product*obsession : two timer by industrial facility

{i want one....}



Milan 08: designer Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility launched his Two-Timer clocks for Established & Sons, which allow the time in two time zones to be displayed on one clock face.



"It’s as if everyone these days has come from or is going to somewhere else… ” explains Hecht. “Two-Timer is a useful expression of this modern condition, merging two different time zones into one clock.”

See more from Established & Sons in Milan in our previous stories:

New work at Established & Sons
Maarten Baas for Established & Sons
Pole by Paul Cocksedge

The following text is from Established & Sons:

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TWO-TIMER
Many cities, with London no exception, continue to experience the mass movement of people. It’s as if everyone these days has come from somewhere else. The Two Timer clock acknowledges this modern condition with two clocks sharing the same dial.

How curious an idea - it’s as if a finger has stretched a round clock to form a little corner – an offspring, if you like. Two quartz movements, with a carefully devised dial, are housed in a steel frame.

Designed in two sizes, it will sit happily in the home, the office, the hospital, the hotel, the airline lounge, or the foyer of a financial building. It illustrates that even with different time zones we are of one world.

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http://www.dezeen.com/2008/04/30/two-timer-by-industrial-facility/

art*obsession : wood work by Karen Ryan}

Milan 08: designer Karen Ryan installed her Wood Work lighting installation made from wood and acrylic offcuts at Spazio Rossana Orlandi.



The assemblages were lit with independent lamps also made from offcuts which could be moved around the composition, altering the shadows and reflections.




“I use discarded materials in my work out of necessity, poetry and politics,” says Ryan.

See more work by Karen Ryan on Dezeen:

Untitled lights
Unmade 07

Here’s some text about the project from Ryan:

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‘WOOD WORK’ Lights — a series in offcuts by Karen Ryan

‘WOOD WORK’ Lights is an intuitive response in my own obsessions, derived from my fascination and intrigue with offcuts and their inherent beauty. An intrigue that started at school in my wood work class as I conformed in the making of a coffee table with a tiled insert top, practising my skills with mortise and tenon joints while day dreaming of unstructured structures.

These unstructured structures that I have made with wood and Perspex offcuts are lit externally by light boxes that can be placed anywhere, creating multiple reflections both in colours and forms.



'WOOD WORK’ Lights contain the negatives discarded by other designer makers and artists. The accidental; the unwanted; the discarded is my starting point.

















{this looks like a hybrid of graphic design + fine art}

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/05/01/wood-work-by-karen-ryan/

montras e lojas · shops + shop windows

{i just love this store front... beautiful!}


The Fabrico Próprio book can already be bought in 4 shops, and the list keeps growing by the day… Not only in bookshops, but in points of sale which we want to be special. We would already like to thank Rute Arnóbio in Porto, Susana Parker in Alvor, Paula Lázera in Évora and Ricardo Ribeiro and Catarina Barros in Lisbon (from Trama, where the book is actually on the shop window!) for the “shared bet”. We believe that “Books Make Friends”, so we invite everyone interested in looking for the book in these shops, and get to know the people who also support our project.

The shop list is on the left-hand side of this post, or here.

http://www.fabricoproprio.net/