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top 10 motorcycle and scooter designs of 2022

lea zeitoun I designboom — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:45:32 +0000

a look at the top 10 motorcycle and scooter designs of 2022

From the ‘Hydra’ cyberpunk beast powered by hydrogen to Moto Designs’ asymmetric mini-bike inspired by old video games, we bring together the most impressive two-wheeler concepts shared with our readers, ranging anywhere from nostalgic whimsy to chilling dystopia and dark cubism. We continue our annual review of this year’s BIG stories with a look at the TOP 10 motorcycle and scooter designs designs featured on designboom in 2022.

‘HERMES-X30’ FUTURISTIC ELECTRIC BOBBER SPORTS GEOMETRIC BODY AND CYBERPUNK AESTHETICS

image courtesy of Ravichandra Madhavarapu

Drawing influence from the aesthetics of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, Ravichandra Madhavarapu designed ‘Hermes-X30’, a futuristic electric motorcycle concept with a bold geometric look. The cafe racer features a striking design with a flat saddle, and a rectangular body, while the beamers have a subdued filter on them to portray a grim look. The result sees a cyberpunk bobber with a grunge character that matches Keanu Reeve’s dark persona perfectly.

DA VINCI ‘DC100’ IS A ROBOT ON TWO WHEELS WITH 1,000+ COMPUTER CHIPS & 200+ SENSORS

image courtesy of Davinci, via Facebook

The high-performance electric motorcycle Davinci DC100 is dubbed as a robot on two wheels thanks to over 1,000 computer chips and over 200 advanced sensors inside its motorcycle design. These sensors and chips help the riders keep track of accurate information about their environment, vehicle movement status, road conditions, battery and motor temperature, and lean angle, to name a few.

While riding, the DC100 will combine this data to control the motorcycle’s power system. Davinci has created a smart robot in the body of the motorcycle, and with this kind of technology, perhaps a real-life transformer can become a potential vehicle in the future.

SOLID CRS-01 IS A BRUTALIST ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE OOZING DYSTOPIAN ENERGY

image courtesy of VoyagerCo.

Product design duo Jeroen Claus and Fabian Breës from Belgium-based studio VoyagerCo. have been commissioned by a Dutch startup, SOLID EV, to build an electric motorcycle with strong brutalist references, dubbed the CRS-01. Sporting an unusually boxy frame, the limited-edition ride strikes as a shape-shifting steel machine, oozing dystopian-like qualities with its modular features, industrial gray-scale palette, and powerful bulky wheels that are sure to speed off at an impressive range.

CYBERTRUCK-INSPIRED TESLA MODEL M ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE BY VÍCTOR RODRÍGUEZ GÓMEZ

image courtesy of Víctor Rodríguez Gómez

Spanish automotive designer Víctor Rodríguez Gómez has envisioned a cybertruck-inspired electric motorcycle. Dubbed the Tesla Model M, the bike has been created for the future adventurer that values multifunctionality, efficiency, and eco-friendly means of individual transportation.Geometric lines, together with a leaning forward stance, make this electric bike futuristic yet retro-fashioned.

CUSTOMIZED RED MINI-BIKE BY MOTO DESIGNS CELEBRATES OLD VIDEO GAMES

image courtesy of Moto Designs

The Jakarta-based Moto Designs describes its brand as a motorcycle enthusiast. Sure enough, its Instagram feed appeals to both motorbike devotees and aesthetic cults. From the detailed and polished images to the wit-driven captions, Moto Designs cover the bases of luring its audience into what it creates, restores, and designs. But a new addition to its family seems to hog all the spotlight. ‘You can be fun at times, and two years ago, someone ordered a motorbike design like this,’ writes Moto Designs. The post is pertaining to martinceu racing, an asymmetric mini-bike that dwarfs against the energy-thirsty motorbikes.

STILRIDE USES ‘INDUSTRIAL ORIGAMI’ TO FOLD RECYCLED STEEL SHEETS INTO DURABLE ELECTRIC SCOOTERS

image courtesy of STILRIDE

Swedish startup STILRIDE builds sustainable electric motorcycles and scooters using a novel process called ‘industrial origami’. Combining innovative robotics, and design, the company folds single sheets of recyclable steel into intricate, durable vehicles. In this way, founders Tue Beijer and Jonas Nyvang hope to introduce a viable and more sustainable way to manufacture and distribute high-performance electric products all across the globe.

THIS CUSTOM BUILT BMW R NINET IS A SLEEK RETRO-FUTURISTIC RIDE

image courtesy of FabMan Creations on Facebook

‘You dream it, we build it!’ That’s the motto of Wayne Buys, a custom bike specialist from Gqeberha, South Africa, who goes by the name FabMan Creations. For his latest project, Buys has modified a low-mileage BMW R nineT for a client that was looking for an aircraft inspired ride. Dubbed ‘Storm’, the final motorbike is articulated by a curved aluminum body that gives it a retro-futuristic aesthetic.

CUSTOM SUZUKI GN250 PAYS TRIBUTE TO CUBISM WITH BOXY GEOMETRIES

image courtesy of Slavo Danko

Free Spirit Motorcycles, a small professional brand from Slovakia, builds bikes for free-spirited, urban people who create the new culture of modern cities by fusing the old and modern technologies. It marries a modern lifestyle with retro designs, offering bikers rides for riding and not for display. For its new offering, the brand has unveiled ‘cubus’, a custom-designed Suzuki GN250 that pays tribute to cubism, an early twentieth-century style and movement that use geometric shapes.

During its render, slavo danko, the man behind the brand and the re-design, posted the motorcycle’s exhaust system where two stainless pipes meet in a specially designed muffler and are finished with stainless core and aluminum 3D-milled sides. ‘After the satin-black paint of the stainless parts and the sand-blasting and brushing of aluminum, everything will be riveted together by sealing blind rivets,’ says designer and owner Danko.

SWEDISH BRAND CAKE WILL START USING PAPER MATERIALS IN ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLES

image courtesy of Cake

Swedish brand CAKE imagines itself at the forefront of the global transition to a zero-emission society by taking concrete actions over its text-based mission. For years, the electric bike company has produced lightweight and sustainable-infused electric motorcycles as part of its belief in sharing the environment with respect by riding a motorcycle without air or sound pollution. On March 24th, it took its mission to greater heights by saying goodbye to plastic as a material used in its products, anchoring the aim of bringing about a sustainable option to plastics suitable for use in the vehicle industry.

UNVEILING ‘HYDRA’, A CYBERPUNK E-BIKE POWERED BY HYDROGEN

image courtesy of Anton Guzhov

Designer trio Anton Guzhov, Anton Brousseau, and André Taylforth recently shared their vision for ‘Hydra,’ a concept e-bike powered by the most abundant resource there is: hydrogen. While traditional motorcycles run on lithium-ion batteries, this hypothetical ride is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, meaning it emits heat and water instead of fumes. Checking most boxes in the sustainability department, it remains to be seen whether this zero-emission electric bike can further expand into a sellable product.

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TOP 10 off-grid cabins of 2022

myrto katsikopoulou I designboom — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:58:41 +0000

SPOTLIGHTING THE top off-grid cabins OF 2022

Defined as small houses or cottages typically located in rural areas, cabins come in many shapes and sizes. Generally modest and cozy dwellings found in a variety of climates, they are often designed to be peaceful and secluded. Over the years, as the off-grid lifestyle has become more popular, many cabins have been built for people seeking independence from normal utilities, self-sufficiency, an escape from hectic city life, and a close connection to nature. Despite varying briefs and locations, our TOP 10 list compiles the best projects of 2022 that allow residents to get off the grid — from a collection of elevated human-scale nests in Uruguay to a tiny house on wheels traveling through Portugal.

We continue our annual review of this year’s BIG stories with a look at the TOP 10 off-grid cabins featured on designboom in 2022.

BROOKLYN-BASED DESIGNER CHARLIE BAKER WEAVES ENORMOUS NESTS FOR HUMANS

image by Charlie Baker

Charlie Baker creates order out of the wild and unruly branches sourced from nearby woods. Among his work, the Brooklyn-based designer has developed a collection of human-scale nests, wrapped organically with found timber and elevated among the forests. The nests pictured below are part of a development in Garzón, Uruguay.

EYRE.WAY’S NEW OFF-GRID TINY CABIN WELCOMES GUESTS TO SECRET CLIFFSIDE SPOT IN AUSTRALIA

image by Hook & Hammer Creative Media

Australian eco-accommodation company EYRE.WAY has just launched its second off-grid luxury tiny cabin named ‘Maldhi’. Surrounded by native vegetation, it sits cliffside and boasts world-class views of the Eyre Peninsula’s southern coast, overlooking the cliffs of Sleaford Bay in Australia.

‘Maldhi’ — meaning ‘Night or Night Sky’ in Barngarla (aboriginal language) — depicts a dark and moody color palette with various contrasting materials and textures, resulting in a look that is both edgy and laid back.

More importantly, the architectural design sheds light on climate control thanks to its sustainable timber construction and insulation. ‘Our architect designed the tiny abode to make the most of nature’s warming and cooling characteristics, and we used environmentally sustainable materials throughout the construction process,’ explains EYRE.WAY.

‘EL AGUACATE’ WEEKEND HOUSE COMPOSES OFF-THE-GRID LIVING EXPERIENCES IN MEXICO

all images by César Béjar Studio + Dove Dope

Práctica Arquitectura reexamines the concept of weekend houses approaching environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic factors in the shape of ‘El Aguacate’ in Santiago, Mexico. Given that cityscape and countryside definitions have been blurred by means of transportation and the operational flexibility provided by digital connectivity, the project attempts to design a contemporary vacation residence committing to solely necessary motions.

Following an initial scheme of concentric squares, the design of the house was developed in a geometric and structural programmatic order that was later subverted to increase the size of the terrace and resting zone. The rooms and services are spread over three cells forming around the central space. The solidity of the structure and the landscape design in apparent stone accentuate the stony and monolithic appearance of the house.

JACOBSCHANG ARCHITECTURE’S ‘HALF-TREE HOUSE’ SEEMS TO FLOAT AMONG THE WOODS

image © Noah Kalia

Designed by Manhattan-based studio Jacobschang Architecture, this ‘Half-Tree House’ is perched among the remote woods of upstate New York. Sited along a sloping, 60 acre plot, the cabin covers 360 square feet and touches the land lightly. Adding to the isolated nature of the site, the property has no vehicular access, no piped water, and no electricity.

The ‘tree house‘ is designed as a simple structure that can be ideally constructed by amateur weekend builders with a limited construction budget. Thus, the entire space encompasses only a single room and was built with a budget of only $20,000 USD.

CABINLAND COMES TO THE SUNNY SOUTHWEST, BEGINNING WITH ITS SALVAGED TIMBER ‘DESERT CABIN’

image by @saraunderwood and @jacobwitzling

Sara Underwood and Jacob Witzling take to new landscapes to grow their Cabinland series, unveiling the newly completed Desert Cabin. The duo has so far built six mossy structures across their forested plot in the Pacific Northwest, including the Diamond Cabin, Castle Cabin, and a collection of smaller utility cabins scattered throughout the woods. Now, Sara and Jacob have expanded the boundaries of their fairytale world from the fern-cloaked woods to the cactus deserts of the American Southwest.

As always, the team unveils its latest cabin with new plans just on the horizon — Sara notes on social media that they are ‘patiently waiting for plans to be approved on our main cabin.’

MADEIGUINCHO UNVEILS ITS LATEST OFF-GRID ‘TINY HOUSE ON WHEELS’ IN PORTUGAL

image by João Carranca

Architecture and woodworking studio Madeiguincho realizes this ‘Adraga House’ as part of a larger series of ‘Tiny Houses on Wheels’ across Portugal. This compact timber dwelling was created for a retired couple who envisioned a more relaxed disconnection from the fast world around them. The purpose of this project was to introduce a fully self-sustainable mobile unit with solar power, rainwater collection for shower and kitchen re-use, and a dry toilet that closes the waste loop allowing the compost to be used in the garden beds.

THE ‘SYLVASCOPE’ TREEHOUSE BY SEBASTIAN COX EXPLORES WOODLAND CARE IN THE UK

image by Sebastian Cox

The Harewood Biennial returns this year under the theme of ‘Radical Acts’, inviting makers to explore the role of craftsmanship in solving current crises. British designer Sebastian Cox took part in the program with his ‘Sylvascope’ treehouse, which explores the benefits of cutting down trees in mismanaged woodlands and celebrates timber as a sustainable craft material. The wooden structure is built on the property of Harewood House, a mansion in West Yorkshire.

LEOPOLD BANCHINI’S OFF-GRID CABIN IN AUSTRALIA IS MADE OF REPURPOSED ELECTRICAL POSTS

image courtesy of Leopold Banchini Architects

Within the small community of Marra Marra Creek in New South Wales, Australia, Leopold Banchini Architects has built an off-grid cabin made entirely out of timber. Its pillars are made out of repurposed 200-year-old electrical posts, giving a new life to the Ironbark timber. Meanwhile, Spotted Gum timber growing in the region is used for the beams of the ceiling and floor. The details and furniture are made of repurposed Turpentine timber from the old jetty built on the banks of the creek. Both solar energy and water are collected on the roof and stored on-site making the house fully self-sustainable.

MICHAEL QUIRK REUSES LOCAL WOOD TO COMPLETE TINY CARBON-NEGATIVE CABIN IN COLORADO’S FOREST

image by Michael Deleon

A quaint retreat in the forested landscape of Nederland, Colorado, this tiny net zero carbon cabin is built with local and reused materials for an eco-friendly living experience that offers inhabitants a chance to reconnect with nature. Built by Michael Quirk using only simple and sustainable materials, the cabin highlights the potential designers have to turn the construction industry’s contribution to climate change on its head by rethinking their building practices.

The architect thus completes his yet unnamed cabin with hemp insulation and locally sourced wood varieties with energy-efficient qualities, and also installs solar panels for an off-grid renewable energy system for a low carbon footprint living experience in the middle of the forest.

DRAWING FROM JAPANESE TEAHOUSES + SCANDINAVIAN HUTS, LLABB BUILDS ‘HERMITAGE’ CABIN IN ITALY

image courtesy of Anna Positano and Gaia Cambiaggi

Italian architecture firm llabb has completed Hermitage, a 12 sqm wooden cabin designed as a space for contemplation and introspection. Located in Italy’s Trebbia Valley in the heart of the Apennines, the structure is dry-sited and off-grid, built by the team during a 15-day construction workshop. Elaborating on modernist themes and drawing inspiration from Japanese teahouses and Scandinavian huts, the cabin is raised off the ground and incoporates a fully glazed wall offering expansive views of the surrounding forest. The resulting structure can be used as a studio, retreat, tea room, or guest house.

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TOP 10 NFTs of 2022

christina petridou I designboom — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:30:34 +0000

spotlighting the top 10 NFTS of 2022

This year has seen a new way of thinking about currency, property, and art, and it seems there are quite a few who have embraced this art form. NFT, meaning non-fungible token, is the registration of ownership of a digital object on a blockchain. It can be any type of media, including but not limited to art, videos, music, GIFs, games, tweets, and memes. The non-fungible part means the object is unique, making it irreplaceable.

From a fully-nude Madonna exploring the concept of creation to a reinterpretation of renaissance masterpieces with modern brushstrokes — we continue our annual review of this year’s BIG stories with a look at the TOP 10 NFTs featured on designboom in 2022.

DIGITAL SPACE OF TODAY IS THE OPPOSITE OF FREE SPACE’ – NFT BY ROBERT MONTGOMERY

Artist Robert Montgomery’s first NFT critiques the pervasiveness of the digital world © Robert Montgomery

After recently wowing the world with his solar-powered political billboard at COP26, acclaimed British contemporary artist Robert Montgomery has entered the NFT arena with his signature text-based work, a blade runner-Esque manifesto damning the evils of the digital world. the work was released by New Pavilion, a consulting agency collaborating with some of the world’s most celebrated artists’ estates, contemporary creators, arts foundations, and cultural institutions.

Through this artwork, Montgomery explores the existential sphere of the digital world. Specifically, he looks at how digital communication and devices have become the managers of our time and how tracks of our biographies are now reflected back at us within advertising media. By doing so, he ultimately questions the fate of our intellectual and emotional freedoms, as well as our connection to the natural world.

MADONNA BIRTHS A TREE, BUTTERFLIES AND CENTIPEDES IN NSFW TRIPTYCH OF NFTS

Mother of Creation, an NFT triptych by Madonna and Beeple

Following a year of work, Madonna and Beeple have released Mother of Creation, an NFT triptych dropping today on SuperRare. The works, which feature animations of a fully-nude Madonna, explore the concept of creation, motherhood, and birth via darkness and light in our modern world. Received with some skepticism, the collaboration has many asking the infamous But Why? question. As artnet states, ‘we live in a dystopia… and I feel nothing.’ It’s for people who live lives so media-saturated and irony-poisoned that nothing feels real.’

‘When Mike (Beeple) and I decided to collaborate on this project a year ago, I was excited to have the opportunity to share my vision of the world as a mother and an artist with Mike’s own unique point of view.’ said Madonna. ‘It’s been an amazing journey building this together from an intellectual idea to an emotional story, giving birth to art. I wanted to investigate the concept of creation, not only the way a child enters the world through a woman’s vagina, but also the way an artist gives birth to creativity. Most importantly, we wanted to use this opportunity to benefit mothers and children who are most in need right now.’

INTERVIEW: REFIK ANADOL AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST ON ‘NFTS AND PUBLIC ART’ AT NFT ART DAY ZRH

‘NFTs and public art’ at NFT ART DAY ZRH © Refik Anadol Studio

NFT ART DAY ZRH, the first annual NFT and metaverse conference in Switzerland, brought together leading figures from the field of digital arts and the art market for an insightful afternoon of talks. Participants explored different topics related to NFTs, including an introduction to non-fungible tokens and their relationship to the art world, as well as the collecting behavior and various artistic practices around them.

One of the topics of the conference was dedicated to NFTs and Public Art, which was addressed through a conversation between Refik Anadol, media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries. The two speakers discussed Refik Anadol’s oeuvre over the past years working with the medium of NFTs, and what it means to employ blockchain technology to create public artworks.

KEVIN ABOSCH ON HOW BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY IS RESHAPING THE ART WORLD AT NFT ART DAY ZRH

Sun Signals (2021) by Kevin Abosch

The inaugural edition of NFT ART DAY ZRH, the first annual NFT and metaverse conference in Switzerland, took place last Sunday, June 12, 2022, at the Auditorium of the Kunsthaus Zürich. During an insightful afternoon of talks, leading figures from the field of digital arts and the art market explored different topics related to NFTs within the wider realm of the history of digital art.

One of the topics of the conference, titled ‘On NFTs and the Value of Art’ and moderated by Anika Meier, brought together internationally acclaimed artists and professionals, including Kevin Abosch, Georg Bak, Sarah Friend (joining virtually), and Leander Herzog, who discussed NFTs as an art form, ranging from conceptual, photography, and sculptural NFT artworks.

HOW NFTS ARE CHANGING ART: INTERVIEW WITH JOHANNES GEES AT ENGADIN ART TALKS 2022

kleee02 NFT laser projection at villa Diana, Zurich, 2019

Swiss artist Johannes Gees has been working with NFTs long before most of us even heard the term ‘non-fungible token‘. Fascinated by new technologies and their potential, Gees has been exploring both digital and physical spaces since 1999. In 2019, he created his first NFT named ‘proof of destruction’. in that same year, the artist collaborated with Kelian Maissen on a collection of 360 NFTs called ‘kleee02’, a laser platform that references a famous Paul Klee quote,‘a line is a dot that went for a walk’.

At the 2022 edition of Engadin Art Talks (E.A.T.) Johannes Gees was in conversation with gallerist Nina Roehrs to discuss the artist’s kleee02 NFT projection. designboom also caught up with Gees during the weekend-long art event in Switzerland to examine the evolution of digital art and how NFTs are changing the game for artists.

DYNAMIC NFT OF GAUDÍ’S ICONIC CASA BATLLÓ BY REFIK ANADOL SELLS AT CHRISTIE’S FOR $1.38M

image via Casa Batlló

Refik Anadol’s ‘Living Architecture: Casa Batlló’ is a dynamic NFT of the façade of Antoni Gaudí’s iconic Casa Batlló in Barcelona. The digital artwork, which was auctioned off at Christie’s on May 10 for $1.38 million, uses environmental data gathered in real-time from sensors placed around the site. As such, the pioneering masterpiece changes depending on the city’s weather, data collected in real-time, and the events celebrated on the façade of the famous building, including Saint George’s Day and Christmas. Casa Batlló is the first UNESCO World Heritage building that has been reinterpreted in an NFT form.

‘Gaudí is an amazing inspiration for any creator and Casa Batlló a dream work to dive into,’ notes the pioneering AI artist and digital architect while reflecting on the challenge of reinterpreting the renowned spanish architect’s work and principles. ‘From its organic architecture, inspired in nature, to the smallest details on its many mosaics, it is a privilege to reinterpret such an alive legacy and bring it to the 21st century, guided by Artificial Intelligence.’

FUAT DEĞIRMENCI’S NFTS REINTERPRET RENAISSANCE MASTERPIECES WITH MODERN BRUSHSTROKES

‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Johannes Vermeer © Fuat Değirmenci via Behance

From ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Johannes Vermeer to the ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo da Vinci, Fuat Değirmenci transports Renaissance masterpieces into the digital sphere, stripping them down to bold, minimal brushstrokes. The series of modern 3D renderings titled ‘Minimal Renaissance’ digitally reinterprets some of the world’s most renowned paintings, encapsulating their original essence through lines, perspectives, colors, and light, illustrated in a contemporary expression. Emphasizing the movement’s ‘rebirth’ of human-centered understanding of thought, Değirmenci’s simplification of these infamous, historic artworks hones in on their fundamental underlying beauty.

The visual and motion artist launched this series as a collection of NFTs with Dubai’s Art World Creation NFT Gallery. Each purchased NFT also comes with a physical framed digital screen, both of which have been minted together by Octopus Signage.

DAMIEN HIRST DESTROYS 1,000 PHYSICAL ARTWORKS OF ‘THE CURRENCY’ IN FRONT OF NFT BUYERS

images courtesy of HENI

The fate of the artwork was in the buyer’s hands when Damien Hirst decided he would burn the physical copies of his uniquely made artwork The Currency, priced at 2,000 USD each, if people bought its NFT counterpart. Collectors could not own both the NFT and physical artwork, so they had to choose one under a deadline (more on that here).

True to his word, Hirst destroyed the first 1,000 physical artworks of The Currency at Newport Street Gallery on October 12th, tossing the dollars NFT aficionados digitally handed the artist into the fire (at least it was a state-of-the-art-looking fireplace). Buyers and onlookers flocked inside the white tent, basking in the scent of smoke and anticipation, and happily eyed the modest grin on Hirst’s face as his fire-resistant gloved hand made its way into the pyre to fling or gently lay down a piece of his dots-covered paper that was worth bucks into the flames.

ITALIAN GOVERNMENT BANS NFT SALES BY MUSEUMS TO PROTECT THEIR CULTURAL HERITAGE

Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo (1505-06) | courtesy of the Uffizi Gallery

The Italian government aims to stop digital art sales by museums to protect the country’s cultural heritage from NFT frauds. This decree is a reaction to the recent 240,000€ sale of an NFT of Michelangelo’s work from which Florence-based art gallery Uffizi received only 70,000€. The country’s ministry responsible for regulating the Italian museums has requested institutions to halt agreements with NFT providers.

The decision to stop contracts with NFT companies came after the sale of Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo NFT from the Uffizi Gallery last year. The sale was directed by the Milan-based tech company Cinello, as part of a five-year contract to digitalize artworks from the museum’s collection. The Gallery received less than one-third of the achieved price, although they have agreed on a share of fifty percent — as a Cinello spokesperson told the Art Newspaper. The tech company took so much in fees that the museum only got 70,000€. The works were produced in editions of nine, with a price between 100,000€ and 250,000€ each.

WIKIPEDIA VOTES AGAINST CLASSIFYING NFTS AS ART

image by Christie’s (Beeple (b. 1981) Everydays: the first 5000 days)

A group of editors on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has voted against categorizing nonfungible tokens (NFT) as a form of art. it all started on the platform the past December. The Wikipedia editors were questioning if sales reached up to 60 million dollars — like Pak’s $ 91 million collections and Beeple’s $ 69 million NFT — should be on the list. Following a public debate, five Wikipedia editors have voted not to classify NFTs as art and just one was opposed.

‘Wikipedia really can’t be in the business of deciding what counts as art or not, which is why putting NFTs, art or not, in their own list makes things a lot simpler. There’s a separate issue of artificial price inflation of NFTs, though that’s something that would need to be decided in the NFT list and not here,’ said a Wikipedia editor in a talk.

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TOP 10 car designs of 2022

lea zeitoun I designboom — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:10:34 +0000

spotlighting the top 10 car designs of 2022

The world of automobiles never ceases to delight. Just take a look at our 2022 round-up where digital, physical, and everything in between converge into extraordinary creations, each pushing the boundaries of the vehicular experience with daring strokes. From Dacia’s cool and robust ‘Manifesto Concept’ to the aeronautic-inspired Alef ‘Model A’ flying car and hydrogen-powered ‘Māchina Vision Sedan’, this year’s stories throw impossible out of the window while diving deeper into sustainable and eco-conscious driving. We continue our annual review of this year’s BIG stories with a look at the TOP 10 car concepts and designs featured on designboom in 2022.

LIGHTYEAR 0 CAN DRIVE FOR MONTHS WITHOUT CHARGING USING SOLAR-PANEL ROOF

image courtesy of Lightyear

Lex Hoefsloot believes that the use of electric cars moves society in the right direction, but the car designs have a scaling problem and that by 2030, 84 million electric vehicles (EVs) can be expected to run on roads in Europe alone. Forming part of his personal response to what he deems an industry challenge, he co-founded the company Lightyear and has recently introduced Lightyear 0 to the public, a solar-ready car that imbues his strategy of delivering more range with less battery, reducing weight and CO₂ emissions per vehicle.

What makes the vehicle solar-ready lies in its optimized solar roof, a design approach that means the car can drive for weeks, even months, without charging. ‘In cloudy climates, based on the average commute of around 35 kilometers per day, you can drive for up to two months before you need to think about charging. In sunnier countries, that could be up to seven months,’ the company shares.

HOPIUM DESIGNS HYDROGEN-POWERED MĀCHINA VISION SEDAN ON 3DEXPERIENCE CLOUD PLATFORM

image courtesy of Hopium

Debuting at the 2022 Paris Automotive Week, Hopium unveils the world’s first high-end hydrogen-powered sedan, the Māchina Vision. The high-end ‘green’ car reshapes the standards of mobility through design, technology, experience and innovative performance. With the market launch set for 2025, the French manufacturer has been using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud platform for end-to-end development, from concept to prototyping and full-scale production.

DACIA UNVEILS ‘MANIFESTO CONCEPT,’ ROBUST, COOL, AND GEARED FOR THE OUTDOORS

image courtesy of Dacia

Dacia unveils its ‘Manifesto’ concept car, showcasing a symbol that is ‘essential but cool, robust,’ built for the outdoors, and both economically and environmentally efficient. While not foreshadowing an upcoming model, the concept is Dacia’s ‘living lab’ infused with the company’s pioneering ideas and innovations which will be available on its future production cars. The team at Dacia notes that Manifesto ‘explores a connection to nature by being environmentally friendly, robust and by demonstrating usefulness in the outdoors,’ boldly expressing the company’s aim to keep up with lovers of nature and adventure.

ONE-SEATER CONCEPT ‘POLESTAR 1:1’ DRIVES THROUGH 1 KILOWATT PER KILOGRAM RATIO

image courtesy of Jeroen Claus

Jeroen Claus, the lead designer and co-founder of VoyagerCo, has conceptualized Polestar 1:1 as a response to the power-to-weight ratio by adopting the idea of one kilowatt for every kilogram. His car design is made of flax fiber that confers the car concept a durable and lightweight built and design while the silver-white color boosts the automotive’s simplicity as it focuses more on performance and features.

Claus describes his creation as an ‘aim to bridge the gap between the physical and digital dimensions and an experience in which all senses of the driver are treated to an enormous experience.’ The single-seating feature offers solo cruising that hopes to gift the immersive experience Claus was trying to pinpoint. The conceptual design might also be a potential foundation for more driverless cars and electric automobiles in the future.

HYPERCAR ‘PAGANI UTOPIA V12’ DELIVERS 864 BHP & 1100 NM TORQUE BY MERCEDES-AMG BITURBO

image courtesy of Pagani

Horacio Pagani’s company Pagani enters its third decade and third creation through Pagani Utopia V12, a hypercar that boasts 864/852 BHP at 6,000 RPM and a max torque of 1,100 Nm from 2800 RPM to 5900 RPM via twin turbochargers, developed on its basis by Mercedes-AMG for Pagani. The laborious work and car design took Pagani three vehicle prototypes for the engine development that last for almost two years to bring out their intention for an engine that revs higher, and six years with thousands of drawings, ten 1:5 scale models, and two 1:1 scale models for its entirety.

CHARGE UNVEILS AN ALL-ELECTRIC VERSION OF THE CLASSIC 1960’S FORD MUSTANG

image courtesy of Charge Cars

First announced in 2018, London-based Charge Cars has unveiled an electric Ford Mustang with cutting edge technology and zero emissions. Drawing inspiration from a 1967 model, the company has reworked it into an electric automobile with only 499 items available for reservation.

The result sees the officially licensed shells preserve the classic design and styling of the legendary Ford Mustang. The luxury bespoke interiors, rich in ambience and detail, provide a modern high-end driving experience for connoisseurs of speed and technology. Equipped with state-of-the-art components and a personalized digital interface, these classic vehicles are back to cutting edge once again.

EVTOL ALEF ‘MODEL A’ COMBINES FLYING AND DRIVING CAR IN ONE ELECTRIC VEHICLE

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Alef Aeronautics offers its own eVTOL through Alef flying car, a concept flying car that would have a driving range of 200 miles and a flight range of 110 miles. As the team believes, the car concept would be the only driveable flying car with eVTOL capabilities that could fit within existing urban infrastructure for driving and parking. The car design seems to give drivers a stable ride with its car-like exterior, a potential competitor of those who envision their eVTOL as open or more helicopter-looking. The company shares in their release that the electric Alef flying car would not have any exposed propellers for added safety and to drown the loud whirring sounds and also save space.

WILL.I.AM AND MERCEDES UNVEIL CUSTOM AMG GT 4-DOOR WITH BOXY G-WAGEN FRONT

American musician and philanthropist will.i.am has teamed up with Mercedes-AMG for the sixth time to create a one-off custom vehicle called ‘WILL.I.AMG’. Nicknamed ‘The Flip’, the extensively modified sports car is based on the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé. More than just a wild concept car, The Flip is part of will.i.am’s mission to get kids from disadvantaged communities into STEM jobs. All the activities surrounding the unique vehicle will fund inner city school engineering programs.

SEAN WOTHERSPOON UNVEILS CORK AND CORDUROY INTERIORS OF HIS ELECTRIC PORSCHE ART CAR

For the first time, streetwear designer Sean Wotherspoon unveils his Porsche electric art car in its entirety, defined by its vividly colorblocking and playful materiality. The news comes after the striking exterior had been displayed at Austin’s South x Southwest festival in March. Finally, the interiors have been revealed which continue the lively colorway of ‘Nash Blue, Sean Peach, Loretta Purple and Ashley Green.’ What makes these interiors especially unique is the material palette which introduces cork and corduroy. Because the Taycan 4 Cross Turismo is Sean’s personal car, the electric art car stands as a one-of-a-kind creation, and will not be offered for sale.

TESLA PRESENTS ITS CUTTING-EDGE ‘GIGAFACTORY’ IN BERLIN WITH A DIZZYING FPV DRONE TOUR

Tesla was born with an eye toward the future, and the company welcomes the opportunity to showcase this from nearly every aspect. From the smallest details of its tech-infused cars all the way up to its systems of manufacturing, the brand wants the world to know that it stands at the industry’s forefront.

Now, the giant has released a video tour of its ‘Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg’ filmed with an FPV drone, demonstrating the process of creating its Model Y cars. Even in presenting its factory, Tesla must stand at the tech forefront. This ‘first person view’ is the result of the most groundbreaking drone technologies to date, which sees the pilot equipped with an immersive headset showing the live stream camera feed from the drones (see designboom’s coverage of FPV drones here).

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TOP 10 museums and cultural venues of 2022

myrto katsikopoulou I designboom — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:10:39 +0000

SPOTLIGHTING THE TOP museums OF 2022

From adaptive renovations and climate-regulating structures to monumental buildings and irregular volumes, 2022 saw the opening of many exciting museums and cultural centers. During the year, designboom reported on several highly-anticipated projects by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Kengo Kuma Associates, Olson Kundig, and many more. Despite varying briefs and locations, our TOP 10 list of the biggest and best museums of the year features bold designs that will attract visitors from around the world.

We continue our annual review of this year’s BIG stories with a look at the TOP 10 museums and cultural venues featured on designboom in 2022.

BIG ADDS A CURVED CORTEN STEEL CORNER TO NEW REFUGEE MUSEUM OF DENMARK

Bjarke Ingels Group / BIG has designed a museum dedicated to refugees in Oksbøl, at the site of Denmark‘s largest refugee camp from World War II. Named ‘FLUGT’ the new cultural building gives a voice and a face to refugees worldwide and captures the universal challenges, emotions, spirit, and stories shared by displaced humans.

‘The Refugee Museum of Denmark explores an important part of our history and a theme that is more relevant than ever, with millions of refugees currently displaced from their homes,’ says Bjarke Ingels.

For this adaptive reuse project, BIG transformed and extended one of the camp’s few remaining structures—a hospital building—into a 1,600 sqm museum.

GLENSTONE MUSEUM ADDS NEW BUILDING DEDICATED TO SINGLE NEW WORK BY RICHARD SERRA

Glenstone Museum in Potomac has opened a new Thomas Phifer and Partners-designed building to house the sculpture Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, 2017, by Richard Serra. Designed in collaboration with the artist, the 4,000-square-foot concrete structure is the first new construction on the museum’s grounds since the opening of the pavilions in 2018.

The new building marks an addition to the overall collection of austere and minimal pavilions sited in Maryland and all realized by Thomas Phifer and Partners.

OLSON KUNDIG WEAVES TOGETHER THE COMPLEX LIFE AND WORK OF BOB DYLAN IN TULSA

Olson Kundig celebrates the completion of the Bob Dylan Center, a project combining immersive exhibition design and restoration all spanning a whole block in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The space occupies a 100 year-old building that was once a paper factory, a context which plays a great role in the all-American spirit of the project.

This was an international design competition which partners Alan Maskin and Tom Kundig pursued jointly — it proved to be the perfect match as Olson Kundig is one of the few firms in the world that specializes in both architecture and exhibit design. Actually this wasn’t the team’s first proposal. The original design proposed an entirely new building which fused the exhibits with newly built architecture. Shortly after the group was awarded the project five years ago, the warehouse space — a former gallery adjacent to the Woody Guthrie Center — had become available and a new piece of architecture was not needed. Since that moment, the team focused entirely on exhibit design.

In the early stages of the process, it was announced that Bob Dylan himself — who is just celebrating his 81st birthday this Tuesday, May 24th — would not be involved in the project. ‘I was actually incredibly relieved,’ Alan Maskin told designboom, ‘because I didn’t want to make a monument to a rock star. I wanted to use the example of his life and career and his creative trajectory as an example for others.’

ESTUDIO MMX INFUSES NEW GEOLOGY MUSEUM IN MEXICO WITH MAYAN ARCHITECTURE REFERENCES

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Designed by Estudio MMX, the new Geology Museum in the town of Progreso, on the coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is entirely covered in chukum, a natural finish of Mayan origin. Composed of multiple structures, corridors, gardens, and fountains, the ensemble combines the ideas of Mayan architecture with the colonial heritage of urban design, while light, shadow, and vegetation blend in to create a rich experiential character.

‘The museum consciously synthesizes local Mayan knowledge with contemporary architectural approaches, thus generating a new identifiable and appropriable public space for the people of Progreso.’ shares the Mexican studio.

KENGO KUMA’S IRREGULAR ALUMINUM-CLAD FACADE INVITES VISITORS TO ALBERT KAHN MUSEUM IN FRANCE

On the outskirts of Paris, the new Albert-Kahn art museum has opened its door to the public following the rehabilitation work and realization of a new building by the renowned architect Kengo Kuma. An envelope made from irregularly placed aluminum strips catches passersby’s attention from afar and endows the spaces with a play of light and shadow. The uneven aluminum roof that tops the structure reflects the nuances of the sky and welcomes visitors to discover the vast Kahn collections in a unique architecture of 2300 sqm.

The final design reveals a strong conceptual element that sees a reinterpretation of ‘Engawa’, a traditional physical medium of Japanese architecture. The meaning of Engawa is ‘in-between space’, and describes a filter between the inside and the outside. Thus, the design team sought to blend architecture and landscape, creating a seamless symbiosis between the display space and tame nature — an intention that is reinforced by lush gardens that pierce the building.

A SHIMMERING COPPER FACADE WRAPS THIS PRIVATE ART GALLERY BY CHYBIK + KRISTOF

CHYBIK + KRISTOF unveil its newly designed Private Art Gallery, defined by its shimmering facade of moveable copper tiles. The work is planned for the center of a new public square with direct access to the waters of a meandering river nearby. With this prominent waterfront position, as well as its location along a major pedestrian access between two important areas of the city, the gallery will have a significant impact on the urban fabric. This significant presence within the city and respect for the area’s heritage are the spirit of the proposal.

WUTOPIA LAB’S MONOLOGUE ART MUSEUM IN CHINA OFFERS AN ESCAPE FROM WORLDLY DISTRACTIONS

Shanghai-based architecture firm Wutopia Lab has completed the ‘Monologue Art Museum‘ in China, dedicated to those who desire an escape from worldly distractions. Settled in the park of SEATOPIA in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, the project emerges as an ensemble of three geometrical masses floating on a pool, all encircled by a white ring . The design team sought to generate an intimate and silent space where visitors could contemplate or hide their thoughts.

‘In an open green space at the intersection of three residential clusters in the Weilan Coast campus, I broke up the 1,300 square meter building into different monoliths combined with walls, corridors, and ambiguous spaces into a triangular-shaped 3,600 square meter place, the Monologue Art Museum.’

STUDIO GANG UNVEILS NEW IMAGES OF ITS GILDER CENTER AT NEW YORK’S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York announces plans to open the Studio Gang-designed Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. The sculptural new center is expected to open February 2023, and will transform the experience of the entire museum. The space will advance public science education for all ages at a time when the role of science in addressing society’s most pressing issues is urgent.

BUNDANON’S NEW ART MUSEUM AND BRIDGE FOR CREATIVE LEARNING ARE BUILT TO ENDURE CLIMATE CHANGE

Bundanon – a reimagined art destination situated near Nowra in the city of Shoalhaven, Australia – will be opening its new art museum and bridge for creative learning to the public on Saturday 29th January 2022, with an official ceremony and festival of events being held on Saturday 5th march 2022.

Embedded within the landscape, the new 500 sqm museum, designed by Kerstin Thompson architects (KTA) will present a year-round program of exhibitions of modern, contemporary, and first nations art, as well as new commissions. Drawing inspiration from rural Australia’s trestle flood bridges, the design responds efficiently to current and future climatic conditions — the 160-meter-long bridge allows floodwaters to flow beneath it, while the art museum is concealed inside a hill to protect itself against heat and wildfires. The project is a collaboration between KTA, landscape architects Wraight Associates with Craig Burton, and sustainable design engineers Atelier Ten.

NEW IMAGES UNVEILED OF DUBAI’S LARGER-THAN-LIFE ‘MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE’

Following the completion of Killa Design’s calligraphy-covered Museum of the Future in Dubai, founder of the UAE-based studio Shaun Killa discusses the processes that informed the architecture. These new insights come alongside new images of the monumental work of both the completed exterior and larger-than-life interiors (see designboom’s previous coverage here).

From the outside, the museum sits atop a green hill, appearing as a sculptural object in the city. The geometry takes shape as a torus wrapped in massive calligraphic writing which express quotes from the UAE’s prime minister on his vision of the future.

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