Le designer Asif Khan imagine des auto-portraits dans un pavillon situé à l’entrée du parc olympique de la ville. Les 2000 mètres carrés du cube dispose d’une façade cinétique qui peut recréer les visages des visiteurs, à partir des scans 3D qui sont faites dans des cabines photos installés dans le bâtiment.
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: new technologies mean the design process is becoming akin to “creating a Hollywood film,” says designer Francis Bitonti, who created a seamless 3D-printed dress for burlesque dancer Dita von Teese.
Speaking about the development of the dress at the Wearable Futures conference in London in December, Bitonti says that developments in computer-based design and 3D printing mean that designers are no longer limited by their knowledge of materials.
“The separation between what you can simulate and what you can physically model is gone”, claims Bitonti, founder of New York luxury fashion studio Francis Bitonti Studio.
Von Teese premiered the 3D-printed dress designed by Bitonti and designer Michael Schmidt at the Ace Hotel in New York in March last year and it became one of the most talked-about fashion stories of the year.
“One of the things we’ve been noticing is that materials are becoming media. I’m not operating on materials, I’m operating on animations, I’m operating on video, I’m operating on pixels and polygons. [The design process] is a lot closer to creating a hollywood film than it is making an aluminium cylinder,” says Bitonti.
Possibilities are now limited by the designer’s imagination rather than material constraints, Bitonti says. “What I’m finding every day is that I can make anything I can draw. And I can make something behave any way I can imagine it behaving. The gap closes every day.”
Prior to launching Francis Bitonti Studio, Bitonti trained as an architect. He says this background proved useful when designing the figure-hugging dress for the American model and burlesque dancer Dita von Teese.
“I found that developing a second skin for the body wasn’t really that much different from thinking about a building facade. It’s about breaking up shapes in pretty much the same way,” he says.
The seamless dress, which he developed last year, was made out of 3000 unique moving parts made using selective laser sintering (SLS), where material is built up in layers from plastic powder fused together with a laser.
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.
Bitonti is not the only designer exploring the fashion possibilities of 3D-printing.
Last year fashion designer Iris van Herpen and shoe designer Rem D Koolhaas collaborated to create 3D-printed shoes that look like tree roots and creative director of 3D Systems Janne Kyttanen designed a range of 3D-printed shoes for women that can be made at home overnight to be worn the next day.
The music featured in the movie is a track by DJ Kimon. You can listen to his music on Dezeen Music Project.
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“materials are becoming media” appeared first on Dezeen.
How do you deal with all the interesting information we now have available to us on the Internet, from international news to updates on the lives of an acquaintance’s children? There are numerous ways to tackle this flow of information you want to consume in a way so you don’t feel overwhelmed.
Chris Miller explored this topic:
Sooner or later you have to sit down and say:
- My time and attention are the most valuable things I posses.
- There is too much stuff on the Internet for me ever to read it all.
- Therefore, I’m going to be super-choosy about what I read and what I do.
Where are the places you may want to be super-choosy?
Are you trying to be active on Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter? Maybe it would help to focus on just a few that best meet your business and/or personal needs.
Within each community, are you engaged with too many people? Are you friends with people on Facebook who you can’t even place? Are you following thousands of people on Twitter? Maybe it’s time to prune the lists.
Have you used whatever filtering tools are available? For example, I use TweetDeck to read Twitter, and I have filters set up to hide any tweets mentioning specific TV shows that tend to get mentioned a lot, and which I just don’t care about.
People who do this type of cleanup often comment on how much better they felt afterward. Kelly O. Sullivan recently wrote: “Unfriended someone on Facebook who was adding no value to my life. Feels good.” And Dennis K. Berman wrote a whole blog post titled “The Purge: I Unfollowed 390 People on Twitter, and I Feel Great.”
If you use RSS to read blogs and other news sources, have you evaluated what you’re reading lately? Maybe it’s time to delete some of those subscriptions.
I just deleted a subscription to the blog of an acclaimed writer, whose articles I found myself skipping over when they appeared in my list. He may indeed be writing wonderful stuff, but it just wasn’t stuff I felt like reading. I had to get over my own case of the “shoulds” — the internal voices telling me I should read his work — and decide it was perfectly okay to decide not to read it.
Do you tend to ignore these when they hit your inbox? Have you created an email rule to move them to their own mail folder — where they languish, unread? Maybe it’s time to do some unsubscribing.
Did you download a bunch of these at some point — only to find you don’t use most of them? This is another area where you might do some cleanup.
Kevin Fox commented on Twitter: “My Instapaper button would be more accurately titled ‘Read it Never.’”
Are you like Kevin? Do you have lots of articles you’ve saved to read later — that you never seem to get to? You may want to review that reading list and see which ones you still want to make time to read, and which you can just delete.
But some people are fine with a long list, and you might be, too. Om Malik spoke to Nate Weiner of Pocket, who noted that people go back to read 10-70 percent of the articles they put into Pocket, with the average being 50 percent. But Weiner went on to add:
The key is to think of it like a Netflix queue. You are never overwhelmed or concerned about the number of items in your Netflix queue. You just keep putting things in there because you know that when you have the time to view something, you can guarantee you’ll have something great in there that you’ve been meaning to check out.
Maybe you don’t need to clean up your saved-for-later reading list — or your RSS feeds, your email newsletters, or your apps. Or maybe you just want to do some limited cleanup. Do you like having a large number of items to choose from when you have some reading time, or does having such a large collection overwhelm you? The answer to that question will help you determine your strategy.
But whether you keep your reading list short, or keep it long (knowing you’ll never read it all), you’ll still need to be super-choosy about what you eventually spend time reading. Because this wish from M.S. Bellows, Jr. probably isn’t going to come true: “I want to be reincarnated in a way that preserves all my bookmarks, pockets, and favorites, so I can spend 80 years simply reading.”
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The designer describes the Bang and Olufsen’s A9 Wireless Speaker Concept as the “binary transitional relationship in musical experience”. In lay terms it just means a new way of relaxing with music. The speakers need not be imposing design disasters, but an object that is sublime and adds a third dimension to its creativity. The transition of opaqueness to transparency is achieved by using gradient printed polycarbonate legs. It certainly looks dashing!
Designer: Kebei Li
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Forget passwords, your heartbeat can unlock your laptop, phone and even your car. Passwords are considered to be not as secure as some would like for them to be, and are often a total pain to recall, so many companies are trying to cash in on replacing them entirely. Authentication using fingerprints, iris scans, and facial features is the trending field in security. But one company is going deeper into identification and personalization by tapping our heartbeat.
Bionym, is a wristband that confirms your identity through electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors that map your unique heartbeat. It translates that pattern to authenticate various devices, via Bluetooth, like smartphones and cars.
See their demo video here:
It was in the 1960s that scientists learned that our cardiac cycles are unique because the position, shape and size of each heart is different. (Fun fact that might disrupt Nymi’s function: During pregnancy a woman’s heart can move four inches.) But the unique pattern means that it can accurately identify you—and according to the CEO of Bionym, Karl Martin, is harder to fake than fingerprints, irises or facial features.
Do you like tablets? Do you like pens? Are you a tablet owner who likes pens? This is the product for you. The practical ballpoint pen here is also capable of making precise pixels and smooth navigation with its dual stylus tip. At the drawing board, you can transition from pen to silicon stylus or precision stylus in the blink of an eye. Made from lightweight aircraft-grade aluminum and with its shock absorbing tip, it’s the most ergonomic and easy-to-use dual purpose stylus…. period.
Designer: Thanh Ly
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The Ark est le nom de cette superbe vidéo-projection signée par Romain Tardy & Squeaky Lobster du label AntiVJ dans le cadre du festival Proyecta Oaxaca. Une création jouant sur divers éléments d’un jardin ethno-botanique dans lequel le mapping a été éxecuté de nuit. A découvrir dans la suite.
Voici pour LensCrafters, une campagne audacieuse par l’agence Marcel qui encourage les consommateurs à s’arrêter et à s’émerveiller sur le rôle vital que leurs yeux jouent dans leur vie. Le spot se distingue par des images saisissantes, un langage provocant qui fait ressortir l’essence émotionnelle des yeux.
So, the story continues….we have another brilliant iPhone 6 concept that features a flat screen with 4.7 inch and 5.5 inch display options. The resolution of screen allows the icons reorganization on the springboard. I think it looks very fulfilling to have a screen that spills over the edges.
Designer: Federico Ciccarese
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Nathan Yau de FlowingData a cartographié les itinéraires des coureurs de 22 villes, dont 18 aux Etats-Unis. Il s’est servi de RunKeeper pour pister les circuits des sportifs et a remarqué que les circuits se trouvaient près des parcs et de l’eau. Des cartes à découvrir, où les sportifs courent les uns sur les baskets des autres.
Paris.
Atlanta.
Boise.
Boston.
Charlotte.
Chicago.
Columbus.
Dallas.
Washington DC.
Lincoln.
London.
Los Angeles.
New York.
Miami.
Minneapolis.
Philadelphia.
Salt Lake City.
San Francisco.
Sydney.
Tokyo.
Toronto.
Venice.
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