X-Ray Kitchen

Ever the hybrid architect, artist and minimalist designer, Jean Nouvel has accomplished a great deal with this design idea – the find-anything functionality of see-through cabinetry, the animated and ever-changing artistry of light and dark shapes and the naturally and of course the built-in lighting itself that can illuminate the kitchen background while you cook.

Petal Dress

 The fabric indoors,

 The fabric outdoors under UV light. 

Vibrant jewel hues printed on lustrous fabrics transform in colour outside during the day and glow vivid blue under UV light to take the wearer seamlessly from day-to-night.

Thunderstorm Dress

One company which is now crossing the boundary from concept pieces to mainstream products is Rainbow Winters. The fashion label focuses on interactive clothing which fuses the cutting edge of science with the high-art of fashion. The central theme in her work explores interaction- reaction, response and process.

Concept pieces such as the ‘Thunderstorm’ Dress animate in response to sound to create ‘Visual Music’ and are made with holographic leather and sound-reactive, animated electroluminescent panels. The show-piece went on display in the London concept store ‘123 Bethnal Green Road’. The latest showpiece ‘Picasso Explosion’ an explosion of graphic art and sharp sculpture which illuminates to the beat.

Catalytic Clothing

 

Our Endeavour To Purify The Air We Breathe

A Public Experiment Between Science And Fashion

Credit : Still from the Catalytic Clothing film
Erin O’Connor in the
“ World’s first air purifying dress “ – shot by Adam Mufti.

Watch the Catalytic Clothing film featuring Erin O’Connor here Catalytic Clothing Film

Catalytic Clothing seeks to explore how clothing and textiles can be used as a
catalytic surface to purify air, employing existing technology in a new way.

It is the brainchild of artist / designer Helen Storey and chemist Tony Ryan –
people from very different worlds whose minds have come together over recent
years in highly successful art/science collaborations.

Tokyo Curry Lab

Wonderwall designed a restaurant based on a concept of creating an innovative lab for experimenting and inventing curry recipes, the Tokyo Curry Lab.

The restaurant is located in the monumental Tokyo Tower, where a lab area with colorful spice tubes on display is accompanied by a dining counter behind it. A great restaurant for curry lovers.

Towerblock, Hong Kong

18 Kowloon East is a massive tower integrated in the skyline of Hong Kong, designed by Aedas and serving various space and living purposes. According to the architects, “the project is a 28-storey mixed-use building with offices, retail spaces and a car-park. With the building located in a community with dense industrial blocks.

Galaxy dress

The GalaxyDress uses the smallest full-color LEDs which are flat like paper and measure only 2 by 2 mm. The circuits are extra-thin, flexible, and hand embroidered on a layer of silk in a way that gives it stretch, so the LED fabric can move like normal fabric with lightness and fluidity. To diffuse the light there are 4 layers of silk chiffon that moves really beautifully as well. The extra-thin electronics allows the design to follow the body shape closely like with normal fabric.

HearWear

HearWear is a concept created by Younghui Kim and Milena Iossifova, uses the sound/noise level of the environment to create active color patterns on clothing or bags.These cool garments interact with ambient sounds and show the levels on the garment.  The microphone and processor converts the sound levels into light via LEDS and EL wire.Despite its coolness, this may also have safety purposes too.

Luminites

The Fabric is a non-reflective material that can omit its own light.
Harnessing the technology of light with the luminous fibres used in the material has produced a material that can be used in
many different areas.
Using integrated electronics the fabric can also be used as an intelligent material processing signals from a heartbeat or body temperature and respond consistently to environmental stimuli.

The fibre optic fibres that are woven into the fabric are bundled at the edge of the material. Then, with the use of LED technology, light is passed through the fibres creating a lighting effect never seen before in textiles.

This exciting innovation is only available in the UK from Luminites.

Gabriel Dawes

Gabriel Dawe's colorful 'Plexus installation
Using only thread, wood and nails, Dawe creates these masterpieces of optical illustion…

Marni, Las Vegas

Italian designer label Marni has recently opened its first flagship boutique at Crystals, a swanky indoor/outdoor shopping center at the CityCenter.

The store's interiors were conceptualized by Marni designer Consuelo Castiglioni, in conjunction with architecture firm Sybarite. And the 800-square-foot shop is as singular as the brand's aesthetics -- boasting a massive glass-paneled facade and a surrealistic interior, defined by a curving floor surrounding a tree-like series of swooping metal racks that showcases the brand's current collection.
The shop's Dr. Suess-like spaciness doesn't end there. Undulating walls are marked by an alternating convex-concave "bubble" relief pattern, while fiberglass display cases house accessories and shoes. Mannequin bodies dolled up in Marni looks hang suspended from the ceiling like aliens -- albeit super-stylish ones -- dropping down to Earth.

Majik Cafe

Karim Rashid continues his philosophy of creating a digipop digital nature and a seamless world that excites all the senses with Majik Cafe, a new restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia.

Living walls

BioTecture Ltd is dedicated to designing and implementing sustainable green/living walls for buildings and the built environment. Plants are pre-grown vertically in a unique, patented, modular hydroponic system, designed to deliver precise, low water usage and low maintenance, proven over time to give superior performance. Can be used for interior and exterior walls.

Back light wood paneling

Specchia Menotti Italian Company has this amazing wood paneling your home to dress nines. Designed by Stefano Calchi Novati, X. Lumen panels can be used on wall and ceiling. Available with or without back lighting, this cool collection of wood paneling also be adapted to your home and your style fits a T. These modular panels can be ordered in any size and shape, so that even hard to end finds their room’s perfect complement. It can also be combined with your existing lighting, unique lighting to create compositions. After Specchia Menotti, “aesthetics and function, art and technology, modularity and uniqueness” in this mix is a must have accessories, which will make your furniture, your house and your style to new heights.

Wood and plastic wall panels

Designed by Lamellux, some of them sit as flat as any painted drywall surface would, but compensate by containing an array of textured materials trapped in resin, curved arcs of colorful infill and/or semi-see-through waves of plexiglass or plastic. Others bulge and bend outward as fully three-dimensional shapes, or give the appearance of being carved into like a wooden or stone surface. 
These raised, hybrid-material wall panel systems are nothing short of spectacular. Using various combinations of resin, plastic, wood and metal, they are sensuous in texture and span the spectrum from opaque panels to translucent tiles.

While the more transparent versions might not work for a bathroom, they would make for great room dividers and interior wall panels – separating spaces in style while still letting light and shadows show through