Beef&Liberty is a gourmet burger joint and delicious restaurant based in the heart of revolutionary Hong Kong. Design by Japanese architects at Spinoff spiced with murals created by Cyrcle team, bar is definitely a place to visit. via
Photos: Jonathan Leijonhufvud – www.jlap.com
Last week it was revealed that Oslo-based design agency Snøhetta had jointly won a competition to redesign the Norwegian banknote. The Central Bank of Norway announced on October 7 two winner proposals for the design of the new banknotes. Snøhetta’s design will be the foundation for the backsides of the notes, while The Metric System’s design will be the starting point for the fronts.
"When contrasts come together, as when soft meets hard or digital meets analog, a dynamic is created. Our cubical pattern first of all represents pixels; our times visual language."
Last year the Spanish government decided to raise the tax for theatrical shows from 8% to 21%, resulting in a fall in audience attendance of 30% in one year. In response to this, Teatreneu, a comedy club in Barcelona has partnered with advertising agency The Cyranos McCann and came up with an ingenious new way to get people back through the door.
"Pay per Laugh is a new project that charges audience members according to how much they laugh at a show. Using facial-recognition technology installed in iPads attached to the back of seats, a count is made of how often each person laughs. This data is then sent to a server which creates and monitors the statistics. Audience members are offered free admittance but are charged €0.30 per laugh. However, the price for laughter is capped at €24."
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"To celebrate the opening of Diesel’s flagship store in Rome, POSTmatter magazine collaborated with Berlin based artist digital artist Andreas Nicholas Fischer to create an abstract digital organism that envelops its audience as they enter the store."
"POSTroma is an installation that draws from topographical data taken from maps of Rome. This data creates the starting point from which Fischer’s impressionistic forms can grow, the installations growth and movements are based upon the use of #rome and #roma online. Each time the hashtag ‘#POSTroma’ is used on Twitter, a unique response will be tweeted back to each individual user. A specially programmed algorithm created by Fischer will generate a haiku poem and a striking screenshot of the in-store visual mutation at that moment, both of which will be delivered directly to the Twitter account of the original user." via Protein
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Designcollector is being a bit fashionista these days visiting Aurora Fashion Week in St.Petersburg that we going to cover later. Meanwhile we extremely enjoyed the black tidal wave coming from Alexander Wang recent capsule collection for H&M "Tonight’s Alexander Wang x H&M show at the Armory on the Hudson, way uptown on 169th Street, began with a video. Isabeli Fontana did her best Keanu Reeves, performing Matrix-like stunts, while Joan Smalls played the daredevil on a snowboard. They had nothing, though, on the parkour guys who rappelled from the rafters to throw their bodies around on trampolines and show off their cores of steel. If you haven’t got the point by now of Wang’s collaboration with the Swedish fast-fashion giant (it’d be hard not to, what with the full-court press PR campaign), we’ll spell it out. Hard. Core. Sport. " via Style
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All photos: Livio Valerio / Indigitalimages.com
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Young freelance illustrator from Palo Alto has a modest portfolio with an awesome graphics inside. Meet Samantha Mash world
Yoshiyuki Miyamae, Issey Miyake Designer: "The theme of this collection is "windscape". Wind is wind, and the "scape" is kind of the landscape." Paris Fashion Week got a glimpse of some new innovative new fabric created by Issey Miyake for the Japanese fashion brand's wind-inspired spring/summer 2015 collection. A technique known as "3D Steam Stretch". Watch the mesmerising video below
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The concept of Growing Books was created by two Australian who have decided to give life back to old worn books. Cacti and other plants take place into books’ hearts with a hard cover, entirely protected from the water of the spraying. A nice initiative to discover. via
Berlin-based artist Susi Sie released her new experimental video "Soundscapes" exploring the analogue nature within digital environment http://vimeo.com/108057431
Italian figurative artist Beniamino Leone creates portraits of women with their eyes blossom in flowers
Master of illusions Alex Chinneck’s latest mind-boggling public art installation is on show in what must surely be the spiritual home of his craft; one of the busiest piazzas in London and its theatrical hub. His floating building follows on from a sliding house, upside down house and many other puzzling optical illusions. Called Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder, Alex says: “The titles are born from a kind of daydreaming. Everything we do now is extremely planned and co-ordinated. And I don’t feel like an artist anymore. A title is a rare opportunity to do something which feels slightly bohemian!”
As for the thinking behind Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder, Alex muses that “there are things which always come together but are always slightly apart.” In terms of the building itself, “the shape of the crack was reminiscent of the lightning bolt. It’s a very cataclysmic scene.”
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"At the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors, Joyce Wang‘s MOTT32 bar and restaurant in Hong Kong was officially named the best interior space of 2014. Located in a former storage facility, which reportedly once housed expensive family heirlooms for wealthy Chinese immigrants, MOTT32 is best described as an atmospheric underworld dining experience. Taking inspiration from the heritage of the site, the restaurant is filled with forgotten heirlooms, Chinese propaganda and industrial materials doubling as furniture and light fittings. Located underground, with no natural light, Joyce Wang embraced the constraints of the venue and used them to create a theatrical and exclusive experience. Delicate detailing was combined with raw materials, such as concrete and metals, to create an overall bold design that sees Western and Eastern influences come together." via Highsnobiety
In celebration of their 100 year centennial and the opening of Leica Gallery São Paulo, Brazil, German camera brand Leica has teamed up with Brazilian agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi on a two-minute campaign which recreates 35 famous photographs from history. via
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Re-created Photos (Partial List)
"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" by Joe Rosenthal Photographs of the Apollo 11 moon mission "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange "Le Baiser de l'hôtel de ville" by Robert Doisneau "Rue Mouffetard, Paris" by Henri Cartier-Bresson "Behind the Gare St. Lazare" by Henri Cartier-Bresson "Muslim women on the slopes of Hari Parbal Hill", Henri Cartier-Bresson "Phan Thi Kim Phúc" by Nick Ut "Sanaa, Yemen," by Samuel Aranda "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon" by Eddie Adams "Flower Power" by Bernie Boston "Quang Duc self-immolation" by Malcolm Browne 'Unknown Rebel of Tiananmen Square "by Jeff Widener "Portrait of Che Guevara" by Alberto Korda "Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey," Diane Arbus "Segregated Water Fountains" by Elliot Erwitt "John Lennon and Yoko Ono", by Annie Leibovitz "Girl With Leica" by Alexander Rodchenko "Self Portrait with Wife & Models" by Helmut Newton "Seine-Maritime, Dieppe" by Henri Cartier-Bresson "Falling Soldier" by Robert Capa
The video below is not about the design itself but about the power of a raw marble - the beautiful material born for art and architecture. In his short movie Yuri Ancarani extracts a striking portrait of marble. “Marble quarries are places so unbelievable and striking, they almost feel like they are big theaters or sets,” says Yuri Ancarani, the filmmaker behind today’s excerpt from the documentary, Il Capo (The Chief), which follows a quarry boss as he guides his men through the extraction process, using a silent language of gesture and sign
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A few years ago the folks at Denver, Colorado-based Magpul gave us the Ronin concept bike, based on the American-built Buell 1125R. As rarely happens with concepts from smaller shops, Magpul is turning the Ronin into a limited edition production bike.
In keeping with its namesake, Magpul is only producing 47 Ronin bikes, one for each of the 47 Ronin Warriors from Japanese lore. Additionally, each bike will have one of the warriors’ names engraved on it, and on the bike’s toolkit. The bikes will be released in staggered series pricing out around the $40k USD mark. The earlier releases will be slightly less expensive, as the final five will each be a completely bespoke design. For more information head over to the bike’s official website.
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I am not sure you can watch it really in 4K cos the system requirements must be on top but still you can enjoy GoPro Hero 4K commercial and don't say you have not heard the saying that "when you buy a GoPro you have to live adventures life" even you have not accepted the challenge. Switch the video's option below to 4k, fry out your video adapter :D
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Designcollector and our partners at Depositphotos selected the third Inspirational Set using unique stock images dedicated to the delicate topic of Friends. Big hugs!
Strasbourg-based photographer Julien Douvier utilizes a variety of techniques to create these beautifully meditative cinemagraphs of urban life and nature. He films and edits every image with an obsessive attention to detail, a fact not lost on several fashion clients that have commissioned Douvier to bring their brands to life recently. You can follow more of his personal and commercial work on Tumblr and on Behance.
I am pretty hyped to present you the digital printed scarf created by our awesome interior design editor Anna Neklesa. Check her website and the video below
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"Cause you can't break me" The short commercial video for NEKLESA based on the concept of a pure feminine strength and inner power what leads us forward no matter what.
Digital printed scarf Size: 136x100 cm 100% silk Dry clean only Made in the UK
Concept Anna Neklesa, Paulina Cheese Director of photography Paulina Cheese Postproduction Anna Neklesa, Paulina Cheese Model Olga Parmenova Hair and make-up Nina Aleshina Original music by Vienna Ditto
