Un excellent travail de l’artiste Bianca Chang, travaillant à temps plein en tant que designer junior chez Frost * Design à Sydney. Spécialisé dans le papier, elle a réalisé 2 scupltures en forme de lettre A et T. Explications en images dans la suite de l’article.
A fan of the 1960s-to-mid-70s futurist group Archigram? If you like modernist architecture, you should, given that the avant garde architects inspired a ton of the starchitects who are building all those buildings you like so much (Rogers, Piano, and Foster have each credited the group). If you’re already a fan, or getting there after that last sentence, you’ll dig these new shirts by the Japanese company Graniph, which put to use some of the original designs created by the group. Their logos, collages, illustrations, it’s a super cool collection. If you’re too lazy to convert the shirt’s prices in yen to dollars, or worried that the shipping costs might be higher than that of the shirt price itself, then head over to this post by the good folks over at Dezeen, who are giving away 10 shirts from the collection to their readers. Just mail them your details between now and September 20th for a chance to win and you may soon be showing off how cool you are for being a fan. “Oh this?” you’ll say to your pals. “This is just this avant garde group of British architects from the 60s I’m way into.” Then watch them feel great shame over their now-dull vintage band shirts.
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Just under four years ago, there was lots of discussion over retail giant Ikea‘s plans to build affordable housing in suburban England in a project called BoKlok. While the project was built and all of the units were sold in the UK, it doesn’t seem, at least for the time being, to have caught on as well as it had in places like Germany and the company’s native Sweden. So if you’re left a little glum knowing that you probably won’t be able to live in an Ikea, low-cost home unless you move to another country and learn a new language, fret not. Google has announced that it has partnered with U.S. Bank in building “480 affordable rental housing units for low income families and senior citizens in seven communities throughout the West and Midwest.” While more an investment and philanthropic effort than “Google-designed homes,” should you fit within that bracket of income level, and live in the right area, there’s a chance you could be living in one of their buildings (unfortunately, they probably don’t offer free catered meals like they do in their offices). Here are some details:
The fund includes housing developments in the Midwest, an area where affordable housing investment has lagged in recent years, as well as in the California state where Google’s Mountain View headquarters is based. Many of the complexes include a range of one to four-bedroom apartments, and offer a shared laundry facility and community gathering area. In addition to this USBCDC sponsored fund, Google also recently invested in two other low-income housing projects for senior citizens, one in the San Francisco Bay community of Sunnyvale, and the other in the Los Angeles County community of Inglewood.
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Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: visitors to the Romanian Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello at the Venice Architecture Biennale are invited to experience the population density of Bucharest, one at a time.
A 94 square-meter box encloses most of the space inside the pavilion, with one visitor admitted to its interior at a time.
Visitors queueing in the gap between the enclosure and pavilion walls can glimpse the enclosed space through three peep holes.
The interior is illuminated by a large circular hole in its ceiling.
Above: view from inside
The installation was created by Romina Grillo, Ciprian Rășoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Matei Vlăsceanu and Tudor Vlăsceanu.
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The information that follows is from the architects:
The premise of the project entitled “1:1”, which will be exhibited in the Romanian Pavilion from Giardini di Castello, is a radical one: architecture as translation of a unique idea, ultimately determining and defining the space we inhabit.
The concept is to “exhibit space” and, by doing so, to explore its various instances. A specific and quantifiable fact is related to the idea of “space”: 94m2/person is the population density level in Bucharest, and its representative for the urban condition in Romania.
It illustrates, at the same time, both an individual and a collective state of existence. 94 m2 will be the exhibited “space”.
It will be experienced by one person at a time.
Translating at 1:1 scale this abstract and yet fundamental relationship between man and its space, becomes a key in decoding different meanings of space.
The architecture is the physical presence of the enclosed exhibited space and by a seemingly violent process it defines two spaces, two worlds: one that is planed and another that is accidental and a consequence of the first.
The exterior of the architectural object, a collective space, presents an enigma. Moving around it prepares the visitors and reveals fragments in three very precise moments thru small round openings in the walls.
The interior of the architectural object, an individual space, has the desired 94 m2 surface.
The space receives daylight through a circular opening in the ceiling which together with the three perforations acts as a system of reference for the person inside and defines the inner space with the minimum geometric means necessary.
The rotated geometry de-materializes the architectural object, creating a relationship between an individual, interior, sacred, private, abstract space and a collective, exterior, profane, public, real space. The tension between these spaces keeps them united; one cannot exist without the other and both cannot exist without architecture.
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| Canadian pavilion by Philip Beesley | Villa Frankenstein by muf architecture/art | Polish pavilion at Venice 2010 |
This week’s Workspace of the Week is Barb McMahon’s itty bitty netbook office:
This home office is so superbly simple that there isn’t much to say about it. The do-it-yourself desk/storage box works wonderfully with the re-purposed bathroom mirror hanging above it. The office chair is one of the dining table chairs, and the bookshelf on the left is conveniently out of the way. Brilliantly minimalist and uncluttered.
Thank you, Barb, for submitting your workspace to our Flickr pool.
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To coincide with the back-to-school period, Tipp-Ex, has just lauched a YouTube campaign which allows users to interact with a film that features a hunter camped out in the woods and an amusingly unrealistic bear…
The film – created by Parisian agency Buzzman – starts like any YouTube film – but just as the hunter character is about to shoot the bear which is snuffling around by his campsite, users get to choose whether or not he does, in fact, shoot the bear.
From here on in (well, after a rather nifty bit where the hunter interacts with the Tipp-Ex banner to the right of the film) the film is interactive in a way that is reminiscent of Burger King’s hugely impressive Subservient Chicken campaign from 2004. Viewers can type in almost any request into the blank in this sentence: A hunter ______ a bear.
Simply type in something in the blank and watch the results. Here are some stills from some of the stuff we typed in
Have a go (simply play the film below to get started) – but be warned it’s hugely addictive. And definitely make “cuddles” your first command:
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pem”By combining a recently developed mobile software application with the multimedia facade of the ARS Electronica building […] we developed two prototypes: in the first application, users can paint interactively on the building using touch input on the mobile device. In a second application, users are able to solve a jigsaw puzzle displayed on the facade.”/em/p
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These pens by London designers Yuri Suzuki and Oscar Diaz can record sound as a line on paper and then play it back.
The REC pen (above) records sound through a microphone in its cap and records it as a line of magnetic ink, similar to the production of cassette tapes.
The PLAY pen (above) has a nib that reads music by tracing along the drawn line and plays it back through a speaker.
The pens run from power leads attached to a circuit board.
REC & PLAY will form part of Sound Interjection, an exhibition at the KK Outlet in Hoxton Square during the London Design Festival between 18 and 26 September.
Here some more from the designers:
REC & PLAY pen by Yuri Suzuki and Oscar Diaz
REC & PLAY is a collaborative project between Yuri Suzuki and Oscar Diaz. Both designers, who met at the RCA, started tinkering a while ago with the intention to create an object that would combine drawing and sound.
The project consists of two pens that allow recording sound on a line and then playing it back. The REC pen, draws and record sound on a line. It contains especial ferromagnetic ink, made with the same component used to made old cassette tapes, a recording head and a microphone.
The ink is applied to the paper and at the same time the recording head can record the sound captured by the microphone situated at the top part of the pen. The PLAY pen allows retrieving the sound and playing it back. It contains a read head and a speaker.When the tape read head is moved along the line the previously recoded sound can be heard.
To reference and indicate each pen function, the pens use the color code used in old cassette recorders. The REC pen is red, and the PLAY pen, black. Both pens are connected to a circuit board and a power supply to feed the electronic components. The project, is part of “Sound Interjection” an exhibition featuring an extensive selection of Yuri’s work, and will be presented for the first time at the KK Outlet in London.
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| Soundchaser by Yuri Suzuki | Ink Calendar by Oscar Diaz | While You Sleep by Oscar Diaz |
 | Pretty Fall ColorsJust because the sun will soon be setting earlier and the days are looking a little gloomier, this doesn’t mean that our wardrobes have to follow suit. Sure, bright colors of summer may look out of place in the Fall season, but Fall itself is full of vibrant hues and gorgeous Autumn tones. So while we’re saying good-bye for now to our lighter summer palette, it’s a great time to welcome the more saturated hues of Fall into our hearts and closets. Ideeli and others definitely agree. Plus, so many of them are coveted designer l Ideeli – Jil Sander, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana. D&G, Donna Karan, Buco Swirl by DailyCandy – Gar-De, Carla Mancini, Rockstar, Dylan George Rue La La – Isabella Fiore, MICHAEL Michael Kors, Fendi, Prada, Taryn Rose Gilt Groupe – Cynthia Rowley, Clu, Dolce & Gabbana, Cesare Paciotti, Catherine Malandrino, McQ, Paul and Joe |
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