There are some pretty hardcore EDC multipurpose tools on the market. From plier-based to knife-based tools, they’re trusted across industry lines for their ergonomic build and long-lasting reputation. With so many multi-use tools out there, the nitty-gritty, technical details are what set some tools above others. Edging out fixed knives for folding ones, the world’s leading e-commerce site for karambit tactical knives, Karambit.com, features a whole collection of portable multiuse tools with curved blades that fold down so you can bring them anywhere.

Originally built for farming, multiuse tools are currently used for utility, self-defense, and combat purposes. Knives that use folding and Emerson Wave deployment methods are easy to carry around safely and provide a lot more accuracy during use. As described on their site, Karambit co-owners Phillip Koontz and William Simkins say, “Emerson Wave Karambits feature a patented wave-shaped opening mechanism that allows a karambit to open instantly as it’s removed from the pocket.”

On Karambit.com, the standout Emerson Wave knives come shining with a curved blade for clean slashing through dense material. Finished in Black Idroglider and made from stainless steel, the Emerson Wave karambit blade is constructed for the long haul. While Emerson Wave knife deployment offers convenience and efficiency, it also promotes user safety, ensuring that while the karambit is inside the pocket, the knife will not dislodge.

Built using some of the strongest stainless steel available, many of the Emerson Wave deployment tools are constructed in Italy from NC690Co Stainless Steel. The Emerson Wave karambit collection also features knives that come fitted with safety finger rings and ergonomic handles for intuitive operation. Available for reverse and forward grip, the black G10 scales on each tool’s grip make handling each knife a lot safer and enhances the knife’s overall precision rating.

Designer: Karambit.com

Traditional charm meets a modern steel edge with Karambit’s Emerson Wave multi-use tools.

An added safety ring enhances the knife’s safety features and makes it easy to clip on and carry.

Laden in black G10 scales, the grip is ergonomic to promote convenience and precision.

The Emerson Wave deployment knife explained. 

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A pop-up store made from natural and recycled materials and an Isle of Skye hotel immersed in nature are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at the Inchbald School of Design.

Also featured is a rectory in the town of Bath transformed into a contemporary family home and a restaurant that combines Scandinavian fine dining with a tapas bar.

Inchbald School of Design

School: Inchbald School of Design
Courses: Inchbald Diploma Architectural Interior Design, BA(Hons) Architectural Interior Design and MA Architectural Interior Design
Tutors: Alan Hughes, Tony Taliadoros, Piers Northam, Corinne Blackburn, Jo Walker and Nick Williamson

School statement:

“Inchbald has over 60 years experience of design education fostering the talents of some of the world’s leading interior and garden designers. Students are taught that to be confident designers, they need to understand the sensory perception of space from a personal point of view, leading to greater empathy for the client’s view.

“Learning through the process of survey and analysis, the development of a professional, and most importantly, an individual approach to design is achieved. Inchbald graduates are equipped with skills to interpret clients and space, to understand collaboration and implementation of a scheme and in doing so develop the creative confidence to succeed.

“You can view the 2021 Graduate work on the Ichbald School of Design’s website.”

Chantal Bard

“Situated next to the Thames River at Imperial Wharf, London, this duplex penthouse was designed to create a sophisticated and functional home for a family of three. Using both single and double-height spaces, a sense of openness was generated, allowing light to travel every room.

“The focus of this project was to design a harmonious and natural home through the use of natural materials, organic shapes and views. Combining a wide variety of textures within a neutral colour palette creates a tactile atmosphere and variety of lights.”

Student: Chantal Bard
Course: Inchbald Diploma Architectural Interior Design
Email: chantalmichelle.bard[at]gmail.com

Elysia Cartwright

“The brief for this rooftop bar was to design an entirely new structure on top of an office building in Paternoster Square. The undulating window offers up a frame to the view of St Paul’s Cathedral.

“The building that dominates the view also provides the inspiration for the design, with the concept being centred around the fluting on the exterior columns of St Paul’s.

“The design explores fluting in a variety of forms, sizes and materials. Visitors are introduced to this in the lift lobby, where a curving wall of fluted glass leads them through to the bar.”

Student: Elysia Cartwright
Course: BA(Hons) Architectural Interior Design
Email: elysiacartwright[at]gmail.com

Eleonora Cellino

“My idea was to find an authentic Italian villa that had a great deal of history behind it, but that also challenged me to keep its authenticity while modernising the interior and turning it into a liveable environment. It’s very interesting to merge old architecture with new and modern interiors.

“The villa I chose, located in Caprino Veronese Italy, imposes some great challenges as it is a listed house which means the changes I can make to it are extremely restricted. It also has a very irregular shape, as one of the sides of the house was built in a second moment, which gives it an irregular curved shape.”

Student: Eleonora Cellino
Course: MA Architectural Interior Design
Email: ele-eleonora[at]hotmail.com

Pippa Macdonald

“This pop-up is a launch for the new app UpGarm, which promotes and sells sustainable fashion brands within an app. The atmosphere, branding and concept are designed to engage customers, and only sustainable materials have been used – car tyres, driftwood, denim offcuts and more.

“The idea of the stall is also to educate by telling a story on the ceiling of the ocean today and what it would be like if we were to up-cycle. The stall provides organic refreshments, an opportunity to bring in old clothing for a discount on an up-cycled piece, free wifi to engage with the virtual audience, and an option to post an Instagram with the latest collection to win credits to use on the app.”

Student: Pippa Macdonald
Course: Diploma HE Architectural Interior Design
Email: pippa[at]keppoch.net

Juliana Mazzucchelli

“This ‘pop-up store’ was designed using natural and recycled materials to explore sustainability. The colour scheme and texture of finished materials convey an organic atmosphere.

“The patterns allude to native people and cultures, and the botanical decorations on the ceiling and walls add to that. The furniture is all made of recycled materials, and the decorative objects that are composing with the products on sale all reflect the same philosophy of sustainability.”

Student: Juliana Mazzucchelli
Course: BA(Hons) Architectural Interior Design
Email: juliana.mazzucchelli[at]gmail.com

Léa Scott

“Akrobat is a restaurant that aims to embrace the original architecture of the German Gymnasium King’s Cross but also its original use. I chose to do that through a mix of a historic and modern feel.

“The finishes have been chosen as if they had always been there. Mixing modern and less modern finishes creates a comfortable and inspiring interior that impacts the customers.”

Student: Léa Scott
Course: BA(Hons) Architectural Interior Design
Email: scottlea2000[at]gmail.com

Josephine Treschow

“This design intended to convert an old and characteristic rectory outside Bath into a contemporary family home. The aim was to analyse and modify the current layout and interior to gain a more open and spacious feeling yet creating a sense of intimacy for a young family. The focus was to create a contemporary, relaxed and elegant mood while not compromising the charming historic features.

“The reception room, also called the cocktail lounge, was created to be a more formal space for entertaining. The Georgian fireplace was considered a central element of the room and was encompassed by modern bespoke glass cabinetry to hold the owner’s glassware collections.”

Student: Josephine Treschow
Course: BA(Hons) Architectural Interior Design
Email: josephine[at]treschow.se

Michelle van der Meer

“Imagine a home away from home on the misty Isle of Skye, where you are greeted by name and made to feel as welcome as a friend. Flora and Glenn Douglas have created Cloud House Hotel, where people will gather time and time again to relax while immersed in nature.

“Shades of pinky-purple from the island’s fields of heather and green from the windswept grass are found throughout the hotel. Textures of wool add depth, pale European oak adds brightness and hints of brass and walnut add warmth to the space.”

Student: Michelle van der Meer
Course: MA Architectural Interior Design
Email: michelle[at]studioherbarium.co

Jonna Jarvenpaa

“This restaurant proposal blends contrasting cultures and designs into one large open space, separating dual themes. The top floor has a Scandinavian fine dining premise, while there is a casual tapas bar on the ground floor.

“This allows the client to traverse two worlds in one space. The stairs, inspired by the horns of a bull, alongside the central bar, create a theatrical identify, contrasting with the intimate upper level, where the temperature seemingly drops as the patrons’ profiles adjust, while the space establishes a much slower pace.”

Student: Jonna Jarvenpaa
Course: BA(Hons) Architectural Interior Design
Email: jonnajarvenpaa[at]hotmail.com

Masha Makarova

“The task was to create a home for a family of four with young children. The house was an old rectory with a vast garden in the beautiful English countryside, near the Cotswolds. Here you can see the main elevation plan throughout both floors.

“The main floor consists of kitchen, dining rooms together with library and living rooms, as well as a separate en-suite guest bedroom. The house also has a spa section with sauna and relaxation rooms with large Crittall windows overlooking the heated swimming pool and the garden.”

Student: Masha Makarova
Course: Inchbald Diploma Architectural Interior Design
Email: mashmak26[at]gmail.com

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and Inchbald School of Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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The R3 DIY Bluetooth Radio from Celia & Perah audio engineering company allows users to build their own speakers and learn about the magic behind its superb sound quality.

Choosing the right Bluetooth speaker often boils down to the technical details. Once we find a couple of speakers we like, technical details like sound quality, acoustics, and pressure become the ultimate deciding factors. However, knowing which technical details to look out for takes a lot of research. As much as we enjoy listening to music, understanding the technology behind it sometimes gets lost. That’s why Celia & Perah, a quality audio engineering company, launched R3, a Bluetooth speaker that users can build themselves to learn more about the ins and outs of audio engineering.

For Celia & Perah, weaving in the DIY aspect of R3 provided the speaker with a bit more meaning. When someone buys an R3 Bluetooth Speaker, they’re also buying the experience of building their own music-making device and learning more about “the acoustic magic behind the [speaker’s] superb sound quality,” as Celia & Perah put it. R3 is a DIY Bluetooth speaker that can be built within an hour and customized to fit your taste. Users can even spraypaint it a certain color to match the tone of any given room.

Equipped with a 3.5mm Aux jack and USB drive, the R3 DIY Bluetooth Speaker allows users to play music via Bluetooth, the radio, or an aux connection. Offering surround sound that rivals that of a concert, Celia & Perah took two years to fine-tune R3’s sound quality to cut out any potential feedback or distortion. Utilizing the energy-efficient 30W Class-D Amplifier for optimal audio quality, its lower power dissipation produces less heat and saves up space on the circuit board.

When users buy the R3 Speaker, they’ll receive a pack of wooden boards, two two-inch 48mm 8W full-range drivers, a 16W RMS amplifier, an FM/volume knob, a function knob, a PCBA, and accessory essentials like connecting cables and wool felt covering. Along with the packaged items, users will receive assembly instructions that bring them through the entire building process. Each speaker comes with a speaker range of 68~20,000 Hz and 8 hours of battery life to ensure quality sound day-in, day-out. The 4.0 EDR+ Bluetooth has a transmit range of ten meters, so you can bring R3 to the beach or to a party and not worry about stopping the music or the party.

Designer: Celia & Perah

In the age of DIY, the R3 Bluetooth Radio is right at home. 

The wooden panels of the R3 DIY Bluetooth Radio can be spraypainted to meet the taste of any room.

The R3 DIY Bluetooth Radio can be customized in black for a more refined look. 

Users build every part of their R3 DIY Bluetooth Radio, from the bass up.

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Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster has criticised architects that have walked away from designing airports due to concerns about the environmental impact of air travel.

Foster, the founder of the UK’s largest architecture studio Foster + Partners, defended his decision to work in the aviation sector and suggested that other studios are being hypocritical by not working on airports.

“I do feel passionately that we have to address the infrastructure of mobility,” he said. “We have to reduce its carbon footprint, like everything else. We can’t walk away from it. We can’t adopt a hypocritical moral stance.”

“The carbon footprint of air travel is relatively small”

Speaking on Bloomberg TV show Leaders With Lacqua Goes Green, Foster made the comments in defence of his decision to withdraw his studio from environmental group climate change action group Architects Declare last year.

Foster + Partners left the group after it was criticised for working on aviation projects including the Amaala airport in Saudi Arabia.

He told host Francine Lacqua that all infrastructure and forms of travel have a carbon footprint and singling out airports was unfair, claiming that air travel only contributes a small percentage of global carbon emissions.

Most estimates calculate that the aviation industry contributes between two and three per cent of total carbon emissions, although its impact on climate change is increased by other factors, such as the water vapour produced by aircraft, which also contribute to global warming.

“There are those who – I respect that their outlook, their views – who walk away and say: ‘As a moral principle, we’re not going to have anything to do with mobility in the form of travel because it has a carbon footprint’,” he said.

“I argue that everything has a carbon footprint. In relative terms, the carbon footprint of air travel is relatively small.”

“Imperative to reduce the carbon imprint of transportation”

In the interview, Foster also reiterated his view that his studio has a role to play in reducing the carbon impact of aviation through the design of its airport terminals.

“Air travel is not the journey of a jet across the sky,” he said. “Travel mobility in any shape or form is about infrastructure.”

“So the buildings that that will move people to a train or to an aircraft consume energy, so there’s an imperative to reduce the carbon imprint of transportation of mobility,” he continued. “And our society is about mobility.”

Foster + Partners withdrew from Architects Declare in December 2020 following tension over its decision to design an airport in Saudi Arabia.

At the time, the group stated that leading architects were “clearly contravening” climate pledges, while climate activist group Architects Climate Action Network called on the studio to withdraw from the project or leave Architects Declare.

Fellow founding signatory to the Architects Declare manifesto Zaha Hadid Architects withdrew from the group a day after Foster + Partners.

“Architects Declare’s steering group has unilaterally decided on its own precise and absolute interpretation of the coalition’s commitments,” said Zaha Hadid Architects at the time.

“By doing so, we believe they are setting the profession up for failure. Redefining these commitments without engagement undermines the coalition and trust.”

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Over the weekend, Rico Nasty (aka Maria Kelly) released five new tracks that represent her inimitable style and versatility—from spacey to sweet and screamo. “How Ya Feel,” produced by JetsonMade (aka Tahj Morgan), comprises a simple rhyme style but, like everything Rico Nasty does, mesmerizes.