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collaborationThursday Jun 25, 2009
Carsten Höller and Fondazione Prada Double Your Pleasure in London
What happens when Western and African cultures meet in a Victorian warehouse in central London? The Double Club, Carsten Höller's latest art project. Backed by Fondazione Prada and directed by Jan Kennedy, the temporary space offers a unique approach to entertainment and hospitality with a restaurant, bar, and disco that are equal parts Western cool and Congolese hot—but never a lukewarm fusion. In practice, that makes for deliciously bifurcated meals: diners at the Double Club restaurant can choose from parallel menus (family-style Congolese dishes or bistro classics) in a room that is a cultural checkerboard, with dark African hardwood and humble plastic tables alternating with French brasserie tiling and supersleek Breeding Tables by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram, who led the design of the project's "Western side." Hungry for a wild boar terrine served on a Congolese tablecloth, a goat brochette fresh from the oil drum barbeque, or just a night of Ndombolo dance hits? Stop in soon, as the cultural coexistence ends July 11. Tuesday Jun 23, 2009
Peter Blake Designs Print for Stella McCartney
We still curse the sense of fiscal responsibility that kept us from purchasing those splendid Jeff Koons-printed frocks that Stella McCartney-showed for spring 2006. Now older, wiser, and able to subsist for weeks on a family-size bag of mixed nuts from the dollar store, we're not about to let her latest art-tastic collaboration pass us by. Famed artist and designer Peter Blake (or as we call him, "Sir Peter") has created a print for McCartney that appears exclusively on a summer capsule collection she designed for high fashion e-tailer net-a-porter. As you might recall, Blake designed an album cover for a band in which McCartney's father played.
Previously on UnBeige: Monday Jun 22, 2009
Guggenheim Launches Online Design Forum
Imagine walking into a brand-new public building—let's say it's a museum, a campus student center, or a mental-health clinic. Every detail has been designed, from the drop ceiling to the polished floors. But taped to the security desk is a paper sign, printed out in all-caps Times Roman, that says Restrooms Are Downstairs in the Basement Behind the Boiler Room or Don't Even Think About Asking Me Where the Elevator Is. These homemade signs boil over with irritation, directed at a clueless public who don't know how the building works. What's happening here is not a failure of the public, however, but a failure of design.Are we overdesigning our homes, our cities, ourselves? Or are we not designing them enough? How do we now define "good design"? Would you ever band together a stack of racy letters with a magenta ribbon? Join the conversation here. Wednesday Jun 10, 2009
Stella McCartney Inks Deal to Create Collection for GapKids, babyGap
Monday Jun 08, 2009
Guggenheim Teams with Google on Shelter Design Contest
Today is Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday, and while we've been busy transforming a tower of fondant and Heath bars into an elaborate Fallingwater-themed cake, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is celebrating the 142nd anniversary of Wright's birth with a global design contest. The Guggenheim has teamed with Google (a match-up that we can't help but refer to as "Googlenheim") for today's launch of the Design It: Shelter Competition, which invites amateur and professional designers to use Google Earth and Google SketchUp application to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters for a location of their choice anywhere on Earth (anywhere? anywhere!). Submissions will be accepted through August 23. Two prize winners (one will be chosen by a jury that includes architect Neil Denari and Pentagram's Lisa Strausfeld, the other by public voting on ten finalists selected by students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture) will be announced on October 21, the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum's opening. Our advice? Get inspired by visiting the Guggenheim's stellar "Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward" exhibition and then head to the museum's Sackler Center for a companion exhibition of shelters designed, built, and lived in over the past seven decades by students of Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Arizona and Wisconsin. Tuesday Jun 02, 2009
Studio Dror Hits Target with Affordable Homegoods Line
It's Electric!: Herman Miller Slides into Energy Management
Normally, if an office manager wants to split, say, a conference room into two offices, he has to rip out the walls and hire an electrician to put in new wiring so that each office can control its own lighting. With Convia, the wires running through walls or cubicles are "smart," so no electrician is necessary, just install a switch and point a wand at every lighting fixture you want the switch to control. In a flash the room is divided into two separate circuits.The system, which also controls temperature and electric devices, can translate into big energy savings. Early adopters include the U.S. Green Building Council, whose new Perkins+Will-designed corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C. is "Convia-enabled." Wednesday May 27, 2009
Philippe Starck Has Now Designed Everything, Including Kitchen Sink
Thursday May 21, 2009
Elton John Meets Ben & Jerry
Wednesday May 20, 2009
Zaha Hadid Designs 'Undulating, Radiating' Boots for LacosteShoe design agrees with Zaha Hadid. Last year, Brazilian footwear company Melissa debuted strappy, space-age plastic wedges designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Now it's onward, to boots! Come September, Lacoste will launch a capsule collection of men's and women's footwear designed in collaboration with Hadid, the architect's office tells us. The final design prototypes (pictured below), which made a splash last fall at London's Frieze Art Fair, will soon go into production.
Digitizing patterned surfaces (crocodile skin, perhaps?) was the starting point for Hadid's design of the calf leather boots, which feature embossed and debossed wave patterns. "The design expression behind the collaboration with Lacoste footwear allows the evolution of dynamic fluid grids," says Hadid. "When wrapped around the shape of a foot, these expand and contract to negotiate and adapt to the body ergonomically. In doing so a landscape emerges, undulating and radiating as it merges seamlessly with the body." PreviouslyProject Blue: Barneys and Elle Auction Redesigned, Recycled Denim for Charity Pantone Teams with SeaVees on Vintage-Hued Sneaker Line Target Readies Tracy Feith-Designed GO International Collection Design Miami Teams with Fendi for 'Craft Punk' in Milan Michael Bierut and Friends Beat Shepard Fairey to '21st Century WPA' Punch Branding Wombats: Endangered Marsupials Ink Corporate Sponsorship Deal Glamour Asks Top Female Artists to Define Glamour David Stark Creates 'Art-Meets-Housewares' for West Elm Store Opening BMW Art Cars Hit the Road: First Stop, LACMA Puma Teams with Alexander McQueen for New Line of Clothing, Accessories MAC Cosmetics Debuts Dame Edna Collection Frank Gehry's Superlight Chair Goes Disco Eau de Collaboration: Six Scents Project Unites Fashion Designers, Perfumers Design Your Own Fabric, Then Vote On It Donald Baechler Enters Artist Handbag Fray Eau de Rodarte: Designers Collaborate with Lexus on Eco-Friendly Candle Postmodern Postcard Projects Are Something to Write Home About Right on Target: Discounted Derian Decoupage A Wiki for Future Project Runway Designers William Wegman for NYU, with Not a Weimaraner in Sight Target Readies Richard Chai-Designed Collection Eyes, Words Deceive Richard Hell, Christopher Wool Rolling Stone, Now in Handy T-Shirt Form Redesigned Laptops Raise $20K for Charity Train Rides and Scrapbooking? They're a Natural Fit Kidrobot Hits the Slopes with Burton: Paul Budnitz Shows Off the Goods Vase in Point: Kiki Smith for Steuben Glass Designers and Clients: Fighting the Battle by Working Together...Or Something |
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