Anatalis Calendar 2012 by Blow
January 2nd, 2012 Yanda
A calendar design project for Antalis by Blow.
Thinking the relationship of date and time, 12 months and 12 hours on the clock, a new format – calenclock has been made.
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Beyond Desert by Blow
January 2nd, 2012 Yanda
Beyond Dessert provides a wide range of dessert table services. Blow designed the brand identity and a cakepop packaging for client. The custom-made cakepops are stylish and lovely in a packaging format that can protect the cakepops as well as making the cakepops easy to carry.
Massimals by Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin
January 2nd, 2012 Yanda
Massimals is a set of 1:1 design objects that serve as prototypes to examine how physical form can engage the public realm. These constructs are abstractions of animal forms built in the manner of massing studies produced in an architectural design practice. Like massing models, they are volumetric, devoid of details, and fabricated from one material such as chipboard, polystyrene foam, and foam core. The suggestive forms and their specific arrangement imply docile behavior similar to animals in a petting zoo augmenting the way visitors approach and engage built form.
Photographs by GLINTstudios
http://dots-ky.com/gallery.php?directory=Projects/massimals¤tPic=12&id=work
A Maarten Baas Commission
January 2nd, 2012 Yanda
Demisch Danant worked with Maarten Baas to create a site-specific installation for a client who wanted a sculptural but entirely functional piece for their home’s foyer. Maarten used his signature color impregnated clay design as the basis for what he has described as “a viral-like system” of shelving, coat hangers, vitrines and small display areas that together fill the entire space. The result is witty and energetic. And the clients’ kids love it.
http://www.demischdanant.com/projects/a-maarten-baas-commission/
Nanushka Beta Store
January 2nd, 2012 Yanda
Six architecture students have created a temporary fashion store in Budapest with a billowed canvas canopy and a sliced firewood floor.
Cocoa Pickers by James Mollison
December 29th, 2011 Yanda
Issey Miyake asked me to contribute to an exhibition on Chocolate, he was curating with the designer Naoto Fukasawa. Chocolate in Japan has become a luxury product with organised tastings- similar to wine. I decided it would be interesting to explore the disparity between the producer and consumer. I choose the Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s largest cacoa producing country. These farmers of cocoa beans were photographed in the village of Zongokro in the 25km no-man’s land dividing the country since the civil war in 2003, they earn less than a $1 per day.
Per Fare Un Albero
December 29th, 2011 Yanda
To make a tree… the very slow explosion of a seed is necessary.
While this is an inevitably slow process, we, on the contrary, are able to make things happen really quickly.
And we did, with the Municipality of Milan and with Fiat, by inventing a small solution to this city’s need for greenery that would make people think and smile. I believe that trees are our real guardian angels, not supernatural beings with wings, but dependable, lifelong companions producing oxygen.
Spending almost more of our time in motorcars rather than at home is a result of our restless mobility. Trees and motorcars, which increasingly compete with each other for space in our urban landscape, have merged into one single object to become the symbol of a new lifestyle.
Milan and Fiat 500 once again demonstrate their commitment to making our city more liveable.
http://www.novembre.it/design/per-fare-un-albero-milan/
Soap Opera
December 29th, 2011 Yanda
Black, white, dirty, clean, dressing room, locker room, coal, soap, shower baths, mine, stage. Theater happens right now!
The miners’ daily cleansing in the former bath house after the shift is what the Soap Opera is about. The transformation of the former colliery into a cultural location evokes a cleaning process. In the real mine, the underground part of the world remains inaccessible, experienced only as an idea. Outside, a luminous mist of bubbles floats between the old bath house, the shaft tower and the grove of birch trees. The visitors immerse themselves into the froth and reach interior foam spaces, from which they have singular views of the shaft tower and surrounding buildings .
The dense foam is illuminated from within. It is made of transparent, oversized latex balloons, some filled with helium and some with air.
A suffusion of sound inside the foam provides a further level of experience and perception, recalling noises and sounds of the past as a distant reminiscence.
For a few hours, the precision and hardness of the architecture and its materials are confronted with the soft, incomprehensible form of ephemeral foam.After the performance, the foam gradually dissolves. The audience – the real actors of this performance – take it along with themselves.
http://www.raumlabor.net/?p=2147
Seismograph City
December 29th, 2011 Yanda
The exhibition “Seismograph City – Sustainable Strategies in Architecture and Urban Planning” was held in summer 2009 in Hamburg.
The location of the exhibition was well situated to reach the foyer of an office building, which for material selection and design options in particular brought special challenges. We defined it as our task to present the issue of sustainability in an atmosphere of lightness, elegance and accessibility – in purposeful contrast to the often perceived as very stressful discussion.
http://www.raumlabor.net/?p=2097