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Études x adidas

10 September 2018 in Fashion Comment

Part of adidas’ Consortium project which commissions brands to develop their visionary ideas, Études implements a progressive feel for aesthetics and creates an individual design of the high-performance running shoe UltraBOOST. Alongside adidas’ exclusive technologies for the shoe model, we bring in our distinctive elements; namely the color blue, the recurring theme of European stars, and a pattern of the brand’s capital É that discreetly reappears in a patchwork of different weaving techniques.
Accompanying the UltraBOOST, a pack-away rain coat was additionally designed—once again echoing the functional and minimal.

Études

Tacchini Design Being

7 September 2018 in Books Comment

Tacchini Design Being

For a company like Tacchini, communication is key. We have designed many tools to show customers who we are and what we do, from which we choose according to our audience, and we keep them updated year by year.

Among the tools Tacchini has published in 2018, the most engaging is the new T’18 catalogue, divided into two volumes (vol. A: sofas and modular system – vol. B: armchairs, ottomans, chaise longues, chairs, stools and tables), and the first Tacchini Edizioni catalogue – the Tacchini group project dedicated to the production of furnishings and accessories – as well as a new website, a new platform with many added features, to keep up with all the news about the Tacchini world.

Tacchini

Le petit livre de la mer (2) — Fausto Barrica Cantone

7 September 2018 in Books Comment

Le petit livre de la mer
Fausto Barrica Cantone

The book is available with two different covers.

Publisher: Self Published
Photography by: Fausto Barrica Cantone & Agathe Simão
Contributor: Andrea Lanzafame
Designer: Victor Fonseca
Printed in Portugal
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 20,5 cm X 15 cm
Pages: 222
ISBN: 978-989-208550

Fausto Barrica Cantone

Le petit livre de la mer — Fausto Barrica Cantone

7 September 2018 in Books Comment

Le petit livre de la mer
Fausto Barrica Cantone

The book is available with two different covers.

Fausto Barrica Cantone

A Very Serious Cookbook: Contra Wildair

1 September 2018 in Books Comment

A Very Serious Cookbook: Contra Wildair (Pre-Order)

Jeremiah Stone and Fabián von Hauske with Alison Roman

The first cookbook by the wunderkind New York chef duo Jeremiah Stone and Fabián von Hauske of Contra and Wildair.

This is the story of two places beloved by chefs and foodies worldwide – Lower East Side tasting-menu restaurant Contra, and its more casual sister, Wildair. The book exudes the spirit of collaboration and exploration that inspires the chefs’ passionately seasonal cooking style, boundary-pushing creativity, and love of natural wine. Narratives explore how and why they developed their signature dishes – many of which are ideal for creative home cooks – and are full of their distinctive wit and personality.

A Very Serious Cookbook: Contra Wildair includes a foreword by US comedian and wine lover Eric Wareheim; 85 recipes organized into chapters: Always (mainstay, non-seasonal); Sometimes (hyper-seasonal, guest chef collaborations, international travel inspiration); Never (dishes on the menu once, not existent yet, all important); and Pantry. Photos of plated food, the restaurant, its locality, and travel bring the restaurant and its dishes to life.

Contra and Wildair have received several Best New Restaurant nods and major acclaim from the New York Times, Saveur, Bon Appétit, and Eater, among many others.

Format: Hardback
Size: 270 x 205 mm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in)
Pages: 256 pp
Illustrations: 120 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714876023

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VNIITE: Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design

31 August 2018 in Books Comment

VNIITE: Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design

Authors: Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina
Editor: Mark Sinclair
Design: Spin

Edition of 2000

We are delighted to announce that VNIITE – Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design is now available to pre-order. Written by the Moscow Design Museum’s Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina, the book tells the previously untold story of the VNIITE – the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics.

Formed in Soviet Russia in 1962, by the design visionary Yuri Soloviev, this vast network contained Moscow’s most progressive designers. The ‘Vniitians’, as they were called, designed for the future and developed new theories and approaches to design in the USSR.

But more than ﬁfty years later, the organisation is all but forgotten. It’s hard to fathom how such an institution, dedicated to the promotion of utopian design, in theory and in practice, and the improvement of design standards within the Soviet Union, could have faded so far from view. After the disintegration of the USSR, the VNIITE and its library of images and prototypes were presumed lost.

Until now, that is. Thanks to the efforts of the Moscow Design Museum – and the discovery of the personal archives of some of the VNIITE designers – the story of this remarkable organisation is being pieced back together.

Alongside images of sketches, models and prototypes, the book also includes a selection of covers of one of the USSR’s hidden gems of graphic design – the VNIITE’s monthly journal, Technical Aesthetics. Showcased together for the first time, these covers chart Soviet graphic trends from the 1960s to the early 1990s.

In the pages of this book you can see some of the more compelling examples of utopian Soviet design. As the designer Paula Scher notes, the work offers a balance between ‘the communist desire for a perfectly-designed world against the real world of human competitiveness and inequality’.

Size: 240mm×170mm
Pages: 224
Print: Four colour litho
Cover: Foiled
ISBN: 978-1-9164573-0-0

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