Zonic Vision Office Thailand by Stu/D/O Architects

crisp glazing system and detailing. m.

With the attempt to reveal the agenda of the building through its skin, Stu/D/O Architects treated the Zonic Vision Office incommensurate to its intelligible names, Zonic and Vision; by transforming this Sound System and GPS provider company to become tangible. In term of Zonic, it gave a clarified definition of audible wave having a speed approaching in the air, meanwhile interpreting the meaning of Vision as the faculty of sight. Architecture, finally, was delivered by conformingsound to vision using the concept of the Equalizer. To reach people perception, Stu/D/O Architects turned this dynamic electronic signal of sound frequency components into architecture by using various intensity of the glazing façade.

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Polythread Knitted Textile Pavilion by Jenny Sabin Studio

fantastic exhibit at nyc’s cooper hewitt, smithsonian design museum. m.

from now until august 21, 2016, the cooper hewitt, smithsonian design museum presents the fifth installment of its design triennial, this year under the theme of ‘beauty’. with a focus on aesthetic innovation, the exhibition features more than 250 works by 63 international designers and teams, and is organized across seven categories — extravagant, intricate, ethereal, transgressive, emergent, elemental, and transformative. 
 
as part of the ‘emergent’ sector — a selection of projects that employ digital systems to generate unexpected forms — jenny sabin studio has conceived the ‘polythread knitted textile pavilion’ specifically for this exhibition in new york.

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Video — Meizu’s ’Gravity’ Wireless Speaker by Hironao Tsuboi

stunning design and detailing. definitely on my to-buy list! m.

meizu’s ’gravity’ by hironao tsuboi is a wireless speaker with a deceiving floating body and display while continuously providing high quality sound from a small package. what stands out the most, is the heads-up screen prism the creates the illusion of floating above the ground. 
 
‘the concept of ‘missing design’ is to reduce the boundary and existence of an object and to blur the edges of such object, which helps the object fit in with the environment,’ explains hironao tsuboi. ‘as in gravity, the smart use of prism helps reduce the outlines of the screen, letters and symbols. as a result, music information seems to be floating in mid air. the design as a whole aims to help users forget about gravity, but keep the sense of balance.’ 
 
the small-sized speaker uses a complex optical reflection formula to present the album art and track information. meizu partnered with dirac to accumulate 20 years of experience for an ultimate acoustic experience. ‘gravity’ encompasses an amplifier and is paired with a dual passive resonance membrane for a more vigorous low-frequency output.
 
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Abstract Industrial Minimalist Photography by Stuart Allen

beautiful works by the uk based artist. m.

Stuart Allen is a talented photographer from Bradford, UK, who by day travels the world for work. Stuart focuses on minimalist, colorful and abstract vision of urban architecture and cities. “I was raised on film SLR’s, but fully embraced the digital world in the early 2000’s,” he says. “I am not scholared in photography or art, but seem to see things that most would simply pass by.”

For over 30 years, Stuart Allen captures stunning patterns of Architecture.

In the 1980’s and 1990’s, my photographic style would probably have been described as urban exploration, using grainy black and white film to emphasise the dereliction found in many northern and midland UK cities at that time. In the 2000’s my style changed more to urban abstract work. However, it wasn’t until 2013 that my love of urban minimal and abstract photography came to the fore.

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