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give architects a makerbot replicator 2 and you get the grand canyon. logiplaces.

Nov 13, 2015

here’s a creative and artful product concept hoping to catch fire. logiplaces is a 16 or 36-piece 3d concrete puzzle modeled after locations around the globe. created by budapest-based architecture studio planbureau, this story began when the firm won a makerbot replicator 2 in the what-to-print-in-3d? design contest. the replicator 2 is capable of printing in 100 micron resolution and generates the moulds of the logiplaces 3d concrete puzzles. to date, there are puzzles of san francisco, budapest, the grand canyon and zermatt in the alps.

planbureau has collaborated indiegogo to create a product that can be completely custom-made to represent any chosen place. the company is inviting the public to pick the next location through an online poll. after reaching its indiegogo goal of $15,000, the studio plans to release another model for every $5,000 of additional funding. logiplaces in just one product line offering in parent company [ logideez ]

moma design store and delano skateroom partner during art basel miami beach.

Nov 10, 2015

limited edition set of 32 decks each featuring a different flavor soup from andy warhol’s 32 campbell’s soup cans / photo courtesy of the skateroom and ©/®/tm the andy warhol foundation for the visual arts, inc.

the museum of modern art (moma) design store is excited to announce its first-ever installation and pop-up during the week of art basel miami beach with the skateroom at delano south beach, a morgans hotel celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. located just a few blocks from the main art basel tent, the delano will unveil an immersive installation and pop-up shop throughout the iconic property with the exclusive limited edition series of 32 unique decks featuring andy warhol’s 32 campbell’s soup cans, a set of 8 decks with the pop icon colored campbell’s soup cans, and triptychs with gold marilyn monroe, guns, car crash, self portrait and detail of the last supper. the featured warhol artwork made in collaboration with the andy warhol foundation for the visual arts.

the skate decks will be displayed at the delano from 30 november to 6 december and available for purchase in limited qualities. to celebrate the launch, delano will host a private party for the moma design store and the skateroom installation and pop-up shop the evening of wednesday, 2 december, 8 > 11pm.

lug trugs velo darts:strand design. designer gifts 2014.

Dec 18, 2014

above> table top darts – a new spin. classic pub darts go off the wall. laser-cut from cold-rolled powdercoated steel and hand-screen printed with an elaborate bird motif.

lug trugs – made from rugged, recycled rubber hand stitched with high strength polyester thread. stores newspapers, magazines, firewood, or soggy dog toys, lug trugs can take it!

velo – a bottle opener is truly a piece of art. it’s made from laser-cut stainless steel and undergoes a multi-stage finishing process to ensure it is perfectly smooth. inspired by the aesthetic of vintage steel frame bicycle lugs.

unit rack – will fit inside even the tiniest of closet spaces or on the back of a door. strong enough to hold your laptop bag. made from locally sourced white oak. tung oil finish. powder coated steel wire hook.

[ strand design ]

chess home sweet smoke house. designer gifts 2014.

Dec 18, 2014

above> man ray designed chess set – designed in 1920 using found objects from his studio. most of the pieces are geometric models made for still-life drawing. ~ just in case you are looking for a present for me… the chess set will do ..nicolae

design im dorf – designimdorf was set up in 1993 by stefan spitz, a black forest “meister” turner in the fourth generation. the company draws its strength from more than 100 years of skilled wood-linked craftsmanship.

360 booklet / sweet home – designed by yusuke oonoa charming and idyllic indoor and outdoor landscape appears as one discovers
swings, picket fences, pets, family, gardens, and familiar house tools in this quintessential, sculptural representation of home, sweet home.

about nicolae halmaghi

leaves minimii twirler. designer gifts 2014.

Dec 15, 2014

above> form and function follow the principle of rotation. designed by johannes lindner for project watches seen at albright knox in buffalo.

vulantri – jewelry made in bali, available at the fabric workshop museum in philadelphia, designed by two architects. shown> cme swirl.

minimii – miniatures of arne jacobsen collection of furniture and homes to put them in, available at santa monica museum of art.

maison 203 – 3D nylon jewelry – collection available at the Wexner Center for the Arts. designed and created in treviso italy, wexner has entire collection to choose from.

another drone and passenger plane near miss being investigated.

Dec 10, 2014

another drone and passenger plane near miss being investigated. this occurrence on 22 july close to heathrow.

bling bling and meta-souvenirs. designer gifts 2014.

Nov 20, 2014

boym editions – meta souvenirs available at the chicago architecture foundation, are made of optically ground glass and are perfect as a desk accessory and paper weight

chi ha paura ? —- bling bling necklace by tjep at the perez art museum in miami, gold plated steel with icons of our time. See attached

insync – jewelry designed by iris isaacs melbourne australia, inspired by children’s book, harold and the purple crayon, available at museum of contemporary art chicago and john kohler arts center.

Aston martin dp-100 vision gran turismo. Playstation3.

Jul 3, 2014

Design Prototype 100 joins stable of Vision Gran Turismo racers in popular racing game for PlayStation®3. Designed and engineered over six months by Aston Martin Design team. Downloadable for in-game play in July 2014.

Sure it’s just a car for a video game but the Aston Martin DP100 is a sharp and real vision of future design. Released at the Goodwood festival of speed the new car will run in Gran Turismo 6.

[ press release – edited ]
Aston Martin is unveiling an exceptional new addition to the hugely popular PlayStation®3 exclusive racing game Gran Turismo®6 (GT6™) in the shape of the stunning Design Prototype 100 – DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo.

Developed in-house by the Design team at Aston Martin, led by Design Director Marek Reichman, DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo is a new, virtual-only GT racer that will be available for Gran Turismo®6 (GT6™) owners to download in July 2014, following the global launch at Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Starting with nothing but the traditional ‘blank sheet of paper’ the design team and design engineers worked for six months to create the new addition to the Vision Gran Turismo stable of race cars. Clearly pushing the boundaries of what an Aston Martin could be, DP-100 not only looks beautiful but also boasts a high degree of engineering integrity.

The twin-turbo V12 mid-engined racer offers up to 800bhp, endowing it with blistering performance fully in keeping with the high octane nature of the game.

Created utilizing many of the same techniques as applied in the development of Aston Martin production sports cars – hand sketches and 3D modeling, followed by full realization in the virtual world – DP-100 provides an exceptional level of detail with a fully functioning suspension system and state-of-the-art electronics.

Design Director Marek Reichman said: “DP-100 has been an exciting and intensive project for the team here at Gaydon. “Features such as the car’s revolutionary ‘active aerodynamics’ are there not just as a way of enhancing form, but also to support the car’s function in-game.

“As with the CC100 Speedster Concept, many of the design cues visible in DP-100, such as the light blade rear lamps, could also feed through into future sports cars that we’ll launch in the offline world so the importance of this project should not be underestimated.”

Aston Martin has supported previous editions of the long-running and hugely successful Gran Turismo® series, debuting in the very first game with the Aston Martin DB7 Coupé and Volante. The stunning 2011 Aston Martin One-77 is already a popular car in the Gran Turismo® 6 stable.

Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of Gran Turismo and President of Polyphony Digital Inc, enthused: “When I first came face to face with this car at the Aston Martin Headquarters in Gaydon, UK, I was at a loss for words seeing the level of perfection in its design. I was surprised by the bold proposal of the car being the first midship layout model in Aston Martin history. And while it is clean and classy in design, it is also very emotional. Not only that, there was this future Aston Martin in front of me, that was so detailed it could be released on the market pretty much as is.”

about phil patton

wallpaper* handmade. milan 2014.

Apr 30, 2014

above> boxing set | soho house, horween leather and cleto reyes

Wallpaper* Handmade returned to the Leclettico gallery for its fifth celebration of craft and creativity at Salone del Mobile. The gallery is located in Gregorio Docet, the newest go-to design district in Milan and we spent the entire morning looking around the neighborhood after having a long visit at Homemade. What’s captivating about Milan Design Week is the sheer volume and diversity of high-level offerings. From iconic showrooms, Rho’s fairground and pop-ups everywhere. Homemade inspires and entertains us with one-off items of furniture, fittings, fashions, food and more, many exhibitors having only two-three months to conceive and execute. There were over 70 exhibitors. Each has a wonderfully interesting story behind them. Here’s just a few.

‘room divider’ | gabrielle shelton (pictured) and chris rucker

[DesignApplause] Gabrielle, tell us about yourself and what are you up at Handmade?
[Gabrielle Shelton] I’m from Los Angeles but have been living & working in Brooklyn for 19 years which is longer than I lived in LA so I am a Brooklynite. I collaborated with another artist, Chris Rucker, and we were interested in New York City’s history of metalwork and textiles and collaborating on something a little different than we normally do. We’re both builders and this vanity screen or room divider expresses a typology of a different scale. The screens represents certain areas of a room or divisions between construction or streets. Chris uses old moving blankets, and these blankets have been used to move things from shops to job sites. They’ve been in the back of a truck, they’ve gotten mouldy and stained. And he’s taken them apart, taken all the padding out of them and re-quilted them for this piece. My work is the all handmade brass frame. Everything has been machined, the screws, the turns, the hinges. And it’s all mechanical, no welds, no solders, no brazings.
[DA] You’re a sculpter, a metalsmith, a welder?
[GS] I don’t wear heels in the shop. One of my uncles is a welder and I learned how to weld when I was 12 years old. Now I have a metal shop.

[DA] The extensive amount from scratch of art and craftsmanship is sinking in. How much time from concept to finished piece?
[GS] A little less than two months. Chris and I are very busy and we did this all at night and on weekends. There was some texting and some long studio nights with beers.

[DA] What’s your body of work like?
[GS] I specialize in staircases, walls, hardware, furniture. I most recently did the staircase at the David Zwirner Gallery.

above/below> ‘Cork jacket’ | Todd Bracher and Amorim

above/below> ‘Monsieur Poiré’ | Ian Wright and Caran d’Ache

hyunwoo bang and yunsil heo | everyware

above/below> ‘T.Able’ | Everyware and Friends & Founders
[DesignApplause] Yunsil, tell us about Everyware and T.Able.
[Yunsil Heo] Everyware is an interactive media group in Seoul and consists of me and my husband, Hyunwoo Bang. ’T.Able’ is an interactive project in development for two years and is a system where light interacts with objects, in this case cups on a table. You’re looking at a series of programmed graphics guided by infared information that detects both motion and objects.

[DA] What do you see as a practical application?
[YH ] There are opportunities for hotels or restaurants, for example, to incorporate creative art or lighting that enhance interior experiences. There are applications that are only limited by your creativity. If someone asks us to create a specific application for their needs we can accommodate them.

[DA] What’s your background(s)?
[YH ] I studied graphic design and later computer graphics programming (M.F.A. UCLA design/media arts, B.A. and Ph.D. Seoul Nat’l Univ) and my husband studied mechanical engineering (B.S. and Ph.D. mechanical and aerospace engineering Seoul Nat’l Univ and Postdoctoral Fellow biomedical engineering UCLA).

above>below> ‘Clerkenwell’ coat | Wallace Sewell, Gieves & Hawkes and Designtex

‘revaluation’ obsidian mirrors | studio drift | ralph nauta and lonneke gordijn | studio drift

[DesignApplause] Ralph and Lonneke, I have a feeling this going to be quite technical.
[Lonneke Gordijn] Yes, get ready. Our concept addresses the excessive chemical waste problem the world is presented with today. We are using obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. It is produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimum crystal growth. Our source of obsidian comes from a chemical engineer who’s been working with this material for the past 30 years, extracting 100% chemical wastes in the process. For us we use the ashes from the process and shape, glaze and polish. We can polish to a mirror-like finish. In a way, you have a reflection of yourself in your own waste.
[DA] When you’re wasted.
[LG] (laughing) Exactly! Our engineer currently has a small factory but has the ambition to create a larger commercial factory that extracts waste in great quantity. Our handmade piece for the show is a symbol of this process and his effort and we wanted to make an object that doesn’t relate to or look like waste. Our goal has grown to promote this technology to factories all over the world.

[DA] How did you meet this engineer?
[LG] We met him through mutual friends. Our friend said he makes gold and silver from chemical wastes and we said we must meet this guy!

[DA] How did you approach this challenge?
[Ralph Nauta] We know glass so that was our logical starting point but obsidian has a different melting temperature and cools at a different rate. Once we could liquify the material and understand it we were able to use molds made of sand to take us to the next step. Obsidian also behaves differently than glass as it holds warmth and cools much more slowly. We thought maybe a cool-down of five days but it was still 50 degrees. The trick is too cool it down slowly to reduce all the molecular tension. This piece from liquid to cool enough to touch takes about a week.
[LG] It’s also super heavy. It’s very weird, it sounds like metal when tapped but it works like glass. We’re still in the middle of the process and just have this one piece. And we’re still learning. We will cool down our next piece more slowly. It also feels a bit weird that it’s like baking a cake made with ingredients that make up our planet, that we stand on the ingredients of this cake everyday.

above> The floor inside ‘Passage of wood’ consists of humongous planks of douglas fir and it’s not unusual to see cracks deep in the center of the planks. The fix are ‘butterfly’ stitches.

[ wallpaper* handmade ] [ leclettico gallery ]

1> ‘Animal Party’ glow-in-the-dark wallpaper | Haas Brothers and Flavor Paper
2> ‘Tou tou’ pet transporter | Mathieu Gustafsson, sponsored by Jaguar, inspired by Jaguar Design
3> ‘SKID’ side table and bench | Sebastian Herkner and Caesarstone
4> ‘Passage of wood’ folly / In Praise of Shadows, Dinesen, Oliver Beer and Werkraum Bregenzerwald
5> ‘Clothes horse’ | Aaron Dunkerton and Kebony
6’>’Chaise longue’ | Monica Förster and Vispring
7> ‘The Structure of Chocolate’ | Pierre Marcolini, Patte
8> ‘Croquet set’ | Edition by Moyard and Adrien Rovero
9> ‘F-TYPE Coupé | sponsored by Jaguar
10. ‘Diptych: Landscape II’ | Fredrikson Stallard, sponsored by Jaguar, inspired by Jaguar Design
11> ‘La Jeune Rue’s concept store & new neighborhood |
12> ‘Dichroicarus’ kite | SO-IL and 3M

DesignApplause pinterest board: kids. Designer gifts 2013.

Dec 17, 2013

deluxe art center by guide craft

DesignApplause currently has 42 objects on our Pinterest board for ‘kids’. DA criteria contains one or all of the following: a designer created it, safe, green, functional. Worth checking out. [ pinterest: kids ]

ruler set by hay