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Competition: we’ve teamed up with Sydney design brand Dosh to give away five of their new AERO flame money clip wallets.

Injection moulded from a durable water resistant polymer, the wallets have no stitching and accommodate all international banknotes.

Each AERO wallet comes with a handcrafted stainless steel money clip that folds over banknotes, keeping them in place.

The compact and streamlined design allows AERO to slip in and out of pockets with ease.

Designed and manufactured in Sydney, the minimalistic wallets are available in eight bold colours and are 100% recyclable.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Dosh AERO wallets” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 8 May 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Heres some more text from Dosh:

Dosh is a Sydney based designer accessories brand, founded by Henri Spaile and Mark Armstrong. The ethos of Dosh is functional, minimalist products designed to streamline your life. Since the release of the first Dosh range in 2007, the brand has catapulted into the limelight around the world. Made for guys with an active lifestyle and attitude, Dosh wallets are now a global success story stocked in premium fashion, design and street wear, stores around the world.

Product Specifications:
– 6 card capacity
– Handcrafted stainless steel money clip
– Compact streamlined shape
– Water resistant Desmopan material
– 100% recyclable material
– Made in Australia
– One year warranty

Product Dimensions:
112mm x 81mm x 13mm

Product Materials:
Wallet body – TPU
Money Clip – Stainless Steel
Case – PC

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Competition: we’ve got together with online magazine Sight Unseen to give away five copies of a special printed edition called Paper View, created as part of the Unfiltered initiative by Karlsson’s Vodka. Both Paper View and Unfiltered launch tonight in New York.

The 88 page book designed by Studio Lin includes a special report on the craft and process behind Karlsson’s Gold Vodka.

The book also includes 21 new and four archival features from Sight Unseen about design, art, fashion, food, photography and other creative disciplines.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Paper View” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 1 May 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here’s some more information from Karlsson’s Vodka:

Sight Unseen publishes PAPER VIEW as part of the UNFILTERED project from Karlsson’s Gold vodka

Special printed edition of online magazine includes features on Cmmnwlth, Max Lamb, Roman and Williams, Sebastian Wrong, and more

Sight Unseen and Karlsson’s are pleased to announce the release of Paper View, a special printed edition of Sight Unseen’s online magazine that takes readers inside the worlds of design, art, fashion, food, photography and other creative disciplines.

Created by Sight Unseen founders Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer and designed by Studio Lin, the publication is the first initiative from Karlsson’s Gold vodka’s UNFILTERED project, a creative series that celebrates craft, heritage, and process. The 88-page publication is printed in a limited edition of 400 and is available for purchase in New York City at Creatures of Comfort, Project No. 8, and The Shop at The Standard, as well as through Sight Unseen’s online shop.

Paper View includes 24 brand-new and archival features on Peter Shire, Anntian, Keegan McHargue, Shabd, Shin Okuda, Wary Meyers, Andy Rementer, Raven & Boar, Cmmnwlth, Despina Curtis, Max Lamb, Raw Color, Santtu Mustonen, Leutton Postle, Chen Chen and Kai Williams, New Friends, Jade Lai, Nacho Alegre, Patrick Parrish, Brian Janusiak and Elizabeth Beer, Felix Burrichter, Roanne Adams, Roman and Williams, and Sebastian Wrong.

The book also includes an introductory essay by the editors reflecting on what two years of interviews and studio visits have taught them about what it’s like to be a maker.

“From day one, we envisioned Sight Unseen as a publication that would harness the unique characteristics of the web — multimedia capabilities, a more personal voice, the option to create unlimited evergreen content — in order to convey our point of view with a depth that is neither attempted by most online magazines nor attainable by most traditional ones. And yet as creatives, both we and our readers are unequivocally lovers of the printed page, so we’re thrilled that the Unfiltered project has allowed us to create this special printed edition,” says Sight Unseen co-founder Monica Khemsurov.

As part of the project, Sight Unseen went behind the scenes with the farmers who source Karlsson’s virgin new potatoes in Cape Bjare, Sweden. ”Paper View is all about the connections we’ve found among our subjects, and in the end, we realized that a potato farmer in Sweden isn’t so different from, say, a young designer in Brooklyn,” says Sight Unseen co-founder Jill Singer. “They both let the material they’re given speak for itself and decide the course of the final product.”

The aim of Karlsson’s UNFILTERED series is to support today’s most thoughtful and inventive emerging creatives through initiatives that celebrate material, craft, and process.

Born from the belief that good ideas are best left unfiltered— UNFILTERED champions uncompromised creativity at its purest by helping to make raw, genuine projects a reality.

Sight Unseen’s Paper View is the first UNFILTERED project to launch and will be followed in May 2012 with American Design Club’s eighth group exhibition, to be on view at Heller Gallery in Manhattan during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. June 2012 will see the launch of Karlsson’s third UNFILTERED project: a family of objects pertaining to the ritual of drink making, created by designers Rich Brilliant Willing.

Sight Unseen

Sight Unseen is an online magazine that takes readers inside the worlds of design, art, fashion, food, photography, and other creative disciplines. Through revealing interviews, first-person accounts, and behind-the-scenes documentation of process, we uncover the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things.

Sight Unseen was first and foremost designed for creative practitioners, but it was always meant to tap into our voyeuristic impulses as humans and to appeal to anyone interested in what it’s like to live a creative life. We work closely with artists and designers in a variety of disciplines and around the world to offer highly personal glimpses into their creative practices.

Karlsson’s Gold vodka

“Karlsson’s Gold vodka is a passion project — the result of a few entrepreneurs who sought to safeguard the centuries-old Swedish virgin potato farms of Cape Bjäre in the face of an industry and way of life in flux. Starting with the best ingredients he could find, Master Blender Börje Karlsson’s idea was to create something different – a vodka that celebrated the region’s prized raw material. Nothing else. He distilled them only once, in an unfiltered approach, to preserve the taste. And so, in celebration, we extend our commitment to supporting craft and process from the farms of Southern Sweden to the creative world at large,” said Peter Ekelund, Founder & CEO, Karlsson’s Gold vodka.

Blended from seven varieties of virgin new potatoes specific to the Cape Bjäre region of southern Sweden, Karlssonʼs Gold Vodka is a uniquely crafted spirit that is committed to local epicurean traditions and the farmland from which it is born. Created by Börje Karlsson, the original master blender of ABSOLUT vodka, it is an unfiltered vodka that is meticulously distilled only once to preserve as much of its inherent flavor as possible. The result is small batch vodka with outstanding character and a taste that celebrates its hearty roots.

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Israeli design brand Monkey Business to offer readers the chance to win one of five silver pencil sharpeners by Noam Bar Yochai that resemble clockwork keys. 

Instead of turning the pencil in the sharpener, users hold the pencil still and twist the cast-metal key. It’s also available from Monkey Business in bright red.

We recently featured a set of pins produced by Monkey Business that can be stuck onto wine corks to create animal toys at the dinner table.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Monkey Business” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.

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Competition closes 24 April 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: we’ve teamed up with architecture critic Alexandra Lange to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of her new book, Writing About Architecture: mastering the language of buildings and cities.

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, the 160-page paperback is a primer on reading and writing architectural criticism, based on Lange’s design-writing courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts.

Each chapter opens with an essay by a renowned architecture critic, followed by close examination of the text and the writer’s strategies.

The architecture discussed includes works Marcel Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, SOM, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Writing About Architecture” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.

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Competition closes 3 April 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Images are courtesy of Jeremy M. Lange.

Here’s soem more information from Princeton Architectural Press:

Writing About Architecture
Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities
Alexandra Lange

Extraordinary architecture addresses more than practical considerations. It inspires and provokes while creating a seamless experience of the physical world for its users. It is the rare writer that can frame the discussion of a building in a way that allows the reader to see it with new eyes.

Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a significant essay written by a renowned architecture critic, followed by a close reading and discussion of the writer’s strategies. Lange offers her own analysis using contemporary examples as well as a checklist of questions at the end of each chapter to help guide the writer.

This important addition to the Architecture Briefs series is based on the author’s design writing courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. Lange also writes a popular online column for Design Observer and has written for Dwell, Metropolis, New York magazine, and the New York Times.

Writing About Architecture includes analysis of critical writings by Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs. Architects covered include Marcel Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Field Operations, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Frederick Law Olmsted, SOM, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, journalist, and historian. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

7.5 x 8″ / 19.1 x 20.3cm
160 PP / 20 B+W Illustrations
Paperback
978-1-61689-053-7
$24.95
Publication date: 1 March 2012

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Routledge to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Le Corbusier – béton brut and ineffable space 1940-1965 by Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini. 

The 608-page full-colour book is based on the study of previously neglected or unknown documents with a focus on materials and construction techniques.

It includes 1350 photographs and drawings, delving into the project management and construction of several buildings in the period 1940 – 1965, including Le Corbusier’s famous Unités d’Habitation and Chandigarh projects.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Le Corbusier book” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.

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Competition closes 27 March 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here are some more details from the publishers:

This groundbreaking essay on Le Corbusier provides a new perspective that is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents stored at the Fondation Le Corbusier. This source of documents has proven to be extremely valuable, with information on the aesthetic principles of Le Corbusier during the post World-War-II period, explaining his manner of defining the final artistic quality of the work directly at the construction site, as if he were dealing with a sculpture or tableau.Béton brut, a term invented by Le Corbusier himself at the beginning of the 1950s to designate his own particular use of exposed concrete, is analyzed from all angles for the first time: its fabrication with a rigorous selection of its constituent materials; its final form and positioning of the formwork in order to obtain the desired textural imprint; and the treatment of the surface with special types of paint.

The essay also delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940-1965. Each worksite, from the Unité d’Habitation (Housing Unit) at Marseille to the city of Chandigarh, and also including the Tokyo museum, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge and the Unité d’Habitation at Berlin, are analyzed in detail. In this volume, the associates, the enterprises, and even the masons become the actors of a complex creative process that Le Corbusier directs with mastery. All the forms of artistic expression that converge into what Le Corbusier defines as the espace indicible (ineffable space) are commented and documented, from the insertion of the basic materials such as the tapestries and paint in the qualification of these spaces, to the way in which photography is used to study the unexpressed potentialities of his own architecture and paintings.

Indeed, Le Corbusier was able to integrate, in the genesis of the space and in the quality of the construction materials, the principle contemporary artistic phenomena, such as the automatisms of Breton and Dubuffet, the musique concrète of Varèse, Klein’s research on monochrome art, Pop Art and the transfer concept. It is thus a new vision that the essay reveals about the last and fundamental works of Le Corbusier which have, paradoxically, been less studied than his earlier work. In this volume, the questions of optics, artistic vision, and the psychophysiology of perception are studied, at last, in parallel with the technical questions of the materials used in his various works. This approach reveals the existence of a series of theoretical questions about the artistic process, ignored until now, that are shown to be indispensable for the complete understanding of the work of Le Corbusier during the period following World War II.

This essay, meticulously referenced with footnotes and richly illustrated with hundreds of document reproductions and photographs from the archives of the Fondation Le Corbusier, will be of interest to all those who wish to better understand the development of the architecture of the 20th century, in its deepest cultural context.

The discovery of béton brut with malfaçons : the worksite of the Unité d’Habitation at Marseille
Entraînement d’acrobate : the provocateur des formes neuves
Unités d’Habitation at Rezé-lès-Nantes, Berlin and Briey-en-Forêt
Chandigarh, or the cosmic vision
Epiderme brutal in pisé, brick and wood
Machines à habiter for vision and tropical climates
Automatisms and the projection of sound and image
Towards a nouvelle stéréotomie

Le Corbusier
Béton Brut and Ineffable Space 1940-1965
Authors: Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini
ISBN: 978-2-940222-50-6
608 pages, 17 × 24 cm,
1350 photographs and drawings
Full color printing, flexi-bound.
Price for Switzerland: 119.00 CHF
Export price: 89.50 euros

Order a copy here.