Enjoy Jacob Sutton's L.E.D. surfer movie
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton, who has created work for the likes of Hermès, Burberry and The New York Times, spent three nights on a skidoo with his trusty Red Epic camera at temperatures of -25C to snap Hughes carving effortlessly through the deep snow, even enlisting his own father to help maintain the temperamental suit throughout the demanding shoot.
Sowohl die soziokulturellen als auch die formalen Trends in Europa und Asien nähern sich an. Interviews mit bedeutenden Zeitzeugen, Studien, Media- und Streetscouting validierten wir zu den aufgefühten Trends.
Mit Updates auf unserem Blog und Fach-Artikeln in den Medien dokumentieren wir laufend die Entwicklung der Trends.
Die Design-Visionärin Ilse Crawford beantwortete meine Fragen für die Recherche unserer Studie für L'Oreal in einem persönlichen Interview:
Studienresultate im Folder für unseren Kunden L'Oreal
Ilse Crawford zeichnete als Jurorin im Oktober 2011 am Insidedesign Festival in Barcelona die Arbeit des chinesischen Designers Neri&Hu als BEST INTERIORDESIGN OF THE YEAR aus. In der Vorentscheidung pro Kategorie kamen erstmals die Hälfte der ausgezeichneten Gewinner aus der südlichen Hemisphäre.
Beatrice Hirt - The world’s best Interior that you and the other jury member have awarded at the Insidedesign Festival, The Waterhouse at South Bund by Neri&Hu, is representing a harmony in cotrasts.What did you especially love at this project, what makes it the best of the best?
Ilse Crawford - It was hard to make such a judgement; in the final line up for the Inside Festival there were some very different projects. From a museum installation to a football training school. So we looked at the context, content and effect. This project must have been hard to do. To persuade the client to do a project that involved preserving the identity of a Shanghai lane house cant have been easy.It was executed very intelligently..with references to the life in the houses such as keeping the stairways and the distinction between the different houses. And it is an example of how by demonstrating how they can generate economic value, such culturally significant buildings can be preserved.
BH - You are both virtuosic players with the contrasts. Where do you see the difference in your design expression?
Ilse Crawford -In execution Neri&Hu’s approach is a touch more cerebral than ours.
BH - The surprise of this festival were the big number of winning projects of designers from the south hemisphere. How do you explain their rising success in Europe even though their cultural and mental heritage is very different?
Ilse Crawford - There were some really excellent projects. Good design speaks across cultural boundaries.
There are two kinds of “made in China”: made in China for export, and made in China to be palmed off on hapless consumers at home.
For years the gap in quality has been wide. Chinese consumers received the worst that “made in China” had to offer; all the good stuff ended up at Walmart.
(..) But the country’s middle class is learning that there is more to life than showing off.
'Eurasia'-Study Cover for our client L'Oreal showing European and Asian design on an equal quality level
Tesco, the UK retailer, says the Chinese middle class is “becoming increasingly sophisticated in the quality of products they purchase”, including buying more foreign and high-end brands, not just safer food.
“From fruit to paint, Chinese are willing to pay for something with a safety seal,” says Shaun Rein, author of The End of Cheap China.
That may sound like good news for multinational brands, because they – rightly or wrongly – are perceived as having the edge on quality.
The Chinese shopper has come of age, not just in the world’s premier shopping destinations but in the malls and high streets back home. “Made in China” will never be the same again.
By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai fot FT.com
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Défilée Haute Couture 2012
The Telegraph, London
"Our collection is in support of David Attenborough's documentary series Frozen Planet," said Dame Vivienne in a press release. The reason, apparently, is that she was miffed to learn that the final episode - "where he explains that we humans are responsible for the ice melt" - will not be aired in the United States.
WISH YOU HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Marlies Pekarek
Prada's Real Fantasie Lookbook
James has directed, designed, and created visual worlds for three of the greatest directors of our time. James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, and Joe Pytka.
When Miuccia Prada, the inventive and bold genius behind thePRADA fashion empire looked for the right director, she hired James to direct TREMBLED BLOSSOMS, the most ambitious and inspired CG animated fashion film of the decade.
It was no surprise that when Madonna, looking for the right director for a CG animated film, hired James to direct RAIN, the mash-up music video for her Sticky & Sweet Tour.
His latest directorial project “The Love Thing” for Love Magazine once again teamed James with mega Designer Pradaand Editor/stylist Katie Grand to produce the innovative online hit.
The window frame of this Beijing boutique by Japanese studio Nendo is repeated into the depths of the store.
Nendo designed the repetitive display system to recreate the experience of flicking through images on the pages of a catalogue.
There's plenty of web shops out there, masses of online supermarkets flogging either super luxe and conceptual goods or cheap as chips threads. The most exciting trade has arguably moved in from Bond and Sloan Street to the world wide web. Coggles is one of the winners in this fashionable retail jungle, having found the right balance between high end brands like Comme des Garcons, Damir Doma and See by Chloe and more reasonable priced goods from Penfield, Our Legacy and David David.
But there are other elements to Coggles that make the boutique stand out amongst its peers. There's a strong sense of Coggles selling a style, rather than fashion. Except for clothes, you can also buy books, vintage pieces, magazines and bicycles. The site is clearly beyond just picking up the latest trends, it's about sustaining a lifestyle. By David Hellqvist
H&M - Versace Campaign makes magic with their communication design on a high-end-fashion level. Stunning music accompaignements and the implementation of a little extra arty movie for an impactful and effective communication to various target groups!
More is more, indeed !
Givenchy's Designer Riccardo Tisci directed this visual meeting of minds between Dazed's (and Confused Magazine) former fashion director Katy England and art shaman Matthew Stone.
Models that the legendary designer has championed over the years present personally from his six year reign at Givenchy.
Rendering: Courtesy of Raad Studio
“We’re channeling sunlight the way they did in ancient Egyptian tombs, but in a supermodern way.” Ramsey envisions a stand of dozens of lamppostlike solar collectors on the Delancey Street median, feeding a system of fixtures down below.
Land for parks is so scarce in Manhattan that the city’s most generous new green space, the High Line, occupies an elevated railway. Now three urbanist entrepreneurs hope to mine roughly two acres of green space under the city streets.
Transforming an old freight line into an attractive strip of greenery, this trio wants to convert the vast and dank trolley terminal that has sat disused on the Lower East Side for six decades into a park that they are calling Delancey Underground but will inevitably be known as the Low Line.
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Phantasy, Back-light images, photographer Hans Feurer und Designer Marcel Wanders are the stars of this movement. At the current London Design Festival Wanders presents a photographic installation featuring mermaids exploring the Moooi collection.
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Kate Moss bringt es auf den Punkt: ' Mit dem konventionellen Fliegen bin ich durch. Das ist ja der pure Stress. Ich will eine eigene Linie, "Kate Air" wäre ein hübscher Name, finde ich.' (Vogue)
The Russian Architects Arch Group propose an other solution: 'If you want to sleep while waiting for your plane or train, you face many security and hygiene problems. We believe that urban infrastructure should be more comfortable. For this purpose we have developed Sleepbox. It provides moments of quiet sleep and rest without wasting time in search for a hotel.'
The Sleepbox unit at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport contains two beds and can be rented for between 30 minutes and several hours.
The architects are aware of the intense service after each user and proposed a sheet changing mechanism, but for the moment their main task is to make Sleepbox affordable...and some much needed fine tuning, see comments.
But as long as we can't afford our own airline, we are more than happy to follow up the Japanese and Russian prototypes for comfy air travel?
Was Walter Pfeiffer fotografisch umsetzt, rückt Lichtjahre in die Zukunft.
'Woran man merkt, dass die Bilder von mir sind?
Erstens: Die Art, wie das Modell dasteht....
...zweitens: die Umgebung, drittens: der Farbenmix, und....
....viertens: der Ausschnitt.' (Walter Pfeiffer)
Close your eyes and envision the prototypical perfumer or architect. Now open them and glance at Ben Gorham, covered in tattoos or Peter Marino (Video) in his unchanging uniform of biker leathers and cap. You can be forgiven if the two images don’t exactly jibe.
Individuality is now accepted up to the executive suite: Gorham (below) is the driving force behind Byredo Parfums, the Stockholm-based fragrance house that he launched in 2006 and Marino, best known as the retail design guru behind Barneys’ Madison Av. as well as the go-to architect for Chanel, Fendi, Zegna, Christian Dior, and Louis Vuitton, see also page 10 in our bi-monthly POOL Report.
Ben Gorham, Stockholm
Globus am Bellevue nutzt seit Langem die Synergien zu Interio und verschafft der Verkaufsfläche ein Upgrade mit Möbel-Trouvaillen aus dem Partnerhaus. Jetzt zieht Jelmoli nach und toppt die Idee mit einem Gesamtkonzept von Bliss, dem Zürcher Spezialisten für restaurierte Möbel aus den 50er und 60er-Jahren.
"WIR LASSEN TRÄUME WAHR WERDEN", BLISS INTERIOR
Das junge Team gestaltet nicht nur die Herren-Etage und das Jelmoli Magazin, sondern auch die Schaufenster....
...und ergänzt das Display mit Sprechblasen zu Lebensweisheiten aus dem Alltag der damaligen Zeit ergänzt! DER ultimative Eyecatcher!
Street art in London's East End
by our scout in London
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Stadtbad, Opening 11.11.11
Zurich Volkshaus has been home to baths for 100 years. The 11.11.11 will mark a new chapter in the socialist history of this building. A combined hamam and sauna in the basement will offer visitors bathing pleasure in line with the tradition of Antiquity but in a modern environment, incl. various massages and beauty treatments as well as a gastronomic offer.
Stadtbad rendering - with hamam and sauna at Zurich Volkshaus. A new project by Tobi Rihs, Seebad Enge
Art in form of murals (Eric Schumacher), ceiling frescos (VeronesiHöpflinger), illuminated pictures (Husmann/Tschäni), and ceramic paintings (Noel Fischer) as well as a special architecture ensure an overall atmospheric work of art and a site not quite of this world but in the heart of town.
Pitti Immagine 79, SHOWstudio exclusively showcase Gareth Pugh`s latest collection, specially designed for the event and shown via a unique fashion film created with Ruth Hogben. The Film was projected onto the ceiling of a fourteenth-century church in the heart of Florence.
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The exhibition "A new hook. Rethinking Needlework" sets out to explore current responses to the notion of craft, in particular needlework, in order to examine its impact in the discourse of art, design, architecture and everyday life.
Museum Bellerive Zürich 29.04.2011 - 24.07.2011
