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Erin Lolcama's talk will give on overview about the upholstery trade, it's history and origins and how she got started and eventually trained as a professional upholsterer. This section will include her observations and stories about her store such as: "What people leave behind in their furniture might surprise you", "Are booger collections okay to leave for your upholsterer to clean up?", and "That's not cat pee on your chair, that's Grand Pa's pee".
I'm guessing the cruise-ship-riding populace is not our core audience, but after reading that Norwegian Cruise Lines won the Travel & Leisure Design Awards 2011 for Best Transportation I started poking around their site. The photo galleries on NCL's site show that the rooms (designed by product, transportation and environments design firm Priestmangoode) are expectedly sumptuous, but what I really dug was that they show all the floorplans, from the cheapest "studio" room (below) up to the super-expensive penthouses (above).
While it's not exactly ApartmentTherapy, the floorplans do show how to cram a lot of stuff into a really tight space using angles and curves, and occasionally inside a non-rectangular footprint. The NCL website makes it impossible to see all of the floorplans at once, so we've pulled them down for you to see here. Hit the jump for the rest of 'em.
User experience book publisher Rosenfeld Media has announced two new books-in-development that ought to be interesting to many Core77 readers. The Art and Craft of User Research Interviewing, by Core77 columnist Steve Portigal, will help designers of all types learn how to interview users more effectively. Steve deemphasizes relying upon set questions, and instead focuses on ways to build true rapport during interviews. The other title, Make It So, by CCA Design Strategy chair Nathan Shedroff and Cooper director Chris Noessel, will plumb science fiction film and television for interaction design lessons and inspiration.
Rosenfeld Media also has many other relevant titles in their pipeline, including Service Design (by Core77 columnist Andy Polaine and live|work's Ben Reason and Lavrans Løvlie), The Mobile Frontier (by Nokia's Rachel Hinman), and Agile Experience Design (by Anders Ramsay). To keep up with their new titles, visit the Rosenfeld Media site for a full list, signing up for their newsletter, or following them on Twitter (@rosenfeldmedia).
We're loving Netherlands-based designer Dieter Volkers' incorporation of squishiness into his product designs.
His Door Claxon is both a doorknob and, oriented correctly, an amusing replacement for the doorbell:
His Clamps combine a simple spring clamp with gonad-like grippers:
And his Softball Lamp and Ball Clamp lights, though instinctively painful for men to look at, provide a pleasingly soft light emanating from inside the balls.
Here's the latest creative project funded by crowdsourcing, but this one's not another Kickstarter ID project. Instead, as the DetroitNeedsRoboCop.com website gives away in the title, it's an attempt to reinvigorate Detroit by erecting a statue of the cyborg po-po. And it's garnered fifty grand in just six days.
The unusual fund-raising effort sprang from a question posed to Detroit's mayor on Twitter last week by "a random dude in Massachusetts," who proposed that the city celebrate "RoboCop" the same way Philadelphia does "Rocky," according to the project's Web site....
"Sometimes it takes a RoboCop to show a different way to do things," said Mr. Paffendorf, a 29-year-old Internet entrepreneur [who helped organize the campaign]. "My hope is that it sets an example and puts this kind of funding on the map, so when people see big problems, they can think, 'If crazy people raised $50,000 for a RoboCop statue, we can certainly raise more to take on something bigger.' "
I guess it's possible a statue of RoboCop could somehow ease Detroit's psychological woes; after all, the RoboCop on a Unicorn project has lifted my spirits innumerable times.
Over the past ten years Nokia made massive inroads in developing countries, bringing cell phones into rural villages and desert plains. They seemed unstoppable, and at one point they were selling 437 million units a year, which translates to 14 phones per second. They had high-end models too, before the iPhone came around and started taking bites out of that market. And now, one former insider I cannot name points out that Nokia is "going to have their lunch eaten" by Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers that have quickly ramped up their capabilities, much as Japanese auto manufacturers caught Detroit unawares in the '70s and effected an irreversible slide.
One shock troop in the cell phone war is Huawei's Android-based IDEOS, above, which launched late last year and quickly sold over a million units. Starting today it's being offered in the massive Indian market so that figure will only grow. Earlier this month Nokia famously generated some not-so-good press with the circulation of their embattled CEO's "Burning Platform" memo, so they're apparently aware of the threat; but is it too late?
One encouraging sign (maybe) for Nokia: Following news of the Indian launch, Huawei's webpage for the IDEOS is currently crashed. Demand for the phone is either higher than anticipated or Huawei doesn't yet have everything together.
Erin Lolcama's talk will give on overview about the upholstery trade, it's history and origins and how she got started and eventually trained as a professional upholsterer. This section will include her observations and stories about her store such as: "What people leave behind in their furniture might surprise you", "Are booger collections okay to leave for your upholsterer to clean up?", and "That's not cat pee on your chair, that's Grand Pa's pee".
Erin will bring in one of her pieces to demonstrate basic upholstery techniques and talk about the evolution from her first shop, Sit on it, which was a conventional upholstery shop, using petroleum based foams, polyester battings, and fabrics of unknown origins to the current shop, Acanthus, which uses natural latex, organic battings, and most of their fabrics are milled in the US and are free of toxic treatments. The work room smells good too!!
Gary Hustwit, the man behind beloved design documentaries Helvetica and Objectified has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help finish up his newest film, Urbanized. The third of Hustwit's "design trilogy," this new project explore the design of cities.
Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, featuring some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. I've teamed up once again with cinematographer Luke Geissbuhler, and we've been traveling around the world interviewing people and filming specific urban design projects that represent the issues facing cities today. The world's population is in the midst of a massive migration to urban areas, and the design solutions our cities implement in the next 20 years will be critical.
Backers will receive nice design-centered gifts, including options for the director's cut of Helvetica, the design trilogy box set, and a beautiful set of Urbanized silkscreen prints by Build representing mobility, housing, public space, and infrastructure.
Support Hustwit and Urbanizedhere and watch a preview for the film below!
In a bid to reinvigorate their product design line, Italian fashion house Trussardi has tapped British designer Michael Young to collaborate with them on, well, something. They don't specify what, though the fact they're planning on unveiling the unnamed collection at the Milan Furniture Fair in April suggests furniture or maybe tableware. The video teaser is pretty vague and seems to have been recorded on a cell phone or low-quality cam, but at least you can hear Young's voice, for those of us who have only seen him in photographs.
In decades past, most notably in the '80s and '90s, Trussardi Design put their stamp on everything from bicycles and scooters to telephones and airplane interiors. Whatever they produce this time will be produced in China, as Young indicates in the teaser; the designer is known for embracing Chinese manufacturing, having moved his studio five years ago to Hong Kong to be closer to the action.
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