Un excellent concept vidéo avec ce récent travail du designer Alcinoo alias Nicola Destefanis, basé actuellement à Turin. Un clip tourné simultanément sous deux angles, et monté sur la bande son de Tas. A découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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Japanese apparel giant blankets NYC with retail installations in advance of its largest store opening yet
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Savvy readers may have noticed that we were featured in the Voices of New York campaign last month, the first of many initiatives that Japanese apparel retailer Uniqlo undertook to celebrate the imminent arrival of their two latest NYC flagship stores. Since then, the brand has been literally putting itself on the map by dropping pop-up shops inside of tidy cubes (designed by our friends at HWKN) all over NYC to showcase signature products, like their colorful cashmere sweaters. As if setting up nearly 20 Uniqlo Cubes all across New York wasn’t enough, the brand also launched a preview of an upcoming addition to their activewear offering as styled by Nicola Formichetti.
It’s easy to forget that Nicola Formichetti is Uniqlo’s Fashion Director, considering his ongoing work with Lady Gaga and designer role at Thierry Mugler. At his low-key TriBeCa storefront, Nicola’s, the Uniqlo Innovation Project, presented a step forward for Uniqlo’s sportier side that bears Formichetti’s touch. The sleek, sparse designs are injected with thoughtful design details that manage to balance style and necessity, with many pieces cut from Uniqlo’s well-known heat retention and water repellent high-tech fabrics. The full range presents a take on “how the future dresses” according to the collection’s site, and will be sure to please fans of versatile and stylish pieces that can transition from play to work and back again.
This weekend, Uniqlo Cubes will be present at the DUMBO Arts Festival helping to celebrate Brooklyn’s place in the art world. Featuring local, national, and international participants, the festival features over 500 participants. Visitors can experience everything from studio visits to musical performances. We particularly recommend paying a visit to experience the Leo Kuelbs Collection’s Immersive Surfaces presentation, which features artists’ works projected onto the stone anchorage that supports the Manhattan Bridge, turning DUMBO itself into a canvas.
We’ll soon be launching a special edition of CH Local highlighting other upcoming events in NYC that Uniqlo Cubes will be present at, along with our favorite spots nearby, so stay tuned!
Tired of Chris-Farley-like motivational speakers botching Trust Falls in the conference room? Here’s a different way to build a better team at work: Lego Serious Play.
Lego Serious Play is a methodology that’s been around since the ’90s and seeks to enhance business performance through group exercises based around the titular bricks:
The underlying values of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY include the belief in the potential of people, and also the belief that everyone within an organization can contribute to the discussion, solutions, and outcomes.
…Building landscape models with LEGO bricks, giving them meaning through storymaking, and playing-out various possible scenarios, deepens understanding, sharpens insight, and socially “bonds” together the group who “plays” together. Participants come away with increased confidence and more committed to the shared and common goals.
At first I wasn’t sure if this was for real, but they’ve got a website explaining the concept (and listing testimonials) here, and this morning I came across an article on Kamal Hassan, a Dubai-based business executive who’s a certified Trained Lego Serious Play Facilitator. “Adult play, when it is structured correctly as the Lego Serious Play methodology demonstrates, frees our imagination and makes us more open to possibilities,” says Hassan. “It also improves communication, especially among teams, by giving everyone a safe way to express their opinions.”
Eight stylish boots for men that can walk from city to country
A solid pair of work boots will get any dapper dude through the winter months, whether trudging through the snow to a gallery opening or chopping wood in the wilderness. While a classic pair is sure to last year after year, there are a few labels that make a sturdy boot but let fashion lead the way. From the high-end house of Alexander McQueen to heritage legends Woolrich Woolen Mills, the following are eight pairs of boots for the more sartorially inclined man on the move.
The ultimate heritage-inspired Para boot adds melton wool for a more casual accent to the traditional Derby brogue styling. A pebble-leather upper, stacked sole with Goodyear welt and waxed laces complete the look for €477. Made in England, check Nitty Gritty for details.
For a more padded option, the Air Jayhawker ankle boot is lined with leather and supported with Nike Air. The heavily burnished suede lace-up takes its distinguished look from the longwing detailing and heavy welt where the upper meets the leather sole. These subtle boots are perfect for those with subtle style. Get them for $298 from the Cole Haan webshop.
Helm handmade boots recently partnered with North Carolina-based Raleigh Denim for the new release of their Ray Ray boot. Marking the first time the American-made denim company has allowed their denim to be used by another designer, the boot sports a more tailored toe box with a sophisticated aesthetic. With an Italian crafted sole of Dutch calfskin, the Ray Ray sells for $445 from Helm online.
Also made in England, the Glenn boot is designed to resemble an old Italian infantry boot from the late 1800s. With updated materials and craftsmanship, the Glenn features British Millerain waxed canvas and a leather single sole. Available for £195 online through Grenson.
Rachel Comey’s Ruger boot resembles those intended for the assembly line, but with a much softer leather and stacked leather sole that is “ideal for a professor of architecture, perfect for a hard day on the instruction site.” The striped leather laces add a nice unfinished look to the glossy black boot, which is available for $403 from the Rachel Comey site.
Truly American made, the Original Semi-Dress boot is special order only and handcrafted of a five inch mid-weight leather upper. The stitch-down construction shapes the shoe to your foot while the the single layer leather sole continues to add to the personalized fit. Check White’s Boots online, where the Semi-Dress sells for just under $400.
As definitely the boldest boot in the lineup, Yohji Yamamoto’s Zip Lace Up boot is the quintessential adaptation of military fashion. The dramatic boots are constructed of rich cowhide leather with 15 sets of lace holes, a full-length black metal zipper on the inside of the foot and a thick black Vibram rubber sole. With an intimidating price tag of just over $1,375, the incredibly detailed boots sell online from London’s LN-CC.
Also inspired by military workwear, the Alexander McQueen’s Zip-Placket boot is just as extravagant as one would expect from the revolutionary label. Made in Italy of pebbled leather and a thick lug rubber sole, the eight-eyelet vamp is fastened with a removable zippered leather placket. High fashion comes at a high price, and these McQueen beauties go for $785 from Park & Bond.
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com
Designer: Teal Triggs, Instructor
Location: London, United Kingdom
Category: Design Education initiatives
Award: Notable
Seeing Voices: Inside BT Archives
A unique collaboration between BT Heritage staff and students from MA Design Writing Criticism, LCC, in the use of specialist archives as an integrated teaching method for design writing and curation. Students selected an object from the communications archive to research and interpret resulting in a publication and exhibition.
BT is the world’s oldest communication company, with a direct line of descent from the first electric telegraph to present day digital technologies. The challenge was to provide a fresh perspective on BT’s extensive collection ranging from products (e.g. telephones, merchandising products, buildings, phone boxes), to print (e.g. advertising and poster campaigns, in-house magazines) and photographs. The collaboration was intended to show that: 1) MA Design Writing Criticism students could bring the collection to the attention of a new kind of audience, 2) the seven students could develop their skills via written and visual interpretation of the material, thereby bringing new perspectives to the interpretation of the archive, and 3) by fostering a shared learning experience there was a knowledge exchange unique to those involved. The students and staff operated as a ‘team’, contributing their skills, knowledge and critical understanding to the group discourse. As a result, a continually evolving dynamism was ensured.
The collaboration was embedded within the class entitled ‘Design Histories of Practice’ – which required students to reconsider the context of critical spaces drawing upon historical precedents, whilst at the same time giving due consideration to the role of the curator as critic and critic as curator, addressing issues of interpretation and audience reception.
What was exciting about this project was two things: First, by going back into history we learned that narratives lie in every archive and in every object and, second, that this was a collaboration about learning and making visible an often-invisible research process.
What is the latest news on your project?
The latest news is that we will be running the project again with BT Heritage and with a new group of students who begin the MA Design Writing Criticism course in October. We hope to do something different with the final publication. So watch this space!
What is 1 quick anecdote about your project?
The eureka moment for the project was when one of the students located a small book on the reference shelf of the BT Archive collection – it was a book from the 1920s about the magic of communication. We knew at that point this collaborative project was certainly on the right track.
Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.
These videos are about twice as long as they need to be in terms of conveying the relevant data, but these looks inside General Motors’ Rapid Prototyping Labs are worth a gander. Anyone who’s worked in an ID firm where you had to e-mail the CADs out to the modelshop and sit on your hands for two days can’t help but feel envious at seeing their onsite stereolithography and selective laser sintering machines.
The editors have blurred out some of what’s on the designers’ monitors and some of the larger physical parts, as GM has apparently worked out a proprietary method for joining RP parts together, like when they need to produce something too big for the machine and have to bang it out in sections. Still, you at least get a good look at the process:
Early photography was used for one thing: To freeze time. You’ve probably heard the story of how in 1872, California Governor Leland Stanford hired early photographer Eadweard Muybridge to capture still shots of a galloping horse to settle the bet of whether all four feet would ever be simultaneously in the air.
Nowadays we increasingly blend photography into time-lapse footage, with a goal opposite to freezing time: We try to blend discrete moments into fast-forwarded video, greatly increasing the speeds at which an event appears to unfold. In 30 YouTube seconds puppies turn five years older, dieters get skinnier, you go through a season’s worth of outfits. As it once titillated 19th-Century folk to see something in motion frozen still, we now get a kick of seeing frozen moments advanced into rapid motion.
Here are three of the most recent time-lapse vids to catch my eye, in order of grandeur:
Triple Aught Design’s messenger bag for the office mercenary
Blending modern technology with functional design, Triple Aught Design makes high-performance gear durable enough for the mountains and sophisticated enough for the city. Their latest addition, the Multicam Dispatch Bag is suited for everyday carry in either environment. Built with 1000 Denier Invista Cordura nylon—which is nearly impossible to rip or tear—and Military-Spec ITW Nexus fasteners and YKK nylon coil zippers, you can guarantee the dispatch can make it through hell and back.
Whether you’re heading to the office or traveling farther from home, it’s essential to have your valuables close at hand. With the Dispatches’ thirteen pockets and plentiful accessory slots your phone, keys, pen/pad or passport are all kept just under the main closer flap and just a few clasps away. Inside the 800 cubic inches of storage you’ll find also find a separate, detachable laptop compartment that’ll fit most 15″ laptops. The flap is tailored to cover the corners of the bag keeping dirt, rain and sticky fingers out. There are also a couple hidden pockets for super safekeeping.
At 17″ wide x 12″ high x 4″ deep, the bag is slightly on the larger size, definitely hefty enough to lug some extra gear, but small enough to not feel empty with just a computer and spare jacket. I’ve been testing the bag for the last week and have been really impressed with its versatility. Available in a limited run dropping today, look to Triple Aught Design online where the Multicam Dispatch sells for $250.
2.5 Weeks + 1000 Miles + 4 States + Countless Encounters. Follow Cindy Gilbert, program director for the Sustainable Design program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, as she bikes from Montana to Minneapolis to raise awareness about sustainability challenges and opportunities in the region while raising need-based scholarship money for students.
Sustainability: the ability to sustain. The capacity to endure. To maintain, regenerate, energize, restore, recoup, go on, last, make it, survive.
I know that I couldn’t have even considered sustaining the planning and pedaling required to Ride the Talk without the unwavering support of my unsung heroes. But what I didn’t realize is how much of my ability to endure, motivate, inspire and engage would be undeniably linked to my growing community of new supporters. Most of these folks don’t know me from a hole in the ground, they may have never even heard of MCAD, or sustainable design for that matter, but somehow they want to “ride the talk” right along with me.
These people have done more than open their wallets to help the future students of MCAD’s sustainable design program, they open their hearts and minds to the cause, to the potential, to the dream. Together we have created a positive feedback loop: one that energizes and inspires the other. We immediately bond and create another connection in the web of the expanding community. We need each other in an un-needy way. We help each other by sharing and caring.
These everyday heroes are unassuming and come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, ethnicities, job descriptions and vehicular choices but they are cut from the same cloth in a few defining ways: 1) they are give spontaneously, generously and unconditionally, 2) they are unflaggingly positive and 3) they’re magnetic. Number three might seem a tad hokey but what I mean is that there is a sense that they drew me to find them—like they were waiting for me to show up so that they could lend me their support.
Here is an all-star lineup in order of appearance:
Next month Dewi Lewis publishes a particularly beautiful book: the collected works of photographer, John Blakemore…
Currently exhibiting work at the Hoopers Gallery in London, Blakemore is known for his darkly detailed still lives.
As a bookmaker and craftsman printer, Blakemore’s hands-on approach seems to add a tactile richness to his photography. At the same time, his landscapes often have an ethereal quality which makes them seem as if they’re of another realm entirely. Either way, his work offers up enchanting visions of the natural world.
John Blakemore: Photographs 1955-2010 contains over 280 photographs, is published as a clothbound hardback (£45), and available from Dewi Lewis.
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