Slowcooker wins award.
the slowcooker is not a crockpot or a bake oven. the food is essentially steamed.
Designer: margriet foolen
Producer: royal vkb
the slowcooker is a winner in wallpaper’s best domestic design 2010.
Architecture that repairs itself.
Pint glass redesign in uk.
violence inspires TBU (true but useless) redesign of venerable pint glass.. nfl football helmets mates! via gizmodo [RK]
Kulula airline rebranding.
ha! not sure rebranding will inspire confidence with passengers.
but designers would have fun with these guys as a client. Kulula Air
via swissmiss / psfk
Do super bowl ads add up?
ads sold out, CBS, at $2.5M to $3M per. fixation on ads so powerful that no one ponders results. mad men will never admit their commercials are ineffective. yet starbucks and krispy kreme built global brands without advertising, and GM is a flop. via huffingtonpost PLUS something polarizing and political—women and medical issues, also from huffingtonpost [RK]
Coke goes for the green at the olympics.
getting in shape for zero waste.
above: coolers, approximately 1,500 of them, will use eKOfresh technology, nearly eliminating direct greenhouse gas emissions and reducing indirect emissions.
above: tables and displays at the “far coast” café in the athlete’s village are made of wood salvaged from the pine-beetle epidemic in british columbia.
zeroing in…
How Coke is being sustainable at the Olympics
All coolers, approximately 1,500 of them, will use eKOfresh technology, nearly eliminating direct greenhouse gas emissions and reducing indirect emissions.
A fleet of diesel-electric hybrid heavy-duty vehicles will deliver beverages from bottling facilities to the venues. Within the venues, electric carts will be used to deliver beverages.
The tables and displays at the “Far Coast” café in the athlete’s village are made of wood salvaged from the pine-beetle epidemic in British Columbia.
Menu boards will be made of recycled materials.
All staff uniforms — everything but underwear and shoes — will be made of recycled bottles; in their welcome bags, athletes will receive T-shirts made of recycled bottles.
Recycling bins will be scattered throughout the venues in an effort to divert 100% of recyclable waste from landfills.
Coke’s PlantBottle will be used for all sparkling beverages and water. Compostable cups and lids will be used for coffee.
Purchase of carbon offsets for air travel, as well as on-site transportation.
Within the Olympic Village, athletes will be encouraged to make a pledge to help the environment.
“Green Teams” have canvassed the Olympic Torch Relay route to clean up and recycle waste. All handouts have been recyclable, including aluminum bottles for sampling.
Torchbearers were selected based on essays with an environmental theme.
there’s more information at advertising age
the advocates…
coke commits to climate friendly refrigeration
vending machines HFC-free by 2015
the critics…
coca-cola green, we think not
Farnsworth house revisited.
the farnsworth house is located about 60 miles southwest of chicago.
Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the late 40s and completed in 1953, the house was a one-room weekend retreat for Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a kidney specialist from Chicago. In the architecture world, the house is a candidate for one of the seven wonders of the world.
My early clients included Fujikawa Conterato Lohan ( formerly the office of Mies ) and then Lohan Associates, Dirk Lohan is Mies’s grandson. The relationship exposed me to the process of Mies and his desciples. Their strength, and sometimes flaw, was an unwavering loyalty to core principles that made their structures immediately recognized.
The architects almost exclusively built towers, both commercial and residential, and yes, the buildings are very similar, both inside and out. The majority of the buildings until the mid 80s are dark bronze to match the patina of cor-ten steel which is used quite a bit.
It’s not a stretch to say the house resembles the street level lobbies of the towers. It also looks and feels like a white mini-McCormick Place, a convention center. Mies applied the concept of the unobstructed space of exhibit halls that is flexible for use by people.
Effective January 1, 2010, Landmarks Illinois transferred operation of the Farnsworth House to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the property’s owner.
The vitals:
The total cost of the house was $74,000 in 1951.
Materials almost exclusively are glass, steel, and travertine stone.
The main deck is 5-3 feet high to prevent flooding ;-(
The house is now a museum and in the process of restoration due to severe flood damage.
Landmarks Illinois transferred operation of the Farnsworth House, effective January 1, 2010, to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the property’s owner.
Designer: ludwig mies van der rohe
Resources:
wikipedia
wired new york forum
pruned
farnsworthhouse.org
strangeharvest
channel4
mr watson
prusikloop
architectural guidance
skyscraper page</a
The iPad. Hit or miss?
apple innovations always polarizing. mac zealots, me included, gripe at first-look.
looking back, we hated when the disc bay was removed and we had to use CD’s. we had to buy new printers / scanners because we now only had USB and firewire. wait! now we have thumbdrives and iPods.
above: what is jeff bezos and kindle thinking ?
What’s in a name?
A lot of griping on the choice of the name. It appears iPad has been around since 2007.
above: inhabitat – is this really the iPad ? 2008!
above: find me a property – pad (or iPad) ? 2007!
listen to the skeptics…
web pro news – five reasons fails to impress
newsweek – disappoints
listen to the wafflers…
showbiz gossip – does it really disappoint?
huffington post – a disappointment ? plus
apple’s top 10 hit and misses
the advocates…
ny daily news – top 10 things you should know
Sony recycle jeans project.
Sony transforms real life tarp ads into one-of-a-kind jeans.
The clothing, however, never found its way to retail outlets. Rather, the jeans were placed back where they first hung, on the side of the Sony Building in Tokyo.
There, shoppers could browse the whole collection and guys decked out in mountain climbing gear scaled the walls to bring them the pair of their choice.
see the movie at creativity online