Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Choose One - Moms Demand Action
Moms Demand Action announces new PSA campaign, “Choose One,” a series of print ads featuring assault weapons alongside other objects that have been banned in America to protect child welfare.
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Geomatrix Surface Design System - Made By Superior
Created for interiors, pop-up retail installations, visual merchandising solutions and retail window display, GEOMATRIX is our sculptural, lightweight yet robust, modular surface design system. It is made entirely from cardboard and can be digitally printed with any image or colour you wish making it a bespoke, flexible, high impact display solution. It can also be laminated with an extensive range of finishes. PLUS as its cardboard, it is 100% recyclable.
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Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Monday, 8 April 2013
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Karim Rashid For ALLOY
The Karim for ALLOY collaboration has resulted in the development of eight innovative metal tile ‘cells’ designed to change the ‘face’ of metal tiles. Available in all of ALLOY’s materials and finishes including stainless steel, copper, brass, titanium and raw steel, each design has been carefully developed, tested and manufactured in ALLOY’s Australian factory. Every tile is punched from an individual sheet of solid, 1.6mm high quality metal to deliver a seamless, hardwearing finish designed to last a lifetime.
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ALLOY - Metal Tile Manufacture
Based in Sydney, Australia, ALLOY (ALLOY Design Pty Ltd) works exclusively with high quality metals and alloys, predominantly stainless steel, as well as titanium, copper, brass and raw steel, to design and produce modern objects, finishes and architectural features.
Jonathon Worner, design director at ALLOY, started the company in 1998 out of a fascination with the beautifully utilitarian nature of stainless steel and a love for functional, practical design nurtured by his agricultural background. Creating a small range of no-nonsense yet elegant pieces 'sculptured' from the hi-tech precision machines housed at Pressform, his family's industrial engineering company in Perth Western Australia, Jonathon quickly recognised a gap in the design market for a range of high quality, long-lasting metal home wares with a pared-back design aesthetic...
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MC10 Electronics
We’re MC10. It’s our mission to extend human capabilities by making high-performance electronics virtually invisible, conformal, and wearable. We reshape rigid, conventional electronics into thin, flexible devices that can stretch, bend and twist seamlessly with our bodies and the natural world. And we’re making them affordable for the everyday consumer.
We’re proud to be pioneering technology that will protect our troops, treat heart arrhythmias, monitor a sleeping baby’s temperature and maybe one day prevent brain seizures. With the right partnership, there’s no stopping this technology...
We’re proud to be pioneering technology that will protect our troops, treat heart arrhythmias, monitor a sleeping baby’s temperature and maybe one day prevent brain seizures. With the right partnership, there’s no stopping this technology...
Helix - Matter Design
We have a pre-occupation with the translation of ancient and often lost methods into contemporary culture and practice. Helix is a product of an ongoing research agenda that centers on volume as an area of architectural exploration.
Helix is a half-scale spiral stair. While this reduced size resolves a number of practical concerns—weight, liability, access—the piece celebrates its impracticality. It is both column and stair, yet hangs from the ceiling. Its uncertainty and changed scale inject playful characteristics into the surrounding space, while maintaining an allegiance to the past and known.
A second preoccupation of ours is what we term “plastic rhetoric”. The solid, heavy, and volumetric action of casting concrete transforms a liquid matter into a solid mass that wants to crack. The stair’s rounded, plastic, and curvaceous treads reflect the material’s earlier liquid state. Its twisting accelerates as it wraps around the support column, appearing to re-plasticize the figure. The entire construct’s organic and malleable appearance is counterintuitive in light of the zero-tolerance system of nesting and keying from unit to unit.
Spirals are ubiquitous across cultures and times. Helix is our spiral.
The stair is produced with precast unreinforced concrete. These treads are unreinforced to test some claims as the team move closer and closer to stone as a testing material. Unreinforced concrete has little to no tensile capacity making this project a structural prototype in collaboration with Matthew Johnson of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. Each tread is cast in a fully encapsulated custom mold. These molds are rubber with a solid wood mother-mold to clamp the assembly together. The molds are vibrated rigorously during the pouring process and then immediately steamed for twelve hours to cure...
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Il Treno - Tjep
Il Treno is about intimacy and romanticism: for there is nothing more relaxing and engaging then enjoying a nice dinner while being transported to new landscapes. Il Treno presents a cosy table for two reminiscent of the old steamtrain carriages of the Orient Express...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Taptile
Taptile is a simple, clean and safe lighting solution, uniquely providing touch sensitive lighting control systems for your entire home including wet areas such as your bathroom, kitchen or even outdoors.
These favorite spaces have evolved rapidly in recent years and have been subject to technological advancements in keeping with the rest of our homes. Subsequently the need to simply and stylishly control lighting and other electrical appliances in these wet environments has become an ever increasing problem.
Waterproofing traditional switch technology is expensive and often results in controls which are far from aspirational, discordant with the environment they are designed to work in. Water and or steam tend to find its way into moving parts and often cause damage resulting in dangerous, unreliable and unsightly products...
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