From the monthly archives: January 2011
Pot-infused pop, Ferrari's four-wheel drive, in-eye 3D displays and more in this week's online round-up
1. A Capsule Summary
From Riviera Club's grown-up surfer wear to Fair Isle and stripes by Norse Projects, The Moment styles a shoot with menswear picks from the recent Capsule show held in NYC.
2. Two Men, 25,000 Ping Pong Balls, and a Rabbit
Snarkitecture shows off their 2,500-square-foot live-work space, which the duo converted from a former sheet-metal factory in Greenpoint.
3. Kafka Redesign
Combining a deft use of color, a font based on Kafka's own handwriting and graphic eyes, art director Peter Mendelsund plays around with the author's covers.
4. Oak Street Bootmakers
This new shoe brand, launched last year and now available for pre-order, draws on the talents of experienced cobblers to handcraft subtly updated classics in the U.S. using premium Horween leather.
5. Drinkable Marijuana
The medical marijuana business expands to include a range of drinks that pack a serious punch, with a 12-ounce bottle containing 2.5 grams of bud.
6. Ferrari FF: Four Wheel Drive, Four Seats, One Fantastic Rear End
Ferrari launches their first four wheel drive, powered by a 12-cylinder engine and with room for four.
7. Hair Clip on Hair
Limited to an edition of 50, this hair clip by Stockholm-based design studio Humans Since 1982 makes a set of pretty eyes into an accessory and runs $90.
8. Smart Contact Lenses for Health and Head-Up Displays
New advances in tech-enabled contact lenses have big implications for applications like treating glaucoma and diabetes, as well as for creating in-eye displays.
We love treehouses here at Inhabitat and are enamored with eco-architect Mitchell Joachim’s visionary ideas about how to grow living treehouses from ficus molded around frame structures. We’ve covered these playful architectural ideas before on Inhabitat, but now we have a video from Mitchell Joachim explaining the details of how they work. Joachim does better justice to his imaginative ecological designs than we are able to do in a mere post, so if you have any interest in living treehouses (and we know you do), check out the video above.
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Post tags: fab tree hab, Future-forward green design, green architecture, growing treehouse, living architecture, living tree house, Michael Sorkin, mitchell joachim, postopolis, sustainable design, TeREForm, Terreform
The hoerboard Scomber Mix is designed to make all your turntables, CD-players and mixers fit perfectly into a great looking workstation. The DJ booth consists of two units, needs less space than the hoerboard Classic and makes you more mobile with your own personal workstation. The top deck is made from CNC-designed MDF material and is fixed to a laser-cut powder-coated steel support. Both unit surfaces are available in several glossy or matt colours.
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Bjarke Ingels Group just announced their winning design for an entirely new kind of building — a waste to energy plant that doubles as a ski slopeand recreation center. Dubbed Amagerforbraending, the project is tucked between the industrial and residential sectors of Copenhagen and will act as a link between the two. The award came as a bit of surprise to the cutting-edge design firm, but given the poetic and functional nature of the project, it may be even more forward-thinking than they thought.
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Post tags: "sustainable architecture", alternative dwellings, dre wapenaar, green design, tree tents, tree-sitter housing, treehouse tents, treetop housing
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UNStudio has unveiled designs for an Urban Library of the Future in Gent, Belgium that presents a refined sense of public space. The building’s light, transparent design creates a public gathering place that doubles as a learning environment. The library features an open core that provides incredible views while allowing air and light to penetrate the interior, and a green roof adds to the project’s environmental credentials.
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The Air Jordan III ($199) is getting a retro release tomorrow in an iconic white/cement grey colorway. It features the familiar white leather upper, complimented by fire red accents and traditional elephant print throughout. There’s going to be lines for this everywhere I’m sure, but check out Primitive if you’re in the LA area.
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Our video peek at a collection of sneakers designed by a new American classic
Call it a win for increased technical details in fashion or just call it a win for style, either way Steven Alan's collection for Nike Sportswear (launched today) has us wondering why the collaboration didn't happen sooner. The five styles all draw on Nike's archives and add Steven's impeccably clean twist, which he explains in more detail in our video interview with him here.
This first collection from their new partnership drops tomorrow in Steven Alan stores and online.
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Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Actelion Business Center, carbon-neutral, Eco Architecture, eco building, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof, h & d, Herzog & De Meuron, Solar Power, solar shading
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Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco museum, green architecture, Green Building, green design, italy, leed silver, muse, museum of natural sciences, rainwater collection, renzo piano, renzo piano building workshop, Solar Power, Sustainable Building, sustainable design, trento, tropical garden
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The Pratt Institute, long a leader in sustainable design education, officially opened its new beautiful and sustainably designed digital arts building, complete with a green roof and solar panels. The six-story, 120,000 square foot Myrtle Hall is expected to meet the LEED Gold standard, which would make it Brooklyn’s first ever higher education building to receive any LEED certification.
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Get more out of your gadgets with these tech add-ons
If there's any theme to the newsworthy items found at CES this year, it's the concept of the add-on gadget. From tweeting from a camera to printing mobile pictures and avoiding speeding tickets with phones, here are a few new things you can do when devices start talking to each other.
Polaroid Grey Label Printer
The lesser-hyped product from Polaroid's new Gaga designed line, the GL10Grey Label printer uses a new Zink (zero ink) printing technology to print quality 3"x4" shots sent to the device via Bluetooth from a Blackberry or Android app. It gives the option of printing border-less or with an old-school white frame, and offers a variety of special effects. With its chic leather carrying case, it makes a great accessory for taking out to a party. Due out this May, the printer will run $150.
Olympus PP1 Penpal
To trick out their new E-PL2 micro four-thirds camera, Olympus' PP1 Penpal fits into the flash hotshoe. When in place, a "share" option appears on the playback screen to transfer that picture to Blackberry or Android devices via Bluetooth. The pic lands in your photo library so it can be easily posted to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr or anywhere else you share photos from your phone. It's available from Olympus retailers now for $80.
Surc Univeral Remote iPhone Case
Not the first but potentially the most powerful, this iPhone case and accompanying software turns phones into universal remotes. You can easily add devices and rooms to be able to use it anywhere in your home, or launch a "Surc attack" in your favorite bar and change the TV station so that you never miss an episode of Real Housewives. It comes out this spring and will retail for $70 from Surc.
Cobra iRadar
With Cobra iRadar a simple radar detector becomes more powerful by pairing with your iPhone. The app tracks driving information, avoids red light cameras and notes speed traps. It's available from several retailers now for $130.
Parrot Astroid
The Parrot Astroid is a single-plug in-dash receiver with a simple interface and a high-res color screen featuring web apps, voice recognition, music playback and hands-free telephony—all by communicating with your mobile phone over Bluetooth.
Line shoes with lambswool to warm feet all winter long
Urban living means you don't always need all the trappings of a technical boot, but if your city-slicker shoes are lacking in warmth, you may want to consider the instant coziness an insole can add. Some of my favorites are a pair hand-felted by a family friend but lacking time for a crafternoon, I was happy to find these 100% lambswool versions at NYC's Cowboy Shoe Repair.
Made from cuddly fleece, the wool layer is bonded to a latex rubber layer so that they stay put inside shoes. I'm not sure why it is exactly that the German's excel at foot care products, but the Polar model is one of several that the maker Tacco offers on their site. Pick it up directly from Tacco's site for €3 or from Shoe Hardware for $5.
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Bengaluru’s newest seven-star super luxury hotel brings green design to life through its thematic hospitality concept, which is rooted in the historical tradition of its home country, India. Conceived as an ode to the Garden City of Bengaluru, the hotel’s design is inspired by the city’s flowers, birds and historical monuments. Constructed to include many environmentally-conscious “firsts”, the hotel pays tribute to its adage of “Responsible Luxury” topped off with a LEED Platinum rating – making it the largest hotel in the world to achieve such a title.
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Self-washing fabric, underground NYC (literally) and recycled-magazine Nikes round out this week's look at the web
1. Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1
The graphics effects team from Boardwalk Empire has given the public a glimpse of their amazing compositing skills. In this video you can see how the editors create the classic Atlantic City landscape and create a simulated war injury.
2. Inside Ralph’s Garage
Ralph Lauren recently moved his legendary car collection—perhaps the most beautiful and valuable in the world—to a garage that he converted into a museum-like environment. Vanity Fair ran a recent exclusive with images of to-die-for models like the 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa, 1938 Alfa Romeo Mille Miglia Spyder, 2010 Lamborghini Murciélago Super Veloce and many more dream cars.
3. Nike Makes Shoes From Shredded Magazines
Hackneyed commentary about the death of print and creative re-use aside, Nike's new sneakers win not just for the unexpected use of castoff magazines but for how they incorporate the material. The clean, rational lines make for a Matrix-like effect, which nicely contrasts with the chaos of the one-of-a-kind patterns.
4. Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft and Collaboration
Behance spends some time with the living cinema legend to learn what they can about creative productivity from his 45 years of experience.
5. Dream of the '90s
This video teaser for the upcoming comedy series "Portlandia" gets a lot about the city hilariously right. With SNL's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, we're looking forward to the show's debut 21 January 2011 on IFC.
6. The Wilderness Below Your Feet
Writer Alan Feuer takes on the endlessly-fascinating world of underground NYC by spending a few days adventuring through the city's sewers and transit tunnels and chronicling the experience for the New York Times.
7. Pulp-Based Computing
By incorporating "electrically active inks, conductive threads, and smart materials" into paper, this new material developed by MIT's Media lab has all sorts of potential applications.
8. The Man-Made Rainbow Machine
Professor and artist Michael Jones Mckean designed a machine comprised of commercial jet pumps and custom-designed nozzles that creates gigantic, man made rainbows.
9. Nanotube Yarns Let Smart Clothing Survive the Laundry
New developments in the treatment of carbon nanotube fibers show potential for more widespread use in the garment industry. Researchers at the Univeristy of Texas in Dallas are working on using this tech to produce self-washing clothing.
10. Lade Gaga for Polaroid
Polaroid's Lady Gaga-designed camera glasses (consisting of a built-in camera and dual LCD screens), along with a digital camera and printer, debuted this week at CES, though the whole being able to see through the glasses thing hasn't quite been figured out yet.
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