designboom daily - 2012.01.11

daily news a designboom.com publication January 2012, 11 you may want to submit a design mail@designboom.com --- peter legge associates: connemara published 01.11.12 these two vernacular cottages have been reconstructed and linked with a glass connection, emphasizing views towards the irish sea and distant twelve pin mountain range. read more --- tim roda: the butcher's block photography published 01.11.12 featuring the artist and his wife and sons as protagonists, the elaborately staged black-and-white photographs use the nuances of individual experience as a means of exploring family, history, culture, and myth. read more --- matthew plummer-fernandez: glitch reality II tea set published 01.11.12 purchasing non-matching tea set components, the designer captures their forms using a 3D scanner, roughly repairing the digital mesh files and printing them resulting in a tea set that expresses the inherent glitches derived from analogue-to-digital-to-analogue translation. read more --- BYTR architects: shou sugi ban published 01.11.12 the angled roof line of this sculptural extension creates framed views to the garden and opportunities for daylight to permeate the interior through skylights. read more --- fabio novembre: steve mccurry exhibition design at MACRO, rome published 01.11.12 the linear volume of the exhibition space houses numerous domed pavilions resulting in an indoor nomadic village of sorts with interpenetrating areas which speak to the sense of humanity expressed through the images on show. read more --- motorola: droid 4 + razr maxx at CES 2012 published 01.11.12 motorola presents two new smartphones: its 'droid 4' QWERTY slider, and the 'droid razr maxx', which features a 4.3-inch super AMOLED screen and a battery that lasts for 21 hours of talk time or over two weeks in standby. read more --- riusuke fukahori: goldfish salvation at ICN gallery published 01.11.12 straddling the line between painting and sculpture, the pieces are careful constructions of casting resin which has been layered section by section with acrylic paint. read more --- stephen ives: mr. dictator head published 01.11.12 achieving striking resemblance through eyebrows, hair formation, and, in some cases, the character-defining mustache, the series depicts various dictator figures as mr. potato head.  read more --- keiji ashizawa: house s published 01.10.12 surrounded by mature pine trees in the heart of tokyo, this dwelling removes itself from the urban district, connecting with lush vegetation on each level. read more --- play video memo by native union published 01.10.12 affixable to surfaces via magnet, the simple-tech device replaces post-it notes and scribbled reminders, letting users record and play back video messages. read more

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