Hasta La Ideas

pEindhoven University of Technology’s Industrial Design department is less than ten years old, which explains why their facilities look a damn sight better than the 1800s factory buildings I received my own education in at Pratt. Delft University of Technology’s ID department looks similarly spanking. Curious to see inside their facilities, I did a little digging and found two vids worth checking out./p

pThe first clip below (of Delft) is in Dutch with no English subtitles, and while I have no idea what the heck they’re saying, you do get a look inside their classrooms and studios:/p

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pThe second vid (Eindhoven) has no narration at all, and is just shots of cool projects and facilities./p

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pIf you’re in ID school now, encourage your department to shoot a vid of the goings-on, then e-mail me at (rain)(at)(core77)(dot)(com); we’d love to see more of what ID schools around the world look like./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/education/a_video_look_at_two_dutch_id_schools_now_send_us_video_of_your_school_16929.asp”(more…)/a
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Annual reports have come a long way from the A4 printed tomes of yore. For Home Retail Group’s 2010 review, SAS created a ‘video wall’ using thousands of cardboard boxes

Large public companies have now mostly switched to online for communicating with investors, doing away with the lavish printed annual reports which sustained many a design group in times gone by.

For Home Retail Group, the company behind Argos and Homebase, SAS decided to create a short film to review the group’s performance, which would play out on its website.

The film took three days, 2,128 10cm x 10cm boxes and 10 volunteers to make.

A making-of section on the SAS blog explains more here

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pFolks, one of the editors over at A HREF=”http://grainedit.com/2010/06/28/power-styling-futuristic-power-structure-concept-book/” Grain Edit came across a book/A called IPower Styling/I, commissioned by United States Steel in the ’60s. Grain Edit offers this possibly connected piece of back-story:/p

blockquoteIn 1964 United States Steel called upon the nation’s electric utility companies to reconsider the current look of our power stations and transmission towers to be both functional and beautiful. Two years later, Henry Dreyfuss and Associates were commissioned to investigate possible design alternatives, and I believe they were documented in [the IPower Styling/I book.]/blockquote

pApparently said book, which is filled with illustrations, contains little in they way of credit or information; Grain Edit recalled that Syd Mead had done some famous work for U.S. Steel and contacted his office to see if he was the source of the drawings, but no dice./p

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pAnyone have a dad or granddad who worked in ID? If so, show ’em these flicks and see if they know who did ’em. You can drop Grain Edit a line over at A HREF=”http://grainedit.com/2010/06/28/power-styling-futuristic-power-structure-concept-book/” the original post/A.br /
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A remarkable computer-designed glass vase underlines the beauty of nature

A new vase from the French/Japanese design pair A + A Cooren, Tourbillon (French for vortex) is like a sculptural snapshot, depicting the natural phenomenon’s violent spiral action with a 3D glass model. To make the beautifully twisted form, A + A Cooren collaborated with French glass workers on an intensive process using computer imaging to create the structure and the more rational lines of the glass bubble that houses it.

The limited edition (just 21 pieces were made) comes in three sizes, each composed of two borosilicate glass shells, one for the vortex and one for the exterior sheath. They sell from
Gallery S. Bensimon in Paris.

Founded by Aki and Armaud Cooren, Paris-based multidisciplinary studio A + A Cooren covers the realms of lighting, products, furniture and interior items all featuring its trademark Japanese sobriety.

So now that he’s an official West Coaster, this past Sunday saw the opening of Jeffrey Deitch‘s first, very high-profile show as the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art‘s new director. So how did he fare with “Dennis Hopper Double Standard,” an exhibition of the now-passed actor/director/artist? According to critic Christopher Knight, not so hot. While Knight doesn’t pick apart any particular thing that Deitch has had his hand in (other than “It’s cute to watch all the Easterners go gaga over Hollywood”), he’s quick to pick the show itself apart piece by piece, starting by saying that Hopper “just isn’t a very interesting artist.” From there he tours the show, describing the actor’s various moves into different artistic methods, from his better-known work with photography to his dabbling with graffiti in the mid-80s, which Knight seems to find particularly “amateurish” and (in his best line) “soggy hot-house Pop, divorced from time and space, like the immediate social landscape glimpsed from Saturn through the wrong end of a telescope.” So maybe not the strongest opening for Deitch, but given how much we’ve heard about the show (and to be morbid, the proximity of its opening to the actor’s death), we’re guessing the museum is pleased with its visitor count enough to not let the local critic bother it too too much.

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