Hasta La Ideas

Having just wrapped up a scrumdiddlyumptious show at Pace Prints, Will Cotton has found a new outlet for his confectionary delights: pajamas. The artist’s signature cakes, ice cream, candy, and pastries are the delicious highlight of a deluxe set of cotton PJs (at right) created for Creative Time, the New York public arts organization whose latest project (with artist Paul Ramirez Jonas) is a kind of five-borough scavenger hunt. Launched last Saturday at Bergdorf Goodman, the Cotton PJs retail for $195 and can also be purchased through Creative Time’s online store. Sales of the limited-edition sleepwear will “directly support artists’ dream projects.”

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pOne of the things technology is supposed to do, and has done a decent job of, is reduce the amount of time we spend waiting in lines. Self-checkout and barcode scanners speed the supermarket line; EZ-Pass and other regional automatic toll-collectors hasten the toll booth experience; and of course there’s the decades-old telephone reservation that prevents us from having to wait for a table at the bar./p

pWill the annual Apple Store Line spectacle finally come to an end, or at least reduce in size? People seem to be getting hip to the fact that waiting in overnight lines is for suckers when there’s a pre-order system in place. Which is probably why Apple and its associated partners–ATT and Radio Shack–A HREF=”http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/apple-received-more-than-600000-orders-for-the-iphone-4/?src=twttwt=nytimestech” took a record 600,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4/A, with ATT reporting Iten freaking times/I the number of pre-orders as there were for the iPhone 3GS./p

pOverwhelming demand led ATT servers to famously (and unsurprisingly) crash, suspending the pre-order process for all parties involved, and ship dates have been pushed back to July 2nd. Many would-be customers that managed to successfully pre-order reported glitches, like being charged the full unsubsidized amount for the new iPhone, even though they were upgrade-approved. Still, I think I’d rather spend a frustrated 30 minutes on my computer or cell phone sorting it all out rather than multiple hours using my physical body to occupy a physical space on a sidewalk, holding my pee and sweating in the sun. The latter just seems barbaric.br /
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Regular readers of UnBeige know that we can’t get enough of the cultural force that is David Byrne, whether he’s boosting biking, deepening the world’s understanding of Imelda Marcos to a disco beat, or transforming buildings into musical instruments. In the past month alone, he’s spent some quality time in Iceland, sued Florida governor Charlie Crist for illegal use of the Talking Heads tune “Road to Nowhere” in campaign ads, and mused on New Urbanism in Atlanta. We suggest you spend the next 16 minutes viewing Byrne’s newly posted TED talk (below) on the role of architecture in musical innovation.

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Dans la lignée des autres créations des designers berlinois de Kinzo, cette cuisine impressionne par ses traits. Inspirée par les lignes d’avions ou de vaisseaux spatiaux, cette installation permet de donner au lieu une clarté et une impression d’espace réussie. Plus de visuels dans la suite.

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pThe top 25 entries of the a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/competition/electrolux_design_lab_2010_competition__15787.asp”Electrolux Design Lab 2010 /acompetition are out. Participants were asked to focus on “The 2nd Space Age” by designing a home environment for the year 2050 when 74% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas. Entries addressed the areas of food prep and storage, as well as laundry and dish washing. The expected compact dishwashers and washing machines are thrown in the mix, some requisite anthropomorphism elicits smiles, and a few provoking materials keep things interesting. You can see all the entires a href=”http://www.electroluxdesignlab.com/2010/06/electrolux-design-lab-2010-semi-finalists/#more-1844″here/a. Check out Berty Bhuruth’s “Instinct Vacuum Cleaner” (aka “the Sheep-like Cleaner”) that dutifully cleans while you surf the web; Yuriy Dmitriev’s Bio Robot Refrigerator from Russia that literally tackles “Cool, Green, Food Preservation” by proposing to chill your edibles with bright chartreuse luminescent biopolymer gel (Pictured above. Also cryptically defined as looking “like boot process products”-?); and several entries even do away with the need for physical food altogether by bringing the Jetson-ian regime to life with food replacement systems. /p

pIt’s always a treat to imagine what might come next in our domestic spaces, but we got to wondering what would happen if Electrolux considered more than just small spaces for the future. With growing urbanization, that human touch in design would help us all feel better about living in our single-bed-studio-apartments. Imagine teaming some of these entries up with the poetic likes of designer Michael Harboun, whose a href=”http://www.eatmedaily.com/2010/04/kitchen-of-the-future-2010-videos/”Living Kitche/an incorporates a href=”http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/multimedia/index.html”Claytronics/a technology to create a truly responsive environment. Or throwing Joan Healy’s a href=”http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/08/sound-activated-dancing-pork-chop-video/”Sound-Activated Dancing Pork Chop/a in there to get form, function and, well…a new way to think about “grinding meat.” It might make you chuckle, but let’s not forget that the future can’t be all work and no play. /p

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