Polka Dot Patterns Defining New Louis Vuitton Concept Store in London

With an extravagant, flashy design, this new Louis Vuitton Concept Store at Selfridges in London is the result of the collaboration between the brand and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Characterized by flashy colors and polka dot patterns, the overall design of the store will definitely appeal to the Louis Vuitton enthusiasts. The exhibited materials, bags and shoes are all a part of the dot-inspired concept and are well emphasized with the help of a visually powerful lighting scheme. Perforated giant lamps hang over the display tables, which are in tune with the red&white floor and walls. According to the official press release, the store features ”twenty four Selfridges display windows dedicated to the Vuitton & Kusama Collection and inside visitors are instructed to follow the red dots along the shop floor leading to the store and a life size, polka dot-clad model of Kusama herself”. Louis Vuitton & Kusama concept store at Selfridges London will remain open until 1 October.

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Trick-or-Treat Bags by Stacy Schlyer

Send your little one off to celebrate Halloween in style with these easy-to-sew, fun-to-make Trick-or-Treat bags. Spook them up with seasonal embroidery and use glow-in-the-dark embroidery thread for maximum effect. Need something a bit smaller for a party favor or gift bag? Then stitch up a cute mini version!

Trick or Treat Bags by Stacy Schlyer

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The Bachelor VS The Bachelorette Apartment [Infographic]

Presenting useful tips on how to decorate a bachelor pad or how to add style to a bachelorette pad, this fun and informative infographic guides both men and women through the maze of DiY interior decorating. Bachelor “must-haves” include a well-stocked bar, comfortable couch and simple bed in neutral colors, but subtly spiced up with a bold accent. Bachelorettes, on the other hand, have their hands full when decorating. Ambient light coming from chic chandeliers, decorative flowering plants adorning just the right place, silk, cotton or wool handmade rugs at their feet or functional bookshelves help compose a personal, feminine space. Provided by ForRent.com, the fun chart summarizes helpful tips for a stylish single’s crib – just click on the photo below to take a closer look at every idea. Feel free to contribute your own tips, helping bachelors and bachelorettes improve their homes in both the functional and style directions.

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Morsbags: Sewing to Save Our Planet

Did you know that over 1 million plastic shopping bags are consumed every 60 seconds all around the globe? Not onlydo the bags often end up littered along the side of the road (I see them stuck in bushes and in trees all the time), but sometimes the bags can cause great harm to wildlife. Take matters into your own hands by making quick, reusable grocery bags out of scraps of fabrics or old fat quarters you have in your stash - after all, this pattern takes less than an hour to stitchtogether. Get the free Morsbag pattern from the Make One tab atmorsbags.com, and learn what you can do to help!

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Next-Gen Bluetooth Bulb Controllable Via Smartphone

Bluetooth Bulb is a fabulous prototype LED light bulb using Bluetooth technology to construct an appealing set of features that simplifies your interaction with the lights in your home. Promising to save energy and make your life easier, this amazing project takes the light bulb one step further into the future. The embedded Bluetooth 4.0 technology allows you to control the light intensity and color with a few simple touches. Download the app, pair your smartphone up with one or several light bulbs throughout your home and gain full control over the light, its brightness or color. It even gives you access to an automatic timer and you can pair one bulb with several devices, so any member of the family has access to it from as far as 50 meters (164 feet) away. For now, the Bluetooth Bulb is a patented prototype, but we are confident it will change the way we interact with ambient light and give us more time to do the things we enjoy instead of the things we have to. If you think this technology will make you lazy, then I bet you don’t have a remote control in your home.

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The GREAT Summer Orphan Block Challenge

How many orphan blocks do you have in your stash? Heres a great idea for the end of summer. Use them in a project and you could win a phenomenal prize package! (Including a BERNINA Sew Essential Tool a sewing kit in a Swiss knife!) Check out The Great Summer Orphan Block Challenge at Hummingbird Highway!

In her weekly eZine, Good Migrations, Joan Fordchallenged quilters to go to their stash, find an orphan quilt block any block, any size, with at least one seam sewn and make something. The GREAT Summer Orphan Block Challenge was hatched. Readers are encouraged to take a before picture of the orphan block and an after picture of the finished project and submit it to Hummingbird Highway along with some short background details. Since its summer, and nobody really wants to fling around king-sized projects in the heat, a small project is as perfectly acceptable as a large project. For more information visit Hummingbird Highway at http://scrap-therapy-quilts.blogspot.com/The deadline for entries is September 21, 2012.

Over the course of the summer, you can follow along with the weekly Good Vibrations eZine delivered right to your email inbox for free (you even get a free pattern for subscribing!) or watch for blog posts and Facebook entries at hummingbird-highway.com. Periodically through the summer, Joan is offering tutorials and inspiration as she makes a variety of small projects from orphan blocks from her stash. Her BERNINA sewing machine is humming with all kinds of ideas for projects like placemats, pincushions, small quilts, oven mitts, and so much more. You might find inspiration from other designers, too!

Joans Orphan Block contest has inspired me to dig up all my unfinished quilts and see what I can make, too. Who would have guessed that I have blocks for at least four different BIG quilts? Thats a lot of orphan blocks!

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Genius Spanish Solar Pavilion Innovates Customized Prefabrication

The collaboration between the Institue for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and leading multinational company in the Spanish electricity sector Endesa resulted in the construction of an innovative solar structure that will adorn the Barcelona’s Marina Pier for one year. Part of the Smart City Expo, the Endesa Pavilion (also known as Solar House 2.0 ) is describes as ” a testbed for informational grid technologies“. Combining prefabricated technologies with perfectly adapted customization, this genius design built in just one month is software-designed, cut to dimensions and assembled into a place-specific design. Plywood wedges shape outside solar system supports and interior storage spaces, while their cantilevering features shade the interiors from gaining too much heat in the summer.

Summarizing the project, IAAC explains the modularity, versatility and functional features of the pavilion: “The project is an exercise in which a building, under the guidance of the block type of Barcelona, is adapted by adding a series of modules on its facade. These modules, which are seen as triangular pieces section, make possible for the building to optimize energy and spatial intelligence. Its size and components vary depending on the orientation and inclination of the sun, the relationship with the environment and other technical needs.” Scroll down to see two videos – one presenting the pavilion from multiple angles and the second one explaining the ideas and technologies behind the exceptional project.

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Russias Future Science City Teaser At The Venice Architecture Biennale

Representing Russian innovation and creativity, their stunning QR Code Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 is completely covered with QR codes, demonstrating the country's urban and architectural development and placing it in a new context of innovative digital format. The fascinating pavilion challenges visitors to use their gadgets to explore plans of the new Russian science city to be built by 2017 near Moscow. Embodying Russia's high level of technological and architectural excellence, the Skolkovo project assumes the role of a teaser for the future Russian science city.

The Russian i-city pavilion was imagined by a creative team of architects: Pierre de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Kazuyo Sejima, Mohsen Mostafavi, Sergei Tchoban, Sergey Kuznetsov, Yury Grigoryan, Steano Boeri and Venice Architecture Biennale's director, David Chipperfield. Spotted on MyModernMet, Russia’s QR Code Pavilion provides valuable information on the country’s technological progress. Russia's new city dedicated to science will rise in 2017 not far from Moscow, incorporating different research facilities, a university and residences. Researching biomedicine, energy efficiency, space technology, nuclear and computer technology, 500 companies now working from different parts of the world will be reunited in one single city dedicated entirely to science. Enjoy the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale already opened to the public and running until 25 November 2012.

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