Arguably one of the most influential—and certainly one of the most prolific—contemporary design studios, Nendo is everywhere. From furniture collaborations to large scale architectural installations, the Japanese studio, led by celebrated designer and architect …
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Oddio, forse un po’ esagerato ma nel contesto è ok. Lo recuperate su Fancy.
The Swag Bag is a modular backpack that promises to protect your gear come rain, snow or shine. You can safely tuck in your MacBook, iPad, Nook or books and not worry about the elements, because this Swag is crafted from silicone and fitted with waterproof zippers. The best part is that in case you drop it, your gadgets inside are completely safe and cushioned from the impact.
Another bright side is the modular functionality. The backpack is multi-purpose, with interchangeable interior capsules, so you can carry your gadgets or make an easy switch to your gym gear capsule and hit the gym. The photography capsule comes with dedicated spaces to keep your camera and lenses safe. Essentially it’s a backpack for anyone and everyone, and if you think this Swag is just what you need, then you are in luck, its up at Quirky for voting. Who knows your casting vote could turn this concept to reality and spread some more cheers!
Designer: Karan Singh Gandhi
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Voici le clip officiel illustrant le morceau « Joy » d’Iron and Wine, issu de l’album Ghost on Ghost. Cette création visuellement forte, mélange des projections d’animations faîtes à l’aquarelle sur des décors filmés en stop-motion. Une vidéo poétique réalisée par Hayley Morris à découvrir dans la suite.
Milan 2013: Zaha Hadid launched a sofa based on natural rock formations at an exhibition of her new furniture designs in a former foundry last week.
The shape of the Zephyr Sofa by Zaha Hadid for Italian firm Cassina Contract is derived from erosion patterns, resulting in fluid banks of seating with deep platforms and backrests to encourage sprawling. The pieces have no front or back and can be joined together to create larger configurations.
Hadid explained the origins of her flexible furniture designs in a talk on the opening night: “When I was doing plans years ago, people always said ‘what kind of furniture will you put against this kind of curved wall?’ So it emerged from that – this idea of making islands or spaces in a modulated form, a sequence or a fluid movement within a space.”
“These pieces are very communicative, they are never meant to be pushed up against a wall,” added partner Patrik Schumacher. “You can put them in any direction, you can seat more people and it’s slightly ambiguous how you can congregate.”
The outside surfaces are finished in glossy lacquer and topped with foam upholstered in tactile fabrics.
The piece was shown at Multiplicities, an exhibition of furniture designs by Zaha Hadid in the north of Milan last week, which also featured the Array auditorium seats by Zaha Hadid for Poltrona Frau Contract.
Elsewhere in Milan, Hadid also presented a limited edition of tables for marble brand Citco at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, two lamps for Slamp at the Euroluce lighting show and a bench based on glacial crevices in the Tortona district.
Photographs are by Jacopo Spilimbergo.
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Here’s some more information from Zaha Hadid Architects:
The sinuous shape of the Zephyr sofa has been inspired by natural rock formations shaped by erosion: the application of subtractive processes that carve solid matter. The resulting formal language gives the Zephyr sofa increased ergonomic properties without compromising the design’s fluidity or proportion; translating into a concept that allows for multiple seating layouts.
The carved profile incorporates deep backrests and generous undercuts for unrivalled comfort. A lacquered finish applied to Zephyr’s structural elements highlights every subtle nuance of its composition, and is contrasted by the tactile qualities of its bespoke upholstery and cushioning.
Zephyr showcases Cassina Contract’s unrivalled technical experience and longstanding tradition of artisan excellence.
Architect: Zaha Hadid Design
Design: Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
Design team: Fulvio Wirz, Mariagrazia Lanza, Maha Kutay
Manufacturer: Cassina Contract
Dimensions: 265x284x73cm
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In 2004 at the tender age of 19, Evans Wadongo took it upon himself to create an alternative to the unhealthy and often dangerous kerosene lamps and firelights used by villages like his in rural Africa….
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Alessandro Mendini is a living legend in the field of international design and architecture. His versatility and outstanding ability to cross disciplines has helped pioneer the multi-pronged approach to design so commonly applied today, and has…
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News: Mail Online – the world’s most popular news website and the winner of a design effectiveness award – has described the gov.uk site that yesterday won the Design Museum’s Design of the Year award as “boring” and “basic-looking”.
Mail Online journalist Rosie Taylor scoffed at the plain and simple look of the Gov.uk website in an article published after the ceremony in London last night, complaining that “it has only two small pictures” and “features links to pages like ‘Housing and local services’”.
“And the award goes to boring.com!” ran the headline on the news site, which earlier this year won the Design Effectiveness Award’s Grand Prix for its huge growth in traffic and advertising revenue since its 2008 redesign.
Gov.uk was designed by Government Digital Service, a team within the cabinet office led by designer Ben Terrett, to combine the UK government’s thousands of online services in a single website that’s meant to be simple and intuitive to use and which uses just one font and dispenses with visual clutter such as images and coloured panels.
The redesign beat over 90 other shortlisted projects and was praised for its elegance and simplicity by Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum that organises the annual awards to recognise “the most innovative and imaginative designs” from the past year.
Watch our movie interview with Ben Terrett filmed in Cape Town as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour or read more about the Designs of the Year.
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Lo studio giappo di YOY ha presentato durante questo Salone Satellite una serie di cose belle come questo vaso che si mimetizza tra i vostri libri.
Milan 2013: London designer Michael Anastassiades presented lamps strung between walls on fine cables for Italian lighting brand Flos last week.
The String Lights by Michael Anastassiades for Flos resemble infrastructure like telegraph wires or European street lighting, with the thin black electrical cord drawing geometric shapes in the air.
These flexes are hung with black conical or spherical pendants, fitted with LED light sources.
Flos also presented Konstantin Grcic’s reworking of the iconic Parentesi lamp by Achille Castiglioni at Euroluce, which took place alongside the Salone Internazionale del Mobile from 9 to 14 April.
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“Every time I take the train, I sit by the window and watch the series of perfectly parallel strings connecting the pylons, as we move at high speed. I love the way they divide the landscape and how spheres are occasionally beaded through the wires at random intervals. I also love how, in Mediterranean cultures, strings of lights are stretched between posts to mark an outdoor space for an evening party in a village square. And finally, I love how human ingenuity works around problems created by everyday things in the house (like switches and power points) that others have chosen to position where we don’t want them.”
This is how Michael Anastassiades, a Cypriot designer based in London and born in 1967, describes the principle that inspired the String Lights ceiling lamp: a black electric wire that sets up a relationship with the architecture of a space, precisely becoming part of the lines formed by the walls of a room. And stretched out along these lines are two different light sources: one in the shape of an isosceles triangle, the other in the form of a sphere.
A system of tensors gives volume and three-dimensionality to the form outlined by this lightweight cord that plays with space, while the two LED lamps emit a warm light.
Minimal and poetic like a pencil line drawn in the air, String Lights is an original suspension, both conceptually simple and bold at the same time. Anastassiades has always sought the primordial and original essence of forms and materials.
His designs move towards abstraction, in a search for purity that pursues an exercise of stripping away, taking objects and materials back their original dimension of bareness.
“My work springs from an idea of subtraction. Because a naked object brought back to its bare essentiality is the ultimate, definitive expression of beauty.” His is a deceptive simplicity, giving rise to objects imbued with unexpected vitality, and displaying the highest quality craftsmanship.
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