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J.J. Abrams et sa boite de production Bad Robot ont collaboré avec Theory 11 pour créer une boite à mystères boisée faite-mains, en édition limitée. La boite contient 12 tiroirs avec des cartes à mystères que le réalisateur américain a conçues et écrites lui-même. Une boite énigmatique à découvrir dans la suite.

L’amateur de la marque Lego, basé en Malaisie, Adly Syairi Ramly a présenté une série de 20 miniatures Lego qui ont été refaits selon des groupes de musiques légendaires : The Beatles, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Joy Division et Foo Fighters, les 20 groupes très réussis sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

Assemblés à partir de centaines de plantes et d’animaux découpés dans les manuels, l’artiste Andrea Mastrovito a créé une installation spectaculaire où un vol de papillons pullulent les murs de la galerie, et toutes sortes d’animaux et plantes s’entremêlent à travers le plancher. Plus de détails dans la suite.

French design duo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will introduce their first fabric collection of upholstery textiles knitted from jersey in Milan next month (+ slideshow).

The Canal, Moraine and Gravel collections by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have been created for Danish textile brand Kvadrat.

“At the very beginning of our research there was a fascination for the structural traits of textiles that, observed under a magnifying glass, can be interpreted like a lattice of threads – building marvellous architectures,” said the designers.

Each fabric is created using a double jersey knit, made from a front and a back layer that, when knitted together, show the elements of the internal structure on the surface.

The front layer is made from a mix of wool and polyester yarns that combine dark and light coloured fibres, while the back layer is made from polyester yarns in a single vivid colour.

“To reach this particular irregularity of wool colour, we chose to use a very soft dyeing treatment that resulted in a coloured surface made of diluted tones,” said the designers. “Polyester, as a synthetic material, provides an intense plain colour accent.”

The collection will be launched next month during the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile at Kvadrat’s Milan showroom.

Here is some information from the designer:

Canal, Moraine, Gravel for KVADRAT

Three collections of 3D knitted and stretch upholstery fabric.

Constructed using a double jersey knit, the collections reveal new surfaces of slightly quilted fabric combining the stretch flexibility and firmness necessary to upholster a wide variety of shapes with the possibility of less points of stitching.

The knitted front layer of the textiles is made from fine melange wool and polyester yarns, which combines dark and light fibres. This ensures that they have a sensuous touch and feature a rich play of warm, delicate and irregular colour nuances.

The knitted back layer is made from unicoloured polyester yarns, in accent colours. These provide firmness and structure.

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These autonomous lamps by Dutch designer Bob de Graaf seek out human companions then follow them around, and go in search of the darkest spots in the house ( + movie).

De Graaf‘s interactive lights, collectively called Species of Illumination, were given the ability to act like creatures via a series of sensors, motors and stretchable cables that allow them to freely determine their actions.

The series consists of two lights. Wallace uses sensors to go in search of the darkest spot in a room and bring light to it. Once it has done that, the lamp works out where the next darkest point is and moves on to repeat the process.

Wallace is affixed to the ceiling at one end and has three pieces of wire that support a head on the end of a long electrical cable, which is encircled by a series of rings with copper wire threaded through each one.

Darwin, meanwhile, is a desk lamp that uses solar power to generate its electricity. During the day it trundles around on wheels seeking out sunlight to charge its battery, but in the evening it wonders around the house looking for movement and accompanying people with its beam of light.

Sensors in Darwin’s head allow people to interact with it. When a hand is held directly in front of the light, it tracks the movement and follows. Take the hand away and the light stops moving.

Darwin features two wheels made from tightly coiled wire, a black body with a solar panel on its back and a bulbous white head.

“The interaction and emotional relationship Wallace and Darwin bring contribute to people’s wellbeing, in the same way that pets do,” explained de Graaf. “The movement of living creatures triggers sensations, emotions and communication.”

“I think my lights are very much animate objects,” he continued. “At this point I’m still pretty sure they are not alive, but I think there will be a moment where the boundaries become more blurred.”

The idea was conceived after the designer created a radio-controlled box with an abstract head and began experimenting with it in a park in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 2011. The designer was surprised to find that passersby began to wave at it, pet it and chase it as though it were a pet.

De Graaf then experimented with removing the human-control element to make something more autonomous, and presented the Species of Illumination lamps as part of his graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven last year.

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