A positive energy amphibious garden to clean European waterways, designed by Vincent Callebaut, the “Physalia” project is an architectural prototype that aims at meeting the need of the mutualisation of the knowledge in terms of sustainable management of the water resource. It is a half aquatic and half earthly amphibious vessel, a floating agora which has not only the objective on a geopolitical scale to deal with ecology ad water saving, but also on a European scale, to elaborate strategic solutions to animate the fluvial network.
UNIQLO与时装设计师Jil Sander女士合作的“+J”系列2010年春夏新款，2009年圣诞前就在亚洲地区上市，欧美的上市时间定在2010年1月中旬。这次设计师推出三个概念：Iconic Simplicity（代表性的简约时尚）、Natural Nobility（自然的品味）、Clarity and Lightness（鲜明感和轻快感）。这一季的广告硬照携手模特Iselin Steiro和Benoni Loos，依然由摄影师David Sims拍摄。
After 55 years in publication, America’s foremost design publication, I.D Magazine (not UK fashion title i-D) has folded. I.D. was the oldest product design magazine in the US (since 1954), its yearly design competition, the Annual Design Review, was the oldest and biggest design competition in America, and had been operating ever since I.D.’s inception. F+W, I.D.’s publisher, plans on continuing the event and publishing the results online. Meanwhile, I.D.’s sister magazine print (The oldest design magazine in the US since 1940) will stay open.
Self-portraits of incredible strength and beauty, young photographer Clare Bottomley became fascinated by Greek mythology. To an extent these fables depict how we live our lives by deeming what we think is right or wrong. She applied this moralistic simplicity to modern society where sometimes morals can be lost behind a barricade of political correctness, bureaucracy and within personal relationships.
Young photographer Muiread MacNabb shot these jockeys, who symbolise warriors going out to battle or the hero of the day, if they win. They are mainly young boys who have a passion for riding horses.
A new wave of Chinese musicians is taking Beijing by storm, they now constitute a fresh, independent voice in a country renowned for creative conformity and saccharine Cantonese pop. In Sound Kapital, freelance photographer Matthew Niederhauser captures the energy of the performers involved in this innovative orgy gripping Beijing’s music underground. BTW, there are some morbid but engrossing illustrations by Chinese illustrator and graphic novelist Chairman Ca 张诗浩 in this book.
