Hasta La Ideas

A coiling snake-like lamp in Sweden is waiting to judge you or reward you greatly for your self control on Valentine’s Day. It won’t judge your overpacking, and it won’t reward how well you’ve laminated the itineraries. No. This bedside-lamp connected to WiFi cares about one thing—human sacrifice, in the form of not using the Internet.

Have self control for a single evening and the “Check Out Suite” inside Hotel Bellora is yours for free. Use the Internet for 2 hours (or for 30 minutes X 4 people), and the wifi-sensing lamp will gradually turn red, indicating that your family will be charged the full price of the room.

This well-intended marketing stunt begins now with applications open until February 6 for a chance to stay in the Check Out Suite on the night of February 14. Combine the digital cleansing trend already happening in 2019 with a snaky red lamp and a hotel room in Gothenburg Sweden, and we get a pretty sweet horror movie parody. For fun, I wrote that parody:

A woman in NYC pretends to sleep. Her husband sighs next to her: laptop brightness maxed-out. It’s 2 am. Lightning strikes. He sees this:

He enters. A week passes. An email arrives—the whole family is going to Sweden.

Upon arrival, they are soon mysteriously picked off one by one in the order they post Instagram stories. The last victim finds a phone with a video that could solve everything. There are hissing noises coming from it. Just as they realize, it’s too late. The lamp, glowing red, already coils around them. It’s WiFi bar eyes tick down from 3 to 0. The hotel staff laughs in the corner.

“You shouldn’t have shared that meme.”
Fade to black.

The Check Out Suite.

We use a fulfillment warehouse to store and ship UPPERCASE magazine and books where we dutifully pay the monthly storage fees and associated handling costs. However, starting in September, that company is implementing storage surcharges. In addition to monthly rent, they will be charging another $10.25 USD per cubic foot for products in inventory that are 6-12 months old and $20.50 USD per cubic foot for products that are older than one year. This additional cost will be incurred every six months. As you can imagine, boxes of books and magazines take up considerable space.

Selling back issues slowly and steadily has always been a sustainable part of the UPPERCASE business. We publish for the long term, with inspiring and beautiful content that stands the test of time. However, this new pricing structure at the fulfillment company is all about fast e-commerce and quick selling. While we examine our options on how to proceed, we have to greatly reduce our older inventory.

Please tell your friends and colleagues about the sale! Thank you.

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At last, I can share with you what I was up to this past August. Sewing, sewing, sewing! Flip through the Idea Book and see more images here.

Founded in 1926 by design pioneer Walter Dorwin Teague, Teague’s portfolio spans many firsts: The Polaroid camera, the UPS truck, the Pringles canister, and even the Xbox. Along the way, Teague has designed the interior of every Boeing commercial airplane ever produced—including the revolutionary 787 Dreamliner and the new Boeing 777X. Today, the company is home to 300+ thinkers, makers and doers dedicated to designing experiences that move people and brands. Teague is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join their growing team in Seattle, Washington.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Senior Interaction Designer is responsible for leading design projects by utilizing their conceptual skills, industry experience and imagination to bring creative excellence to our client’s digital products. This is a position that will require exceptional problem-solving skills, a drive to innovate and the ability to come up with innovative solutions that balance user pain-points and business needs – all with a positive, collaborative attitude and a good sense of humor. This role demands in-depth industry and design knowledge, as well as experience in consulting and user research. In addition, excellent communication and leadership skills are essential to effectively present concepts to cross-disciplinary teams and external clients, suppliers and creative partners across global locations.

Innovation is one of the founding principles of TEAGUE. Without dedicated, imaginative and technically savvy creators, we’re, well, simply not able to do what we do best. Which is why we need people like you, who see the world as a place full of possibility, with the creative mind, innovative approach, and concrete design skills to imagine something new and the passion and know-how to make it real.

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As a senior designer, you are creative, curious, and solution-oriented. Your deep understanding of how to create meaningful experiences for the user will serve you well as you dig deep into a client’s business in order to recommend products and/or features that will help achieve their goals, all while improving the experience for the user. Innately curious, you are well versed in all project phases, including research, concept creation, wireframing, prototyping and user testing. You’re also prepared to participate in requirements-gathering activities, workshops, and product definition exercises and then able to synthesize that data into applicable insights that drive the experience strategy and product design. Finally, having researched, tested, and synthesized your findings, you’re able to generate and evaluate a wide range of solutions and make recommendations in a timely manner. This could involve creating personas and journey maps that represent user needs and help identify opportunities; generating detailed user flows, defining the information architecture and content strategy, and designing wireframes that bring your strategy to life. You’ll be able to articulate the design rationale to maintain the design intent as concepts progress through the down-select process. In addition to working on the projects themselves, you’ve got an eye for the big picture and are able to define and implement best practices and suggest new approaches for the design process as a whole. Finally, you’ve got a passion for your industry and are up to date on industry trends, materials and technology, design tools and processes.

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Essential Qualifications
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Minimalist interiors draw attention to the open kitchen of this Japanese restaurant, which Takenouchi Webb has created inside an old Singapore shophouse.

Decked out with pale timber surfaces and pared-back furnishings, Esora has been designed to give centre stage to the dining experience.

It is located in Singapore’s River Valley district, and was formerly a shophouse – a common building typology seen around Southeast Asia that combines a workplace with a residence.

The 26-cover restaurant will serve Kappo-style Japanese food under the guidance of chef Koizumi. Translating to “cut and cook”, Kappo involves a chef openly preparing a multi-course meal in front of diners so that they can observe and appreciate the culinary process.

“As the restaurant was to be arranged around the chef’s table, this became the centrepiece of the restaurant,” explained locally based studio Takenouchi Webb, which was charged with developing Esora’s interiors.

“Through our discussions with the chef and the client, we slowly developed the language of materials and form of the space.”

The ground floor is now centred by a cooking space, which is enclosed by an L-shaped wooden block of seating.

Part of the flooring here has been lowered so that the chef must step down to use the prep counter, aligning his eye level with diners and fostering a more intimate atmosphere.

Overhead is a semi-circular glazed opening that has been overlaid with Japanese washi paper, diffusing natural daylight in what the studio describe as a “cloud-like” manner.

At the rear of the room is a small kitchen decked out in jade green tiles and a drinks bar crafted from veiny grey marble, where guests can take part in a tea-pairing experience. The bar’s curved form, coupled with the arched grooves in the ceiling, is meant to give the restaurant a sense of “underlying calm”.

The rest of the restaurant accommodates a couple of four-seater tables and a private dining room that can be completely closed off by sliding gridded screens. Five pendant lamps are suspended from the ceiling in a row, emitting a warm yellow glow.

Decor has been restricted to a few abstract paintings, copper cooking pots, and vases filled with pampas grass and white-budded honesty flowers.

Sinapore’s few remaining shophouses are often granted heritage listing, encouraging studios to carry out imaginative refurbishments. Back in 2015, WOW Architects converted one of the buildings into art and design venue, which has rugged brick interiors.

Photography is by Jovian Lim.

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