Jumat, 28 Januari 2011
Selasa, 18 Januari 2011
Japanese studio Isolation Unit.
KIZUKI + LIM by Isolation Unit
KIZUKI, the latest branch of the rapidly growing japanese company Less is More is located in the prestigious Raffles Hotel in the center of Singapore.
The very contemporary setting, merged into the large, history-charged space, reflects the spirit of the young japanese stylists, who came to tropically hot Singapore with their ‘cool’ styles and ideas.
A ‘glacier’-like structure dominates the space and separates it into reception, cutting and shampooing area. In the cutting area, large pivotable wings with mirrors fold out of the wall.
When they are closed flush into the wall, the room becomes a spacious location for events and concerts. The timbered reception ‘hut’, includes a small gallery space that works as a platform for local artist.Japanese studio Isolation Unit.
Ant Table by Oliver Nikolic
a modern take on a coffee table that emphasizes simplicity and functionality by using simple materials; wood and glass. Two tabletops at different levels are connected with gently curved legs. Look closely and you may see how it got its name.Ant Table by Oliver Nikolic
Cat Friendly Planter Table by Emily Wettstein
Emily is 25-year-old designer from Brooklyn, NY and this table is a part of her application to grad school for architecture. The table is made from reclaimed walnut and steel with a removable planter that can hold a variety of plants, in this case wheat grassCat Friendly Planter Table by Emily Wettstein
LINK lighting
Like the skyline of a great city… The modules of the Link lighting system allow you to create silhouettes and volumes on the ceiling to suit every room and every location. Link consists of four modules in different sizes and heights, which connect to one another, to offer a wide range of geometries perfectly fitting into the architecture of the ceiling. They only require one electrical connection and their light source is dimmable and efficient.
The modules of the Link lighting system connect to one another on any of their four sides, requiring at least 14 cm of overlapping surface area. All the shapes are electrically connected to each other, so that a single electrical connection on the ceiling is enough for up to 25 modules.
Designed by Ramón Esteve, Link makes it possible to exploit the path of the light as it passes through the different angles in each module to create highly pleasant indirect ambient lighting, with an effect similar to that of natural light, as if the sun’s rays were shining into the room through the different volumes of the fitting.LINK lighting by Ramón Esteve for VIBIA
The modules of the Link lighting system connect to one another on any of their four sides, requiring at least 14 cm of overlapping surface area. All the shapes are electrically connected to each other, so that a single electrical connection on the ceiling is enough for up to 25 modules.
Designed by Ramón Esteve, Link makes it possible to exploit the path of the light as it passes through the different angles in each module to create highly pleasant indirect ambient lighting, with an effect similar to that of natural light, as if the sun’s rays were shining into the room through the different volumes of the fitting.LINK lighting by Ramón Esteve for VIBIA
Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created a hair clip
Called Hair Clip on Hair, the piece comprises a photograph of a woman’s eyes, attached to a metal clip.Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created a hair clip
Photo Hanger
paperclip, designed by Juta Kan. It is made with a thin steel wire shaped as a clip in the form of a miniature clothes hanger. Photo Hanger is designed to display photos, and favorite post cards. Have fun – hang them on a thin line of monofilament, as if on a clothes line, or on a push pin on a bulletin board.Photo Hanger
Designer: Wonchul Hwang
the kind that recharges in USB mode and turns into a functional AA when the need arises; rightly calling it the AA USB.Designer: Wonchul Hwang
'digital decay' by zachary eastwood-bloom
london based designer and recent royal college of art graduate zachary eastwood-bloom has created 'digital decay'.
the collection explores the theme of two different universes that equally follow the laws of physics: one material,
with mass and volume and the other a mathematical construct assembled from binary information.
stemming from experimentation with digital terrain generation software, the surface and form unite to analyze
the relationship between the real and the virtual and the digital and the handmade. 'digital decay' by zachary eastwood-bloom
the collection explores the theme of two different universes that equally follow the laws of physics: one material,
with mass and volume and the other a mathematical construct assembled from binary information.
stemming from experimentation with digital terrain generation software, the surface and form unite to analyze
the relationship between the real and the virtual and the digital and the handmade. 'digital decay' by zachary eastwood-bloom
Senin, 17 Januari 2011
connect Blink EV charging network
ECOtality teamed up with Best Buy a few months back to expand its network of Blink EV chargers, and it's now finally announced which company will actually be connecting that network. ECOtality will be relying on Sprint's Command Center M2M solution, which will handle things like monitoring and electronic payments, and allow ECOtality to display digital content for advertising or other information, among a host of other network-related things.connect Blink EV charging network
Slow Sofa
In the context of the Passages during the IMM Cologne 2011, January 17 to 23, Frederik Roijé presents his latest design Slow Sofa at Galerie Fiebach & Minninger. The Slow Sofa is a collaboration of two pieces of furniture and materials in one object.
Slow as a durable starting principle in the design of interior products in order to continuously produce new creations. Within the food culture slow is already more developed. Fascinated by this belief the Slow Sofa is designed.
The Slow Sofa is a family of nine elements that can be applied in many compositions at various locations. An intelligent design for a new period in time.
Manufactured with local industries and craftspeople, with as many as possible natural never-ending and recyclable resources.Slow Sofa
Slow as a durable starting principle in the design of interior products in order to continuously produce new creations. Within the food culture slow is already more developed. Fascinated by this belief the Slow Sofa is designed.
The Slow Sofa is a family of nine elements that can be applied in many compositions at various locations. An intelligent design for a new period in time.
Manufactured with local industries and craftspeople, with as many as possible natural never-ending and recyclable resources.Slow Sofa
Designer: Singgih Kartono
Mr. Kartono's newest design, this hand-crafted clock is made in his Indonesian farming village, following the best sustainable practices in materials and production. Part retro, part contemporary, a timeless time piece.Designer: Singgih Kartono
Zanotta – Raw
Fashion-forward and innovative to the nth degree, Italian company Zanotta has created this cool dining table for dining and admiring. Dubbed “Raw,” this table features a steel frame painted in the modern, trendy graphite shade. The frame supports 42mm slats of solid aged oak, which was harvested from a sustainably managed forest.Zanotta – Raw
Designer : Reiser + Umemoto
Kaohsiung Port Terminal is the result from an experiment of dynamic 3-dimensional urbanism that amplifies the flow of pedestrian traffic. It’s been designed with an elevated and activated boardwalk that runs continuously along the water. Beneath this level of public promenade,Designer : Reiser + Umemoto
Aphrodite USB Hub
This mini sculpture will bring elegance and class to your workspace and with the 4 port USB hub as the baseAphrodite USB Hub
British-born and Hong Kong-based Michael Young
EOps Noisezeor i+ and 0utercoverBritish-born and Hong Kong-based Michael Young
23.2 House by Omer Arbel
Designed by Omer Arbel, 23.2 is a house for a family built on a large rural acreage outside Vancouver in the West Coast of Canada. There is a gentle slope from east to west and two masses of old growth forest defining two “outdoor rooms” each with a its own distinct ecology and conditions of light; the house is situated at the point of maximum tension in between these two environments, and as such acts at once to define the two as distinct, and also to offer a focused transition between them.
The design of the house itself began, as a point of departure, with a depository of one hundred year old Douglas Fir beams reclaimed from a series of burned down ware- houses. The beams were of different lengths and cross sectional dimensions, and had astonishing proportions – some as long as 20 meters, some as deep as 90 cm. It was agreed that the beams were sacred artefacts in their current state and that they would not manipulate them or finish them in any way.
Because the beams were of different lengths and sizes, the architect needed to com- mit to a geometry that would be able to accommodate the tremendous variety in di- mension, while still allowing the possibility of narrating legible spaces. He settled on a triangular geometry.
He folded wood triangular frames made of the reclaimed beams to create roof which would act as a secondary (and habitable) landscape, drapping this artificial landscape over the gentle slope of the site. Folds were manipulated to create implicit and explic- it relationships between indoor and outdoor space, such that every interior room had a corresponding exterior room.
To maximize ambiguity between interior and exterior space, he removed definition of one significant corner of each room by pulling the structure back from the corner it- self, using bent steel columns. Also large accordion door systems were introduced in these open corners so that the entire façade on both sides of each significant corner could retract and completely disappear.
23.2 House by Omer Arbel
The design of the house itself began, as a point of departure, with a depository of one hundred year old Douglas Fir beams reclaimed from a series of burned down ware- houses. The beams were of different lengths and cross sectional dimensions, and had astonishing proportions – some as long as 20 meters, some as deep as 90 cm. It was agreed that the beams were sacred artefacts in their current state and that they would not manipulate them or finish them in any way.
Because the beams were of different lengths and sizes, the architect needed to com- mit to a geometry that would be able to accommodate the tremendous variety in di- mension, while still allowing the possibility of narrating legible spaces. He settled on a triangular geometry.
He folded wood triangular frames made of the reclaimed beams to create roof which would act as a secondary (and habitable) landscape, drapping this artificial landscape over the gentle slope of the site. Folds were manipulated to create implicit and explic- it relationships between indoor and outdoor space, such that every interior room had a corresponding exterior room.
To maximize ambiguity between interior and exterior space, he removed definition of one significant corner of each room by pulling the structure back from the corner it- self, using bent steel columns. Also large accordion door systems were introduced in these open corners so that the entire façade on both sides of each significant corner could retract and completely disappear.
23.2 House by Omer Arbel
Minggu, 16 Januari 2011
Sakura Adachi, designed for Campeggi,
"Trick" is a bookcase which transforms into a console table with two chairs.
When both sides of the bookcase are moved from the original positions, they function as chairs. What remains in the centre works as a table. The console can be used for dining as well as for writing, reading and working on your computer.
It is multi-purpose furniture which offers a space saving solution and fulfills your everyday activities in small environment. Sakura Adachi, designed for Campeggi,
When both sides of the bookcase are moved from the original positions, they function as chairs. What remains in the centre works as a table. The console can be used for dining as well as for writing, reading and working on your computer.
It is multi-purpose furniture which offers a space saving solution and fulfills your everyday activities in small environment. Sakura Adachi, designed for Campeggi,
Caracas Symphony Complex by ADJKM Arquitectos
FIRST PRIZE. Project in progress - Caracas, Venezuela 2010-2016
Public competition for the preliminary design of the Simon Bolivar International Complex for Social Action through Music (CIASMSB) and its surrounding urban area.
Program:
3 modular concert halls of 1700, 1300 and 500 seats. One of which is adjustable up to receive 400 musicians. Music conservatory: Rehearsal rooms, classrooms. Restaurant and cafeteria, musicians’ dorms, administrative offices, outdoor amphitheaters. Parking.
The competition was organized by The FESNOJIV, a government-funded organization aimed at systematizing music education and promoting the collective practice of music through symphony orchestras and chorus as a means of social organization and communitarian development, and the CAF (Andean Development Corporation) a financial institution that supports sustainable development and regional integration in Latin America.Caracas Symphony Complex
by ADJKM Arquitectos
Public competition for the preliminary design of the Simon Bolivar International Complex for Social Action through Music (CIASMSB) and its surrounding urban area.
Program:
3 modular concert halls of 1700, 1300 and 500 seats. One of which is adjustable up to receive 400 musicians. Music conservatory: Rehearsal rooms, classrooms. Restaurant and cafeteria, musicians’ dorms, administrative offices, outdoor amphitheaters. Parking.
The competition was organized by The FESNOJIV, a government-funded organization aimed at systematizing music education and promoting the collective practice of music through symphony orchestras and chorus as a means of social organization and communitarian development, and the CAF (Andean Development Corporation) a financial institution that supports sustainable development and regional integration in Latin America.Caracas Symphony Complex
by ADJKM Arquitectos
Korg Releases nanoSeries 2 USB Controller
The first model is the Korg nanoKey2 that comes equipped with 25 velocity-sensing keys and an advanced design for reliable recording. This USB-MIDI controller can be used with the Korg Kontrol Editor software, which is available for free on the Korg website. The second model is the Korg nanoPad2, which is designed for entering drum parts. This gadget features 16 responsive pads and an X-Y touchpad. And the third model is the Korg nanoKontrol2 that has several knobs, switches, and faders for controlling any DAW computer based DAW or any other music production software.Korg Releases nanoSeries 2 USB Controller
Altec Lansing inMotion Air wireless speaker
The Altec Lansing inMotion Air wireless speaker plays music wirelessly from your computer using a stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) connectivity. You just need to connect the USB transmitter to your computer, choose your playlist and take the inMotion Air wherever you need to go. The wireless transmitter sends your computer’s audio through the air and into your speaker for up to 300 feet away. You can also pair the speaker to your iPod touch, iPhone, iPad and most other stereo bluetooth devices for added musical freedom.Altec Lansing inMotion Air wireless speaker
Jumat, 14 Januari 2011
Samsung BD-D7500
The Samsung BD-D7500 is known as the world’s sllimmest Blu-ray disc player that measures at only 0.9-inch thick. This 3D enabled Blu-ray player has a built-in Wi-Fi and Smart Blu-ray, Samsung’s content streaming service. Additional specs include a Full HD 1080p up-scaling, multi format disc playback, a touch sensor control, a slot-in loading mechanism and AllShare (DLNA-enabled).Samsung BD-D7500
Modern Writing Desk by Molteni & C
This modern writing desk by Molteni & C is just the thing to inspire your creativity. The Scriba writing desk designed by Patricia Urquiola is a contemporary design of clean lines and a simple silhouette that provides for all your practical needs. There’s plenty of storage space to ensure all your files are in order – a lateral drawer, a leather side pocket and a book support. A computer table and an extendable keyboard shelf are a nice (and essential) touch.Modern Writing Desk by Molteni & C
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