Nov 02
Dot Porcelain Table
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Dot Porcelain Table is a side table made of noble materials. It consists of a single porcelain top and an oak support of three legs. From the porcelai..
Nov 02
This image by German photographer Menno Aden offers a view down from the ceiling onto an empty pharmaceutical laboratory.
Menno Aden produced Lab as part of an ongoing project to document interiors from unconventional viewpoints. Previously he’s captured domestic interiors and public places, but this latest photograph focuses on the biological laboratory of a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland.
There are no people in the shot, but the cluttered desktops reveal some of the activities that take place inside the space.
“Through the steep top-view the deserted laboratory appears as a model,” said Aden. “As if the ceiling was removed, architectural structures and human traces of modern bio-laboratories become visible.”
To create a flattened bird’s-eye view, the photographer took over 1000 shots from different places on the laboratory ceiling, then collaged 600 of them together to remove perspective distortions.
It took two days to take all of the photographs, followed by three months of computer editing to create a single composite image.
Adden told Dezeen he believes this kind of image production provides a more accurate representation of reality than traditional photography.
“Interestingly photographs are still associated with ‘truth’ and ‘reality’, not only by consumers but also by many professional photographers who boast not to use Photoshop to distort authenticity,” he said.
“In my photographic work this situation is indeed exactly vice versa: only the digital image processing allows the representation of a reality,” he continued. “Like a radiograph, it sometimes requires special techniques to look ‘behind the curtain’ and come a bit closer to the truth.”
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by Menno Aden appeared first on Dezeen.
Nov 02
Fogo Island Furniture by Ineke Hans
Posted in: Fogo Island, Ineke HansDutch designer Ineke Hans plays on traditional Canadian furniture as part of these collections for remote artists’ community Fogo Island (+ slideshow).
Hans has created two collections of wooden furniture for the recently built Fogo Island Inn and a seating range for public use on the island, built by local craftsmen.
The designer’s outdoor furniture consists of chunky wooden planks painted bright red and sits on the hotel’s roof terrace.
Seating for the interior of the inn includes a traditional rocker with tapered legs and a slanted recliner called Get Your Feet Up.
“From the start I thought, whatever I do has to fit the island, its history and its people,” Hans told Dezeen. “The way things used to be made there in the old days was playful and practical at the same time.”
The wooden furniture is painted in colours taken from existing Fogo Island interiors and textiles. “I wanted to design furniture that the makers would also feel proud of and connected to,” said the designer.
Hans has also designed public seating scattered around the island, referencing local wooden structures and fencing to form six benches connected together in a zig-zag shape.
Fogo Island Inn was designed by Norwegian architecture studio Saunders Architecture as a hotel and gallery on stilts.
The picturesque island is dotted with artists’ studios and cabins as part of an ongoing arts residency programme being established in Newfoundland – see a slideshow of them here.
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Nov 02
Link About It: This Week’s Picks : A million lines of code, an air pollution vacuum, NIGO for Uniqlo UT and more in our weekly look at the web
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1. The First Pedal Cycle, on Steroids The largest chemical company in the world, BASF SE, partnered with design studio DING3000 to answer the hypothetical question, what would the first pedal cycle have looked like if its historic inventors had today’s advanced materials…
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Nov 02
Waar is Ekko? combined posters and signage for a music festival by Kok Pistolet
Posted in: Dutch Design Week 2013Dutch Design Week 2013: graphic designer Kok Pistolet painted over sections of 40 posters around Utrecht to turn them into directions from each location to a venue for a music festival (+ slideshow).
The Ekko music club was one of the hosts for Le Guess Who? festival in November 2012. Pistolet‘s poster design promoting the venue incorporated drawings of hands that point right and left.
The A0 posters were printed in monochrome and put up in various places across the city. The streets and turns from these locations to Ekko were then mapped by the designer.
Pistolet visited each poster and painted over some of the directions with bright colours.
The right and left turns that remained in black and white became a route that led the visitor to the venue. As they got closer, more directions were painted out.
“The concept was based on the basic function of a promotional campaign; getting people to visit the venue,” Pistolet told Dezeen. “We translated this basic given into a map-like system so people would be able to find Ekko from any place they encountered the poster.”
This project was nominated in the category for Best Graphic at the Dutch Design Awards as part of Dutch Design Week 2013. The top prize went to Iris van Herpen’s 3D-printed fashion collection.
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Nov 02
Jack Rabbit
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Headphone Splitter – Share your tunes with friends Splitter you both use your own headphones but listen to the exact same song, at the exact same time..
Nov 02
Each of these resin pots by east London designer Phil Cuttance is embellished with a unique iridescent sheen on its lid.
Phil Cuttance hand-cast each simple Aurora Pot with a rounded bottom and flat lid from a water-based resin.
He submerged the lid under water and drops a small amount of polish onto the surface to form an oily slick. He then lifted the lid up, catching the colourful pattern on its top.
“I have always liked the visual effect of oil or polish slicks on water,” Cuttance told Dezeen. “I wanted to simply find a way to transfer a polish slick from the water’s surface and preserve it on an object.”
The slick created by the polish is different each time, so every pot in the set is one of a kind.
Photography is by Petr Krejčí.
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Nov 01
DIY human cyborg implanted in the arm
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Biohacker Tim Cannon has implanted a device he has designed known as circadia into his forearm…(Read…)
Nov 01
Quote of Note | Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Sea of Japan, Rebun Island” 1996
“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”
–Hiroshi Sugimoto in an interview that appears in Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces, out later this month from Thames & Hudson
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Nov 01
Screw Innovation, Part 2: Outlaw Fasteners
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It takes balls to redesign a screw, if you’ll pardon my French. The incumbency of standardization is a difficult hurdle to overcome, particularly if you’re going to change the screwhead pattern into something new; I don’t know anyone who enjoys having to change driver bits from Phillips to #2 Phillips to square-drive to Torx, but different manufacturers’ ideas of what shape will drive best without stripping necessitate it.
Still, a team of guys comprised of an industrial designer, a mechanical engineer, a contractor and “some business guys” reckoned they could invent a better deck screw, and having put in two years of development time, they’ll shortly be bringing it to market.
They’ve named their screw Outlaw, and it’s easy to see why: The driver system doesn’t look like any you’ve ever seen. While it’s hexagonal, like an Allen key, it’s also tiered, which technically provides 18 points of contact between the bit and the screw head. This, they reckon, will make it strip-proof. (I do wonder, though, what the lack of cam-out will do if the screw is accidentally driven in an irresistible-force-meets-immovable-object scenario; will the head break off?)
The second benefit of the Outlaw bit/head design is that screws will stay on the driver non-magnetically, like it does with a square-drive set-up, allowing one-handed driving. Maybe I’m just a klutz, but whenever I need to drill one-handed with a conventional Phillips-head screw-—usually when I’m up on a ladder and have to stretch—that’s always when the screw comes unseated from the bit and dangles from it magnetically at a weird angle, which is almost more irritating than if it would just fall off.
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