Basé à Kaikoura en Nouvelle Zélande, l’artiste Ben Foster nous offre des sculptures d’une incroyable beauté. Jouant sur l’équilibre des formes et des mouvements, ce dernier sait utiliser l’espace autour des œuvres pour mettre celles-ci en avant. Une sélection de ses travaux est à découvrir dans la suite.
Créée pour le project « Solo Houses » de Christian Bourdais, l’architecte Didier Faustino, basé à Paris et à Lisbonne, a conçu la « Big Bang House », une bâtisse futuriste et dynamique qui semble exploser au milieu de la nature. Elle devrait être construite à Matarrana en Espagne à côté de 11 autres maisons de vacances.
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: wearable technology will revolutionise healthcare for doctors and patients alike, says the director of design studio Vitamins in our final movie from December’s Wearable Futures conference.
“In the future there’s no doubt that wearable technologies are going to be part of our everyday lives,” says Duncan Fitzsimons of Vitamins. Increased usage of personal health-monitoring devices will be one example of this, he says, making the “the doctor-patient relationship change [for the] better”.
Fitzsimons explains how the current constraints on an appointment between patient and doctor – lack of time and lack of information – can be mitigated by personal monitoring devices that collect patient data over a long period of time.
“When we are ill at the moment we only see the doctor for a very small amount of time. This is just a snapshot in the progress of your illness,” he says.
“If [a doctor] has access to a wider amount of data, they’ll be able to see how your illness has started, progressed and perhaps is tailing off,” he continues. “That will enable them to have a lot more information to diagnose you better and also enable you to have a more transparent window into your health so that you can understand it better as well.”
For these benefits to be realised, Fitzsimons says the technology to record this data needs to be attractive and easy to use, citing two examples of products by healthcare company Qardio: the QardioArm, which measures blood pressure and the QardioCore, a wearable ECG (electrocardiogram) monitoring device, commonly used to detect abnormal heart rhythms. Both are designed, says Fitzsimons, to look unlike medical devices and use a smartphone as the interface with the patient.
[The above paragraph was amended on 27 February 2014. Previously, it was stated that Vitamins would be launching the QardioArm and QardioCore products.]
Fitzsimons is the co-founder of Vitamins, the design studio which last year won the transport category at the Design Museum Designs of the Year 2013 awards for its Folding Wheel project.
This is the fifth and final movie from the two-day Wearable Futures conference that explored how smart materials and new technologies are helping to make wearable technology one of the most talked-about topics in the fields of design and technology.
In the first movie, designer of Dita von Teese’s 3D-printed gown Francis Bitonti explained how advances in design software mean “materials are becoming media”. In the second, Suzanne Lee explained how she makes clothes “grown using bacteria.” In the third, Shamees Aden explained how scientists are combining non-living chemicals to create materials with the properties of living organisms. In the fourth, Pauline van Dongen called for wearable technology to “transcend the world of gadgets”.
The music featured in the movie is a track by DJ Kimon. You can listen to his music on Dezeen Music Project.
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers is a year-long collaboration with MINI exploring how design and technology are coming together to shape the future.
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L’agence Thjnk a eu l’excellente idée d’utiliser pour IKEA une surimpression en RVB pour écrire 3 messages différents sur un seul panneau. La marque cherche une nouvelle fois à aménager au maximum l’espace et propose ainsi un concept jouant sur un système d’ampoule, permettant d’alterner les messages.
Explore the Spring 2014 collection from London furniture brand Heal’s using our new interactive slideshow feature, including storage that leans against the wall and stacking pendant lamps.
Heal’s collection this season includes the Brunel range by London designer Rob Scarlett, who has created a series of industrial-style furniture for small urban apartments.
“My Brunel collection for Heal’s is targeted largely at design-savvy city dwellers who are short on space and accessibility but big on style,” said Scarlett.
He referenced pieces in Heal’s archive by designers Robin Day and Clive Latimer – exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York back in 1948 – to create shelving, tables, seating and a mirror with steel supports and oak surfaces.
Benches and side tables have optional shelves beneath their tops for extra storage space, plus cushions can be strapped on to the seats.
Additional cubby holes are also tucked behind the Brunel mirror, which includes a hook at the top for hanging garments out of the way.
“I felt the best way to address constraints was to design furniture that uses space intelligently and efficiently, offering dual purposes or hidden storage details,” Scarlett said.
Also featured in Heal’s latest range are items such as the Cranbourne dining table and benches in English ash, which can be made-to-order to specific measurements so they fit different sized rooms.
Lighting and accessories among the range are the Element Vessel vases by Vitamin made from mix-and-match rings of different materials and the Apollo layered modular aluminium lamps by International.
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Last fall, Nissan introduced future mobility concepts developed by the company’s advances planning team. Among them was the Pedestrian on Wheels, a three-passenger sustainable vehicle designed to work in a fully planned new city (such as…
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L’artiste Alex Trochut, dont nous avons déjà pu vous parler à plusieurs reprises sur Fubiz, a réinventé avec talent et créativité le logo de la marque Adobe. Le rendu obtenu est le résultat de mélanges usant de différentes techniques et matériaux, comme le Neverwet, produit hydrophobe.
These paper headdresses have been folded into the shapes of creatures from Chinese mythology by Paris accessories designer Qi Hu for the city’s Printemps department store.
Qi Hu created the spiky pieces for a display in Printemps using origami, a technique she developed growing up in China.
“Origami is our childhood game, it has affected me since I was little,” Hu told Dezeen. “I always use it as one of my main methods for my works, trying to tell Occident stories in an Oriental way.”
The designer explained that she was approached by the store’s visual merchandising department to create origami decorations for a display.
“I came up with the mask idea because it does not influence the clothing,” Hu explained.
“While they told me that they would put the decoration at the entry of the men’s section, I thought about guardians and some ancient creatures’ figures in front of Chinese traditional gates.”
Hu took the forms of revered Chinese creatures such as lions, dragons and kylins – a mix of a dragon, horse, ox and wolf – as the base shapes for the headgear.
The paper is folded into pointy shapes that resemble horns, tusks, teeth and ears.
The pieces are displayed on mannequins in the menswear department of Printemps and the designer describes them as being “full of masculine power”.
Although each piece in the collection is different, Hu reused some of the same techniques across all of the designs to speed up the folding process.
“I decided to modularise my design and I reuse and combine different elements,” said Hu. “Every mask has something in common but is truly unique.”
The headdresses are on show in the store until 18 March.
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Lotus a récemment présenté sa toute première moto appelée la C-01 et produite à 100 exemplaires seulement. Cette superbike, mêlant avec talent lignes rétro et futuristes, propose un bicylindre en V de 1195 cm3. Un objet dessiné par Daniel Simon à découvrir dans la suite en images.
Formé de 60 modules mobiles, ce projet incroyable de Thibaut Sld nommé Hexi permet d’obtenir une structure murale sensible aux passages devant elle. Une forme fluctuante, jouant par mimétisme en miroir sur les mouvements du passant, faisant ainsi évoluer ces modules avec talent. A découvrir dans la suite en images.
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