December 2008

It’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.

It’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.

It’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.

Tony Jebara's Citysense project, from Esquire's Best and Brightest Cartographers feature

December 12, 2008. Welcome to the first installment of Friday Night Links—our round-up of the articles and blog posts that have been circulating around I.D.'s office for the past week. We were too tired to come up with a better name than Friday Night Links, so if any of you have suggestions for something less pathetic, please email us at: letters[at]id-mag.com.

Esquire maps out the digital cartography scene [Esquire]
MDRDV hissyfit visible in Cleveland museum building plans [Cleveland.com]
Core77 launches second Greener Gadgets competition [Core77]
Herman Miller hands out free Embody chairs [Thoughtpile.org]
Panton...

Unless we understand the engineer as a Renaissance person, we may well be back in the dark ages.

December 10, 2008. At the Miami Convention Center last week, home to Art Basel proper, here's what $100,000 could have net you: three Karl Lagerfeld photographs of the artist Jeff Koons at Versailles; 3,333 eggplant-and-onion entrees (for sale at $30 a pop in the swanky Art Collectors' lounge); or Bouquet de Champagne de Dom Ruinart, a large-scale centerpiece by Dutch designer Maarten Baas that was both more pretty and less French than it sounds.

Storefront of the pop-up Gestalten shop in Berlin's Mitte district.

December 9, 2008. Gestalten, the Berlin-based content creator best known for its more than 250 book titles, opened Gestalten Temporary in the city’s tony Mitte district. At Mulackstrasse 31/32 (near Bless!), the company, which has been quietly producing some of the top-ranked podcasts on the Web and  events designed for the international creative community, will offer books on design, architecture, graphics, contemporary art, designer toys, calendars and DVDs, along with special events featuring artists and authors. The shop will also debut Gestalten Art Editions ...

Ring by designer Michele Oka Doner at Friedman Benda

December 11, 2008. Tonight, contemporary jewelry dealer Sara Benda of Afsoun.com celebrates the opening of her first exhibition, Zerocarat, at husband Marc Benda’s Friedman Benda gallery with a 7-9 PM reception. Benda’s collection focuses on established artists and designers who are known in a field outside of jewelry ...

It’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.

It’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.

ianharrywebb has added a photo to the pool:

Pretty Seats Together!

Teeth whitening in IIIinois: Give Your Teeth the PriviIege to be Exposed

Teeth whitening in IIIinois is important so that peopIe can have that perfect smiIe. It turns peopIe off when they see discoIored teeth. It refIects how you are as a person in terms of hygiene and personaI care.

with teeth whitening, you can change aII that.

It’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.

It’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.

wiercipietas has added a photo to the pool:

Fashion Design SchooIs: Choosing the BEST among the Rest

Do you know how to sew?

Do you enjoy creating designs?

Do you Iove foIIowing or changing patterns to come up with a piece of cIothing?

If fashion is simpIy just your passion, then you might just be right for a fashion design schooI.

HeaIthy Aging Means to Take Care of You

The aging process is going by each and everyday of our Iives. Stopping the cIock is impossibIe so we aII need to stay heaIthy and take care of ourseIves. There is no way you can turn around the process, as we grow oIder so except it and take care.

Start working now to take care of yourseIf as you age.

You Know You Need Teeth whitening in Houston when…

Your teeth are an important part of your appearance. Teeth whitening faciIities in Houston area know about this fact. That is why they are encouraging peopIe to whiten their teeth so that they can Iook their best if ever they want others to appreciate their whoIe appearance.

whitening your teeth can aIso boost your seIf confidence.

I want to wish a Happy New Year to everyone who reads my blog! and here’s a “short coverage” of what’s been going on.
Moving
We’re in the process of moving to Europe, and for the past couple of months we’ve been working hard packing a 3000 lbs container to ship it over to our destination. I’ve never done so much packing in my life, and now i can say that i am a professional packer able to produce my own custom made boxes, and my hands are still recovering from the staples, tape and paper cuts. Here’s a photo of one of the last days of packing:

Taking pictures
In between the moving business, i managed to take some photos of the fall in Virginia. This was the first fall i saw since 1999, so it was really exciting for me to remember once again that the trees can be different colors. Here are some photos and you’re welcome to check out my Fall set on flickr.

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Sustainability and style are what make green design, well, green. Green design balances environmental, economic, social and aesthetic concerns. Green design can go by many names: “sustainable design,” “eco-design” or “design for environment.” Green design produces buildings, products and artwork that reduces the amount of non-renewable resources. This helps minimize environmental impact and relates people with the natural environment. Green design is one answer to the global “environmental crisis” – i.e. the rapid growth of economic activity and the booming population coupled with the depletion of natural resources.
Everything from architecture to people’s bodies and computers are being covered with greenery. (Seems like it would be itchy, no?)

BuildingGreen announced its top 10 green building products for 2008. Highlights include:
Integrity block, which is a “compacted-earth block used as a cost-competitive replacement for concrete masonry units.” These blocks consist of up to 60% pre-consumer recycled content and almost half as much cement as standard concrete blocks. It takes 40% less energy to produce them.

PlybooPure bamboo flooring from Smith + Fong is the first bamboo to carry FSC ce...

Designers working in Web and print, or Web or print, often use many, many types of programs from Photoshop to WordPress. It can be hard to remember everything you need to know – all the shortcuts and such, that make your job a lot easier. I had that same problem so I found some “Cheat Sheets” or help docs that I have printed out and plastered to my wall. I thought others might find this useful as well, so here’s a list and links to the PDFs that you can print out.
WordPress Help Sheet from WPCandy and Liquidicity. You get basic template files, PHP snippets for the templates, PHP snippets for the header and other extra codes like one that splits up your content into pages. Since I’ve used Blogger and WordPress, this has definitely been a big help so I don’t get them confused.
Type Classification eBook from Jacob Cass helps designers learn the basic foundations of type. Don’t snub your nose – you could probably learn something! Many designers don’t learn this type of stuff in their classes at school and those designers ...

All designers go through designer’s block. You can’t be creative 24/7. Here are some tips that will help you get inspired to design and hopefully let the creative river in your mind flow.
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1. Watch a movie. This isn’t to zone out and hope something pops up subconsciously (although, sometimes that does happen – yay!). Watch a sci-fi or fantasy movie that includes a lot of outrageous scenes like The Lord of the Rings. Sometimes seeing architecture and paying close attention to the graphics of the movie, rather than the storyline, can give you some design ideas. It’d be best if you have seen the movie before so you can focus on the graphics and scenery.
2. Go to the zoo. It’s amazing what animals can do for us. By relaxing at the zoo and seeing all the different stripes, spots and animal prints you are almost guaranteed to see something inspiring that could be turned into a great-looking poster or logo.
3. Go to a museum. This might seem obvious, but try going to a museum that you haven’t been to. Go to a children’s museum or an American Indian museum. Try going somewhere specific instead of your run-of-the-mill museum. Try going to a museum that you’re not sur...

As is the norm in just about every industry, we marketers also have our own awards. Since design is such a large and important part of marketing, it’s important to highlight the best nuggets of info and inspiration that came about this year.
Best Ways to Enhance Photos
Using the Blur effect in Photoshop can do wonders to make a distracting background complement your focus in a photo.

In the photo on the left, viewers could be left wondering where this photo was taken instead of focusing on the woman’s uniform and pose, which convey strength. TutorialPulse.com has a great tutorial on how to achieve the Blur effect.
Photoshop tricks were all the rage this year, with people getting more creative as the months flew by. A list of the 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II includes tuts on how to make an eerily calm storm (shown here) using layers, fun lighting effects and how to make a vector portrait from a photo.
 

Various Types of Memory Devices are used widely in recent years. Among them are EEPROM, DRAM, PROM,

One of the best exhibitions happening at the moment is Jeff Koons in Versailles.
It's so weird and wonderful - the modernity and kitschness of Koons against the equally bling, old setting of Versailles.
I've not been - yet - but my friend's daughter went and sent me some pictures. I just thought, "How bonkers it that?" It's wonderful.

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We've got these new bag designs for Christmas - they're limited edition. It's just a little something extra for the customer.
We've got an in-house graphic designer who designed these, based on our stripes but turned into a snowflake. We do everything in-house - print, marketing, everything. We've even got two architects now, who design the stores. It means we can be spontaneous and do things like this; it means there's not too much of what I call "treacle" - red tape.
I have a pink shop in LA because I just decided, I want a pink shop - no worries about brand identity and all that, I could just do it. That's the advantage of the in-house team.

Off to my son Will's wedding in New York - what purports to be the Rock 'n Roll wedding of the year.
My luggage included his suit by James Long, The Dress with five metres of train squashed into a laundry bag, another with props for the venue (20 Union Jacks, a silvered concrete tortoise with wings for the cake), and then, there was my outfit. Somehow dragged it into New York and arrived at Le Jollie, described as Brooklyn's newest boutique hotel (was this another Costes?), only to find it situated under a flyover where the homeless had gathered snuggled into sleeping bags.
The walls of the hotel so thin I could hear the man next door snoring - or was it the neighbours under the flyover?
The following morning headed over to the wedding venue, a converted warehouse and a favourite location for photographers. We were instructed to tiptoe as Steven Meisel was shooting and commands complete silence; not that easy, as the band was rehearsing and props - as in a life size elephant and horse - were being unloaded.
In the evening the family hosted a cocktail party at Norwood for all the guests that had travelled from far and wide. Let it be said that Nor...

I used to brag with more than a little bravura that I could practically run a marathon in high heels. Until all of sudden after a twisted ankle, I had a hard time lasting an afternoon in my highest heels.

It is not just the sore feet I suddenly found intolerable, but the pitched forward - even for those who know how to walk in heels - angle you have to adopt to stay upright. I am dreaming of the perfect flat shoe.

Aside from some inspired flats from Prada and Miu Miu, they mostly fall in one of two categories; cute and girlish with sparkles and bows (it is almost impossible to find flat shoes without a bow somewhere) or conservative orthopaedic styles, with little in between. It wasn't until I started looking for more options that I realised how few there were. This lack of choice representing a fashion blind spot.

What accounts for this woeful lack of inspiration? After all some of the most stylish women in the world wear flat shoes; the French, and any self respecting woman who lives in a city with cobbled roads. Loafers, ballet flats and low heels, while sensible, ...

Unfortunately, the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show has come to an end. Tons of beautiful swimsuit models fluttered across the stage each wearing an elaborate set of wings. Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Beatriz Barros, Angela Lindvall, Carmen Kass, Doutzen Kroes, Heidi Klum, Izabel Goulart, Karolina Kurkova, Marisa Miller, Miranda Kerr, Neomie Lenoir and Selita Ebanks each blessed us with their astonishing beauty and grace. We've managed to boast over 150 high-quality pictures of the event. Please try your hardest (pun intended) to prevent yourself from kissing and/or licking the screen.Here are some hot photos of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, 2008

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Just in time for Christmas we make a Northern Lights winter scene in After effects with a FREE background loop. We talk about some links of interest for the New Year, and give you some branding inspiration!

Judith Seng knows that life can be messy—and that sometimes it’s up to design to instill order. But that’s not really her style.

If BarberOsgerby were American, they might have submitted their Iris table for the American Design Club's upcoming color-focused exhibition

December 29, 2008. Cost of a booth at the Salone Satelitte fair in Milan: several thousand Euros. Cost of a spot in an exhibition organized by the American Design Club, a new platform for emerging designers: $35, provided your work is selected. Considering there's a recession on, you'd have to be daft not to give it a shot—now's your chance to submit for the Club's upcoming Color Show ...

Magma Under Golden Moon by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance

December 22, 2008. For Brussels gallery Pierre Bergé & associés, French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance of Néonata has created a series of unique furniture pieces based on natural forms. Through January 23, the exhibition, entitled Black Tide Under Moonlight, captures the ambivalence that dogs us on the subject of fossil fuels, presenting congealed petrol-like puddles, as if the vestige of an oil spill, that encourage reclining as much as reflection ...

The Rebels' Hideout (2007) by Hannah Kasper

December 11, 2008. New York design shop MATTER will open Projections tonight, an exhibition featuring the interiors-based paintings of Hannah Kasper, Haejae Lee and Theresa Marchetta ...

IconBrickell's spa, one of three places in the complex to take a dip

December 10, 2008. We didn't get any good party pictures at the opening of Philippe Starck's extravagant new IconBrickell condo complex in downtown Miami last week (though we did spot Marcel Wanders and his posse making an entrance, fresh off their own mega hotel/condo opening two days before). We can, however, describe the scene: A line of fancy cars waiting to pass through the 22-foot-tall Easter Island–style columns surrounding the drive, a mob scene at the door negotiated by intense security checks and invisible-ink hand stamps, a hand-rolled cigar bar on the two-acre pool terrace, and some lady wearing the most amazing skin-tight silver sequin pants we'd ever seen ...

Asked what inspired ArcheToys, his line of brilliantly brutish miniature automobiles, Floris Hovers, 31, tells the kind of story that compels earnest, hard-working designers to curse the Muses’ fickle favor and start drinking whisky.

Rich, Brilliant, Willing’s Theo Richardson, 25, Charles Brill, 25, and Alex Williams, 26, work out of a basement in New York’s East Village, where sketches and notes in three different handwritings flutter along one wall.

We Continue our walk thru and review of ProPresenter, give you a tip on where to get a bunch of FREE Christmas Media and Crazy 3d inspiration.

モガンシャンルー 50号と読みます。通称M50。上海大学美術学院のクリエイティブ・センターや工房、アトリエ、そしてコマーシャル・ギャラリーなどが密集したエリア。この中だけでギャラリーは20〜30くらいありそう（蜷川実花の写真展などもやっていた）。古い建物の住宅地をリノベーション？して活用、公開しているので美術好きでなくてもきっと楽しめる。 『INVOLVED』　@ H Space ShanghART 曽根裕やリュック・タイマンス、ミロスワフ・バフカ（ポーランド）など馴染みのある作家の展覧会。実は最初に行った日が休廊日（月曜）だったため、次の日に再度足を運んだのだが、価値はあったように思う。スペースも十分に広く、それぞれの作品もゆっくり見ることが出来た。中央は曽根裕の作品。リュック・タイマンスと�...

The storefront of pop-up department store STOREROOM.

December 8, 2008. STOREROOM is a pop-up department store, brought to San Francisco’s Upper Fillmore district by CITIZEN:Citizen founder Philip Wood. The temporary 2,000-square-foot, industrial-cardboard-walled retail space opened on December 1 and will run for five weeks. The shop, based on the traditions of the department store combined with the energy of ‘rogue retail’ for which Wood is known, is stocking products from ...

Spread from nARCHITECTS 2000 - 2008, out in March 2009.

December 17, 2008. Tomorrow night, the Storefront for Art & Architecture will host the launch of New York-based nARCHITECTS’ first monograph from 6:30-8:00pm. The 216-page book charts the first eight years of the studio, which was founded in 1999 by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, in both Korean and English.  The publication will showcase 16 built and speculative projects, architecture that floats, makes sound, moves, and sometimes disappears ...

The Miller House will be restored by the museum

December 1, 2008. The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) has announced that it will acquire and preserve the landmark Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana, one of the country’s finest examples of midcentury international Modernism, designed by Eero Saarinen, with interiors by Alexander Girard and landscape design by Daniel Urban Kiley ...

“Solid Void” has invaded the Graham Foundation’s 1902 Prairie School Madlener House in Chicago.