L’artiste argentin Julian Pablo Manizelli, mieux connu sous le pseudonyme Chu Doma, superpose ses illustrations construites autour de personnages aux formes courbes s’inscrivant dans un paysage géométrique dense et en fait d’étranges et superbes sculptures en 3D. À découvrir en images.
News: students at the Eindhoven University of Technology have unveiled what they claim to be the world’s first solar-powered family car.
Called Stella, and resembling a squashed, wingless aeroplane, the vehicle can seat four people and can travel up to 600 kilometres, powered by solar panels mounted on the roof.
The vehicle has been developed to take part in the new Cruiser Class category of the World Solar Challenge – a biannual 3,000km race race through the Australian outback from Darwin to Adelaide.
This new category will be introduced for the first time at this year’s event, taking place from 6-13 October, to reflect the growing interest in commercially viable solar cars.
Unlike the other categories, where speed is the main concern, the Cruiser Class is judged on criteria including comfort and usability. Cruiser Class vehicles must also carry a passenger as well as a driver.
“The design of the car of the future has to meet the needs of modern consumers,” says Solar Team Eindhoven, which is based at Eindhoven University of Technology. “The car must be capable of transporting a family from the Netherlands to France in one day, it needs to be suitable for the daily commute to work, and it needs to achieve all this in comfort.”
“Since the Solar Team Eindhoven wants to contribute to the development of a car of the future, the design demands more than just a focus on speed,” the team adds. “Comfort, ease of use, and feasibility are all key terms.”
The carbon and aluminium car features a buttonless, touchscreen dashboard and a responsive steering wheel that expands or contracts according to your speed.
Solar panels on the car’s roof will generate around half the energy it requires, with the remaining power coming from solar recharging stations.
Solar Team Eindhoven’s website provides more details of the World Solar Challenge race. “A large part of the energy to be used will be collected by solar cells as we travel,” it says. “During the race, there are only three opportunities to recharge the relatively small battery, which means the car has to be able to independently drive a minimum of 750 kilometers on electric energy. Besides the issue of energy and its management, navigation, safety and support will be essential.
“Once the race starts in Darwin, the teams are permitted to drive until 5.00 p.m. in the afternoon. After that, they have to set up camp in the outback and be ready to leave again at 8.00 a.m. The teams must be completely self reliant and must reach all seven checkpoints.”
Photos are by Bart van Overbeeke/TU Eindhoven.
Here’s some info from Eindhoven University of Technology:
TU/e student team unveils world’s first solar-powered family car
Solar Team Eindhoven starts World Solar Challenge in Australia with four-seater family car
The Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) presented the world’s first solar-powered family car today. ‘Stella’ is the first ‘energy-positive car’ with room for four people, a trunk, intuitive steering and a range of 600 kilometers. This is the car being entered by the student team in the Cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge that starts in Australia in October 2013.
A car that produces electricity
The solar cells of ‘Stella’- Latin for star and also a reference to the family character of the car – generate more electricity on average than the car uses and that means the surplus electricity can be returned to the power grid, thereby making the car ‘energy-positive’.
The car of the future
Solar Team Eindhoven has set itself the goal of developing the car of the future. By combining aerodynamic design with lightweight materials like carbon and aluminum, a very fuel-efficient car has been designed, which also has ingenious applications like a LED strip and touchscreen that make all the buttons and knobs we know today superfluous. Intuitive driving is enabled by a steering wheel that expands or contracts when you are driving too fast or too slowly. STE will have the car officially certified for road use to prove that this really is a fully-fledged car.
World Solar Challenge
University teams from all over the world will be competing in a 3,000 km long race through the Australian outback. Solar Team Eindhoven is taking part in the Cruiser class in which the emphasis lies on practical and user-friendly solar cars rather than on speed. The ‘solar race’ takes place from 6 to 13 October 2013. Back in the Netherlands there will be a tour of high schools to promote engineering and science in education.
The engineer of tomorrow
Thanks to Solar Team Eindhoven entry, TU/e is represented for the first time in the Solar World Challenge. A multidisciplinary team (with 22 students from six different TU/e departments) has spent a year on this project that involves challenges from the fields of energy and mobility. Cooperation with industry has given the students an opportunity to become familiar with top-notch entrepreneurship, thereby underlining TU/e’s vision of educating the engineer of tomorrow. TU/e professors prof.dr. Elena Lomonova and prof.dr.ir. Maarten Steinbuch are members of the steering group.
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a research-driven, design-oriented technology university with a strong international focus. The university was founded in 1956 and has around 7,200 students and 3,000 staff. TU/e is geared to the societal challenges posed in the areas of Energy, Health and Smart Mobility.
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La designer londonienne Gabriele Meldaikyte revisite le packaging du kit de premiers secours en le rendant plus facile d’usage. Le kit se sépare en 3 parties, chacune des parties étant consacrée à un type de blessure en particulier. Un résultat hyper-graphique et très fonctionnel à découvrir en images.
News: a range of products inspired by a young designer’s dyslexia has won the New Designer of the Year Award (+ slideshow).
Northumbria University graduate Henry Franks won the award for a collection of re-imagined everyday objects, including an inverted set of mugs, double-hooked coat hangers, pen pots that only hold two or three pens and a set of cork plinths for cups.
“The motivation was to utilise the power of unconventional thinking and apply my own dyslexia to objects to create products which have dyslexia and function better as a result,” Franks told Dezeen.
One of Franks’ products is a coat hanger with two hooks, so it can be hung either way round. “The Confused Coat Hanger wasn’t paying attention when being told which way round it was supposed to be,” Franks explains. “As a result, it has a double-hooked head and can hang either way round when hanging your clothes up.”
Franks’ Poor Memory Pen Pots can hold just two or three pens because they “have a terrible memory due to their dyslexia and can only remember a couple of things at a time,” says Franks. Yet this apparent shortcoming prevents the pot overflowing with items and keeps just a few essential writing tools to hand.
Coaster Plinth, an oversized cork drinks coaster, ended up as an elevated platform rather than a flat disc because it “misread the dimensions it was supposed to be and hasn’t understood the question,” says Franks. Despite the apparent precariousness of a cup placed on top of the plinth, it makes the cup more noticeable so it’s less likely to be spilled.
Muglexia, a range of mugs, are inversions of the traditional shape and refer to the way dyslexics invert and flip letters and words when reading. “These three mugs illustrate inversion and as a result are more stable and more balanced in the hand,” Franks explains.
Franks was given the award at the New Designers Part 2 opening ceremony at the Business Design Centre in north London last night.
Franks receives a £1000 cash prize, £1000 worth of advice from intellectual property lawyers Briffa, £2000 worth of advice from accountancy experts Rhodes & Rhodes, and a half day with PR consultancy Four Colman Getty.
“Henry joyfully combines utility with human behaviour resulting in a clever, well rounded collection, brimming with unique ideas,” said the award judges.
See Henry’s winning design collection on Northumbria University’s stand at New Designers 2013 until 6 July at London’s Business Design Centre.
New Designers is an annual showcase of graduate projects from design schools around the UK. Previous New Design of the Year winners include boiled leather furniture and an extending shelving unit.
See our coverage of Graduate Shows 2013 »
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Los Angeles architects Kyle and Liz von Hasseln have set up a business that produces 3D-printed sugar sculptures for wedding cakes, table centrepieces and pie toppings.
The duo founded 3D printing company The Sugar Lab while studying at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where they graduated last autumn.
Their sugar sculptures are made using a process similar to standard 3D printing: a mixture of alcohol and water is applied selectively in layers to wet and then harden the sugar.
“If you’ve ever made frosting and left the mixing bowl in the sink overnight, you know that moistened sugar gets quite hard,” said the designers. “That’s the underlying concept of 3D printing with sugar.”
The resulting pieces taste like normal sugar, but could be flavoured. The pair are working on a range of custom projects including cake toppers, centrepieces, pie-crust lattices and a four-tiered wedding cake with a 3D-printed sugar stand.
“That’s an exciting part of 3D printing sugar for us – transforming sugar into a structural, sculptural medium that can start to define the form of the food instead of the other way around, and even to support it structurally,” the designers added.
“We see 3D-printed sugar as the best place to start, in terms of 3D printing food,” they continued. “There’s an existing cultural ritual of desert and celebration that embraces experimentation and embellishment. It’s primed to embrace technology like 3D printing as a design tool, and we’re just tapping into that.”
Other sugar design projects on Dezeen include a patterned dance floor of sieved icing sugar, a machine for automatically decorating cakes and jewellery grown on threads suspended in sugar solution.
Other unusual food we’ve featured recently includes bio-engineered dishes that wriggle around on the plate, yoghurts, ice creams and cheeses with edible packaging and fruit labelled with laser tattoos instead of stickers.
We’ve also featured 3D-printed models of cereal, pasta and hamburgers, and you can read more about when we can expect to tuck into 3D-printed steaks in an extract from Print Shift, our one-off print-on-demand magazine all about additive manufacturing.
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Here’s some more information from The Sugar Lab:
What we do
The Sugar Lab is a micro-design firm for custom 3D printed sugar. With our background in architecture and our penchant for complex geometry, we’re bringing 3D printing technology to the genre of mega-cool cakes. 3D printing represents a paradigm shift for confections, transforming sugar into an dimensional, structural medium. It makes it possible to design, digitally model
and print an utterly original sugar sculpture on top of a cake.
All of our projects are custom. The design process begins from scratch, when we hear from you. Tell us your idea/theme/vibe. Give us a swatch of lace from your gown/a polaroid of the wrought iron gate at your venue/a postcard of your hometown skyline. Or just come to The Sugar Lab and brainstorm with us. It doesn’t even have to be a cake; centerpieces, chandeliers, cupcake toppers, sugar cubes, pie-crust-lattice, grapefruit sweeteners, all possible and possibly awesome.
How we got started We’re Kyle and Liz von Hasseln, a husband and wife architectural design team in Los Angeles. The Sugar Lab started about two years ago, when we were graduate students in architecture. We were living in a tiny apartment in Echo Park with a correspondingly tiny outdoor kitchen. We didn’t have an oven, and when we realized that meant we couldn’t bake our friend Chelsea a cake for her birthday, we decided to try to 3D print one, instead.
After a period of trial and error (during which her actual birthday came and went!) we managed to print a simple cupcake topper that spelled out ‘Chelsea’ in cursive sugar. Chelsea loved it! We thought other people might like 3D printed sugar, too, so when we graduated last fall, we spent the time to really optimize our process, and we started The Sugar Lab–officially–in our new studio here in Silver Lake.
Our process
After some brainstorming and messy hand sketching, we work to translate our ideas into 3D digital models. Our backgrounds in architecture serve us well during the modeling process, which has a lot to do with structural and material considerations as well as making design moves. We’re always aiming for a sculptural, dimensional form that maximizes what 3D printing brings to sugar.
As for the actual printing process, if you’ve ever made frosting and left the mixing bowl in the sink overnight, you know that moistened sugar gets quite hard. That’s the underlying concept of 3D printing with sugar. We use a mixture of water and alcohol, applied very precisely in a layer-wise manner, to selectively wet and harden the sugar substrate. The process is fundamentally similar to other 3D printing applications, we’ve just optimized the process for resolution and strength with sugar, rather than with a standard 3D printing material.
What’s so cool about 3d=printed sugar?
3D printing transforms sugar into a structural, sculptural element that can interact with food on different terms. 3D printed sugar can be used to sweeten or to ornament, but it can also start to define the form of the food instead of the other way around, or even to support it structurally. For example, we’re very excited to be working right now with some seriously talented cake artists at a well-known bakery in Hollywood to design a four-tiered wedding cake with a 3D printed sugar cake-stand, and 3D printed sugar-tiers supporting traditional cake tiers. What’s exciting for us is, in terms of the possibilities of 3D printed sugar, is how differently everyone thinks about how to use it. People are constantly suggesting things we’ve never thought of, and it’s very fun to try to implement those ideas.
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Digital Kitchen a travaillé en collaboration avec Los Angeles World Airports pour créer cette installation numérique époustouflante dans le nouveau « Bradley International Terminal » de LAX. Proposant de multiples projections, cette création de toute beauté est à découvrir en vidéo dans l’article.
« Sphere » est le nom d’une série de clichés réalisée par le photographe français Alexandre Bordereau. Ce dernier nous propose des images de divers lieux de la capitale et de sa banlieue avec en leur centre une sphère reflétant ce que le spectateur ne voit pas dans l’image. A découvrir dans la suite.
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our final movie from New York, design journalist Monica Khemsurov takes us to exhibitions around the Noho Design District and imparts an optimistic outlook for young designers in the city.
Khemsurov, along with her online design magazine Sight Unseen co-founder Jill Singer, set up the Noho Design District in 2010, aiming to provide an alternative platform to the ICFF trade fair.
“The idea was to be an offsite show for New York design week, in which young designers could show their work,” she says. “We wanted to make a neighbourhood that felt more intimate and had more of a fun, experimental feel than what has been shown at New York design week in the past.”
Noho is named after its location north of Houston Street in Manhattan, bounded by Broadway to the west and Bowery to the east. On the first stop of our tour, Khemsurov takes us to the district’s hub exhibition Noho Next, curated by Sight Unseen and featuring new work by twelve American designers.
Next up is the Here & There of design for travel at the showroom of design studio Various Projects, which features a canoe made from Dacron, kevlar and wood by designers Colgate Searle and Matthias Pliessnig that Khensurov assures us is “fully functional, water safe and can be floated on a lake.”
A braided textile piece woven by New York artist Dana Barnes is picked out at the preserved 19th Century Merchant’s House Museum. “Sight Unseen invited seven American designers to install their work made with modern craft techniques,” Khensurov explains.
We then go beneath the Standard East Village hotel to the Chez Andre nightclub to see the American Design Club’s exhibition titled Trophy. “This show is about everyday trophies or objects that are momentos or that commemorate moments of your life,” Khemsurov says.
Finally, she shares her thoughts on New York design scene’s current status: “In the past five years, a lot of young designers have gone out on their own and started their own studios.
“A lot of people are producing their own work, which gives them more freedom to express themselves and make interesting and exciting design, so I think there’s never been a better time for the New York design scene.”
We drove around New York in our MINI Cooper S Paceman.
The music featured in the movie is a track called You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas. You can listen to the full version on Dezeen Music Project.
In our previous reports from New York, Willy Wong introduces the NYCxDesign festival and Stephen Burks takes us on a tour of the city’s High Line park.
See all our coverage of New York 2013 »
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Design matters at Jaguar, but the British car-makers have only recently evolved their overall aesthetic. A few years back, when they unveiled the Jaguar C-X75, we got a glimpse of where the creative direction was heading for the sportscar facet of their…
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Design graduate Tanya Shukstelinsky has proposed a new type of affordable urban housing, with people living between two sheets of suspended fabric (+ slideshow).
Shukstelinsky’s Cocoon project features sheets of material with stairs and handholds stitched into them, allowing occupants to move between different living zones.
The result is extremely thin multi-storey dwellings that Shukstelinsky describes as “temporary living spaces for urban nomads”.
The designer created the installation as part of her final year project at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
“Last year, during one of our studio classes named Cocoon, students were asked to design a private space in a public area,” Shukstelinsky explains.
“I came up with an idea for a space between two stitched layers of fabric. A person who lives in the space can move upon the stitches. The stitches are dividing the fabric into different areas – dining area, sleeping area and bath.”
The concept could be used to create affordable accommodation in expensive urban areas, Shukstelinsky says. “This concept of a vertical and narrow dwelling can be used in dense urban spaces with expensive real estate. Also, integration with modern technologies and smart textiles can provide the minimum we need for temporary accommodation.”
Other micro homes we’ve published include a motorised compact-living cocoon by Greg Lynn that rotates to provide space for relaxing, sleeping and bathing, and a modular system with cross-shaped capsules that can be flipped around to turn a living room into an office or bathroom.
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