Focus sur le photographe Dillon Marsh qui nous propose une série de clichés très réussie de nids d’oiseaux impressionnants dans le Désert du Kalahari. Appelées « Assimilation », ces images montrent des poteaux téléphoniques recouverts d’herbes et brindilles ayant chacun une forme unique.
News: a pen that can “print” 3D drawings in mid-air has attracted nearly $500,000 in one day from Kickstarter backers (+ movie).
The $75 3Doodler by U.S. toy and robotics company WobbleWorks is described on the crowdfunding website as the world’s first 3D printing pen.
It works like a hot glue gun to extrude plastic filament in a fine line, which quickly cools and solidifies into a stable structure.
With no need for software or computers, the 3Doodler acts as a handheld version of the extrusion element found in many 3D printers.
WobbleWorks suggest it could be used to make 3D models, jewellery and ornaments as well as to personalise objects like phone cases.
The designers are also working on a selection of stencil kits allowing users to draw out shapes on a flat surface before connecting them into 3D objects.
The pen currently has over 5500 backers on Kickstarter, with 32 days remaining for new backers to pledge their funding.
We’ve been following all the latest developments in 3D printing, including the race to build the first 3D-printed house and plans to 3D print buildings on the moon with lunar soil – see all news about 3D printing.
Photographs are by WobbleWorks.
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Dezeen Watch Store: the newest watch added to our collection is the 3012 Series by Finnish designer Mats Lönngren. The watch features two disks layered on top of each other that mark the time instead of traditional watch hands.
Lönngren designed the disks with small triangles protruding from the edge to pinpoint the time. The disks are different colours to distinguish between the hours and minutes.
The watch has a rubber strap and a matte stainless steel case. It comes in three colourways: white and orange, black and orange and white and grey.
The watch is designed by Mats Lönngren who is currently working at the design agency Pentagon Design in Helsinki. The 3012 Series is the first watch he has designed for Scandinavian watch brand Hygge.
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Hackney-based Studio Weave has constructed a network of listening pipes in a back courtyard of London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital to create a secret factory of lullabies for children (+ slideshow).
The enclosed space was created by the construction of a new building at the historic children’s hospital and will remain until its neighbour is eventually demolished. Studio Weave designed the installation to occupy the space in the interim and has named it the Lullaby Factory.
The architects were inspired by the messy pipes and drainage systems that already cover the surface of the brick walls. Instead of covering them up, they chose to add to them with a wide-spanning framework of pipes and horns.
“We have designed a fantasy landscape reaching 10 storeys in height and 32 metres in length, which can engage the imagination of everyone, from patients and parents to hospital staff, by providing an interesting and curious world to peer out onto,” explain architects Je Ahn and Maria Smith.
Different types of metal create pipes of silver, gold and bronze, and some of the taps and gauges were recycled from a decommissioned hospital boilerhouse.
Sound artist Jessica Curry composed the soundtrack of lullabies, which are played out through each of the pipes. To listen in, patients and staff can place an ear over one of the listening pipes beside the canteen.
The music is also transmitted via a radio frequency, so patients on the wards can tune in too.
Studio Weave previously designed a set of pipes to amplify the sounds of the countryside. Other projects by the architects include a latticed timber hut on stilts and a 324-metre-long bench.
See more architecture by Studio Weave, including an interview we filmed with the architects at our Designed in Hackney day.
Here’s a project description from Studio Weave:
Lullaby Factory, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Studio Weave with Structure Workshop, AB3 Workshops and Jessica Curry
Studio Weave has transformed an awkward exterior space landlocked by buildings into the Lullaby Factory – a secret world that cannot be seen except from inside the hospital and cannot be heard by the naked ear, only by tuning in to its radio frequency or from a few special listening pipes.
The multi-phased redevelopment of Great Ormond Street Hospital, in London’s Bloomsbury area, means that the recently completed Morgan Stanley Clinical Building and the 1930s Southwood Building currently sit very close together. The latter is due to be demolished in 15 years, but in the intervening period large windows in the west elevation of the MSCB look directly onto a pipe-ridden brickwork facade, with the gap between the two less than one metre in places.
In our competition entry we proposed that the Southwood Building, with its oodles of mysterious pipes and plant is not really the Southwood Building, but the Lullaby Factory, manufacturing and releasing gentle, beautiful lullabies to create a calming and uplifting environment for the young patients to recover in.
Our aim for this project was to re-imagine the Southwood façade as the best version of itself, accepting and celebrating its qualities and oddities; and rather than hiding what is difficult, creating something unique and site specific.
We have designed a fantasy landscape reaching 10 storeys in height and 32 metres in length, which can engage the imagination of everyone, from patients and parents to hospital staff, by providing an interesting and curious world to peer out onto. Aesthetically the Lullaby Factory is a mix of an exciting and romantic vision of industry, and the highly crafted beauty and complexity of musical instruments.
The Lullaby Factory consists of two complimentary elements: the physical factory that appears to carry out the processes of making lullabies and the soundscape. Composer and sound artist Jessica Curry has composed a brand new lullaby especially for the project, which children can engage with through listening pipes next to the canteen or from the wards by tuning into a special radio station.
Our design is mindful of the fact that the space between the two buildings is very tight and any attempt to tidy it up too much would have resulted in significantly reducing the sense of space and the amount of daylight reaching inside the surrounding buildings.
Above: concept sketch
We hope the project will inspire engagement in a variety of ways from children’s paintings to a resource for play specialists to a generator for future commissions.
Our design incorporates old tap and gauges reclaimed from a hospital boilerhouse that was in the process of being decommissioned.
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Stockholm 2013: a wall lamp that mimics an eclipse of the sun and tray of vases held fast by magnets were among the objects on show in an exhibition of work by young Norwegian designers during Stockholm Design Week (+ slideshow).
Above: Total Eclipse by Siv Lier
The exhibition, called State of Things, included Siv Lier’s Total Eclipse lamp and Hallgeir Homstvedt’s Tangent vases, which are attached to a metal tray by strong magnets.
Above: Tangent by Hallgeir Homstvedt
Gridy, a design duo comprising Lars Olav Dybdal and Wilhelm Grieg Teisner, presented Kabloom, a glass vase shaped like a cartoon bomb and designed to hold a single flower.
Above: Kabloom by Gridy
Also included were Kristine Bjaadal’s small wooden containers shaped like seeds and Kristine Five Melvær’s lamps with soft shades like flowerbuds, which we featured previously.
Above: Keepsake by Kristine Bjaadal
Caroline Olsson and Ida Noemi showed an ash and copper picture frame with no screws, while Erlend Bleken exhibited a steel and oak swing chair for indoor or outdoor use.
Above: In Theory by Marianne Andersen
Victoria Günzler and Sara Wright Polmar, who work together as Günzler.Polmar, presented a wooden pedestal table that can be combined with porcelain containers, while Marianne Andersen showed a series of pendant lamps made from pine and coloured glass.
Above: Dodo by Petter Skogstad
Martin Solem showed a mirror bent into three facets and mounted on wood, Petter Skogstad presented a squeezable silicone container for oil or soy sauce, and Maria Bjørlykke showed a trio of round tabletops connected by one base.
Above: 80.20 by Thomas Jenkins
Finally, Siren Elise Wilhelmsen presented a rug and chair in one, Sverre Uhnger showed a solid wood desk lamp and Thomas Jenkins exhibited a display box with an adjustable box fixed inside it.
Above: No. 2 by Günzler.Polmar
The show was put on by Klubben, an initiative founded by Günzler, Polmar and Uhnger as a club to help Norwegian designers cooperate and promote their work.
Above: Miroir by Martin Solem
Dezeen was in Stockholm this year reporting on the highlights from the city’s design week, including a chair that looks like a bed of nails and a domed table lamp with a rotating wing for a dimmer switch – see all products from Stockholm Design Week.
Above: Bloom by Kristine Five Melvær
We also previously featured a wooden stool inspired by skateboards by Hallgeir Homstvedt, whose Tangent vases featured in the exhibition in Stockholm.
Above: Epaulette by Caroline Olsson and Ida Noemi
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Here’s some more information from Klubben:
Klubben presents State of Things at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2013
Klubben (Norwegian Designers Union) was founded in 2011 by Victoria Günzler, Sara Wright Polmar and Sverre Uhnger with the aim to gather talented young Norwegian furniture and product designers and present them at unique venues. Fresh designers will be invited for every new exhibition so that Klubben always presents both new products and new designers. The concepts will differ but our goal will always be the same: present great Norwegian design on the designers’ own terms!
Above: Kantarell by Maria Bjørlykke
Designers:
Caroline Olsson
Ida Noemi
Erlend Bleken
Victoria Günzler
Sara Wright
Polmar Wilhelm
Grieg Teisner
Lars Olav Dybdal
Hallgeir Homstvedt
Kristine Bjaadal
Kristine Melvær Five
Maria Bjørlykke
Marianne Andersen
Martin Solem
Petter Skogstad
Siren Elise Wilhelmsen
Siv Lier
Sverre Uhnger
Thomas Jenkins
Above: Memory Carpet by Siren Wilhelmsen
The present members of Klubben have attended universities in Norway, Denmark, Germany, England and Australia. Individually we have participated in exhibitions and fairs in London, Stockholm, Paris, Oslo, Helsinki, New York, Tokyo, Bergen, Milano, Cologne, Risør, Leipzig, Venezia and Seoul, and received awards like Muuto Talent Award, ELLE Norway Young Designer of the Year, Jury Award Designers Open Leipzig, Blueprint Award 100% Design London: Best New Product and Best use of Materials, Norsk Form Young Designer of the Year, Bonytt award and Gullkalven.
Above: Oo by Sverre Uhnger
The establishment of Klubben was marked with the exhibition Tingenes Tilstand at the art gallery TM51 in Oslo last fall and the response exceeded all expectations with more than 1000 people visiting the exhibition during its four days. Version two, State of Things, will be presented to the international design industry during Stockholm Furniture Fair 2013. The exhibition shows 17 products by 18 designers.
Above: Svev by Erlend Bleken
The invited designers were challenged to design a product or a piece of furniture inspired by a box filled with everyday objects and the text:
Objects attract and inspire us. They tell stories, evoke emotions, they make us curious and they fascinate us. Our experiences are related to associations and memories, to colours and shapes, or function and materiality. It can be complex and impressive, or simple and subtle.
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No longer confined to its previous Continental badging, the all new 2014 Bentley Flying Spur sedan embraces its post-breakup makeover—worked out and muscled up, turning heads as it passes by. Faster and more powerful than any of the British auto maker’s previous sedans, the Flying Spur has been completely…
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In this previously unpublished movie filmed by Dezeen, Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola explains why she rejected the “very masculine” style of kitchen showrooms to design a retail space for kitchen appliance brand Scholtès.
Kitchen showrooms tend to be built to a “monumental” scale and dominated by heavy marble and stone, says Urquiola, who wanted instead to create a “convivial” space for Scholtès.
“Normally these kind of companies introduce the appliances inside a fake kitchen, and I disagree with that,” says Urquiola, who divided the space into a showroom upstairs and a more informal space downstairs, which hosts a programme of cookery classes and parties. “I like that they can go to a showroom that has a kind of life, that can perform, but is a place where the items are related.”
“We have to have more adaptable things,” she continues. “Our apartments are not going to grow, and there are going to be a lot of people moving to the city. In the city, the problem is always the space.
“I don’t think big. For me it’s not a monumental place, it’s a place where you can be together in some way,” she concludes.
The showroom opened in October 2011 but was closed a few weeks later when Scholtès decided to pull out of the UK market. Urquiola’s interior in still in place, now used as the Hotpoint Design Centre.
Dezeen previously teamed up with Scholtès to report on the cross-pollination between the worlds of food and design, filming a series of movies with designers including Philippe Starck, Gitta Gschwendtner and Kiki van Eijk.
Other designs by Urquiola we’ve featured recently include a collection of ice cream-coloured poufs and rugs and a quilted leaf-patterned sofa – see all designs by Patricia Urquiola.
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Timo Böse a réalisé pour l’évènement Toca Me Design Conference 2013 qui a eu lieu à Munich le 16 février cette superbe vidéo présentant les différents noms des intervenants. Une production Lowerground qui dévoile, avec une animation 3D du plus bel effet, les différents artistes ayant pu participer à cette conférence.
Product news: Croatian designer Filip Gordon Frank has put his paperclip-like Mini Me desk lamps into production under his new brand Polymorph.
Filip Gordon Frank showed the power-coated steel desk light at imm cologne last month.
He has also blown the design up five times to create a floor lamp, and both sizes are available in nine different colours.
First designed in 2006, the light was originally produced by Italian company spHaus until it was discontinued in 2009. “I was kind of convinced that the product was good enough to carry on with production in some other way,” says the designer of his decision to found Polymorph.
A ceramic light held together by a silicon band was also launched at imm cologne, along with a chair inspired by I-beams and a DIY curtain kit.
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First designed as a prototype by Faris Elmasu, Bent Basket found success in hearts of design lovers after going viral in the blogging community. The excitement spurred Elmasu to take the basket to production, an effort that is coming to a head with the recent launch of a Kickstarter…
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