Feb 02
Preview my third collection with Windham Fabrics!
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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.
Feb 02
YD JOB ALERT: Join Teague as a Senior Interaction Designer
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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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
Personality-wise, you’re a strong collaborator who is comfortable partnering with multi-disciplinary design teams, including visual designers and developers. And you know how to work effectively with clients, whether you’re working side by side with them to drive product definition and design strategy or creating and delivering compelling presentations to them. You’re unflappable in the face of competing priorities and model grace under pressure while balancing the needs of multiple clients while meeting deadlines and project commitments. If you’ve got an innovative mind that thrives on a challenge, a glass-half-full approach to problem-solving; a dynamic personality capable of navigating a wide range of collaborative situations; and enjoy the prospect of building the future of aviation, have we got a job for you.
REQUIREMENTS
Essential Qualifications
• Experience: 5+ years’ experience, including significant experience designing mobile apps, websites, web applications, and/or desktop software; some experience in a consulting environment preferred. demonstrated experience using a strategic approach to solve design problems; able to analyze and synthesize complex design challenges in order to support an informed, creative process; advanced understanding of design process including divergent (brainstorming), convergent (concept-selection), and detail-design phases
• Special skills: Advanced knowledge of Sketch, Axure, or Omnigraffle; Illustrator, Photoshop; advanced knowledge of prototyping tools such as InVision, Marvel, Proto.io; advanced knowledge of project management framework and process
• Passion: Collaborating with others to create meaningful experiences for users
• Role: Working with multi-disciplinary teams across a variety of digital products
• Personality: Creative, collaborative, self-motivated, energetic, problem-solver, enthusiastic, open-minded, flexible, curious, diplomatic
ADDITIONAL INFO
DOE – Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package offered.
At TEAGUE, we value diversity. We search the globe, literally, to find and attract top talent from diverse backgrounds.
TEAGUE is an EEO/AA employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
LOCATION
Seattle (Washington), USA.
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Feb 02
Preview my third collection with Windham Fabrics!
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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.
Feb 02
Preview my third collection with Windham Fabrics!
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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.
Feb 02
Shattering the stereotypes of motorbike-design
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Following yesterday’s ‘unbikely B1 bike’, today we look at the B2, the next in Sedov’s series of motorbikes to crush one’s misconceptions of what a bike must look like. Unlike the simplistic B1, the B2 has a little more detail. Roughly the same capsule shape, the B2 can be broken into a few visual elements. The front and the back are two distinct and separate volumes, with hollowed out details that expose parts of the wheel. Even the seat is a separate visual element that just ever so slightly out of the rear half of the B2. What’s noteworthy, however, is the B2’s wheels, which feature a rather unique looking set of airless tires that rely on a pattern of varying-width circles to achieve the effect of bounce/suspension that regular tires provide. They also mean that when both stationary or moving, the bike is bound to look interesting and eye-grabbing.
Unlike the B1, the B2 comes with two headlamps, and features taillamps similar to the B1. The B2 also leaves out the dashboard from its design, probably indicating at a self-driving feature of some sort. Its overall design is unlike the stereotypical motorbike. Its form is much more integrated (if not monolithic) and gives much more visual priority to the wheels, allowing the bike form to pretty much be the same diameter and thickness as them. This would obviously mean a much lower ground clearance, but I’m not complaining. If these bikes can drive on their own, that shouldn’t really be a problem!
Designer: Dennis Sedov
Feb 02
A Hotel Lamp Obsessed with Digital Detox Could Determine What Price You Pay for Your Stay in Sweden
Posted in: UncategorizedA 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.
Feb 02
Foster completes "revitalisation" of Florida's Norton Museum of Art
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The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, is reopening following an overhaul by Foster + Partners, featuring a roof that curves around an old tree and a botanical garden for sculptures.
British firm Foster + Partners completed the renovation of the museum on Olive Avenue three years after work began on the project.
The scheme aimed to revert the Norton Museum of Art back to its simple axial arrangement, as conceived when it was built in 1941 by architect Marion Sims Wyeth as a series of single-storey, art-deco pavilions arranged around a courtyard. Alterations made over the years, however, had confused this layout.
“The revitalisation of the Norton is rooted in revealing and enhancing the original spirit of the building,” said Norman Foster in a project statement.
“Over the years, the museum had lost its sense of identity in the neighbourhood,” he added. “The entrance had been moved to a side road, and there was no presence of a museum.”
To resolve this, Foster’s scheme adds a new 59,000-square-foot (5,480-square-metre) wing to the western side, creating a new entrance and a stronger presence facing the city’s South Dixie Highway.
A huge roof on top curves around an 80-year-old Banyan tree. Reaching 43 feet (13 metres) above the ground, the canopy shades the entrance from Florida’s harsh sunlight.
Three double-height wings behind bridge the galleries in the existing low pavilions with the three-storey Nessel Wing, which was added to the museum in 2003.
All buildings are covered in horizontally banded white stucco, to match the art deco-style of the older structures.
Inside, the new trio of buildings host an auditorium, a great hall, an education centre, an event space, a museum shop and a restaurant.
“The new design redefines the museum’s relationship with its surroundings by providing a main entrance on the original central axis,” Foster continued, “while creating new event and visitor spaces that will transform the museum into the social heart of the community; as well as increasing the gallery and exhibition spaces, to engage with a wider audience.”
In addition to resolving the layout and extending the museum, Foster + Partners wanted to create plenty of green space to make the most of Florida’s warm climate.
An asphalt car park on the southern side of the museum was transformed into green space. This will be used as “outdoor galleries” for the Norton’s growing sculptural collection.
“Just like an artist studies a piece of stone before turning it into a piece of sculpture, the transformation of the Norton Museum of Art was inspired by its context – the light and flora of Florida, as well as the setting of the original gallery,” said Foster + Partners partner Michael Wurzel.
“The new museum and the surrounding landscape have been delicately interwoven to form a unified ensemble that will be a new landmark for West Palm Beach.”
Vegetation, including 272 trees and shrubbery, was selected by Foster + Partners’ landscape architect Neil Bancroft to suite the subtropical climate, harsh hurricane winds, and lack of water in drought season.
Tree canopies are intended grow big enough to provide shade for the public to enjoy a dining area in the garden, Bancroft revealed when unveiling the scheme last year. The canopy will also shelter the non-native vegetation, which was added for colour.
“In the past, there was no outside space for visitors to enjoy, but now the perimeter of the museum’As expanded grounds is defined by a new landscape,” said Foster + Partners head of design Spencer de Grey.
“The gardens impart a sense of identity to the Norton, connecting it to Florida’s lush subtropical vegetation, creating verdant spaces for art that extends the museum beyond its walls.”
Six 1920s houses to the south of the garden will also be transformed to create artist residences and a home for the museum’s CEO Hope Alswang.
The Norton Museum of Art will open to the public on 9 February 2019. Foster + Partners first unveiled the renovation scheme in 2013, and work began on the extension three years later.
The new wing topped out in June 2017, just before the site was hit by Hurricane Irma. The firm said that the complex received minimal damage and the Banyan tree also survived.
Founded by Foster in 1967, Foster + Partners won the 2018 Dezeen Award for Business Building of the Year for its Bloomberg headquarters in London.
The firm has several projects in North America, including a skinny residential skyscraper and a stepped office tower, both of which are underway in New York.
Meanwhile in Chicago, Foster + Partners completed an Apple Store with a roof shaped like a giant Macbook, and is among five firms in the running to complete the city’s new O’Hare airport terminal.
Photography is by Nigel Young.
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Feb 01
Preview my third collection with Windham Fabrics!
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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.
Feb 01
Preview my third collection with Windham Fabrics!
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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.
Feb 01
Treat YOYO Self To a Sweet Speaker
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The YOYO speaker earns its namesake for the innovative strap design that makes it easy to carry. The strap can be concealed simply by wrapping it around the middle and released with one swift pull. Once released, the wireless device can be hung on your bicycle handles, a tree while you picnic, or a backpack during a hike. Covered in a waterproof tweed-like fabric that comes in a variety of vibrant hues, there’s one to match every user’s distinct taste and style.
Designer: LASCH+PRILLWITZ DESIGN
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