Voici le Vuhl 05 est un roadster biplace minimaliste doté d’un moteur Ford 285ch et pesant moins de 700 kg. Imaginé par eux frères mexicains, Guillermo et Iker Echeverria ayant fondé leur entreprise : Etxe, ce supercar impressionnant vaut près de 65000 euros et sera livré au printemps 2014. Plus d’images dans la suite.
1. Ron Arad In Reverse Israel’s talented designer Ron Arad recently opened a new exhibit at the Design Museum Holon (which he also designed in 2010) called “In Reverse.” Inspired by his love for metal, the…
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Product news: one coloured glass bubble sits within another to form these lanterns by Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melvær (+ slideshow).
Kristine Five Melvær‘s candle holders comprise a more opaque smaller inner bubble that holds the tea light, with a transparent outer layer that disperses the candle glow. Pairs of colours create a third hue where the layers overlap.
During the lighter summer months the glassware can be used as vases for flowers.
The Multi lanterns were developed with Norwegian glass company Magnor Glassverk and are on display at the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture until 25 August.
Kristine Five Melvær has also created lamps that look like buds about to bloom and a series of sheer slik room dividers.
The most recent candle holders on Dezeen include a chunky designs made from a compound of stone and resin and a series that look like bent pipes poking through a wall.
Photos are by Erik Five Gunnerud.
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Here’s some extra information from the designer:
The lantern Multi consists of two glass bubbles, one of them outside the other. The opaque inner bubble gives the light source an organic shape. The transparent outer bubble captures and exhibits the light. The two intersecting colors creates a new, more complex hue. Multi can also be used as a vase or as a light sculpture that interprets sunlight as color on the table. Multi’s function changes during the year. In the dark months the object glows. In the bright months the object displays the sunlight and flowers.
Multi is exhibited for the first time as part of the exhibition On Time at the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture from the 21st of June to the 25th of August 2013. The exhibition is curated by Klubben (Norwegian Designers Union). It is an exhibition about time, situations and objects. Nineteen Norwegian designers interprets 17 moments within 24 hours through 17 brand new objects.
Kristine Five Melvær developed the Multi lantern in cooperation with Magnor Glassverk, a Norwegian glass company. Multi will be developed further and launched as part of their collection.
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Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh has developed a simple wooden coat rack that leans up against a wall or corner.
Named Ondo, Kenyon Yeh‘s product comprises 13 parts that can be assembled from flat-pack using a handful of screws.
Five arms cross the body of the rack, creating room to hang at least ten items. There’s also six rounded hooks that can facilitate hats, ties or bags.
Each part is made from oak and comes in either black or natural wood.
Other products designed by Kenyon Yeh include a two-legged side table, which also needs to lean against a wall.
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Le couple de plongeurs Eusebio et Christina Saeyns de Santamaria, aussi connu sous le nom de One Ocean One Breath, nous propose de superbes images aquatiques. Avec des clichés pris aux 4 coins du monde permettant de s’évader, voici une sélection à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Product news: this collection of office furniture by Japanese design studio Nendo can be screwed together with a coin rather than tools (+ slideshow).
The two parts of each coin joint lie flush in the flat-pack panels when not in use, but with the push of a finger the screw component springs out to be loosened using small change.
Nendo designed the flexible Ofon range for office furniture brand Kokuyo to be used by companies who are constantly rearranging their workplaces.
Different desks and shelves can be attached by fixing the joints on the top, bottom and side panels.
Small shelving units double as legs for desks or stack on top of each other and side by side to create larger storage solutions.
Pastel-coloured fabric panels fit over the cubby holes to conceal their contents, hinged along the top edges.
Black, white and wood veneer options for each variation can be ordered.
Nendo’s latest projects include bottle designs for coffee flavoured beer and an installation of shower-light hybrids.
Photos are by Hiroshi Iwasaki.
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Nendo provided us with the following text:
Ofon
An office furniture collection designed for small workspaces.
Quick change is important for small offices. They need to be able to modify the office layout to respond to frequent moves, and to employee numbers expanding and contracting flexibly based on the organisation’s growth and the scale of each new project. We wanted our office furniture to be easily expandable and multi-functional, too.
We developed a ‘coin joint’ that can be screwed and unscrewed with a single coin, rather than requiring tools.
Assembling the furniture is almost as easy as pushing a button. The two parts of the joint lie flat when the furniture is not in use, then spring out with the touch of a finger to be screwed together with the coin.
We used this joint to assemble box-type shelves. Shelves not in use can serve as legs for cabinet-type desks.
The upholstered panels that function as cupboard doors also function as partitions between the desks; placed together, they can also partition the office space. The result: a highly functional design that allows workers to focus and relax within the same small space, and offers the physical flexibility required for easy changes to the office layout.
Since the design gives workers both ‘on’ and ‘off’ space and maximizes users’ ability to attach and detach the parts, ‘ofon’ was the perfect name for the collection.
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Sportswear brand Reebok has launched a range of running shoes that shrink to fit the wearer’s foot when heated with a hairdryer.
Reebok‘s RealFlex U-FORM+ shoe is heated with a hairdryer for two minutes until the logo on the back turns from black to red. The hot shoe is then laced tightly around the foot and left to cool for two minutes while the wearer sits still.
A synthetic mesh layer inside the upper shrinks as it cools to mould exactly to the contours of the skin, starting in the middle of the foot and wrapping around the heel.
The material replaces normal lining in the shoe so it doesn’t add any extra weight and perforations in the mesh mean it’s breathable. Reebok says the shoes can be reheated and reformed many times over without losing effectiveness.
“For top athletes we make custom-formed shoes,” says Bill McInnis, head of Reebok Advanced Concepts. “With U-FORM+ we’re going to do that for everyone.”
Other innovative sports shoes on Dezeen include trainers with criss-crossing bands inspired by Chinese finger traps, football boots with 3D-printed studs and shoes with cables round them that tighten on impact.
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Vivant à Madrid, la photographe Silvia Grav nous propose de rentrer dans son superbe univers avec des clichés en noir et blanc manipulés et retouchés. Des portraits étranges mais doté d’une grande sensibilité à découvrir en grand format dans la galerie et dans la suite de l’article.
Furniture made of guns by Mozambican designer Gonçalo Mabunda will be on show in London next week.
Gonçalo Mabunda works with weapons that were recovered at the end of the civil war in Mozambique, which divided the country for sixteen years until 1992.
Deactivated rocket launchers, rifles and pistols are welded together to create a range of thrones and African-influenced masks.
The collection will be on show at Jack Bell Gallery in London from 12 July to 10 August.
Other stories about weaponry on Dezeen include the addition of the AK-47 rifle to the Design Museum’s collection and the struggle over plans to distribute blueprints for 3D-printed guns.
Photographs are courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery.
Here ‘s some more information from the curators:
Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Gonçalo Mabunda, in his second solo show with the gallery. Mabunda is interested in the collective memory of his country, Mozambique, which has only recently emerged from a long and terrible civil war. He works with arms recovered in 1992 at the end of the sixteen-year conflict that divided the region.
In his sculpture, he gives anthropomorphic forms to AK47s, rocket launchers, pistols and other objects of destruction. While the masks could be said to draw on a local history of traditional African art, Mabunda’s work takes on a striking Modernist edge akin to imagery by Braque and Picasso. The deactivated weapons of war carry strong political connotations, yet the beautiful objects he creates also convey a positive reflection on the transformative power of art and the resilience and creativity of African civilian societies.
Mabunda is most well known for his thrones. According to the artist, the thrones function as attributes of power, tribal symbols and traditional pieces of ethnic African art. They are without a doubt an ironic way of commenting on his childhood experience of violence and absurdity and the civil war in Mozambique that isolated his country for a long period.
Mabunda was born in 1975, in Maputo, Mozambique. Having trained in Mozambique and South Africa, he has been working full time as an artist since 1997. His work has been exhibited at Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Hayward Gallery, London, Pompidou, Paris, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg among others. His work was included in Caught in the Crossfire, a recent group exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK.
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Le studio de graphisme français BMD rend publique sa collection privée de casques au design résolument old school. Entre un style biker américain, un certain chauvinisme et une typographie inspirée des années 1930, le mélange est très réussi. La collection en images dans la suite de l’article.
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