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The Top Stitch #11

June 23, 2020 by Lee Ness Leave a Comment

The Top Stitch

Your weekly digest of news in the world of Design, Upholstery, Furniture and Interior Design, brought to you by Global Upholstery Solutions.

15 brands create special products for Pride Month 2020 – Architectural Digest

2020 has been a difficult year for the world, with the pandemic taking over. With several gatherings and events being cancelled all around, Pride Month is seeing parades moving to a virtual setting than on the streets. Standing in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community, some of the top international brands have launched special collections depicting Pride colours. Not just that, through this, they are also raising money and making donations to organisations that work towards bettering the life of people from this community. If you are looking for some vibrant, fun and colourful picks, check out these brand offerings.

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Life at SparkPost: Designing for Pride 2020 – SparkPost

On my first day at SparkPost just over a year ago, my boss told me the team wanted to print a Pride t-shirt for employees and asked if I could design something. To be honest, I didn’t really expect to do any work on my first day, but I jumped at the opportunity.

It was the eve of the most colorful month of the year and corporations were already washing their logos with a rainbow mask in support of LGBTQ+ rights. Erica, the Social Media Queen, was planning a well-rounded internal celebration and I wanted to ensure the design was more than simply a rainbow behind our logo.

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June Design Challenge: Pride – Creative Action Network

June is Pride month and we’re seeking designs celebrating LGBTQ rights all month long! Proceeds will support Courage Campaign. Submit your design during the month of June to be featured!

Creative Brief

June is LGBT Pride Month and events will be held across the country to celebrate hard-won victories, shine a light on current fights, and to commemorate the Stonewall riots. With marriage equality now the law of the land there is a lot to celebrate, but there are also attacks on the LGBT community everyday that require persistent vigilance.

For this month’s challenge we’re seeking Pride posters & t-shirts that celebrate LGBT rights and victories. Proceeds will support Courage Campaign, an online community powered by more than one million members, instrumental in the fight for marriage equality.

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Over the Rainbow: Colourful Decor to Celebrate Pride Month – the Rug Seller

Celebrate LGBT Pride Month by incorporating rainbow accents with a universal appeal. If you’re looking for pieces to perk up a dull room, then rainbow is the way to go. Whether your aesthetic is whimsical or slightly more sophisticated, we have just the thing!

A home full of colour seems to have a stronger heartbeat, inspiring creativity and conversation. Colourfulness is perhaps symbolic of embracing uniqueness, allowing for differences to speak, making room for personality.

For those of you that are neutral lovers, you surely need a little colour. Here are some simple ways to incorporate more colour into your homes.

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Eight products by African designers selected by Africa by Design – dezeen

Africa by Design is a platform that promotes designers from sub-Saharan Africa. Founder Chrissa Amuah spoke to Dezeen about the programme in a live interview earlier this month and here presents a selection of products from the stable.

Amuah, who also runs London-based studio AMWA Designs, established Africa by Design to give the design talent in the region “the respect that it is due”.

“What leads me naturally to the design of my heritage is that there’s soul in it, there’s life and it goes beyond surface level,” she said. “I was doing research that I was coming across so many other incredible African designers that just didn’t have the platform to showcase their work in a way that I’ve benefited from.”

“That’s where the idea of Africa by design was born: this idea of creating a platform that celebrates the best of African design talent and showcases it to the world in a way that hasn’t been given the respect that it’s due.”

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Does design hold the answer to later-life loneliness? – Icon

It may not be an infectious disease, but loneliness is an epidemic that has significant consequences for health and disproportionately affects older people. Eugene Marchese, founder and CEO of Guild Living, believes that residential designs appropriate for later life could be the remedy.

In her timely book A Biography of Loneliness, published last year, the cultural historian Fay Bound Alberti traced the origins of a condition which for many is now an unavoidable part of daily life.

Loneliness, Alberti believes, is now woven into the fabric of our society. Such is its ubiquity that prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, some commentators were describing loneliness as a national, or indeed global, epidemic.

Just a few months into a new year, a new decade, and a different kind of epidemic arrived. Now, almost all of us have recent experience of what it is like to feel shut off from society.

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Eames, Cobonpue, Starck, And More: 15 Of The Most Iconic Chairs You Should Know – Tatler

The seat of power beckons with these popular pieces from designers around the globe
In the old days, chairs were often associated with royalty and nobility. During the Renaissance, it eventually became more common, with designs that reflect the vibrant costumes and furnishings of the period. Today, chairs are considered one of the “essentials” in the living space, with material options and forms going beyond the box. Check out these iconic chairs that had withstood the test of time and are still as covetable as when they were first released.

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Knowing Your Design History is Crucial to Aesthetic Innovation – Eye on Design

In the most iconic scene of The Devil Wears Prada, Andy (Anne Hathaway) nonchalantly dismisses two nearly identical blue belts in a room full of fashion forward elites. Andy’s icy, terrifying boss Miranda (Meryl Streep) retorts with a diatribe so full of vitriol that it effectively knocks Andy down a peg. It also illuminates Andy’s own naive contributions to the very stylistic machinery she so blithely critiques: Miranda traces the origins of Andy’s “lumpy blue sweater” all the way back to the explosion of the color cerulean in Oscar de la Renta and Yves Saint Laurent’s early 2000s runway shows, before filtering down to department stores and eventually discount retailers where Andy “no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.”

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Patricia Urquiola’s RUFF Chair Is Like a Seated Hug – design milk

Moroso’s RUFF lounge chair relies on binary geometry to create a sculptural dialogue between seat and backrest. Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola created RUFF so that both armrests and back are one piece, wrapping around the seated individual like a hug. They get to feel the comfort, while viewers get both curvy and straight architectural lines to admire.

Urquiola found inspiration for RUFF in the art of Eduardo Chillida, the renowned sculptor who lived in San Sebastián. “I can operate in many different fields, but the affinity with art, and the thing that all different forms of art have in common, is that they are forced to offer two components that can’t both be missing at the same time: poetry – you have to have poetry – and construction. Otherwise, you don’t get art,” wrote Chillida.

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Exclusive: Segway, the most hyped invention since the Macintosh, ends production – Fast Company

Steve Jobs said it would be bigger than the PC. Some dubbed it the most hyped product since the Apple Macintosh. An era of secrecy bubbled up in the year 2000 about an invention that would change the world as people knew it. People speculated it was a hydrogen-powered hovercraft, or a device that would break the rules of gravity itself.

Instead, it was a two-wheeled, self-balancing personal transport device called the Segway. Created over the course of a decade by Dean Kamen, a man already made impossibly rich by inventing a key technology behind medical IVs in his basement, it was released in December 2001 for $5,000 (the cost of a low-end motorcycle, despite the fact that a Segway’s top speed was 10 mph). At the time, Kamen said it would be “to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.”

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Why Buying Contract Furniture for Hospitality is No Longer Ethical. -LinkedIn

I know that is a big statement to make, but bear with me. Is it ethical as a business with an environmental or sustainability policy to buy furniture that they know is going to be thrown into landfill in a very short space of time? Also, is it ethical to waste money and other resources on something that is ‘disposable’ but shouldn’t be?

Before the chaos of the last few months, my team and I were working on a product that would break this cycle, but it wasn’t easy. One of the problems with commercial furniture is that tastes and styles change quickly – as few as a couple of years before a bar or restaurant gets a refresh. What is hip and “on-fleek” today, is old and outdated tomorrow. That’s assuming the furniture isn’t already well past it’s use-by date and needs replacing anyway because of it’s ‘economical’ construction.

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Creation/recognition – Seth godin’s Blog

If you buy an old painting at a garage sale for $1,000 and then sell it for $25,000, was the change in value due to a change in the magic involved in the creation of the painting, or is it because the market now recognizes the painting for what it is (and was all along)?

When Alta Vista refused to pay a million dollars to buy Google, was the problem in the value of what Google had, or in Alta Vista’s recognition of that value?

There’s often a significant lag between the creation of something useful and when the market recognizes it.

That’s an opportunity for speculators and investors, who can buy before the recognition happens.

And it’s an opportunity or a trap for creators, who might get disheartened about the lack of applause and upside immediately after they’ve created something.

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The Top Stitch #10

June 16, 2020 by Lee Ness Leave a Comment

The Top Stitch

Your weekly digest of news in the world of Design, Upholstery, Furniture and Interior Design, brought to you by Global Upholstery Solutions.

BADG Virtual Concept House – Black Artist and Designers Guild

As we contemplate the other side of this COVID-19-induced shelter-in place protocols of the last several months, we at BADG expect to emerge into a new future with new terms.  Some areas will remain recognizable, while others will be necessarily re-defined.  A future that has been conceived by none.  In this future, our homes are reinforced as the center of our lives: family life, work life. At the center will be the core principles of our general well-being and the protection of our bodies from potential harmful agents in the outside world.  We embrace the possibilities of this future home sanctuary in the BADG Virtual Concept House (“Concept House”) and seek to demonstrate what this new future may hold in the context of dwelling for peoples of the Black diaspora.

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Excited to Share – I Was on the Radio – Beyond the Built Environment

On Saturday February 22nd had the the honor of being a guest on the Jennifer Hammond Show, SiriusXM UrbanView, Ch 126.

I spoke about advocacy and how I am fighting to make our profession and our world more equitable and just. I spoke at length, about National Organization of Minority Architects and the organization I founded Beyond the Built Environment.

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About Blacks Who Design – Blacks Who Design

Blacks Who Design highlights all of the inspiring Black designers in the industry. The goal is to inspire new designers, encourage people to diversify their feeds, and discover amazing individuals to join your team.

If you’re a Black designer, this site’s for you

There are great designers all across the industry. Hopefully this project inspires you to see yourself among the ranks.

If you’re not a Black designer, this site’s for you too 🙂

  • Reply to a recruiter: Tired of recruiting emails? Instead of hitting archive, reply with a link to this site.
  • Target your mentoring: Dedicate your lunch breaks towards mentoring people that might not normally get access to you.
  • Volunteer: Consider blocking off some time to teach design to younger students.

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#AskUsAnything: inclusive remote working – Creative Equals

This week, we tackled one of the main challenges facing all line managers right now: remote working inclusively. We – along with our panel of industry experts – had a frank discussion about the ways we can manage the complex switch to remote working.

Even the most astute amongst us hardly anticipated such a dramatic change in mandatory home working to happen so quickly. Offices that weren’t online-based were forced to scramble to assemble the appropriate equipment virtually overnight. Managers who had spent their careers resisting flexible working had to adapt to a new challenge. Teams were cut down with little warning.

But: the reality is that normal ‘work from home’ and ‘flexible working’ practices can never apply to our current situation. We can’t cut-and-paste our usual guidelines for working out of the office to a global pandemic. With this in mind, we called out to our industry experts to offer their guidance and support for businesses leaders feeling challenged right now.

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MOLD Magazine’s LinYee Yuan on design and the food crisis – deem

I’m a design journalist and for the past decade I’ve been writing primarily about industrial design. As an editor for the industrial design website Core77, I attended design festivals around the world. In 2011, I started seeing really interesting projects, usually by students, that addressed or confronted different facets of our experiences around food including growing, packaging, transporting, storing, selling, and eating food.

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The ANTIFA drum machine by Nicolás Kisic Aguirre – Design Indaba

The Peruvian designer’s open-source projects are a combination of sound, architecture and the mind.

Architect, open-source designer and Design Indaba Speaker, Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, has created an instrument dubbed the Momoprot or Módulo Móvil de Protesta (mobile protest module). The Momoprot is a way to generate collective noise, unify protestors against the same objective.

This unlikely sounding creation has been described as an Anti-fascist Drum Machine or Antifa Drum Machine, a name coined by Marcel Zaes,  and has been used to raise the voice of far-left dissent in public protests.

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Möbius – Untying The Gordian Knot – Reupholstery Limited

We are a business and don’t want to get into a “look what we can do” campaign of something that had no commercially viable application. Our new product offering, Möbius, is a major commitment for us.

We have developed a product offering that will allow hospitality businesses to refresh their furniture with very high-end products without a high investment cost and meet their increasingly important environmental and sustainability objectives. That being said, it was far from easy!

 

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Climate Designers Give Themselves a Name and a Purpose – Eye on Design

Stirred by collective anxieties, designers organize beyond corporate confines to draw the industry’s attention to the climate crisis

Last August, Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic from Europe to the US by solar-powered boat, with the Fridays for the Future movement in tow. Halfway around the world, the Amazon and much of Australia was set ablaze. The same year, the global Climate Strike galvanized movements like the Sunrise Movement and the Extinction Rebellion and created palpable political momentum for a Green New Deal. At the same time, in the design world, there were not one but two design triennials championing international designers who are confronting the climate crisis, and the American Institute of Architecture declared the climate crisis “a top priority.”

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Banksy Colston Statue Proposal – dezeen

Graffiti artist Banksy has created a sketch for a slavery memorial in Bristol that would incorporate slave-trader Edward Colston and the protesters who tore his statue down.

Banksy, whose identity is unknown but who is believed to come from the city of Bristol in south west England, posted his proposal on Instagram.

His sketch shows the statue of slave-trader Colston, which was torn down from its prominent position near Bristol’s harbour as part of a Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday, returned to its pedestal.

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Sofa Trends for Your Interior Design – Black Interior Designers Network

For most people, the sofa is the focal point of their living room. It is a welcoming element that will capture the eye of most of your visitors when they come into your home.

Because the sofa is such an essential part of your interior design, you want to go with one that looks great and complements your other furnishings perfectly. With that in mind, here are some current sofa trends you will want to look out for.

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JIM BIDDULPH & LIONHEART IN CONVERSATION – Design insider

Architecture and poetry may not seem likely bedfellows.  In normal times we tend to navigate the built environment with our heads down, performing functional tasks rather than finding inspiration in dancing golden daffodils or floating lonely clouds.

But London-based poet LionHeart sees things differently, and organisations including Grimshaw Architects and the Saatchi Gallery are some of the first to get on board with his unique approach, each making him their first ever Poet in Residence.

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Discussing Design with product designer, Karim Rashid – SBID

Visionary and prolific, Karim is one of the most unique voices in design today. With more than 4000 designs in production, over 300 awards to his name, and client work in over 40 countries, Karim’s ability to transcend typology continues to make him a force among designers of his generation. His award-winning designs include democratic objects such as the ubiquitous Garbo waste can and Oh! Chair for Umbra, interiors for Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel, Athens, and exhibitions for Corian and Pepsi. Karim has collaborated with clients to create democratic design for Method and Dirt Devil, furniture for Artemide and Magis, brand identity for Citibank and Hyundai, high-tech products for LaCie and Samsung, and luxury goods for Veuve Clicquot and Swarovski, to name a few. Karim’s work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits art in galleries worldwide. Karim is a perennial winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, Interior Design Best of Year Award, and IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Award. Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences, globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life.

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Around our little group

May 4, 2020 by Lee Ness Leave a Comment

We have a number of updates from around our group that you might have missed. Here’s a miniature digest.

blackswan

https://blackswancreative.co.uk/bespoke-fabric-design-made-easy/
Global Upholstery Solutions and Panaz have long shared a strong relationship and have collaborated on various projects over the years. We were therefore delighted when our Account Manager, the wonderful June George, visited us to introduce ReMake, a new piece of design technology developed by Panaz. This progression in technology is extremely exciting for designers, generating endless possibilities for us and resolving design dilemmas that may arise on projects and the exact reason why we created blackswan. Panaz describes ReMake as a ‘turning point in bespoke fabric design. By putting the ability to recolour and rework any Panaz print design directly into your hands’
https://blackswancreative.co.uk/cadus/
Presented by design agency blackswan, the Cadus is a new concept for the office environment, which creates a statement to your customers and employees.The pseudo-industrial design with rough hewn wood, exposed ply and visible fixings are complemented by beautiful leather upholstery with contrast stitch details. 
https://blackswancreative.co.uk/popschema/
popschema is the new concept designed by blackswan for Interior Designers that resets the design standard for headboards. redesign The popschema headboard has two components. popgrid provides the structural back for the headboard to match the bed size. 

Reupholstery Limited

https://reupholstery.uk/bring-them-back/
Antimicrobial fabrics are the new normal for hospitality – migrating from the healthcare sector.
As soon as the starting gun goes to get the country back up and running again, wouldn’t it be great to get out of the starting blocks quickly? As someone wise once said, a day lost at the start is a day lost at the end. The sooner your customers start coming back, the earlier you’ll start on the recovery curve.

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