Office design 2011 my choice

Selfdiscipline by Nika Zupanc

Nika Zupanc returns to Milan "focused on distractions of all sorts, presenting an installation that elevates her insightful citations of everyday objects to a painfully new level."

Rearrange Your Office Easily with a Desk that Walks

If your first mental image of a walking desk was this IKEA workspace-slash-treadmill DIY contraption, you're dead wrong. See this walking desk isn't about you doing the walking. This spider-like eight-legged workspace can nearly walk itself. Check out a video when you read more.

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Techno-Organic Lighting

This new collection of suspended LED lamps by Integral Studio Vinaccia utilize an overlay of hard wooden slats to create volume and soft familiar shapes. A cloud of wood blades form the Cumulus lamp as it seemingly floats while spreading soft light and the Frame lamp’s wood slats hold an interchangeable central screen that casts elaborate shadows on the surrounding space. The entire collection is available in natural wood, or painted white or black.

Designer: Giulio & Valerio Vinaccia


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3D printing 2011, Incredible Architecture!!

Michael Hansmeyer: ornamented columns 'ornamented columns' by michael hansmeyer all images courtesy michael hansmeyer zurich-based architect and programmer michael hansmeyer has sent us images of his latest exploration into computational architecture, 'ornamented columns'. working with the CAAD group at ETH's architecture department, hansmeyer has created a series of columns - both 3D and in actuality - that utilize algorithms and subdivision processes to generate a new column order that defines and elaborates its system of ornament. 3D models of columns taking an abstracted doric column as a point of departure, individual components are identified through the subdivision process which works on a number of local parameter settings based on the input form's topography as well as its topology. the result is a complex and idiosyncratic language that exhibit very specific local conditions and forms. detail the 2.7-meter high fabrication is painstakingly constructed from 1mm layer grey board sheets which have been individually cut using a mill or laser then stacked together on poles that run through a common core. consisting of over six million faces, the circumference of some sheets measured along the cutting path can reach up to 8 meters. since the initial prototype, tests using ABS, wood and metal have been under way. photograph of column segments during construction detail of prototype initial sketches of variants that were generated from a uniform process stacking of the layers calculation steps for obtaining the cutting paths

Fashion 2011 with hard materials, Different and new

Whiteness by Julia Krantz

Fashion designer Julia Krantz of Sweden has created this costume for a fictional guerrilla protestor. (more…)

Wooden Textile Fashion by Elisa Strozyk & Maria Bonita

From Elisa Strozyk & Maria Bonita, a women's fashion collection using Strozyk's geometric wood textiles. The wood fabrics are laser cut wood pieces that are attached to a textile base. "Elisa Strozyk's Wooden Textiles push the boundaries between 2D and 3D, hard and soft materials, deflecting an increasingly immaterial world."







The collection also includes a wood textile bag