This really is an invention! I have to admit that long ago I myself try to design an object like this without satisfactory results. I needed just the right size bag, to put enough to survive one day away from home, with easy access to not waste time looking for the lipstick, light weight and puediese get home in the morning before going to the office and back with her after the party in power. Too much to ask? Well Cedres Estefania and Susanna Prat and also they seemed little practical functions of your bag on design added.
Launched first in Spain and now they do in English, well almost since the collection is named with the idea of promoting the product Spanish, tourism and language in USA. Repeat with us: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN and ELEVEN. Which do you prefer?
Note: K.aren Martinez, wife of Juanes, Antonio Carmona Rosarito and even the ipad version already wearing his own handsfreebag. We wonder who will be the first celebrity to NY to wear.
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And with the crisis that encourages creativity and stimulates the imagination. A long time ago and gave the mixture of designs, colors and styles to make the environment a more interesting (and to buy everything to play out very expensive). Trips, markets, souvenirs, Danish furniture and modernism, chair Louis XVI and the last object of desire of the design are in my opinion the perfect mix. And now look where someone thinks that in addition to this the crisis is "the thing to do". Christiane Lemieux launched his book 'Undecorate' in NY last week at the Ace Hotel and gives tips on how to decorate today. The New York Times today showed a photo of a coffee in Los Angeles who is a living example of decorating a super original form through the nearest desguaze. It will be my first stop as go to the West Coast!
This excellent compilation by SXSW shows us the best of typography in film.
'The Art of The Title', directed by Ian Albinson and David Horridge, mixes some great examples of typographic art, including all designs for James Bond, Star Wars, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Mad Men, The Social Network and many more . If you like us, enjoy typography and graphic design, it's worth you do not miss the next video.
New York by Gehry has just become the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere with 870 feet tall. Formally known as Beekman Tower, the 76-story building in Downtown Manhattan and has transformed the skyline of the city. World-renowned architect Frank Gehry told Paul Goldberger of the New Yorker "the first move I made was to lengthen it, then tried to give it some movement. I started giving it a twist, but it's too hard to make the pipeline to go up. " Small rotations around the facade call them "Bernini folds", bearing the name of Renaissance sculptor. The New York building will not be exclusively residential. A public school will occupy the first five floors. With 903 rental units for occupancy, rent starts at $ 3,000 a month, and rises to $ 15,000 more. In this video, Gehry talks about his inspiration for his latest project.
In a project organized by the National Geographic magazine that is part of a TV series called "how hard can it be?", A team of engineers, scientists and balloon pilots returned home actually flying like in the movie "UP" by Disney-Pixar animations. Engineers discovered how difficult it is to build a house of 16 square feet, weighing approximately 2,600 pounds including the weight of the occupants. Each of the 300 balloons rating 8 feet high. All together mediate balloons as a building of 10 stories high. With people on board, the house rose 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) in the air, and flew for approximately one hour. I want my house to fly!
Left: view of the balloons in the house Right: each of the balloons ready to be installed
My favorite city is New York, but I have other favorites like Paris, Barcelona, London and Beijing. I've always loved typography and graphic design, especially Gustav Johansson has created the series of commercials for an advertising campaign of the company EF (Education First: Live the Language). The commercials were filmed in each city, you will want to pack your bags immediately, do not miss are amazing!
An exciting new structural system was unveiled at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa. QuaDror, invented and patented by Dror Benshetrit, is a geometric system inspired by the versatility and structural integrity of engaging elements.
Dror shows that the mechanism behind these structures is surprisingly simple, but it is the complex interaction of the engaging elements that makes it so unique. From a simple block model of a bridge support system, the system QuaDror shows his skills at all scales.
In response to the global population homeless, Dror has created QuaDror home. The proposed kit parts, including universal QuaDror joints, can be sent in a 40 feet tall and incorporates local materials for the endowment and beams. The first homes are expected QuaDror for construction in 2012 in Sierra Leone and Brazil.
"We are interested in the transformative power of design as an interdependent response to social, economical and ecological matters. Our work is the interactive process of inventing and providing (infra) structure and comprehensive systems to Improve our ways of living. In effect, we believe That Become designers and users co-creators. "Dror Benshetrit www.quadror.com
Anna Wintour and Samantha Cameron presented at the Ritz, as part of the fashion week in London a sneak-peek of what will be the display of the retrospective of Alexander McQueen. I'm counting the days to see the entire collection, entitled Savage Beauty - Beauty Wild, which will be open to the public from May 4 to July 31, 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibition will feature more than 100 designs that were developed during the 19 years of his career.
The director of the Metropolitan Costume Institute, Andrew Bolton, says: "His fashions were an outlet for his emotions, an expression of the deepest, darkest Often, aspects of his imagination. He was a true romantic in the Byronic sense of the word - I Channeled the sublime. "
Karim Rashid, one of the designers that I admire and with whom I had the pleasure of working for almost two years just to reach the city of New York, has designed her latest collection for the table called Hellraiser produced by Italian brand Alessi.
The collection was presented a few weeks ago at Maison & Objet in Paris, one of the major European shows for home design. It consists of a bowl, a tray and a basket laser cut into geometric shapes that look like abstract representations of the city. What I like about this collection is the play of shadows, seems like a maze!
With the new book and app design Ikea ... well, the Swedes also know cooking and graphic design. In New York we have no time to cook, but if you see some pictures that show the ingredients for each recipe from a schematic graph that visually pleased our palates with their colors and shapes. With a demonstration of our Scandinavian grandmother in "Swedish" (please do not miss the video) because we have no choice to get down to the ground. The book is called HOMEMADE "Made at Home".
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