Extra Extra!

Earlier this summer we featured Jeremy Hutchison’s Err art project on the CR blog, which invited factory workers to create ‘incorrect’ versions of the products they make every day. For his latest project, Extra Extra, Hutchison is requesting you to join in, by sharing headlines from your life that may eventually be turned into real newspaper sandwich boards…

To take part in the project, you simply have to share your news via the Extra Extra Facebook page (here). Hutchison will then pass selected headlines onto a signwriter for the Evening Standard who will turn them into official ES posters. The resulting sandwich boards will then be displayed at the Southbank Centre in London on the last weekend of August (27-28th), as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations.

“We’re the third biggest nation of Twitter users,” says Hutchison. “The YouTube slogan ‘broadcast yourself’ has become the mantra of a British generation. Everyone’s a journalist, and everything’s news. So, what if you clashed the traditional language of a centralised news source with the deregulated mayhem of online chatter?”

Here are some example boards that Hutchison has mocked up. So far on the Facebook page, people are sharing everything from the political – “Jo Avery thinks the train far rises suck” – to the banal – “Julia Vogl is contemplating another slice of pie”. Join in the fun here.

See more of Hutchison’s work at jeremyhutchison.com.

 

CR in Print

Don’t miss out – there’s nothing like CR in print. Our August Summer Reading issue contains our pick of some of our favourite writing on advertising, illustration and graphic design as well as a profile of Marion Deuchars plus pieces on the Vorticists, Total Design, LA Noire and much more.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year hereand save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine and get Monograph.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a:b:i:r Architects and Peter Lewis

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

UK studio a:b:i:r Architects have redesigned the traditional English beach hut to be accessible for wheelchair users.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Four separate huts are contained inside a single building on the seafront in Bournemouth.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Brightly coloured stripes of yellow, green and blue are painted onto plywood fins that wrap the seaside cabins.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Ramps give access to the huts from the promenade, while a sloping pathway provides a route onto the beach.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

A shared drinking water fountain is located between the two pairs of cabins, which are divided internally by removable partitions.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

An electrical charging point for mobility scooters is provided nearby, as are accessible toilets.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Design consultant Peter Lewis collaborated with the architects on the competition-winning design.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Other British seaside projects from the Dezeen archive include a cafe that resembles a rock and a 324 metre-long seafront bench.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Photography is by Richard Rowland.

Here are some more details from the architects:


Brighton architects deliver UK’s first accessible beach huts

New accessible beach huts designed by a:b:i:r architects and Peter Lewis will be unveiled later this month in Boscombe (Bournemouth) as the UK’s first designed specifically for people with disabilities.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

‘The Seagull and the Windbreak’, which draws upon traditional seaside imagery of a line drawn seagull and multi coloured stripes of the traditional windbreak, beat off worldwide competition from 173 international entries. Voted for by the public, disabled beach users and a panel of seven expert judges, the buildings combine ergonomics with contemporary design. Funded with a grant from the Commission for Architecture & Built Environment (CABE) the Boscombe beach huts are designed to promote inclusion, health and wellbeing.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Facilities include high colour contrast surfaces and flooring to assist the visually impaired, dual height kitchen units with a gas stove and a communal outside area with a fresh water fountain. An electric charging point for mobility scooters is also available as well as improved accessible toilets, parking and a wooden beach trackway to enable easy access onto the beach. The four huts, designed as two pairs with retractable partition walls for increased flexibility, each accommodate up to four wheelchair users.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

a:b:i:r architects, who are developing a reputation for seaside architecture following the award winning £1million refurbishment of the Brighton ‘Birdcage’ Bandstand, assembled a team which included Eastbourne based contractor Push Studios to deliver the project. The huts were constructed under factory conditions and delivered to site for quick installation.

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

Overlooking Bournemouth’s award-winning sandy beaches demand is high for the Dorset seaside retreats; each one is already fully booked. Linda Nelson from Bournemouth was quick to rent a hut for the entire season. She said: “The new beach huts are brilliant. Having been involved in the development and consultation process it is great to be able to reap the benefits. I had trouble getting in and around the old beach huts and was constantly worried about falling over. These new huts take away all those old problems; they are a tremendous asset for the area and a fantastic facility for disabled people.”

Boscombe Beach Huts by a b i r Architects and Peter Lewis

The Bournemouth suburb’s visitor numbers have soared following £13.5 million regeneration works and in 2010 Boscombe Pier was crowned Pier of the Year by the National Piers Society. The regeneration scheme has since won a number of national awards for regeneration including the Local Government Chronicle regeneration project of the year award. Andrew Emery, Boscombe Sea Change Project Manager for Bournemouth Borough Council, says the resort’s vision is ambitious but simple: “Continuing with the theme of regeneration in the vibrant Boscombe area the new huts incorporate high quality design, visual flair and unique function. We believe that they will become iconic symbols of the continuing renaissance of the British seaside resort and will open up our award-winning seafront area to new visitors.”

Construction team Architect: a:b:i:r architects
Collaborator Designer: Peter Lewis
Structural Engineers: IE Structural Engineers
Design & Build Contractor: Push Studios
Materials: Steel framed structure, Trespa board & plywood infill, Plywood fins finished with high performance, marine grade paine, Single ply membrane roof


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Hapshash takes a trip back to London

Julie Felix at the Albert Hall silkscreen, April 1968, (shown left); The Soft Machine Turns On (right)

Artist Nigel Waymouth‘s mind expanding poster work of the 1960s is set to fill the Idea Generation Gallery in the retrospective, Hapshash Takes A Trip, in London next month

Waymouth formed the creative partnership, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, with fellow designer Michael English and the studio went on to create some of the high points of British psychedelia in their work for events and concerts, in particular for the famous UFO Club in London.

5th Dimension silkscreen, 1967 (left); Save Earth Now silkscreen, 1967 (right)

The pair met in 1966 when both were involved in creating murals for shops. English was working on the shopfront of Hung On You, while Waymouth was creating the exterior art for his boutique Granny Takes A Trip, on London’s Kings Road, which he had opened with artists John Pearse and Sheila Cohen.

A year later Hapshash was formed.

The Who – I Can See for Miles, 1967

Joe Boyd, owner of the UFO Club, acknowledged the example being set in San Francisco where clubs and venues would commission artists to make posters for upcoming gigs; the screenprints were also frequently given away to audience members on the night.

The Move at the Marquee Club in London silkscreen

Many of the posters were designed to be largely illegible to those not prepared to stand and read them – thus the artists could get away with including explicit elements, subversive codes and messages.

This of course carried within it an implicit feature of the modern rock poster: if you can’t decipher it, it’s probably not for you.

Tomorrow: My White Bicycles silkscreen, 1967 (left); Crazy World of Arthur Brown silkscreen, 1967 (right)

The Idea Generation show, entitled Hapshash Takes A Trip, will incorporate several pieces from Waymouth’s own archives and, in addition to the Hapshash posters, will feature original acetates, drawings, album covers, photographs and mementos.

The exhibition opens on September 9 and runs until October 2 at the Idea Generation Gallery, 11 Chance Street, London E2 7JB. More at ideageneration.co.uk.

Prasad Boradkar’s "Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects"

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Two months ago, Prasad Boradkar quietly released Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects, a book on design and design studies that seeks to connect objects and theories.

When and why did the turntable morph from playback device to musical instrument? Why have mobile phones evolved changeable skins? How many meanings can one attach to such mundane things as tennis balls? The answers to such questions illustrate this provocative book, which examines the cultural meanings of things and the role of designers in their design and production.

Designing Things provides the reader with a map of the rapidly changing field of design studies, a subject which now draws on a diverse range of theories and methodologies—from philosophy and visual culture, to anthropology and material culture, to media and cultural studies. With clear explanations of key concepts—such as form language, planned obsolescence, object fetishism, product semantics, consumer value and user needs—overviews of theoretical foundations and case studies of historical and contemporary objects, Designing Things looks behind-the-scenes and beneath-the-surface at some of our most familiar and iconic objects.

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Karmi Tea Canister

Stunning simplicity in a container highlighting the beauty of vertically-cut wood

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Deceptively simple looking, a single Karmi tea canister can take artisans over a year to complete. Manufacturer Syosen, based in Yamanaka (a region known as much for its traditional lacquerware, as for its natural thermal baths), crafts their products following a half-century-old lathing technique. Carving a perfectly-rounded cup or bowl involves precisely thinning the wood, followed by several rounds of lacquering (clear in this case) and extended drying times to ensure a bone-dry core. The technique leaves the natural beauty of the vertically-cut wood grain exposed, creating a muddled elongated effect.

The extensive Yamanaka process came to rise during the Edo period along with the art of the tea ceremony thanks to the area’s bohemian inhabitants (including the father of haiku Basho Matsuo), drawn there by the hot springs. The Syosen canister even takes its name from the Basho principle of haiku that mandates “only local.”

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All this heritage makes for an heirloom-quality vessel representing some of the best principles of Japanese product design. Carved with perfectly-spaced, finely-engraved rings, the thermos-like container will stand up to everyday use while preserving the contents within. The result of the intensive processes and highly-engineered lid, interior air quality keeps loose tea and spices (or anything needing a fresh and dry space) at the ready.

The full range of Karmi tea canisters shown above can be seen at the Syosen website. Family-run “eco boutique” Beklina sells the light wood edition for $220.


Danny Macaskill – Industrial Revolutions

Après l’excellente démonstration sur la vidéo Way Back Home, voici le nouvel exploit de Danny MacAskill spécialiste en freestyle – trial. Intitulée “Industrial Revolutions”, cette vidéo présente ses tricks et cascades les plus étonnantes, le tout en pleine zone industrielle abandonnée.



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Dezeen Screen: interview with Kwangho Lee

Tales of the Hunt: Kwangho Lee

Dezeen Screen: in this movie by Brussels gallerist Victor Hunt, Korean designer Kwangho Lee explains how growing up on a farm outside Seoul has influenced his work. Watch the movie »

Wall Hooks by Pedersen + Lennard

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It’s such a simple design, but I’m really digging these wall hooks by Cape-Town-based design firm Pedersen + Lennard. Product details are nonexistent on their site, but it looks to be a piece of steel that was stamped out, laser-cut and perhaps powder coated after the two flanges were bent outwards to accommodate the wooden dowel.

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The design language isn’t like any I’ve seen. Writes Pedersen + Lennard,

Our fabrication process is a combination of hand-made and machine-made elements which all come together in our Salt River workshop…. [Our work reflects] our fascination with South African craft and the clean aesthetic of our Scandinavian forefathers.

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The wall hooks come in one-hook, nine-hook and soon three-hook varieties.

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Unitasker Wednesday: CorkHaus

All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!

Who’s in the haus? Cork is in the haus!

I’m usually gung-ho about organizing devices. And, the CorkHaus does keep wine corks orderly and off your kitchen cabinet top. I’m more bothered by the idea of keeping old wine corks at all. Unless you’re part of the super elite who regularly purchases $10,000 bottles of wine, do you actually need proof that you drank some alcohol? Do you keep mementos of every soda, beer, or cup of water you consume?

Oh wait, maybe it’s like a game of Connect Four?! Now I get it. You pound back a bottle of wine to play a cork. Interesting …

Instead of hoarding wine corks, consider recycling the ones you already have and getting a Wine Journal that allows you to write information about wine, the date a bottle was consumed, and has room to include a picture of you and your friends drinking it or a label. The whole thing can fit in your pocket, and it’s much more valuable information than a winery stamp on a piece of cork. Plus, you can take it with you the next time you go wine shopping to remind you what wines you like, and what ones you definitely don’t. Pulling the CorkHaus off the wall each time you head to the store seems a little cumbersome.

Thanks to reader K who sent us the link to this wine-cork prison unitasker.

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Da Feng’s Project Flake Documentation

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Freelance designer and futurist Da Feng has been getting a lot of blog buzz for his Project Flake, a concept car with a mutable skin. Most of the press has been focused on his final renders, but luckily for us ID heads he’s got thorough documentation of the entire project, starting with the idea’s genesis, up on his blog. Feng was inspired by everything from cigarette ashes to Pixar’s Cars and, yes, Transformers.

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