London-based artist duo Gilbert&George are reflecting the "Zeitgeist" in an odd and wonderful way.
Exhibition Gilbert&George - Arndt & Partner a contemporary art gallery, Berlin.
16 June to 18 September 2009.
London-based artist duo Gilbert&George are reflecting the "Zeitgeist" in an odd and wonderful way.
Exhibition Gilbert&George - Arndt & Partner a contemporary art gallery, Berlin.
16 June to 18 September 2009.
White washed from top to bottom and with a specially commissioned doodlemural of the river Thames flowing across the walls, the Doodle Bar invites everyone to doodle on the walls, tables, chairs and even the waiters.
The Doodle Bar aims to create a vision of the imagined city - a collage ofdoodlers hopes and fears.This stunning and quirky events cafe has been built through bartering with contributors and sourcing furniture from Freecycle. The landlord has donated a rent-free space. The end result is inspiring and being hailed as the leading example of credit crunch creativity.
www.thedoodlebar.com
Design meets sustainability: colette and smart collection
smart presents the colette and smart collection which has been created especially for the urban car brand. colette selected five designer labels, from Paris, New York, Berlin and the new smart markets of Brazil and Denmark, and asked them to design an exclusive product for smart. The designers took as their inspiration the themes of urban mobility, design and sustainability.
All of the products are made from recyclable – or, in some cases, even recycled – materials, and are each produced in a limited edition of just 150.
collette.fr/ smartecollette
American architects designed a new type of „small scale“ urban camping. The mobile UC can be implanted in any city centre that likes to experiment with this new type of camping.
See more: www.owi.bz Urban Camping
Christopher Kane`s first –ever pre-collection.
The hyper-colored mushroom-cloud prints, sourced from free public-access photos on the U.K. Ministry of Defense Web site, are placed on innocent-looking suspended cutout baby-doll and georgette T-shirt dresses and some of Kane's signature soft biker jackets.
picture:lesmads.de
Advertisment from the Fashion Department Antwerpen for its final fashion show.
Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Belgium.
The hyper-colored mushroom-cloud prints, sourced from free public-access photos on the U.K. Ministry of Defense Web site, are placed on innocent-looking suspended cutout baby-doll and georgette T-shirt dresses and some of Kane's signature soft biker jackets.
picture:lesmads.de
Advertisment from the Fashion Department Antwerpen for its final fashion show.
Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Belgium.
POWERleap is developing a flooring system that converts wasted energy from human foot traffic into electricity. The system uses piezoelectric technology and advanced circuitry design to convert the energy from footsteps into electric energy. The energy harvesting components are housed in a rugged flooring product that can be custom designed to suit specific applications. Once completed, POWERleap's product will be among the first of its kind to take advantage of the unique properties of piezoelectric materials to actually produce usable amounts of electricity.
UNIQLO raises the benchmark also in the Internet communication
What's so smart about the their Website? The company creates the best exemple for the new megatrend SIMPLICITY by using pop-up windows in the service of the client:
- He/she has not to push different bottoms to get the information he/she wants about the product, the pop up window brings it all up
- He/she has not to read through all kind of story telling PR information
- He/she gets all the same very attractive presented products
and all this without nerveous blinky flash animation
www.uniqlo.com
What's so smart about the their Website? The company creates the best exemple for the new megatrend SIMPLICITY by using pop-up windows in the service of the client:
- He/she has not to push different bottoms to get the information he/she wants about the product, the pop up window brings it all up
- He/she has not to read through all kind of story telling PR information
- He/she gets all the same very attractive presented products
and all this without nerveous blinky flash animation
www.uniqlo.com
CFDA awards 2009 : The Americans celebrates their fashion wonders
Monday night 15th of June New Yorks Fahion Crowd selected RODARTE in the category woman's fashion for their outstanding style - not the only award in the designers stunning career: They also got last years Swiss STELLA Award sponsored by the Swiss Textile Federation with a value of CHF 300'000.- donated in professional support and fabrics.
Monday night 15th of June New Yorks Fahion Crowd selected RODARTE in the category woman's fashion for their outstanding style - not the only award in the designers stunning career: They also got last years Swiss STELLA Award sponsored by the Swiss Textile Federation with a value of CHF 300'000.- donated in professional support and fabrics.
