veryverybeautiful

mercoledì 13 maggio 2009

LOST+FOUND

ISSUE 02
THE GIFT WRAP SPECIAL

LOST+FOUND is a new publication from London brand consultancy view with visually explores the obsessions and compulsions of fashion and lifestyle brands.

James Cameron Pop-Up Store in Melbourne by Universal Design Studio.
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Universal Design Studio have worked with James Cameron to create a pop-up store for the Australian menswear designer located in the heart of the inner-city Gertrude Street precinct.

Inspired by a range of influences including 1960’s French spy films, mid-century office interiors and the photo-realistic work of Thomas Demand, the store explores themes of repetition, pattern and both physical and emotional tension.

At the crux of the store, floating above a black and white chequerboard stone floor, over 400 spearmint coloured document archive boxes line the wall. These are reflected in the flanking mirrored planes to create a seemingly endless gridded backdrop to the store and the collection. Hovering beyond these boxes, a matrix of black tubular extrusions anchors the fitting rooms below and juxtaposes with the adjacent rhythms of the archive boxes and chequerboard flooring.

The colour of the archive boxes is taken as the main hue for the interior of the building, which sits on the corner of Smith Street and Gertrude Street, unifying walls, architraves, cornices and skirtings with a subtlety and depth.

Sitting against this backdrop, formed from a palette limited to matt black tubular steelwork and two-tone composite aluminium panelling, a family of objects has been created to define different areas of the store. These elements comprise fitting room screens, a series of mobile consoles and the central desk. Themes of reflection and distortion are continued with the use of full height mirrors flanking the central desk and leaning against the rear wall to reflect the ceiling cornices and central roses.

Furniture and fittings including BarberOsbergy’s Tab lamp for Flos, Saturn coatstand for Classicon and Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec’s Steelwood chair for Magis complete the setting.
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via Dezeen

lunedì 11 maggio 2009

PULP BOOK

A collaboration between supermodel Joni Harbeck and photographer Neil Krug for upcoming PULP BOOK (200+ images).

Release Date TBA

www.pulpartbook.com/

MARY EMMA HAWTHORNE

giovedì 7 maggio 2009

CS4

"Le Sens Propre" is a beautiful short film written and directed by Blacklist's Cisma for Adobe’s Shortcut to Brilliant campaign for CS4.

mercoledì 6 maggio 2009

Recycling typography

The Finnish company Character is on a mission to salvage dismantled logos and signs.

Companies move, update their logos and cease to exist, their fascia signs are taken down and demolished. Why?
Character takes the dismantled signs, which have been part of the cityscape for years, even decades, and gives them a new life.

Via Yatzer

6°MESE IN RETE

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grazie mille
Onthetable's staff

martedì 5 maggio 2009

RON VAN DER ENDE

ron van der ende is a sculptor based in rotterdam who uses reclaimed timber to create really kitsch looking bas reliefs. its hard to believe that they are only 20cm deep!
Via Designboom

STUDIO VIOLET re-used

Studio Violet was set up in 2008 when Camilla Engman and Elisabeth Dunker decided that a mutual project or two was simply not enough.

GENA HANSEN

"Gesa Hansen was born in Arnsberg in 1981, and graduated in Design at the Bauhaus-University, Weimar. After her studies she worked in Paris at the Ateliers of Jean Nouvel, at the graphic studio H5 and at the NDC in Tokyo. Her work was shown at the Designmai Berlin, the 100% Design Festival in Seoul, Korea, at the Design Show Artlab Brussels and by Fabrica in Bologna and Treviso. Since 2007 she is the art director of Hans Hansen Furniture who is also distributing her new label "The Hansen Family"."