Arihiro Miyake

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Hello Skateboard!

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Still wanna wiki it?

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Comex: We Match Any Color Cartoon Campaign

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Functional + Aesthetic Appeal?

DeliShop Cerveza Premium Lager

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LUPE Drops 1st Single Off "Lasers"

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Artist Street Dreams: Galeria Oberta, Barcelona

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Galeria Oberta (Open Gallery) is a project in Barcelona that lets street artists work with 8 square meters of wall without fear of arrest. A huge range of artists have got involved; these images are from the project's one year anniversary celebration.

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Trahan Architects: Death Valley, Louisiana

The new Louisiana State Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum designed by Trahan Architects has just entered its construction phase. The museum’s donated memorabilia embodies “the contributions of the diverse cultures that have shaped the state and are crucial to understanding the unique traditions and legacy of Louisiana and the Gulf South.” Principal Trey Trahan, FAIA, describes the project as “an incredible opportunity to create a place that will celebrate the deep history of North Louisiana, as well as the indelible influence sports have had on our state’s culture.”

The $12 million project is comprised of a 28,000-square-foot contemporary venue that highlights the collections’ important cultural assets and recognizes each segment as part of the greater cultural history of the state of Louisiana. The project is situated in Natchitoches, the oldest settlement from the Louisiana Purchase. Trahan Architects has tried to embrace this history and the landscape into the design by cladding the exterior in sinker cypress planks as a reference to the region’s rich timber legacy.

According to Trey Trahan, “our design is informed by the historic architecture and materials of the region, while presenting a contemporary architectural language to this remarkable city.”

The spacing and manipulation of the exterior boards control light, views and ventilation. The arrangement creates a sense of porosity and articulation that will animate the façade and mediate the building’s scale. The louvers also make a reference to the cladding at nearby Oakland Plantation, where wood planks were used for the purpose of mitigating the climate.

The interiors highlight the “area’s distinctive geomorphology and aspects of the river’s hydromorphology.” Fluid shapes of “the braided corridors of river channels” are separated by “interstitial masses of land” to create the organizing principle for visitor circulation and gallery arrangement.

The project is scheduled to be completed in March 2011.

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Ketchup + Fries

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Issey Miyake Paris Fashion Week S/S 2010 Line

Issey Miyake recently debuted the S/S 2010 line during Paris Fashion Week – accompanied by impressive designs and gentle use of patterns, the line was embraced by editors and fashionistas. Issey Miyake is now creating a different type of buzz with a print advertising campaign for Pleats Please. The fabrics were used to create pieces of sushi and sashimi. Check out the rest of the post for more images.

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Street Artist Ozi strikes Diadema, Sao Paolo

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Banksy Strikes Again: Mali Sighting

Mint Hard: Chocolate External HD

In Korea, ice cream bars were called "Hard," ever since the ice cream was introduced as the society was westernized. During the Japanese occupation and shortly after, the old generation used to call it "Ice keki" (Keki is a Japanese way of calling cake, which means Japanese addressed ice creams as ice cake). However, the word "ice keki." is rarly being used in the modern days in Korea. Whining because tongue stuck to a fresh opened "hard" is the memory that all Korean children share as a child.

External HDD that looks like a "Hard"
The word, "hard" has two meanings in Korea. It first meaning is ice cream bar, as mentioned above; the second meaning is the hard disk drive. Hense, the Koreans would ask each other, "How big is your hard?" when asking for the PC's HDD capacity. Even the professionals talk like this. For the portable HDD, the Koreans usually call it, "external hard.: Mint Hard DD, or the Mint Hard is a hard disk drive that looks like a "hard" (ice cream bar).

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Enough Already w/ the Wack Ass Shit

The real 'Door hand', called Door "Hand-le", by Naomi Thellier de Poncheville for London Design Festival.

For every one thing that can be seen as or approaching a fresh and innovative direction, there are tens of hundreds of things that make you want to pull the trigger right there. As an artist one goes into the process of provoking a response in ourselves when creating a piece. Others use a canvas to generate a statement. But here what is there really but a inventor if you can call it that who has been off the tracks for so long but happened to be passed a bone to produce such a piece of crap.

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UNStudios: Saint Petersburg, Russia Dance Theatre

UNStudio’s design has won a competition to build a 21,000 square meter dance theatre in the historic centre of St. Petersburg, Russia. The new complex houses the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, headed by choreographer Boris Eifman.

From the four projects presented (Jean Nouvel, UNStudio, Snøhetta & Zao), UNStudio’s design was yesterday unanimously chosen by the jury for realisation.

Seen at designboom. Architect’s description and more images after the break.

The dance palace forms an integrated part of the european embankment city quarter masterplan for a new urban square in the historic centre of St. Petersburg.

The urban context of the building is essential to the design. The dance palace is positioned on the square in such a way as to allow for unrestricted visibility towards the nearby Prince Vladimir and Peter and Paul cathedrals, thereby framing some of the most exceptional buildings in St. Petersburg. The sculptural qualities of the dance palace reflect those of the surrounding buildings in the masterplan, providing a connection to its surroundings yet still retaining saliency. A central main entrance is incorporated into the façade design in order to fully integrate the building into this lively public square.

UNStudio’s design for the dance palace presents an open and inviting theatre building with provision for 1300 guests (large auditorium 1000, small auditorium 300). Programmatic considerations focus on the spacious circulation of the public foyer and the transparent relationship to the surrounding public square and the city. Integration with the existing neighbouring buildings is achieved by both the scale of the building - which in elevation follows and respects St. Petersburg’s typical 28m roofline and the transformative transparency which is introduced by a facade system of triangular cladding panels. The variation between opaque and perforated panels creates a controlled openness, depending on programme, views and orientation.

‘The vertical foyer provides a high level of transparency from inside to outside, whilst also presenting a kind of stage for visitors to the theatre; a place to see and be seen. the open arrangement and balcony structure in the foyer provides plateaus for its own choreography of both intimacy and exposure.

Essential to UNStudio’s design for the main auditorium in the new dance theatre are both the acoustic considerations and the proximity of the audience to the stage. For this reason the horseshoe form was chosen. This form is considered to be one of the most successful forms acoustically in ballet and musical theatre for both performer and audience, whilst the proximity it affords to the stage ensures an intimate and collective experience for the spectator.

A mandatory requirement when we were designing the auditorium was to make it possible to see the dancer’s feet from every seat in the hall at all times, no matter where the performer was positioned on the stage.

by: Sebastian J

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Ole Scheeren+ OMA = MahaNakhon

Ole Scheeren, a partner for Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and project leader of the recently completed Beijing’s CCTV Tower, considered among the world’s most imaginative contemporary architectural feats. With the tower complete, Scheeren has moved to design his first skyscraper, entitled MahaNakhon, “a dazzling, pixelated 77-storey tower,” that will rise to be the tallest building in Bangkok. With approximately 150,000 square meters, MahaNakhon will include a lush urban oasis with public gardens and a major transportation hub, luxury retail, residences, a new public square, and a five-star hotel created by New York’s Ian Schrager. Mahanakohn’s “distinctive sculptural appearance” offers a pixelated effect as the solid tower is carefully carved into. These spaces become “excavated portions of the elegant glass curtain wall to reveal the inner life of the building metaphorically and actually an architecture that encloses and protects its inhabitants while revealing the inner life of their city.” The protrusions create beautiful balconies with uninterrupted views over the city as well as larger areas for greenery.

In addition to the tower, a smaller freestanding 7-storey building, known as the cube, offers multi-level indoor/outdoor terraces with an extensive mix of dining and leisure facilities. These facilities activate the lower levels as the general public will have access via a direct above-ground pedestrian link.

The skyscrapper is due to be completed by 2012.

by: Karen Cilento

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JAY-Z + RIHANNA + KANYE WEST: Run This Town

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"Can we kick it? Yes, we can!"

Nom de Guerre + Adidas

The Brands pack from adidas’ Five-Two 3 project is a collaboration with 5 global lifestyle brands, all from different genres of fashion. With each brand having it’s own unique style the pack showcases the diversity and broad appeal the five footwear models have in today’s lifestyle market. Today we take a look at the Forum designed by New York based creative collective, Nom de Guerre.

Nom de Guerre’s Forum builds on the revolutionary basketball shoe’s hardwearing ankle straps and heel support made for hard landings, revising the shoe using the United States Military jungle boot as an inspiration prototype. Next, Nom de Guerre reworked the Forum’s ankle strap to reference war hospital ankle bandaging. Additionally, the colours on the sole of the shoe serves as a reminder of the many hours of target practice accrued during training. The byproduct of these elements is an extremely versatile shoe designed to accommodate a range of climates while providing critical protection over various terrain.

About Nom de Guerre
Nom de Guerre is a New York based creative collective founded by Holly Harnsongkram, Wil Whitney, Devon Turnbull, and Isa Saalabi who combine to bring together a multi-faceted background of retail, sculpture, painting, graphic design and typography. The operating precept is to combine basic and diverse influences from art, fashion, and various New York City subcultures to create a composite culture and by-product. The members assumed the name, Nom de Guerre, for the term’s significance as a wartime alias. The associated ideas of fraternity and sublimating one’s identity to operate within a group are the foundation and reference point of each collection. Since the group’s inception and the opening of the downtown headquarters, Nom de Guerre has been a destination for the young New Yorkers who comprise the ever-burgeoning art and music scene. As a result, Nom de Guerre has come to be a defining aspect of New York culture.

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