Joe Wicks has inspired millions of people to keep active during lockdowns with his live workout videos. We talk to Nikki Wicks, Head of Content at The Body Coach, and Studio Koto, which is behind its branding, about creating PE With Joe
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With student degree shows either cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus, graduates are having to find other ways to get their work out there this year. We’re already seeing news of online grad shows coming through, organised by either universities or grads themselves (which we will collate online over the coming weeks), but here is another opportunity for this year’s grads to see their work on an even larger canvas: the billboard.
Organised by three designers from the creative industries – India Pearce (VaynerMedia London), Charlotte Weyer (Vitamin London), and Anoushka Schellekens (Gravity Road) – the Nationwide Degree Show has partnered with Ocean Outdoor, who are giving the team £49k’s worth of billboard space across the country to exhibit pieces of art or design work. The work will run in London, Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester for two weeks from May 25.
The team are accepting submissions from any form of art or design student who is entering the industry this year. Their primary focus is on final year students of BA courses, but also MAs and some higher college courses that prepare students for industry.
To be part of the project, simply submit your work here. The deadline for entries is this Friday, May 15 – so act fast!
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We’ve said this before and we’ll say it again, flexible lifestyle is the future and it is amazing to see how product designs are pivoting to be more modular to suit that change! Furniture designs are seemingly leading this game. The Un-Lim collection was specifically created so you can switch up the function and form of your furniture to fit your needs instead of going out to buy a new piece every time something changes. Un-Lim stands for unlimited and that truly shines through this set.
“Unlimited imagination and unimaginable needs of people could be contradictory to the limitations of our planet and our capacities as human beings. The consumption patterns we have adapted have led to global warming, polluted air, soil, and water while putting pressure on people, both in working conditions and a psychological obsession to gain more without answering the real needs,” says designer Ariyan Davoodian on what inspired him to create modular furniture for every space. The aim was to reduce the unnecessary (and constant) buying by using creativity and sustainable development to meet our furniture needs that also work for our environment.
Un-Lim is an ageless collection that can be molded and changed over time – think of it as redesigning your own furniture using the same pieces to create a whole new form and function! It comes with 8 different parts that you can combine to match your space and needs. Turn it from a bed to a table to a chair seamlessly. The separate modules come with a notebook that tells the story of its production timeline from the furniture’s point of view! It also includes a piece of wood from the tree that was used and a shoutout to all wood craftsmen who worked on your set.
Think of it as a running LEGO project that you can actually sit on without getting poked. The designer wanted consumers to have a long-lasting relationship with the pieces that are a part of their home and use them to express their creativity while saving natural resources and reducing waste. It teaches you to find happiness with what you have instead of finding it in a new product every other year.
Designer: Ariyan Davoodian
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Filipino graphic designer Julius Raymund Advincula sat half-naked in front of a mirror looking for letters and numbers in the folds of his skin and limbs to make up this Body Type typeface.
Advincula, who works under the name Subhelic, created Body Type as an exploration of the various characters and figures that are hidden in the skin.
The letter C, for example, has been formed from the designer’s belly button, while P has been made using his finger to fold down his ear, and a nipple takes the place of an O.
Body Type was designed in response to the 36 Days of Type challenge, which invites creatives to design a number or letter each day for 36 consecutive days.
After looking through the submissions, Advincula noticed that most of them were illustrated, either traditionally or digitally.
“I wanted to deviate from that and explore a process that involved finding rather than drawing,” he told Dezeen. “Then the phrases ‘body type’ and ‘body language’ popped into my head.”
To create the typeface, Advincula sprayed his body with a mixture of olive oil and water before sitting half-naked in front of a mirror and searching for different numbers and letterforms in the folds of his skin and contortions of his body.
“I had one friend help me squeeze and stretch and hold my body still while another friend took the photos,” he explained.
The oil and water mixture offered heightened highlights and textures that elevated the “sensuality and organic-ness” of the images, he said.
The designer explained that the project has, expectedly, received mixed reactions. “Some have said it’s a brilliant idea, others can’t look at it for more than two seconds, and some have called it utterly disgusting.”
“I wanted it to be provocative; to confront the viewer and their opinions on skin and hair and body parts,” he added. “I like to ask people if they would react differently to it if I were a woman.”
Exactly what body parts were used to make which letters or numbers remain undisclosed, as Advincula wishes to retain the mystery of the images.
“I can’t reveal how the letters and numbers were formed because I think what really makes the images is the ambiguity; the responses of ‘I wonder which body part this is’, and the ‘Wait… what?’,” he added.
The letter Y is one of the designer’s favourites, as it “does its job of provocation well”, alongside M and N, which were “pleasant surprises” during the creation process.
This is not the first time graphic designers have looked to unusual materials to create typefaces. Swedish hardcore band Pissjar designed a typeface made from their own urine.
Jerusalem designer Ori Elisar, on the other hand, used a bacteria-based ink to grow a Hebrew alphabet in a lab.
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The results of a physical workout are pretty easy to prove. Just step on a scale and you can literally see that progress. Take a measuring tape to your waist or biceps and there’s tangible evidence that your workout went great. You can’t, however, do that for your mind. You can meditate, solve puzzles, go to therapy, but apart from feeling better, there isn’t any measurable indication that your mind is fit and sharp and at the top of its game. Designed to be ‘gym equipment’ for your mind, Mendi lets you train your brain and even measure its progress along the way. This can help you be more mindful, beat stress, improve your mental and physical performance at work or while playing a sport, and even help overcome learning difficulties.
Mendi sits on your head, like a slim innocuous headband, but underneath its sleek exterior, it holds a myriad of sensors that measure brain activity, blood flow, and oxygenation of your prefrontal cortex. Paired with an app that lets you go through brain-exercises, Mendi tracks your brain’s activity while the app pushes you to use your mind more through a series of focus-building games. At the end of a 10-minute session, the app lets you know how much energy your brain expended, what progress you made, and where you’re currently at. Just as a physical scale can tell you how much weight you gained or lost, Mendi can tell you how much mental heavy-lifting your brain is capable of.
The tech comes backed and endorsed by quite a few reputable sources, the EU and NASA being some of them. Using the Mendi for just 10 minutes twice or thrice a week can help you achieve optimal performance… which translates to a bunch of things. Researchers and medical professionals who’ve been using Mendi claim that a healthier brain can overcome stress and anxiety, think clearly, remember more, sleep better, and even augment your physical performance, being able to push your limits while working out, or playing a sport. Whether you’re an artist, an athlete, in academics or a professional, or whether you just want your mind to be at peak performance, the Mendi helps you give your brain the workout it needs… in a way that’s much more effective and safer than medicines, meditation, and mind-exercises. Besides, you can measure your progress too, which really helps you know how far you’ve come!
Designers: Sammy Saldjoghi & Rickard Eklöf
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Mendi makes it possible for you to access the same brain enhancement training used by top athletes and executives to improve mental well-being, performance & overall health.
Brain training clinics are hard to access or afford, with each session costing hundreds of dollars. With Mendi they are bringing the same training, with added improvements, to the comfort of your home. Mendi is the first clinical-grade brain training product designed for home use.
With Mendi, you can strengthen your brain in a fun and easy way. Simply control a training game with your brain. Your brain learns from feedback. Through live visual feedback of what your brain is doing, you are able to train it to function better – the method is called neurofeedback.
Mendi’s headset measures your brain activity through a unique combination of features, including blood flow and oxygenation in the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC). Think of it as measuring fuel in your brain’s control center.
Your combined brain activity is then visualized in a training game – a game you control using only your brain. Just relax and focus, and you will easily control the game.
The PFC is the control center of your brain. Increasing blood flow, nutrients and oxygenation to this area strengthens it over time—which is what you learn to do with Mendi.
For Mental Wellbeing. Your brain function is essential to your mental and neurological well-being. Mendi helps with elevating stress, anxiety, ADHD, sleep issues, memory problems, depression, migraines, PTSD and more.
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UK studio Curl la Tourelle Head has designed a concept for tent classrooms that would allow students to return to schools while maintaining social distancing guidelines.
Curl la Tourelle Head envisions the pop-up teaching spaces being erected at schools to expand capacity for socially distanced learning and reduce the reliance on restricted circulation routes.
“We designed the concept to assist pupils and staff with their return to school and to mitigate the possibility of infection by proper spacing of pupils and staff in fresh air environments,” explained Wayne Head, director of Curl la Tourelle Head.
The concept would see tents being assembled on the school’s playing fields or other nearby outdoor spaces. Inside, classrooms would be arranged so that pupils can be separated from each other by two metres.
Each would be configured for the various set-ups required by the school, while some would contain dedicated handwashing stations.
Curl la Tourelle Head believes that the concept, which is illustrated at a school in London above, could allow for a greater number of students to safely return to schools.
“At the moment only children in nursery, reception, year 1 and year 6, alongside priority groups may return in June,” explained Head. “This is most likely due to the difficulties schools will face in enabling adequate safe spacing of pupils as they circulate.”
“The additional outdoor structures would enable pupils and staff to be better spaced and this increase the possibility of year group intake,” he continued.
The studio envisions that the tents would be used alongside the school’s existing buildings that would also be adapted to allow for safe teaching.
“Our studies have shown that in utilising some outdoor structures to ease the load on circulation and teaching areas in main school buildings, that a quantum of temporary works could be undertaken to adapt and remodel existing school structures to more suitable Covid-19 compliant arrangements,” explained Head.
The concept was developed after Curl la Tourelle Head saw makeshift tents being used by some nurseries in Denmark. It would make use of tents and marquees that would normally be in use at festivals and other outdoor events currently not taking place.
Head believes that the concept designed for coronavirus social distancing could potentially lead to a wider rethink of the classroom and school design.
“It is possible that schools may adopt and evolve the concept of outdoor schooling,” he said.
“Other countries including Denmark are experimenting with new models of outdoor learning,” he continued. “We believe that our emergency first step proposal will lead to new settings for learning environments and a much needed rethink of school planning.”
As countries begin to reopen following lockdown, designers are creating concepts to allow people to carry out activities while social distancing. Aviation consultancy Factorydesign has designed a screen to allow social distancing to be achieved on planes, while Paul Cocksedge designed a blanket to let people “socialise safely and confidently” outdoors.
In Italy, Caret Studio has installed a gridded installation in a piazza to encourage social distancing.
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I remember around this exact time two years back, when it was nearly half a year left for Google’s event, and the leaks of the Pixel 3 could JUST NOT STOP coming. Images leaked out early, then some person was spotted using the Pixel 3 to click pictures outdoors, then one phone got accidentally left in a cab, and finally, an e-commerce site put the phone up on their online store before Google even launched the product. Now I would personally expect a company as large and powerful as Google to be a little less careless, which leads me to believe that the phone was intentionally leaked. Some tech reviewers believe this process helps blunt the force of bad press by spreading it out. If customers dislike the product’s design 5 months before the product launches, that’s enough time for them to hate it just a little less when the product actually DOES launch. It’s been two years since the Pixel 3, and it seems like Google’s slowly embracing and perfecting this strategy. Based on credible leaks from quite a few well-positioned and reputable people, this is probably what the Pixel 5 will look like.
The Pixel 5, based on rumors, comes with a design that’s almost like the 4, with the exception of that camera (which I’ll get to, obviously). Its front still has that slight forehead to accommodate the earpiece and front-facing camera, and the phone still has its colorful glass back, a USB-C port, and no headphone jack. A few articles on tech websites have delved deeper into the phone’s insides, and by far the most noteworthy difference between the Pixel 4 and Pixel 5, at least as far as its strategy is concerned, is that the Pixel 5 isn’t going to be Google’s top-of-the-line phone. It seems like the company is actually cutting back on tech specs to build a good, affordable, non-flagship phone. Whether that’s the result of our current economic climate, or whether Google had this strategy all along seems difficult to point out, but the Pixel 5 apparently will sport a Snapdragon 765G processor, which is Qualcomm’s second-best chip in its 2020 lineup. This effectively means Google’s pushing for a phone that’s greater than the sum of its parts. The company’s more than capable of making a great phone out of ordinary hardware – case in point its single-lens camera being able to perform portrait-mode photography. The Pixel 5 probably won’t be 2020’s best Android phone, but considering that it’s coming from Google, it should still be a pretty damn good phone.
Which brings me to its unique design. The Pixel 5 may not be a top-tier device, but it’s really important for it to not look like a cheap phone. The strange U-shaped camera bump is, to put it a certain way, eye-catching, and reminds me of the Nexus 5… which was yet another phone that had an incredibly unique and iconic aesthetic. Call me sympathetic, but the Nexus 5 was also my first ever smartphone. That massive camera bump is a feature that you’ll probably love or hate. Believe it or not, I’m still undecided. I really want to hate on it, because it looks like a supermassive notch on the back of your phone, but at the same time I’m sort of liking it. The aesthetic aside, the camera is unique for Google also because it’s the first Pixel phone to sport three lenses. Details on the lenses seem scarce, but the 3-lens setup also comes with a flash as well as an extra component that some speculate to either be a time-of-flight sensor or a laser autofocus sensor. That’s all we really have on the Pixel 5. I’m not really banking on Google making any announcements right now, partially because the company’s working hard on its contact-tracing app, and also because this phone’s precursor, the Pixel 4A, hasn’t been announced yet. If I were you, I’d wait a bit though… going by Google’s track record, a teaser image should find its way on Twitter pretty soon!
Designer/Visualizer: Sarang Sheth
A deviation from the group’s recent pop releases and a return to their hip-hop roots, Brockhampton’s “things can’t stay the same” centers on verses from two of the group’s 10+ members. Sampling a pitch-shifted “Trouble Will Remain” by Amnesty, the beat was produced by Kiko Merley, Romil Hemnani and Kevin Abstract (the group’s frontman) and provides a dramatic backdrop for Abstract and Matt Champion’s vocals. The single, which premiered alongside “N.S.T.” on the group’s invite-only Technical Difficulties Radio stream, will appear on one of their two albums planned for 2020.
NYC acupuncture clinic Area 25 was founded in 2018 out of frustration. Co-founders Amy Diaz (CEO) and Dr Robert MacDonald (chief clinical officer) felt the practice was wildly underutilized, and decided to make it less intimidating and more accessible in order to help individuals maintain their health, address pain and prevent illness. While still regarded as alternative medicine, acupuncture can result in patients take a more active role in their own wellbeing and become more in tune with their bodies—taking cues from subtle shifts in their behavior and feelings. While the clinic’s two locations—in Nomad and Midtown—are closed at the moment, many similar benefits of acupuncture can be achieved through acupressure. We did an online session with Area 25 acupuncturist Jessica Klein (LAc, MSOM) who led us through various pressure points and movements that can relieve stress and tension, elevate mood, increase energy and more. Klein also answered some of our questions about the practice.
Whether doing this yourself, with a housemate or family member, what are the benefits of this kind of touch?
Acupressure is essentially acupuncture without the puncture, and a tool used to promote our body’s own self-healing capability. Acupressure is an effective therapy to help to regulate mood and sleep, improve circulation, boost immunity, reduce digestive discomfort, and alleviate discomfort and pain. Touch is the language of love and compassion. While doing acupressure, we are sending this message to ourselves and showing up for ourselves as our own support system.
Do you have some tips for creating a mood to practice this at home? Perhaps where or how to sit; whether to use candles or oils; music, sounds, silence?
Acupressure is a great tool to use whenever you can’t make it into the clinic—all you need is your hands, your breath, and the space to disconnect from the outside and connect with your body. I begin all my practices by finding a comfortable position, seated upright to create space in the abdomen to allow each breath to oxygenate my organs. Before stimulating my points, I like to close my eyes and connect to my breath by taking three deep belly breaths, feeling the rise and fall of my stomach, and taking note of any resistance I feel throughout my body.
For morning sessions, I like to stimulate these points first thing when I get out of bed. I find a comfortable space by the window, surrounded by my plants, where I can see and feel the natural light shining through. As I take my first three breaths, I set an intention for the day—always being mindful to choose kind words that will allow for flexibility. If I incorporate oils into my morning treatments, I prefer to use more invigorating scents like citrus. For evening sessions, I like to bundle up in comfortable clothes in a dimly candlelit corner in my room. I find I like to go deeper with my breaths in the evening before stimulating, checking my body for restrictions with each breath and focusing on sending my breath to that area until I feel the restriction release. I continue with this breath until my body is at ease and I have shaken off the junk that has stagnated from the day. If I choose to incorporate oils in my evening treatment, I prefer to use more calming scents like lavender.
Can you tell us three acupressure movements that people can do each morning for energy or elevated mood?
These points will help to build energy, improve circulation, and regulate mood.
Large Intestine 4: this point is found on your hand in the webbing between the thumb and index finger. If you squeeze your thumb to your index finger, the point is found at the highest point of that muscle mound. Apply deep, firm pressure with your thumb (index finger in palm for support) and massage for 45 to 60 seconds, then switch to the other hand. This is a strong point and you may experience sensitivity. This point will help reduce pain (especially in the head and face), improve immune response, calms the mind, and helps clear the channel—which runs through the neck.
Stomach 36: this point is found 4 finger-breadths below the bottom of your knee cap (patella) and 1 finger-breadth outward (lateral) from the shin bone (anterior border of tibia). Massage this point with deep pressure for 45-60 seconds (can do both at the same time or one side and then the other). This point will improve your immune response, regulate digestion, and increase energy and stamina.
Liver 3: this point is found on the top of your feet in the webbing between the first and second toe. Massage this point (circles or in a downward motion toward your toes) for 45 to 60 seconds (can do both at the same time or one and then the other). This point will improve circulation throughout the entire body, decrease stress, regulate mood, and eliminate digestive discomfort.
What are three that can aid with stress relief and rest?
These will help to calm anxiety and stress, improve sleep, and promote grounding.
Yintang: this point is found midway between your eyebrows. Massage or tap this point with your index finger for 45 to 60 seconds. This point will calm the nervous system, relieve nasal congestion, and alleviate pain of the face.
Heart 7: this point is found by turning your palm up (inner side of wrist) and placing your thumb at the wrist crease in line with your pinky. Massage this point with moderate pressure (circular motion or downward toward fingertips) for 45 to 60 seconds, then switch to the other wrist. This point will promote healthy sleep and calm the heart and mind to regulate mood.
Kidney 1: this point is found on the sole of the foot between the second and third toe, about a third of the way between the base of the toes and the heel. Massage this point with your thumb for 30 to 45 seconds (can do both at the same time or one side and then the other). This point is great for grounding and will help to calm the nervous system and relieve anxiety.
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