If you’re as fascinated by design and schematics as I am and have a interest in kinetic ambient reflection membrane, let me introduce you to Flare Facade. And if you already know, then you’re way ahead of the game. Check out this video and you’ll see the Flare facade acts as a building’s skin, and computer generation controls movement of a number of metal flake components.
The system is modular and each flake can be programmed to tilt toward or away from the sun – reflecting light off it’s surface and creating movement in infinite patterns across the surface of a building thereby allowing the façade to interact with its surrounding. By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light. If none of that just made any sense to you, check out the link above and watch the video… then you can thank me.
Japanese brand UCS got joined forces with Porter for their Fall/Winter 2008 collection. They created three pieces – a tote bag, a travel pouch and a keyring/card case. Seems as though they have an obsession with the color orange…there’s nothing wrong with switching up and adding contrast.
Celebrating 100 years, General Motors is one of the industry’s most powerful automaker manufacturers, holding brands Cadillac, Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile and Chevrolet. Here is an astonishing retrospective reflection around the manufacturer’s design automobile. An interesting set of concepts and prototypes that reflect a past glory and a boundless imagination in research aerodynamics.
Above the Cadillac Cyclone presented for the first time in 1959 and below, the Buick Y-Job of 1938.
We previously showed you a peek of the Nom de Guerre Fall/Winter collection, but this time we’re back with more images from their lookbook; founded by Holly Harnsongkram, Wil Whitney, Devon Turnbull, and Isa Saalabi. The concept of the collective is to combine basic and diverse influences from art, fashion, and various New York City subcultures to create a composite culture and product. Sit back, stroke your goat-tee and enjoy.
We wanted to wear glasses at some point in our life like LeVar Burton of Star Trek, with the help of Martin Margiela we finally can. Margiela presents his first ever pair of sunglasses. They have been made in collaboration with Italian eye wear brand Marcolin. L’incognito, shown here below, is made from a solid piece of Polycarbonate. The lenses mimic the censored bar motif that the house has used in its catalogs and look-books for years.
This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone’s civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. Beah’s harrowing journey transforms him overnight from a child enthralled by American hip-hop music and dance to an internal refugee bereft of family, wandering from village to village in a country grown deeply divided by the indiscriminate atrocities of unruly, sociopathic rebel and army forces. Beah then finds himself in the army—in a drug-filled life of casual mass slaughter that lasts until he is 15, when he’s brought to a rehabilitation center sponsored by UNICEF and partnering NGOs. The process marks out Beah as a gifted spokesman for the center’s work after his “repatriation” to civilian life in the capital, where he lives with his family and a distant uncle. When the war finally engulfs the capital, it sends 17-year-old Beah fleeing again, this time to the U.S., where he now lives. (Beah graduated from Oberlin College in 2004.) Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war and the ongoing plight of child soldiers in conflicts worldwide.
Here’s a look at 10Deep’s Fall “Veni Vidi Vici” collection, an offering that combines co-opted American iconography (imbued with our dark-humor sensibilities) with sophisticated button-ups, fleece garments, and technical outerwear. The “Veni Vidi Vici” Collection hits stores this week.
