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Infinity Chair: The transparency symbolizes honesty. The actual structure came about after research into human posture and the sitting-standing movements. The angles flow continuously and provide flexibility attuned to the natural postures of its user.
Designer Sebastian Jansson is one who designs freely, no reservations and no boundaries but that of the environment and human race. His working process doesn’t necessarily involve a specific style but more so in-depth studies into the forms and physical properties of objects and specimens he finds around him. As such, his designs each carry a strain of symbolism and have a focus on structure and material selection. He has studied industrial design at Aalto University School of Design in Helsinki, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and ENSCI-Les Ateliers in Paris. He has previously exhibited at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, DMY International Design Festival Berlin, and Formex interior design fair in Stockholm.
“The future belongs to people who take initiative.”
—Seth Godin
Cumulas Lamp: Light diffuses in six different directions within the sphere. The filtration of light inspired by clouds. Just as clouds can arrange into various formations, the entire lamp structure too has no limitations as to how it can be set.
Habitus Stool: The acute contours and geometric planes are a result of Jansson’s detailed study on coffee leaf morphology. Originally created to appear at the café and coffee shop of Kaffa Roastery based in Helsinki, it is currently represented globally.
Piezo Shower: A collaboration between Master of European Design students (Jansson, Pizá, Stelmasuk, Weinmann) this self-heating shower is able to operate independent of any outside energy supplies; instead, the actual flow of water becomes the energy-generator. By way of applying nanotechnology to the design, the nano-wires within the tubing are able to generate electricity when friction results as the water circulates throughout. In order to increase touching points, prolific pathways were created in a structure similar to the human body’s blood circulation system. The shower is regulated by way of a waterproof touch-screen that can be incorporated into bathroom tiling. This waterproof touch-screen allows one not only to monitor temperature and pressure but also to keep record of their “elapsed shower-time.”
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“How much time in life do we spend waiting?
Did you ever wonder? Waiting for the bus, waiting for the mail to come, waiting for an important phone call, waiting, waiting, suffering. Maybe waiting must be re-thought. There is a part of life that simply cannot happen all at once. There is something for us to savor in waiting. Remembering that the best in life cannot be rushed, rather appreciated. Those things that makes us hurry, might take our attention from the most important gifts life has to offer. Whatever you are waiting on today, it might be worth, it.”
-M Publication, Vol I
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Handful of Plates: Pre-folded plates that rest securely in your hand and prevent spillage which usually arises from flimsy paper plates. These use a more durable material and carry different folds which accommodate eating, serving, and presenting food.
USB Cle: The key to all your files
Alissia Melka-Teichroew, the founder and creative director of byAMT, has one clever mind. She not only grounded her multi-faceted company specializing in jewelry, housewares, electronics, furniture, and packaging but she did so with a backing of innovative, out-of-the-ordinary concepts as a stronghold to her design ethos. byAMT has exhibited work at the Salone del Mobile Milano, ICFF in New York, 100% Design Tokyo, Material Connexion New York and Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
A Design Academy Eindhoven graduate, Melka-Teichroew also holds a Masters of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Inside Out Glass: The shape of a glass usually gives a slight indication as to what type of liquid would more than likely be poured through. The inside-out glass challenges this presumption as the negative space within each glass reveals its intended purpose in an inverse effect.
Diamond Acrylic Ring: Play on the classic Tiffany’s engagement ring. Except this only carries the silhouette and is cast in laser-cut acrylic in a variety of hues.
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Picking up her first camera at age 16, San Francisco-based photographer, Aimee Brodeur – now 24, is yet to have trailed off that originating path since her teen years. Trekking full speed ahead, she continues to scout her personal and professional journey on the way to the creative outlet she loves. Having grown up in San Clemente, CA and worked in Los Angeles, she undoubtedly had influence from her surroundings as many of her photos capture woodlands, desert terrains, mountainous chains, and oceans. You’ll notice they’re all distilled with washed out, light-filled filters as she mainly enjoys working with colors though some black & white shots can be found interspersed throughout.
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“So many great and magical things have happened to me since I started this project; it seems like if you start doing something, the universe will be arranging a way to make it happen. Never give up and never ever compromise!”
-Christiane Bördner, I Love You Magazine
“Either you leave it to the world around you to arrange you, or you arrange the world around you. Since there’s plenty of things that could be different in my naïve idealistic dreaming I think it’s better to get off your ass, try something and not wait until it’s brought to you.”
-Beer Douglas in Dazed & Confused
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If you take a mirror, the range of views and dimensions that your eye will be met with is infinite. It’s all about perspective – reverse, inverse, upside down, right side up, inside out. You could say the same about your take on a city – the feelings you get and your personal connection with the locale just won’t be the same from the standpoint of another.
Artist Olafur Eliasson who has been living and working in Berlin for the past few years has extrapolated this concept into the idea of one of his major exhibitions Innen Stadt Außen. Mirrors were placed in and around the city, in place of bicycle wheels, even on a moving van. As it wheeled on throughout the streets, it captured pedestrians, cyclists, cars, and buildings in live-action, just within the frame of each fleeting moment. It turned into sort of a double screen where your ocular processing is divided between the actual and reflected and vice versa, everything just begins to glide into one another.
The idea carries on into the Gropius-Bau where at the center of the façade lies a massive kaleidoscope which reaches to the skylight. Anyone standing directly below becomes a moving piece within a maze of optic-trickery.
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The Amazon Kindle for iPhone, iPad, and PC provides a simple means for adding highlights. Passages highlighted by at least 3 different users is collected to be featured in the “Most Highlighted of all Time” and “Heavily Highlighted Recently” sections on the site (without showing customer information of course). In essence, it is a medium to scour through passages which may offer some nice excerpts or serve as precursor to check out a new book in the near future.
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“During the first period of a man’s life, the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
“Maybe we only ever learn something when some form we think of as foreign provokes us—and we resist. But sometimes, many times, in the middle of the resistance, we end up loving this thing that has provoked us.”
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Saxo Bank
Metropolis
Standing at the interface of Kim Høltermand’s work is the feeling of fresh ice-water coursing through your body – a superfluous stream of outstanding imagery which will leave you utterly purified and stimulated. Contributing to the effect too are the clean angles, multifarious perspectives, and quiet lighting – all common denominators to his works which consistently make the outcome supremely enveloping and surreal in dimension.
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How would you like to move to a German block in the state of Nordrhein-Westphalen? It would be rent free for a whole year and what you have to give back in return are journal entries depicting what you see and think, what’s happening, and what ought to happen for the region.
This project otherwise known as 2-3 Straßen (2-3 Streets), is an exhibition conceived by conceptual artist, Jochen Gerz for the European Capital of Culture 2010. The 25 year old event run by the European Union allows each country to nominate two of its cities to be considered for this program which was founded to generate “sustainable effects and contribute to the long-term cultural, economic, and social development of the city or region.”
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