Realistic Paintings of Landscapes By Thomas Dubois

Thomas Dubois est un architecte et designer basé dans le sud de la france. Dernièrement, il a réalisé une série d’illustrations à la peinture de paysages désertiques. Et il faut bien avouer que le rendu est épatant. On croirait presque à une photographie. Ses oeuvres sont à découvrir sur Behance et sur Instagram.

 

 

 




Breathtaking Images of the Tibetan Plateau Kham

Le voyageur passionné, photographe et cinéaste italien Giacomo Bruno a documenté son incroyable voyage sur le plateau Tibétain Kham en Chine. Sa capacité à capturer des images authentiques est évidente dans ce portfolio inspirant : ses photographies époustouflantes résument parfaitement la vie et la culture de ce paysage tibétain unique. Consultez son site pour plus de photos étonnantes de ses autres voyages à travers les Amériques, l’Afrique et l’Asie. Suivez-le sur Instagram.















Design Job: Answer the "What and Why" of Design as a Senior Lead Strategist for fuseproject

We are currently seeking a creative, design-minded Senior Product & Portfolio Strategy Lead to help us answer the “what and why” of design. Senior Strategy Leads are experienced mentors on our strategy team who help clients and internal teams solve critical business and design challenges – framed by customer insights,

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Architectural Rendering Firm Creates Animated GIFs Completing Ancient Ruins

Visiting the world’s ancient ruins can be fun for civilians, but frustrating for curious designers who like to complete unfinished images in our heads: Where’s the rest of it? What was this crumbling base meant to support? What was that broken column holding up?

Creative director Przemyslaw Sobiecki and architect Maja Wronska, of architectural and product rendering firm This is Render, apparently felt the same way. The duo zeroed in on seven ancient ruins, recreated them in wireframe and animated renderings to fill in the blanks. Take a look:

Parthenon, Greece

432 BC

The Temple of Athena is a symbol of Ancient Greece and one of the crown jewels of the Acropolis. The building did double duty, serving as both a temple and a treasury of the Athenian Empire.

Nohoch Mul Pyramid (Coba), Mexico

ca. 50 BC

Coba was once a powerful Mayan city-state rivaling the better-known Chichén Itzá. The Nohoch Mul is the second-largest Mayan pyramid in existence.

Temple of Jupiter (Pompeii), Italy

ca. 150 BC

Dedicated to the most powerful god in Roman mythology, the Temple of Jupiter dominated the forum at Pompeii. Only priests were allowed inside the building, which held statues of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva.

Milecastle 39 (part of Hadrian’s Wall), UK

ca. 122 AD

The loose inspiration for The Wall in “Game of Thrones,” Hadrian’s Wall bisected what is now the UK, running for 73 miles from east coast to west coast. This is one of the “milecastle” fortifications, each of them being placed a Roman mile away from each other.

Luxor Temple, Egypt

ca. 1100 BC – 1600 BC

Unlike mortuary temples, the Luxor is thought to be where kings received coronation ceremonies. It was once linked to the nearby Karnak Temple by an avenue lined with sphinxes.

The Pyramid of the Sun – Teotihuacán, Mexico

ca. 200 AD

The Pyramid of the Sun is the third-largest pyramid in the world, and the largest structure in Teotihuacán. It was once surfaced in lime plaster and reportedly painted with murals.

Area Sacra di Largo Argentina – Temple B, Italy

ca. 400 BC – 100 AD

Temple B is the centerpiece of what was once a four-temple complex in Rome, which was not discovered until the 1920s. Julius Caesar is thought to have been murdered just steps away, so it’s possible this building was one of the last things he saw.

Word of Mouth: Maui : Adventures, farm-to-table dining and more on the idyllic Valley Isle

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The idyllic and magical island of Maui is #1 this year on KAYAK’s 2018 Trending Destinations List—made up of the destinations seeing the biggest search increases year over year. Certainly a favorite with CH, Hawaii’s archipelago offers stunning views……

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Buy: Melody Glockenspiel

Melody Glockenspiel


German manufacturer Hohner has over 160 years of experience in producing instruments like this bright, durable glockenspiel. Made from renewable mango wood, the musical toy tracks along the C-major scale. The sound produced is crisp and clear, so little……

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One Rise East designs alternatives to Royal Mint's "predictable" A to Z of Britain coins

Design agency One Rise East has created a set of 26 coins to represent an A to Z of modern-day Britain, as an alternative to the collection released by the Royal Mint.

One Rise East redesigns the Royal Mint's A to Z of Britain 10 pence coin collection
Documentary filmmaker and broadcaster Louis Theroux is featured on one of the coins

The Royal Mint recently released its A to Z of Britain 10 pence coins, which aim to celebrate the best of British culture today.

But One Rise East‘s team felt these offered a “tired and somewhat dated” view of the UK, so has designed its own collection, which it describes as “a little less quintessential”.

One Rise East redesigns the Royal Mint's A to Z of Britain 10 pence coin collection
Olympic runner Mo Farah is another of the figures to feature in the coin collection

“The coins aimed to celebrate all things quintessentially British. However we felt the project was lacking in ambition and really predictable, especially when you consider that the selection seems to represent a Britain from 60 years ago,” Rich Watters, lead creative at One Rise East, told Dezeen.

One Rise East redesigns the Royal Mint's A to Z of Britain 10 pence coin collection
Actor Danny Dyer represents the letter D

The Royal Mint’s 26 coins run through the alphabet, with subjects including cricket, tea, double-decker buses and zebra crossings.

Looking at this collection, Watters and his team asked: “Who is this quintessential for?”

This helped them come with a series of alternatives. They chose EastEnders actor Danny Dyer for D, documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux for L, a Yorkshire pudding for Y and singer David Bowie’s alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, for Z.

One Rise East redesigns the Royal Mint's A to Z of Britain 10 pence coin collection
One Rise East chose the alter ego of singer David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust, for Z

They also picked Brexit for B, Marmite for M, Pint for P and broadcaster David Attenborough for A, who is represented by an image of the nepenthes attenboroughii plant that was named after him.

“There’s a wealth of cultural aspects to the UK that we felt were missing, some of them serious, some of them plain silly,” said Watters. “Without the need for the royal stamp of approval, we were able to express this overcast but brilliant nation a little more freely.”

One Rise East redesigns the Royal Mint's A to Z of Britain 10 pence coin collection
A plant named after British broadcaster David Attenborough also features

Only one emblem chosen by the Royal Mint was left unchanged: the N coin representing the National Health Service – which the designers picked as a favourite.

“Our favourites are overcast, our wonderful NHS (the only one we actually agreed with the Royal Mint on), shopping trolleys in a river for T, and Danny Dyer for D (who is actual royalty),” the designers told Dezeen.

The team also named Irn-Bru for I, a voting slip for X and the late Stephen Hawkings for H among their favourites.

One Rise East redesigns the Royal Mint's A to Z of Britain 10 pence coin collection
London’s underground transport system represents the letter U

One Rise East chose to use the British Gill Sans Regular font for its “legibility and culturally relevancy”.

They then created the Not My Money campaign – a “tongue-in-cheek protest” – to showcase the project. It consists of a series of posters that highlight the agency’s lack of enthusiasm for the original coin design.

The studio hopes the redesign will change the minds of those who consider the Royal Mint coins to be an authentic representation of the UK.

One Rise East redesigns the Royal Mint's A to Z of Britain 10 pence coin collection
The designers created the Not My Money campaign – a “tongue-in-cheek protest” – to showcase the project

Other notable examples of contemporary currency design include the Norwegian banknotes designed by architecture studio Snøhetta and the special-edition notes that Jeremy Deller created for local currency the Brixton Pound.

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Sliding eucalyptus wood screens wrap house on Australia's Sunshine Coast

Timber screens that can be pulled aside to provide uninterrupted views towards the ocean from this house near the Australian resort of Noosa.

Sliding eucalyptus-wood screens wrap exterior of house on Australia's Sunshine Coast

Local studio Teeland Architects designed Tinbeerwah House for a site in the hinterland around the resort in southern Queensland.

The family home is designed to enhance the sense of connection between its occupants and the surrounding eucalyptus forest.

Sliding eucalyptus-wood screens wrap exterior of house on Australia's Sunshine Coast

The building’s slender plan is only one-room deep to maximise cross ventilation and the amount of natural light reaching the interior.

The facades incorporate large sliding windows that can be opened or closed to adjust the exposure to the outdoors depending on the seasonal climate or time of day.

“The house is designed as an operable glass pavilion that is wrapped in sliding hardwood screens, so the owners can control the light, breezes, privacy and views,” said the architects in a statement.

Sliding eucalyptus-wood screens wrap exterior of house on Australia's Sunshine Coast

The building is kept low to the ground so the occupants can step out onto the garden from the living spaces. Bedrooms at the opposite end are raised up above the slope at the front on angled supports.

“The scale and proportions of the house as an attenuated timber box was carefully crafted to heighten the spatial experience of the building and make it appear as though it was of the landscape,” added the architects.

A staircase situated between a pair of dark pigmented-concrete walls ascends to an entrance that opens onto the open-plan main living area.

Sliding eucalyptus-wood screens wrap exterior of house on Australia's Sunshine Coast

A kitchen with a dark island unit and a full-height storage wall is positioned at one end of the space, which also accommodates a lounge and dining area connected to the garden.

A corridor that extends along the rear of the house leads from the living space towards three bedrooms, a family bathroom and, finally, the master bedroom suite.

Sliding eucalyptus-wood screens wrap exterior of house on Australia's Sunshine Coast

The glazed surfaces lining all of the rooms are set back slightly behind screens made from slender battens of eucalyptus, which echo the vertical trunks of the surrounding trees.

Photography is by Jared Fowler.

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Beautiful Pictures of Austrian Alps by Jakob Wagner

Jakob Wagner est un photographe basé en Allemagne et spécialisé dans les photographies de paysages. En janvier 2017, il a passé deux semaines à Lech, un petit village d’Autriche niché dans les montagnes. Ainsi, il a réalisé une série de photos de paysages à couper le souffle des alpes autrichiennes. Ses clichés sont à découvrir sur Behance et sur son site.

 

 

 

 

 






Anna Thorunn celebrates the circle in Stillness homeware collection

Icelandic designer Anna Thorunn exploits the “natural shape” of the circle in this set of rounded tray tables and candle holders.

Presented at the DesignMarch event in Reykjavík, Thorunn‘s Stillness series includes a tray table, an elevated tray table and two candle holders.

The locally based designer decided to give each design a circle motif, which she describes as a “symbol of the universe”.

“A circle is drawn unintentionally so smoothly and effortlessly, a drawing that has a beginning and an end, like life itself,” Thorunn told Dezeen.

The elevated tray table is made from black powdered-coated steel. It has a shallow circular tray that is supported by three legs and features a circular decorative handle that runs perpendicular to its surface.

A smaller tray, which is intended to sit on a tabletop, has shorter legs and a taller rim. Unlike its corresponding piece, it does not have an ornamental handle.

The candle holders are made from leftover white marble. The come in two sizes.

“Life is often characterised by speed and I found the need to work with simple shapes, like the circle. I draw so often, unintentionally, and a calm feeling comes over me,” said Thorunn.

“The circle portrays many things that I wish to share. The circle is such a natural shape to us that, when we see them, we are able to take them in effortlessly,” she said.

Dezeen was media partner DesignMarch, which is Iceland’s foremost design week.

This year’s event took place from 15 to 18 March 2018 in Reykjavík. Other projects on show at the festival included burgers made of mealworms and algae.

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