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Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has designed a concept for a battery-powered wardrobe purifier that uses ozone to remove bacteria and viruses from the user’s clothes.

The portable case can be placed in a hallway or inside a closet and will be made from recycled fibres, which will be coated to keep the ozone inside the case during the sanitisation process.

According to the studio, the case uses ozone to remove an estimated 98 per cent of micro-organisms, bacteria and viruses from the user’s clothes and fabric items contained inside within one hour.

The Pura-Case concept is Carlo Ratti Associati‘s vision of what the “new normal” of domestic life post-coronavirus will look like.

“As the entire world adjusts to a new normal in terms of health and hygiene, Pura-Case aims to promote top sanitation standards in the key interface between us and the environment – clothes,” said architect Carlo Ratti.

“Pura-Case is an alternative to large-sized devices currently being used in hospitals,” he added. “It can play a vital role in the post-pandemic world next year as we regain our old social life.”

Users would place their clothes inside the case, which has space for up to four hangers, and close it with an air-tight zipper before beginning the cleaning cycle.

The purification process, which takes around one hour to complete, can be started and controlled directly using the battery-powered panel on top of the case or remotely via the Pura-Case mobile app.

The ozone released penetrates the fabric to sanitise it while simultaneously removing any odour. Once the system is finished, the ozone, which can be harmful to be exposed to, is reduced to oxygen through a natural decay process, making the case safe to open.

Carlo Ratti Associati envisions the case being used in offices, households and restaurants – particularly by individuals whose work requires frequent contact with strangers.

“Viruses or bacteria can survive on clothes for long periods,” explained the studio. “Ozone, a naturally-occurring triatomic form of oxygen (O3), is commonly used in the health and textile industry to sanitise fashion items, objects, and spaces.”

“Pura-Case brings this technology safely into the household,” it continued. “It uses ozone to sterilise clothes while reducing the need for unnecessary washing and thus the consumption of water.”

The project was commissioned by tech startup Scribit, which recently converted part of its production line to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.

Pura-Case is currently being developed as a prototype at the startup’s factory in Turin, Italy, and has been launched through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

Ratti also teamed up with Italian architect Italo Rota to design a two-bed intensive care unit from shipping containers, which has been built at a hospital in Italy to help people suffering from Covid-19.

The intensive care pod, called Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments (CURA), has been installed at a temporary hospital built within the Officine Grandi Riparazioni complex in central Turin, and had its first patient admitted on 19 April.

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In 2013, designer Rick Banks released a limited-edition book exploring an often overlooked but fascinating aspect of graphic design. Football Type traced the history and development of typography in football, from the numbers sewn on to kits in the 1930s to custom fonts created for major clubs and sports brands.

The book was the result of two years’ research, which saw Banks and author Sheridan Bird contacting numerous designers and trawling various visual archives. Released in a run of 1,000, it quickly sold out, and with profits from sales donated to the Football Foundation, it helped raise over £20,000 for grassroots football club Horwich St Marys in Bolton.

Seven years on, Banks has released a sequel. Football Type 2 is described as a revised edition, with all of the content from football type “plus lots more”. Like its predecessor, the book contains a mix of bizarre and beautiful fonts along with interesting stories about squad numbers and the letters featured on players’ shirts.

“There is a lot more history in this book than the first one,” Banks tells CR. “I sourced a lot of 1960s shirts from the NASL (North American Soccer League) – this was a gold mine and inspired a lot of the British shirts in the 90s.”

The book also showcases some of the many designs that have been created since the first edition was released in 2013, such as lettering created for special World Cup kits around the world, and designs created for non-league clubs and five-a-side teams.

Banks decided to publish a sequel after being inundated with queries from football fans looking to get their hands on a copy of the first book. “I was getting constant emails from people asking if the original book was still available to buy. I only did 1,000 copies last time and they sold out in three weeks, and my personal file copies were selling for £350 each! So two years ago I decided to do a sequel.”

The book was created in collaboration with sports journalist Denis Hurley, who also runs football kit blog Museum of Jerseys. “[Hurley] wrote the whole book. His knowledge on football kits is phenomenal – he often out-trumped me! – and he picked errors and holes from the first edition…. It was fantastic working with him,” adds Banks.

As with the first book, it’s been a labour of love. “Getting permission from all the clubs and brands was the hardest part…. Thankfully, the vast majority of contributors were happy to help out,” says Banks.

With his first edition, Banks set out to raise awareness of football shirt lettering, and show how far it had come since the crude handmade lettering which appeared on kits in decades past. As he points out, “clubs and brands are starting to invest in good agencies and designers to create beautiful type” – resulting in some striking and innovative designs.

The latest book builds on this, while also reflecting the changing face of football itself. One of the examples featured inside is creative agency Nomad’s typography for the Women’s Super League – Europe’s only fully professional women’s league – which hints at the recent growth and success of the women’s game.

The book comes in two versions: the standard edition costs £40, while a limited edition, priced at £65, comes with a bespoke numbered dust jacket. Copies are available to order from Face37’s website and books will be shipped from next week.

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Within the spectrum of people who collect things, you’ve got the lower tier of hobbyists who collect coins and stamps, and right at the top you’ve got the cool collectors (coolectors, if you will) who collect watches, and cars. The Aventi A-10’s design caters to the upper echelon of curators. Inspired by Haute Horlogerie and hot automobiles, the A-10 is the soul of a supercar in the body of a wristwatch… and it doesn’t cost millions of bucks.

The Aventi A-10 is to watches what a Lamborghini is to cars. It’s aggressively sporty, a performance powerhouse, and an instant eye-catcher. The A-10 comes with an edgy form that pays tribute to its namesake, the Aventador, along with a skeletal inner-design that’s inspired by the car’s chassis. The timepiece even features Superluminova artwork on the body, lighting up at night, just like an automobile would.

At the very heart of the Aventi A-10 superwatch is its engine, the tourbillion. Sitting slightly to the left of center, like the human heart, the tourbillion provides the A-10 with its steady flicker of a heartbeat, giving it industry-defining timekeeping accuracy while also becoming the watch’s crown jewel… and while most timepieces with tourbillions can often end up costing anywhere between 5-8 figures, the Aventi A-10 remains accessible and affordable, thanks to its aggressive, disruptive crowdfunding business model. Decentralized manufacturing across Europe, USA and Asia, and its crowdfunding model challenges all the norms making this one of the highest value for money timepieces available.

Each watch comes with a hardy titanium case, complete with a scratch-proof ceramic coating and a sapphire crystal ‘windscreen’. The timepieces even have their own color range, borrowing from Lamborghini’s palette, with colors like Rosso Red and Modena Yellow. If you’re in the mood for something truly exotic, the A-10 even comes in an all-sapphire variant, exposing the watch’s intricacies, almost like an exploded view of your favorite car… and in keeping with its supercar-inspiration, the watches come with carbon-fiber wrist-belts, because that’s what it takes to build a watch truly worth collecting!

Designer: Hannu Siren

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Aventi A-10 – The First Accessible Tourbillon Watch

In Italian, Aventi means “having.” Aventi cuts the premium cost barrier attached with tourbillon watches with the A-10. The watch features premium elements like skeletonized tourbillon, titanium case, Cerakote coating, 100% Swiss Super-LumiNova and pure sapphire case.

Drawing inspiration from both supercar and luxury watch craftsmanship, their designers engineered a watch that embodies both worlds – a superwatch. This evocative timepiece communicates power, luxury and style. Unconventional and sublime in its appearance, the A-10 is designed to evoke that same feeling of first experiencing a supercar.

150 Times More Affordable Than The Average Superwatch

Aventi A-10 Specification

The Chassis:

– Automotive grade titanium with a 3020 degree melting point
– Density of 4.51/cm3
– ​​Titanium is used in supercars to reduce weight and increase strength

The Windshield:

– Highest grade sapphire crystal with 99.9996% purity
– Up to 2000kg/mm2 of hardness and 3.98kg/dm3 density
– Sapphire crystal is an incredibly scratch and shatter resistant crystal used as standard in luxury watchmaking
– An industry FIRST – they apply five layers of anti-reflective coating on the outside AND inside of the glass

The Lights:

– 100% Swiss Super-LumiNova BGW9 Grade X1
– Non-radioactive
– High temperature resistance
– Resistant to all environmental influences
– UNLIMITED number of charges and discharges – it will not fade
– Blue Line – emission at 485nm

The Coating:

– Automotive grade ceramic coating made in the USA
– H-Series Cerakote with temperature stability up to 500 degrees
– The thick ceramic coating is used to protect against abrasion, corrosion while increasing impact strength and hardness.
– Another luxury watch industry FIRST is the use of Cerakote. The team is able to create watches in colors never seen before.
– Colors inspired by the automotive industry. Precisely coated by Aventi’s partners in Japan.

The A-10 Skeletonized Tourbillon Engine:

– 22 jewels
– Frequency of 28800/Hz
– Power reserve of 72 hours
– Hand winding, two hands at center with double barrels
– Co-axial escapement system

This is NOT a Swiss movement. They consulted many movement manufacturers all around the world and finally settled with one that offers not only the highest quality and technology but also the best value.

Swiss makers didn’t even come close – the most affordable EXISTING Swiss movement costs close to $10,000 USD, with costs of upwards of $1 million to develop a custom movement.

They have partnered with Hong Kong-based PTS Resources in conjunction with Hangzhou Watch Company (an ISO 9000 company) to manufacture an improved variation of the Calibre 3450 Skeletonized Tourbillon Movement. This is the finest and highest grade skeletonized Tourbillon available on the market.

The Strap:

– Tapering strap in rubber with a sporty carbon-fiber inlay and case-color accents.

The Design

Supercars have a design that is filled with sharp angles and straight lines. Because of this they were not able to use industry standard parts to make this watch. This meant they had to build and create everyting – custom.

The sapphire crystal was especially difficult to work with. After all, the only crystal harder than sapphire is diamond. Glass on watches are usually predictable design: round. So most supplier and manufacturers only cater to that. They custom engineered sapphire crystal for Aventi and used high precision lasers to cut the glass to fit perfectly in the case.

With 68 individual facets and 144 edges, each hand finished piece is forged from a single solid block of pure sapphire crystal in a process that takes over 100 hours.

Each sapphire case is then treated to five layers of anti-reflective coating for a crystal-clear look from any angle, before a thick layer of clear ceramic is applied for additional impact resistance and toughness.

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Michael Blakey is a Music, TV & Film Producer, along with a watch collector.

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Carota Design’s interpretation of a BMW e-scooter captures the soul of the Motorrad range, but with a design that’s on the lighter side of Motorrad’s form-heavy design-language spectrum. Designed to look almost like the successor to BMW’s Concept Link from 2017, the e-scooter uses a similar CMF, but with leaner, lighter, and narrower forms. The matte-finish metal panels look distinctly like something from BMW’s playbook, while those orange accents around the windscreen give the e-scooter the pop of color it needs.

The e-scooter’s front comes with paneling that conceals the rider’s legs, pretty emblematic of scooter designs, while motor and battery seem to reside in the space in front of the rear wheel. Carota’s design features a cantilever seat that cuts down on the boot-storage, but provides a loop on the left to secure your helmet in place. The seat naturally transforms into the e-scooter’s taillight, which forms a razor-thin arc that’s visible from the back as well as the sides. The headlights, on the other hand, are present in the form of edge-lit details on the front. Given the conceptual nature of this two-wheeler, it’s sort of difficult to make guesstimates regarding what the e-scooter’s performance would be like, but if it’s anything like the Concept Link, you’re looking at a sufficiently advanced, fully-electric two-wheeler… probably with a reverse gear too!

Designer: Carota Design

Mattel honors essential workers with their new #ThankYouHeroes line from Fisher-Price. This diverse roster of everyday hero action figures includes four types of nurses, EMTs, doctors and delivery drivers, as well as a Little People Community Champions set that consists of a doctor, nurse, EMT, delivery driver, and grocery store worker. The individual figures can be purchased for $20—with $15 of those dollars going to the #FirstRespondersFirst initiative from sales now through 31 May. Read more about the collection and Mattel’s contributions at Mashable.