Apr 19
Patricia Urquiola Clap armchair
Posted in: ClapPresentata durante questa MDW 2013, la Clap armchair è stata disegnata dall’apprezzatissima designer spagnola Patricia Urquiola per Kartell.
Apr 19
Four&Sons Journal: The digital dog loving publication puts a paw into the world of print
Posted in: digitalpublishing, dogs 
The ever expanding interest in indy publications continues to create something for everyone, not matter how specialized their interest. And not just something, but something worth reading. Appealing to a rather large audience, Australia’s Four&Sons takes…
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Apr 19
“It’s probably the most well-known place in Milan”
Posted in: Dezeen and MINI World Tour 2013, Milan 2013, World Tour 2013: MilanDezeen and MINI World Tour: architect, designer and keen footballer Fabio Novembre takes us to the San Siro Stadium and tells us how he’s rethinking the brand of soccer club AC Milan, the second most-famous Italian brand after Ferrari (+ movie).
“I’m doing an interesting job about rethinking the brand of the soccer team,” says Novembre. “We’re trying to think about a soccer team that represents a new Italy.”
The San Siro stadium is home to both AC Milan and FC Internazionale (Inter Milan). It was originally built in 1926 by architect Ulisse Stacchini, who also designed Milan’s grand Centrale railway terminus.
It was extensively remodelled for the 1990 World Cup by architects Ragazzi and Partners and now has a capacity of 80,000.
“It’s probably the most well-known place in Milan,” says Novembre. “It’s like a pagan dome, and pagan temple. Definitely stadiums are the new domes, the new piazzas. People meet in stadiums.”
Novembre is working with AC Milan to help reposition the club as a symbol of modern Italy. “After Ferrari, the most famous Italian brand in the world is AC Milan,” he says. “It is a very special soccer team because it’s got the city in its name. So it carries with it a lot of responsibility.”
He was invited to work with the club by its director, Barbara Berlusconi, daughter of tycoon and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns AC Milan. One of the ideas is to make the stadium more family-friendly.
Above: image of Mario Balottelli courtesy of the Press Association
“What we want to try to achieve is to take families into stadiums again,” Novembre says. “I mean not any more crazy supporters like hooligans but to give back the most important sport in the world to the best people – to children and families.”
Novembre also thinks the club, which features the black striker Mario Balotelli and Muslim goalscorer Stephan El Shaarawy among its star players, can help forge a new identity for the whole country.
Above: image of Stephan El Shaarawy courtesy of the Press Association
“I mean think about Mario Balotelli [who was born to Ghanaian parents in Sicily but later fostered by an Italian family]. Mario Balotelli was adopted by an Italian family from Bergamo. He speaks the Bergamo dialect. Or Stephan El Shaarawy, the child of Egyptian parents, but he was born in Milano, he speaks the Milanese dialect. That’s a new Italy that we’re trying to imagine, to represent this country.”
We drove out to the stadium in our MINI Cooper S Paceman. Last week we published a tour of Milan with Novembre, who talked about the importance of the annual furniture fair to the city.
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Apr 19
Storm Thorgerson 1944-2013
Posted in: obituaries, Storm Thorgerson
News: Storm Thorgerson, the British graphic designer who created the iconic album sleeve for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, has died aged 69.
Thorgerson studied at the Royal College of Art in London and founded his studio Hipgnosis in 1967 with fellow designer Aubrey Powell. Together they created dozens of album sleeves for bands including T. Rex, Led Zeppelin, Yes and Peter Gabriel.
Above: Animals by Pink Floyd
Top: The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
They were also responsible for a string of covers for Pink Floyd, including Dark Side of the Moon, Atom Heart Mother and Animals, which featured an inflatable pink pig tethered to one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station in London.
Famously, the photo shoot descended into chaos when the pig broke free of its moorings and rose into the flight path of Heathrow Airport, before eventually coming to ground in Kent.
Above: Electric Warrior by T. Rex
In the 1980s Thorgerson began directing music videos and eventually commercials and television documentaries. More recently he produced artwork for rock bands including Muse and Biffy Clyro.
Above: Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
Earlier this year we featured Peter Saville’s hazard sign-referencing sleeve for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and graphic design studio Barnbrook’s defaced artwork for the latest David Bowie album – see more music-related design on Dezeen or see all graphic design.
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Apr 19
Lamborghini Aventador Anniversario Edition
Posted in: Anniversario Edition, Lamborghini Aventador, LP720-4 50Voici la nouvelle version de la Lamborghini intitulée Aventador, LP720-4 50 Anniversario Edition qui sera présentée au Shanghai Motor Show. Alliant beauté et performances, ce modèle imaginé pour célébrer les 50 ans du constructeur italien sera limitée à 100 exemplaires. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article
Apr 19
Birth certificates by IWANT for Icon magazine
Posted in: UncategorizedEast London studio IWANT has overhauled the birth certificate to bring it into the digital age and make it more personal.
Commissioned by Icon magazine for the Rethink feature of its April edition, designers at IWANT set out to create a birth certificate worth cherishing, which aims to paint a more personal picture of our first moments.
The designers toyed with the idea of replacing the traditional printed certificate with a digital document, but decided against it, believing a combination of the two would be better.
“In a digital age it makes sense that such a document would have a digital form. But we felt it would lose the sentimental value of something that could be touched, loved and displayed,” they explain. “We agreed on a traditional hard copy, but one that paints a bigger picture of a person and when they were born. This could be accompanied by a dynamic digital file that could expand on this content.”
All the information on the existing birth certificate is kept – mother, father, name, registrar – but more information is added. Physical attributes such as weight, length and head circumference are represented with graphic symbols while prints are taken of tiny hands and feet.
Other details including astrological, astronomical and etymological facts are also included, plus mapping coordinates for location of birth are added to the digital version.
The information is displayed in a grid and is printed in black foil blocked onto watermarked heavyweight card, which comes in four colours representing the seasons.
The certificate is housed in a heavy, glossy, white envelope with the baby’s basic information embossed on the front and then secured with a wax seal.
Rethink is a regular feature of Icon magazine in which designers are invited to reconsider ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Read about the redesign of a shop receipt by BERG here.
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Apr 19
Three Designer Children’s Chairs: Tiny furniture for little ones to enjoy
Posted in: milandesignweek, salone2013 
Discovering disco-inspired lighting and inert neon gas-filled lamps at this year’s Milan Design Week reminded us inspiration can come from anywhere. Meanwhile bouncing between the massive Saloni furniture fair and the design districts of Lambrate and Zona Tortona, we also saw how…
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Apr 19
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Posted in: columbia records, get lucky, nile rodgers, pharrell, ram, williamsVoici enfin le titre officiel du groupe français Daft Punk, le très attendu « Get Lucky » à l’occasion de leur retour en studio. Une collaboration et des featurings avec Pharrell Williams et Nile Rodgers pour ce 1er extrait de leur album « Random Access Memories » (20 mai 2013). A découvrir en images et en écoute dans la suite.
Titre officiel « Daft Punk – Get Lucky » disponible en HD ci-dessous :
Apr 19
Milan 2013: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka presented plastic furniture that resembles cut-crystal glasses for Italian brand Kartell at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week.
The Sparkle stool and side table by Tokujin Yoshioka have ridges that gently curve around the sides and fan out across the tops, giving the furniture a twisted appearance.
“Sparkle shines by refraction of light from the prism effect like a crystal glass,” says Yoshioka.
Kartell is famous for plastic products and also launched a sofa by Philippe Starck that’s the largest single-piece injection moulding in the world on its stand at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. See all our stories about plastic furniture by Kartell.
Yoshioka meanwhile is known for transparent objects and has previously created a see-through armchair and set of almost invisible tables for Kartell, plus an installation with hundreds of transparent plastic sticks. See all our stories about design by Tokujin Yoshioka.
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Apr 18
Library Slide
Posted in: coree du sud, Library Slide, moon hoon, panorama house, slideLe studio d’architecture coréen Moon Hoon déjà présenté sur Fubiz, a imaginé l’excellente structure « Panorama House » située en Corée du Sud. Dans celle-ci, les équipes ont pensé avec talent une bibliothèque dans laquelle est intégrée un toboggan, permettant d’allier culture, amusement et design.
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