Daily News
DGV Presents Beachlife: Architecture & Interior Design on the Seaside
14 Mar 2008
PRESS RELEASE
March 2008
Beachlife presents a selection of the best concepts in architecture, interiors and product design that deliver new and unusual insights into how the beach can be presented and utilised creatively. The book features structures such as beach clubs, hotels, and vacation homes that can be found on ocean coasts and riverbanks. But, more than that, Beachlife also includes furniture and products made for the seaside as well as original products by creatives from around the world, who have discovered the beach as a location for experimental art, temporary installations and events.
Putting an ordinary towel down on the sand may well suffice in order to enjoy a sunny day at the beach. But more and more often designers, architects and artists are crafting imaginative solutions that capture or enhance the unique atmosphere that is created where water meets land.
Beachlife presents a selection of the best concepts in architecture, interiors and product design that are inspired both directly and indirectly by the beach. The book features structures such as beach clubs, beach bars, hotels, restaurants, vacation homes and pavilions that can be found on ocean coasts and riverbanks. But, more than that, Beachlife also includes furniture and products made for the seaside as well as original projects by creatives from around the world, who have discovered the beach as a location for experimental art, temporary installations and events.
The numerous examples in Beachlife deliver new and unusual insights into how the beach can be presented and utilised creatively – not only as a place for relaxation and inspiration, but also as an attitude and way of life.
............................................................................
Read DGV ARTICLES on TAXI Design Network
DGV Presents Moki: Exhibition in Barcelona
DGV Presents Black Dice's European Tour
Ott + Stein Exhibition in Berlin Brought to You by DGV
............................................................................
March 2008
Beachlife presents a selection of the best concepts in architecture, interiors and product design that deliver new and unusual insights into how the beach can be presented and utilised creatively. The book features structures such as beach clubs, hotels, and vacation homes that can be found on ocean coasts and riverbanks. But, more than that, Beachlife also includes furniture and products made for the seaside as well as original products by creatives from around the world, who have discovered the beach as a location for experimental art, temporary installations and events.
Putting an ordinary towel down on the sand may well suffice in order to enjoy a sunny day at the beach. But more and more often designers, architects and artists are crafting imaginative solutions that capture or enhance the unique atmosphere that is created where water meets land.
Beachlife presents a selection of the best concepts in architecture, interiors and product design that are inspired both directly and indirectly by the beach. The book features structures such as beach clubs, beach bars, hotels, restaurants, vacation homes and pavilions that can be found on ocean coasts and riverbanks. But, more than that, Beachlife also includes furniture and products made for the seaside as well as original projects by creatives from around the world, who have discovered the beach as a location for experimental art, temporary installations and events.
The numerous examples in Beachlife deliver new and unusual insights into how the beach can be presented and utilised creatively – not only as a place for relaxation and inspiration, but also as an attitude and way of life.
............................................................................
Read DGV ARTICLES on TAXI Design Network
............................................................................
blog comments powered by Disqus
AIGA Co-publishes The Open Brand
14 Mar 2008
PRESS RELEASE
March 2008
AIGA Design Press, in partnership with Peachpit’s New Riders imprint, announces the publication of The Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World, by Kelly Mooney and Nita Rollins, PhD. The authors assert that traditional mass-marketing “push” tactics are giving way to the “pull” of an online population that is no longer content to merely consume. Successful brands need to be “O.P.E.N.—on-demand, personal, engaging and networked” in order to ensure relevance. This innovative book illuminates both the risks and rewards of opening up to consumer involvement in brand messages and offerings.
“First, open this book,” said Guy Kawasaki, marketing guru and managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. “Then open your mind. Then open your brand because it’s the only way to succeed in the web-made world.”
All proceeds from The Open Brand will be donated to Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child, an organization dedicated to donating laptops to children in developing nations.
About the authors
Kelly Mooney has been a consumer-centric marketing innovator for 20 years and is the president of Resource Interactive. She co-authored The Ten Demandments: Rules to Live by in the Age of the Demanding Consumer, one of the first marketing books to showcase the consumer’s perspective. A popular blogger, frequent keynote speaker and expert commentator, her perspectives have been covered by media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Fast Company, USA Today, Time Digital, People, CNN, CNBC, CNET, CBS’s The Early Show, Nikkei Business (Japan), Vente a Distance (France), and Capital (Dubai).
Nita Rollins, PhD, is a multidisciplinary thinker and innovation consultant in the Resource Interactive R&D Lab. She is the author of Cinaesthetics: The Beautiful, the Ugly, the Sublime and the Kitsch in Post-Metaphysical Film (2008) and articles for Design Management Journal, New Design (UK), Innovation: The IDSA Quarterly, Internet Retailer, Cinema Journal and Wide Angle. She earned her PhD in Critical Studies from UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film & TV, and has served as Research Fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the University of Paris III.
............................................................................
Read AIGA ARTICLES on TAXI Design Network
Vote for New Directors on AIGA board by Friday, March 14
Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference 2008
AIGA awards 2008 Medal to Gail Anderson, Clement Mok and LeRoy Winbush
............................................................................
March 2008
AIGA Design Press, in partnership with Peachpit’s New Riders imprint, announces the publication of The Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World, by Kelly Mooney and Nita Rollins, PhD. The authors assert that traditional mass-marketing “push” tactics are giving way to the “pull” of an online population that is no longer content to merely consume. Successful brands need to be “O.P.E.N.—on-demand, personal, engaging and networked” in order to ensure relevance. This innovative book illuminates both the risks and rewards of opening up to consumer involvement in brand messages and offerings.
“First, open this book,” said Guy Kawasaki, marketing guru and managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. “Then open your mind. Then open your brand because it’s the only way to succeed in the web-made world.”
All proceeds from The Open Brand will be donated to Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child, an organization dedicated to donating laptops to children in developing nations.
About the authors
Kelly Mooney has been a consumer-centric marketing innovator for 20 years and is the president of Resource Interactive. She co-authored The Ten Demandments: Rules to Live by in the Age of the Demanding Consumer, one of the first marketing books to showcase the consumer’s perspective. A popular blogger, frequent keynote speaker and expert commentator, her perspectives have been covered by media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Fast Company, USA Today, Time Digital, People, CNN, CNBC, CNET, CBS’s The Early Show, Nikkei Business (Japan), Vente a Distance (France), and Capital (Dubai).
Nita Rollins, PhD, is a multidisciplinary thinker and innovation consultant in the Resource Interactive R&D Lab. She is the author of Cinaesthetics: The Beautiful, the Ugly, the Sublime and the Kitsch in Post-Metaphysical Film (2008) and articles for Design Management Journal, New Design (UK), Innovation: The IDSA Quarterly, Internet Retailer, Cinema Journal and Wide Angle. She earned her PhD in Critical Studies from UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film & TV, and has served as Research Fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the University of Paris III.
............................................................................
Read AIGA ARTICLES on TAXI Design Network
............................................................................
blog comments powered by Disqus