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• A New Dimension To Tea Drinking
• Music and Time On Your Wrist
• Oh I see you! Peek!
• The Ball is The Game is The Stadium

A New Dimension To Tea Drinking Posted: 07 Oct 2009 06:22 AM PDT I never really understood the elaborate ritual of brewing the perfect cup of tea. Maybe I'm uncivilized and vulgar to assume that you simply need to boil the leaves in hot water, add milk and sugar, and you're done. Ok you snooty people stop cringing… do it your way with the Dione Tea Set. Described as a set of teacups with two hemispheres and a thin net preventing the tea leaves from entering the cup and involving some 180 degrees of rotation, the fuss is about keeping the aroma of the tea leaves alive. Here's how it works: The teacup is made up of two hemispheres. Between the hemispheres is a thin net which prevents the tea leaves from entering the cup. While the aroma from the tea leaves is mixed with hot water, the cup is covered with the top hemisphere, preventing the aroma from evaporating into the air. After 3 minutes, when the tea leaves have released their flavor, the tea cup is ready to be flipped 180 degrees and the leaves will be separated from the tea. All that is needed is one hand movement in order for the leaves to be separated from the liquid, in other words, for the tea to enter into one hemisphere from the other without spilling. Designer: Vuk Dragovic

Music and Time On Your Wrist Posted: 07 Oct 2009 12:05 AM PDT We’ve evolved from Walkman to iPod (plus whatever else there is, let’s be honest) and from wrist watch to cellphone-held-clock. Now. What would have happened if instead of the clock merging with the cellphone, the clock merged with the music device? We’ve got wrist tunes, contact! Let’s have a short (or long!) discussion here about the combination of things. As things stand, the most common place I find people hold their time is in their cellphone. On their portable phone! Imagine that. I couldn’t have say, 15 year ago. I wouldn’t have believed you. What if things had gone differently than they have - what if instead, time stayed on your wrist, and music went there too? This concept is called “Tick Tack Music Watch,” and I’ve got to say it’s pretty cute. Like a bunny rabbit cute. Designer A.Tnokovski plans on marketing it to “teens” and I think he’d be right. I’m thinking as soon as phone service becomes as “free” as internet service, we go ahead and build that in to Tick Tack 2, and we’ll be in business. Designer: Apostol Tnokovski

Oh I see you! Peek! Posted: 07 Oct 2009 12:03 AM PDT Such a lovely object, this little thing. Yes indeedy. Just the thing I need to put up there with all of my other lovely things, all sitting there in a row. But what’s it’s function, this mystifying object? Well let me take you on a mysterious journey! A journey into the unknown! The “PEEK!” What does it contain, what could be inside?! Well I’ll give you one guess after I note the contents: salt and pepper. Mysterious, yes? Peek is inspired by “hidden emotions at the dinner table.” The salt container is the white sheet, and the red is the pepper peeker! What’s always been a set is now one: salt and pepper shakers, together at last! Designer: Lucas Saule Design

The Ball is The Game is The Stadium Posted: 07 Oct 2009 12:01 AM PDT The following stadium was designed by the wonderful folks over at UNStudio, especially one Ben van Berkel. He (they) won a limited competition to design a gigantic football stadium for the most successful football (soccer for you USA residents) team in the Chinese Super League: Dalian Shide FC! The design reflects vividly the breathtaking amalgamation of the ancient Chinese cuju football. A must peek. First off (this is the first non-intro paragraph here in the post) let me say congratulations to Ben van Berkel and the entirety of UNStudio! I am sure it is an honor to be working on such a magnificent project. The 38,500 m2 stadium will be built in the city of Dalian, on the southmost tip of Liaodong peninsula in Northeast China. The site contains not only the big field, but parking facilities below, two training fields (see them back there to the left), and a giant public concourse. And of course, as promised, the entire thang is based on the ball, as it definitely always should be forever and ever amen: According to Ben van Berkel, "The design of the Dalian Football Stadium is inspired by the classic Chinese football, which was made by layering coloured bamboo. For the stadium design we appropriated this effect to generate a double-layered roof structure. This structure operates as a double concourse enclosure, encircling the tribunes. Splits and openings in between broad bands of the lattice structure enable views from the outside in and from the inside out." Gorgeous! Designer: Ben van Berkel / UNStudio

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