No queste non potevo non segnalarvele. Ovviamente in release solo sui mercati giappo verso ottobre, dedicata al personaggio di Minnie (la girl di Topolino), tomaia in peluche e lacci ispirati al porta capelli a pois.
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Dezeen Space: Florian Schmid presents his Stitching Concrete Project at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform in Dezeen Space today.
The Munich-based industrial designer’s chairs were published on Dezeen in August.
The project uses the material Concrete Canvas, which was featured on Dezeen in 2009.
Schmid folds the Concrete Canvas and stitches the edges together with brightly coloured thread, then supports it on a wooden mould while it’s drenched in water and allowed to harden.
The stools can be used indoors or outdoors. The material is durable against UV, fireproofed and water resistant.
Schmid developed the project while studying at the Hochschule München in Germany.
For more information about the design, testing and construction process see our published story about Florian’s chairs.
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.
Dezeen Space
17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm
54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN
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| Hanil Visitors Center and Guest House by BCHO | FattyShell (v.01) by Sturgeon, Holzwartand Raczkowski | Concrete Cloth by Concrete Canvas |
Speaking of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as we were in that last post, but departing in this having absolutely nothing to do with fashion, an ongoing, vicious battle continues to rage just outside the museum’s front steps. You might recall that said war rose to more recent public prominence two years back, when the Met started asking the city to remove hot dog vendors and/or given them $1000 tickets for not being in their sanctioned spaces. At the time, the museum argued that the food carts were blocking visitors from entering, though most everyone (including us) translated that into the museum wanting less traffic for the vendors and more traffic buying food in their cafes. Those various pushes made way for Cake & Shake, a multi-cart operation run by chefs Gina Ojile and Derek Hunt, to slide in last summer, paying somewhere in the $100,000+ range per year for the prime real estate. Somehow, despite all that turmoil over the past couple of years, things seemed relatively calm…until recently. The NY Times has filed this great report on the moving in of carts run by military veterans, three new ones at the time of the story’s publication. The rub is that, due to a NY law, veterans don’t have to pay the city’s high fees to act as street vendors. This seemed to work fine for one of long-serving carts, but now others have swept in, with dubious uses of the vets, one of whom the paper observed taking a nap while someone else manned the cart. Dubbed “rent-a-vet” by the other, established vendors, it’s supposed that cart owners are hiring veterans to simply sit alongside the stands, thus technically fulfilling the legal requirement, saving the owners a bundle in fees, and being able to move in on choice plots of land. It’s a great story and we’re sure, like before, that this will all get mildly ugly for a while, all the while providing even more great reading.
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London Design Festival 2011: Australian label Matilda presented products and furniture by 30 designers including a timber and aluminium pendant light by Kate Stokes (above) at designjunction last week.
Stephanie Armchair by Khai Liew
Matilda presents work by designers based in Australia or living in London to an international audience.
Tolix armchair slipcover by Henry Wilson
New products launched at the show included a new chair in white oak and cow hide by South Australian craftsman Khai Liew.
Dove Stools by Brian Steendyk
Matilda also designed a pop up café for the space featuring furniture by Helen Kountouris.
Filament Table by David Pidcock
See more Designjunction coverage here and all of our London Design Festival stories here.
Bronze Table by Barbera Design
Here is some more information from Matilda:
Matilda unveils 30 new Australian designers at London Design Festival 2011.
Salad Servers by John Quan for Jam Factory
Australian design and the country’s enviable lifestyle form the hub of the inaugural designjunction at London Design Festival this year, with Matilda 2011 launching works by 30 of Australia’s best established and emerging designers, as well as its first pop-up Matilda Café. This expansive country’s infinite space, sky and sea give rise to simple, fresh and sophisticated design as yet unseen in Europe.
Autumn Stools by Takeshi Lue
Matilda will re-locate after the Festival with a residency at SCIN Gallery – the new materials and architecture showroom in Old Street which is launching during the Festival.
Genie Teapot by Workshopped
Works transferring to the gallery include a unique carbon and wood bicycle from Gary Galego, a bronze table by Barbera Design and a clever, leather armchair cover for the classic Tolix chair by Henry Wilson. The 23-year-old Sydneysider, fresh from the Design Academy Eindhoven and Rhode Island School of Design, reinterprets design classics such as the iconic Angelpoise lamp that Wilson has transformed into a low energy version. He will also be building benches for the Café with his innovative brackets that transform standard store-bought timber into tables, seating and shelving.
Clasp Chair by Surya Graf
For the first time, Matilda will also be bringing the best of Australia’s lifestyle to the Festival with Matilda Café, the centre piece of which is a re-purposed bar from Soho House and with clever cardboard tables and stools by Paper Tiger Products – which are perfect for pop-up spaces. Design audiences can re-energise with formidable flat whites, lamingtons (the ubiquitous national fete-stall cake), Coopers beer and boutique Australian wine.
Carousel Table by Adam Goodrum
Three expats living in London lead the exhibition – internationally renowned Tasmanian Brodie Neill (represented by the Apartment Gallery); Marcel Sigel, former Senior Designer at Tom Dixon and Charles Trevelyan, with a new, accessible version of his sold-out, limited edition Titanic Lamp.
Spun Lights by Justin and Glenn Lamont for LifeSpaceJourney
Other products from Matilda include the Coco Pendant by Kate Stokes, a 28-year-old who launched the brand Coco Flip less than a year ago. The pendant, which is highly successful in Australia, is her first ever product and one of several designs Matilda is manufacturing locally, forming part of Matilda’s mission to bring the best of Australia’s lifestyle to Europe, whilst being firmly committed to ‘made in Britain’.
E Turn Bench by Brodie Neill
Another first for Matilda is an international launch of a brand new work by South Australian master craftsman, Khai Liew. Liew, who was named in Wallpaper* magazine’s global top 200 and has work on display at the Design Museum, will unveil Stephanie, an exquisite armchair made from American white oak and cow hide.
Lace light by Bernabeifreeman
Khai Liew’s protégé Takeshi Iue presents the Autumn stool – a simplified wooden stacking stool – and Stefan Lie reinterprets a quintessentially English tradition with his Genie teapot for Workshopped. Young design duo Daniel Emma – winner of the Promising Talent Award at last year’s 100% Design – launch four new items in their Desk Objects range.
Titanic by Charles Trevelyan
Matilda will also show work by Perth maven Jon Goulder, who produces hand crafted works of a quality that no machine could come near, such as his exceptional Amore Mio chair.
Illumini by Karen Cuningham & Mandi King for Jam Factory
Other outstanding products include Carousel table by Adam Goodrum (famed for his Stitch chair for Cappellini) from Galerie Gosserez in Paris, and Adelaide’s Jam Factory will be showing, among others, works by illumini – the brainchild of Karen Cunningham and Amanda King – winners of the 2010 Bombay Sapphire People’s Choice Award.
Wall Brooch by Marcel Sigel
Other designers in the showcase are: LifeSpaceJourney – Spun Series of table, stools and lights by opthamologist and designer Justin Lamont. Surya Graf – Clasp Series, Stylish and functional café furniture. Toby Horrocks – Flatform, angular shelving cleverly created from cardboard. bernabeifreeman – High profile lighting design duo showcasing Lace and Leaf lighting. Yellow Diva – British-Australian upholstery experts with their W and M series sofas and chairs.
WS1 by Yellow Diva
Designers returning from the 2010 Matilda LDF showcase include cloth, Luxxbox and Brian Steendyk.
Paper Tiger Stool by Antony Dann
Festival goers and the general public alike will be able to see Brian Steendyk’s modular Coral seating in action outside the Southbank Centre Shop opposite the entrance to Royal Festival Hall and Brodie Neill’s seductive E-turn bench is in the window of Wieden + Kennedy, in Hanbury Street, between Spitalfields Market and Brick Lane.
MC1 by David Walley for Yellow Diva
Matilda is made possible by Australian State Governments – Arts New South Wales, South Australia’s Integrated Design Commission and Arts Queensland. With additional support from the Australian High Commission in London.
Cushions by Julie Paterson for Cloth Fabric
Matilda Café is sponsored by Verdigris (pewter bar) and Coopers Beer and signage is provided by Doublet.
Carbon Wood bicycle by Gary Galego
Jenni Carbins – Matilda Founder
Sake Cups by Peter Biddulph for Ceramic Design
An Australian living in London for the past six years, Jenni Carbins is the former Director of Marketing at Southbank Centre. In Australia, she ran a marketing communications consultancy with clients including Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney Biennale and Sydney Olympic Park.
Flatform Shelf by Toby Horrocks
Jenni Carbins founded Matilda with the aim tapping into Australia’s design talent and bringing the best of the nation’s lifestyle to the world. Matilda aims to have as many products as possible manufactured locally – either in the UK or Europe – while maintaining the freshness of Australian design. The company launched with a pilot showcase as part of London Design Festival 2010.
1984 Fish Bowl by Workshopped
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| Furniture by Faudet-Harrison | COD by Rami Tareef | NSEPS by Silo |
Quello dei Teknosauri è un mestiere difficile: devono confrontarsi con clienti ignoranti e capricciosi, relazionarsi con tecnici che parlano lingue diverse dalla loro, obbedire a un capo brutale a cui non si può mai dire di no, e subire pure le ironie di account e segretarie. Ma chi sono i personaggi che danno vita a Teknosauri.aC? Sono grafici e tecnici tipografici che lavorano in studi di comunicazione o “service” (parola terribile usata per definire tante, troppe professioni diverse tra loro). Molti di loro sono lettori di Elmanco e non potranno che farsi delle grasse risate leggendo la web strip, creata dal grafico e fumettaro Davide “DaZa” Zamberlan.
Le vignette di Teknosauri.aC sono divertentissime, e sempre sul pezzo, molto di queste (contrassegnate con il bollino “100% True”) sono una trascrizione di dialoghi realmente accaduti nei luoghi di lavoro. D’altronde, come si suole dire, la realtà può superare anche la più incredibile delle fantasie…
Io ho scoperto la web strip su Draft, un portale italiano dedicato a grafica pubblicitaria e comunicazione, che ospita regolarmente il fumetto.
Teknosauri.aC è online dal 2009, e viene aggiornato ogni lunedì con una nuova striscia. In questo articolo ne ho pubblicate un bel po’, ma vale la pena di sfogliare il sito in lungo in largo e leggere tutte quelle contenute nell’archivio. Se possiedi un iPad ti consiglio di scaricare l’applicazione dedicata, che contiene anche qualche simpatico extra.
Non conosco gli altri lavori di Davide Zamberlan, ma Teknosauri.aC è un gran bel biglietto da visita; “in gioventù” ero un avido consumatore di fumetti e so riconoscere un prodotto fatto da chi conosce bene le regole del mestiere.
La scelta di ambientare la strip nel periodo “giurassico” riversa una bella dose di ironia su un mondo che DEVE sempre essere giovane, dinamico ed aggiornato tecnologicamente. Un Mondo, le cui abitudini e debolezze, sono vissute da Davide quotidianamente.
Se la tua professione è invece quella di architetto, devi assolutamente leggere le strip di Arch. Maaik!
It appears that the masses have gotten their way, so far as “masses” refers to “people in London.” As we wrote about back at the start of the month, several grassroots movements had sprung up following the closure of the Met‘s record-setting Alexander McQueen exhibition, calling for it to start touring. At that time, there were rumors that it might actually happen, with a first stop possibly at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Now it appears that’s inching closer to reality. The Art Newspaper reports that the V&A is in talks with McQueen’s company (owned by Gucci), with new director of the museum, Martin Roth, mightily pushing to try and make it happen. Here’s a bit:
All options are being explored, even the idea of putting it on at another location if space is unavailable in South Kensington. On Roth’s first day at work in September he began contacting the key players. Although nothing has yet been arranged, he is determined to press ahead.
However, Gucci has told the paper that they’ve been in talks with several organizations in London about a show, but nothing has been decided of yet. Still, that comment seems to indicate that the move to the UK is more than likely imminent, at the V&A or otherwise. We’d imagine that every museum in London must at least be thinking about trying to land it, considering what a smash success it was in New York, and McQueen being a native of the city.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
It appears that the masses have gotten their way, so far as “masses” refers to “people in London.” As we wrote about back at the start of the month, several grassroots movements had sprung up following the closure of the Met‘s record-setting Alexander McQueen exhibition, calling for it to start touring. At that time, there were rumors that it might actually happen, with a first stop possibly at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Now it appears that’s inching closer to reality. The Art Newspaper reports that the V&A is in talks with McQueen’s company (owned by Gucci), with new director of the museum, Martin Roth, mightily pushing to try and make it happen. Here’s a bit:
All options are being explored, even the idea of putting it on at another location if space is unavailable in South Kensington. On Roth’s first day at work in September he began contacting the key players. Although nothing has yet been arranged, he is determined to press ahead.
However, Gucci has told the paper that they’ve been in talks with several organizations in London about a show, but nothing has been decided of yet. Still, that comment seems to indicate that the move to the UK is more than likely imminent, at the V&A or otherwise. We’d imagine that every museum in London must at least be thinking about trying to land it, considering what a smash success it was in New York, and McQueen being a native of the city.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
The circular roof of a metro station near Copenhagen looms over sunken platforms like a spotty UFO.
The station, designed by Swedish studio Metro Arkitekter, is located near to the airport on the route to the city centre.
The 52 spots that perforate the round concrete roof are skylights that filter daylight through to the two platforms below.
Narrow steel columns elevate the 45 metre-wide roof from behind curved glass partitions, which define the station’s perimeter.
At the base of these partitions, a curved concrete bench with teak edges circles the station.
A metro station combined with a park was also featured on Dezeen recently – see the story here and see more stories about railway stations here.
Photography is by Rafael Palomo.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
Station Hyllie
Hyllie is the first station you reach when travelling by train from Copenhagen’s Kastrup airport and is therefore Malmö’s gateway to Copenhagen. This is no traditional station building – we have been working with other elements instead. The large round roof (diameter 45 m) – lit from below using uplights – hovers like a UFO above the station entrance. The roof is perforated by 52 round lantern lights which allow daylight to penetrate right down to the platforms, thereby eliminating any sense of an underground station. Daylight and lines of sight have acted as important parameters for creating a safe environment. The station is a regional and local train station with four tracks and two platforms. Bartenbach LichtLabor of Innsbruck are responsible for the lighting concept. The artistic decoration has been carried out by Kristina Matusch of Malmö.
Address: Hyllie Torg, Malmö
Architect: Metro Arkitekter AB through Claes R Janson (resp), Ola Arnholm (project architect), Carl Kylberg, Anna-Karin Joelsson (HL), Jörgen Åkerlund.
Other consultants: ÅF/ Sweco, Tyrens, Sweco
Constructor: Jernhusen AB
Building contractor: NCC
Area: 10 000 sqm
Year: 2010
Material used: stainless steel structure, fiber concrete, fiber cement, concrete, glass, teak details and railings
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| Metro Station by Rstudio | Metro Station by Karim Rashid | Subway Station by AL_A and Anish Kapoor |
Renowned Seattle and NYC brands team up for a classic waxed parka just in time for fall
It’s hard to know which of the deluge of fall collaborations are worth your time and attention, but when DQM is involved we tend to take notice. Coming just two weeks after the collaborative Vans DQM General store opened, New York City’s heralded streetwear purveyor has teamed up for the second time with Crescent Down Works to release a waxed parka just in time for colder temperatures.
Made in Pacific Northwest, the waxed cotton jacket is built to withstand the rain no matter where it’s falling. Leather reinforced buttons and custom DQM labeling accent the classically subdued design. Available in a black with an orange liner and in tan with navy, the parka runs $430. It sells exclusively at Vans DQM General in NYC and, starting this Monday 3 October 2011, online in limited numbers as well.
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