Bellissima questa scritta dell’alfabeto in legno. Se non ho capito male è di questa designer che la esporrà al capacity show in Canada. Un’altra versione, con altro font, la trovate qui, credo però appartenga alla vecchia collezione.
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Se sei sbronzo dopo una serata e ti ritrovi da solo in autobus a tornare a casa, puoi attaccarti uno di questi sticker per segnalare di essere svegliato ad una specifica fermata. Vale per ora solo per Londra! Li trovate qui.
:-O!!! Istallazione ad opera di PMS collective.
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In agenda: lui è uno dei migliori calligrafi del momento. Se vi piace il suo stile, Luca Barcellona espone a Milano, inaugurando domani, 27 gennaio dalle ore 18,30, la mostra Take Your Pleasure Seriously c/o lo spazio Mauro Bolognesi in Ripa di Porta Ticinese, 47.
In agenda: se volete passare una serata easy e incontrare artisti come Mauro Gatti, Marco Mucig, Riccardo Guasco e Alessandro Gottardo, non potete mancare al Picame Party, questo venerdì ore 22,00 c/o l’ ATM Bar, Bastioni di Porta Volta, qui a Milano.
Ingresso libero.
Une création très impressionnante avec cette chaise “Affinity Chair” voulue comme invisible par le designer anglais Ben Alun-Jones. Une structure composée de plastiques en acrylique, de capteurs LED ainsi que de film miroir afin de s’adapter à l’environnement de la pièce.
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The Wall Street Journal has a disheartening article up reporting on the decline and planned closings of many U.S. Post Offices. For us cityfolk they’re a dime a dozen, but for many rural areas the post office is their main link to the outside world and even serves as a social hub in some communities. The steady reduction in branches will affect everything from mail-order shopping to eBay and even the delivery of medical supplies.
I predict it will also awaken the war-profiteering instincts of antique dealers and furniture resellers, who will make a run on these locations. It won’t be long before you’ll start seeing “Classic post office furniture” postings popping up on a (rural) Craigslist near you….
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, speaks with The Creator’s Project about her upcoming show Talk to Me, exploring the fundamentals of communication between people and objects. Talk to Me opens at the MoMA July 2011.
Antonelli is one of the foremost authorities on the relationship between design, creativity, science and technology. Her 2008 show Design and the Elastic Mind forever changed the way we think about design’s place in our world and our lives, and deepened our understanding of the symbiotic relationship between science and design. In Talk to Me, Antonelli seeks to explore how technology is redefining the ever-evolving relationship between people and objects. Technology is humanizing objects, and designers are acting as intermediaries, helping us interpret technology and translate it into a language that we can more intuitively understand.
Bonus! Check out the Lost Tribes of New York City, a video from London Squared that Antonelli references in her interview, below.
An interview with Italy’s top tour operator on her new website dedicated to alternative travel
Founder of the successful architecture tourism site Viaggi di Architettura, South African-born Mikaela Bandini recently expanded her scope with Urban Italy—a new website devoted to travel, design and the discovery of an alternative Italy in all forms. With a clear goal to help people discover something new and surprising, Bandini tells CH the story of the project in an exclusive interview.
My day job over the past 12 years has been creating contemporary architecture tours around the world for Italian professionals and architecture lovers for Viaggi di Architettura.
It’s what I do. It’s what I love doing. Scouting for information, contacts and spaces that you don’t get in a cheesy guide book off the shelf. After putting together over 50-plus itineraries worldwide I decided to create a guide-blog for foreign archinauts and design-aholics who want an alternative approach to Italian cities.
I like to consider Urban Italy a kind of 2.0 version of my Moleskines—basically Italy the way that I’d like to see it (after having lived here for 20-odd years).
The project started as a personal collection of contemporary addresses and insider information from the tip to the toe (literally!) that I gathered while traveling around for architecture, food, interiors and pathological modernist furniture-collecting. Then I asked a handful of foreign friends around the country to give me their ‘best of’ to have a wider coverage of things to do and places to go. There are currently five of us working on the project, all foreigners living in Italy.
We begin the second phase of the project in spring with young Dutch film maker Caspar Diederik, who’ll be doing 2.0 storytelling about people and places around the country.
We’re looking at a rather more contemporary Italy, which appeals to the kind of traveler who doesn’t collect Hard Rock t-shirts. Stuff like ex-industrial sites that have been transformed into something new, exciting spaces for arts and theater, the latest hot spots for an aperitivo, urban eateries, events, products and people. Not exactly the stuff you get on a postcard.
Then again our readers send Tweets, not postcards.
I think it’s our b-side approach, and the fact that our people guiding are mostly journalists, designers, architects, art lovers that know Italian cities from a different point of view. We don’t include spaces just because they have been labeled “cultural,” so we do bar-hopping, shop interiors, contemporary architecture, factory design shopping tours and a whole series of other itineraries that are not easily found elsewhere.
Also the fact that we are traveling around the whole country, not just Milan, Rome or Florence, which get enough coverage as is. We’re going south. Deep south. To places where it’s often difficult to find information for events and spaces in English.
Our offices are in Matera, more or less where you’d find the genuine leather sign on the boot, so we’re looking at the whole country from a novel perspective. The general feedback that I’m getting (keeping in mind that the blog has only been on line for a couple of weeks now) is really positive.
We’re seeing some interesting stuff coming from the Samsung group these days, and whether or not any of these products become hits outside of their native Korea, we’re glad to see at least one multinational conglomerate designing products that break out of the box in some way.
Engadget first brought word of their upcoming 9-series LED 3D monitors, which manage to not be a boring black rectangle:
To enjoy the 3D you’ll need special glasses. Samsung teamed up with eyewear maker Silhouette to produce these sleek frames:
Their gargantuan Hauzen Smart Air Conditioner comes with a rather bizarre sweepstakes-style marketing campaign in Korea–select units have been seeded with some kind of powder inside of them, so that if you turn it on and a cloud of yellow dust comes out of the vents, you get a cash reward. I swear I’m not making that up. (If it was the ‘States and your air conditioner shot yellow dust out of the vents, you’d sue the company and get your cash reward that way.)
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