Montreal based Furni has just released the latest edition to their line-up of wooden clocks. This one is equipped with an amp and speaker allowing you to use it with your ipod, Zune, or whatever device you use to listen to music, it even has an alarm app available at the apple app store.
You can check them out on Furni’s website here
Or Check out the Rad video made by none other than Julien Vallee below
Limited edition over-the-knee socks from a Texan designer
A collection of avant-garde knee socks reaches us from the wilds of suburban Dallas, Texas. Designer Amy Anderson likens each pair as “wearable art” and produces each design in limited quantities. Crafted from 78% cotton blended with polyamide and elastane at an ethically-certified textile mill in central Turkey, once a design sells out, it’s gone forever—but makes way for a new one to take its place.
“I produce a small amount of each design,” founder and designer Amy Anderson explains.
Shops across the United States carry the line and you can find one near you by searching on the Sweet Marcel site.
Recently Anderson collaborated with Project Runway contestant Shirin Askari. The two friends share studio space and so far Askari came up with the Wisteria/Xena pairs (sold together for $37.50) for Sweet Marcel.
Amazing work by Taiwanese illustrator, Inca Pan.
Check out more of his work on his flickr stream– he’s got some beautiful photography as well.
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The stackable white plastic chair is probably one of the most recognisable items of furniture in the world. But thanks to its reputation as a staple of garden patios, poolside bars and outdoor eateries, it’s not much admired by designers. New book 220ºC Virus Monobloc aims to change that…
Published by Gestalten, 220ºC Virus Monobloc documents the love-hate relationship that designers have had with the ubiquitous white plastic chair. Single-piece plastic chairs have, of course, been readily produced by studios since the late 1960s (Vico Magistretti’s Selene model and Verner Panton‘s eponymous injection-molded classic, being two early examples) but the mass-produced versions that were to debut in the early 1980s perhaps have more to answer for.
So in 220°C Virus Monobloc, alongside a range of art and photography that offers more of an ironic take on the infamous chair (see German and English football fans employing it as a handy weapon in Stuttgart, above), a range of well-known designers including Philippe Starck, Jerszy Seymour, Maarten Baas and Konstantin Grcic also pay homage to the object in various new pieces of work.
Incidentally, the name 220°C Virus Monobloc refers to the production process of the chair, which is manufactured from a single press of 220°C hot polypropylene, pushed through an extruder into a mold.
Maarten Baas’s Plastic Chair In Wood, 2008 – a carved elmwood version of the Monobloc
According to Maarten Baas his Plastic Chair In Wood (above) “could be something you’d see in an antique shop. It’s only when you look at it twice that you realise you’ve seen it before.”
Unique Mono-Block Resin Chairs from Jiao Zhi Studio, Xiamen, China. Photo: Joshua White/JWPictures.com. Courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London
With ‘Cairo Chair’, artist San Keller looks at the culture of repairing and reusing chairs that is prevalent in Egypt’s capital. Each Cairo Chair (essentially a brand new Monobloc chair) comes with a manual that features images reminding customers why the chairs need not be thrown away if broken.
Chairs designed by the Campana Brothers. Left, top: Childrens Chairs 2006. Photo: Ed Reeve. Left, bottom: Una Famiglia 2006. Photo: Fernando Laszlo. Right: Coast-to-Coast Chair 2006, TransPlastic Collection. Photo: Fernando Laszlo.
The Easy Chair, produced by Magis
220ºC Virus Monobloc: The Infamous Chair, compiled by Arnd Friedrichs and Kerstin Finger, is out now published by Gestalten; £27.50. You can buy a copy here.
Un beau film d’animation 2D par l’artiste et dessinateur Ryan Woodward utilisant les techniques traditionnelles. Ce conte animé est voulu comme un projet personnel sur l’expression humaine et la danse contemporaine. Des mouvements réussis et une vidéo à découvrir dans la suite.
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Here Autodesk’s Matt Ratliff, Applications Engineer, demonstrates the industrial designer’s dream software/hardware set-up: Alias Sketch on a Wacom Cintiq monitor. Imagine being able to draw sketches/renderings directly on-screen, then output the art to Photoshop and the actual hard data from the drawings to DWG and a CAD package. It’s WYSIWYG for industrial design.
Currently showing at the Yota Space in St Petersburg is an immersive exhibition offering the chance for viewers to enter an artificially created ‘peasouper’, view portraits on the periphery of their vision, and witness a few of Brian Eno’s 77 Million paintings…
Held in a five-storey building in the heart of the city, the digital art exhibition is curated by Russian internet company Yota. It opened last weekend, with a musical event headlined by Hot Chip, and a piece of projection mapping, displayed across Mikhailovsky Castle. A film of the projection is shown below.
Visitors to the exhibition itself are first greeted by Volume, a collaboration between United Visual Artists and 3D from Massive Attack, which features 47 columns of light, each with their own audio output. Elsewhere is the aforementioned Peasouper, an installation by Jason Bruges which emulates London’s fog, and Alright Now, a piece of work commissioned specially for the exhibition from Chris Levine, which projects images onto the peripheral vision of visitors.
Volume by UVA and 3D
Onedotzero has curated an entire floor of the space, and brought together works by the likes of Hellicar + Lewis, AntiVJ, Quayola, and Cassette Playa & Kin Design. MSA Visuals is displaying his Body Paint installation – previously seen at Decode at the V&A in London – and Brian Eno is showing his generative artwork, 77 Million Paintings.
Body Paint by MSA Visuals
The exhibition will continue at the Yota Space until December 19. For more info (in both English and Russian), visit space.yota.ru.
A glimpse inside the Autodesk skunkworks: Here Senior Manager Jason Medal-Katz demonstrates an experimental interface design, the MRI (Mixed Reality Interface). As he explains, the technology used for the actual interface is pretty simple–it’s two Lucite rods with printouts stuck to the bottom, which a camera reads through the tabletop–but we love the way they’ve put the invisible technology behind it to innovative use.
Dezeenwire: architect Norman Foster is working on designs for Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, California – El Economista (in Spanish) via Gizmodo
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