Friday 13 March 2015

Interior Designer : Kelly Hoppen

Interior DesignerKelly Hoppen


Kelly Hoppen is a English interior designer, born in July 1959 at Johannesburg, South Africa. She was establish a design company named by her own name at age 17. 



Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Hoppen Company

Awarded
In 1997, she won the Andrew Martin "Annual International Designer Award"; in 2006, won the "Ella Interior Design Award". In 2007, she won the "Homes & Garden Awards", "GRAZIA designer of the Year", but the most important of these awards,  she won the European women's Union awarded the most outstanding female entrepreneurs Award.




Kelly Hoppen Company

Kelly Hoppen establish her interior design company at age 17, 27 years later, the company has grown to 35 members, and her offices spread to London, Paris and New York and it can manage an average of 40 international projects, homes, apartments, yachts, vacation cabins, hotels, office , private airplane, and even the British Airways First Class is conducted by her company's design. Not only interior design outstanding, Kelly Hoppen still operate their individual retail stores and an interior design school, she had also recently been busy autobiographical writing. She also design their own brand of furniture, lamps and other home products, and design of industrial products for other brands.


Kelly Hoppen Magazine

Interior Design

Living Room
Kitchen
Bedroom
In her design, nature color and element were always apply on her design. Used of nature element in interior design were make it look harmony and made people feel comfortable.

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Studio Ghibli : Japanese Animation Film Studio

Studio Ghibli : Japanese Animation Film Studio


Studio Ghibli,  is a Japanese animation film studio based in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. Originally part of Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co.,Ltd. Ghibli. Studio logo as its representative works "My Neighbor Totoro."  "Ghibli" was named by Director Hayao MIyazaki, meaning that the season of hot air in the Sahara Desert. Ghibli studio had produce their magazine from 2003 had known as "Hot Air". 

Spirited Away
Grave of the Fireflies
Film produced by Ghibli Studio


The studio founded in 1985 June 15, the studio is headed by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki. In prior, Miyazaki and Takahata had already had long careers in Japanese film and television animation and had worked together on " Hols: Prince of the Sun and Panda! Go, Panda!"; and Suzuki was an editor at Tokuma Shoten's Animage manga magazine. The studio has mainly produced films by Miyazaki, with the second most a Takahata most notably with"Grave of the Fireflies". Other directors who have worked with Studio Ghibli include Yoshifumi KondoHiroyuki MoritaGorō Miyazaki, and Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Composer Joe Hisaishi has provided the soundtracks for most of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films.
My Neighbor Totoro
The Wind Rise
Princess Mononoke

Howl's Moving Castle
In August 1996, Disney and Tokuma Shoten Publishing agreed that Disney would distribute internationally Tokuma's Studio Ghibli animated films. In 1999, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) were retrospective. Museum of Contemporary Art is the first held in the Japanese animation film based retrospective exhibition show. In 2005, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata MOCA also held the premiere of the work. In 2003 held in Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, "all are Ghibli Studio Ghibli stereolithography material exhibition," more than 22 million visitors. In 2004, Venice Film Festival awarded a Studio Ghibli awarded in recognition of their production of "Howl's Moving Castle."

Significant achievements

  • The first real box-office success in Studio Ghibli's history: Kiki's Delivery Service.
  • The highest-grossing film of 1989 in Japan: Kiki's Delivery Service
  • The highest-grossing film of 1991 in Japan: Only Yesterday
  • The highest-grossing film of 1992 in Japan: Porco Rosso
  • The highest-grossing film of 1994 in Japan: Pom Poko
  • The first Studio Ghibli film to use computer graphics: Pom Poko
  • The first Japanese film in Dolby Digital: Whisper of the Heart
  • The first Miyazaki feature to use computer graphics, and the first Studio Ghibli film to use digital coloring; the first animated feature in Japan's history to gross more than 10 billion yen at the box office and the first animated film ever to win a National Academy Award for Best Picture of the YearPrincess Mononoke
  • The first Studio Ghibli film to be shot using a 100% digital process: My Neighbors the Yamadas
  • The first Miyazaki feature to be shot using a 100% digital process; the first film to gross $200 million worldwide before opening in North America; the film to finally overtakeTitanic at the Japanese box office, becoming the top grossing film in the history of Japanese cinema; the only anime winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and the only winner to be made outside the English-speaking world; the only traditionally animated winner, so far, of an Academy award for Best Animated Feature: Spirited Away


Monday 9 March 2015

Japan Industrial Designer : Sori Yanagi

Japan Industrial Designer : Sori Yanagi

Sori Yanagi, Japan Industrial Designer. Born in 29 June 1915 and died at 25 December 2011,(96 years old), he live in Tokyo,Japan. He was studies both Art and Architecture in Tokyo Art School at 1934. In his step in his career, he played a role in Japanese modern design developed after World War 2 to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy. He also name the top 1st Industrial designer in Japan.he had work in Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (UK) in 2008.

He was the Professor of Renjin Ze University of Arts and Crafts in 1954. In 1977, he employed Art Director of Japanese Folk Crafts Museum,. He is both a representative of the whole Japanese modern designer and a full-blown modernist who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts


















Principle of Sori Yanagi Design.
Aesthetics  is useful in design.-Good design must meet the Japanese aesthetics and ethics, showing the characteristics of Japan.
Purpose of design is creativity.-Design's purpose is to create a more superior product than the past, is not really designed to imitate.
Traditional itself from creating design.- such as from tradition is unthinkable. 

Real design to face the reality, face to the fashion, trends challenge.-He criticized only on the material conditions of existence of contemporary design and fashion tastes and other undesirable tendencies succumb. His own products designed to integrate Western modernism and Japanese national sentiment in one.

Replica Sori Yanagi Butterfly Stool




At 1956, he designed a curved plywood with metal fittings butterfly stool, which is a combination of functionalism and traditional craftsmanship.

Greatest of Industrial Designer : Dieter Rams

Greatest of Industrial Designer : Dieter Rams


Dieter Rams


Dieter Rams, an industrial designer in German. Born 20 may 1932, in Wiesbaden, Hessen, German. He had closely associated with German consumer  product company Braun and the Funtionalist school of industrial design."Less, but better."was his design concept.


He was study at  architecture and interior decoration at Wiesbaden School of Art in 1947 and graduated in 1953. He was work for architect Otto Apel for a short term, and then he join to the Braun company as a architect and an interior designer. Became the Chiet Design Officer in 1961 at Braun until 1995. Was designed many memorable product for Braun including famous SK-4 record player and D-series(D45, D46)of 35mm film slide projector. He was also known for designing a furniture collection for Vitsœ in 1960s including the 606 Universal Shelving System and 620 Chair Programme. Most of Rams's furniture and electricity product design were keep in the muzeums, including muzuem in New York. Retired in 1998. In 2010, he was awarded the 'Kölner Klopfer' prize by the students of the Cologne International School of Design and in 2009 awarded the great design prize in Australia.

Vitsœ, British Furniture Company

Braun,  Manufacturing company








10 Principle of Design by Rams

 What is Good Design

Is innovative - The possibilities for progression are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for original designs. But imaginative design always develops in tandem with improving technology, and can never be an end in itself.







TP 1 radio/phono combination, 1959, by Dieter Rams for Braun


Makes a product useful - A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic criteria. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could detract from it.






MPZ 21 multipress citrus juicer,
1972, by Dieter Rams and Jürgen Greubel for Braun


Is aesthetic - The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.








RT 20 tischsuper radio, 1961, by Dieter Rams for Braun


Makes a product understandable - It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user's intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory.








T 1000 world receiver, 1963, by Dieter Rams for Braun

Is unobtrusive - Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.








Cylindric T 2 lighter, 1968, by Dieter Rams for Braun


Is honest - It does not make a product appear more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.







L450 flat loudspeaker, 
TG 60 reel-to-reel tape recorder and TS 45 control unit, 1962-64, 
by Dieter Rams for Braun


Is long-lasting - It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today's throwaway society.








620 Chair Programme, 1962, by Dieter Rams for Vitsœ


Is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.








ET 66 calculator, 1987, by Dietrich Lubs for Braun


Is environmentally friendly - Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimizes physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.








606 Universal Shelving System, 1960, by Dieter Rams for Vitsœ


Is as little design as possible - Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.











L 2 speaker, 1958, by Dieter Rams for Braun

Sunday 8 March 2015

Master of Graphic designer : Ikko Tanaka

Ikko Tanaka, The Master of Graphic Designer



Ikko Tanaka, designer in japan. Born in Japan Nara city at 1930. Ikko Tanaka created a style of graphic design that fused modernism principles and aesthetics with the Japanese tradition.
He studied art at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts.  He was employed as a textile designer with the Kanegafuchi Spinning Co., Kyoto (1950–52), and then worked for the Sankei Shinbun Press, Tokyo, as a graphic designer (1952–57). In 1960 he co-founded the Nippon Design Centre in Tokyo with Yusaku Kamekura, and from 1961 to 1965 he lectured at the Kuwazawa Institute of Design, Tokyo. In 1963 he established his own studio—the Tanaka Design Atelier—in Tokyo, changing the name to Ikko Tanaka Design Studio in 1976.

He designed posters, corporate logos, book and magazine layouts and exhibition displays, for example the Japanese Government’s History Pavilion displays at Expo ’70, Osaka, and the Oceanic Cultural Museum displays at Ocean Expo ’75, Okinawa. In 1975 he was appointed Creative Director of Seibu Department Stores Ltd and became responsible for art direction of the Sezon group.

Kobe Biennial; Ikko Tanaka


Amnesty International; Ikko Tanaka


Mackintosh Design, Ikko Tanaka



Nihon Buyo ; ikko tanaka  
Tanaka Sharaku; Ikko Tanak

Kimono Exhibition; Ikko Tanaka

Imagination of Letters; Ikko Tanaka

Flower Arrangement; Ikko Tanaka

Hanae Mori; Ikko Tanaka

Theatre poster; Ikko Tanaka

The New Spirit Of Japanese Design: Print; Ikko Tanaka


Close-up of Japan, London 1985; Ikko Tanaka


At 10 January 2002, Tanaka died of illness,died 71 years old, and he never married.

Since 1960, he was awarded Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, "Daily newspaper" industrial design award, the Minister of Arts Choice Awards Newcomer Award, the New York ADC Gold ."Daily newspaper" Art Award, Japan Culture Design Award, Purple Ribbon Medal. His work can be seen in art galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Mexico. 


Saturday 7 March 2015

Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment.

Blizzard entertainment.
Blizzard entertainment is an America developer and publisher  found on 8 February 1991, under the name Silicon and Synapse by three graduates of the UCLA, Micheal Morhaime, Allen Adhamand , Frank Pearce, and is currently a sublisidiary of America company Activision Blizzard. Blizzard Entertainment had produce many  series of classic games such as Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. Those games had high rating in entertainment industry. Activision Blizzard officially incorporated into Vivendi Universal company at 9 July 2008 and become an independent company from parent company at July 2013.

World of Warcraft : Orcs and Humans. 

History

At 1991, Three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles, Micheal Morhaime, Allen Adhamand , Frank Pearce created Silicon and Synapse. They started design and develop simple board games. At 1992, they developed their first video game "The  Lost Vikings", and they became the first video game in America apply to Nintendo, the Japan entertainment company. The second video games develop by them and apply to Nintendo was "Rock n Racing". At 1994, they changed their company name to Blizzard, with 15 staff including programmers, designers, draftsmen, and sound engineer and released their first video games "World of Warcraft : Orcs and Humans" label by Blizzard entertainment at the same year.





Company Management.

They don't use media to press speculation with them. At 1998, Allen Adhamand resigned from CEO to company Director chairman and Micheal Morhaime replaced CEO place. But nobody except Blizzard staff know about this thing happen and no affect to their market sale. They kept their spirit and passion on their design and development and design of their  video game. All their staff are real gamer, every staff need to spend their love in video game. They no to be seeing enemy to who are quit for company and built their own career and show respect their will to built.

Succeed Key

Until 2000, Blizzard Entertainment had develop to a 150 employee, game development and technology famous company, and strength enough to warrant the development of two games at the same time.