Madam Bottwright's Bureau by Mike Kann & Tim Burrell-Saward. Madam Bottwright's Bureau is a restored reproduction Victorian bureau embedded with LED's, potentiometers, rotary encoders and piezo transducers to playfully help tell the story of it's owner, a Victorian era madam. (Click the images below for full sized images) Madam Bottwright's Bureau with all drawers locked. The bureau was recently been shown at Tom Dixon's Dock Kitchen during London Design Week. It ss embedded with various electronic components to create an interactive object that tells the story of it's owner through hidden artifacts that only reveal themselves through play and exploration.
Match the colours of the top(blue) and bottom(red) LEDs to unlock a drawer. The project was developed in collaboration with Tim Burrell-Saward and is a one-off piece commissioned for the first Traces exhibition in August 2012. Enter a combination code of three times with the clock hand to unlock a different drawer. Knock the rhythm of "Shave and a haircut, two pence" to open the last drawer. ArchiExpo - The Virtual Architecture Exhibition: kitchen, bathroom, lighting, furniture, office ... Theories behind Japanese Design. A warm welcome to you dear reader!
If you have not already, why not subscribe to The Design Sojourn Newsletter and get my latest thoughts on Strategies for Good Design conveniently delivered right to your inbox? It's free! You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook as well. Thanks for visiting and please keep in touch? Aen, the guy who banged out the design of this site has an interesting write up of the theories behind the Japanese approach to design and aesthetics. Also called Wabi – Sabi (I know I had to re-read it after thinking it was Wasabi too), the Zen principles of Aesthetics are derived from the Buddhism beliefs of Anicca or Impermanence where “everything, without exception, is constantly in flux, even planets, stars and gods”. Source: Aen Direct It’s pretty interesting, more so if you read each principle while mentally refering it with your favorite Naoto Fukasawa design or any Japanese design for that matter.
Powerful stuff to start your design day with. Love this post? The Chromatic Typewriter. Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter. Callahan submitted the beautiful typewriter as part of the 2012 West Prize competition, an annual art prize that’s determined by popular vote. I don’t know how practical painting an image with a color typewriter is, but if Keira Rathbone can do it… (via dark silence in suburbia) Themes | List. Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource / home. Gajitz | Awesome Gajitz, Weird Science & Futuristic Technology. עיצוב תעשייתי - מי בכלל צריך מעצב?
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