Thomaspaul now has all-new Wool Pile rug sizes and designs! Hot new Goldfinch Wool Pile Rug, Seed Wool Pile Rug, and Zinnia Wool Pile Rug; as well as old favorites like the Feather Wool Pile Rug, are all now available in 8' Round and 8' Runner!
I found this over at Dieline.com, everyone's favorite package design blog, and had to share it with you guys.
The premise behind this design stemmed from the recent TTB/Cola regulatory changes, protecting Portugal's geographic indication which inhibits any winery who was not "grandfathered" in before this law was passed, from using the term "Port" on their packaging. Our client (Peltier Station Winery) was eager to find a clever way to play off the word "Port" without actually using the word itself. That's how "USB" was born. The imagery screenprinted on the front label shows an old vine built out of binary code that translates as "Peltier Station", and has roots that form the recognized USB computer symbol. The back label leaves it to the viewer to fill in the letters "port" in underlined slots (i.e. im____ant for "important") The back label took three months of TTB/Cola deliberation before they finally approved it - not without telling our Client they had never encountered someone going so far out of their way to prove a point.
Kudos to 6 west and the folks at Peltier Station for an awesome job sticking it to the "man" through such a clever idea and an awesome design.
Inspired by Brazilian traditions, architect and designer Marcelo Rosenbaum created a graphic design pattern that is being used in different products such as bed clothing, wall paper, towels, rugs and fabrics.
You can read more about Marcelo Rosenbaum`s products at Tok&Stok website.
David Chipperfield Architects keep us writing about their work by turning out building after building of beautiful design, well thought out architecture and simple solutions to the respective demands of each project. This is the case with the Liangzhu Culture Museum, located within the Liangzhu Cultural Village in in a suburb of the provincial capital Hangzhou in China.
Liangzhu Site, located to the northwest of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, about 15 kilometres from the centre of the city, is a famous archaeological site dating from the late Neolithic Age. Liangzhu culture, also known as the Jade culture (c3000 BC), named after the site, is one of the most important archaeological cultures in China. So the museum hosting the findings of this era is of great importance to the people of China but also of the world: the particular site is also considered a world heritage site by Unesco.
The building is set on a lake and connected via bridges to the park surrounding it. Consisted of a series of different size cuboids, it has a sculptural quality that reveals itself gradually as the visitor approaches the museum through the park landscape. The museum is composed of four bar-formed volumes made of Iranian travertine stone, equal in width (all are 18m wide) but varying in height.
Each volume contains an interior courtyard. These landscaped spaces link the exhibition halls together while simultaneously inviting the visitor to linger and relax. Despite the linearity of the exhibition halls, due to the shapes involved in it's design, they enable a variety of individual tour routes through the museum, due to the interior courtyards connecting them.
To the south of the museum is an island with an exhibition area, which is accessed from the main museum building through a bridge. The edges of the surrounding landscape, planted with dense woods, allow only a few directed views into the park.
Client: Zhejiang Vanke Narada Real Estate Group Co., Ltd.
Project Date: 2003
Completion: June 2007
Opening: October 2008
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects Principal: David Chipperfield Director: Mark Randel Project Architect: Annette Flohrschütz Project Team: Libin Chen, Marcus Mathias, Christof Piaskowski, Arndt Weiss, Liping Xu
Gross floor area: 9.500 m²
Landscape Design: Levin Monsigny Landschaftsarchitekten
Exhibition designer: Guangdong Jimei Design and Engineering Co.
Graphics: Ute Zscharnt in collaboration with SV Associates, Andrew Mark Lawrence, Nancy Chen Si Min
Local Architect: ZTUDI The Architectural Design and Research Institute Zhejiang University of Technology
Photographs: Christian Richters
If you've ever wanted to do your bit for the environment from the comfort of your SUV, Canadian designer Paige Russell might just have the solution.
Paige's North American Wild Life series is the perfect combination of smooth stylized lines, fresh white satin-matte glaze, and just a little hint of irony. Whether you adorn your camper van with flowers or stock your monster truck with stationery, these little vehicular vessels are bound to turn heads.
If you're looking for something a little less transport oriented however, Paige's Spout Collective may be more to your liking. Amongst a selection of slick stoneware teapots is this elegantly understated Hens and Chicks set.
Just in case you needed an excuse to add a bit of green to your abode.
The CUB 2.0 Collection from Netto Collection is finally here! An all new and fully redone take on the CUB by Netto Collection's baby and toddler furniture: the Sleeper 2.0, Station 2.0, and Toddler Bed Conversion Kit.
This cutlery is an innovation of the Korean designer Seongyong Lee. They actually float!, because all of them have a buoy. This can be very useful when you are washing the dishes, and you don't want to plunge your hands in dirty water to find them. Maybe this cutlery doesn't look very elegant, but it works just like a regular one. Do you like it?
Via Compradiccion.
Brazilian biggest design shop Tok&Stok announced last tuesday the winners of the third edition of the design award for students. The jury analized creations based on a theme: "to study".
So, let`s meet the winners!
And next year`s theme is: "to rest". I like it!
What architects don't always admit, especially to others, is that they don't approach each project as if it were a blank slate. The truth is that most architects have a distinct formal vocabulary-- a language of shapes, material, color, and an approach to space-- that runs like a theme through their work. Sometimes this formal vocabulary is an expression of something personal and idiosyncratic, such as Frank Ghery's obsession with fish, or Eisenman's infamous grids. For Norwegian firm, Snøhetta, their formal obsessions have their roots in the Nordic landscape and it's cultural sea-faring heritidge.
The towering mountains and deep fjords of the Norway informs the shapes of many of Snøhetta's buildings which often present a monolithic and sublime mass from a distance, yet reveal intricate and technologically sophisticated detailing at a closer scale.
Snøhetta's Oslo Opera House, winner of the best cultural building of 2008 at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, is a giant tilted slab punctured by glass boxes. The Opera House emerges out of the sea as if it were a geological formation, rather than a building. The enormous roofscape, which Snøhetta calls the 'carpet', acts as a tilted urban plaza. It is a public terrace by the sea that teems with activity. As one approaches the building it's mass is broken down by intricately textured and patterned surfaces, such as the marble of the roofscape and the aluminum panels that clad many of the vertical surfaces. These elements, as Snøhetta's Tom Holtmann describes, were designed together with Nordic artists, who were invited to be collaborators, rather than merely decorators.
Photo by Christian A Calmeyer
For the aluminum cladding panels, textile artists Astrid Løvaas and Kirsten Wagle, used a pattern based on old weaving techniques, to create a complex surface of convex and concave shapes. The three dimensional pattern activates the monolithic shape of the facade with a subtle shifts in shadow and reflection as the sun moves across the sky.
Like the Oslo Opera House, the New National Library of Egypt consists of a large simple tilted form, in this case a stone clad cylinder, that seems to rise out of the water. In this case, the body of water is a man-made reflecting pool that evokes the nearby Mediterranean. The building's simplicity and monumentality has indigenous roots--after all the Egyptian pyramids, are nothing if not sublime in scale while being in minimal in form. Yet, there is no denying that the Library evokes the Oslo Opera House. The two buildings are similar, yet at the same time unique. Snøhetta's formal concerns are not forced onto their projects, but instead are adapted to the particularities of the context.
Snøhetta's unique architectural language appears again in thier design for The Fishing Museum on Karmoy Norway. Like many of their other buildings the Fishing Museum seems to be an extension of the craggy landscape itself, launching out of it like a geological formation. The nautical theme of the museum plays out in the precise wooden detailing of the interior.
Snøhetta's design for the Tromsø Hotel is the most literally ship-like of all their buildings. The curved belly of the building emerges out of the ground as if it were a ship surging out of a rough sea.
All languages have a limited number of words and an unlimited number of expressive possibilities. Snøhetta uses it's particular vocabulary of architectural forms- the angled plinth, the monumental curve, the crafted wood joint, the juxtaposition of monolith and intimate detailing-- in ways that always seems fresh, yet consistent with their vision.
In this world it doesn't matter how talent you are, if you don't know how to show it well. Jon Burgerman, an English illustrator, really know how to pull out all what he got... and he is a very gifted man, please take a look of this tiny sample of his work:
Graphic books, toys, posters, wallpapers (for real walls), stickers and original pieces of his graphic art, are some of the things that this artist show and sell at his website. He also, mount recently an exhibition of his crazy world on London, by the name of: "Because I can't sit still". And that's precisely why Jon Burgerman is a success artist, because he is always thinking ways to share his creative own world with us, so his many products are a proof of it.
Via ReubenMiller.
