it’s nosey and there were other people on the street. Anyways all I caught a glimpse of was something packaged with Japanese script on it. If any kanji/katakana readers can tell me what it says, I’d be obliged.
The rider has also used the tape to widen the mud flap, to catch those splatters that defeat the object’s stock width.
It also appears that the tape up front, in the center of the handlebars, does something to lessen the amount of road splatter that reaches the rider.
Because I’m only a casual cyclist, I cannot deduce why the rider has covered so much of the bike in this white tape; to make it easier to see the splatter for cleaning? Hardcore cyclists among you, please explain or offer theories!
This white kettle from Tokyo-based designer Makoto Koizumi’s “Kaico” series is subtle and stylish. Made from enamel-coated steel, it features a beechwood handle and maple knob, altogether creating an attractive but warm contrast. This lovely piece……
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