Why the Words “As If” Work like Magic: Thomas Wiscombe

Get lessons about hard work from the founder of EMERGENT, Thomas Wiscombe. Wiscombe and his team focuses on architectural experimentation which is dedicated to transferring logics, science, technology, and computation into architecture.


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Inori: This Name Describes the Purpose of the Product

Setsu & Shinobu Ito has sent in their previews for the Milano Salone 2010. This is the Inori libreria componibile, which is created for FIAM Italia.

When naming a product or a service: you have the chance to directly give your user a certain emotion/experience. Rather than just choosing a name because it sound cool, the name has to be associated with the actual purpose of the product, and explain why it has been designed in a certain way.
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Keep Going Regardless of Failure: Hisakazu Shimizu

Hisakazu Shimizu is a Japanese designer who during an interview with DUDYE explained why he became a designer and how he evolved with time as he obtained a deeper understanding of the profession.


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Extreme Design Strategy and Biomimicry Solution

Extreme Housing by Singapore-based LOOK Architects Pte Ltd

Extreme housing call for extreme design strategies and ecological sensitive solutions. It can be learnt from Nature which is intrinsically vital for species survival. Look Architects visualized a colony of mushroom found on a forested ground, signifying the healthy state of the eco system. Hence, by analogy, sustainable housing for the future, encourages a sustainable eco living and low energy home concept made feasible by innovative design, construction and materials.
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Exhibition Underground: History in the Darkness

EXHIBITION UNDERGROUND by TORAFU ARCHITECTS

The settings for the exhibition "Underground" was held in Miraikan, Odaiba. The purpose with this exhibition was to showcase the "the underground", which was one of the largest aspects in Miraikan's history. "We were required to make it possible for the visitors to deeply feel that the route starts from the earth surface and that it ends at the deepest part of earth". Read More...

Whatcom Museum: An Invitation to Engage in Art

Lightcatcher at the Whatcom Museum by Olson Kundig Architects, with Jim Olson as the Principal Design Architect.

The Lightcatcher opened to the public on November 14, 2009. There was a basic concept for this new $12.8 million museum (located in Bellingham, WA,) and that was to create a museum that was turned inside out. Making the building as active on the outside as it is on the inside.

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Think and Dream New Ideas: Yukiko Nezu

Architect, Yukiko Nezu started her first design company called URBANBERRY DESIGN after her graduation. The name explains that small scale projects are like berries and that she puts seeds in urban contexts which will grow in the future. I would like to continue this design office for my art work besides the work for NEZU AYMO architects.

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Cool Showroom in Tokyo

Spinning Objects by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This is a renovation project for a hotel fixture showroom. The showroom displays a huge amount of goods and if the numbers are ever increased, the space is designed to be spatially and visually pleasing.

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The Process of Creating: Tetsutaro Nakabayashi

Tokyo based, Tetsutaro Nakabayashi, is a design director and a product designer. In 1988 Nakabayashi graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, and until 1997, he belonged to the Product Design Division of Masayuki Kurokawa Architect & Associates. After that he has established his own studio, namely Tetsutaro Design.

When I was studying design at Kuwasawa Design School in 1988, I came across the works of Mr. Masayuki Kurokawa: a designer who was working both in the architecture and the product design field. I was strongly attracted by the fascination and the possibility of product design and this encounter became the opportunity to be involved in product design. Read More...

Exemplifying a City’s Commitment to Sustainability

SANTA MONICA CIVIC CENTER PARKING STRUCTURE by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners in Santa Monica, California
The design team was challenged to create a building that exemplified the city's commitment to sustainable design while strengthening the urban fabric and providing public facilities. Intended as an integral part that completes a quadrant of civic buildings, the new structure will provide 900 parking spaces on six levels above grade and two below grade while visually uniting the tableau of diverse buildings. Read More...

3,000 High-End Units in Chongqing’s Central Business District

Chun Sen Bi An Masterplan & Housing in Chongqing, China
currently in design

The master plan and housing is situated just west of Chongqing’s newly developing Central Business District: This 13.8-hectare (30-acre) site has views to the south across the Jialing River to central Chongqing. Read More...

Presentation that Entertains rather than just Show

A Design of exhibition and communication campaign of Spain Emotion. The colorful exhibition shows more than 50 products of Spanish design during Tokyo Designer's Week.


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The Joy Of Drinking Coffee

This project was focused on the most social and human side of objects surrounding coffee and the situations created around it. Presented are a collection of everyday objects that provoke social interaction on a natural and simple manner, with familiar situations interpreted in an unexpected way. Concept and direction by Héctor Serrano Studio, objects designed by gradutes from the Industrial Design department of UCH-CEU.
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Social Aspects of Bread

Our Daily Bread: Héctor Serrano Studio
Client: UCH-CEU.

Problems waiting to be solved, can be find anywhere and in any shape, even when it comes to bread. UCH-CEU's design graduates had a project called “Our Daily Bread”, which was focused on bread as a social element and the task was to discover the more social aspects of this very familiar food type.
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10 things Sun Tzu can Teach You about Creative Strategy

51 Aspects of Creative Strategy You Must Know!

7 Ways You can be a Good Leader

10 things Niccolò Machiavelli can Teach you about Creative Strategy

The Power of One Shot: Hirano Aichi

Catching daily life: Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Be bold and aim high

The Secret to Effectiveness

Vision, the power of anticipation

Rie Isono: Be Open, Ideas Come in Daily Life

Experimenting with the Nature of Performing Art: Buffer Space

Know Your Strength & Focus

Living a Creative Life: Fumie Shibata

The Way Architect Anna Nakamura Works

Great Architecture Begins with a Promise: Max Strang

Combining Visual Art & Music

Experimenting with Porosity

8 linked towers forming an urban experience

People Trust Your Vision: Keisuke Fujiwara

Follow the Entire Design Process of ASSAY OFFICE London

I Am The Problem

Casa Manifesto: 85 % of Recycled, Reused and Eco-friendly materials

Jeong- Eun Lee: Design requires Heart and Sweat

Bioclimatic & Modular Architecture: Infiniski’s lofts

SLEEPBOX- Comfortable Urban Infrastructure

The Berg, Urbanized Nature in Berlin

Kenneth Nilson: How one Shape can Develop into Numerous Designs

House-sized Apartments in Sunshine Beach

BIG Wins Competition for The World Village of Women Sports

Renaissance in Florence

51 Pieces from the Renaissance

Pascal Grasso

SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL ENERGY MANSION

Slussen

Jung Myung Taek

Talia Radford

Marc Canadell’s Nightingale House

Water Lily

Ori Ben-Zvi