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Dezeen Wire: Vienna Design Week is underway and Dezeen are covering the festival live from Vienna. Highlights include a machine that draws Spirograph-style patterns in quartz sand by Philippe Malouin, a collaboration between Tomas Alonso and one of the city’s oldest silver companies and a wooden treehouse by Konstantin Schmolzer that’s constructed alongside the vertical garden inside Jean Nouvel’s Sofitel hotel. 

Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has been awarded the National Design Prize 2011 for product design and presents a chair with a seat suspended at the centre of a cubic oak frame. Watch a movie about it’s manufacture on Dezeen Screen.

Speakers at a series of talks on the theme of Change includes writer and critic Sophie Lovell, founder of Cape Town media company Interactive Africa Ravi Naidoo, London designers Doshi Levien and Berlin designer Jerszy Seymour.

You can watch a preview movie on Dezeen Screen and check out photos of the opening in our album on Facebook.

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Dezeen Space: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today

The Brick Replacement Service produces bricks from the seeds of wildflowers, trees, grasses and herbs packed into clay and soil.

The bricks fit into holes in existing walls, or can be used to build new structures. As the seeds grow, an array of plant life sprouts from each block.

The bricks are available to buy from Dezeen space until 16 October.

Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space. See the full lineup for Dezeen Platform here. There’s more about Dezeen Space here.

Photography is by Zahra Shahabi.

Dezeen Space

17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN

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Uniqlo teams up with local events all over NYC

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To compliment the changing foliage this fall in NYC, a number of street festivals and other events popping up around the city reflect the spirit of transience and take advantage of the seasonal temperate climate. From a reinvented triathalon to a Farmer’s Market on steroids, there’s no better way to experience the culture of the city than showcased in neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. In support of the events, Uniqlo sponsorship includes pop-up stores in the form of cubes throughout the city. These temporary mini-boxes offer a selection of the brand’s line, with contents tailored to the spirit of the event. Thanks to design by our pals HWKN, the odd white structures function like little architectural invaders in the cityscape too, whether set against a backdrop of densely-packed buildings or adding an ethereal glowing cube to the Meatpacking District.

Past events have included the DUMBO Arts Festival and Central Park Summerfest. Currently, you can check out the Uniqlo Shop-in-Shop (exclusively vending artist-designed tees) at the MoMA Design Store until 4 October 2011. Other events are scattered around the city throughout the weekend. Food Network’s NYC Food and Wine festival started yesterday and runs through Sunday over at Pier 57.

The New Yorker Festival is also on this weekend with a great lineup of speakers, including Richard Dawkins, The Scissor Sisters and Alain Ducasse. This Sunday, Atlantic Antic will take over four neighborhoods in Brooklyn along Atlantic Avenue with live music and local artisans.

To find out more about the individual events, times and locations visit our new Local page devoted to helping you make the most of this NYC fall.

Why and how does color motivate, trouble, persuade, and feed our spirits? How does Pantone decide upon the “color of the year” and does it involve alcohol—a mimosa, say, or a Bombay Sapphire martini—and/or a dartboard? Why do we feel giddy when walking by the Farrow & Ball emporium that recently opened a few blocks from UnBeige HQ (hint: paint colors like “Dead Salmon,” “Mouse’s Back,” and “Clunch”)? Answers to these questions and many more are on the agenda at Print magazine’s first ever Color Conference, a three-day confab that kicks off on Tuesday at the Art Directors Club in New York. Among the creative thinkers and experts in visual culture scheduled to “reveal their passion for color, their processes, and their ideas on how color connects us all” are Leatrice Eiseman of the Pantone Color Institute, Pentagram’s Eddie Opara, and Cooper-Hewitt director Bill Moggridge, whose tireless engagement with the design community leads us to believe that he has managed to transform his ground-breaking GRiD Compass laptop into some sort of time machine that allows him to be in many places at once. Sign up for the conference here and enter code UNBEIGEPCC to save $50 on the $595 registration fee. And whatever you do, don’t wear beige.

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Silas Beebe (left) and Rob Tsunehiro; photo courtesy of Oregon Manifest

At risk of beating the topic to death, at least one of the 33 entries in the 2011 Oregon Manifest has a portfolio on Coroflot, and it just happens to be second place winner Silas Beebe, who collaborated with framebuilder Rob Tsunehiro on a refined city bike with Portland flavor.

The freelance Senior Industrial Designer explains his background and inspiration:

As a fifth generation Oregonian, I want to make this bike a tribute to the importance of local craft and practicality.

I want to use Oregon materials as much as possible: local leather; Douglas Fir, the Oregon state tree, from family timber land; components from local companies like Blaq Bags and Chris King; and, of course, the design and build talent of our team.

Café Classic Ideation: This design combines some of the best features of both classic American cruisers and European city bikes, but improves upon them with thoughtful and practical integration of cargo and passenger capacity.

From a purely aesthetic perspective, the bike simply has classic lines and details alongside upscale upholstery; the custom reflective paint has a practical purpose as well.

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