merging the building with the landscape, the structure is topped with discarded roof tiles, giving the museum the appearance of a small village.
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the design utilizes elements of space as part of its structure by pushing itself into the corners or edges of a space's walls.
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Beautiful packaging by Graphical House and Derek Welsh Studio who collaborated with Oblique for this special edition of Paul Smith dominos. The dominoes are handcrafted in walnut using 45 processes, 8,400 hand drilled holes all nicely packed in a navy and pink box with a foil print finish.
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Comfort Zone, a series of photographs of people relaxing at the beach, by Tadao Cern.
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Hamra by DinellJohansson
This beautifully simple summer house designed by Swedish architecture studio DinellJohansson is located in Hamra, Gotland, Sweden. Local tradition of stone houses resulted in using lightweight conctrete masonary blocks as the main material, but with focus on sustainability and minimalisation of waste. Unique furniture and clever use of space and dividers make this house one of a kind.
"The brief came out of the very limited budget: a house as simple as possible. Equally simple as the barn we wanted to convert to a summer dwelling, but which never showed up on the market: one open space with a large number of possible beds, cooking in the middle, washing facilities outside the house. Planing regulations ruled the placement of the house to the inner part of the plot which at the time of designing was still densly vegetated and scarcely accesible. Hence the house was designed with generic qualities, creating no front- or backside, treating all sides of the site equally. Four large openings 2,4x2m are placed according to rotational symmetry, one in each facade. Facing north is a fixed window, the other three are glazed doors. There is no hierarchy between the doors – anyone can be used as an entrance. Two roof windows add skylight to the interior. (...) The becoming of this house was made possible by compensating low budget with long construction time. Parts of the construction work was executed by friends and unskilled builders. Several sollutions had to be rethought on site out of this perspective. Last but not least it all was made possible by a uniquely skilled builder with a passion for architectural detailing."
Words: DinellJohansson, Thisispaper
Photography: Elisabeth Toll
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William Onyeabor has put body and soul into preventing the release of Who is William Onyeabor?, a compilation of songs plucked from his infectious synthesizer-driven pop records released between 1977 and 1985, during the golden era of Nigerian funk. After four long years of painstaking persuasion, David Byrne’s world music label Luaka Bop has finally managed to release it, playing up to the mysterious theme of the record in their video trailer: “Synth Virtuoso, Russian Film Scholar, Oxford Law Student, sinner or saint?”
Nigerian ex-pat blogger Uchenna Ikonne made contact with the cult musician in 2009 and – in the “toughest ordeal I had ever endured in my life” – got a signature on a Luaka Bop contract. But after four years of painstaking attempts to follow up with the elusive septuagenarian, Luaka Bop boss Eric Welles-Nystrom had to fly to Nigeria to track him down himself. Welles-Nystrom eventually found his home – a palace of faded glory, a short drive from the hill-top town of Enugu – and after several days watching evangelising television, Onyeabor acquiesced to back the project.
It was Christianity that put an end to Onyeabor’s musical career, which produced eight extraordinary albums, each cover featuring the younger man donning debonair suits, surrounded by keyboards and chunky analogue equipment. Whether or not the Hitchensian adage “religion poisons everything” applies, it was certainly Onyeabor’s born-again faith that put his artistic days behind him.
“I was a sinner who repented and gave himself 100 percent to Christ,” Onyeabor told the New York Times this month, declining to discuss his music or his sketchy past. “I didn’t use [my music] strictly to praise God. That is why I have decided now that henceforth all my revealings will be to praise God and preach the word of God.”
The hard-won fruits of this album have been worth it. Who is William Onyeabor? opens with ‘Body and Soul’, a 10-minute build to nowhere with a hard funk beat and female backing vocals, punctuated with Onyeabor’s sweet voice and chattering keyboards. The psychedelic ‘Atom Bomb’, the title track to his most famous album, has made the cut but its song ‘Better Change Your Mind’, again touching on the subject of the Cold War and Mutually Assured Destruction, sadly didn’t.
Artists including Four Tet, Dam-Funk, Devendra Banhart and Oneohtrix Point Never have heaped praise on Onyeabor. Carl Craig called him “an African Shuggie Otis” and Dan Snaith sampled him for ‘Ye Ye’. But now his infamously hard-to-find records – even MP3s – are presented for a new generation to hear, whether Onyeabor likes it or not.
La Gazelle d’Or, a beautifully luxurious and exclusive hotel, opened in 1961 in the secluded Moroccan city of Taroudant. It has become a popular destination for artists, the socially elite, and the newly wealthy. (...) Read More about La Gazelle d’Or Hotel in Taroudant, Morocco (105 words)
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Habibis, a restaurant re-brand by Anagrama.
Habibis is an Arabic-Mexican fusion taqueria located in San Pedro Garza García, a city enriched by the culinary treats of its third generation Arab immigrants. Previously a humble taco stand, Habibis approached us with the task of creating a brand that communicated the foods’ exceptional mixed background and quality without losing its street-friendly and casual demeanor.
Our proposal is a brand that adapts stylized Arabic calligraphy to a typical Mexican street setting, complete with neon colors and inexpensive materials, like craft paper bags.
Deep research and careful understanding of the Arabic alphabet was needed to design, using calligraphic pens and special brushes, the various words and signage in both Arabic and Latin. The custom type is accompanied by Gotham, a gentle and neutral typeface that would allow the bespoken logotypes to stand out above everything else. The pattern is based on traditional keffiyeh (a Middle Eastern headdress fashioned from a square scarf) and gorgeously intrinsic mosaic patterns.
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Nordic House by Anagrama
Anagrama is an international branding firm from Mexico, with clients from varied industries and countries from all around the world. Their exceptional designs are innovative and interesting, simple, yet sharp. Their visual identification of newly launched dry-cleaning company makes us wish more services looked as good.
"Nordic House is a yet-to-be-launched dry-cleaning shop in San Francisco, California. Our approach to Nordic House's branding was focused on Scandinavian design, combining simple geometric forms with a clean, sharp, well-distributed logotype and an icy, cold color palette. Snowy white, chilly grey, pine needle green and fresh salmon combine to create a cool nordic landscape complete with its pure, immaculate and undisguised scents. A few icons are present in the overall identity, designed with a stark and reductionist style that captures the brand's elemental emphasis on honesty, clarity and above all, quality. Apart from their premium dry-cleaning services, Nordic House will also sell exclusive, quality items such as scented soaps and undershirts."
Words: Anagrama, Thisispaper
Photography: courtesy of Anagrama
Ermitage by Septembre
This inconspicuous black cabin situated in Swedish woods is a perfect place for summer getaway. As simple as could be, this small hut has all you need and nothing more - a place to sleep, storage and big window that lightens up this tiny interior. Another beautiful creation of Parisian architecture studio Septembre.
"A small wooden cabin with sauna and bedroom on the island of Trossö, Sweden. Two large windows frame the windswept and poetic landscape: the ocean on one side, pines on the other, with a large sliding door effectively doubling the living area when open. The brief was a room with a view of the sea. A minimal living space, containg only the essential. The exterior material is swedish spruce painted with a mat black paint (3 layers). The interior floor boards are swedish spruce, and the walls and ceiling are clad in plywood. All materials had to be transported by boat and carried by hand since there are no connection to the main land and no roads, nor cars on the island. The sloping roof was for the interior volume and also all local vernacular fishing cabins have pitched roof, the building is raised from the ground to do the least possible impact on nature. The sea is 50 meters from the house. The nearest town/fishing village is a 15 minutes boat ride away."
Words: Septembre, Thisispaper
Photography: courtesy of Septembre
Library in Awashima by ETAT Architects
ETAT Architects is an architecture studio established in 2008 by head-designer Erik Törnkvist. In Stockholm-based office they work on projects for public and private sectors in Sweden and abroad. For this amazing project ETAT Architects has been commissioned by Art Setouchi to design a library located on Awashima island in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. The detail-oriented approach and focus on materials resulted in this breathtaking yet clean, simple design.
"The new library is housed in an existing heritage-classified building from the 1920’s located on the port’s sea front. ETAT’s refurbishment is designed to highlight the material and spatial qualities of the existing wooden building and to enhance it’s relationship to the sea. For new additions the predominant material is brass, which is used as wall surface, for fittings and for the 3,6 x 3,6 meters reading table. The library is a regional development project in order to revitalise Awashima and the project is part of the art and architecture triennale Setouchi International Triennale 2013. The library was opened in early October 2013 and has since attracted more than 1 000 visitors."
Words: ETAT Architects AB, Thisispaper
Photography: courtesy of ETAT Architects AB
Polderceramics by Atelier NL
"Artists have long explored the significance of ‘place’ – as a site of history and identity; as a dynamic process in constant flux; and as a politically charged way to both challenge and contextualise the world. For Atelier NL, the Eindhoven-based design studio of Lonny van Ryswyck and Nadine Sterk, the place in question was the Noordoostpolder region of central Netherlands.
At the invitation of Jurgen Bey and Rianne Makkink the designers took up residence in the area to better study the social and agricultural nuances of the region. As the Noordoostpolder had been integral to the Dutch land reclamation acts of the twentieth century, carried out in order to improve flood protection and create additional land for agriculture, the area is rich with both historical and geological disparity.Atelier NL’s Drawn From Clay series embodies all these local distinctions as each piece was made from a specific plod of soil taken from each of the different farms they accessed across the 460 square kilometre polder. As Sterk explains, ‘A bucket filled with earth is anonymous, but the stories of the farmer who works the earth lend it its identity.’
The overriding principal behind the series was to keep the symbiosis between object and origin as pure and integral as possible. ‘We wanted to make tableware so that the vegetables prepared for dinner could be served from vessels made from the same soil the vegetables came out of,’ explains Van Rijswijck. The designers simply refined then mixed each individual batch of soil with water to form malleable clays, before cast-moulding each piece at a consistent temperature in order to compare and contrast the resultant differences between colour and texture from the various soils. To further the correlation Atelier NL both devised a systematic ratio system for the size of each piece and stamped each vessel with a geo-code reference to match the plot from whence the soil came.
By rendering visible the close relationship between vegetation and clay and, hence, between origin and identity, the Drawn from Clay series emphasises Atelier NL’s sensitive, respectful and informed approach to design."
Words: Libby Sellers
Photography: Paul Scala
Fashion Identity for HAY Design by Merel Korteweg
The marriage of design and fashion results in the unexpected! Merel Korteweg got inspired by Danish design and created a Fashion Identity for HAY Design, which is her graduation project for Fashion&Branding degree on Amsterdam Fashion Institute. Furniture and clothes compliment each other perfectly and tell the stories full of colours!
"I observed the trend that lots of fashion companies expanding with a interior line but did not see any good example for the opposite way. This inspired me to extend the danish interior design company Hay with a fashion identity. Hay works in product families and to maintain that approach I opted to stick to three style families and created elaborate mood boards. I directed a styled photoshoot to capture the essence of each. The natural style, the architect style and the explorer style."
Words: Merel Korteweg, Thisispaper
Photography: Anne Claire de Brije
Styling: Babette Tielrooij
Glass and stone sculptures by Ramon Todo.
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Joana Cardoso<3 all!
Phil Parker (Bristol, U.K) contributions to the A+B Zine.
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British designer Alex Chinneck created the installation, From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes, by removing the facade of a detached four-storey house that had been derelict for eleven years and replacing it with a brand new frontage that leaves the crumbling top storey exposed, then curves outwards so the bottom section lies flat in front of the house. Brilliant.
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Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio set out to explore just how diverse the eating habits around the globe are, and published a photo album with their discoveries, called the Hungry Planet. The authors visited 30 families in 24 countries, each time photographing them at home, shopping at the market and surrounded by their weekly food purchases. Over 600 meals in countries from Chad to China reveal completely different stories: while some families don’t go without 6 gallons of Coca-Cola a week, others got to hunt down a seal to feed their kids. How would your diet look, if captured in this album?
Website: menzelphoto.com, Book: Hungry Planet
The Casales family spends around $189 per week.
The Ayme family spends around $32 per week.
The Fernandezes family spends around $242 per week.
The Mendozas family spends around $76 per week.
The Revis family spends around $342 per week.
The Melanson family spends around $392 per week.
The Manzo family spends around $295 per week.
The Costa family spends around $64 per week.
The Cui family spends around $65 per week.
The Al-Haggan family spends around $252 per week.
The Dudo family spends around $90 per week.
The Ahmed family spends around $78 per week.
The Brown family spends around $428 per week.
The Melander family spends around $568 per week.
The Natomo family spends around $30 per week.
The Finken family spends around $158 per week.
The Patkar family spends around $45 per week.
The Ukita family spends around $361 per week.
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Hungry Planet: What People Eat Around the World originally appeared on DeMilked on May 15, 2013.
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Australian hyperrealist Ron Mueck, currently based in London, continues creating gigantic human sculptures and is now back with three new ones that will be on exposition in Paris at the Fondation Cartier through September 29. Mueck stays consistent with his style, capturing such intimate expressions on the faces of his sculptures that they become incredibly relatable, despite their unrealistic seizes. “I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day,” says the artist.
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Image credits: Gautier Deblonde | Thomas Salva
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New Hyper Realistic Sculptures by Ron Mueck originally appeared on DeMilked on May 24, 2013.
