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pJay Greene’s new book on the power of design wears its affiliations right on the book jacket. The logos of all eight companies he profiles are stamped right on the cover, although perhaps Virgin Atlantic gets an extra psychological shout-out, since the subtitle and author credit seem to owe a little debt to the form of luggage tags. We here at Core77 are always happy to see new books touting the power of design to business executives, but we haven’t yet figured out whether the constant onslaught of new books signifies a real change in the way companies do business, or whether its simply another signpost promising an Apple-like future to executives clueless about how to execute the changes needed to establish a design culture./p
pInterestingly, while, a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Design-How-Works-Smartest-Companies/dp/1591843227/tag=core77-20″emDesign is How it Works/em/a takes its title from a Steve Jobs quote, Apple is not one of the companies Greene profiled. Instead, Greene’s book stands as the first post-Apple design book we’ve profiled here. The contribution of design to Apple’s success is taken as a emgiven/em. Instead, the reader is only presented with Apple in the introduction, as a framing mechanism to contrast with Bang Olufsen’s equally beautiful products. What Greene aims to demonstrate is that the Bauhaus taught us that design is material beauty and simplicity (BO), Jobs and company have taught us not to look at design, but to experience it. The following case studies fully support that thesis, but it’s a pearl of wisdom or two in Clif Bar case study that should get corporate America’s attention./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/book_reviews/book_review_design_is_how_it_works_how_the_smartest_companies_turn_products_into_icons_by_jay_greene__17334.asp”(more…)/a
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Matthew Ritchie’s anti-pavilion, “The Morning Line” (2008-09), a collaboration with Aranda Lasch, Arup, and Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, installed at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain
“For me, art is a way to examine the limits of perception. I find it really interesting that all architecture starts as a blueprint; in order for a building to be understood as three-dimensional, it has to first be flattened into a colorless, linear framework. But where is the stuff behind the walls? We know it’s there, but we can’t see it! What I’m really interested in is the invisible things that hold everything together.”
-Artist Matthew Ritchie
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Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: two enormous girders slice through the Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale thanks to Madrid architect Antón García-Abril of Ensamble Studio.
Above and top photographs are copyright Roland Halbe
Entitled Balancing Act, the installation comprises one girder balanced across the other, supported at one end by a metal spring.
A rock perched atop the other end acts as a counter-weight.
The installation forms part of the exhibition People Meet in Architecture, directed by Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA (see our earlier Dezeenwire story).
The Venice Architecture Biennale continues until 21 November. See all our stories about it in our special event category.
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See also: Trufa by Anton García-Abril, a house cast in the earth and hollowed out by a cow.
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The text that follows is from Ensamble Studio:
BALANCING ACT
Balancing Act is a play of balance. Two structural lines in the longitudinal space of the Arsenale buildings, which operate as a reagent to modify the original space.
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The interference caused by generating a diagonal incision, cuts on the bias the previous line marked by the old structure. The harmony between the two structures now contiguous forms a space from the two systems that meet, face and compare each other.
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The Arsenale will be a complex compositional series, an architectural “fugue”, in which different spaces follow one another, and in which the dissonant balance of the Balancing Act is just one chord.
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Project: Balancing Act
Location: Venice Biennale
End of building construction: August 2010
Author of the project: Antón García- Abril
Collaborators: Ensamble Studio:
Débora Mesa
Ricardo Sanz
Alba Cortes
Juan Ruiz
Tomaso Boano
Federico Letizia
Quantity surveyor: Javier Cuesta
Sponsor: Positive City Foundation
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Our preview guide to the most fabulous, fun and delicious events of Fashion’s Night Out
Following last year’s successful debut of the party of all fashion parties, Vogue’s back again with Fashion’s Night Out, the magazine’s banner event drawing out masses in NYC and beyond. While stores in cities around the world will open their doors for the occasion, it also serves to kick-off New York’s fashion week and (from what we can tell) practically the entire city will stay open until 11pm with music, clothing, food and drink galore. To help sort it all out, we’ve rounded up a few of the venues and happenings that we’re looking forward to most in our preview of 2010’s FNO.
The ladies of Vena Cava teamed up with shop-by-text innovatorsSubports to create their own event specifically for “Fashion Outsiders,” hosted by Partners and Spade. Selling handmade, wearable pieces created by those without fashion experience, such as firemen, farmers, and even toddlers, the team redefines fashion in the name of the common man.
After premiering his new collaboration with Levi’s at Bloomingdales, Billy Reid himself will be heading down to Bond street, where his solo store promises a party worthy to compete with the Bourbon-filled rager he threw for last year’s FNO. If you suddenly crave the macabre, further down on Bond between Broadway and Lafayette, OAK has teamed up Archetype Showroom, LNA and others to create the “Black Carnival.” Featuring deals on some of the brands’ more popular items, as well as opportunities to customize your piece with the designers themselves, the block-party style dark carnival still keeps fashion at the forefront of the night’s events.
Filled to the brim with celebrities, desserts, and exclusive shopping, the French-inspired flea market created by Opening Ceremony at the Ace Hotel encompasses all that can be imagined at FNO. Featuring booths and potential designer appearances from several participating brands, such as Alexander Wang, Rodarte, and Agnes B., expect exclusive products and prices, as well as some surprises along the way. Christina Tosi of Momofuku, for example, has created a cookie recipe exclusively for Band of Outsiders, which will be sold on this night only until it disappears into the baked-goods beyond.
Keds will also be revealing the next, aptly-themed French installment of their worldly collaboration with Opening Ceremony, featuring their brand-new toile and striped limited-edition sneakers. Even more limited versions available at the event will include hand-embroidered fabrics by artist Richard Saja, who transforms the pastoral toile patterns into scenes with clowns, monsters, mutants and more.
In collaboration with Colette, the Heartschallenger ice cream truck will be on-site serving as the brands pop-up shop offering exclusive FNO products (collete x Opening Ceremony frenchy products, Darcel x Incase iPhone 4 Slider Case, and fashion postcards), collete compilations and surprises, and of course ice cream.
Odin New York just recently launched their newest fragrance, 04 Petrana, but the intoxicatingly sweet scent of homemade ice cream is more likely to attract noses to their Lafayette Street store this Friday night. Fashion partners Shipley & Halmos have teamed up with Guerilla Ice Cream to create a completely original flavor for the event, sold exclusively at Odin. All proceeds from the Brooklyn Brewery Brown Ale, sweet cream and local honey-flavored scoops (currently being referred to as “Amalgamated”) will be donated to benefit the Street Vendor Project, an organization which aims to protect the rights of NYC street vendors.
If you’re going to be running around downtown and checking into stores on Foursquare anyway, you may as well make some money off of it. Sponsored by Mastercard and hosted by Fashion Lives Downtown, the Foursquare Scavenger Hunt in the Meatpacking District offers the chance to win some mega prizes. Starting at the Theory store on Gansevoort Street and 9th Avenue and heading out to at least 15 stores throughout the neighborhood, participants are entered to win a $5,000 Mastercard shopping spree as well as a stay in NYC’s famously upbeat hotel, The Standard. Be sure to include the store’s twitter alias (ex: @coolhunting) as well as the hashtag #FNOmeat wherever you check in in order to be entered. Along the way check out the “tips” section on Foursquare for exclusive info on discounts, drinks, and free swag wherever you may be headed.
In efforts to get fashionistas to the many festivities of the night, Volkswagon has been deemed the official vehicle sponsor of the night and will help transport shoppers with a free “direct” car service from midtown to the heart of Soho in the all-new 2011 Volkswagen Jetta. Not even released to car dealerships, Fashion fans will be the first to experience the new Jetta models. To participate, shoppers just simply show a receipt from any participating FNO retailer, and can jump in for a ride. Pick -up and drop off locations are in Midtown at Rockefeller Center at 50th Street between 5th and 6th Ave., and in Soho at Greene Street between Spring and Prince Street.
Founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell, along with his posse of Island Record’s recording artists, will be celebrating the label’s 50th Anniversary with the release of Keep On Running, the celebratory book that showcases Blackwell’s significant role in the music industry (and which has been previously featured on CH). With a special guest DJ performing, the crew will be celebrating with signed copies of the book at Barney’s.
German designer, Jil Sander, will be offering an exclusive preview of the Jil Sander’s Navy Collection at her flagship stores in Soho and Madison Ave during FNO. The designer has partnered up with Garance Dore, renowned Parisian illustrator, photographer, and blogger to showcase her interpretation of the new line that will be showcased exclusively for FNO. Dore will highlight the natural elegance of the new, casual-yet-luxurious line of relaxed and sophisticated woman’s wardrobe of clean, modern fitting, and innovative fabrics. Special guest DJ Marie Branellac will be spinning with cocktails on-site.
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pemHow can we start thinking about sustainability as intrinsic part of good design, instead of an addendum?/p
pHow can we embrace the potential impact of our craft to design new services, shape organizational behavior, and enable policy change, not just churn out artifacts? /p
pHow can we assume accountability for what our designs influence, and not just the design itself?/em/p
pThese are the questions many of us have been asking constantlymdash;and answering with only with limited successmdash;for years. I am reminded of the confusion designers have around this topic each time I publicly speak about sustainabilitymdash;the first comment from the audience during Q+A is always the same: “Tell us what to do!” We are a profession who spends our entire lives generating new ideas, challenging the status quo, and building glorious concepts from nothing, yet remarkably we are paralyzed when confronted with the issue of how to meaningfully engage in the most important issue of our time./p
div class=”article_quote” One of the best ways we can advance our mission to practice sustainable design is to make sure the next generation of designers will graduate with a value system that reflects the new realities of our profession./div
pThis is the challenge the Designers Accord sought to address when it started 3 years ago. The concept was simple: if designers, educators, and business leaders could openly share knowledge and experience about sustainability, we would collectively (and more quickly) build our intelligence around these issues, and then generate more innovative and world-changing ideas./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/the_designers_accord_educational_toolkit_what_does_it_really_take_to_encourage_sustainable_practice_17329.asp”(more…)/a
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pIf design and technology conferences were cities, which cities would they be? /p
pWe might imagine South by Southwest Interactive to be a sprawling and disjointed metropolis that has developed organically, like Bangkok. The various CHI conferences or SIGGRAPH would be meticulously clean and orderly, perhaps akin to Singapore. And TED might be closer to a utopian ideal that appears temporarily before vanishing again, making you wonder if it was really there in the first place, like an Atlantis, a Shangri-La or a Camelot. Surrounding these major centres of activity are smaller conferences that spring up from time to time, that start as intimate gatherings of like minded individuals that might eventually grow to be as well-trafficked and dispersed as those more established conurbations. /p
pOn August 20th, San Francisco boutique product design company a href=”http://kickerstudio.com/”Kicker Studio/a held such an event: its inaugural a href=”http://devicedesignday.com/”Device Design Day (D3)/a, at the San Francisco Children’s Museum. This follows in the footsteps of design firms hosting their own conferences, which is something that tends to work wellmdash;it helps to articulate what a company does that is different from its competitors, as well as demonstrating a willingness to share knowledge and learnings with the wider community. It’d be nice if some of the more established design firms deigned to do something similar./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/a_day_at_the_museum_kicker_studios_inaugural_device_design_day_conference__17326.asp”(more…)/a
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