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Microsoft disponibiliza o Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16237

A Microsoft anunciou hoje via Windows Blog, a disponibilização de uma nova Build do Windows 10 para PC via Fast Ring, no âmbito do Windows Insider Program.

A Build 16237 trás as habituais correções de bugs identificados na Build anterior, com destaque para os problemas nas definições do PC reset que provocavam reboots em loop, problemas em algumas UWP que não tinham as live tiles a funcionar…

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Talking About Logo &Typeface of Teabox

Jen and her team, Pentagram worked closely with Teabox founder to develop the new identity for Teabox brand. The tea company located at Siliguri, Darjeeling and it’s all started by understanding the tea from all possible aspects.  Given an opportunity to have an eye-opening visual experience to see how the tea is actually created and transported. Pentagram started to create and develop a custom made typography for “Teabox Stencil” typeface to deliver the traditional tea-crate aesthetically.

Custom made typeface called “Teabox Stencil” is use to deliver the traditional tea-crate for its logo and typography more aesthetically. To create a new identity brand with an authentic feeling of the typography, Pentagram present a contemporary mark by joining “T” and “B” letter to form a distinctive monogram icon, while anchoring it firmly in the history of the product.

Furthermore, a simplicity design also runs throughout the Teabox logo by make use the positive and negative space effectively to deliberate the new identity of its brand. Dealing with the proportion of typeface and monogram in relation to structure gives a color contrast. Furthermore, the nonlinear and stencil cut qualities of the icon are truly inspired by the tea production process that delivered with the luxury die cut detail finishes.

Reference:

Bersten, Ian. “The Story Behind Teabox New Brand Identity” The Logo &The Stencil Form. 8 November 2015.  Web,teabox.com/blog/teabox-brand-new-look. Accessed Date 22 September 2016.

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Talking About Twin Shape Design

This Private cemetery is built for a Singaporean businessman that located at Nanjing. This private cemetery designed as a public garden, that have a carefully balancing its private and public aspects, as well as the past and the future uses. The small heritage landscape includes lawns, a small lake, and a remediated pine forest. But among the landscape there two tiny structures are not programmed to provide points of appreciation to the natural and contemplate the cemetery as a memory space and reflection area.

 This double & clones tiny structure that designed as a part of the private cemetery at Nanjing, related to the Singapore-based architect Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker Shing book of “horror in Architecture”. Individual objects that are doubled, split or occupied to each other’s may consider as possibilities of architectural language, that shifting from a “natural” of each form to the awkward or distorted shape. The authors try to describe the theory of horror in architecture as the effect of horror to a modernity and modern architecture design.

 In this private cemetery that design by Lekker, also represent the element of the theory “horror in Architect” aspect by having an intersected part at the back of the two twin shape tiny structure. It’s intersected at some part of the structure and makes use the design language as the opening access to its structure.

Reference:

Author from lekker Website (anonymous). “Private Cemetery”. Web,http://lekker.sg/work/#!/private-cemetery. Access Date 21 September 2016.

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Talking About Material of Geodesic Dome

The philosopher, inventor, and architect Buckminster Fuller created a stunning architectural structure that known as, Geodesic dome. He studied the structure of shells and networking with economical cost, lighter, and stronger than traditional wood, brick, and any other stone building materials.

An invention was made to adapt to a nature environment by creating a spherical spider’s web structure because of its high strength to the weight ratio. Geodesic dome made of triangular elements that forming a great structural strength while using the least material. The similarity of the triangles shape makes the domes easier to construct and benefits by being structurally stronger.

The most impressive building among all of his geodesic dome was the eye-catching US Pavilion at Expo ‘67, the World Fair that held in Montreal. It captured the attention of futuristic architects around the world and originally sheathed in a thin acrylic and aluminum aircraft tubing but it was destroyed by fire in 1976. It has a visually more solid than the version that we experienced today. However, its represent a structural nakedness, that creates a beautifully transparency architectural design.

But on another hand, this spherical structure may also cause an efficiency problem in furnishing the spaces, because it will be hard to have a squares furniture into a round plan structure. The amateur domes also tended to leak when it rained, insufficient use of insulation that limited the energy efficiency, and inadequate numbers of skylights left interiors dreary. Moreover, the transparency outer structure of Geodesic domes gives beautiful looks and efficient in energy savings by having a full skylight view of the transparency structure. But it may cause non-privacy design toward the purpose of each building. However, this Geodesic dome is one of the best solutions to help a broken world with a quick, cheap, reliable, and self-supporting structure that can be easily constructed with a minimal amount of material.

Reference:

Luetzow, Ray. “Geodesic Dome” Raw Material. 18 July 2015. Web,madehow.com/Volume-6/Geodesic-Dome. Access 21 September 2016.

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Talking About Colors 

Pleats Please is one of the Brand collections from Issey Miyake in collaboration with one of Japanese graphic designer, Kazuma Nagai that launched by 2013. In this collaboration, Miyake’s goal is to create a new technical boundary of fabric with a concept of “Life”.

The clothes featured five main images with the five vibrant colors which were selected from a group of animal creatures that created in 1993 by Nagai “life” posters. It uses five bold colors to feature their five cute and colorful animals drawing with flourished of humor in red, blue, yellow, green and purple to adorn the brand design.

To celebrate and promote a new release of this new collaboration brand, Issey Miyake also designed a one-week pop-up store. In terms of translating the series of the clothing design into a spatial concept experience, Fujiwara uses and play with various geometries of the graphic shape in making the architectural details. Some of the animal shapes have been extruded into a sculpture and voided out of the partition with the creatures shape.

This technique is to manipulate the view cross of the whole plain and white gallery to display the cloth. Deliberating the use of white color to the whole store design creates a contrast vibrant colors that have an eye-catching look across the white plain store that also to express a bright and cheerful character of Pleats Please cloth from its color usage. Moreover, it also helps to bring the two-dimensional creatures represent to life with its pop up colors in a white background.

Reference:

Author from Designboom (Anonymous).” pleats please issey miyake + nagai pop-up shop by keisuke fujiwara. 5 November 2014. Web.designboom.com/design/keisuke-fujiwara-kazumasa-nagai-pleats-please. Accessed 22 September 2016.