The Cloud Collective a pensé cette installation temporaire “Poetic Morphology”. Réalisée à La Fabrique, une ancienne usine de textile à Paris, cette création a été pensée dans le cadre du Festival international de l’affiche et du graphisme de Chaumont.
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Add a little color to the workplace with a new online Mecca of office supplies
If you’ve reached the stage of adulthood where you pay for office supplies, the candy-colored hues and clean design of just-launched Poppin is a “cheap and cheerful” choice. Jazzed-up desk-cessories include bright yellow staplers, pretty pink tape dispensers (both $8) and almost any color of ballpoint pen imaginable.
Among the surplus of clipboards, scissors and tape, a few items really stand out for their effective design. The chunky plastic ruler’s easy-to-read type ($5) is as great for grade-schoolers as it is for aging adults, and the glass dry-erase board ($695) adds a touch of class to conference rooms. Even glue ($2) gets the Poppin makeover, turning the DIY necessity into a sleek desk item.
But Poppin is more than a full range of better-designed office supplies. The brand, cofounded by Ken Seiff (known for starting Bluefly), makes “looking at, buying and using office supplies an extraordinary experience” by making their site user-friendly—and the only way to buy their products. Easy to navigate, organized by category, color or by bundle, the design makes re-ordering a snap too. Simply sign up to store shipping addresses, view past orders and save your account information.
From file folders to a forthcoming furniture collection, whether for your cube or dorm, Poppin gives the stale work scene a colorful boost.
Just as the past decade has seen the rapid rise of the bicycle as a viable mode of transportation in American cities, so too has the Bicycle Film Festival (BFF for short) grown from a grassroots production to one of the most anticipated annual urban cycling events in over two dozen cities worldwide.
Herds of bicycle enthusiasts from around the world will flock to New York City this June for the Bicycle Film Festival’s Eleventh year in NY, to celebrate the world’s best invention: the bicycle.
We are proud to announce the Bicycle Film Festival’s 11th year in New York City, where the BFF was born! … From its roots in New York City, the BFF has grown into a multi-faceted, global event that will travel to over 25 cities this year, from Milan to Tokyo, Minneapolis to Sydney.
In 2001, Founding Director Brendt Barbur, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival after being hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. He was inspired to turn this negative experience into a positive one, and created a festival that celebrates the bicycle through music, art, and film. The festival merges many creative communities, including fashion, music and art, as well as various bicycling communities—road cycling, mountain biking, fixed gear, BMX, cyclocross—over a shared passion for bike riding.
“NY is one of the greatest bicycle cities in the world” says Brendt Barbur. “We are very happy to bring the BFF back home.”
The film highlight is the world premiere of Racing Towards Red Hook, Jessica Scott & Hyde Harper’s documentary about three riders’ disparate paths to the Red Hook Criterium: a relative unknown Frank Warren, seasoned rider Al Barouh and defending champion Dan Chabanov. Check out the trailer below:
Dezeen Wire: Bilbao, Cape Town and Dublin have been shortlisted for the title of World Design Capital in 2014.
The winning city will be announced in Taipei on 26 October 2011, following the selection committee’s visits to each city over the summer.
Last year’s World Design Capital was Seoul, South Korea, and Helsinki, Finland, will take the title in 2012.
Here are some more details from the organisers:
Following deliberations on 9 June 2011, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) has the pleasure to announce on behalf of the members of the World Design Capital® (WDC) Selection Committee that the cities of Bilbao (Spain), Cape Town (South Africa) and Dublin (Ireland) have been selected as the three shortlisted cities that will move on to the next round of evaluation in the bid to becoming the World Design Capital in 2014.
In 2014 selection of World Design Capital will be the fourth appointment by Icsid of this biennial designation to a city, in recognition of its accomplishments in using design as a catalyst for development and reinvention, as well as for improving its social, cultural and economic environments.
After a comprehensive review of all bids submitted, the cities of Bilbao, Cape Town and Dublin distinguished themselves not only by demonstrating their individual approaches towards design in their cities, but also managed to convey the impact of these on the various aspects of social, cultural and economic life, as well as provided three very unique visions for how design will continue to reinvent their urban landscape. Furthermore, these cities demonstrated that they possessed the expertise, infrastructure and financial capabilities to successfully develop and implement an inspiring yearlong programme of international design related events, promoting design, as well as their city, on an international stage; and finally, illustrated how their citizens have and will continue to benefit from their cityʼs achievements in design.
“It was a difficult decision, but the WDC Selection Committee has shortlisted three incredibly well thought-out and all-together remarkable bids that have created unique competitive advantages for their cities through design,” expressed Martin Darbyshire, WDC Organising Committee member and Icsid Executive Board Member. “These proposals have conveyed very workable and deliverable plans to use design as a means to reinvigorate their cityʼs social, cultural and economic development.”
“The Bilbao City Hall, the Provincial Government of Bizkaia and the Basque Government would like to express their great enthusiasm on being shortlisted to be the World Design Capital in 2014,” stated Iñaki Azkuna, Mayor of Bilbao. “Design innovation has become an essential tool to improve the competitiveness and quality of life in cities, and is necessary to enhance collaborative public-private environments with direct participation from the administrations, universities and different economic and professional agents. This is the direction Bilbao has followed to achieve its transformation over the past 25 years, and this designation will help continue the rejuvenation of our great city.”
“Cape Townʼs bid to be the World Design Capital of the year in 2014 shows how far we have come as a city. More importantly, it shows how far we want to take this city,” declared Patricia De Lille, Executive Mayor of Cape Town. “The creative industries make up an extremely important part of our local economy. The value of an event such as World Design Capital not only exposes our creative design talents to the world, but in turn develops our local industry into an asset for decades to come.”
Lord Mayor of Dublin Gerry Breen echoed the enthusiasm shown by the two accompanying shortlisted cities, stating, “Dublin is honoured to be one of three cities shortlisted for World Design Capital 2014. On behalf of Dublin City Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin County Councils, I welcome the opportunities the World Design Capital project will give us. The project will be beneficial in economic, environmental, social and political terms. These are difficult times and this bid will challenge us to adapt, recover and grow.”
The next step in the process leading up to the final selection of the 2014 WDC designation is the city visits that will be conducted in July 2011 by members of the WDC Organising Committee. These site inspections will enable further information to be gathered in an attempt to provide the WDC Selection Committee with a more thorough understanding of the proposed programmes by each of the shortlisted cities prior to the final selection in August 2011.
The official announcement of the 2014 World Design Capital designated city will be on 26 October during the 2011 International Design Alliance (IDA) Congress in Taipei, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei).
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“Giant Fish” and “Giant Sea Turtle,” sculptures created by artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi and a team of volunteers from washed-up ocean debris.
At first glance, the giant fish that will soon greet visitors to the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, looks like a whimsical nod to the nonprofit veterinary hospital and research center’s aquatic patient population. In fact, 16-foot-long Henry (as he is known to friends) is a colorful jumble of plastic bits, aluminum cans, dish soap bottles, lids, buoys, toys, and toothbrushes that washed up on nearby beaches. He is the creation of Oregon-based artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi and her team of volunteers, who transformed the 7,000 pounds of ocean trash they collected into sculptures of marine life threatened by the detritus.
Henry and 14 more of Pozzi’s artworks—including a giant squid and a reef of scavenged styrofoam—will go on view Saturday in “Washed Ashore: Plastics, Sea Life, and Art,” a free exhibition that runs through October 15 at the Marine Mammal Center. According to executive director Jeff Boehm, as many as 10% of the hospital’s admissions (think elephant seals, harbor seals, and California sea lions) are due to human interactions, including those related to entanglements in trash. “As the beaches around the world wash up more stuff from the land and less from the sea I believe we must examine our relationship to rivers and oceans,” notes Pozzi, who grew up wading in the Pacific ocean and digging in the muck of Puget Sound. “I attempt to scoop up part of what might be below the blue waters and place it in front of us. In some ways it may be an escape, but at the same time a confrontation.”
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Dezeen Wire: Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture have won a competition to design the Wuhan Greenland Center in Hubei province, China, which is set to be the world’s fourth-tallest building.
Construction of the 606-metre tower is due to begin this year and is expected to take five years.
Here are some more details from the architects:
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is pleased to announce that it has won an international competition to design Wuhan Greenland Center, which at 606 meters (1,988 feet) will likely be China’s third-tallest building, and the fourth tallest in the world, when completed in about five years. Construction is scheduled to begin this summer in Wuhan near the meeting of the Yangtze and Han rivers.
A project of the Shanghai-based Greenland Group, the 119-level Wuhan Greenland Center will be comprised of about 300,000 square meters of floor area, including about 200,000 sm of offices, 50,000 sm of luxury apartments and condominiums, a 45,000 sm five-star hotel, and a 5,000 sm, 27-meter-tall private club with spectacular views at the tower’s penthouse level.
AS+GG is leading an interdisciplinary design team that also includes the structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti as well as PositivEnergy Practice, an energy services, engineering and consulting company. The other finalists in the design competition were the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; HOK Architects; GMP Architects; and P&T Architects.
The project reunites the Greenland Group with Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, who designed the Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, and Robert Forest, who managed the Nanjing design process, all while at SOM. Nanjing Greenland Financial Center’s Zifeng Tower, currently the world’s seventh-tallest building at 450 meters (1,476 feet), opened last fall.
“We’re thrilled to be working with the Greenland Group once again,” Adrian Smith said. “We had a very good experience on the Nanjing project, and we think Wuhan promises to be just as rewarding. As always, we’re extremely impressed with Greenland’s commitment to good design and quality construction. ”
“Wuhan is an exciting and important project for our firm as we continue to advance our ideas about performance-based supertall tower design,” added Gordon Gill. “We look forward to building on past experience on similar projects, with particular emphasis on the relation of architectural form and performance as they pertain to structural wind loads. It’s very rewarding to be working with the Greenland team. We enjoyed our time on Nanjing and look forward to creating a world-class project with them for Wuhan.”
Still under design, Wuhan Greenland Center features a uniquely streamlined form that combines three key shaping concepts—a tapered body, softly rounded corners and a domed top—to reduce wind resistance and vortex action that builds up around supertall towers. The building’s extremely efficient aerodynamic performance will allow it to minimize the amount of structural material (and its associated embodied carbon) needed for construction.
The tower’s three corners rise from its tripod-shaped base and taper upward, culminating in an arched tip above the dome at the top. The corners will be of smooth curved glass, contrasting markedly with the more textured curtain wall cladding the body of the tower. The curtain wall will enclose a composite concrete core with steel framing. Apertures in the curtain wall at regular intervals will assist in venting wind pressure against the tower; the apertures will also house window-washing systems and air intake and exhaust systems on mechanical floors.
“One of the distinctive features of this project is the innovative introduction of vents at the tips of the three legs of the tower at vertical quarter sections that will reduce wind pressure on the tower and reduce the vortices that can cause horizontal acceleration of movement,” Smith said. “This feature, along with the elegant tapering of the tower, is an essential element in this performative design concept.”
“It’s an honor to be working with Greenland Group again on such a significant project,” AS+GG partner Robert Forest added. “Wuhan Greenland Center continues our commitment to providing designs that enhance China’s ability to provide for an increasing population density while striving to reduce energy use and carbon emissions without compromising design quality, performance and cost.”
Other planned sustainable elements of the project include:
In addition, the AS+GG Interiors studio is developing the tower’s fluidly sculpted interior public spaces, many of which reflect the tower’s exterior silhouette. The conical silhouette is visibly echoed in the entrances to the primary elevator bank from the main lobby, as well as in the shapes of the elevator cabs and other public spaces. The lobbies and other amenity spaces within the tower also feature sweeping, fluid lines and a neutral blue-gray palette that recalls the reflective glass of the exterior wall. The transparency of the ground-floor lobby wall allows views from inside toward the entry canopy drop-off areas, establishing a seamless relationship between the interior and exterior.
Le créatif Ryan Yoon a photographié des modèles pour un magazine de mode, portant des robes composés d’objets du quotidien. Avec des clichés réussis “Dress with Objects” pour un rendu très intéressant, ces idées sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Welcome to the second article in the the new Core77 “Sketchnotes Channel” (www.core77.com/sketchnotes) where we’ll be exploring the application of visual thinking tools in the worlds of design and creative thinking.
So you say you’re ready to start sketchnoting.
Maybe you’re not much of a sketcher but you take a lot of notes, and are interested in making them more meaningful and interesting, but you’re afraid your drawings are too crude. For you, it’s important to stress that sketchnotes—although they are inherently a visual medium—do not require drawing ability of any kind. Essentially they’re about transforming ideas into visual communication; structuring thoughts and giving hierarchy to concepts can be completed with strictly text and a few lines.
Maybe you’re perpetually drawing and want to try and make your notes more useful and engaging but you are afraid of imposing structure to your normally freeform way of sketching. For you it’s important to consider that sketchnotes can be as linear or abstract as your personality (or the presentation) dictates. Some content is best sketchnoted by listening closely and attempting to accurately synthesize and structure the thoughts. Usually these presentations have a very logical progression that may already be based in some sort of structure, so they lend them selves nicely to this style of sketchnoting. More narrative-based storytelling may be best sketchnoted by casually doodling along with the content and letting the content inspire your visuals. Story-based presentations may be best represented by capturing the overall experiences through quotes and illustrations of the anecdotes, and not necessarily imposing rigid structure.
In the end, it’s up to you. As I mentioned in my previous article, sketchnoting is equal parts public, personal, and practice—so it’s more fruitful to explore a new style and challenge yourself to record ideas in new ways, than to worry about the end result’s overall effectiveness or aesthetic. Sketchbooks should be sketchy.
So let’s get tactical. How should you go about approaching sketchnotes? What do you need to get started?
First you need the right tools for the job. And by “right tools” I mean, “any sketchbook and pen combination that makes you happy.” Preferences for media and marking-tool probably span back to the days of the caveman; there’s no right answers.
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