MENSWEAR: INSPIRATIONSPRING/SUMMER 2010Look into the past and harness thespirit of a time when thoughts of thefuture were optimistic and exciting,the impossible seemed within reachand the only limits were our imagination.Be inspired by designs and visions thatseem both familiar and entirely new.Take a modular approach to functionalityand design to future-proof your products,combining the tried and tested with theultramodern, contrasting artificial andnatural materials with a strongemotive appeal.
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RED camera system
With the promise to make “obsolescence obsolete”,RED’s new DSMC (Digital Stills and Motion Camera)
Vintage visions of the future
Hailing from a time when visions of the future weremore brightly optimistic than today, the illustrationsfeatured on the covers of sci-fi novels and in thepopular tech and science magazines of the 50s and60s covered subjects from space travel to urbanplanning and transportation. Will the future ever lookas good as this?
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Oskar Fischinger
In the 1930s and 40s, with an intention to creatework bound neither by time nor fashion, OskarFischinger envisaged a union between abstract artand music, producing over 50 animated short films inthe process. Seen in the modern cultural context of computer graphics and music videos, these filmshave lost none of their appeal, as they evoke thestrange sensation of simultaneous familiarity andcomplete creative originality.
Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films
DVD
www.oskarfischinger.orgwww.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm
BMW Gina
The Gina concept car has a sci-fi fabric skin insteadof conventional metal bodywork, which can beelectronically manipulated by the driver to instantlychange its silhouette. The bonnet splits open insteadof having to be lifted, the tail can be seamlesslyraised or lowered and the concealed headlights blinkopen like eyelids. It is expected to be the main designinfluence for the next generation of BMW roadsters.
www.autorexpress.co.uk
System, signals a beginning shift in the developmentstrategies for digital technology, which currently haveus throwing away perfectly functional digital items ona regular basis in favour of newer, better models.Aimed squarely at the professional market, theDSMC concept blurs the line between still and motionpictures and is completely modular and upgradable.Its fleet of optional parts can be assembled into avast number of combinations, from various video-capable DSLRs to full-blown 3D movie cameras. Withsome film professionals already shooting on the RedOne, the first systems for the commercial marketare expected to be available from spring 2009.
www.red.com/faq/category/scarlet/www.engadget.com/tag/RedDigitalCinema/
X-ray
With a strong feeling for the way transparency offersa light-enhanced modernity to colour, we look atX-ray photography, scientific pioneers and thenaturally reflective properties of gemstones such asopals. Nick Veasey works with X-rays and otherscientific imaging equipment to make the everydaybeautiful.
X-ray
By Nick VeaseyPublisher: Goodman BooksISBN: 1847960006
www.nickveasey.comwww.retro-futurismus.de/indexenglish.htmwww.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/retro-future-to-stars.html
Cold War Modern
Cold War Modern
is the first exhibition at London'sVictoria & Albert Museum to look behind the ironcurtain during the Cold War years and explore thedifferent approaches applied to contemporary design,architecture, film and popular culture in East andWest Europe.Highlights include a Sputnik, an Apollo missionspacesuit, some of the films of Stanley Kubrick,product design from Dieter Rams and Charles andRay Eames, architecture by Le Corbusier and manyother iconic prints, fashion and automotives.
Cold War Modern
Victoria & Albert Museum25 September 2008 – 11 January 2009Cromwell RoadLondon, SW7 2RL
www.vam.ac.uk
Posters of the Cold War
By David CrowleyPublisher: V&A PublishingISBN: 1851775455
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