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Visitors place their coats on hangers attached to ropes on pulleys, which they hoist into the air and secure with a lock.  A brilliant concept that makes storing your coat a part of the whole visit. Also a great reflection on the seemingly not so security conscious Dutch. (more…)

Yusuke Hara (DesignKit) have utilised the laws of visual perception to create a store interior where multiple brands can live alongside each other, whilst retaining their own brand identity. Well thought-out angles create a submersive brand experience for the shopper at many focal points of their journey. I particularly like the idea of a false perspective viewpoint from within the store leading to the window display.

Hara’s hope is that the approach of “scramble perpective” will create brand intersections that give rise to new fashion coordination ideas. For more info see bustler

Renowned for making eye catching but ultimately unachievable design solutions the architect firm has achieved a built structure in the UK for the Manchester International Design festival. The tensile structure was built in collaboration with Tony Hogg Design Ltd a tensile structure engineer (also responsible for the retractable roof at Wimbledon) and Acoustic consultants Sandy Brown Associates.  Collaborations were in place from the very start, which has resulted in much praise for its acoustic performance.

The fluid Zaha Handid styling unifies the space, intertwining performance, audience and passageways to make a intimate and unique concert experience. Best of all entry is free and the installation is designed to travel, which means you can wait for it to come to you.

If this guy looks smug it’s because he has turned his childhood Hong Kong flat into a HK$1.3million apartment featuring 24 rooms. He has documented the 30 year process in a book called “My 32m2 Apartment”. I’m guessing alot can be learnt from Mr Chang.

I’ve been away for a bit, but found some things of interest on my travels. I got this one from a cafe paper in Vietnam.

This table is a project created by the students at UIUC to give peoples conversations visual representation.  Microphones record an ongoing conversation, graphing the audio in concentric rings, differentiating voices by color. The further inward the rings, the further back in the conversation. Patterns reveal themselves such as individual people not speaking, interrupting, dominating, etc. Arguments and group silences become immediately tangible. A projector displays the data on a table in front of the participants. (more…)