31 may 2010
Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010 (part 1)
Parcs by PearsonLloyd
What looks like a homey interior is the cubical of the future. Creativity and productivity within team work need new enviroment in offices where people spend most of their day. This varied working and communication landscape, with references to Malinesse togunas and American dinners, offers many opportunities to brainstorm or socialise.
By Thomas Geisler
Hope Chandelier by Francisco Gomez Paz and Paolo Rizzatto
Light and easy to assemble, this project reinterprets the typology of chandelier with sophisticated technologies and contemporary materials. A series of polycarbonate Fresnel lenses, created using imprinted microprims on polycarbonate film to achieve a dioptric effect similar to glass, multiply the light from the light source (...)
By Francesca Picchi
Extrusions by Heatherwick Studio
Thomas Heatherwick's relentless innovation has always made his work always stand out (...) While the benches might please a few of the collectors, for the rest of us it is how the aluminium extrusion technology might be used to create architectural cladding or mass seating that really matters.
By Caroline Roux
Sexy Geek
Alex Turvey, Director from LEVI'S UK on Vimeo.
Looking at the campaign and searching through the internet recent photoshoots for mags and celebrities we can tell that this is a new tendence. What before would be the one who makes laugh everyone in class, it is now fashion... people wear facke glasses even without the glass as a new accessorie.
Sean Sullivan photoshoot
Justin Timberlake
Tom Ford spectacles add
29 may 2010
Connections
“The Connections, the connections, the connections” by Charles Eames
Keep it simple and easily re-settable. With these two premises in my mind I wanted to add something related with my country or cultural background. I was attracted by the images of windmills. Ancient structures with ethnographic and cultural references which are universal due to El Quijote. At first it was an easy one-way spin trigger but then I made it more complex with 3 levels of connected movements and with nylon threats in order to slow down the movement.
Even though it was a small project, it reveals me an important lesson about design in general: there are many factors in the process of thinking and making that we cannot control. As designers we have to be one step forward and be able to react quickly with the best possible option.
Communication has been a key point during the whole year and in this project it was essential and the most difficult part of it. I was used to deal with other people but cultural issues has been tough. On the top of that working with people from other countries has been the most enriching experience of this whole year.
25 may 2010
Sede Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea
(Alvaro Siza en esta imagen es toda una revelación, nos quiere decir algo?)
23 may 2010
22 may 2010
RE_FRESH (Unit One Final Project)
Comments (from the members of the assessment team: Stephen Hayward, Liz Wright, Tricia Austin, Caroline Till and ben Hughes)
Some evidence of research into the topic with subjects responding to the issue.
Good use of format and humour.
Consistently applied format. Good presentation.
Did this project challnece or reinforce the stereotypes of aging?
Is this a placebo or a real proposal?
The shopping channel style suggest simething fake rather than a real product. Is this the case?
21 may 2010
Patent from Apple
Sooner or later the Tom-Spilberg movie will come true and it is going to be a Mac for sure
