The psychology of Design Attraction 1: Familiarization – Design for Flow & Imprint
Kristine Harper has written about comfort zone breaking aesthetic experiences as a human need. Within visual semiotics and design rhetorics this notion is referred to as “Defamiliarization” and it´s counter phenomena “Familiarization”. This idea, framed in the notion of “Flow” (Mihály Csíkszentmihályi), forms a theory that is useful when analyzing design and style. This theory...
Esthetic Restaurant: La Beauté.
La Beauté (ラ・ボーテ) is a esthetic restaurant in central Tokyo. The evolution of organic cuisine, where beyond healthy, one gets beauty in the deal. One of many signs of the back to basics trend that dominates fashion, beauty and lifestyle worldwide. First was the organic cloth, then came the gypsets and now it is time for the in-grocer’s salon....
Designboost-Design Intelligence in Stockholm February 8-9
Designboost – Design Intelligence takes place February 8–9 at the Audi Forum, Hamngatan 17 in Stockholm. The event offers a range of speakers that talk about the importance of creating better design solutions. There will be a photo exhibition in which 50 world-renowned designers reason about the importance of daring to make mistakes. You can...
Art and Tech Combine to Create New Social Marketing Trends
The trend towards less invasive advertising and marketing strategies in the public sphere is certainly one of the more interesting design concepts to contemplate right now. These trends overlaps with technological innovation and commercialism in surprising ways. Starting with holosonic sound beams that were used to market the A&E show Paranormal Activity, people began to...
Gastrologik – a restaurant in Stockholm with high ambitions
The founders of Gastrologik have a mission – to create a good restaurant that is an interaction between the kitchen and service, the food and guests, the premises and the interior, between consciousness and unconsciousness and between logic and gastronomy. This is the philosophy of Jacob Holmström and Anton Bjuhr, two young but highly qualified chefs who stand...
EAT ME – Appetite for Design
EAT ME is is the latest publication from Vict:onary - a creative publishing house founded by Victor Cheung in 2001 in Hong Kong. It is a young creative multi-dimensional workshop born to create vibrant visual experience to inspire and ignite the sense of people, inside and outside of the industry. Vict:onary is know for their...
365 Charming Everyday Things
365 Charming Everyday Things is a project for introducing everyday items that have accompanied the lives of Japanese people. These items represent Japanese wisdom, skills and aesthetic sense, offer practical usefulness in everyday life, and provide a sense of comfort, fun and small happiness to us. A total of 365 charming items have been selected to...
Cowbird – a witness to life
A new online platform has seen the light of day – recently Jonathan Harris launched “Cowbird” a new storytelling site . The intention is to create a community of storytellers, sharing heartfelt, personal stories. You might ask if the world needs another website for uploading images to share with the world… can’t we just use...
Second edition of Decadent Pigeons in Barcelona
Lisa Klappe and Joachim van der Hurk have been invited back to Barcelona to present a second edition of Decadent Pigeons. The exhibition will take place from 12 January till 2 February 2012 at Galeria La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain. They will set up an extended mix of static portraits, grubby films and living sculptures....
Are you interested to be a guest blogger at David Report?
A new year with new stories to be told. We are looking for guest bloggers from around the world that are interested to share their knowledge here at David Report. As a contributor you share our interest and curiosity about trends in the intersection of design, culture and business. It may be everything from art, architecture,...
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