Walls and a room

torsdag den 7. april 2011

Grøn skole

Et flot og meget innovativt tiltag fra BIG architecture, hvor de her kommer med et forslag til Vilhelmsro Folkeskole. Temaet er naturen og holdbarheden i at vælge dette.

Designboom

A beautiful and very innovative approach from BIG architecture, and here they show how to make Vilhelmsro Primary School. The theme is nature and sustainability.

DIY: Bogstavslampe

Da jeg faldt over en DIY om, hvordan man laver en lampe med bogstaver ville jeg lige dele den.

Materials

printed letter
3/16 foam core board
ruler
X-Acto knife
cutting mat
tape
pencil
a nickel
string of c7 LED lights
white mat board (should be white on both sides and have a white core)
hot glue
white glue or tacky glue

Instructions

1. Choose a font that you like for your letter. It should be bold. Enlarge it as big as you can while still fitting on one piece of printer paper. You can print it in gray so you don’t use a lot of ink.

2. Have the letter enlarged at a copy store. You can do it on a copy machine, or they can do it for you. The finished letter should be about 21 inches. If you are doing multiple letters, just make sure they are the same height.

3. Use a couple of pieces of tape to secure the enlarged letter to the sheet of foam core. Using the X-Acto knife and the cutting mat, follow the lines to cut the letter out of the foam core, using the ruler to help with straight lines. Try to keep the blade of the knife as perpendicular to the cutting mat as you can (this helps the side pieces go on smoothly).

4. Use the ruler to help mark the spots for your lights. Start at the points where the lights will intersect (such as where the leg of the E meets the back of the E). Space the lights as evenly as you can, keeping them about 2 inches apart. Just make sure you have enough bulbs on the string of lights for the number of holes in the letter.

5. With the X-Acto knife, cut out about a half-inch hole for each light and enlarge it by using a marker or wide pen. Use a nickel to press down the top layer of foam core and round out the hole to take the shape of the base of the light bulb.

6. If you are using regular bulbs, hold the socket to the back and screw the light bulb into the socket from the front. There must be a big enough opening for the bulb or it won’t screw in properly. If you are using LED bulbs, pull off the outer shell and snap it back on after inserting the LED light into the hole.

7. Insert the bulbs around the entire letter, tucking the cord as you go. End the plug of your cord in a convenient place to plug in your letter.

8. With the X-Acto knife, ruler and cutting mat, cut several long strips of the white mat board 3 inches wide.

9. Place the letter face down on a flat surface. All of the lights should be touching the flat surface. The light bulbs act as spacers, allowing the side panels to be applied uniformly.

10. Cut a strip of mat board to fit each side of the letter. Measure carefully and consider where the pieces will join and whether you will need an eighth of an inch extra to overlap at a corner to form a clean seam.

11. For the curved areas of letters, gently bend the mat board to take the curve of the letter you are working with and press the mat board against the edge of the letter to measure for the length needed.

12. To glue the side panels on, put a small bead of hot glue on the side of the foam core. With the edge of the 3-inch strip of mat board on the flat surface, press it against the edge of the foam core creating a 90-degree angle — remember, the bulbs act as spacers to get the panels on uniformly.

13. Work around the letter, applying the edging panels to all sides.

14. If you’d like, you can cut a small hole for the cord to pop through, but otherwise, you are done!

Design-sponge

Bogstaver

Jeg er helt forelsket i bogstaver og ville ønske jeg havde en lejlighed stor nok til at huse alle dem på de næste par billeder!

Kidimo, Graphic-Exhange

I love letters and I would wish for someday to have an appartment big enough to fit all of the letters on the next few pictures!

Hvil hovedet på en sommerfugl

Sy søde bløde sommerfuglepuder af stofrester fra gemmerne. Du bestemmer selv størrelsen...

Du skal bruge: To slags stof, tråd, saks, blyant, symaskine og fyldevat (bl.a. fra Panduro Hobby).
Vælg to forskellige dejlige stoffer, der giver kontrast til hinanden.

Sådan gør du:
1.
Print og forstør tegningen nedenfor til ønsket størrelse, og overfør dem til vrangsiden af stofferne. Klip 2 stk. krop, 2 stk. store cirkler, 2 stk. små cirkler og 1 stk. ‘stang’ til kroppen.

2.
Placer cirkler og ‘stang’ på den ene krops retside, og zigzag dem fast med store sting.

3.
2 stk. krop ret mod ret, og sy dem sammen med 1 cm’s sømrum, men lad en lille åbning stå. Vend stoffet, fyld bamsefyld i betrækket, og sy åbningen til i hånden.

(Gyngestolen er Eames’ Rar stol, der bl.a. fås hos Casanova Møbler. Resten er privateje.)

[Bolig Liv - Foto: Mette Wotkjær]

Louise Campbell

Den meget talentfulde designer, Louise Campbell, bliver her vist i et interview hvor hun fortæller om sit samarbejde med hhv. Louis Poulsen, Kulturministeriet og Royal Copenhagen.

Hun har stået bag en stor række design succeser og er bestemt en kreativ sjæl der er værd at følge. Derfor synes jeg også dette interview er en spændende indsigt ind i hendes arbejde og arbejdsprocesser.

Vimeo

The very talented designer, Louise Campbell, is telling about her cooperation with the danish companies Louis Poulsen and Royal Copenhagen and finally the Ministery of Culture.

She has created a long line of design successes and is most definitely a creative soul that is worth keeping an eye out for. That is why I think this interview is a very interesting look into her work and work processes.