Focus sur le travail des architectes d’Enota qui ont transformé ce monastère dominicain de plus de 800 ans située à Ptuj en Slovénie. En utilisant du béton noir pour contraster et moderniser ce lieu en une salle de performance, le résultat visuellement très réussi est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Product news: Milan company Looodus has designed a toy that allows children to learn about typography and the alphabet at the same time.
Looodus laser cut each of the 26 letters in the alphabet in the shape of a typeface that begins with that letter, so T is represented by Times New Roman and P is written in Playbill.
The letters slot into a wooden board with the names of the fonts inscribed under each.
Fonts were carefully selected for their shapes and sizes, and come in shades of green, blue or red.
The designers originally created the Font Alphabet Puzzle for their young daughter. “There are opportunities which arise every day to be creative and make quick fun toys for her, using the most rudimentary materials and sometimes these mini prototypes can become more refined products,” said Looodus co-founder Kurt Stapelfeldt.
Looodus was founded in Milan this year by Stapelfeldt and photographer Denise Bonenti.
Other toy designs that have featured on Dezeen include dolls’ houses designed by 20 architects and designers including Zaha Hadid and David Adjaye and a tricycle crafted from bamboo. See more toy designs »
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Beijing designers reMIX Studio created a string installation that guided visitors through a derelict building to a pop-up restaurant at Beijing Design Week 2013 (+ slideshow).
Entitled Paizi 38, reMIX Studio created the intervention as part of the urban regeneration of the historic Dashilar hutong in Beijing.
Lengths of string and a wooden path created a journey through three traditional courtyards, leading visitors over rubble and through holes in the walls.
Threaded through the doorways, the strings spanned room lengths in grouped arrangements.
In the final courtyard space, lightbulbs hung from the ends of the strings over dining tables at a temporary restaurant.
“The city builds millions of square metres every year at an uncontrollable speed whilst instead this project forces the investors, the designers, the city to a new slowed-down development,” said the practice.
Following the temporary intervention for this year’s Beijing Design Week, the space is to be turned into a boutique hotel.
At last year’s event a constellation of illuminated ceramic yoghurt pots were hung in the stairwell of a former bicycle factory and Nike shoe material was used to create a colourful web in a rusting gas tower.
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Here’s some more information from the designers:
This space will become after the Beijing Design Week a new boutique hotel that will be grafted into the existing building through precise insertions and punctual modifications.
These considerations are the premises and the constrictions of the temporary installation we are exhibiting today. Starting from the structural survey and the analysis of the actual spaces that in succession form an extended horizontal layered system – an unique feature for a building typology such as this one especially in this area of Beijing.
We propose a new connective path that reveals the existing building secrets and tunnelling throughout the architectural body it highlights in few observations points the quality and characteristics of the future intervention.
The system of new portals is a succession of points of view that, passing in the position where the new hotel circulation will be placed, forces the visitors into an unexpected journey; challenging his imagination and forcing him to redefine the meaning of “exploration”.
The path ends in the main room where a series of photographs taken from the Orchid hotel construction will show the quality of the future refurbishment.
The tunnel, branching in a three lines lighting feature marks visually the areas of the main space where the opening dinner of the Beijing Design Week will take place.
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The tongue-in-cheek livery of South African airline Kulula includes a “This way up” sign on one plane and points out the locations of key components on another (+ slideshow).
Kulula‘s lime green Flying 101 aeroplane is covered in text explaining what each of its parts is called and white arrows pointing to where they are located.
The titles of the aircraft parts are accompanied by comical comments written beside them in brackets.
“This plane was designed in-house by our graphic design team as part of our bigger strategy to demystify air travel and explain some of the unknowns around air travel and flying,” the airline commented.
Seats adjacent to the emergency exits are highlighted as the “throne zone” due to their extra leg room and the plane’s registration number is dubbed its “secret agent code”.
Features not visible from the outside such as seats, overhead compartments and toilets (noted as “mile high club initiation chambers”) are marked out in dotted lines.
The graphics were designed for Kulula in 2010, along with a design for a Boeing 737 that has a “this way up” graphic painted in green along the side of the white plane.
We’ve previously featured Mariomekko’s floral designs for the livery of two Finnair aeroplanes and American Airlines’ latest logo design.
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Leaving behind the hippie farmers market vibe in favor of greener pastures with a more modern aesthetic, Oakland, California’s Juniper Ridge is becoming increasingly popular for their distinct scents and…
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed during London Design Festival, leading figures from London and abroad explore the pros and cons of working in the city and discuss the threats to its status as one of the major design centres of the world.
“London is the most international and vibrant city there is, probably worldwide,” says Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, who lived in London for three years.
Eero Koivisto of Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune agrees. “It’s truly multicultural in the same way New York is,” he says.
Patrizia Moroso, creative director of Italian brand Moroso, describes the city as “a sort of belly of the world.”
She explains: “Many young people, people from all over the world, are attracted [to the city] because London is open.”
Being an open city is one of the key reasons for its success, argues Kieran Long, senior curator at the V&A Museum.
“London has always been a place that is incredibly tolerant of new things,” he says. “The city is based on immigration.”
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic agrees. “London is a remarkably successful place for attracting really smart, bright, gifted young designers,” he claims.
However, Sudjic warns that it can also be a difficult place for young designers to start up: “London is a very expensive place to be. You might find yourself migrating right out to the external edges of the city.”
“Production is not the most amazing,” adds Hayon. “You’ve got to travel a lot when you’re based in London and that’s costly and it’s complicated if you’re setting up a business.”
“Many young, fresh designers come from London, but you don’t have many strong brands,” observes Mimi Lindau of Swedish furniture brand Blå Station.
Sudjic agrees: “London has based its success on 150 years of having great art schools,” he says. “[Designers] come to study here and lots of them stay and build a practice, not necessarily based on clients here, but on clients around the world.”
London’s schools are one of the major reasons for the proliferation of architects based in the city, claims Alex de Rijke, co-founder of architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan and dean of architecture at the Royal College of Art.
“We’re spoilt for good schools for architecture here,” he says. “The overly large proportion of architects in London is obviously because the education system has been strong here.”
However, he adds a note of warning: “Schools are coming under threat from a lack of government funding.”
In September, the UK government announced changes to immigration rules that make it more difficult for international students to extend their leave to remain in the country once their course ends.
Long claims the move could endanger London’s status as one of the world’s leading design centres.
“Any political agenda that tries to limit the influx of international students to the UK is a disaster,” he says. “It’s a disaster for the schools, it’s a disaster for design culture here because, let’s face it, there’s no manufacturing here, there’s nothing else. What we are is a crossroads for great creative people.”
He continues: “We should keep London as open a city as it can be.”
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Sudjic agrees that London should not take its position in the design world for granted. “Design is a very competitive process, lot’s of places want to be the design capital of the world,” he says.
“London is a great place to be, but it can’t be complacent. It has to go on being interesting and attracting new people, smart people, and getting them to stay.”
We travelled around London in our MINI Cooper S Paceman. The music featured in the movie is a track called Temple by London band Dead Red Sun.
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Known for their gorgeous leather goods and travel accessories, and more recently their black walnut furniture, last weekend the artisans at Moore & Giles extended their range even further…
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Chaque année, plus de 73 millions de requins sont pêchés. Handsome Wong et l’agence Y&R Shanghai se sont associés à l’IFAW pour imaginer ces étonnants cercueils de requins, dans le but de sensibiliser le public. Une création à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Industrial designer Marc Newson has updated his clothing line for Dutch fashion brand G-Star RAW.
Marc Newson‘s ongoing collaboration with G-Star RAW centres around denim garments influenced by American sportswear.
His Spring Summer 2014 collection includes a five-pocket worker jacket made from stripy grey denim, which matches a pair of trousers in the same material.
A bomber jacket reinterpreted in grey suede and a long navy trench coat feature an A-line cut, which Newson implemented in his previous collections.
The designer has also created a reversible baseball jacket in red and white fabric on one side and dark blue on the other.
Pastel-coloured short and long sleeved t-shirts have darker bands of colour around the shoulders.
Marc Newson’s 2011 range for G-Star RAW featured bold graphics and he also created a limited-edition range of his Zvezdochka shoes for sportswear brand Nike in 2010.
Newson has recently designed one-off items including an aluminium table and a Leica camera with Apple’s Jonathan Ive for Bono’s (RED) charity auction.
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Che cosa troviamo alle spalle di un progetto di design? Sicuramente l’idea.
L’idea che ha avuto il designer Giulio Iacchetti è stata quella di combinare estetica e funzionalità con il magnetismo, ponendo quest’ultimo al centro del progetto. Frutto di questa idea è la famiglia delle lampade “Magneto” ,da terra e da tavolo, dove troviamo una sfera magnetica che funge da fulcro tra il portalampada a led e il sostegno verticale, permettendo la regolazione e lo spostamento.
Il cavo elettrico viene innestato all’interno della sede del profilato verticale, e la possibilità di estrarlo e di rintrodurlo nella fessura permette di movimentare la lampada ad altezze differenti. Il portalampada a led, ha una forma semplice e il peso è ridotto all’essenziale poiché il tutto poggia, si muove e ruota attorno alla sfera magnetica.
“Magneto”, innovativa, interessante e accattivante, è stata progettata per infinite situazioni e per qualsiasi ambiente domestico e lavorativo; una luce concentrata e puntuale può essere diretta verso il basso su un’area ristretta, come ad esempio un libro o la tastiera del pc, oppure verso l’alto per creare una luce diffusa. Un’unica lampada per più esigenze d’uso.
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