When it comes to buying wine, I am all about the labels. I can’t help it. Call it ‘deformation professsionelle!” Especially since G and I mounted the very-very cool wine tube in our kitchen, which prominently displays the bottles. I wish that these bottles (image) would go into production. They are the brainchild of über-talented german designer Julia Hoffmann, who works at Pentagram, here in NYC.
pretty..
“CHANGEX is an annual exhibition of student art + design works that address issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, social equity and community. Now in its third year, the [2006] exhibition will be complemented by an expanded series of events of interest to young designers, professionals, and community members alike. Works showcased in the exhibition have been drawn from a wide range of design fields including industrial design, architecture and interiors, landscape, textiles, graphics, installation and multimedia. Retaining its emphasis on recent graduates, this year’s exhibitors will also include high school students and current students from [across five Sydney Universities.] These diverse projects approach design as a tool for satisfying genuine human needs in ways that are both practical and imaginative, challenging the conventional expectations of the design industry and extending the boundaries of their discipline.” The party commences Friday 3 March 2006. Come one, come all. ::ChangeX
for those of us in australia
Charlotte Van Der Waals’ World Time Clock is an example of design that is thoughtful and ingenious. The clock manages to convey multiple timezones in a single clock face without the use of buttons, gimmicks and well, technology. Just roll the clock so that the desired city etched on the sides is on top. 12 sides with 2 cities per side represent the 24 global time zones.
Available at Junro.
Judi Werthein has designed a special “crossing trainer” to help illegal immigrants cross the border from Mexico to the US.
The shoes are named Brincos for the Spanish verb “brincar,” which means “to jump” —as in, across the border. They includes a compass, a flashlight because people cross at night. The pocket in the tongue hides money or some Tylenol painkillers because many people get injured during crossing.
Illegal immigrants’ primary mode of transportation is their feet. “If they go through the sierra, they walk eight hours. Their feet get hurt. There’s a lot of stones and there are snakes, tarantulas. So that’s why it is a little boot,” Werthein says. The Brinco is an ankle-high trainer which is green, red, and white – the colors of the Mexican flag. An Aztec eagle is embroidered on the heel. On the toe is the American eagle found on the US quarter, to represent the American dream the migrants are chasing. And on the back ankle, a drawing of Mexico’s patron saint of migrants. A map – printed on the shoe’s removable insole – shows the most popular illegal routes from Tijuana into San Diego.
The artist first passed out trainers for free to migrants, then sold limited edition of them at a hip store in San Diego for $215.
Only 1,000 pairs of the sneakers have been manufactured — in China, for $17 each to underscore the tensions sparked by the global spread and mobility of the maquiladora.
Part of the InSite_05 commissions. See also Tijuana Calling.
Judi Werthein will be at the Americas Society on Thursday, February 23 for VIS-À-VIS: Dialogues between artists and curators from the Western Hemisphere. (via e-flux.)
Background information from BBC news, Washington Post. Images.
dunno if i should file this under “Activism” or “Exploitation of the poor by the privileged hipsters”…
Windy City artist Yosoh makes computer generated images and prints them with ceramic glaze onto clay. Most of the large scale work is out of the average working stiff’s price range. But Yosoh’s Hopes and Dreams teapot, depicting folders filled with possibilities floating out from a desktop screen, has the sort of optimisitic whimsy that you might look forward to before commuting into the cubefarm each morning. $175 in Yosoh’s store.
Honest Tee: I ‘have never been to’ NY
(via design observer)
HAHAHAhahahahahahhaha… i love it
La Amarilla de Ronda, LA is a company from Andalucía, Spain, that produces a line of organic extra-virgin olive oil. According to their website, Spain is the largest olive oil producing country in the world, yet Italy has obtained greater exposure through major marketing campaigns. The partners of this company see close similarities between the worlds of oil and wine. Therefore, they have created two different ecological extra virgin olive oils with the aim of “bringing the well established wine culture to the world of oils: Mild and Intense ecological extra virgin olive oils, with different gastronomic uses, as is the case with white and red wine.” The team behind La Amarilla de Ronda is world-class and includes Cristino Lobillo (a top olive oil expert), Michel Rolland (respected enologist) and Philippe Starck (the designer who created the hip packaging). So on your next visit to Spain be sure to pick some up because, unfortunately, it isn’t sold anywhere else. ::La Amarilla de Ronda, LA
i\’d just buy it for the bottle…
I finally caved in and bought myself a Nintendo DS, just in time to get the new sexy redesigned DS Lite slapped in my face. It hurts. Now I really want a Nintendo DS Lite … really, really badly.
According to this post on Kotaku, Nintendo Japan announced details of the new redesign today. The “Lite” in the name indicates that Nintendo’s new portable console is lighter -from a weight point of view- and features four levels of brightness. So to summerize and to twist the knife in the wound a little deeper … compared to the regular DS, the DS Lite is slimmer, has a brighter screen, weighs less and just looks a lot better.
It will hit Japanese stores at the beginning of March for $145; details about the UK and US releases are yet to come.
Now if Sony redesigns its PSP anytime soon, I will just slit my wrists.
Via Kotaku
learning from Apple, can we say?
This heated foot cozy plugs right into a PC via USB. The cable is 135cm, which makes hopping into the board room difficult, but extenders are available. The warm footsie is the latest addition to the USB Oh It Is High Concentration desk series that includes heated fingerless gloves and a desktop coffee heating pad. The slippers are available for $73.50 from Rare Mono Shop.
(Pro foot massage to Risebridge)
i desperately in need of these for the cold wintery months here… owwww
I”ve just flipped through dozens of recent photos taken with my probably obsolete (and it’s just 2 years old!) digital camera and realized that every shot taken in the evening is so fuzzy it looks like I shot them using one of those filters used to turn older movie stars into glowy, diffused figures of supposedly indeterminate age. I’d like a new camera, definitely, but I could also just get one of these bottle cap tripods. It turns any narrow-necked bottle into a tripod for taking photos in low light conditons, or for when the photographer would like to be in the picture. Even lightweight tripods are too bulky for toting around everyday, but these tripod caps are no bigger than the actual bottle cap. A bottle doesn’t have adjustable legs, of course, but it sure beats trying to use a shelf or the fridge and then contorting to fit yourself into the frame. Not that I do that.
Bottle cap tripods are $19.99 and come in six colors.
From the the lovely swissmiss (a really great, pretense-free design blog).
oww, i want one!
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