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Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Coordination Asia- Shanghai Office

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Style and design are limitless in where they can be applied. Take the work of Coordination Asia as a prime example of aesthetic and modern design application in museum development. This group of German and Chinese creative gurus has multiple successful architectural projects under its belt ranging from flagship store design, to entire museums of modern art and design.

The company has recently moved offices to Huangpi Road 688 in Shanghai after they “decided to move somewhere more downtown. We followed the invitation of the Shanghai Glass Company to fill their former headquarter with life until the building will be entirely renovated by the end of 2012,” says CEO Tilman Thuermer.

Judging by the pictures of their new office, they didn’t cut a single corner when designing their office. The office is dark and modern, yet inviting and highly stylish. It’s one of those places I dream about working at. Who knows, maybe companies here in the West will take a nod from companies like Coordination Asia one day and realize that cubicles just don’t cut it for a good office environment anymore.

B Honey-Cachaça Sting Shots: Design by Pereira & O’Dell

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“B”, The Honey Cachaça stinger, was co-founded by Formula 1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. and friends. It utilizes natural ingredients and flavors to bring a crisp and tasteful rum to Brazil. "B” is made ​​with sugar harvested from Brazil which is then refined and blended into the perfect mixture of sweet and citrus. The drink also combines "honey, lemon and generous doses of sophistication," according to the recipe on the packaging.

What got me about this drink was the beauty of the packaging, as opposed to the interesting combination of flavors in a rum. It is a simple, clean, and clear design that works remarkably well with the natural yellow color of the liquor. The drop shaped logo designed to appear bee-like, the cap and spout covering adorned in black and yellow, along with the very smooth and organic shape of the bottle really makes this liquor well branded and easily spotted on any store shelf. Clearly, the designers at Pereira & O'Dell knew exactly what they wanted and how to go about achieving it.

The drink is currently only available in Brazil, but should be hitting U.S. stores later this year. I, for one, will be picking up a bottle as soon as I can find one.

-V

Ryoji Ikeda: "the transfinite"

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It’s a very difficult thing to get people excited about data from research or computer algorithms. But once you think outside the realms of typical thought familiar to your everyday mathematician, engineer, or computer scientists, that data has the potential to become something far more interesting and beautiful. Enter Ryoji Ikeda.

Mr. Ikeda is a sound artist currently residing in Paris, France. He blends the science of raw data collection and art together seamlessly in his modern and original art pieces. An example is his most recent piece at the Park Avenue Armory.

This behemoth of a display takes constantly streaming data in its purest, most raw form, and then translates it into something visually stunning and entrancing. Ikeda has essentially created a piece where visitors are confronted with data on a scale that defies comprehension, logic, or traditional thought. It gives a sense of the infinite, and a feeling of never ending flow.

To see a video of the display, please click here.

To see a timelapse of this beautiful giant being put together, click here.

To see another of his works (which is just as intriguing), click here.

-V