Johan Ku - Fashion Designer

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Hotel De Sal - Bolivia

 

 

By the side of the Salt Flats of Uyuni, before getting in to the unlosable white sea, where the sky merges with the earth, is CRISTAL, our Hostel Suite.

CRISTAL is a modern building constructed entirely with blocks of salt extracted from the salt flats.

Inspired in Feng Shui's principles, CRISTAL is facing the sun, its original structure represent three coca leaves that symbolize the feminine side, while the masculine side is represented by the immensity of the salt flats.

Our 27 double, triple and family rooms, all in suite have hot water and heating all day long, which distinguishes our quality.

 

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L Brief

BAMN

BAMN! provides American comfort food that just makes you happy. We offer tasty and high quality food to fuel people on the go. It's the return of the automat, filled with juicy, mouth watering burgers, mac & cheese krokets, chicken fritters, new york grilled cheese sandwiches, curly fries, green-tea soft-serve and lots of other great and delightful treats - made fresh throughout the day.

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Malaysia Airlines Golden Lounge

Self service counters in the airport lounge

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Red Hot World Buffet

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Yo Sushi

Founded in 1997, YO! Sushi brought the concept of a Japanese ‘kaiten’ sushi bar that delivered food to customers via a conveyor belt travelling 8cm per second to the masses, and became the original and most famous sushi brand in the UK. YO! Sushi was a brand new concept in dining and catapulted Londoners into the 21st century which made us the most talked about dining experience. Our customers queued around the block as we gave the capital a slice of Urban Tokyo. The experience was fun and exciting, whilst the food was revolutionary and made lovingly, as AA Gill (Sunday Times) pointed out in his review stating it was “the best sushi in London" and Fay Maschler (Evening Standard) said she had “seen the future and it is fun".

By 2001, YO! Sushi was the market leader in sushi restaurants and (we like to think!) inspired supermarkets to start selling packaged sushi to the Great British Public, allowing people in areas where YO! Sushi restaurants hadn’t arrived yet to take their first steps in discovering how tasty and healthy sushi can be...

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Automat

A couple of years ago, a van pulled up in front of Steve Stollman's vintage goods store on Houston Street.

The van's driver, a scrap-metal dealer from Brooklyn, hauled out several cardboard boxes of what appeared to be vending machine parts and dropped them on Mr. Stollman's floor.

''How much do I owe you?'' Mr. Stollman recalls asking.

''Forget about it,'' the man replied.

The day before, the dealer had sold Mr. Stollman 85 rusted Automat machines for $100 apiece. Sorting through the mess of beveled glass and twisted metal, Mr. Stollman suddenly realized that he had the means to reconstruct what was once a great New York City tradition.

Indeed, for generations of New Yorkers, the Automat vending machine was the source of the archetypal workaday lunch. Throw your nickels in the slot, open the window, pull out the roast beef and the sweet potatoes, watch the coffee pour out of the lion-, dolphin- or duck-head spigot, sit down at a table with three other strangers, eat, bus your own tray and leave...

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Oskar Zieta - Icon

Oskar Zieta, the poster boy for contemporary Polish design, has filled Milan’s Cardi Black Box Gallery with 50 helium balloons, with a Plopp stool hanging from each. The stunt, inspired by the animated film Up (2009), is to show off the lightness of the latest version of the blow-up metal furniture that made the designer’s name. “The new stools are made of aluminium painted in pearl,” says Zieta, who also presented at the Milan Furniture Fair as part of the Young Creative Poland collective. “We want to show that the design is now much lighter but is still a durable form of construction.”

Plopp, originally designed in stainless steel for Danish manufacturer HAY in 2008, is made using free internal pressure forming technology, or FIDU: a pocket of thin metal sheets is inflated at high pressure to create a three-dimensional form. “In FIDU, the great matter is how you control the form. Because it’s an uncontrolled process, you never know what the final result will be,” says Zieta. The technique, developed by Zieta as part of his research into computer-controlled machineryat the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, has bred a whole range of ultra-light products with the same distinctive look: bulging shiny surfaces reminiscent of Jeff Koons’ balloon sculptures...

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Rolling Bridge - Heatherwick Studios

The studio was commissioned to design a pedestrian bridge to span an inlet of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin, London, and provide an access route for workers and residents. Crucially, the bridge needed to open to allow access for the boat moored in the inlet.
The aim was to make the movement the extraordinary aspect of the bridge. A common approach to designing opening bridges is to have a single rigid element that fractures and lifts out of the way. Rolling Bridge opens by slowly and smoothly curling until it transforms from a conventional, straight bridge, into a circular sculpture which sits on the bank of the canal.
The structure opens using a series of hydraulic rams integrated into the balustrade. As it curls, each of its eight segments simultaneously lifts, causing it to roll until the two ends touch and form a circle. The bridge can be stopped at any point along its journey...

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Fitch

The way we work

Understanding and collaberation

It’s a collaborative process that takes us closer to your brand, closer to your consumers and focusses expertise from across our business.

The quality of our work is a direct result of the authenticity of our insights. By understanding, to the point where it becomes intuitive, how a brand looks, sounds and feels in any situation, we’re able to match brand expressions to consumer behaviours and create a real and lasting dialogue that doesn’t so much reflect as inform and influence consumer culture...

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Novasonar - Invisible loud speakers

Sound is wonderfully invisible. So why should you have to see loudspeakers? Architects and interior decorators have been asking this question for generations. There are numbers of approaches to conceal loudspeakers in walls, ceilings and furniture. Up until now, however, they have always resulted in sound being compromised. With the Novasonar system by ML Audio a revolutionary new solution has been found.

The Novasonar system directly converts walls, ceilings or furniture into sound bodies without sound or room design being compromised. A new age of audio technology has been born. The Novasonar system by ML Audio brings technology and design together like no other architectural component.

Thus Novasonar offers revolutionary possibilities in the field of audio technology. We would like to put this potential into service of your creativity.

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Pilkington Glass

The United Kingdom is one of the NSG Group's major manufacturing centres.

Pilkington Group Limited is based in St Helens and has offices at the NSG Group's European Technical Centre situated at nearby Lathom, Lancashire.

Pilkington employs around 3,000 people across the UK, in activities ranging from the manufacture of float, rolled and wired glass to glass processing and merchanting, automotive original equipment (OE) and automotive glass replacement (AGR) manufacture. 

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Danny Lane - Glass Designer

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Nightmares Fear Factory, Canada - Metro

Haunted houses naturally have something of a reputation for frightening the wits out of people but, in this case, the attraction itself is trumped in the scare stakes by the reactions of its patrons.

The Nightmares Fear Factory, the oldest haunted house in North America, has turned its customers’ contorted faces upon being spooked into something of an internet sensation.
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VW BlueMotion Adverts

 

Two adverts for theVW Bluemotion range. I like both!!

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Temple Works

This is the ‘wikipedia’ entry for Temple Works. The myth of the sheep is actually true. However this is a little dry for our tastes, so it’s our intention to be a little more creative, and inclusive with the ‘histories’ of Temple Works over the the course of our stay here…

Temple Works is a former flax mill in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was designed by Joseph Bonomi the Younger and built by John Marshall between 1836 and 1840.

Temple Works, also known as Temple Mill, was based on the Temple of Edfu at Horus in Egypt with a chimney designed in the style of an obelisk. Marshall’s inspiration for the design of Temple Works was his interest in Egyptology. When it was built it was said that Temple Works was the biggest single room in the world.

One extremely unusual feature of the Temple Works building is the fact that sheep used to graze on the grass-covered roof. This served the purpose of retaining humidity in the flax mill in order to prevent the linen thread from becoming dried out and unmanageable.

Temple Works is the only Grade I listed building in Holbeck.

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Sleepbox - Arch Group

Imagine the situation where you are in a modern city, you are not a local resident, and you have not booked a hotel. It is not a comfortable situation because modern aggressive cities give you no opportunity to rest and relax. If you want to sleep while waiting for your plane or train, you face many security and hygiene problems.
We believe that urban infrastructure should be more comfortable. For this purpose we
have developed SLEEPBOX. It provides moments of quiet sleep and rest without wasting time in search for a hotel. Possible locations for SLEEPBOX include:...

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POÄNG - Ikea

POÄNG Series

When you buy POÄNG armchair you choose everything yourself, except the comfort - it's always included! You get a style that's all your own by freely combining frames in different wood types and finishes and cushions with fabric or leather covers. If you want a change, you can always buy an extra cushion - they come with covers in several different colours, patterns and materials. The fabric covers are removable and most are machine-washable. To keep the leather covers clean and soft, treat them with ABSORB leather cleaner.

The basic chair is pretty comfortable, personally tried!

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