Le studio Rietveld Landscape a imaginé au sein d’une ancienne chapelle au Centraal Museum d’Utrecht cette installation magnifique appelée « Pretty Vacant ». Une création qui s’est inspirée de Vacant NL, le projet proposé par la Hollande pour la ‘Venice Architecture Biennale’ en 2010. A découvrir en images dans la suite.
Product news: this chair by San Francisco design studio Mike & Maaike wraps around the sitter to create a refuge in busy interiors.
Extended armrests create a continuous loop to reduce ambient noise and visual distractions in hotel lobbies, airports or residential environments, while still allowing users to look between them and the backrest.
Dutch designer Maaike Evers and American Mike Simonian say the idea was to create the feeling of a “room-within-a-room” by introducing elements that invoke walls and a ceiling.
The chair was designed for contract furniture brand Haworth and launched today at the NeoCon trade fair in Chicago.
An open top version and ottoman are also part of the collection and are made from steel frames covered in moulded foam and upholstered in a natural wool fabric.
In Milan earlier this year, Italian brand Moroso launched a chair by Patricia Urquiola with a hood that partially wraps around the sitter, while British designer Freya Sewell’s felt pods can be closed to create a completely secluded cocoon-like space.
Mike and Maaike previously designed a bookshelf with slots cuts specifically to house important tomes about power and society and a space divider made from a grid of overlapping batons.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Suitable for both public and private spaces, the Windowseat is designed as a comfortable refuge from the hustle and bustle of lobbies, airports or busy home environments. By taking architectural elements (walls and ceiling) and applying them to a chair, we are exploring the idea of sub-architectural space, creating a room-within-a-room complete with its own unique perspective.
As office spaces shift toward the open plan, it is important to have a place to escape, to think, to make a call, or relax. While sitting in the Windowseat, the ambient noise is actually muffled and a new visual perspective is created, making the chair a multisensory experience.
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Le studio Zimoun présente leur première installation permanente, une intervention sonore à l’intérieur d’un silo de 1951 abandonné. Située en Suisse, cette création propose un espace blanc dans lequel 329 moteurs permettent d’enclencher le mouvement de boules de coton, créant ainsi une atmosphère sonore déroutante.
Product news: a perforated door slides across the front of these simple sideboards by Danish designer Simon Legald for Normann Copenhagen.
The Kabino cabinet by Simon Legald for Normann Copenhagen comes in white or grey with a natural ash wood frame.
The perforations mean it can be used as a TV cabinet because devices hidden inside can still be operated with a remote control when the doors are closed.
“I like to work in the cross field between craftsmanship and industry,” says Legald. “When you buy a modern sideboard, it is often designed with pure craftsmanship or total industry in mind.”
“With Kabino I have explored manufacturing methods and various combinations of material in order for Kabino to have a little of both.”
Earlier this year Norman Copenhagen launched a table-top mirror with a dish in the base to hold small items.
Colourful wall-mounted shelves and a collection of cabinets carved with geometric patterns are the most recent stories we’ve featured about storage.
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Here’s some more information from the brand:
Kabino is a simple and versatile sideboard with an exclusive look designed by Simon Legald. One of the sideboard’s two sliding doors has perforated holes, giving it a visual elegance. The ash frame softens the feel and adds warmth. Kabino is a useful piece of furniture for almost anywhere in the home.
Designer Simon Legald often adds his personal touch to his designs through well thought out details. He has worked with the details of the doors on Kabino breaking up the otherwise uniform surface and creating a more dynamic design. This can for example be seen in the handles, which have been deliberately staggered and made into an integral part of the doors.
Kabino is available with white or grey doors and is ideal as a sideboard in the living room, dining room, hallway or bedroom. Kabino is also suitable to be used as a TV cabinet due to the built-in cable outlet and the perforated holes, which make it possible to use a remote control even when the doors are closed.
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: Spanish atelier MUT patterned these tiles with shapes that look like overlapping pieces of coloured paper.
The hexagonal cement floor tiles are designed to imitate the psychedelic patterns seen through a kaleidoscope.
Four different designs range from a scattering of shapes to a complete radial design, which can be mixed and matched to create a multitude of patterns.
Manufactured in Spain by tile specialists Entic designs, they are available in a blue- or red-based palette.
The tiles were on show at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week, where felt cocoons for relaxing in and lamps based on glass vats found in a milking parlour were also exhibited.
At last year’s event we filmed a movie with Erwan Bouroullec, who told us about the textured tiles he and his brother Ronan were launching.
Our archive of stories about tiles includes a converted hayloft that features spotty designs on the walls and a pizza bar in north-east London clad with graphic patterns.
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Photographs are by MUT.
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Keidos
Following the success of Drops, the previous collection of hydraulic ceramic floor tiles exhibited in Milan, enticdesigns is again teaming up with the Spanish studio, MUT design, to create it’s new collection, this time inspired by one of the most emblematic toys of our childhood; the kaleidoscope.
The multi-coloured pieces of Keidos form a new emotive and playful design collection. Keidos, as with it’s predecessor Drops, breaks with formal tradition, distancing itself from a rigid, modular system that characterised the hydraulic floors at the end of the 19th Century.
Thanks to simple geometry, the four pieces that make up Keidos, represent the pieces of indescribable beauty captured by kaleidoscopes. Little, delicately-coloured and irregular segments have become the common denominator in this new project.
Conceptualised to allow for thousands of combinations, the new design for enticdesigns offers as many unique solutions as there are spaces. With the versatile colour palette, Keidos floors allow for elegant and inspirational designs for hidden corners and places of reflection. This collection offers customisation without limits with its different pieces. 100% made in Spain.
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New York 2013: this compact wall-mounted bedside lamp launched at ICFF can be swivelled to angle light where it’s needed.
Rich Brilliant Willing‘s anodised aluminium LED light can be rotated 350 degrees on the wall and pivoted 180 degrees on a cradle to point in the required direction.
Either a flat circular cap for direct illumination or a frosted bubble that creates a diffused glow can be fitted over the bulb.
The design debuted at ICFF in New York last month, alongside a lightbulb with a tiny chandelier inside.
We filmed a couple of movies while in New York for our Dezeen and MINI World Tour – watch Stephen Burks explain how architecture and design are changing the city and see him give a tour of the High Line elevated park.
Recent lamps we’ve featured include chalice-shaped designs with orange glass shades above concrete bases and a set based on glass vats found in a milking parlour.
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La marque IBM a réalisé une excellente campagne appelée People For Smarter Cities, projet proposant aux utilisateurs d’échanger des idées sur la ville de demain. Une série de panneaux publicitaires a été imaginée pour donner une utilité à celle-ci, proposant aux passants de s’asseoir ou de s’abriter.
Industrial designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has unveiled a television set-top box that includes a remote control with no buttons (+ slideshow).
Designed by Fuseproject for American company Fanhattan, The Fan TV system allows users to search live cable TV channels as well as recorded shows and streaming services through one interface, so they can easily find something they’d like to watch regardless of whether it’s on cable or the internet.
The two parts are styled like pebbles and automatically align when stacked thanks to concealed magnets.
The Bluetooth remote control has a smooth touchpad with 200 sensors so users can navigate menus, change channels and control volume settings, without looking down, through a series of swipes and taps.
It’s deliberately not possible to just punch in channel numbers, but there is an on-screen keyboard for search.
The user interface design departs from the usual grids and time slots of TV menus, instead offering users a way to explore by scrolling through genres, actors, channels, what’s trending or what friends have recommended on social media.
A search for a specific show might bring up options for the latest episode being broadcast now, episodes from this series that have been saved to the cloud-based storage and episodes from past series available to stream, plus reviews and soundtracks.
Fanhattan already has an app for search and discovery of TV shows for streaming and this week made public a web service. The Fan TV device, however, will rely on partnerships with cable TV companies that have not yet been announced, though the device is scheduled to become available later this year.
“Everything about Fan TV is about cohesiveness between hardware and user interface,” says Fuseproject. “While others still look at these elements separately, Fanhattan and Fuseproject partnered at every step of the creative process to build the ultimate entertainment experience.”
At Dezeen Live last September, Yves Behar spoke about designing hardware and software as a cohesive whole, explaining how he’s set up a user interface group bringing together UI and industrial design at his San Francisco studio and adding that “Apple is actually a little bit behind in that area.”
Apple, meanwhile, is rumoured to be working on a TV remote control that’s worn as a ring on one finger for the highly anticipated Apple television, set to launch later this year.
The Fan TV has been two years in the making and was unveiled at D: All Things Digital conference in California this week, where Behar also launched new brand August with a lock that’s controlled via a smartphone rather than keys.
This isn’t Behar’s first foray television interface design: in 2011 Fuseproject launched a product that allows users to control their TV via their smartphone, called Peel Fruit, with hardware to relay the signal to the television set that was shaped like a pear, orange or apple. In 2008 the studio developed Le Cube, a TV receiver, remote control and graphic interface for French broadcaster CANAL +.
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Here’s some more information from Fuseproject:
Television and movies have been stuck by hardware and interfaces that are frustrating un-designed experiences. Fan TV has crafted the deepest and most magical experience, an easy and cinematic way to discover and watch all content.
At fuseproject, we have worked incessantly for the last two years to build a cohesive physical experience as well, a set top box and remote that change the game. The remote has no buttons and a touch surface, fits in the hand and is small in size. The cable box and the remote look like two pebbles, they physically connect through magnetic touch points that magically re-align both parts.
At its core, Fan TV is about you – about fans getting the most out of their entertainment. Instead of a clunky cable box or DVR system hidden in the cabinet, Fan TV is designed for display. The small remote responds to the subtlest touch, simply tap or swipe to navigate your movies and shows.
Mimicking nestled stones, the box and remote fit together with the use of magnets, ensuring the remote has a place where it can be found again.
Our branding work and our industrial design is influenced by the simplicity of the offering, a zen-like experience that stimulates discovery through a cinematic looking database of all the world’s movies and shows. The magical touch interface on the remote, the simplicity of the packaging, and the way all of these elements come together. Whether it is your favorite new TV show or old movie, Fan TV strips away any complications and just lets you watch.
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Damien Krisl a réalisé cette superbe vidéo appelée « Urban Hippie », véritable court-métrage de mode narrant le voyage d’une femme dans ses songes. Entre moments de solitude et émancipation de l’amour, cette création colorée est un véritable bijou visuel à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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