by Richard Prime As with almost any design segment or discipline, the classics never go out of style. Be it a line of design thinking like Bauhaus, the never-ending resurgence and reinvention of pastel tones in fashion and interiors or, in some cases,…
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La Jaguar F-Type est la nouvelle voiture de sport décapotable lancée par la marque. Cette merveille de technologie utilise l’aluminium comme matériau principal et Ian Callum, le directeur du design pour la marque, argue un réel focus sur le pilote. Et de fait les commandes sont inspirées du cockpit des avions de chasse.
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola talks to Dezeen about her new tile collection for Italian brand Mutina in this movie filmed at the Domus showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week.
Called Azulej, Urquiola‘s new collection of porcelain tiles features 27 different patterns, including a mixture of geometric and floral designs, available in white, grey and black colour palettes.
“The idea of Mutina was always to defend the idea of ceramic tiles as very natural,” says Urquiola. “We never use colours that are strong, always quite natural.”
Azulej is Urquiola’s fourth tile collection for Mutina, and the first to feature digitally printed patterns.
“This year, possibly after all of the work we have done with my studio and other studios, we [decided] to work with printing and with patterns,” Urquiola says. “[Azulej is] a quite industrial tile, very simplified, 20 x 20 cm.”
Urquiola believes that the success of her continued collaboration with Mutina is down to her good relationship with the company, which appointed her as art director in 2011.
“The best [projects] I got were always coming from good relations with people I like,” she says. “In the case of Mutina especially, when they asked me to become art director, [which] is not normally something I want to do, I said: ‘okay.'”
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The music featured in this movie is a track called Octave by Junior Size, released by French record label Atelier du Sample . You can listen to more Junior Size tracks on Dezeen Music Project.
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Trend forcaster Li Edelkoort shows there is more to fetishism than just bondage with garments displayed at this year’s MoBA 2013 fashion biennale in Arnhem, the Netherlands (+ slideshow).
Li Edelkoort curated the Fetishism in Fashion theme for this year’s biennale after observing the expression of deep inner desires through clothing and accessories, which goes far beyond S&M.
“There is a moment in fashion where there is this super need to be very fetishistic,” Edelkoort told Dezeen. “There is animalism, there are children’s behaviours, there is of course bondage, there is lace, there is fur, feathers and so on.”
Edelkoort co-curator Philip Fimmano told us: “[Li noticed that] we’re all born with kinds of fetishes and have a need for belonging and bondage from birth. It’s not just about fashion design, it’s about a movement that’s happening in society.”
“We tried to explore the extent of where fetishism can take us, changing from the sexual side to the shamanistic side,” he added.
The main exhibit covers 13 different types of fetishes using work by 300 designers from around the world, such as a series of tusks, horns and spines for the body by Ana Rajcevic.
Among the eight shows, Elevated is a showcase of high-heeled, platform and other raised shoe designs that looks at obsessions with gaining height. It includes a collection of shoes that undergo physical transformations by Benjamin John Hall.
Another exhibition called Fascination focusses on the secret side of men’s lives and how they collect accessories such as ties, underwear, shoes and scents.
Monsters created from fake fur are on show at a local zoo, forming an exhibition designed for children: “This is really to explore the way we are getting closer to nature and animals and that we want to animate garments with little ears or tails,” Fimmano said.
Elsewhere, the history of the apron is charted from humble utility roots to its place in so many of today’s sexual fantasies.
“We wanted to explore how the apron is an archetypical fetish garment, something that’s been around since Adam and Eve,” said Fimmano. “It’s of course a carrier for lots of different fantasies, whether it be the maid, the waitress, the worker or the farmer.”
All the biennale volunteers are dressed in aprons and visitors on 7 July received free entry if they wore one too.
Fimmano spoke to Dezeen about the reaction from event visitors and how their perception of fetishism changed: “A lot of people have the misconception that the word ‘fetishism’ is just linked to the sexual side,” he said. “I think it was surprising for a lot of visitors that it had so many different aspects such as childhood memories, nomadism, regional identity.” The biennale continues across Arnhem until 21 July.
The curators have created a book to accompany the event and we are currently running a competition to give away five copies, which ends on 16 July.
More fashion exhibitions open over this summer include 1980s club wear on show at London’s V&A museum and a collection of garments by Iris van Herpen displayed in Calais.
All images show designs on display at the event.
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Furniture design graduate Leala Dymond has designed a sofa where elasticated yellow bungee cord holds cushions and other items in place.
The Bungy Sofa by Bucks New University graduate Leala Dymond features a grid of yellow cord that is tied in knots around the upholstery and fixed to the frame with a system of pegs.
This cord can be used to secure extra cushions, or to hold magazines, books and remote controls.
“This sofa was designed to be adjustable to everyone’s comfort,” says Dymond. “The yellow elasticated cord allows the user to rearrange the cushions to their personal taste, without them sliding out.”
The frame is designed in walnut but Dymond says it could easily be made from cheaper materials.
The Bungy Sofa was awarded the 100% Design Award at Part 2 of New Designers 2013 this month, alongside a range of dyslexic products by New Designer of the Year award winner Henry Franks.
Other 2013 graduate highlights this year include 3D-printed casts by Jake Evill and a series of robotic adornments for introverts by Lilian Hipolyte Mushi. See our coverage of graduate shows 2013 »
Dymond will exhibit the Bungy Sofa at 100% Design during the London Design Festival, where last year Dezeen filmed a talk series with designers and critics that included Li Edelkoort, Asif Khan, Tom Hulme and Sam Jacob. Watch the movies »
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Arthur Foliard a imaginé l’identité visuelle de la nouvelle exposition du Louvre appelée « Encore plus proche ». Visuellement très réussie, cette campagne veut rendre hommage aux français et parisiens visitant le musée, en proposant des portraits de Danny Santos incrustés dans des tableaux célèbres.
Jessica Walsh and Tim Goodman are best friends who find themselves single at the same time. Walsh is the hopeless romantic, always looking for love, and Goodman is afraid…
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We spotted this stair-negotiating skateboard at ShowRCA 2012 and the accompanying movie became one of our most watched. One year on, its designer Po-Chih Lai has made a new film, updated the design and launched it on Kickstarter (+ movie).
The Stair-Rover features an eight-wheel mechanism that allows it to ride up curbs and descend flights of steps.
Po-Chih Lai‘s original model featured a maple deck, customised aluminium trucks, and flexible V-frames that connected over the ends of the board.
Since the initial design, the frames have been shifted beneath the board and connected by a plastic chassis to allow a full longboard deck to sit on top.
Lai has also created an upgraded Pro version that sports a fibreglass deck and black components.
This new movie shows longboarders navigating urban obstacles around London, at locations including the Emirates Stadium, the Royal Albert Hall and the Millenium Bridge.
Lai designed the prototype for the board while studying at the Royal College of Art and we first published the project last year as part of our 2012 graduate show coverage.
He recently launched the design on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter so backers can pre-order their own board, and the project is around halfway toward it’s £50,000 target.
If the product makes it into production, both the Stair-Rover and Stair-Rover Pro will be available.
We’ve featured a few skate parks on Dezeen in the past, including one that covers every surface inside and out of a Californian house and another in a former peanut factory in Calais.
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Stair-Rover launches innovative longboard – creators target £50,000 investment
The creators of Stair-Rover have launched a Kickstarter project that hopes to raise the £50,000 investment needed to manufacture the first run of boards. The longboard features a distinctive eight-wheeled design with a unique mechanism that allows it to scuttle crab-like down flights of stairs.
Beginning life as inventor PoChih Lai’s final year project at the Royal College of Art, the Stair-Rover has evolved through no fewer than fourteen different prototypes and is now ready for manufacture. The Stair-Rover team hope that the new sport will combine aspects of longboarding and surfing, and prompt riders to look at their cities in a new way.
The Kickstarter project offers rewards to backer for investments of £8 – £600, including branded stickers and clothing and limited edition Stair-Rovers. Both the standard Stair-Rover and the upgraded Stair-Rover Pro are available via the Kickstarter project. The Kickstarter campaign will run until 31st July 2013.
“Stair-Rover really isn’t like anything we’ve seen before,” says PoChih Lai. “It’s about daring people to explore their cities in a brand new way. Stair-Rover is very distinctive looking, but people that have tried it tell us it feels natural – on flat ground, it performs a lot like a conventional longboard. The real difference is the amount of freedom you have on the Stair-Rover. And I, for one, can’t wait to see what our community of riders can do with that freedom.”
Stair-Rover has attracted the attention of skateboarders and longboarders alike, as well as that of design-aware individuals and publications. Stair-Rover videos have attracted over 500,000 views online and received coverage from CNET, Fast Company and the Huffington Post among others. Renowned TV shows like The Gadget Show, Discovery Daily Planet and Manoto 1 have also featured the Stair-Rover’s evolution.
The Stair-Rover Kickstarter project will only be funded if at least £50,000 is invested by 31st July, 2013. Please support the project at Kickstarter.
To find out more about Stair-Rover, or to see videos of it in action, please visit www.stair-rover.com.
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by Stefano Caggiano We currently live in a world surrounded by varied design, and people commonly appreciate peculiar features that work together as opposing aesthetics. But in the past, when coherence and rationality were keys to any…
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I like to think of Coway as underdogs from the Far East. They have some of the most amazing consumer products that are top-notch in Industrial Design. Works like the A1(CHP-241N), CAIRS & ICE+WATER are very Rams’ styled; minimal and bespoke. With many accolades and awards under their belt, here is a look at some recent products that ring a bell.
CAIRS is a personal air purifier that can be used anywhere on the go. Think of your car, at home or at the office; this little device purifies dust and odor in the air and sterilizes bacteria, viruses, etc. Pretty much tries to remove the excuse of ‘not feeling well’ out of your life! The iconic hole is a key design feature which functions as a handle improving portability and extending usability. Optimal air purification is possible thanks to the Plasma Ion sterilization technology that it uses. This removes 99.5% of air-borne viruses.
Ice+Water has been designed to be installed in kitchens and to provide clean drinking water and pure ice. With just a single touch you can extract both hot and cold water and even pure ice without delay. Its 5-step filtration system removes 99.95% infusible fine particles, rust residue, chlorine, heavy metals and other pollutants from tap water and dispenses clean water and pure ice made with purified water.
A1(CHP-241N) by Jin-gyu Seo & Murata Chiyaki
The CHP-240N is a water purifier that converts tap water into perfect drinking water using a filtering process. Its defining factor is the completely changed internal specifications that make it more functional. It can be used to fill standard sized cups with water as well as big pots. You need not wait and watch the container fill with water because you can select a preset amount of water extraction.
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