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These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing.

Spontaneous city in the Tree of Heaven consists of two sculptures with one in Cremorne Gardens in Chelsea and Kensington, and the other in Duncan Terrace Gardens in Islington.

The sculpture above is in Duncan Terrace Gardens and inspired by the local Georgian terraces and 1960s apartments.

The other sculpture in Cremorne Gardens (above) is inspired by the Worlds End housing estate seen in the background.

The sculptures were commissioned by the local councils as part of public gallery Up Projects‘ on going Secret Garden Project, which places sculptures in lesser known green spaces across London.

Here’s some more from the gallery:

Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven,

By London Fieldworks

Duncan Terrace Gardens, Islington and Cremorne Gardens, Kensington & Chelsea

Spontaneous City by London Fieldworks comprises two sculptural installations specially designed for the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus Altissima) an unusual tree of Chinese origin which grows in Cremorne Gardens, Kensington and Chelsea, and Duncan Terrace Gardens, Islington. The two sister sculptures are made from a collection of over 250 bespoke, wooden bird and bug boxes that create a sculptural ‘habitat’ for the birds, insects and invertebrates that occupy the gardens, providing spaces for shelter, nesting or feeding.  The design of the boxes in Duncan Terrace reflects the Georgian terraces and 1960s flats that surround the park, and in Cremorne Gardens, the structure is inspired by the architecture of the nearby Worlds End housing estate.

London Fieldworks are an art/architecture collaborative that create art installations for urban and rural settings that engage with ecology as a complex inter-working of social, natural, and technological worlds.

These sculptures have been commissioned for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Islington Council by up projects as part of their Secret Garden Project ; a new programme of artists’ commissions and events for secret gardens, lesser known green spaces, and urban corners across London. They will be in situ for three years.

The Secret Garden Project programme continues to grow, and each new commission is connected by written works, events and blogs by our writer in residence Sarah Butler. To find out more, or make a written contribution visit the Word Garden blog.

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If You Build it, They Will Come… by Ben Faga	The Birds, Bats and Bees by various designers	Animal Wall by Gitta Gschwendtner

Diane von Furtstenberg has taken a page from fellow fashion designer Ben de Lisi, with the forthcoming release of her own signature hospital gown. As you might recall from earlier this year, de Lisi was hired by the UK’s Design Council to come up with something less awkward to wear during doctor visits. While what he came up with probably wouldn’t be your first pick for daily outerwear, it was a vast improvement over its horrible predecessor. Von Furstenberg got into the market by way of the Cleveland Clinic, after meeting its CEO at a conference and learning they’d been working on redesign for several years prior (since 2007, when their last gown update had been released). She agreed to come in to help and lent designers, patterns, and various other assistance to push the project along. While still in the testing phase (there have been issues with buttons and shrinking fabric), but the hospital has said that it’s still a work in progress that they hope to be in regular use in the near future.

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Dezeen have teamed up with Brands, UK distributors for Emeco, to offer our readers the chance to win one of three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs made of recycled plastic bottles to celebrate the chair’s UK launch during the London Design Festival.

Modeled after the iconic all-aluminium Navy Chair first designed in 1944 for the US Navy, each 111 Navy Chair is made from at least 111 recycled plastic bottles.

The 111 Navy Chair is a collaboration between Emeco and The Coca-Cola Company. More details about the design in our earlier stories here and here.

The chairs are available in six colours: Coca-Cola red, flint grey, charcoal, snow white, grass and persimmon.

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Competition closes 21 September 2010. Three winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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See the 111 Navy Chair in all six colours at The Conran Shop Chelsea during the London Design Festival, 18-26 September.

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Sheffield-based studio Sanderson Bob were behind the branding for Nike’s recent World Basketball Festival and used a range of glyphs from different languages to add international flavour to the typography…

“We felt the branding and typography had to symbolise the ‘World’ aspect subtly; no globes or flags,” says the studio’s Bob Sanderson. “We decided to borrow from world language glyphs to do this. It had to be an interesting enough idea to work on its own as the branding for the event, and also create a typographic style that could sit well with other elements.”

“The typography isn’t over styled but was custom-made for the event. It was important not to over complicate the solution as it had many applications. The final outcome is, we think, a beautiful, balanced project combining type and illustration.”

Taking a bit of license with the odd cedilla and accent here and there, the studio used various glyphs from different languages more as visual motifs, creating a more global feel to the typography in the process.

The illustrations that feature in the campaign are by Saiman Chow.

Sanderson Bob has also recently completed a new book for the US sportswear giant that, at 20″x 20″ and 40lbs, covers the history of Nike, Converse and Jordan.

More at sandersonbob.com.

Branding and Typography: Sanderson Bob
Illustrations: Saiman Chow
Art Director: Michael Spoljaric at Nike

Une collaboration du site Fubiz sur l’application iPad The Flud, avec la mise en avant des articles par défaut en homepage de cet agrégateur et éco-systeme numérique. Une interface efficace et une réduction du prix pour les lecteurs du site. Plus d’images dans la suite.

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• Motion Cover for iPad
• Apple iPad
• The iPad Orchestra