Designers Party

EQUINOX collection : Ryan Yoon & Harc Lee

(DP) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:53:55 +0900

Q R . Interactive Modular Carpet for Mannington Commercial . 2011
QR is a beautifully designed carpet inspired by QR patterns, showcasing texture and geometry in a random sophisticated look and feel.

It comes in a range of bold color combinations and more subtle, tonal pairings.
Utilizing Mannington’s unique ability to create both carpet and hard surface products,

Mannington has created an 18x18 inch LVT tile that allows actual QR technology to be incorporated into the floor. This is extremely valuable for healthcare facilities, museums, entertainment venues, educational contexts, airports and retail spaces

- enabling the delivery of update-able wayfinding information, enhanced entertainment and education, product information and more.

EQUINOX collection . Modular Carpet for Mannington Commercial . 2011
Equinox Collection offers visual fields of light & shadow rendered as pure texture. Using a proprietary ultra-large denier fiber with patented variable twist technology

Made with a proprietary large denier fiber with Mannington’s patented variable twist technology. Mannington interpreted Ryan Harc’s design concepts of light and shadow using texture to define visual fields – elevating carpet design to a new fashion aesthetic component. The rich hand translates to warmth and complexity on the floor – in patterns of subtle gradation or irregular offset grids.

WARM NAIL . Pendant . 2010

Ryan Yoon & Harc Lee

Air Borsa : Michi Jung

(DP) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:27:31 +0900

Air Borsa . 2009 Produced by Madel T

Michi Jung

Bind Stool : Ji Hyun Kim

(DP) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:05:02 +0900

bind stool 500x500x700 / FRP/ 2011

Ji Hyun Kim

Shade Lamp : Hyun Jung Lee

(DP) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:01:32 +0900

Shade Lamp

Hexi Bench

Hyun Jung Lee

Object-Series : Seung-Yong Song

(DP) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:22:12 +0900

Object-O
White birch, Korean paper, UV gloss paint
1800x1800x2200 (mm)

Object-A
White birch, UV gloss paint
540x700x2370 (mm)

Salanbang
White birch, Korean paper, mixed materials
1400x850x1740(mm)

There was no fence or gate where I used to live before. Opening the doors, the cottage became one altogether with the yard, streams and nature. That cottage of the time is gone, but good memories from that place create another illusion. The same type of two objects may face each other, stand side by side, or stand alone. By opening and closing the door, space is connected or divided. Even within an extensive space, It is possible to create a cozy space of own.

Rong
White birch, UV gloss paint, mixed materials
320x320x490(mm)

Seung-Yong Song was born in Yangsan, in 1978, and currently works in Seoul, South Korea. Song attended École Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Reims and received his BFA, MFA, France. He started working as an artist's assistant at an internationally renowned, Claudio Colucci studio. As a freelance artist, Song worked in collaboration with designer Jean Marc Gady, Patric Nadeau, and Matt Sindall in france.

Seung-Yong Song

Unhate Campaign : Benetton

(DP) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:31:57 +0900

Enemies: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea, are unlikely to be keen on this picture

Benetton was forced to pull into a humiliating climbdown today as the clothing company was forced to pull one of its images from its new 'Unhate' campaign. The Italian firm withdrew the photograph featuring Pope Benedict XVI kissing a senior Egyptian imam on the lips after the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation. Benetton had claimed its 'Unhate' campaign, which was launched today, was aimed at fostering tolerance and 'global love' but would have known how much trouble they were likely to stir up.

The campaign's adverts include digitally altered pictures half a dozen world leaders to show them kissing.

Combating hatred: Benetton hope the controversial images will help create tolerance around the world. This picture shows China's leader Hu Jintao and Barack Obama

The windows of the Benetton Store in Paris

Benetton said the photographs of political and religious leaders kissing were 'symbolic images of reconciliation - with a touch of ironic hope and constructive provocation - to stimulate reflection on how politics, faith and ideas, when they are divergent and mutually opposed, must still lead to dialogue and mediation.'

In a statement, the Treviso-based manufacturer said: 'We are sorry that the use of an image of the pontiff and the imam should have offended the sensibilities of the faithful in this way. We have decided with immediate effect to withdraw this image from every publication.'

Unhate Foundation

Haptic Intelligentsia : Joong Han Lee

(DP) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:01:37 +0900

Bringing Craftsmanship Into a Computerized Technology.

HAPTIC INTELLIGENTSIA is a human 3D printing machine that allows the user to tactually perceive the virtual object and to directly transform it into the physical. The user can freely move the extruding gun, which is attached to a haptic interface.

When the tip of the gun is moved into a surface region of the virtual object, the interface generates forces under computer control, allowing the user to feel and touch the surface of the object.Without looking at the computer screen, the only way to visualize the virtual object is to pull the trigger and extrude the material along the feedback surface.

The results are always unique and different, depending on how each user responds to the machine’s guidance. The sense of touch is no longer present in our current screen-based interface. HAPTIC INTELLIGENTSIA humanizes the 3D printing process, bringing the user a tactile relationship to the virtual object.

Joong Han Lee

Sounds Of Sea : Company - Aamu Song & Johan Olin

(DP) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:18:24 +0900

Sounds Of Sea is a set of sculptures streching along the waterfront of Jellicoe harbour in Auckland city. The typology of the pieces is a reminder to the history of the site, and its on-going role, as an active harbour. The airventilation funnels and speaking tubes used on ships are re-interpretated into sculptures that deliver the sounds of the sea underneath. The largest of the sculptures serve as places to sit in.

Sounds of Sea 2011
Design: COMPANY (Aamu Song & Johan Olin)
Assistant: Minna Koskinen (CAD work)
Client: City of Auckland, New Zealand
Manufacturer: HSM Steel, New Zealand
Project manager: Terry Urbahn / Public Art Team, Auckland.
Location: Jellicoe Harbour, Auckland
Material: stainless steel, fuel paint
Design: 2009–2011

Company

North Rankin 2 LQ : Hyundai Heavy Industries Co

(DP) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:47:31 +0900

Hyundai Heavy Industries, shipbuilder and an offshore facilities manufacturer, loaded the world’s largest offshore platform onto a barge on December 4. Hyundai Heavy jacked up the 23,600 ton topside of the North Rankin 2 Project ordered by Woodside Energy 26.5 m and installed it on the provisional transport frame.

The platform, measuring 100 m in length, 50 m in width and 80 m in height, will be used to increase pressure for the existing platform already producing natural gas from 2012.The NR2 platform is scheduled to sail out in mid-December after finishing touches, and will be installed on an offshore jacket in North Rankin & Perseus fields of Australia.

The North Rankin 2 Project will recover remaining low pressure gas from the North Rankin and Perseus gas fields. The project will include the installation of a second platform, North Rankin B. The North Rankin B platform will be connected by a 100 metre bridge to the existing North Rankin A platform.

The North Rankin 2 project will include:

- A new platform weighing 58,000 tonnes
- Production facilities including gas-condensate coolers and separators, three 27 MW compression trains and power generation
- Heli-deck
- Living quarters

Client - Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., LTD
End-User - Woodside
Year Completed - 2011

The North Rankin 2

Stuttgart City Library : Eun Young Yi

(DP) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:26:18 +0900

Korean architect Eun Young Yi’s proposal was selected in 1999 from 235 competition entries as the plan for the new central library of the City of Stuttgart.

The building of the 80-million Euro (about $108 mil. US) Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz began three years ago and the opening ceremonies took place last month.

Yi has created a monolithic cube with two floors underground and nine above. Essentially all of the building, both inside and out is white. The main library floors circle an open-plan with the levels connected by open staircases. Books line the outer walls of each floor.

As a cool nod to the fact that the building is a storehouse of words, the word “library” is installed in four languages on the outside walls. On the North wall in German (the local language), West in English (lingua franca), South in Arabic (the language of ancient knowledge and of Stuttgart’s sister city, Cairo) and East in Korean (Yi’s native language).

Yi Architects is based in Cologne and Seoul