Playtime Origami Collection

Les créatifs Ying Zhang et Ida Thonsgaard lancent leur première collection d’inspiration asiatique et scandinave « Playtime ». Modulable grâce à un principe qui rappelle celui des origamis, c’est une collection transformable que proposent les deux designers. Un beau projet à découvrir dans la suite.

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Poetic Billboards with Neons signs

L’écrivain et artiste écossais Robert Montgomery a choisi de mettre ses pensées à la vue de tous en les installant à l’aide de panneaux solaires dans les rues. Pensées profondes et réconfortantes, elles sont un appel à lever les yeux du quotidien pour un moment. À découvrir en images dans la suite.

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Visita alla sede Casalgrande Padana

Sabato 8 giugno ho visitato la sede di Casalgrande Padana, grazie a un’opportunità offerta dall’azienda e da ProViaggiArchitettura per gli architetti della provincia di Forlì e Cesena.
La giornata è stata molto interessante perché ci ha dato la possibilità di vedere da vicino due progetti realizzati dall’architetto giapponese Kengo Kuma, e lo stabilimento dove avviene la produzione del grés porcellanato. Casalgrande Padana è una delle aziende più importanti del ricco distretto ceramico dislocato tra le provincie di Modena e Reggio Emilia, e dal 1960 a oggi ha costruito le sue fortune sul grés porcellanato, un prodotto estremamente diffuso grazie all’evoluzione di tecniche di lavorazione sempre più raffinate e performanti.
Pochi anni fa Casalgrande Padana ha invitato Kengo Kuma in Italia, ed è nata l’idea di costruire al centro della rotonda stradale di fronte all’ingresso dell’azienda un’opera che valorizzasse l’uso del grés.

L’architetto giapponese ha ideato Ceramic Cloud, un monumento alto circa 5 metri costruito con piastrelle di grés sorrette da una struttura interna in acciaio. L’aspetto è quello di una grande parete permeabile, il cui orientamento cambia quando i veicoli le ruotano attorno; l’effetto è ancora più suggestivo di notte, quando le luci illuminano il monumento, che si riflette nello specchio d’acqua dove si erge la struttura.

Oltre alla Ceramic Cloud, Kengo Kuma si è offerto di recuperare un casolare posto vicino alla rotonda, che è diventato uno spazio polifunzionale per gli eventi organizzati da Casalgrande Padana. L’aspetto esterno dell’edificio è rimasto tradizionale, ma al suo interno Kuma si è sbizzarrito con soluzioni costruttive eleganti e suggestive, che non si vedono spesso in Italia.

Anche in questo caso il grés porcellanato ha un ruolo chiave, e le piastrelle bianche che rivestono la pavimentazione esterna stabiliscono un forte legame visivo con la Ceramic Cloud. Le stesse piastrelle proseguono dentro l’edificio, creando al piano terra un’affascinante commistione tra spazio interno ed esterno, grazie anche all’uso della ghiaia come filtro tra la pavimentazione e le pareti perimetrali.

Mi piacerebbe vedere più spesso operazioni di architettura e marketing come queste perché portano sul suolo italiano progetti di qualità e perché si dimostrano particolarmente azzeccate per le aziende che operano nel settore dell’edilizia e del design. Agendo in questa maniera Casalgrande Padana non ha solamente ingaggiato un progettista di fama internazionale, ma ha creato un evento architettonico che richiama l’attenzione dei tecnici, gli stessi che in futuro valuteranno l’acquisto dei loro prodotti.

Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas

A group of Royal College of Art graduates has used the pulp from mulched newspapers to form helmets for London’s cycle hire scheme (+ movie).

Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas

Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas took discarded free newspapers strewn around the city’s public transport system and used them to make paper mache.

Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas

The pulp was mixed with adhesive and pigment then vacuum-formed into shape, before being heated to dry it out.

Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas

Straps slot into grooves that criss-cross the top of the helmet, clipping together under the chin like the standard design.

Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas

The surface inside the helmet is also bevelled so air can flow through and keep the head cool.

Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas

Each helmet would cost around £1 and could be sold in a vending machine or nearby shops, offering low-cost safety equipment for London’s Barclays “Boris Bike” cycle sharing scheme.

Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas

Other Royal College of Art graduates presented a kit allowing musicians to control sound and lighting at their gigs and wooden shoes based on furniture and engineering at the school’s show, which continues until 30 June.

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New York City recently launched its own bicycle sharing scheme, with 6000 bikes available across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn.

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We’ve also featured an inflatable helmet that fold away into a collar or scarf and a bollard with a foot rest and handle to help cyclists keep their balance at traffic lights.

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Design Miami/Basel 2013: Resting Upon Imagination: Beasts, thrones and walnut wood offer visionary sitting spots at this year’s furniture fair

Design Miami/Basel 2013: Resting Upon Imagination


Design Miami/Basel houses the extraordinary. Objects as ordinary as a chair, and as everyday as a bench to sit upon, wow at this annual celebration of collectible design. With deft artistry, designers re-envision the structure and function of day-to-day living across furniture and…

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Volley Rocker

Disegnata da Adam Goodrum, la Volley Rocker è l’equivalente di starsene seduto a bordo campo rilassato a godersi la partita. Non chiedetemi perchè.

Volley Rocker

Volley Rocker

Alex Trochut’s Binary Prints: The designer’s new patented process awakens some of contemporary music’s finest artists

Alex Trochut's Binary Prints


Illustrator, designer and typographer Alex Trochut creates art for some of the world’s best-known brands including Coca-Cola, Nike and the New York Times. Working between Barcelona and Brooklyn, Trochut is…

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Google Tokyo Office

Situés dans le quartier de Roppongi à Tokyo, les bureaux japonais de Google ont été pensés par les équipes de Klein Dytham. Mélangeant avec talent les influences occidentales à celles du pays du Soleil levant, des images de cet environnement aux multiples ambiances sont à découvrir dans la suite.

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Nike Air Max Packaging

La marque à la virgule a récemment demandé aux créatifs berlinois de Scholz & Friends de repenser le packaging de la célèbre paire « Nike Air Max ». En remplaçant le carton par un emballage rappelant les bulles d’air de la chaussure, ce concept très réussi est à découvrir en images dans la suite.

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Laser tattoos to replace sticky labels on fruit

Laser tattoos to replace sticky labels on fruit

News: fruit may no longer come with sticky labels thanks to an EU ruling approving the use of chemicals applied with a laser to brand fresh produce.

The European Union has approved the use of iron oxides and hydroxides on the skin of fruit, which are used to make laser markings stand out more clearly without penetrating the peel.

Laser tattoos to replace sticky labels on fruit

Alongside company branding and information on country of origin, the tattoos could include barcodes or QR codes that shoppers would scan to access more details about the produce.

Spanish company Laser Food, which has developed a machine that can apply laser logos to as many as 54,000 pieces of fruit an hour, has been campaigning for the ban on the chemicals to be lifted since 2009.

Laser tattoos to replace sticky labels on fruit

The company claims the technique could have environmental benefits by reducing the paper, plastic and glue used in stickers, as well as preventing fruit being sold on without details of its supply chain.

Other packaging design we’ve reported on recently includes medicine packs designed to fit in between Coca-Cola bottles to take advantage of the company’s vast distribution network and limited editions of famous products with no brand names on the packaging.

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