Designers are more than floor lamps and logos—first and foremost, they are problem solvers. When Alan Siegel began his career in corporate design, he saw a problem with complexity. He saw insurance forms that were incomprehensible…
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Quadra consiste in una serie di gambe da tavolo che grazie alla sua struttura, si adatta a qualsiasi tipologia di piano in legno. Disegnato da Luis Arrivillaga, resta per ora un prototipo.
Milan 2013: German designer Ingo Maurer’s table without any legs has gone into production with British brand Established & Sons.
The white table top appears to float at first glance, but is in fact supported on an extended arm from each of the four black chairs.
Ingo Maurer devised a hidden mechanism beneath the table that allows the chairs to be pulled out so users can sit down. Rectangular and circular surfaces are available.
The wooden table was first conceived in 2012 and has since been put into production with Established & Sons. The furniture was shown at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month.
We’ve recently featured a coffee table by Foster + Partners made from a stretched metal disk and a shape-shifting table that transforms from a square to a triangle.
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This innovative piece is the first production table from the widely celebrated designer, Ingo Maurer. On first inspection, it appears to be archetypal wooden kitchen table and chairs but on closer viewing the table is revealed as ‘floating’; without any legs, supported by a simple extending mechanism which connects the chairs. Maurer has drawn inspiration from magic, ethereal substance and weightlessness. Floating Table invites the user to look more carefully at their simple daily objects and furniture for elements of surprise.
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At just 21-years-old, designer, model and entrepreneur Judson Harmon confidently stands with two feet firmly planted within the ever-evolving fashion industry. After opening ØDD—a boutique and styling house in NYC’s Lower East Side neighborhood—in October 2012,…
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the first of a series of films recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan last month, MINI head of design Anders Warming explains the thinking behind the brand’s presentation during the furniture fair while Johanna Agerman Ross, editor-in-chief of Disegno magazine, gives her opinion on the highlights of the world’s most important design week.
“The MINI Paceman Garage is centred around how people act within a MINI community,” says Warming (above), explaining why the presentation – set up inside a car repair garage on Via Tortona – included features such as a record store, a coffee shop, a barber and a cinema. “They end up talking about anything that involves their life. And that’s why we have these different stations. It’s sort of like the extended life around the MINI.”
As part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour, we set up a video studio within the garage, where we conducted interviews with some of the world’s leading design authorities to get their thoughts on the week.
Agerman Ross of Disegno, our first interviewee, believes a key theme this year was the renewed focus on the official fair, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, at the expense of the independent exhibitions that take place around the city.
“I have found in the last few years that going to the city and going to the independent exhibitions have been where things have been really happening and interesting,”she says. “But I feel there’s a return to the reason why we’re all here – the commerce of the fair, the wheeling and dealing and the showing off of new products by the bigger brands.”
“Milan this year was more subdued that previous years, with the ongoing economic crisis clearly affecting many companies. This has led to a more pared-back and business-like week without the frivolity of previous years,” says Agerman Ross.
“I think so. After all if the industry doesn’t work, the other things can’t happen either. There needs to be an economy and a network for these things to function. The designers and the brands need to make money in order to exist, and without a healthy commercial branch of design, the other things won’t exist either. One supports the other.”
“Everyone’s taking a step back, trying to be quite precise in what they’re putting out and trying to show products that seem quite close to hitting the market, rather than being just a product for show that won’t go into production,” she says. “It’s a tighter output altogether.”
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News: nanotechnology scientists at an American university have 3D-printed a bionic ear that can hear radio frequencies beyond a human’s normal range.
The ear is designed to integrate electronics with biology and create a flexible and fleshy alternative to mechanical prosthetics.
“This concept of 3D printing living cells together with electronic components and growing them into functional organs represents a new direction in merging electronics with biological systems,” said the scientists in their report, published in the journal Nano Letters.
The Princeton University team printed the ear from hydrogel – a material used as scaffolding in tissue engineering – using the commercially available Fab@Home 3D printer.
The hydrogel was infused with cells from a calf and intertwined with a polymer containing silver nanoparticles, which conduct radio frequencies.
The calf cells then matured into cartilage and hardened around a coil antenna, seen in the middle of the ear.
When tested, the bionic ear was found to receive signals across an extended frequency spectrum of 1 MHz to 5 GHz, far beyond the normal human range of 20 Hz to 20 KHz.
The team also created a complementary left ear and used a piece of music by Beethoven to successfully test the pair’s ability to hear in stereo.
At present the ear can only receive radio waves, but the scientists believe it would be possible to expand its hearing with other materials, such as pressure-sensitive sensors that register acoustic sounds.
Medical applications for 3D printing are becoming increasingly commonplace, as bioprinting expert Michael Renard recently told Dezeen in an interview for Print Shift, our one-off, print-on-demand magazine about this emerging technology.
“We’re working with small pieces of tissue at the moment – a small piece of blood vessel or liver,” he said. “Once you have the cells ready, we can print something in a few hours.” Read the full interview with Renard.
Other 3D printing projects we’ve reported on lately include prototypes of 3D-printed burgers and pasta and designer Ron Arad’s single-piece 3D-printed spectacles – see all 3D printing.
Top photograph by Frank Wojciechowski.
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Jusqu’à la fin des votes pour les Fubiz Awards 2013 le 14 mai 2013 minuit, nous vous proposons de mettre en avant les nominés de chacune des 8 catégories présentées. Découvrez ci-dessous les 8 différents nominés de la catégorie Movie en images et en détails dans la suite de l’article.
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Here is another vintage look at what cellphones can grow to become. Yes, transparent screens are a must and so is the passion for expansive displays. With Google Glasses and other such innovative tech coming around the bend, we have to pause and rethink our perception of communication. Maybe the future of phones will no longer be a candy bar or clamshells. What do you think?
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Milan 2013: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a chair with armrests that stretch outwards like limbs for Danish brand &tradition.
Jaime Hayón based the form of the Catch chair on the image of a human figure with outstretched arms.
“When I was drawing Catch, I drew a man with open arms, like a chair that wants to catch you. And it works like that,” explains Hayón.
Produced by furniture brand &tradition, the chair is composed of a moulded polyurethane-foam shell, which is covered in cold cure foam and then finished with either leather or textile upholstery.
The legs are available in white-oiled or black-stained oak, while the upholstery comes in various finishes, from a naked shell to pigmented leather or wool in a broad range of colours.
The chair was presented at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month.
Hayón also unveiled a wingback armchair called Ro and a series of aluminium and terracotta outdoor furniture in Milan.
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Renowned for his whimsical drawings, CATCH is capturing Hayon’s playfulness, while creating a comfortable, upholstered chair with a very light touch. The armrests extend from the padded backrest like literal limbs, ready to embrace you as you sit down. The wooden legs in stained or white-oiled oak adds a grace and lightness to the chair.
“Our collaboration with Jaime Hayon dates back to when the company was founded in 2010,” says brand director martin Kornbek Hansen. But this is the first product to come out of the exchange between Hayon and &tradition, that started over a steak dinner. “It’s a curious relationship,” says Hayon of the collaboration with &tradition, “because I come from a very different ambience. I’ve always liked scandinavian design, but I never knew I’d end up designing for great companies in the north.” The meeting of Hayon’s mediterranean aesthetic with the heritage of the scandinavian craftsmanship has given rise to an innovative form. “It has been interesting to see how Hayon interprets and adapts his design to this tradition,” says Kornbek Hansen.
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News: researchers from IBM have redesigned the bus routes across Ivory Coast’s largest city using data from mobile phones.
The project, by a team from IBM’s research lab in Dublin, Ireland, is an example of how so-called “big data” can be mined for information that leads to improved policies and services.
The researchers looked at 2.5 billion call records from mobile phone users to work out commuters’ movements.
The anonymous data came from phones in the city of Abidjan, where a deteriorating public transport system has prompted a huge and unregulated fleet of private minibuses and taxis to spring up.
Commuters’ journeys in these private vehicles can’t be easily monitored by the city’s authorities, so the IBM team used time and location data from call records and text messages to work out frequent routes.
They then looked at how well commuters were served by the city’s buses and came up with 65 possible improvements to existing routes, concluding that they could reduce average travel times by 10 per cent.
“If transit agencies could have an effective tool to quantify the travel demand, as well as recommendations on how to best design the transit network, cities would be able to better support travellers’ mobility demand through a regulated and efficient public transport system,” the researchers explained in their report.
The AllAboard project, which is currently only a research exercise, was entered into the Data for Development competition run by mobile phone operator Orange, an open data challenge inviting researchers to find uses for its huge datasets of call activity.
Olivier Verscheure, a senior scientist at IBM’s research laboratory in Dublin, told the BBC that the project only hinted at what could be gleaned from such huge datasets.
“If we could have merged the telco data with city data, such as the bus timetables we could have the potential to completely change the existing network,” he said.
“Analysis of public transport and telco data would show how people move in a city and allow planners to create a bike sharing infrastructure from scratch, for example.”
Earlier this year we featured a concept to make highways safer with glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps – see all transport design.
Top photograph is by Abdallahh.
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