“‘We need to cook’ takes on nefarious new meaning when grumbled by everyone’s favorite sociopathic chemistry teacher – or his meth head sidekick. Breaking Bad assaults the senses with striking visuals and heart wrenching storylines, all while teasing the tastebuds with promises of dipping sticks. Follow along this week as we whip up a batch of slightly-less-illicit crystal blue persuasion. Bitch.”..(Read…)
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I can’t stress enough on how much I value diversity in design. We’ve showcased thousands of bags on the platform before and we continue to do so only because we believe in showcasing something for everybody, and that diversity (in needs and their solutions) is something worth marveling. Over the years we’ve looked at bags galore, for modularity, for travel, for holidays, and there’s usually always a common denominator. The material. It’s either leather, or a synthetic fabric, and that lends a typical aesthetic to the bag, making it blend in with your apparel. Not stand out.
Most bag designs are built from the inside to the outside. You design a bag that fulfills the functional brief, and then build the aesthetic around that template. The Liger01, however, tackles both simultaneously. Designed not as just a great bag but also an aesthetic awakening of sorts, the Liger01 is remarkable to look at, and reliable in its usage.
The Liger01 can be broken down into three parts. Two functional solutions, and one aesthetic one. The first being the backpack itself, which is water resistant throughout, and comes even with water resistant easy-to-access pockets. Designed for work, play, and everything in between, the Liger01’s backpack roll-top layout can be expanded to let you store that extra bit more when you’re mixing the work with the weekend. The second part is the Reptile, a repetitive tiling system that lets you mount up to 5 dedicated pouches to your Liger01. This system, popularized by the military, allows you to carry accessories with your backpack that are easy to access without having to open and dig through the bag itself. The Reptiles can store anything from cameras, to notepads, chargers, power-banks, etc.
However, the Liger01’s most significant achievement remains the Manteau… a cloak that sits on top of the bag, allowing you to personalize it to your tastes. Designed as your bag’s personal wardrobe, the Manteau comes in a series of quirky, ethnic styles that let you create a bag that is sure to gather second glances. The manteaus come in solid colors, as well as the military camouflage, but what catches our eye the most are the Indo-ethnic (even Aztec to an extent) prints that give the Liger01 a splash of color, making them look a class apart, because a bag shouldn’t be categorized only by how effectively it does its job. Just like all your apparel, your bag should have character too. Besides, with the beautiful Manteau sitting majestically on the front of your bag, you’ll be able to spot it on the airport carousel from a mile away!
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Basé à Nantes, la jeune photographe Camille Dronne se fait doucement une place dans la jungle photographique avec ses photos pop, aux couleurs vives et aux lignes fortes. Ses séries, pour des projets personnels ou des collaborations (avec Trax Magazine, notamment), marquent l’esprit et bercent les yeux, empreintes d’une douceur vintage dans des cadres modernes. « Pink Market » met des objets du quotidien dans un contexte délicieusement pop. Retrouvez le travail de Camille sur Instagram.
The Senior Experience Designer innovates at the intersection of interaction design, industrial design, and interior architecture in modern aviation. Their work is centered on points along the passengers’ and crew’s flight journey, which may range from brand touchpoints to aircraft interiors to ancillary products and services. They design multi-sensory physical
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Students from Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm have created six furniture prototypes in response to briefs by Swedish brands Blå Station, Gärsnäs, Johanson Design, Källemo, Massproductions and Materia.
On show at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair, the project named Hear Us Out saw 12 students from the university’s product design course spend a term working alongside the six brands.
Each brand set its own brief to the teams of two, challenging them to create a piece of furniture that would fit within their existing collections.
“It is important for us that the students graduating from Beckmans College of Design are well prepared and qualified to take on a professional brief,” said course tutor Margot Barolo.
“This is one of several projects in which our students meet real employers and are thereby trained in communicating with all parties involved, both verbally and visually,” she continued. “They gain an understanding of how many player that are often involved in realizing a product.”
Blå Station, based in Åhus, worked alongside students Ida Björses and Celine Strömbäck to create a multifunctional piece of furniture named Kaj.
Using wood, leather and metal, the designers created a bench that is also designed to be used as a sideboard. Framed by legs that wrap around two of its corners, Kaj also features a plush leather section for seating.
A second collaboration saw students Lisa Lindh and Klara Hedengren create a sculptural room divider for Massproductions.
Named Kolonn, the corrugated divider is made entirely from cellulose fibres, which the brad claims to be a first in furniture design.
The Vent chair by Sarah Hasselqvist and Melinda Urbansdotter for Johanson Design was inspired by rising dough and features soft fabrics spilling over a metal structure.
Fortune cookies inspired the aptly named Fortuna chair, designed by Hanna Stenström and Jennie Adén for Materia. The huge chair takes on a similar shape to the sweet biscuits and has a square seat pressed into its middle.
Anna Herrmann and Lisa Jonsson designed two stools, collectively named Fransson, for brand Gärsnäs. Working alongside the company’s in-house craftsmen, the stackable stool combines pine, beech and walnut woods with leather and textile.
Madeleine Nelson and Frida Pettersson were tasked by Källemo to create a shelf using the company’s library of materials. Using birch wood and iron, they created an angular storage system designed to also function on its own as a sculpture.
Hear Us Out is currently on show at the Greenhouse area of the Stockholm Furniture Fair – a section of the hall filled with upcoming designers and graduate projects.
Also on show at the fair, taking place until 10 February 2018, is Fogia’s 1970s-inspired collection and Snøhetta’s first-ever lighting range.
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London mayor Sadiq Khan has developed a good practice guide for estate regeneration in the capital, aiming to give residents greater say in their homes and ensure social housing is ring-fenced during redevelopment.
The Better Homes for Local People guide is the first estate regeneration advice to be released by City Hall.
It proposes requiring a resident vote on any redevelopment where demolition is planned, as a condition for mayoral funding – to give tenants a greater say in works carried out to their homes.
Residents to have right to vote on estate regeneration
Where demolition is proposed, Khan wants the council or housing association to retain all existing social housing as a minimum and in a best-case scenario increase provision. In addition, the guide suggests tenants should have full right to remain, or return, following regeneration works.
“We need more social housing in London, not less, which is why I will use all my powers to make sure that any plans for estate regeneration protect existing social housing and take every opportunity to build more,” said Khan on the release of the guide.
“My guide sets out how I will use my investment powers in a way they have never been used before, by requiring resident support through a ballot for new plans involving demolition where City Hall funding is involved,” he continued.
The proposal to introduce ballots will now be consulted on for two months, before becoming a condition for future schemes in London.
“I want to make sure people living on social housing estates, who have the greatest interest in their future, are at the heart of any decisions from the outset,” he said.
“By involving residents and putting social housing first, we can make sure plans for estate regeneration help build a city for all Londoners.”
Greater consultation rights follows the Grenfell Tower tragedy
The release of the guide follows the fatal fire at the recently renovated Grenfell Tower in west London last year, which prompted an investigation into the materials used on public housing across the UK.
“I welcome the Mayor of London’s steps to protect social housing and put residents at the heart of decision-making in estate regeneration schemes,” said Bob Kerslake, the chair of the Peabody housing association and the president of the Local Government Association.
“Ballots have the potential to build trust between residents of an estate and their landlord, and where they back regeneration plans, they can give everyone involved the certainty they need to get on with building more and better social housing for local people.”
A number of former social housing schemes are currently underway across the UK – including at the Park Hill estate in Sheffield. Here, the social housing offering will be reduced to 30 per cent, in line with current government requirements.
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Asif Khan has unveiled a pavilion at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, described as the “darkest building on earth”.
The British architect spray-painted the 10-metre-high temporary structure with Vantablack VBx2, a substance that absorbs over 99 per cent of light.
Vantablack VBx2, is a sprayable version of Vantablack pigment, which British artist Anish Kapoor controversially acquired exclusive rights for in 2016.
Rods tipped with tiny white lights protrude from the “super-black” parabolic curves of all four sides of the pavilion, giving the impression of stars suspended against the darkness of space.
Speaking to Dezeen, Khan – who describes himself as a “closet astronaut” – said he “wanted to create the impression of a window cut into space”.
“It’s a preoccupation of mine, trying to create experiences to better understand where we are now as humans, placing ourselves in the big picture,” said Khan.
“I’m interested in that feeling of the sublime when you pull back the curtain of reality. It’s a different way of experiencing architecture.”
The sprayable Vantablack VBx2, is so black that it is almost impossible for the human eye to perceive the shape of an object it coats.
“It changes as you approach it. From far away you see it as a surface of blackness, it just looks like a void,” said Khan.
“As you approach you pick out the stars, and as you get closer the stars begin to move in parallax, which means they appear as a three dimensional body. As you walk past it they’re almost globular in their clustering.”
The light-absorbing power of Vantablack VBx2 and the optical illusions created by the lights against the curved walls is almost too difficult for humans to comprehend, according to the architect.
“There’s a tension between wanting to know what form something is and actually accepting that it could be formless – you’re looking at infinity,” he said.
Khan had been in contact with the scientists behind the original Vantablack, since 2013, after reading a paper on the subject while researching how to create a building that could be as black as space.
“They were quite taken aback that someone would think to try and apply their materials in the built environment,” he said.
“They’re a bunch of very skilled scientists who are working a lot of the time in a laboratory. They are working at nanoscale and the idea of making something that’s millions of times bigger than that hadn’t really come into their minds.”
Khan and the scientists first collaborated on a proposal using the material for the UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015, which was eventually shortlisted.
In the meantime, the manufacturers devised Vantablack VBx2, a more versatile material better suited to architectural application. The light-absorbing pigmented coating is suspended in a carrier solution that allows it to be sprayed onto larger areas.
“This was the real challenge, actually going from the lab to full scale manufacturing, which they pulled off. It’s amazing,” said Khan.
The Vantablack used for Khan’s building is structurally different to the original pigment. Whereas the black Kapoor has rights over uses microscopic stems to absorb light, VBx2 has a sponge-like structure at micro level.
To build the PyeongChang Winter Olympics pavilion, the steel substructure was bolted together on site and then clad to create the curved surfaces.
A scaffold was then erected around the pavilion and tented, creating conditions suitable for spray painting. During construction the team had to contend with the mountain climate and temperatures between minus 15 and minus 25 degrees Celsius.
“It’s a challenging climate to work in, because of the temperature, because of the extreme high winds. On an Olympic Park you don’t have much of a time frame to get anything wrong,” said Khan.
When it opens on 9 February 2018, visitors will be able to enter the pavilion through a dark corridor that opens into a bright white space lined with solid-surface material Corian. Channels have been carved into its surface as part of a multi-sensory hydrophobic water installation also designed by Khan.
Walking across a pathway, visitors interact with sensors causing 25,000 water droplets a minute to whizz along the channels, colliding and splitting before pooling into a lake.
The 35-metre by 35-metre building was commissioned by Hyundai Motor as part of its global art initiative, with the pavilion’s space theme aligning with the car manufacturer’s latest technology: a Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle.
The “stars” on the outside represent the chemical element on a cosmic level – gaseous balls shining due to the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium at their core.
Inside the pavilion, the liquid embodies hydrogen at a more human scale, as two atoms of hydrogen bond with one oxygen atom to form water.
The building also references its location in South Korea. The curved wall of the building makes it star-shaped in plan, yet rectangular in elevation, while the shape formed by the intersection of the curved walls echoes the swooping roofs of traditional temple architecture.
Khan is no stranger to inventing original interactive structures. At the Astana Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan, the architect designed a pavilion that explored the origins of energy with a 360-degree wrap-around sound and animation installation.
For the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics he created the “Mount Rushmore of the digital age“, which projected 3D models of visitors faces through a fabric membrane facade, and at the 2012 London Olympics Khan designed a giant beat box for Coca Cola with panels that could be played like a musical instrument.
Photography is by Luke Hayes, video is by Jun-Beum So.
Project credits:
Client: Hyundai Motor Company
Design: Asif Khan
Main contractor: Hyundai Engineering
Interactive engineer: iart
Facade coating: Surrey NanoSystems
Structural engineer: AKTII
Environmental engineer: Atelier Ten
Environmental sound: Why Do Birds?
Interior contractor: GL
Local architect: USD
Agency: Innocean Worldwide
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