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Architects Angelo Bucci and Alvaro Puntoni designed the Carapicuiba House in Carapicuíba, which is a suburb of São Paulo Brazil. The house using deliberately placed rectangles of concrete and glass creates this amazing stacked structure with plenty of protected outdoor space.
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The ever entertaining Aaron Draplin offers up some insight and inspiration in a series of videos shot by Jared Souney for Yobeat and Level. Draplin like many of us grew up in the skateboarding and snowboarding culture of the 80′s and 90′s, and was even lucky enough to test his design on some board graphics and other projects like that. Make sure to check out part two of this interview and a little show and tell with Aaron after the jump.
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Jamie Wieck has compiled this awesome list called The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know, and it is exactly that. The subjects covered are applicable to everyone working in our field, and many who are not. Wieck’s supporting illustrations are also beyond compare. They so simply illustrate the necessary concepts and add a little lighthearted relief to the directness of the list.
Unique and well designed working environments put people in a better state of mind to be creative and make decisions. In a work place, which perpetually feels as though it is moving at high speed people react to that pressure either by making fast and faulty decisions or doing sloppy work in order to keep pace with their surroundings.
SEI Investment has turned the clock back for it’s employees to a time when we were still making discoveries and life was about enjoyment. Their 650,000 square foot headquarters, designed by Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle is much more aptly described as a campus.
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The Useful Towel from Bailey Doesn’t Bark, is a great gift for designers who like to cook and cooks who like design. If I wasn’t so messy in the kitchen I would for sure get one of these. Most days my kitchen towels(more like rags) are doused in sauce, meat jus or are just lightly singed.
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As we all well know one of the most influential and inspiration young designers today is Frank Chimero, and talent at every turn is found in the unique and inspiring ways he gives back to the design community. Many people of credit or attribution in our sphere are merely making things to look at while Chimero is making things to think and talk about. A small yet infinitely useful example is this photo pictured above. After receiving requests for reading recommendations from his students and the world at large Chimero decided to snap a quick photo of the books that have helped to inform and inspire him. The insight we gather from this is most definitely not limited to the titles of the books or the content of their text. It emanates out into the way the books are organized together.
One of my favorite restaurants in the West Village, and probably the world is Mas (Farmhouse). I recently came across some information about a new restaurant in the works by their chef and proprietor Galen Zamarra. The new venture is going to be just around the corner from their Downing Street location on an otherwise rather barren section of Seventh Avenue. Cooking over an open wood fire always provides a unique, and in my opinion better flavor, and their new eatery will do just that. Following suit of Mas (Farmhouse) this grill spot will be named Mas (La Grillade). Originally they were aiming for an early summer opening, but word has changed to mid-August. Living literally across the street from it means this will become one of my regular haunts, and I can’t tell you how excited that makes me!
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Painter Catherine Ryan’s work has so much depth and is charged with some unique social criticism. Despite the extremely 2D collage style of her compositions they achieve great depth and texture. She has a great knack for distilling character’s down into their simplest form. The way she presents people as faceless, but animals as having faces is interesting. I am not quite sure what to make of it, but I like it.
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Glass Farmhouse is a nice modern take on the farmhouse designed by Seattle firm Olson Kundig Architects. On a rural plan of ground in Northeast Oregon the barn and house create an open barnyard feeling. Although the two buildings have very different aesthetic roots, the two buildings seem to coexist together perfectly despite these differences.
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With school design I there is a fine line between perfect and terrible. The balance between light open space and solitary class rooms where a class room can function as an independent ecosystem. This elementary school in Campinas a district within São Paulo Brazil, designed by BVY Arquitetos does a great job of separating spaces, but maintaining a continuity between all the sections. Possibly my favorite part are the protected outdoor areas as pictured in the shot of the ball court below.
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Prefab architecture is really beginning to take hold. This example designed by Herreros Arquitectos in Spain is a great example of a prefab structure sacrifices nothing to function. Despite the more rigid restrictions of a prefab palette the architects were still able to achieve a nice harmony between the house and it’s surrounding environment. This house is a prototype of a greater modular system intended to grow over time in order to fulfill your needs both now and down the line. My only question is, if you need less house in the future could you sell back part of the structure to be repurposed? Now that would be green architecture.
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I am not and have never been a big supporter of RSS Feeds and accessing blog content outside of it’s native environment. Then in comes Feedly 2.0. Feedly’s interface and features are urging me over to the feed side. Their app works beautifully on iOS, Android and most tablet devices. Take a look at their blog to learn more about the app.
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Hoefler & Frere-Jones have done it again. They have recently released a new typeface by the name of Ideal Sans, which like all H&FJ type families has a battery of widths and available characters.
“Ideal Sans, a handmade typeface for a machine-made age. Setting aside the easy pursuit of digital perfection, Ideal Sans favors handmade forms that help it achieve different goals: warmth, craftsmanship, and humanity.”
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Photographer Ramiro Chaves has captured some beautiful images of old signage, letter forms and unique objects. One of the more compelling aspects of his compositions is the signs, letters or subject matter are not quite in the place or state they were originally intended.
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At a certain point in design school I started to think about what I would eventually want in a living space, and I settled on it needing to be a house over an apartment. During that same period of time shipping containers started to catch my eye as an alternative to traditional structural building materials and also as a response to sustainability.
Now a couple of years later, and many advances or at least changes in architecture and its attack of sustainability issues. We are starting to see amazing companies like Infinski who designs and constructs sustainable prefab architecture. Quite a few of their designs employ shipping containers as a major part of the design and structure. The specific house is named Casa El Tiamblo, which is made up of four 40 foot shipping containers and was design by James & Mau Arquitectura.
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Today seems like the perfect day to post about possibly the most perfect collaborative couple, and one of their side projects. Don’t Fear the Internet is a side project put together by Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer in the hopes of demystifying the internet for us feeble designers and creatives. Also little side note, as of yesterday Jessica and Russ have officially announced their engagement, check out their super cute announcement site/page here. Congrats you two lovely love birds.
For me this video is more depressing than inspiring, but sometimes I think that is what we need to shock our brains. Something drastic jump start a change in how we live. I would have been walking to my meeting today either way, but now I can think of another reason why. This great info motion graphic was done by Chris Harmon. Thanks for breaking this down for everyone Chris. It
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I just wanted to share this fun little video by teevee graphics, which caught my eye. This promotional video was done for Voices a show on Space Shower TV.
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In my opinion this is one of the best product re-releases of all time. Braun has always been a leader in perfectly minimalist designs and highly functional technology. These watches were co-designed by the godfather of minimalist product design and chief of design for Braun from 1961 to 1995 Dieter Rams. I am also sort of a Dieter Rams fanatic, so these watches are right up my alley. The designs featured on these watches reflect many of the timeless designs we have seen in the Braun time collection over the years. You can purchase these watches over at the awesome minimalist goods retailer Vetted Shop.
Based on a typeface found in an old French newspaper clipping, Helmut designed by Superscript² is a nice classic looking typeface. It definitely draws a lot of inspiration from deco type design and Futura. The character palette also includes some unique alternate characters, which give it nice variation and allow for interesting typesetting scenarios.
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