In de nieuwe film Objectified van Gary Hustwit krijgt de kijker een blik in de wereld van de industriële vormgeving. Onderdeel van deze film is een interview met Apple designer Jonathan Ive. Dit interview, waarin Ive vertelt over zijn werk en over het ontwerpproces bij Apple, is nu alvast online te bekijken. Het fragment is zeker een aanrader. En mocht de naam van filmmaker Gary Hustwit je bekend voorkomen, dan zou het goed kunnen dat je zijn vorige film Helvetica hebt gezien.

Thanks to http://www.onemorething.nl

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Home appliances of the future

http://www.electroluxdesignlab.com

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Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. It is open to everybody in all countries who are associated with the creation and marketing of packaging. The winners will receive bronze, silver, gold, platinum or diamond Pentawards according to the creative quality of their work.
Packaging design from the world over created or brought out in 2008 will be judged by a likewise international jury that will select the winners in accordance with the creative quality of the work submitted.Apart from prize-giving, Pentawards' mission is the promotion of packaging design with companies, the press, the economic and political authorities and the public in general, throughout the world.

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WHY Wally-Hermès Yachts is the new company created by french luxury brand
Hermès and monaco based yacht maker Wally, dedicated to a new lifestyle of living
on the sea.

designing a boat with a new concept is not an utopia.
at every turn the yacht offers maximum space, durability and cutting-edge technologies.
the exchange with Wally and Hermès was rooted deeply in terms of know how and sharing
the same philosophy of this new concept.

Hermès was involved in every step of the process from concept to realization, considering
both the outside and inside were just one of the many things. as always just like with all
their designs they paid special attention to detail, developing the overall architecture
of the vessel evaluating issues of speed and spaciousness.



More info at designboom.com

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OS00 characterises itself materially by the use of industrial flexible tubes, formally by its fluid and organic forms and conceptually by a variable design and production process. Using the principles of “programmation” , the system offers a huge range of applications in term of typology, function and scale.

Designer: Sebastien Wierinck

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A treehouse! A promise of adventure for the kids, a retreat for the adults, a romantic hideaway close to nature. These special little dwellings installed up among the trees fire our imagination and rouse our curiosity, bringing back childhood memories, and with them the desire to climb up and enter a magic world amongst the foliage. To be spellbound again, to witness the different sights and sounds up there by day and night and throughout the seasons. To play up there, to work undisturbed, to relax, to daydream…

URL : baumraum - home

meer boomhuizen :

URL : Amazon Treehouses
URL : LA CABANE PERCHEE
URL : The Custom Tree House from the Treehouse Company

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Restaurant Open Colonna
Via Milano 9a Rome Italie



http://english.palazzoesposizioni.it

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COWBOY

It’s 5 o’clock Friday, another week of papers, meetings, and phone calls have been put out to pasture.  The wide open range of a long weekend spreads out before you,  three days of boots up contemplation for you and your partner beckon. 

There's only one place to do it and that place is The Cowboy.  Outfitted with a massive deck, interior courtyard, master bedroom and a bathtub with a view to the stars the Cowboy is perfect for a couple or small family. 
Hello quiet contemplation.

Cowboy 635 Square feet.

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Who would have thought you could make so much with simple structures from trailer parks? And that’s just the beginning.
For ecological reasons, for eccentric clients and simply for fun, more and more architects and designers are figuring out clever approaches to adaptively reuse old structures in novel ways.

From pigsty and water tower houses to a beautiful chapel bookstore and a gigantic shipping container museum, here are seven more ingenious reuses of otherwise wasted architecture into amazing recycled designs.

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Located near Tiananmen Square, the 490,485-square-foot glass-and-titanium National Grand Theater, scheduled to open in 2008, seems to float above a man-made lake. Intended to stand out amid the Chinese capital's bustling streets and ancient buildings, the structure has garnered criticism among Bejing's citizens for clashing with classic landmarks like the Monument to the People's Heroes (dedicated to revolutionary martyrs), the vast home of the National People's Congress, or Tiananmen Gate itself (the Gate of Heavenly Peace).
French architect Paul Andreu is no stranger to controversy -- or to innovative forms. A generation ago, in 1974, his untraditional design for Terminal 1 of Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport was criticized for its unusual curves, yet Andreu's groundbreaking, futuristic building later was seen to distinguish de Gaulle from more generic European and international air hubs. (The same airport's Terminal 2E, also designed by Andreu, gained attention in 2004 when it collapsed, tragically killing four people.)

Beijing's daring National Grand Theater is as much a spectacle as the productions that will be staged inside in the 2,416-seat opera house, the 2,017-seat concert hall, and the 1,040-seat theater. At night, the semi-transparent skin will give passersby a glimpse at the performance inside one of three auditoriums, a feature that highlights the building's public nature.

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Established in January 2007, the National Art Center, Tokyo, has a total of 14,000 square meters of exhibition space, the largest in Japan.

Instead of maintaining a permanent collection, it focuses on serving as a venue for various art exhibitions and is the first of its kind in the world. In addition to holding more than 10 exhibitions at a time, the Center also promotes educational activities, as well as collects and disseminates information and data about art.

This unique and innovative art exhibition facility was designed by Kisho Kurokawa, who also designed the new Kuala Lumpur Airport and the Exhibition Wing of the Van Gogh Museum.

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“Welcome to Macintosh - The documentary for the rest of us.” is the first documentary of its kind to mix history, criticism and an unapologetic revelry of all things Apple into a movie experience. Whether a long time Mac fanatic or new to computers, Welcome to Macintosh takes you from the early days of the Apple-I to the latest the company has to offer.

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Op 31 januari ging het nieuwe Porschemuseum nabij de hoofdzetel van het prestigieuze automerk in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen open.

Hoogstandje
Het nieuwe museumgebouw is een ontwerp van het Weense architectenbureau Delugan Meissl en geldt ongetwijfeld als een architectonisch hoogstandje. De bezoekers ontdekken er een exporuimte van maar liefst 5.600 vierkante meter. Het geheel oogt revolutionair.

Zo'n tachtig wagens en kleinere voorwerpen worden er op unieke wijze tentoongesteld. Voorts krijg je in het museum ook een historisch overzicht van het Duitse wagenmerk. Je verneemt er tal van interessante weetjes over Porsche. (Katrijn Serneels)



http://www.porsche.com/germany/aboutporsche/porschemuseum/

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Here’s a higher-quality Quicktime version.

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On January 15th Jumbo Hostel will be opening, the world's first hostel built onboard a real Boeing 747-200 Jumbo Jet.



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The Songjiang district, near the Chinese city Shangai, is a popular zone for recreation. Firm Atkins, famous for their grandiose projects, proposed a set of hotels called Songjiang. The key factor of the design is the water, that is all around the building. The hotel is created in the deep quarry and this point reflexes on a simple look. The building has also underwater parts. The roof is grassy and whole complex will use geothermal energy for an electrical supply and heating, so the interference with the nature will be smaller.

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