tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27837631441348287322024-02-07T18:05:51.491-07:00LA76 strategic designlove for life and all those things that make your heart beat fasterRomanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-75485050050956245912010-05-24T22:18:00.000-06:002010-05-24T22:18:26.949-06:00JUMP!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/halsman_BBardot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/halsman_BBardot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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You still have couple of days to catch <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Halsman" target="_blank"><b>Philippe Halsman</b></a>'s exhibition <b>JUMP </b>in <b><a href="http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/" target="_blank">Laurence Miller Gallery</a>, New York.</b><br />
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Quirky and fun-filled series of fifty vintage photographs were taken by Philippe Halsman five decades ago of movie stars, politicians, royalty, entertainers, artists, and authors, all jumping before Mr. Halsman’s camera. He called the series “<span style="color: black;"><b>Jumpology</b></span>.” The extended series has never before been exhibited in New York.<br />
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Philippe Halsman, with an unsurpassed <b><i>101 LIFE magazine covers</i></b> to his credit, had the bold and unconventional idea back in the 1950’s to ask the famous and prominent people he was commissioned to photograph for the likes of LIFE, LOOK and the Saturday Evening Post, once the formal sessions were over, to jump! The results were amazing, as each subject interpreted this bizarre request in their own unique way, often defying their typical public image. We see <i><b>Richard Nixon</b></i> as he floats twelve inches above the floor with a peaceful smile on his face, a far cry from the scowl many of us ultimately remember him by. And there is the rather large <i><b>Jackie Gleason</b></i>, in a handsome dark suit and his fingers extended wide, defying gravity as he lifts off, and from somewhere off-camera we can’t help but hear “To the moon, Alice.”<br />
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<i><b>Marilyn Monroe</b></i>, <b><i>Brigitte Bardot</i></b>, <i><b>Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Salvador Dali</b></i>, <b><i>Weegee</i></b>,<b><i> Jack Dempsey</i></b> and even the <i><b>Duke and Duchess of Windsor</b></i> agreed to take a leap of faith. In that era of live television along with the popularity of the big glossy magazines, one’s image was not nearly as protected and shaped by handlers as it is today. There was a feeling of innocence, a desire for spontaneity, and Halsman, with his playful and charming personality, knew he had to get almost everyone to oblige his demand: JUMP!<br />
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Philippe Halsman was born in Latvia in 1906, and began his photographic career in Paris in the early 1930’s. He emigrated to New York in the fall of 1940, as Paris fell to the Nazis. He soon became one of the most prominent photographers in America, his photographs published widely and regularly. He died in 1979. His photographs have been collected and exhibited by museums around the world.<br />
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Our friends from <b><a href="http://www.a10studio.net/" target="_blank">a10studio</a></b>, with offices in Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City, has sent us an exciting news about their recent work. It's a project they did for The Museum of Agriculture in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #333333;">Agricultural production is one of the most internationally recognized emblems of Mexico</span></b></i>, and particularly of the State of Sinaloa. The state of Sinaloa is known as the <span style="color: #333333;"><i><b>"granary of Mexico"</b></i></span> because it is the producer of a big variety of food. Its efficient fields have become national leaders in their yields.<br />
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Because the economy of Sinaloa is sustained by its agricultural activities, the project seeks to recognize it and promote it, through a work that displays objects related to branches of technology, history of agriculture and agronomy as well as agricultural ways which sustain the economy of Sinaloa. Through the creation of the Museum of Agriculture the city government tries to allow the public to learn more about the forms of production in the locality, while recognizing both the agricultural practice as such, and those who make possible such a noble activity.<br />
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<h3><b> Project Brief</b></h3><b> Intro:</b><br />
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Through agriculture, man has colonized the territory for centuries, creating irrigation systems and by planting with geometric laws. He has de-naturalized the natural areas through the planting of natural elements; the distance that is between the planted trees or plants depends on both the size of the crop itself as the collection systems used. Each plantation produces a texture and color over the territory.<br />
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Agriculture industrializes, the landscape urbanizes.<br />
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a10studio proposal's <i>outside is as important as the inside</i>. There are no objects and an external reality, but a continuum between forms that wrap and un-wrap, that close and open, that focus and serve as a focus. The architecture as this, expanded in reality, in the middle, through the environment, is an extension. The environment in which it appears is a field.<br />
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They present 3 key strategies for the development of the project:<br />
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_Operative Topographies<br />
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_Ecomonumentality<br />
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_Active Ecology<br />
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<b><i>The spectacle of nature and city become now comparable.</i></b><br />
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<h4>_OPERATIVE TOPOGRAPHIES:</h4><span style="font-weight: normal;">Based on the topographic analysis of the site, we suggests a strategy of folding, cutting and movement of the territory. Such movements define platforms developed as programmatic scenarios, functional plateaus exacerbating their flexible surface condition, either as slipped and extended surfaces [dynamic soil], or as extruded surfaces [located reliefs]. In both cases it is manipulated landscapes that refer to the nature of vacant spaces, and ultimately, the very definition of landscape as a background, as construction and stage at the same time: landscapes within landscapes.</span><br />
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The ground respond to a willingness to overlap, the reliefs to an interlock.<br />
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These topographies form in any case, new geographies on the ground; mineral and vegetal landscapes in which the movements and flows are articulated by a manipulated geography and a generated space.<br />
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<h4>_ECOMONUMENTALITY:</h4>We are used to think of architecture in function of the place, meaning that it could find the keys with which to tackle the project. There are many ways to anchor to the site. The whole place has gone from being understood as a landscape, whether natural or artificial, and it has ceased to be the neutral ground on which man-made architectural objects stand out, to become the object of primary interest and focus of attention. Thus, changing the point of view, the landscape loses its momentum and becomes an object of possible transformations, both at the architectural level, neighborhood and city-level.<br />
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The architecture starts a process of artificial blurring with an obvious interest in incorporating a natural condition, both in terms of composition as constructive (proposed construction system of rammed earth walls, to emphasize the use of existing assets in the site as well as develop strategies for sustainability and passive ecotechniques), in search for environmental sensitivity and a formal complexity that responds precisely to the values of the Culiacan society.<br />
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<i> The project seeks to build a complete redefinition of the place, offering primarily the invention of a topography. So with this double movement, from the nature to the project and from the project to nature, we seek to rescue a "ecomonumental” condition.</i><br />
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<b>An architectural proposal characterized by:</b><br />
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- Address both what is between things as things in themselves: public space [a hall, a plaza, a terrace] is therefore the primary object.<br />
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- The identification of the variability, the change as a key ingredient of architecture. With emphasis on the design of objects rather than the definition of definitive architectural programs.<br />
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- The commitment between scales. The project its determined and affects many areas beyond those granted by reason of mere physical contiguity. A project with translation capability, traveling between scales.<br />
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- Understand and feel simultaneously different scales and fields of perception and action.<br />
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- Acting on the near, immediate, tactile, and understand at the same time many other receptacles and dimensions that get modified with user actions, it is a flexible work program for the upcoming years.<br />
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<h4>_ACTIVE ECOLOGY:</h4>To the old nostalgic or pseudobucolic ecology (freezing landscapes, territories and environments) we propose a bold ecology; reclassified to be reformulated. Based not in a fearful and non-intervention purely defensive -resistant- but in a no-tax, projective and rating -(re)promotive- intervention in synergy with the environment and also with new technologies. Not only possibilities but (re)positivist.<br />
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<b>a10studio proposes</b>:<br />
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- An ecology where sustainability means interaction.<br />
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- Where Nature is is also artificiality.<br />
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- Where the landscape is topography.<br />
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- Where energy is information and technology the vehicle to development.<br />
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- Where development is recycling and evolution is genetic.<br />
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- Where environment is the field.<br />
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Where retain involve always intervene.<br />
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The selection of vegetal species to exhibit took into account the degree of maintenance as well as the main agricultural products of the state of Sinaloa and the natural species of native vegetation. In this way we achieve that public space becomes in a same gesture an inside museum-park-public space. Presenting the exhibiting object in real time with their processes and characteristics of agricultural activity, where the user can directly see how these are conducted and its temporality. Species selection also took into consideration the color palette that these species may have throughout the year generating a "living park" an ever-changing exhibition and intervention which always seem dynamic and not static representation of agricultural processes.<br />
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<h4><b>PROJECT DATA:</b></h4><b> architectural project: </b><b><a href="http://www.a10studio.net/" target="_blank">a10studio</a></b> + <a href="http://www.lab07.net/" target="_blank"><b>lab07</b></a><br />
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<b> project team:</b> Mariano Arias-Diez, Luis Alarcón, Carlos Marín, Hugo Sánchez, Mia Modak<br />
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<b> type:</b> institutional, museum and park<br />
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<b> location:</b> Culiacan, Sinaloa (Mexico)<br />
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<b> area:</b> 45,000 m2<br />
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<b> project year:</b> 2010<br />
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<b> client:</b> Instituto Municipal de Planeacion (IMPLAN) de Culiacan<br />
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<b> status:</b> Competition finalist<br />
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<h4><b>CONSULTANTS:</b></h4><b> landscape architecture:</b> Hugo Sánchez / ENTORNO taller de paisaje<br />
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<b> structural engineer:</b> Ing. Fernando Alvarez / Construcciones FASA<br />
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<b> rendering and digital visualization:</b> Carlos Marín / lab07<br />
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<b> lighting design:</b> a10studio<br />
<h4><b>contact a10studio:</b></h4>_Sierra Guadarrama 85-1, Col. Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico .D.F 11000, Mexico<br />
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_Isla Santa Catarina, Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico<br />
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tel. +(55)26.23.26.73, +(624)13.15.14.7<br />
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email: <a href="mailto:info@a10studio.net" target="_blank"><b>info@a10studio.net</b></a><br />
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web: <a href="http://www.a10studio.net/" target="_blank"><b>http://www.a10studio.net</b></a><br />
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<b>Check out the story boards. We love how the thought has been put to every single detail:</b><br />
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<b>Congratulations!</b>Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-77047476241249543432010-05-17T10:39:00.001-06:002010-05-17T10:40:44.048-06:00Peppersmith chewing gum with clever packaging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/03_peppersmith_jl110210.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/03_peppersmith_jl110210.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Two friends, Mike and Dan, started a refreshing business and presented a refreshing chewing gum <a href="http://www.peppersmith.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: green;"><b><span style="color: #339966;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Peppersmith</span></span></b></span></a>. They've set a bunch of noteworthy <a href="http://www.peppersmith.co.uk/about-us/values-2" target="_blank">values</a> and promise that while they can't promise they'll do everything perfect they do promise they'll always do their best to do the things right. As far as we can see, they're doing great. I'm personally not a big fan of chewing gums, however, for Peppersmith I'd be willing to give them a second chance. The natural gum + intelligent design packaging wins me over every time.<br />
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Sweetened with wood sugar from beech trees and peppermint grown in Hampshire (there are also no artificial flavours, colours, preservatives or aspartame), it's touted as the first British all-natural chewing gum that's also approved by the British Dental Health Foundation. Besides that, the packaging itself will make you buy at least one pack of Peppersmith. Each box slides out of its case to reveal a moustachioed icon like <b><span style="color: #339966;">Salvador Dali</span></b><span style="color: #339966;"> </span>and <b><span style="color: #339966;">Charlie Chaplin</span></b> – the moustache being a sly riff on the company's stylised mint leaf logo. Lovely attention to the details (and very useful one) is that they equipped each gum case with small slips of Post-It-like paper to wrap up used gum.<br />
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Currently available in peppermint flavor, coming soon you'll also be able to try Peppersmith in Spearmint, Cinnamon and Fish & Chips (huh?). If you've tried them, let us know how they taste.<br />
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We absolutely love the <strong><span style="color: #993300;">UK Pavilion</span></strong> at the Shanghai Expo 2010. Mastermind behind it is <a href="http://www.heatherwick.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #333300;">Heatherwick Studios</span></span></strong></a>, run by acclaimed architect Thomas Heatherwick.<br />
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The Pavilion's design seeks to engage meaningfully with the Expo's theme, "<strong><span style="color: #993300;">Better City, Better Life<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span></span></strong>. It veers from the expected trend of digitally-driven pavilions and explores the relationship between nature and cities. The Pavilion is made up of two interlinked elements, the Seed Cathedral and a multilayered landscape covering 6,000 square meters.<br />
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The cathedral itself is <em>20 meters high</em> and is formed from <em>60,000 7.5 meter-long transparent fiber optic rods</em>, which draw light into the interior by day and at night become illuminated via inside light sources. <em>The rods, or "optic hairs," also sway in response to the wind to bring dynamism to the structure</em>. The overall design riffs off the mission of <a href="http://www.kew.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333300;">London's Kew Garden Millennium Seedbank</span></a>, which seeks to collect the seeds of 25% of the world's plant species by 2020. It sits on a multilayered landscape continues the cathedral's texture, covering 6,000 square meters. Made of a special artificial grass, it is intended to be a welcoming and restful space for Expo visitors.<br />
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Heatherwick Studios won the <a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/" target="_blank">British Foreign & Commonwealth Office</a>'s commission to create the Pavilion, besting other top name competitors like Zaha Hadid Architects, John McAslan + Partners, Marks Barfield Architects, Avery Associates, and DRAW Architects with dcmstudios.<br />
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Shanghai Expo runs from May 1 to October 31, 2010. See also our article on <a href="http://blog.la76.com/2010/02/expo67/" target="_blank">EXPO 67</a>.<br />
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See the video. It lasts 10 mins, but it's worth it!<br />
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The summer has arrived to Baja California Sur. With an average of 86 F / 30 C in May there are several ways to enjoy your day. The best one (obviously) is at the <span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong>beach</strong></span>... And the other, our personal favorite, is at your <strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">garden</span></strong>, on a hammock, with a nice easy drink (mojito, michelada, a glass of wine or a fresh lemonade...) reading your favorite book and listening to some nice tunes, like <span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oj8Ty-6iI" target="_blank">The Bird and The Bee</a></span>.<br />
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Today we fell in love with this knotted hanging chair by <a class="wp-caption" href="http://www.anthropologie.com/" target="_blank">Anthropologie </a> .<br />
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See also a hanging chair from collection<a class="wp-caption" href="http://blog.la76.com/2009/12/garden-of-eden/" target="_blank"> Garden of Eden</a> by <a href="http://www.ontwerpduo.nl/" target="_blank">Ontwerpduo</a>.Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-65626320225648079392010-05-06T20:28:00.002-06:002010-05-15T20:29:17.237-06:00Windcuts<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/miska_too/collections/72157619226259190/" target="_blank">Windcuts</a> [flickr.com] consists of various experiments that turn quantitative sensor data into visually compelling physical instantiations. Wind movement measurement data, such as wind direction, velocity and temperature, was used as the foundation to generate a 3D form, which was then physically drilled out of a piece of wood.<br />
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The direction of the physical line corresponds with the direction of the wind. The width and speed of movement reflects the wind speed. The temperature is mapped unto the height. The materials ‘surface plateau’ height represents zero degrees Celsius. So when the shape dips below the surface, it means the wind’s below zero degrees.<br />
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Images and articles first seen on <a href="http://www.elcontexto.net" target="_blank">el conTEXTO</a>Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-8761832806196754712010-04-26T20:27:00.000-06:002010-05-15T20:28:12.224-06:00Origami soap packaging by La Compagnie de ProvenceSometimes the best surprises come in little packages. To coincide with its 20th birthday, <a href="http://www.compagniedeprovence.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Compagnie de Provence</strong></span></a> has added a substantial 180g version of its iconic vegetable soaps to the ranks.<br />
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Each bar, made according to Marseille tradition from local natural ingredients, comes with a tiny instruction card so that once undone, its wrapper can be transformed into an ocean-inspired piece of origami.<br />
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With eight fragrances to choose from, there's an entire menagerie waiting to be revealed, from swans to sea lions, and even a whale. Designed by <a href="http://www.studioplastac.fr/" target="_blank">Studio Plastac</a> .Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-56881912878086081042010-04-24T20:23:00.000-06:002010-05-15T20:27:03.127-06:00The Future of Reading: Popular Science+ on Mag+<strong>We love to read.</strong> We do it on-line, but we also love to hold the printed book or a magazine in our hands and flip through pages, smell the ink... As internet and new media devices develop and offer more engaged reading experience - as for example now new <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/" target="_blank">iPad</a>, reading on-line becomes more and more attractive. True, you can't smell the ink (yet), but there are some projects at work which are making on-line reading (or reading on a device) more and more appealing. We have been writing already about <a href="http://blog.la76.com/2009/12/the-future-of-reading-mag/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #993300;">digital magazines as seen by Mag+</span></a>, and we've got an exciting letter from them - their fist Mag+ digital magazine is live: <a href="http://www.popularscienceplus.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Popular Science+</strong></span></a>.<br />
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Mag+, Bonnier’s digital magazine platform, is a project that began months ago in a collaboration between Bonnier’s global R&D task force and BERG, a London-based design studio. It is now an ongoing project across all Bonnier titles in the U.S. and Europe to rethink the way magazines can be read on a new generation of full-color, touchscreen tablet devices. It’s been a fascinating journey with only 60 days available since Apple announced the iPad in San Francisco. They’ve had 6 editorial teams in 3 countries working together to re-imagine the form of magazines. The feedback from the Mag+ video was encouraging and since then they have been deconstructing tons of magazines, used more whiteboard space than any project before and building many many prototypes. They can be really proud of what they've have achieved together with the PopularScience+. And - without a doubt - there is a lot more to come.<br />
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Their design vision was to create a digital magazine, which should <span style="color: #993300;">feel like if you are touching the actual magazine</span>, using your natural body language – not looking through the screen and layers of buttons.<br />
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<strong>Popular Science +</strong>, the first digital magazine to emerge from <strong><a href="http://www.bonnier.com/betalab" target="_blank">Bonnier's Mag+</a></strong>, is a new way of experiencing magazines on digital devices and a first step toward our vision of what digital magazine reading can be. The Popular Science+ digital magazine features simple, fluid swiping motions let readers move horizontally through stories, while vertical scrolling allows them to read an article without interruption or distraction. In the app's unique Look mode, users can tap the screen to make the words disappear, highlighting the magazine's big, bold photos and illustrations. Another tap returns to Read mode.<br />
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The Bonnier Mag+ platform and the Popular Science+ magazine are based on 6 design principles:<br />
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1. <strong><span style="color: #993300;">Silent mode.</span></strong><strong> </strong>Magazines are a luxury that readers can lose themselves in. Mag + has fewer distractions than the Web. It allows readers to lean back, away from the browser, and just focus on the bold images and rich storytelling. Reduced complexity increases a reader's immersion.<br />
2. <strong><span style="color: #993300;">Fluid motion.</span></strong> Magazines are easy to browse, and Mag+ replicates that with a story-to-story navigation that's more like a panning camera than a flipping page. As we say, "Flow is the new flip."<br />
3. <strong><span style="color: #993300;">Designed pages</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #993300;">. </span></strong>Magazines are defined by their carefully conceived layouts that give readers an immediate understanding of the content and why it matters to them, a quality that got lost on magazine Web sites. Mag+ brings design back to digital publishing.<br />
4. <strong><span style="color: #993300;">Defined beginning and end.</span></strong><strong> </strong>Unlike the Web, magazines have a defined storyline and flow from front to back. Mag + returns to the notion that something can be, and wants to be, completed. It's the end of endlessness.<br />
5. <strong><span style="color: #993300;">issue-based delivery</span>.</strong><strong> </strong>One of the great joys of magazines is that feeling of anticipation when a new one arrives. Mag+ maintains that by delivering full issues at once with all the same content as the print edition, and on the same schedule.<br />
6. <strong><span style="color: #993300;">Advertising as content</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #993300;">.</span> </strong>Relevant, attractive advertising is as much a part of the magazine experience as the editorial content, and Bonnier wants Mag+ advertising to include both pin-ups and applications readers can appreciate.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/10630568">Mag+ live with Popular Science+</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bonnier">Bonnier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Follow Bonnier and Mag+ here: <a href="http://www.bonnier.com/betalab">www.bonnier.com/betalab</a>, and check out <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popular-science/id364049283?mt=8" target="_blank">Popular Science+ digital magazine on iTunes</a>.Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-35772149156742674392010-04-22T20:22:00.002-06:002010-05-15T20:23:06.217-06:00No Sweat - Exercises for GentlemenThe reprint of a century old fitness manual for working man "<a href="http://www.rizzoliusa.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780789320377" target="_blank"><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Exercises for Gentlemen. 50 Exercises to Do With Your Suit On</span></span></a>." inspired a fashion shoot inside the headquarters of The New York Times. We love the photo shoot and idea, photos by <a href="http://www.matthewkristall.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Matthew Kristall</span></a>.<br />
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Laugh your way to a better you! For those too busy to go to the gym, try some of the fitness advice provided in this <span style="color: #ff0000;">1908 classic revisited</span>. In today’s challenging business environment, the achieving executive needs every possible advantage, fitness included.<br />
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If gym fees and personal trainers do not fit into your schedule or budget, <em>Exercises for Gentlemen</em> offers just what the trainer would have ordered. With excerpts and original illustrations from <em>The School of Health</em>—the classic health reference of the early 1900s—here is a "practical course in physical culture" designed as a fitness program not even requiring a pair of exercise shorts, let alone joining a health club.<br />
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What results is both an entertaining glimpse of times gone by, and an exercise regime ideally suited to the modern man with neither the time nor the inclination to change clothes when he steps out from the busy office. This book contains detailed guidance on everything from knee bends and arm bends to proper posture, bathing, and homeopathic remedies—all to be taken with a suitable dose of humor.<br />
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A daily regime of a mere fifteen minutes of be-suited exercise is guaranteed to "reduce undue fullness at the waist, square the shoulders, round out the arms, improve leg development, and, in short, make a more graceful, strong, and symmetrical man."Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-89361317120994951002010-04-15T20:20:00.002-06:002010-05-15T20:21:45.705-06:00Gone With the Wind<strong>Milan is so hot right now!</strong> And we're in love with <span style="color: #800000;"><a href="http://www.nikazupanc.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Nika Zupanc</strong></a></span>'s newest collection <em><strong>Gone with the Wind</strong></em>, featured at Milan´s International Design Fair 2010 (<a href="http://www.cosmit.it/tool/home.php?s=0,2,67,71,75" target="_blank">Salone Internacionale del Mobile</a>) as well.<br />
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This year’s edition of Superstudio Più will again be marked by the intriguing spirit of Nika Zupanc. With her exhibition <strong>Gone with the Wind</strong>, Nika Zupanc continues to be sincere while uncovering the excuses for a socially acceptable status quo.<br />
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By positioning archetypes that are considered feminine in the carefully selected centers of public attention, her chillingly beautiful forms become emerging reference points. Her battles are of a higher style, and so the presence of famous female literary heroines remains mandatory.<br />
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The entry point to the world of Nika Zupanc – a frame for her gallery and a prism for readings of her work – is also a metaphorical structure. It is a tiny house driven by toy-like windmills on the outside and with a big bang of connota- tions from the inside.<br />
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<span style="color: #800000;"><strong>The Wind Pavilion </strong></span>stands as an icon evoking a sense for nature. With it, Nika Zupanc embraces the issue of responsibility by introducing the elegance and poetry of creative expression into predominately technical solutions.<br />
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Like so many magic pavilions in the past, this one is also outfitted in one of the latest wonders of the industry – the unique modular façade system <strong>Qbiss </strong>by<strong> <a href="http://www.trimo.si/" target="_blank"> trimo</a></strong>. Optically smooth surfaces, unique rounded corner elements, and “shadow joints” allow great freedom of expression and enable an optically enchanting combination of an inclined grid and an attractive landscape of <em><strong>45 restless windmills</strong></em>.<br />
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Inside the Wind Pavilion Nika Zupanc put her newest family of objects on display. This time they came to address you as advocates of a sort because they present a case for new symbolic and emotional readings of design, and are told through elements of modesty and self-reliance.<br />
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Instant fave!<br />
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You can see more on Salone 2010 on <a href="http://www.dezeen.com/category/events/milan-2010-all/" target="_blank">Dezeen</a>.Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-73574032503514521052010-04-12T20:19:00.000-06:002010-05-15T20:20:12.924-06:00We Are All AnimalsWe received an email by <strong><a href="http://sylvain.cotte.free.fr/" target="_blank">SLip</a></strong>, a french artist working on collage and cyanotype technic especially on his collection W3A - <strong>We Are All Animals</strong>. We liked the idea (and final result) and are happy to share it with you.<br />
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"The XXth century was particularly rich in incredible events and people became famous of numerous manners. However, far from the excitement of the big events of this world, the life continued and John Doe’s everyday life could show itself exciting.<br />
This wealth and this variety supplied the bases of the reflection of SLip for this series of pictures where animals take our place to describe the nonsense of the world in which we live.<br />
By the grace of the cyanotype, a primitive technique forerunner of the photography, mixed to the most modern techniques of digital cut, SLip suggests returning in the time and confiding again through animals."<br />
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This collection is constituted by 20 unique editions in the size of 14,8 x 21 cms printed on paper of extra-strong art 340g.<br />
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Sergi Fuentes is the first Spanish to join the deceased ABA (Animal Basketball Association) in 1967. At the end of a summer of love which will stay in annals, he joins Detroit and his Pistons. During its first match, the mascot of the team annoys him accidentally just like that with piston. He will remain weak light for life.<br />
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In 1986, Leon Grellutch became the first Belgian astronaut. Unfortunately, the trip sponsored by Jupiler will never see the day and Leon will land forever. He’s always visiting Belgian universities to give lectures about life on Mars.Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-77355190327530428032010-04-04T14:17:00.000-06:002010-05-15T20:18:56.532-06:00Happy Easter!Hello everyone! Happy Easter! We've been pretty busy lately (Thank You), that's why so little words from us. But today we'd like to share with you our latest assignment, a photo shoot at The Easter Champagne Brunch at <a href="http://www.capellapedregal.com/" target="_blank">Capella Pedregal Hotel & Resort</a>.<br />
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I hope you enjoy it as much as we did taking pictures of it. Yummy! You can see the full photogallery in our <a href="http://www.photoshelter.com/c/la76/gallery/Easter-Champagne-Brunch-at-Capella-Pedregal/G0000ifJOFyZFLNw/" target="_blank">photography library and store</a>.<br />
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Easter Champagne Brunch as celebrated at Capella Pedregal Hotel & Resort, in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. The Easter brunch was offering inclusive Taittinger Champagne and Bloody Marys. Don Manuel's restaurant's Su Cocina was serving breakfast items, combination salads, seafood selections, traditional roasts and accompaniments, Continental Charcuterie and cheeses, Mexican specialties and a tempting choice of desserts.<br />
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<a href="http://photography.la76.com/c/la76/gallery/Easter-Champagne-Brunch-at-Capella-Pedregal/G0000ifJOFyZFLNw">Easter Champagne Brunch at Capella Pedregal</a> - Images by <a href="http://photography.la76.com/c/la76">Romana Lilic @LA76</a>Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-68412908518362814152010-03-15T13:26:00.000-06:002010-03-15T13:26:29.185-06:00TAXI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Copyright%C2%A92010Alexander-James-www.DistilEnnui.com-tokyo-taxi-Checker-Musen-5494.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Copyright©2010Alexander-James-www.DistilEnnui.com-tokyo-taxi-Checker-Musen-5494.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<strong>Taxis in Tokyo</strong>, they glow with a sense of urgency in the business of someone’s journey playing out. The way the landscape of the city can interact with the reflective surface’s of the taxi is often overlooked, these images aim to capture that light play with the energy and bustle of city life and the stillness of the individual within it.<br />
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The taxi series was mostly shot in dark backstreets, isolating their graphical elements and bringing everyday neon signs to centre stage. They were shot hand held on medium format from some precarious locations such as on highways and at lane intersections. As with all personal projects by <a href="http://www.DistilEnnui.com/" target="_blank">Distil Ennui studio</a>, they are presented as shot. This is how they describe the 'shot' photography process: "We see the process as cathartic rather than a critical one, and this dedication to ‘in-camera’ purity establishes a predominant focal point for our personal practice."<br />
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Distil Ennui is a collection of works that attempt to capture the beguiling beauty of life’s everyday confinements, re-proposing the ordinary, the displaced and the overlooked.<br />
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Photography Copyright © 2010 Alexander James.<br />
The Taxi series is available to order in fine art print or license for print and web use through <a href="http://www.alexanderjamesstockphotography.com/" target="_blank">alexanderjamesstockphotography.com</a> website.Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-37318822330009665542010-02-28T15:50:00.001-07:002010-02-28T15:53:33.979-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_Kaleidoscope_Pavilion_002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_Kaleidoscope_Pavilion_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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There have been two approaches to designing world's fair architecture. One was to dictate the overall architectural style of the buildings like that of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition. The other was to allow pavilion architects free reign in their creative design. Expo 67 officials decided to allow free reign in architectural style as long as participant's pavilions fit in with the overall loose theme "Man and his World."<br />
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By the time Expo 67 was conceived, city architecture had become quite conservative and filled our cities with economical, predictable tall boxy buildings. It was exactly the unexciting style that the business society welcomed, but the effect was boring and it deprived cities a sense of identity. This same design philosophy proved expensive in large apartment buildings and public housing projects. Worse they robbed the individual or family, who lived there, a sense of identity they had when they lived in individual homes with gardens, porches and yards.<br />
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Architects of social consciousness were thinking of solutions to cover more space with less material and for less money in ways that didn't rob the individual of his identity. At the same time these architects wanted to make a creative statement. So when participating countries held architectural competitions for their country's pavilions, some unusual architecture evolved.<br />
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Perhaps the most innovative concept to be used at Expo was "space- frame" architecture. In an effort to "Do more with Less" architects covered large spaces cheaply and flexibly, by distributing the building's weight over a wide area, and by using complex techniques involving aluminum, plastic and other materials. The pavilions that used that technique were the United States pavilion, the Netherlands pavilion, the West German pavilion and the two big theme complexes, Man the Producer and Man the Explorer. <br />
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NETHERLANDS PAVILION</strong><br />
The Netherlands pavilion was an engineering triumph, a space frame structure consisting of 33 miles (57,000 pieces , each three feet long) of aluminum tubing. They didn't weld or rivet the pieces together, rather it was put together like a Gilbert Erector set, with wrenches. The exhibition room was suspended inside. The technique had its advantages in that if the building needed to expand, the builders could just add more pieces. It was a very flexible approach to building design and gave the structure a feeling of lightness.<br />
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GERMANY PAVILION</strong><br />
<a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/EXPO67_MONTRE_OTTO___GERMAN_DD01.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-811" height="382" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/EXPO67_MONTRE_OTTO___GERMAN_DD01.jpg" title="EXPO67_MONTRE_OTTO___GERMAN_DD01" width="400" /></a>Frei Otto's elegant space frame tent was used to cover the German pavilion's exhibit area. While it took the architect several years to develop his system, it only took six weeks to build. His system used a roof of steel mesh suspended from eight slender steel masts of varied height, situated at irregularly intervals and supported by steel cables anchored outside the structure, covered an area the size of a city block. The roof's steel mesh net, hung from the guy wires, was then covered by a translucent plastic skin. The tent itself and all of its components were fabricated in Germany.<br />
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The structure adequately dealt with the twin problems of aesthetics and economics. At the least it was a fanciful way of escaping from the tyranny of the box, but it also produced a unique and beautiful interior space. The space below was lit through the transparent plastic and through odd-shaped windows in the roof. As to cost, the building wasn't cheap to build since it was a one of a kind project. But it had potential for its steel and plastic roof weighed only 150 tons; one third to one fifth the weight of normal roofing materials. The tent concept had the ability to adapt to irregular topography of any site. The concept was used again with a much larger tent to enclose the swimming stadium at Munich's 1972 Summer Olympics.<br />
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<strong>UNITED STATES PAVILION</strong><br />
<a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_United_States_Pavilion_002.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-825" height="255" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_United_States_Pavilion_002.jpg" title="Expo_67_United_States_Pavilion_002" width="400" /></a>The United States pavilion's designers choose a Buckminster Fuller dome, two hundred feet high (20 stories) and 250 feet in diameter. As in all of Fuller's domes both little and big, they used three- dimensional units, a triangle on the outside, hexagonal on the inside, and curved to fit a given arc, as its structural basis. By connecting them together in the shape of a dome, it distributed the structure's weight over the whole surface. To avoid his usual half-dome that produced a squat look, the pavilion's designers built a beautifully proportioned, three-quarter sphere that fit the site ideally.<br />
<a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Bucky_Expo_67_Montreal_263_United_States_Pavilion.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-810" height="253" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Bucky_Expo_67_Montreal_263_United_States_Pavilion.jpg" title="Bucky_Expo_67_Montreal_263_United_States_Pavilion" width="400" /></a><em>The United States Pavilion was a Buckminster Fuller dome.</em><br />
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It was the most complicated of his domes. It used an elaborate system of retractable shading screens to control the heat within. A computer adjusted the screens in accordance with the sun's rays. Its exterior covering was exquisitely tinted, and surprisingly it was lovely to look at.<br />
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The architects (the firm of Affleck, Desbarets, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold and Sise) of the theme complexes were faced with the need to produce, quickly, some large buildings with large areas of open spaces. They decided to make them out of a type of small building blocks, much in the way the Dutch constructed their pavilion out of short metal tubes. The Canadian architects choose the truncated tetrahedron shape,- a four-sided triangular figure with the corners cut off, then flattened so that it looked like a prism. Thousands of these blocks would "nest" with other blocks, large and small, and be built up quickly into theme pavilions.<br />
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The designs and models looked graceful, but the steel fabricators complained that there weren't enough welders in Canada to make the truncated tetrahedrons the architects would need. As a result, the units were bolted together and the pieces heavily braced. The final result was at all graceful, but was heavy and oppressive - miles and miles of thick rusted metal.<br />
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OTHER NOTEWORTHY PAVILION ARCHITECTURE</strong><br />
Both the Japanese and Man the Community pavilions used static forms composed of alternating crossing beams. The difference in their shapes was in the positioning of those basic structural elements. In the Japanese Pavilion, vertical stacking created a series of interconnecting cubes, but it closely resembled a concrete but graceful log cabin. On the other hand, the profile of Man in the Community resembled a Chaldean ziggurat. The wooden beams were placed so that the formed wooden polygons that rose in decreasing size from foot to summit.<br />
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The Soviet Unions' Pavilion, by using great walls of glass and aluminum topped by a ski-jump roof, was a departure from its traditional monolithic architectural style. The escalator that lead up into the pavilion prepared the visitor for the surprise of the wide-angled V beams that supported its upswept roof, and carried him into a symmetrically organized display area dominated by a huge bust of Lenin. Inside was a show of technology and the progress of the country's space program.<br />
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Britain's was a ponderous castle-like pavilion, whose walls, while made of a kind of cardboard, looked like stone. The jagged top of its 200 foot tall cone-like tower topped by a Pop Art version of the Union Jack, represented incomplete construction. It symbolized Britain's unfinished contribution to the world. Fortunately the exhibits inside were very uplifting as the British made an attempt to charm the visitor.<br />
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The French Pavilion, on the other hand, modeled itself on the fine art of sculpture. While it was tastefully executed, architectural critics perceived its fins as merely tacked on. In the great well of the building, the floors full of exhibits were arranged around an open space. Its arrangement of interior stairways and balconies, which gave it an airy feel, was often overshadowed their attempt to overwhelm the visitor with technical displays<br />
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Austria's pavilion used the space-frame concept to a certain degree. It used triangular building units to construct large habitable cells. The result was a striking exterior architectural form, geometrical in style, that worked well as interior exhibit space.<br />
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<strong>HABITAT 67</strong><br />
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Habitat 67, an experiment in apartment living, became the permanent symbol of Expo 67 after it closed. It was Canadian architect Moshe Safdie's experiment to make a fundamentally better and cheaper housing for the masses. He attempted to make a revolution in the way homes were built - by the industrialization of the building process; essentially factory mass production. He felt that it was more efficient to make buildings in factories and deliver them prefabricated to the site.<br />
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Safdie was dissatisfied with both suburbia, which destroyed open space surrounding cities and cut off people's enjoyment of the amenities of city life, and with the high-rise apartment block, which concentrated people on less land. Apartments generally were too small for growing families, and lacked both privacy and outdoor space. He was convinced the later were inadequate as family housing.<br />
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He planned Habitat with the goal to find a way to put a great many people on a small space, yet provide them with at least some of the pleasures of a private home. He wanted to build a city in the sky, a 3- D city and his city would contain 1000 housing units, with shops and even a school. What he proposed was an experiment, not just in housing, but in community life.<br />
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But between 1964 and 1966 when construction started, it was downsized to only 158 dwelling units, without shops and a school. What started out as a plan for a small city, instead became a hugely expensive apartment building. Worse, while it was on Expo 67 grounds, when Expo 67 closed, it would be some distance from the rest of Montreal's business and housing neighborhoods.<br />
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As Habitat was designed, it resembled a curious concrete mountain of dwelling places, strikingly modern, yet reminiscent of a Taos Indian pueblo village, or an Italian hill town. Its units were built on the ground, then hoisted by crane into place five, six or more stories above the ground.<br />
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A factory was built beside the Habitat site. It contained four large molds in which the standardized units were made. To make each of them, a reinforcing steel cage was placed inside the mold, then concrete was poured around the cage. After the concrete cured, the unit was moved to an assembly line where a wooden sub-floor was installed with electrical and mechanical services below it. Windows and insulation were then inserted; afterwards prefabricated bathrooms and kitchen modules. Finally the unit was moved to its position in the building.<br />
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There were 354 of these units in all. But it was the way they were put together than produced the variety of forms that made Habitat, both inside and outside, so unusual. The units were arranged to provide fifteen different types of "houses". These varied from one-bedroom houses (600 sq. feet) to four-bedroom houses (1,700 sq. feet). Each had a private open garden space, 37 x 17 feet. Each man's roof was another man's garden. The arrangement of the units provided privacy and the variation in house layouts provides a sense of uniqueness.<br />
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While factory production techniques should have cut overall costs, building 158 apartments isn't really productive in factory work since there is often a steep learning curve. Also since the individual units would bear the weight load of the units above, the units on the bottom where actually thicker and stronger. In the end Habitat 67 cost $22,195,920, or about $140,000 per living unit. Effectively that was the same cost as building six-eight ordinary town houses. Luckily one could rationalize that it was only a prototype, and if scaled up, it might be much cheaper to construct.<br />
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While the visiting public was impressed, they didn't embrace the concept. At a distance the complex looked like an exciting piece of Cubist sculpture, at close up it's flat concrete-gray exterior looked boring and as if nobody lived there. Inside the complex Safdie's plastic covered pedestrian streets, connecting the apartments with the elevators and parking lots, were poorly sheltered from Montreal's cold window weather. Perhaps if it had been built near one of Montreal's exciting neighborhoods, the public might have been more willing to accept it, but then few of Expo's fifty million visitors would have seen the innovative housing site.<br />
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<strong>More images of the Expo:</strong><br />
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<a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_La_Ronde_002.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-818" height="256" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_La_Ronde_002.jpg" title="Expo_67_La_Ronde_002" width="400" /></a><em>La Ronde</em><br />
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<a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_Canada_Pavilion_PC_001.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-813" height="256" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Expo_67_Canada_Pavilion_PC_001.jpg" title="Expo_67_Canada_Pavilion_PC_001" width="400" /></a><em>Canada Pavilion</em><br />
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While fashion weeks in fashion capitals all over the world are showing the trends we'll wear this fall and winter, i'm looking forward to spring. If it's gonna look as half as good as the spring by <a href="http://www.pleinsud.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="color: maroon;">Plein Sud</span></b></span></a>, it's gonna be just beautiful!<br />
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We love this <a href="http://www.pleinsud.com/pleinsud-ss10.php" target="_blank">Spring-Summer Plein Sud collection</a>!<br />
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Dark-haired model: <b>Valerija Kelava</b>.Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-34718688410074460652010-02-11T17:50:00.000-07:002010-02-11T17:50:04.332-07:00BLOOMFRAME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bloomframe-modern-and-innovative-residential-windows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-764" height="284" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bloomframe-modern-and-innovative-residential-windows.jpg" title="bloomframe modern and innovative residential windows" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The revolutionary balcony Bloomframe is designed and patented by <a href="http://www.hofmandujardin.nl/" target="_blank">Hofman Dujardin Architects</a> based in Amsterdam The Netherlands. The Research & Development department from Hurks geveltechniek based in Veldhoven The Netherlands turned the design concept into a spectacular functional prototype.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Bloomframe_Balcony_01-copy.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-765" height="400" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Bloomframe_Balcony_01-copy.jpg" title="Bloomframe_Balcony_01 copy" width="376" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
The dynamic balcony offers a solution for compact apartments in dense urban areas. By transforming the elevation into a horizontal surface an outdoor terrace is added to an apartment. Bloomframe can play a significant role in the real estate property of the future.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Bloomframe_Balcony_02-copy.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-766" height="129" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Bloomframe_Balcony_02-copy.jpg" title="Bloomframe_Balcony_02 copy" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The Bloomframe window can be used in various surroundings. Apartments for students can be easily equipped with an outdoor space. Hotels can add luxurious terraces to their rooms. In large scale renovations of former warehouses balcony's can be created by adding Bloomframe windows to the building. Complex constructions of balcony's or loggias are not longer the only option.</div>With one push on a button the balcony opens smoothly within 15 seconds. On the few square meters which are generated two persons can enjoy breakfast in the open air. Although the construction is extremely solid, the balcony looks elegant and transparent. During the development of the prototype safety had the highest priority. The upcoming months the development process continues. The final product is expected to be presented at the end of this year. Bloomframe is a registered trademark.<br />
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<strong>CHECK THE VIDEO!!</strong><br />
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<i><b>Neuland - The Future of German Graphic Design</b></i> reveals a previously undiscovered territory - in search of young talent that will shape the future of German graphic design. Neuland asks questions in place of providing answers: Are preconceived notions about German graphic design correct; does German graphic design really even exist? The answer to these inquires involved a journey to Germany, getting to know its German and immigrant designers, and a trip beyond Germany‘s borders, in pursuit of German designers who live abroad.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TISSOT4_W_poster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-741" height="400" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TISSOT4_W_poster.jpg" title="TISSOT4_W_poster" width="300" /></a></div><i><a href="http://www.dynamo.li/">THIBAUD TISSOT</a> <b>Describe your working process:</b> "I have no general recipe, but I know I'm obsessed.", <b>What is German?</b> "A strange mix of warmth and coldness, sometimes surprising."</i><br />
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Neuland provides a helpful map of information for designers curious about study, lectures, workshops, books, or exhibitions in Germany; those individuals that want to learn about the history of design in Germany.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/KATRIN2_parcourscover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-738" height="280" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/KATRIN2_parcourscover.jpg" title="KATRIN2_parcourscover" width="400" /></a></div><i><a href="http://www.katrinschacke.de/">KATRIN SCHACKE</a> <b>What is German? </b>"Fences.", <b>What is German design?</b> "Vernacular, sensible, sometimes a bit chilly." <b>What do you aim to achieve with your work?</b> "I try to tempt people with pictures. Familiar things are taken out of their context and presented from an unaccustomed angle."</i><br />
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The editors of Neuland, struggled with all the usual big, philosophical questions while putting their book together: What is German design? What is German? Who cares? If they were Ellen Lupton or Steven Heller, they might have spent pages upon pages ruminating on these issues. Instead, they did what any editors who are actually designers by trade might do — they asked their 51 subjects for all the answers. In mini-interviews accompanying each entry, some said German design was “a cuckoo clock,” while others described it as “strips of pork” or “a bit chilly.” Each subject was also asked to submit a picture of their studio surroundings, of their workspace, and of “something utterly German.”<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/PIXEL3_W_gears.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-739" height="400" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/PIXEL3_W_gears.jpg" title="raeder_A4" width="291" /></a></div><i><a href="http://www.pixelgarten.de/">PIXELGARTEN</a> <b>What is German?</b> "Punctual, orderly, reliable. And Germany has the best sausage, so we've been told by some Japanese people."</i><br />
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Although the book has a lot of moving parts, it’s more than just the sum of them. As you reach the end, you may not have a firm grasp on what, if anything, makes nationality so important in one of the world’s most globalized professions, but you do get to know Germany’s next generation of talent in small but poignant ways, right down to their enduring obsession with currywurst.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/HEIMANN3_W_eliasson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-736" height="308" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/HEIMANN3_W_eliasson.jpg" title="HEIMANN3_W_eliasson" width="400" /></a></div><i><a href="http://www.heimannundschwantes.de/">HEIMANN UND SCHWANTES</a> <b>What is German?</b> "Beige. Round. Indeterminate."</i><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/HEIMANN4_W_yellow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-737" height="326" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/HEIMANN4_W_yellow.jpg" title="HEIMANN4_W_yellow" width="400" /></a></div><i><a href="http://www.heimannundschwantes.de/">HEIMANN UND SCHWANTES</a> <b>What is German design?</b> "Grass green to turquoise. Oval. Fully functional."</i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/FL@333_W_insects.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-735" height="400" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/FL@333_W_insects.jpg" title="FL@333_W_insects" width="389" /></a></div><i><a href="http://www.flatt33.com/">FL@33</a> <b>What is German design?</b> "While I was studying in Germany in the mid-'90s I would have associated the graphics with the Bauhaus and the ULM school. Product design definitely with Braun and Siemens. Nowadays, I'm not so sure."</i><br />
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<b>From Neuland: The Future of German Graphic Design</b>, by Twopoints.net. Copyright 2009 by the authors and reprinted with permission from ACTAR.<br />
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[seen @ <a href="http://www.sightunseen.com/neuland-the-future-of-german-graphic-design/">SightUnseen</a>]Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-38026493020091108662010-02-03T19:23:00.000-07:002010-02-03T19:23:31.985-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/CIPHER_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/CIPHER_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Serbian product designer <a href="http://relogik.com/">Damjan Stankovic [relogik]</a> present us CIPHER:<br />
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An empty glass resembles a meaningless colorful mosaic, until a liquid is poured into it, revealing its name. Each side of the glass is reserved for a specific drink. The Dekrypt glass though complex in appearance in fact runs on a very simple idea. Differently colored shapes are scattered across the glass surface in a seemingly random pattern, however their position is hardly accidental. The true purpose of the glass mosaic is revealed when colored liquid is poured into it (orange juice, milk, Nescafe or coke) The pattern of shapes and empty spaces on the glass combined with the color of the liquid inside the glass end up forming a textual sign, revealing what exact drink or refreshment you are having, with each side of the glass reserved for a specific drink. Besides being a novelty item with entertainment value it can also serve as a marketing item for beverage companies as it has a promotional potential.<br />
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<b>Today we're very proud to share the joy with our friends at <a href="http://www.a10studio.net/" target="_blank">a10studio</a>, as they are the only Mexican Architecture/Design/Interior firm to be nominated in this year’s <a href="http://www.restaurantandbardesignawards.com/" target="_blank">Restaurant & Bar Design Awards</a>.</b><br />
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Totally independent, the <b>Restaurant & Bar Design Awards</b>, now in it’s second year, is the only concept of its kind dedicated exclusively to design.<br />
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Judged by a highly influential panel of top international journalists from the design, hospitality and lifestyle sectors, the judges will recognise and reward both ‘restaurants and bars’ and their ‘designers’ for design excellence. With online entry and a wide variety of categories, applicants and their <a href="http://www.restaurantandbardesignawards.com/view-entries.php?a=view-project&id=622" target="_blank">projects receive extensive exposure</a>.<br />
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The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards have rapidly established a distinguished following, attracting submissions from such high profile designers as Zaha Hadid, Karim Rashid, Kengo Kuma and David Collins in its first year.<br />
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Culminating in a unique and innovative awards ceremony, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards’ winners, including the best designed restaurant and the best designed bar, will be announced and presented with their awards at Westfield Stratford in June 2010.<br />
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<a href="http://www.a10studio.net/projects/reevolution-new/" target="_blank">Re*evolution Lounge</a> is the project by <a href="http://www.a10studio.net/" target="_blank">a10studio</a> nominated to this year awards, we hope to bring you more good news on this soon.<br />
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At the end we're also proud to mention that <a href="http://www.la76.com/" target="_blank">LA76</a> participated as a <a href="http://photography.la76.com/" target="_blank">photographer</a> in Re*evolution Lounge project.<br />
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More about <b>a10 studio </b>and their work on their website: <a href="http://www.a10studio.net/" target="_blank">www.a10studio.net</a> , blog: <a href="http://a10studio.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">a10studio.tumblr.com</a> , and Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/a10studio" target="_blank">@a10studio</a>.Romanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-71028559455296966882010-02-02T16:40:00.000-07:002010-02-02T16:40:41.845-07:00McFancy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mcfood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mcfood.jpg" width="400" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Created by the <b>Access Agency</b> (packaging designed by <a href="http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/">Amy Moss of Eat. Drink. Chic.</a> and photographed by <a href="http://www.marijaivkovic.com/">Marija Ivkovic</a>). McFancy is set to launch at fashion weeks around the world :<br />
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"Today’s demanding consumers expect even their beloved, favorite brands to step up their game. Many run-away online successes of offline brand “stunts” attest that consumers expect, and get really excited about, experiences that are unusual, fun, thought-provoking and emotionally engaging. With the power and immediacy of social media, surprising offline events and stunts have now turned into truly powerful promotional tools.<br />
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In 2010, TCH will launch Access Agency. It is a dedicated entity that will continue our work of creating highly original, transformational, yet eminently practical and results-oriented strategies for companies to stage the kinds of offline brand experiences that will increase the economic value of their offering.<br />
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For McDonald’s, we envision a cool, surprising and fun mix of concepts. First is McFancy, an upmarket temporary McDonald’s store that launches at Fashion Weeks around the globe — London, New York, Paris, Milan, Sydney, Hong Kong. McFancy is part art installation, gathering spot and, of course, a restaurant that offers a traditional McDonald’s menu but packaged in a way that makes a playful yet stylish nod to the lifestyle of the highly desirable, influential consumers that attend Fashion Weeks."<br />
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Designed by Raw Edges | Country: United Kingdom<br />
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An excellent example of structural package design applied in a functional and communicative way.<br />
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“These three different milk cartons distinguish between the rates of fat in the milk by using form rather than colour. The form of the milk cartons reflects in a way on the milk’s texture and smoothness. The two back folds are used as the carton’s handle, while the two in the front function as the spout.”<br />
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Designed by Spavilla Designs | Country: Spain<br />
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“Health is the promotional wine from Spavilla Designs. An elaborate packaging for this limited edition, which the prestigious Robert Parker has given a rating of 93 points.”<br />
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“The design is inspired by the colors and designs of Joseph Albers and the Op Art movement. The usage of the rectangular elements reflects Alber’s “Homage to the Square,” a series of paintings begun in 1949.”<br />
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This elegant, copy driven packaging concept is the work of South African based designer Marcel Buerkle. The shape and cleanliness of the design almost gives it a bit of a high end perfume look and feel.<br />
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Designed by Mongkol Praneenit | Country: United States<br />
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“This is a redesigned for General Electric high-end light bulbs. The package is designed with recycled material to promote sustainability. Information is cleanly organized into a label system to reduce printing over the whole package.”<br />
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Designed by P&W | Country: United Kingdom<br />
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“The brief: Packaging for a company producing high end, handmade fresh pasta. The solution: We created fine art style prints of the pasta shapes, each one signed by ‘the artist’. The result: Improved sales and increased listings with no advertising support.”<br />
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“The Brief: When The Strauss group fixed the intention of launching a series of consumer products aimed at men, they requested that we devise a marketing concept for the new products of ‘MUST’, starting with the packaging that will project a strong difference from competitors products on the shelf.<br />
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The Solution: ‘Must - Men Collection’ - chewing gum for men only. We chose a collection of illustrated Presenters: male types that we all know and admire - go-getters, women love these men and boys copy them. We put them on metal containers which are especially masculine and gave to each presenter a stage for his male life philosophies.”<br />
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all via lovelypackage.comRomanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290822320649256180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2783763144134828732.post-43016879489649173432010-01-29T13:19:00.000-07:002010-01-29T13:19:55.252-07:00Coal Furniture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/COAL4-filtered.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://blog.la76.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/COAL4-filtered.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
For the past decade, Jim Zivic’s medium has been coal, which he sculptures, hones and polishes into massive tables for clients like Lou Reed and Salma Hayek. “It’s a little romance with the muck,” the designer says of the anthracite chunks, which he buys 14 tons at a time from a mine in Pennsylvania and stores in the backyard of his upstate New York house. <br />
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The coal’s earthiness appeals to Zivic, but the irony of his situation doesn’t escape him. “The same stuff my neighbors are burning for heat, Ralph is selling for thousands of dollars,” he says, referring to Ralph Pucci, the owner of Ralph Pucci International, the company that is known for its fashion mannequins and its furniture by cutting-edge designers.<br />
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Jim Zivic's Coal Tables are carved from anthracite coal (100% pure carbon, not to be confused with charcoal). Each piece of raw coal is unique in shape, and the designer allows this to dictate the final silhouette of the table. The piece maybe shaped organically, or cut into more geometric linear lines.<br />
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<b>Polka dots are back in 'fashion'. Not that they were ever out. </b>While polka dots are ancient, they first became common on clothing in the late nineteenth century in Britain. At the same time polka music was extremely popular and the name was also applied to the pattern, despite no real connection between them. The polka dot also appears in popular music. Remember "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwGnyLPSruA" target="_blank">Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini</a>" by Brian Hyland? Before that however, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhoOCJ8a7d4" target="_blank">Polka Dots and Moonbeams</a>" was Frank Sinatra's first hit recorded with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, published in 1940.<br />
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Polka dots have been also the 'thing' that marked the life and work by <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">Yayoi Kusama</span></b></a></span>, japanese avantgarde artist that suffered since childhood from hallucinations and started to cover surfaces with the polka dots. There was a time when she was as well-known as <a href="http://www.warholfoundation.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: green;"><b>Andy Warhol</b></span></a> among admirers of Pop Art. Acknowledged as a progenitor of Minimalism, Kusama made headlines for street performances in which she painted polka dots on nude men and women. But Kusama was largely forgotten by the art world after she returned to Japan in 1973, suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. She was committed to a mental institution, where she remains to this day.<br />
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Kusama’s neglect by art history has been redressed in a traveling retrospective of her seminal 1960s work. When the retrospective was on view in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, shock waves of recognition went through the art world. Lately, her work has been traveling around the world and you can see her work here: <a href="http://www.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp/artmuse/p9/p9-index.html" target="_blank">Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano</a>, Japan; <a href="http://www.citygallery.org.nz/mainsite/" target="_blank">CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON</a>, New Zealand; <a href="http://www.comune.milano.it/dseserver/webcity/Documenti.nsf/webHomePage?OpenForm&settore=MCOI-633JZG_HP" target="_blank">Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea</a>, Milan; <a href="http://www.fairchildgarden.org/" target="_blank">Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden</a>, Miami; and <a href="http://www.nmao.go.jp/english/home.html" target="_blank">The National Museum of Art</a>, Osaka.<br />
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She also collaborated with Japanese mobile provider <a href="http://iida.jp/#/english-about" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>iida</b></span></a> and created a limited <b><a href="http://iida.jp/english/products/yayoi-kusama/" target="_blank">art edition mobile phone</a>.</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.wallpaper.com/" mce_href="http://www.wallpaper.com/">Wallpaper*</a> just published the winners of their 2010 Design Awards. Entries come from every possible part of the design field, from architecture to fashion design to industrial design, and were awarded in 66 respective categories. A panel of judges, including icons like architect Steven Holl, fashion designer John Galliano, and interior designer Kelly Wearstler, then picked the winners for eleven key awards.<br />
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In the category “Best New Private House”, Marcio Kogan’s Paraty House in Costa Verde, Brazil was awarded as winner, and “Best New Public Building” is Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, Denmark by Atelier Jean Nouvel, as also in the Best New Hotel category the award was for Habita MTY by Joseph Dirand and Landa Arquitectos (shown above).<br />
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“Best City” this year is - surprise, surprise! - New York whose High Line project was also awarded “Best Life-Enhancer of the Year”.<br />
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Here’s a selection of lucky 2010 Design Awards winners (for the complete list of winners please go to <a href="http://www.wallpaper.com/news/design-awards-2010-the-winners/4212" mce_href="http://www.wallpaper.com/news/design-awards-2010-the-winners/4212">Wallpaper.com</a>):<br />
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Best City: New York (Video: “City short: New York” by David Usui)<br />
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Life-enhancer of the year: The High Line, by Friends of the High Line, James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofido + Renfro<br />
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Best new private house: Paraty House, Costa Verde, Brazil, by Marcio Kogan<br />
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Best new restaurant: Kaa, Sao Paulo, Brazil, by Studio Arthur Casas<br />
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