Star Wars, Shining, 2001, l’Odyssée de l’Espace ou encore Orange Mécanique, voici un échantillon des films incontournables que l’illustrateur et architecte espagnol Federico Babina a représenté en 17 illustrations rétro. Tout en respectant les codes couleurs, il a illustré les pièces-phares de chaque film.
An Alpine choir pivoted on hydraulic platforms as part of French fashion house Moncler’s Autumn Winter 2014 presentation at New York Fashion Week, which concludes today (+ movie).
Moncler created an audio-visual installation called Winter Symphony to showcase the brand’s Moncler Grenoble ski and winter wear collection at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday.
Members of the ten-piece Pendulum Choir stood on small platforms and were strapped to the mechanisms around the torso, legs and feet as they sang an updated version of a traditional Alpine song.
Dressed in down-filled morning suits, the nine singers and one conductor tilted in various directions as pistons behind their backs and under their feet contracted and expanded.
Behind them, sixty male and female choir members dressed in black and white Moncler outfits stood in rectangular boxes stacked four levels high.
Each box was illuminated around the edges, separated from each other so they appeared to float in the darkened theatre.
Lights shining on the choir members flashed as the larger collective joined in singing with the smaller group.
The presentation took place on 8 February during New York Fashion Week, which finishes today.
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When it comes to homebrewing, often the only option for marking each concoction is the old sharpie-on-cap method. While going label-less makes reusing bottles and lids easier, “naked” containers are a surefire path to confusion. Garage Monk offers a simple solution with the…
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Stockholm 2014: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has produced a lamp based on a cheese fondue pot for Swedish firm David Design.
Luca Nichetto‘s Fondue lamp takes its inspiration from traditional European fondue cauldrons, which are kept above a heat source to slowly melt cheese. “The Fondue lamp is merging different traditions, the south European and the north European,” said Nichetto.
The amber-coloured glass pendant is suspended to resemble the shape of the cauldrons. A metal element runs through the glass from top to bottom, kinked in the centre where it supports the horizontal bulb.
The power cable can be attached to either end of the frame so it can run from a source on the ceiling or the floor. “The output of the power cable, which is generally concealed or made less evident… becomes a feature of the lamp,” the designer said.
David Design presented the lamp at Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair last week. Nichetto has also designed a lamp inspired by Darth Vader’s mask for the brand.
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Disegnati dai berlinesi di Coordination questa serie di eleganti cavalletti in acciaio si regolano in altezza grazie ad un perno filettato in legno. È possibile montare piani tavolo che vanno da 80 x 150 centimetri a 110 x 220 centimetri. L’altezza può essere invece impostata su qualsiasi misura tra 68 e 76 cm.
Stockholm 2014: Swedish-French design duo Färg & Blanche has created a small padded chair for Swedish furniture brand Gärsnäs.
Färg & Blanche designed the Emily chair for dining or conference tables as a version of their larger Emma armchair, also produced by Gärsnäs.
“Emily is our Emma easy chair’s little sister,” said the designers. “The family likeness can be seen in the needlework – they are both upholstered but differently patterned.”
The chair back curves around the seat to form the arms. Padding is quilted into sections, creating a simple pattern on both sides of the back support. It comes upholstered in fabric or leather and solid ash legs poke out from short sleeves of material below the seat.
Gärsnäs exhibited the design at last week’s Stockholm Furniture Fair, where Färg & Blanche also debuted a furniture collection created by sewing pieces of plywood together.
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Les russes de New Idols ont imaginé un calendrier en s’inspirant du flat design de l’iOS des produits Apple. Un rendu très fidèle et surprenant, jouant avec intelligence sur les codes. Le projet Calendar iOS Posters 2014 est à découvrir dans une série complète d’images dans la suite de l’article.
Jewellery that resembles stove pipes is among body adornments by Dutch fashion design duo Gijs+Emmy to go on show at Amsterdam‘s Stedelijk Museum later this month (+ slideshow).
The Gijs+Emmy Spectacle revisits a sensational collaborative exhibition of work by husband and wife team Gijs Bakker and Emmy van Leersum that was at the Stedelijk Museum in 1967.
“In the late 1960s, Bakker and Van Leersum, both trained jewellery designers, created a furore with their avant-garde jewelry and clothing that fused fashion, design and art,” said a statement from the museum.
The pair’s duct pipe bracelets and curved aluminium collars caused a stir when first exhibited, displayed on live models who moved to electronic music under futuristic lighting.
For this new retrospective, the original exhibition will be recreated with the help of first-hand accounts and consultation from Bakker.
Sculptural jewellery and fashion designs created by the duo between 1967 and 1972 from the museum’s collection and other sources will go on show.
Iconic designs such as Bakker’s purple Stovepipe Necklace and matching bracelet are among the pieces to be exhibited.
Hinged metal collars that curve downwards over the shoulders and upwards around the sides of the face will also feature, alongside gold bangles with sinuous shapes and oversized earrings.
In these images the designs are worn by 1960s model Sonja Bakker, who isn’t related to the designers.
Bakker and Van Leersum met while studying at the Institute of Applied Art in Amsterdam during the 1950s. Bakker went on to found Droog, the avant-garde conceptual Dutch design collective in 1993.
The exhibition opens on 22 February and will continue until 24 August.
The Stedelijk Museum is currently hosting a retrospective of work by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.
An extension to the museum, which looks a bit like the underside of a kitchen sink, was completed in September 2012 by Benthem Crouwel Architects.
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This weekend, at NYC’s Mark Miller Gallery, an enthusiastic and clever bunch of middle-schoolers shared their visions—and plans—for the future of the city. The exhibit, which will run through March 9 and is sponsored by the…
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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Suzanne Lee of BioCouture explains how she makes clothes that are “grown using bacteria” in this movie filmed at the Wearable Futures conference in London in December.
“There’s a whole spectrum of organisms that can grow material,” says Lee, who founded BioCouture to explore how organisms like bacteria, yeast, fungi and algae could be harnessed to produce fabrics.
Lee showed the Wearable Futures audience a range of jackets and shoes made from bio-materials produced by bacteria in a vat of liquid to produce bacterial cellulose – a material that has similar properties to leather.
“The recipe that I’ve been exploring to grow a piece of clothing is using a symbiotic mix of yeast and bacteria,” she said. “It’s a fermentation method that grows you bacterial cellulose. It’s kind of like a vegetable leather if you like.”
She adds: “What attracts me to it is that it’s compostable. It’s not just biodegradable, it’s compostable. So you could throw it away like you would your vegetable peelings.”
BioCouture is a London-based design consultancy that is pioneering the use of bio-materials for the fashion, sportswear and luxury sectors.
Lee is a former senior research fellow at the School of Fashion & Textiles at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, and author of the 2007 book Fashioning The Future: tomorrow’s wardrobe, which was the first publication to explore how technology could transform fashion.
“Through an engagement with biology I’m really excited about how we can think about organisms like microbes as the factories of the future,” says Lee. “What most people know BioCouture for is a series of garments that were grown using bacteria. So the fibres, the material itself and the formation of the garment has been done by a microbe rather than a plant.”
In future, Lee believes that clothing materials themselves could be living organisms that could work symbiotically with the body to nourish it and even monitor it for signs of disease.
“What we have right now are living organisms making us materials, but then the organism is killed and the material just exists like any other,” she says.
“But I can imagine that we will eventually move towards the material itself being living while it’s on you, and having a direct relationship to your whole body in this happy micro-biome environment and perhaps diagnosing and treating, nourishing in some way the body surface so becoming part of your wellbeing.”
The two-day Wearable Futures conference 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.
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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