Travaillant le bois comme personne, à l’image d’une boulangerie à Carlton, les australiens de March Studio ont eu l’excellente idée de suspendre 2000 pièces de bois suspendues dans l’enceinte de ce building Nishi à Canberra, pour un rendu absolument incroyable. Plus de détails dans la suite de l’article.
International interview-based magazine Freunde Von Freunden (FvF), which chronicles creatives across all fields in their home and work environments, has made a leap from the digital world to the tactile. Only, this isn’t a new print…
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News: a British firm has unveiled the world’s longest aircraft – a hybrid of airship, plane and helicopter that can stay airborne for up to three weeks.
The 91-metre airship developed by British company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) is filled with inert helium. The developers believe the hybrid vehicle could help air travel become more efficient, as the craft uses less fuel, and less intrusive because it’s quieter.
The aircraft can stay airborne for up to three weeks and could be used to deliver tons of freight across difficult terrain, helping deliver humanitarian aid to places that are inaccessible by road or rail.
Another possible application is for communication networks and monitoring of sports events, or observation for military use. Instead of helicopters, which generate noise and can only remain airborne for a limited period of time, the hybrid aircraft could be used to monitor areas without the need to be refuelled.
The company claims the aircraft could also be converted into a luxury transporter with features like an infinity pool, and used for activities like whale watching and safaris because it can quietly hover overhead without disturbing the animals.
“Maybe one day it will be the case that people get the Orient Express one way and a hybrid aircraft on the way back,” said Chris Daniels, head of partnerships and communications at HAV.
The craft costs £30 million to manufacture, and is currently scheduled to be used for communications. It’s on display in hangar in Bedfordshire and is due to fly in the UK later this year.
HAV plans to make between 600 and 1000 of the airships in future, and is currently exploring larger versions, including a 119-metre long, 60-metre wide, and 35-metre high version that could have two hovercraft type vehicles attached allowing the airship to land on water. This would be able to carry up to 50 tonnes of freight and passengers while only burning a quarter of the fuel of a plane.
The news comes in the same week Facebook announced it’s in discussions to acquire Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of solar-powered drones that can fly for up to five years without needing to land. The acquisition is believed to be part of Facebook’s plans to help connect the five billion people who currently do not have access to the internet by using the airborne drones to create a network in remote areas.
Google has also entered the aerospace industry with its own enterprise called Project Loon. The initiative has similar aims to Facebook’s, but uses high-altitude weather balloons to bring internet access to remote areas.
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Le créatif Gökhan Yücel basé à Istanbul, a fait une série de marques-page associés à des romans selon leurs histoires. Une caméra de surveillance sort des pages du livre « 1984 » d’Orwell, une queue de poisson sort de « Moby Dick » et une vision de sous-marin sort de « 20 000 lieues sous les mers ».
Known worldwide for their innovative approach to snowboard design, ecologically-minded construction techniques and distinctly heady graphics, Lib Technologies might very well be responsible for the most radical changes in snowboard design over the last two decades….
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Laces are threaded through the uppers of these shoes by Japanese designers Nendo for Spanish shoe company Camper, creating patterns across the whole surface (+ slideshow).
Nendo set out to create a lighter, more water-resistant version of Camper‘s bestselling Peu Ideal shoe, which features a stretchy lace secured with a knot at each end.
“We lit upon the idea of working with Camper’s iconic stretchable shoelaces and knots,” explained Nendo.
Available in four colours, the Beetle uses elastic laces to perforate the shoe across the entire upper, tied in knots at three points to keep them in place.
“In our design, shoelaces interlaced across the shoe’s upper provide comfort and wearability, at the same time as they take on a starring role, bringing new function and visual style alike,” the designers added.
Making the shoes from a combination of nylon and polyurethane, Nendo has added further waterproofing and made the shoe lighter than the original.
The sole also features thermal insulation and is inscribed with the words “Human Energy”.
The studio plans to exhibit the shoes in Milan next month during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which runs from 8 to 13 April. The shoes are also available on Camper’s website.
This isn’t the first time the two companies have collaborated together: last year Nendo designed the brand’s flagship New York store featuring more than a thousand ghostly white shoes protruding from the walls.
Camper has also worked with a number of other high-profile designers on its shoe line, including Jasper Morrison’s version of the Country Trainer and Spanish designer Jaime Hayon’s Together shoes that were inspired by English bespoke footwear.
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News: American supermarket giant Walmart has unveiled a prototype for a fuel-efficient truck with a streamlined cab and the first trailer made entirely of carbon fibre.
Walmart collaborated with Peterbilt, Great Dane Trailers and Capstone Turbine to create the design, known as the Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience – or Wave.
The radical design features a tapered nose and cabin to improve aerodynamics by 20 per cent over lorries currently used by Walmart.
The cabin is accessed by a sliding door featuring two windows to increase the driver’s visibility. Inside, there’s only one seat and the driving position is in the centre, allowing the cabin to be narrower and more streamlined.
The dashboard comprises two screens, positioned either side of the steering wheel. “The dash is electronic, and therefore customisable to the gauges and performance data that particular driver wants to monitor,” said a spokesperson from Walmart.
Behind the driver is a full-sized sleeper cabin allowing them to take breaks and nap during long-haul journeys.
The trailer section is the first to be built completely of carbon fibre. Walmart claims the two side panels, at 16-metres long, are the largest single pieces of carbon fibre ever made.
Using this material makes the trailer 1814 kilograms lighter than conventional ones.
Walmart says the vehicle’s engine combines a microturbine-hybrid powertrain with an electric motor and battery storage system, meaning it could run on diesel, natural gas, biodiesel “and probably other fuels still to be developed.”
At present, the Wave remains a concept. “It may never make it to the road, but it will allow us to test new technologies and new approaches,” said Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon.
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Models were suspended in vacuums between plastic sheeting during Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen‘s Autumn Winter 2014 show at Paris Fashion Week.
Iris van Herpen and Belgian artist Lawrence Malstaf created the installation in which models were held in midair between sheets of plastic.
“Models float in the air, embryonic, seemingly weightless and in a meditative suspended animation,” said Van Herpen.
Tubes extracted most of the air from the sheets to suck them tightly around the models, who posed in foetal or crouched positions wearing shimmering dresses.
The plastic sheets were hung in a line along the centre of the catwalk used to present Van Herpen’s ready to wear collection, titled Biopiracy.
The collection included 3D-printed garments created in collaboration with Austrian architect Julia Koerner, who previously helped design a dress for Van Herpen’s Voltage collection presented last year.
Van Herpen also worked with Dutch shoe brand United Nude to design crescent-shaped boots that were worn with the garments. Her show took place on Tuesday as part of Paris Fashion Week.
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Focus sur le designer et illustrateur Andrew Heath qui a dessiné les figures iconiques de la « pop-culture » sous forme de glaces à l’eau : Walter White, Joker de Batman, Daft Punk, Mario, Bender, un Minion et plein d’autres. De la gourmandise pop très coloré qui est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
This pendant lamp based on a flower by Russian designer Constantin Bolimond would open and illuminate when it senses low light.
“The idea came about thanks to flowers that begin to bloom when the sun shines,” Bolimond told Dezeen.
Constantin Bolimond’s Bloom lamp concept would act in the opposite way to normal flowers.
Instead of unfurling its bud-like cover in sunlight, the lamp’s optical sensor would react when it gets dark and cause the petals to gradually spread out as the light decreases.
Different materials and colours could be used to create the six petals, which would act together as a shade and regulate the amount of light dispersed from the small bulb positioned in the centre.
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