Thanks to Elisha and Rowdy for waking me up in the middle of the night with this exciting image.  Being 2 of my closest collaborators they recognised the nimble fingers behind this hilarious hat that I made on commission for Gaga to wear in her new Telephone video with Beyonce.Thanks Nicola Formichetti for supporting new British Designers..........I think the whole of London are at her beck and call.............."call" being the operative word with this crazy telephone hat..............(sorry for the bad joke...........i won't be giving up the day job!...........and what a magic job when I'm asked to design and make things like this!)
For anyone intrigued as to the exact style of receivers that i sourced to implement.................... it is a couple of "Trim" phones that I dissected from a fantastic company Abdy Retro Telephones.
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© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

Architects: Akio Nakasa / naf architect & design
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Program: single family residence
Site area: 250.21 sqm
Building area: 105.88 sqm
Total floor area: 179.11 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

This is a project of one family living in two houses built slightly apart from one another.

One great volume of a house which covers the entire plot was supposed first.

model diagrams

sections

Then this volume was carved in a curve in three segments and two volumes at the both ends were built as two houses on the site.

The wood structures and finishing materials of two houses are standardized t...

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DNA

Last month, I mentioned how much I was looking forward to the Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen’s forthcoming show at my gallery. In the cycle of gallery life, we’ve now posted the press release, uploaded the pictures on the gallery website, designed the invitation card, and the prints are at the framer’s. So now it’s time for my blog preview.

I met Viviane Sassen when we were fellow judges at the 2007 Hyeres Photo Festival, but as sometimes happens on these large panels, we barely got to know each other. I lost track of her for a while and then in November of 2008, a show of new work she had done in Africa opened at FOAM (Photo Museum of Amsterdam). A kind of collaborative portrait, these pictures were on one level connected to Sassen’s childhood experience of living in Kenya, and on another level dealt with everything from photography’s depiction of race to an exploration of colo...

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Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2010 show

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I am not generally a collector of things. I have never been overwhelmed by the power of the object, I guess, what it boils down to is that I’m just not materialistic. Anyway, this past Saturday, I was meant to meet a friend from New York in London (I haven’t seem him since I was 16), and as I was walking in to the train station he phoned to say there had been some delay, and that it would be best to meet up on Monday.


Well, I was all set to go to London, and suddenly found myself with the entire afternoon on my hands with nothing to do. Of course, like any good New Yorker, I headed into town to get a coffee, and figure out what I was going to do next – wow the joys of free time, a very rare thing in my life!

When I looked around the corner, I saw some signs for an Antique Fair, so I thought that I would give it a go. As I said, I’ve never really been a person that interested in collecting (although, I must admit Marti...

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Some much anticipated updates.

1. We made a website for the AIGA design archives. You can find a detailed case study I wrote about the process right here. You can find the design archives and all 20,000+ records at this address: http://designarchives.aiga.org. The image above is a Toy box made by Chermayeff & Geismar.

2. We made New Year’s cards for friends & family. The cards are crafted from scratch with hand-made teabags tucked in the pouch.

3. Typical Day in the Pacific Northwest, no. 1

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The two best thing about Purple: Purple Naked and the dinners

Sunday night and it is action packed....There's the Purple dinner at Nur Khan's new Kenmare then the flock...uhm..bisects to head off to Butt or to run to a Guns n Roses gig at Rose Bar. Expect it to be gorged to the gills with models.

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One look of a nothing-new-to-report show from the Diane Von Furstenberg Fall/Winter 2010/11, Bryant Park, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

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Asor. Photographs by Graciela Iturbide. Steidl, 2008. 200 pp., 115 tritone illustrations., 8¼x8¼". Special edition available from Steidl.

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide examines everyday life, her photographs almost always in black and white. Taking her inspiration from photographers such as Josef Koudelka, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado and Álvarez Bravo, she became interested in the daily life of Mexico's indigenous people and their cultures. She has photographed in Mexico City, Juchitán, Oaxaca and on the Mexican/American border.

In 'Asor' however "the human subject is the reader alone, dream borne, on a journey in which all places remain nameless, time cannot be ascertained and the course is lost to the imagination.

Loosely inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Iturbide constructs her intimate and contemporary extension of Lewis Carroll...

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Attending her first Margiela show in the 1980s with her mother Melka, French stylist Delphine Tréanton has a long history with the house. Delphine is one of the top stylists and ex-French Glamour editor, and today her contributions grace the pages of magazines such as French Vogue, FEMMES, Madame Figaro and more.

For her contribution to A#1, Delphine worked with photographer Eric Traoré, to create a stunning series of x-ray style images of Maison Martin Margiela garments, transforming them into ghostly artworks. The delicate play of shadows and the exposure of all layers of fabric creates a skeletal effect, as though they are scientific or mathematical drawings of the clothes. The signature stitches and labels of the house are clearly visible in the im...

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