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You’ve seen the documentary, you’ve seen the exhibition, but are you ready for this? When two designer —Greg Saul and Beverly Hsu — allow their love for design to “cross paths” with their love of baking, the rest of humanity benefits. Sadly, these aren’t yet ready for mass production yet, but they will be soon. Yesterday, Hsu posted this statement:
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Photo via Yatzer
Jérôme Coste, the Creative Director, of French luxury helmet company, Les Ateliers Ruby, has collaborated with fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld since 2008 on a line of sumptuous head gear. Helmets in fashion aren’t exactly groundbreaking. Remember the Prada Fur helmets from 2006? Or Agatha Ruiz de la Prada’s helmets for Italy’s Lem? Photog Matt Irwin’s supposed obsession with helmets? Or how about those completely impractical Pac-Man helmets from Giles Deacon?
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image source: I.D. Magazine
The latest casualty of the print vs. web wars is venerable design magazine I.D. (not to be confused with British fashion mag i-D). I.D.’s publisher F+W Media announced Tuesday that the magazine will cease publication with its January/February 2010 issue. Published since 1954 and first known as Industrial Design, the magazine was rebranded I.D. in the 1980s to stand stand for International Design and to reflect the publication’s multi-disciplinary focus.
I.D. came to be a resource for architectural, product, fashion, and graphic designers alike, highlighting wildly conceptual designs alongside savvy coverage of the business of design. Each year I.D. published its Annual Design Review issue (click for a slideshow of last year’s winners), with a peer jury selecting the best of the year from thousands of submissions in categories such Consumer Products, Furniture, and Concepts. In Tuesday’s press release, F+W’s editorial director Gary Lynch noted that “F+W Media will continue producing the I.D. Annual Design Review… in an expanded fashion online.” Winners last year ranged from Perkins Eastman’s TKTS booth in Times Square to Carbon Design Group’s design for the Nanopoint cellTRAY Fluidics System (a tool used by scientists to study the interactions between chemicals on the molecular level), indicating the wide scope of the Annual Design Review and the broadening, which I.D. championed, of the definition of “design.”
Beauty Demo from stephane pivron on Vimeo.
A little mash-up of work from the post-production agency Mikros Image. Enjoy!
©2009 Philip Greenberg
My first fall in New York I accompanied a few coworkers to a First Fridays event at the Guggenheim. They’d started going the month prior, and to skip the long line they’d also been convinced to sign up for a membership. Faced with the option of either paying $25 for one night’s enjoyment, plus the cost of drinks inside, or approximately $80 for admission at any time, and free drinks on these occasions, it seemed like a great deal, especially since I was still partially flush with graduation money. A year later when my membership expired, needless to say I did not rush to renew.
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Snooty Doonan declares on high that to holiday gift guides we should say goodbye. “Fiddle faddle,” I say to that pecksniffian blatherskite. I appreciate their suggestions and the ideas they alight.
Such guides sift, sort and, I daresay, curate selections of gifts that I may never have come across otherwise. (I most likely wouldn’t have found his partner’s love/hate/joy/anger druggist ceramics were it not for the suggestion of a gifted guide.)
Both the Gray Hag and NY Mag offer fairly comprehensive guides that are always a good place to start, but I’d like to introduce a few sites I’ve used in recent years that have listed intriguing gifts or that focused on specific types of items (the sites themselves—mostly blogs—are worth a look as well). I’ve also included links to past year’s guides as they still have some interesting, if not entirely timely, suggestions. The next step, of course, HN’s own gift guide. In the meantime, though, I hope these spark some ideas.
Industrial design magazine
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| ‘Journal of Popular Noise’ | Solvate: outsource customer service haggling | Piggybank + altruism |
A directory of wonderful things
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| ‘Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster’ | ‘Get High Now (without drugs)’ | ‘Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years’ (on DVD, searchable) |
Catalog of ideas, aesthetics, and amusements
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| Glass vacuum coffee maker | ‘God is a Verb’ poster | AK-47 ammunition ice cube tray |
Gadget blog
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| Casio Exilim EX-FC100 Camera with 1000fps slow-motion video | Panasonic X1: Best 42-inch HD TV under $1,000 | Stellar sound: Shure SE110 earphones |
Mish-mash of nifty curiosities
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| Bacon jelly beans | Bacon floss | Bacon wallet |
Launching today is the Issue 7 of PIN-UP Magazine. A “magazine for architectural entertainment,” it’s an architecture magazine for people bored by architecture magazines.
PIN-UP generally features fascinating people that make design happen, rather than the designs themselves. This issue profiles giants in the field, including Shigeru Ban and Ricardo Bofill, alongside those at the edges of the establishment, like the young New York firms SO-IL and Bureau V. Editor Felix Burrichter also has a soft spot for kitsch, as evidenced by the photo essay on Fire Island’s Belvedere Guest House for Men in the new issue, and for the overlap between art and design.
Look for it at independent and specialty booksellers worldwide. In New York find it at St. Mark’s Books, the New Museum store, and Spoonbill & Sugartown in Williamsburg. Worldwide distribution and subscription info is available here.
See below for some spreads from the new issue.
Full disclosure: I am involved with the magazine, and contributed the text in the new issue on The Belvedere. I also run the magazine’s Facebook group.
GIFT IDEA | With its 800 pages covering 700 design objects, “Every Thing Design
Designed by legendary book designer Irma Boom, the tome is the catalog from a show of the same name earlier this year at Zurich’s Gestaltung Museum, but rather than an afterthought, the book holds its own as a compendium of a staggering array of print works, consumer products, fashion, and furniture from the museum’s collection.
Through images and accompanying texts, “Every Thing Design” touches on such questions such as: what is design? What determines an object’s worth? How have attitudes towards design changed in the more than 125 years of the museum’s existence? Essays by Boom, MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, London’s Royal College of Art’s Glenn Adamson and others discuss such questions, in this book which moves far beyond mere eye candy.
“Every Thing Design” certainly makes a great gift for the design lover on your list this holiday season. It can be purchased from D.A.P., Amazon
Following images from Amazon
