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Wrapped Garment

Wrapped Garment is a fashion meets art project by Jungeun Lee a designer from The Royal College of Art in London and The Tama University in Japan that involves experimenting with different materials to create beautiful and unique materials and textures for clothing.

“I have been experimenting and researching unconventional methods of creating garments. The technique I have developed can also can be applied to create products. Wrapping synthetic fibre around a desired form or chosen objects fascinates me. Through a heating process, wound fibre transformes itself into a 3-dimensional moulded garment bringing expected and unexpected sculptural silhouettes.”

 

www.studiokoya.com

 

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Interior Design

Wanderlust Hotel Singapore

Wanderlust Hotel in Singapore is a left-field and totally experimental boutique hotel set to draw madcap voyagers and curious travellers to its doorstep. Located in Little India – a bustling cultural enclave where Indian immigrants once settled, and the building was originally an old school built it 1920s.

With four thematic levels of 29 rooms by award winning Singapore design agencies, each group was given full creative freedom.

Lobby Level: Industrial Glam by Asylum
Level 2: Eccentricity by phunk Studio
Level 3: Is it just Black and White by DP Architects
Level 4: Creature Comforts by fFurious

 

2 Dickson Road, Singapore 209494

 

www.wanderlusthotel.com

 

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Design

IBM Executive Briefing Center

 

The IBM Executive Briefing Center, located in Rome created by Iosa Ghini Associati and completed in 2010, was inspired on the “strips” of the IBM logo.

Via Design Milk: The IBM briefing program is designed to provide professionally managed events and to maximize the value of time that customers spend in IBM. Any “briefing” usually includes presentations and demonstrations to bring customers to run events which they participate. Listening, discussing and illustrating how the new IBM technologies can be helpful in facing and resolving technical and business issues, make people away from the traditional concept of communication, to get closer to a place of useful comparison: a new agora. Using technology, Iosa Ghini is able to communicate that this is a place in which ideas for the future of technology and business are being discussed and presented.

 

www.iosaghini.it

 

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Eco Design

WOW Water Sterilizer

WOW Water Sterilizer is an electronic cleaner for fruits and vegetables that uses the power of electrolysis to get rid of bacteria and dirt without the need of using soap, or other special food detergents. The Water Sterilizer, designed by Korean tech company Kyowon, can also be used to clean kitchen utensils and baby toys.

 

www.kyowonlnc.com

 

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Architecture

Sugamo Bank

Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture have designed the Shimura Branch of the Sugamo Shinkin Bank in Tokyo, Japan.

A rainbow-like stack of 12 colored layers, peeking out from the facade to welcome visitors. Upon entering the building, three elliptical skylights bathe the interior in a soft light. Visitors spontaneously look up to see a cut-out piece of the sky that invites them to gaze languidly at it. The open sky and sensation of openness prompts you to take deep breaths, refreshing your body from within. The ceiling is adorned with dandelion puff motifs that seem to float and drift through the air. Three long glass airwells thread through the first and second levels of the building, flooding the interior with natural light as well as “blowing” air through it.

 

www.emmanuelle.jp

 

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Art

Bureaucratics

 

Bureaucratics is a project by photographer Jan Banning consisting of a book and exhibition containing 50 photographs, the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. It is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of political, historical and cultural considerations: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen.

Jan Banning was born in The Netherlands in 1954, from Dutch-East-Indies immigrant parents. He studied social and economic history at the University of Nijmegen and has been working as a photographer since 1981.

 

www.janbanning.com

 

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Industrial Design

Aura Hydration Vessel

 

RKS Design developed Aura the new bottle by KOR Water. Aura Hydration Vessel design is simple ergonomic and futuristic, it features a spoiler handle and a hygienic “Perfect Spout” one of KOR Water innovations. The Vessel is made with Eastman Tritan and polypropylene and comes in four colors. Aura is the most economic Hydration Vessel produced by KOR available for 14.95 dollars each.

From KOR: “We love a design challenge. That’s why we decided to create a vessel that exceeded our standards for style and performance, while also offering great value. Its inviting twist-off cap shields the mouthpiece from germs and dirt. Its sleek, tapered profile is pleasing. And its Perfect Spoutâ„¢ is a delight to drink from.”

 

www.korwater.com

 

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