May 2012
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AD: david beckham plays beethoven with soccer...
in an ad for the samsung ‘galaxy note’, david beckham sounds out ‘ode to joy’ on a 15-foot wall by kicking soccer balls at specific drums in a web-only ad for the galaxy note smartphone by samsung, soccer player david beckham plays beethoven’s ‘ode to joy’ by kicking soccer balls against a 15-foot wall of differently sized and toned drums and gongs....
ENERGY: Demand for Fresh Water Causing Oceans to... →
energy-revolution:
by Leon Kaye, 05/21/12
Waterlevel Photo by Shutterstock
A study published in Nature Geoscience concluded that the global demand for fresh water is contributing to the oceans’ rise faster than the impact of global warming on melting glaciers. The trillions of tons of fresh water pumped out of underground aquifers, and then used for irrigation and to keep cities watered and fed...
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GRAPHICS: Ben Long Etches Beautiful Reverse...
by Lori Zimmer, 05/21/12
British artist Ben Long uses a surprising medium for his reverse graffiti artwork – the grime that builds up from exhaust emissions on traveling cube trucks. Using only his finger, the artist has created a series of ephemeral drawings of children, birds and other animals in the layers of dirt. The project, called “The Great Traveling Art Exhibition,” is an ongoing...
April 2012
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‘Bittersweet Melodies’
April 9, 2012 | By Rolling Stone
“Bittersweet Melodies,” the latest video from Feist’s album Metals, features the work of Argentinian photographer Irina Werning, who creates new images by juxtaposing people in the present with images from their past. “I love old photos, but I love even more to recreate them,” says Werning. “When I fall in love with a picture I...
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ARCHITECTURE: delugan meissl - EYE film institute
‘EYE film institute’ by delugan meissl associated architects, amsterdam, the netherlands image © iwan baan all images courtesy of delugan meissl associated architects vienna-based firm delugan meissl associated architects has recently completed the ‘EYE film institute’ in amsterdam, the netherlands. derived from the concept of film as an illusion of light, space and...
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VIDEO: Manhattan Memorious - RUR Architects
Before a city becomes a thing of steel, concrete, and glass it is a theater of visions in conflict. As a city ages, the visions do not die but come up against the physical and ideological resistance of the place and its people. This is an account of a Manhattan that could have been – might have been. A phantasmagorical Manhattan where the visionary meets the everyday. The island as we know it...
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ARTICLE: Resuscitation of Sustainability - Damian...
By Damian Holmes, on April 15th, 2012
The term ‘Sustainability’has recently become passe and has slipped out of the design profession conscious beyond reading the odd design blog or column in the major city broadsheet newspapers with a feature about green walls, planting trees or installing some efficient/renewable technology (water tanks, solar panels, wind turbines, etc). Even the profession we...
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ARTICLE: User Experiment and Companies →
kopierer:
User Experience Is The Heart Of Any Company. How Do You Make It Top Priority?
Written by: Mary Ellen Muckerman
If you start with “useful” as a first principle, then you automatically place customer need and experience first, writes Wolff Olins’s Mary Ellen Muckerman.
The closer you are to your customers, the more relevant your product will be and the more likely you make it for...
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ART: Cloud Box - Peter Alexander (1966)
Cloud Box, 1966, Peter Alexander. Cast polyester resin. 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. Collection of Janis Horn and Leonard Feldman, Los Angeles. © Peter Alexander. Photo: Brian Forrest
Cloud Box, 1966, Peter Alexander. Cast polyester resin. 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. Collection of Janis Horn and Leonard Feldman, Los Angeles. © Peter Alexander. Photo: Brian Forrest
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MAT-FAB: 3D Printing: Geek Dad And His 3D Printer... →
By Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff
Carnegie Mellon Professor Golan Levin with a pile of 3D-printed adapters between construction toy sets.
This story appears in the April 23, 2012, issue of Forbes Magazine.
Last year Golan Levin’s son decided to build a car. Aside from the minor inconvenience of being 4 years old, the younger Levin faced an engineering challenge. His Tinkertoys, which he...
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PHOTOGRAPHY: Magnum Contact Sheets - Philippe...
Magnum Contact Sheets
The Collector’s Edition: Philippe Halsman, Dalí Atomicus, 1948
(Packaged in a presentation case with a numbered contact sheet)
Edited by Kristen Lubben
ISBN 9780500544037
34.20 x 28.00 cm
Hardback
508pp
435 Illustrations, 230 in colour
with over 3,600 frames on 139 contact sheets
First published 2011
Back in stock soon
An exceptional...
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WEB: Top 10 Best Flash Websites 2012
1 | Being Henry Being Henry uses Flash as it was originally intended, to open up new possibilities in consumer entertainment. It does this by offering users an interactive film that allows them to guide the aforementioned Henry through several storylines that work together to create a truly unique storytelling experience. Best Flash Websites | Website Design & Development
2 | The Museum...
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INSTALLATION: coast office architecture -... →
‘microsoft citizenship exhibition’ by coast office architecture in wallisellen, switzerland all images courtesy cost office architecture image © david franck stuttgart-based practice coast office architecture (zlatko antolovic, alexander wendlik) has shared with us images of ‘microsoft citizenship exhibition’, a spatial installation for microsoft’s office...
March 2012
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ROBOTICS/MATERIALS: Cambridge Engineers Use LEGO...
by Charley Cameron, 03/29/12
Designers everywhere continue to wow us with LEGO creations like robotic arms and fully functional printers, and now a group of engineers is even working on using the bright stacking blocks to grow bones! In a video created for Google’s Science Fair, a team at the University of Cambridge shows us how they are working on the production of fake bone, and how LEGO...
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MATERIAL: Scientists Create Artificial Plastic...
by Timon Singh, 03/29/12
Scientists Create Artificial Plastic Skin That Bleeds And Heals Itself
For years, scientists have been working to develop artificial skin for wounded patients and bio-medical research. Now a team from the University of Southern Mississippi has taken the effort one step further by creating a new type of plastic that not only ‘bleeds’ when damaged, but repairs itself just...
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SOFTWARE: Adobe 6.0 - Beta
Just released three days ago (21st March, 2012), Adobe has introduced its 6.0 Beta.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html
According to Adobe:
A whole new experience in digital image editing
Thank you for checking out the Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 beta. The world’s best digital image editing software is about to get even better. Explore Photoshop CS6 beta for a sneak preview of some of...
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SYMPOSIA: DIGITAL SYSTEMS: THEORY + PRACTICE...
UPDATED PRESENTERS LIST:
DIGITAL SYSTEMS: THEORY + PRACTICE Symposia
will include Andres Gonzalez from McNeel / Rhino Fab Lab *All Presentations are co-sponsored by Archinect. Webstream will be online during and after on the Archinect Archive. Presentation Schedule:
29th March, 2012 (6:00pm – 7:00pm CST) Keynote: Greg Lynn Location: Gerald D Hines, Main Theatre 30th March, 2012 ...
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TALK: Shadow City(s) - Center for Architecture NY
AIA CES: 1.5 LUs | 1.5 HSW
When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM THURSDAY, MARCH 29
Where: At The Center
The AIANY Global Dialogues Committee will host an event titled SHADOW CITY(S) to examine patterns of peri-urban growth in the Global South that define some of the most prolific urban typologies of the 21st Century; developments in municipalities or adjunct cities on the periphery of...
DESIGN: Artist Taku Satoh’s 3D Japanese Alphabet...
by Ana Lisa Alperovich, 03/23/12
Taku Satoh Design Office created this 3D paper version of the Japanese Hiragana alphabet in response to the prevalence of superflat media, where we read and watch from 2D screens. Unveiled at Gallery Kobo and called “Two Experiments Exhibition”, the artwork features delicate biodegradable letters created by carefully stacking hundreds of differently shaped...
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SOUND: unnamed soundsculpture - Daniel Franke
unnamed soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.
Project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer produced by: onformative.com chopchop.cc Documentation: vimeo.com/38505448 The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by...
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INSTALLATION: Stereotypical Cultures (2011)
“Stereotype: A fixed, commonly held notion or image of a person or group, based on an oversimplification of some observed or imagined trait of behavior or appearance.”
Societal stereotypes of Women within the two most ancient civilizations of the world, the Middle East and Asian (Chinese) cultures, have long been glorified, mystified, and many times fetishized within the eyes of the West,...
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ARCHITECTURE: Haus-Rucker-Co & Inflatables
Above, Giant billiard relaunched in 2007 within a sterile background without additionaldirtiness.
inflatable art, architecture and design
Haus-Rucker-Co was a Viennese group founded in 1967 by Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter, later joined by Manfred Ortner. Their work explored the performative potential of architecture through installations and happenings using pneumatic...
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MATERIAL: Silk Destroys Anthrax, Other Microbes in...
by Lori Zimmer, 03/19/12
U.S. defense scientists have developed a way to turn ordinary silk into a bacteria-killing machine, according to a new report in Applied Materials & Interfaces, a journal of the American Chemical Society. By using a simple dip-and-dry treatment, researchers from Ohio’s Air Force Research Laboratory created e a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria—even...
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ARCHITECTURE: High Line’s Incredible Final Phase
By: Suzanne LaBarre is a senior editor at Co.Design.
With each addition, the design elements of the High Line have grown better. This third phase should be the best by far. Initial details of the third and final leg of the High Line were released at a community meeting yesterday evening. Slated to open in 2014, the estimated $90 million extension of Manhattan’s madly popular...
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WORDS: Design as a social force? - by Harald...
Harald Gründl, photo © Udo Titz
The education goals of future designers are currently the subject of much controversy. The discussion on the new approach taken at HFBK in Hamburg is but one example of this. The universities advocate their old or new positions on the basis of their own subjective perception from within the academic domain and offer their students education concepts that are...
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WORDS: Thought comes first - by Helmut Staubach
Helmut Staubach, photo © Esch-Kenkel
Design is not art: A terse assertion that nevertheless always succeeds in provoking contradictions. We no longer require any special proof that the walls dividing art and design have been torn down. Artists’ consideration of consumerist behavior as a central theme in their works is nothing new, nor are their reflections on the role that product culture...
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FASHION: Maison Martin Margiela Exhibits Jacket...
by Nicole Abene, 03/10/12 | by Jasmin Malik Chua, 02/29/12
It’s no secret that here at Inhabitat, we’re fans of repurposing old materials into new, useful pieces. Maison Martin Margiela took those hunks of excess plastic that sit at the end of our pens and turned them into a gorgeous jacket, currently on display at Museum Rotterdam. Hit the jump to check it out and get inspired to recycle some...
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INFLATABLES: SITBON Wins PFFF Inflatable...
by Lori Zimmer, 03/08/12
Paris’s SITBON ARCHITECTES have won the City Vision PFF Inflatable Architecture competition with their red domed “Grenade” design. Announced at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the competition called for architects from around the world to create an inflatable pavilion that could be easily installed or removed. SITBON’s Grenade infuses culture and art to virtually...
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EXHIBITION: Testify! The Consequences of...
Reflections on architecture
by Ralf Wollheim | 03 March 2012
They’re extraordinary even at first sight: colorful photos are laid out on long tables or assembled in back-lit boxes and repeatedly show happy children. Quite unlike the usual architectural photography, which tends to be restrained in the choice of color and to present stringently composed shots of spaces that are rarely...
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ART: Jen Stark - hand-cut paper sculptures
detailed view of ‘abyss’ by jen stark all images courtesy and © the artist the detail-focused sculptor, painter and animator jen stark has sent designboom images of her most recent work. stark’s highly-intricate geometric works are always formed in vibrant colors, as these shades seem to have seeped into the treatment of each piece from her bright miami, florida, USA...
February 2012
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ART: Shadow Arts - City Skylines
source: http://vk.com/factura
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SYMPOSIA: DIGITAL SYSTEMS: THEORY + PRACTICE (29 -...
DIGITAL SYSTEMS: THEORY + PRACTICE
Keynote: 29 March, 2012 @ 7pm Greg Lynn
Panelists: 30 March, 2012 @ 10am - 5pm Elena Manferdini David Ruy Chris Lasch
Organized by: Wendy W Fok
Premise: The Panelists will explore the theoretical approaches to Digital fabrication and tooling systems, as well as the various implications and practical applications of digital fabrications and their impact on...
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“Without mathematics we cannot penetrate deeply into philosophy.
Without...”
– (via code-collective)
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Infographic Of The Day: How Men And Women Differ...
Infographic Of The Day: How Men And Women Differ When Making Big Sales
No one believes that men and women are the same. And a fascinating data set reveals how they might approach real estate deals differently.
We all know that men and women approach most everything in life slightly differently—and sometimes, wildly differently. How does this affect the way they each do business?
Rarely do...
KOPIERER: PAPER: Lisa Nilsson Constructs Intricate... →
Artist Lisa Nilsson uses rolled up pieces of Japanese mulberry paper to create these amazingly intricate anatomical formations that mimic something you might see in a biology textbook. The technique is known as paper filigree or quilling, and Nilsson assembles each piece over the course of several weeks by following the details from a photograph of a cross-section, which helps to make her work...
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R&D: MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar...
What if generating solar energy at home required little more than mixing some grass clippings with inexpensive chemicals? That’s exactly what MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has found to be the case. The scientist says creating a solar cell could be as easy as mixing any green organic material (grass clippings, agricultural waste) with a bag of custom chemicals and painting the mixture on a roof....
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ARCHITECTURE: Miami Beach Parking Garage | Zaha...
Posted at December 22, 2011 by Urukia Magazine
Legendary Architect Zaha Hadid Chosen to Design Miami Beach Parking Garage at Collins Park
Architect Zaha Hadid has been chosen by the City of Miami Beach to design its newest parking garage at Collins Park, a neighborhood that’s home to the Miami City Ballet, the Bass Museum, the City Library as well as the Gansevoort, W and Setai luxury hotels....
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ART: ‘brain activity’ - Hayward Gallery (London)
‘brain activity’ is a collection of works which dwell upon the notion of human failure as something to be understood as simultaneously unsettling and humorous.
david shrigley: brain activity southbank centre’s hayward gallery, london, UK february 1st to may 13th, 2012 an exhibition entitled ‘brain activity’ by macclesfield-born and glasgow-based artist david...
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DESIGN-FAB: INSTALLATION: GEO-COGNITION (2012)
*Note: Shadow creates the Manhattan Skyline.
GEO-COGNITION is based on the geometric concepts of projective geometry (duality principal) and the convergence theory, and the fusion of the four main geographic locations that had the most significant impact within the artist’s career and life.
The supervening confluences, which occur through transitional developments between the cities, are...
January 2012
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PRE-FAB: 200 Chinese Workers Erect a 30 Storey...
If we hadn’t seen a video of the T30 Hotel going up in China, we might not have believed that anyone, anywhere could erect a prefabricated 30 storey tower in just over 2 weeks. But it’s true – Broad Sustainable Building, a subsidiary of the BroadGroup construction company, has broken their previous record of constructing a 15 storey building in one week with their latest project in Hunan...
(C)ODE-(C)OLLECTIVE: FAB: 3-D–Print Yourself With... →
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“Fabricate Yourself” is like a 3-D photo booth. Using a Microsoft Kinect, anyone can hit a button and have a 3-D model of themselves printed right then. The project, headed by Karl Willis, removes the arcane intricacies of CAD software and replaces them with something anybody can pick up and play with.
Presented at the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference,...
December 2011
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I.D.: target bookshelf by mebrure oral
‘target books’ shelf by mebrure oral the ‘target books’ shelf by turkish designer mebrure oral is designed to keep books organized by separating them into sections of ‘already read’ and ‘yet to read’. each segment is demarcated by its own bookend, a line of text that is built into the shelf that states either ‘has been read’ or...
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I.D: Herman Miller Presents An Inside Look into...
In conjunction with the release of the documentary, Eames: The Architect and the Painter, Herman Miller launched a companion website that invites the audience to get an inside look at the connection between the Eames’ legacy and Herman Miller’s design heritage. Eames enthusiasts can explore images, videos and quotes exclusively collected from the Herman Miller archives, with additional...
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3D Printing: Three Cubes Colliding
Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.
Here is the latest experimental kite designed by Sash Reading with Ivan Morison, fabricated and engineered by Queen and Crawford. The kite features 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric. This video shows the whole team at the kite’s test flight in Jersey. To see Sash’s other work, including Meteor Kite...
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TENTS: Whitepod - a nomad camp in the Swiss Alps
“Whitepod resort” Les Cerniers, in the Swiss Alps | All photos © Vincent Hofer | Jean-Marc Palisse
Of course, they are there – the fancy hotels in the mountains. But today we want to show you a really different hotel: “Whitepod Resort” in the Swiss Alps, above Monthey, in the canton of Wallis. The hotel is built according to a bungalow concept: there are numerous little...
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3D TOOLING: Drzach&Suchy use rapid-prototyping
Look at Conversation, a new installation by Swiss artists Drzach&Suchy, and you’ll see a huge pixely portrait of Albert Einstein. But look again a few seconds later, and you’ll see—as plain as the mole on her face—a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. Conversation is a 3-D printed “shadow casting panel” that uses subtle shifts of light to uncover...
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MATERIAL: Berkeley Researchers Develop Cheap,...
by Timon Singh, 12/16/11
We’ve seen lots of amazing concepts for flexible gadgets in recent years – from Samsung’s bendy smartphone to e-newspapers that you can roll up. However researchers at Berkeley Lab are taking the technology to the next level by imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable – essentially creating a new type of electronic skin.
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INSTALLATION: amid.cero9 - the golden dome
‘the golden dome’ by amid.cero9 image © designboom the ‘architectural environments for tomorrow - new spatial practices in architecture and art’, an exhibition at the MOT museum of contemporary art tokyo, explores the modern interconnectivity between technology, urbanism and the way designers respond and influence our changing global culture. the show is a collaboration...
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3D MEDIA: scribbled line digital portraits
‘cinema-flash showdown’ scribbled line digital portraits by ayaka ito and randall church blending programming, design, and photography the ‘cinema-flash showdown’ is a series of digital photographic works created by american designers ayaka ito and randall church while students at the college of imaging arts and sciences at rochester institute of technology (RIT). to...
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PAVILION: akihisa hirata architecture office -...
‘bloomberg pavilion’ by akihisa hirata architecture office, tokyo, japan photo © takumi ota images courtesy of akihisa hirata architecture office + museum of contemporary art tokyo currently on display, the ‘bloomberg pavilion’, an outdoor installation designed by japanese practice akihisa hirata architecture office will become a stage for changing exhibitions for the...