$160K Table By Zaha Hadid Looks Like Rippling Water – architect Zaha Hadid’s 4-part acrylic resin dining table is one of the finalists in the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year 2013 awards. Also noticed, from Wallpaper: “Six Tables on Water’, designed by Gaetano Pesce
This is another shout-out for the website Designers & Books. Every Tuesday on their blog they post a list from a selected designer of books that have played a significant role in that designer’s thinking (see my previous post about this aspect of the site). It gets better. Take …
Learn more about Bjarke Ingels (B.I.G) – Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, of Bjarke Ingels Gruppe, talks about his work in this collection of 8 videos. A couple of TED talks, one on sustainability, on the design process, the Escher Tower. They’ve got a nice website, too.
GIZMODO – The Tiny Transforming Apartment That Packs Eight Rooms into 350 Square Feet – 5 and a half minute video of Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com, showing us through his very small New York apartment (he’s the one who says it’s 420 sq ft). It’s beautifully outfitted with hidden …
Saw this great Venetian library renovation in Lotus 151 (p 42) by Michele De Lucchi, the Biblioteca di Storia dell’Arte in a wing of the Fondazione Cini, a former dormitory for Benedictine monks. If you have a few minutes, treat yourself to a visit to De Lucchi’s website, aMDL …
Urban Times recently posted a recap of Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles for Good Design. Here’s a Fast Co post that includes a transcript of a talk the famous Braun designer gave in 1976 in which he elaborates on some of those principles. As the Fast Co blogger says, “they …
Check out the series of articles in Healthcare Design – “Research in Practice” – written by healthcare design researchers at HOK, Nick Watkins and Erin Peavey. It offers practical advice for anyone in a position to make decisions regarding the design of a hospital or healthcare facility. Research in Practice: …
Study: School Design Can Significantly Affect Children’s Grades – UK study of primary schools finds that the design of the physical learning environment can influence children up to 25%. The results, published in Building and the Environment, revealed that the architecture and design of classrooms has a significant role …
The Secrets Of Making Time Fly While You Wait – an NPR story about how people hate waiting in lines and how they occupy that time to make it seem to go quicker. It also highlights how designers can play a role in relieving the accompanying boredom and/or frustration. …
Here’s a start on collections of ‘the best’ of 2012. Check back for more, suggest your favorites – this a live list. PSFK’s Top 20 of 2012 – with source of image Best of the best of 2012 science and tech articles – from the BBC; thanks to Oleg Kravtsov …
Check out PhiMatrix, software that applies the principles of Phi, the Golden Ratio – PhiMatrix is a design and analysis software application for Windows and Mac. The PhiMatrix grid system quickly overlays any image in any software on your screen to identify or apply phi proportions in various …
Designers talk about books that have inspired them on Designers & Books‘ section on Designers. Choose from 127 (as of today; what you see here is the first of three pages) “architects, fashion designers, graphic designers, interior designers, landscape architects, product designers, urban designers, and other design professionals” and …
Oscar Niemeyer died last week at the age of 104, a Brazilian master of modernist architecture famous for his inventive use of concrete and for the architecture of Brasilia. Type his name into Google these days and you’ll get pages of appreciations of his work. Here’s a selection – …
Spying On Our Walking Habits With Kinects, To Create Smarter Spaces – research at MIT’s Senseable City Lab (led by Carlo Ratti) uses the X-box add-on Kinect to track pedestrian behavior. By understanding how people walking through a long corridor react to objects in their path and to oncoming foot …
A Treehouse Made From The Trunk Of A 100-Foot Tree – park structure in Indiana uses every part of one huge tree trunk, assembled puzzle-like by Visiondivision. The shingles are maintenance free for 80 years.
Check out the free Collective Action Toolkit (CAT) from frog design or read this post from Co.Design. The Collective Action Toolkit (CAT) is a package of resources and activities that enable groups of people anywhere to organize, build trust, and collaboratively create solutions for problems impacting their community. … …
The Architectural Spectacle That Is Munich’s Metro – interview with Nick Frank, an art director who’s taken striking photos of Munich’s subway stations. He says the best time to find them without people is early Sunday mornings. We caught up with Frank to discuss the architecture of his architectural shots.
BLOG : Design for Emotion – Posts on this blog include parts of Chapter One of the book of the same name. Design for Emotion is a guide to understanding and applying emotion and personality to create products, applications and websites that are more desirable, usable and useful.