L’artiste français Jérémy Laffon aime utiliser des éléments insolites pour réaliser des installations. Avec ces œuvres artistiques « Hollywoodoscopies », il créé des compositions uniquement à base de la matière des chewing-gums. Un rendu intéressant à découvrir à travers plus images dans la suite de l’article.
Yves Behar’s San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed a glass bottle and identity for a scheme that encourages hotels to filter water on site rather than importing it in plastic bottles.
The Whole World Water project hooks up hospitality and catering companies with a firm that provides on-site filtration services for tap water so they can eliminate unnecessary food miles and plastic wastage while saving money.
Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to help people around the world without access to clean drinking water. The organisers hope to raise $1 billion annually.
Fuseproject created a logo with rounded w-shapes linked to resemble continuous waves. This debossed symbol provides a tactile grip on the tapered bottle, which is made of thick glass with a recycled aluminium top.
“The uncomplicated form aspires to express the clear proposition of the Whole World Water concept and the purity of the water itself that is filtered on site,” says Fuseproject. “Good design accelerates the adoption of new important ideas, and this is one of these ideas where everybody wins.”
“The black type is strong, elegant and promotes a sense of urgency,” the designers continue. “The collateral work is equally retrained, laying out facts and figures about the cause in clear and inspiring ways.”
This time last year Behar updated the SodaStream system for making fizzy drinks at home. He was also one of the speakers at our Dezeen Live talks in September, where he talked about the interface between hardware and software design, saying “Apple is actually a little bit behind in that area.” See all our stories about design by Yves Behar and Fuseproject.
Other water bottles on Dezeen include Karim Rashid’s Bobble with a filter in the cap, while Tokyo designers Takram came up with artificial organs to help the body use water more efficiently as drinking water becomes scarce.
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News: Hackney studio Sample and Hold 3D-scanned a living horse for a new sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger.
Unveiled this week on The Mall in London, The White Horse is a scaled-down version of a 50-metre-high sculpture Wallinger eventually hopes to build in Ebbsfleet, Kent.
Technicians at Sample and Hold helped create the sculpture by using a white light scanner to produce a 3D image of a racehorse named Riviera Red.
By projecting a grid of white light onto the horse’s body and recording the resulting distortions, the technicians built up a three-dimensional map of the animal’s shape. The 3D image was then used to make a mould to cast the sculpture from a mixture of marble dust and resin.
The horse was unveiled this week outside the headquarters of the British Council, the cultural institution that commissioned the artwork, where it will remain for two years before going on an international tour.
Wallinger hopes the life-size sculpture will re-ignite interest in his larger project in Ebbsfleet, which was commissioned in 2009 but stalled when the UK went into recession. The costs of the project are believed to be between £12 million and £15 million.
Like 3D printing, 3D scanning is becoming increasingly accessible and affordable – earlier this week we reported on a prototype for a desktop scanner that would allow users to digitally scan objects they want to replicate with a 3D printer at home.
Photographs are by Frank Noon for the British Council.
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‘The White Horse’, a new sculpture by Mark Wallinger, was unveiled outside the British Council’s London headquarters on the Mall today. Made of marble and resin, the sculpture is a life-size representation of a thoroughbred racehorse created using state of the art technology in which a live horse has been scanned using a white light scanner in order to produce a faithfully accurate representation of the animal standing on a broad plinth of Portland stone and facing down The Mall.
Commissioned by the British Council Collection, this major work will stand on The Mall for two years before becoming available for international display.
In 2008, Mark Wallinger won The Ebbsfleet Landmark Project, an international competition to build a monument at Ebbsfleet in Kent. Wallinger’s winning entry, a white horse, 25 times life-size, and standing some 50 metres tall, was designed to look out over what was once Watling Street. The White Horse in Spring Gardens is a life-sized version of this sculpture.
The White Horse illustrates Wallinger’s continuing fascination with the horse, and its emblematic status in our national history. The origins of the white horse as the emblem of Kent can be traced from ‘Horsa’ – the derivation of the modern word horse – a semi-mythological Anglo-Saxon leader who landed near Ebbsfleet on the Isle of Thanet in the 6th century. The White Horse sculpture relates to the ancient history of hillside depictions of white horses in England but the pose is familiar from current depictions of thoroughbred stallions and has been replicated throughout the history of art from Stubbs’ painting of Eclipse to Wallinger’s own paintings of stallions from the Darley Stud.
The Thoroughbred was first developed at the beginning of the 18th century in England, when native mares were crossbred with imported Arabian stallions. Every racehorse in the world is descended from these animals. 90% from the Darley Arabian, the most dominant influence on the breed.
The proximity of the equestrian statues of Charles I and George IV on Trafalgar Square, and the Piazza’s location only a stone’s throw from Horse Guards Parade, make the siting of this sculpture particularly resonant. As does the fact that The Mall remains a processional route of cavalry parades.
Andrea Rose, Director Visual Arts, British Council, said: “A white horse in the centre of London is a wonderful sight. It sparks associations – ancient and modern; war and peace; rural and urban; sport and pleasure. I hope it puts a spring in the step of all who pass it on the Mall.”
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Ressemblant à un vaisseau spatial, le Jicoo Floating Bar propose depuis plusieurs années aux visiteurs et habitants de Tokyo de découvrir la capitale japonaise à bord de ce bateau-bar dessiné par Leiji Matsumoto, mangaka mondialement reconnu et à l’origine d’Albator. Plus d’images dans la suite.
Product news: an extra surface swings out from underneath this coffee table by Italian designer Roberto Paoli (+ slideshow).
Designed for Ligne Roset, 360 degrés has a second shelf tucked underneath the larger table top, which can be rotated outward and positioned on three sides next to the slightly higher surface to create more flat space.
The additional shelf is balanced on an arm that branches from the single leg supporting the primary table.
Paoli chamfered the coffee table corners and minimised the profiles by tapering the edges underneath.
The most recent Ligne Roset products on Dezeen are a table with a cross-shaped notch to store magazines and a console that can be curled round to create a dining table.
Tables we’ve featured in the past couple of weeks include Zaha Hadid’s limited editions made of marble and some that Nendo coloured using crayons.
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L’artiste néerlandais Peter Struycken a imaginé sous le Netherlands Architecture Institute une série étonnante de montants en béton colorés par des lumières, permettant de proposer une œuvre d’art de 170 mètres de long. L’ensemble est à découvrir en images et en détails dans la suite de l’article.
British designer Ross Lovegrove will unveil a concept car he has designed for French car manufacturer Renault in Milan next month (+ movie).
“[Our] intention is to reveal nature’s underlying blueprints and transfer them into a new design language,” says Lovegrove.
“These methods are process-driven and aim to explore tessellation, performative surfaces, lightweight structures and new material behaviours rather than the literal translation of appearances found in nature into visual design,” he adds.
The car will be on display from 9 to 14 April 2013 at the Triennale di Milano exhibition.
Ross Lovegrove presented another futuristic car concept at Biennale Interieur last year, and has also suspended a silver spaceship from the rafters of Lille railway station.
A concept vehicle without a windshield and a fuel-efficient 3D-printed car are the latest stories about cars we’ve covered recently.
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Design Indaba 2013: glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps were among the concepts to make highways safer while saving money and energy presented by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town earlier this month.
The Smart Highways project by Studio Roosegaarde proposes five energy-efficient concepts that will be tested on a stretch of highway in the Brabant province of the Netherlands from the middle of this year.
The first of the concepts developed by studio head Daan Roosegaarde and infrastructure firm Heijmans is a glow-in-the-dark road that uses photo-luminescent paint to mark out traffic lanes. The paint absorbs energy from sunlight during the day the lights the road at night for up to 10 hours.
Temperature-responsive road paint would show images of snowflakes when the temperature drops below zero, warning drivers to take care on icy roads.
There are two ideas for roadside lighting: interactive street lamps that come on as vehicles approach then dim as they pass by, thereby saving energy when there is no traffic, and “wind lights” that use energy generated by pinwheels as drafts of air from passing vehicles cause them to spin round.
Finally, an induction priority lane would incorporate induction coils under the tarmac to recharge electric cars as they drive.
Roosegaarde presented the Smart Highways concept at the Design Indaba conference in South Africa earlier this month, where he received a standing ovation from rapt guests – see more from Design Indaba as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour.
Last year the studio built a dome of metallic flowers that appear to come to life as they sense the presence of visitors, while their earlier projects include a dress that becomes see-through when the wearer gets excited or embarrassed – see all design by Studio Roosegaarde.
Other street lighting we’ve reported on includes Ross Lovegrove’s solar-powered lights shaped like trees and a sharply faceted LED street lamp – see all street lighting.
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They’ve been around for thousands of years, but Furoshiki are making a fresh, practical comeback thanks in part to Japan Store. Once cherished as the precious carrier of royal and holy robes, the Japanese cloth squares were also used as bathmats centuries ago but today, they can be used…
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Après Skateboard Shades, la marque de lunettes Shwood nous propose cette superbe vidéo « The Stone Collection » démontrant toutes les étapes amenant à la construction de la paire incroyable limitée à 200 exemplaires. Une création réalisée par Joe Stevens à découvrir dans la suite.
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