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Sensual photos of Berlin’s iconic deserted airport
The place that once symbolized freedom for the inhabitants of West Berlin in the divided city, now bears witness to the end of an era.
Berlin-based photographers Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann collaborated on the photobook entitled Flughafen Tegel, which shows the iconic and once cherished but now closed Berlin
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Sensual photos of Berlin’s iconic deserted airport
The place that once symbolized freedom for the inhabitants of West Berlin in the divided city, now bears witness to the end of an era.
Berlin-based photographers Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann collaborated on the photobook entitled Flughafen Tegel, which shows the iconic and once cherished but now closed Berlin
design
Keep the Night Alive | Jägermeister
Where have those carefree, fun nights gone? The endless evenings spent in the city from Thursday till Sunday? Everyone is all cooped up at home after 8 o’clock and if they are lucky, they have someone to wind down with and to have a drink at the end of
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Special sound installation makes social distancing more fun
A Japanese collective adds a layer of playfulness to social distancing with the toolset of social design: by keeping the required distance, visitors can play Erik Satie’s beautiful piano piece.
Classical music plays from a source hidden at first glance at the entrance to the DESIGNART TOKYO 2020 event:
tech
Finland turns billboards into disinfection stations for mobile phones
Hand sanitization has perhaps become a common routine by now, but there is still one thing left that we tend to forget: to sanitize the devices we touch practically all the time, that is, our mobile phones. In Finland, they proposed a solution accessible for all citizens.
Finnish health company
architecture
Monument honoring coronavirus victims to be built along Uruguayan coastline
The circular architectural installation with a 40-meter diameter was designed to be installed on water off the coast of Uruguay. In addition to commemorating the victims of the pandemic, the structure would also offer a new perspective to experience the coast.
We are still in the middle of the coronavirus
design
Hotel rooms in home office mode | Hotel Rum, Budapest
The hotel industry was one of the sectors that were hit extremely hard by the crisis brought on by the Covid-19 epidemic. Luckily however, instead of being buried in hopelessness, many saw the opportunity offered by the extreme situation: including Budapest-based Hotel Rum whose team decided to utilize their gorgeous
design
Retro COVID games
The members of Budapest-based harom.studio combined their passion for graphic design, motion graphics and old arcade games to create a series of fictional games. Each and every one of the games is closely related to the epidemic and the situation surrounding it.
Marcell Gulyás and Marci Borbás decided during
design
Order, but do it green! | PriestmanGoode
In addition to its obvious healthcare implications, another formidable
consequence of the epidemic is the horrendous increase of food packaging. The
problem is only partially caused by the rise in the number of store food
packaging: the consumers’ preference of home deliveries and take-out services
also have their share in
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Huawei’s new smartphone can now take your temperature
With the Huawei Honor Play 4 Pro smartphone, taking one’s temperature is just as
easy as taking a photograph. After the COVID-19 epidemic, Huawei is the first to
release a phone with a built-in thermometer.
Many people searched for the thermometer keyword amongst mobile apps, especially
after similarly to
art
Artists sitting at home | Domased
In April, a group of Czech and Slovak visual storytellers and producers had a
simple but spectacular idea: they created a unique online gallery on Facebook
called „Domased,” meaning „stay-at-home” or „homebody” in Slovak language. You
have already seen some artworks from the Domased-artists in a special edition of
our
beach
Italian designer proposes plexiglass boxes on the beach
Summer is right around the corner, but after the Covid-19 pandemic, many of us
wonder what the coastal areas and beaches will look like in the summer of 2020.
Rome-based designer Umberto Menasci [https://www.umbertomenasci.com/] answers
this question with his project SafeBeach – he would address the problem by
design
CZECHDESIGN | Interview with Veronika Pařízková
Central Eastern Europe and the creative energies of the region are always in
HYPEANDHYPER’s center of interest. One of our main partners is CZECHDESIGN,
which is a lot more than a simple design magazine. We have already mentioned
this organization a few times before, but now we asked editor-in-chief
architecture
Living (space) after the epidemic | An environmental psychologist’s angle
Although the lockdown will not last longer than a few weeks, maybe months, the
experience will probably leave a longer-lasting mark on our lives, way of living
and living spaces, too. The time spent forcibly at home, home office, being
locked in and together all have their lessons already at
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Optimism in the crisis
How could we be optimists when we get a live show of the apocalypse (or
something very similar) every time we turn our TV or computer on? Good question.
The majority of human history was not written by optimists, but they shaped it,
for sure. In other words: most of
digital
Burning Man festival will be organized virtually this year
Burning Man festival has been cancelled for the first time in thirty years, as a
result of the pandemic, of course. After lengthy discussions, the organizers of
the festival announced last week that they are not willing to take the risk in
the current situation, as 80 thousand people gather
art
Prague supports the cultural sector with a pseudo festival
When it’s about nothing, it’s possible to hold a festival even amidst the
coronavirus. Although the Prague-based Festival of Nothing 2020 does not offer
any programs, it still represents great values.
The Covid-19 pandemic has put several sectors in an impossible position,
including performance art and visual art.
design
Knowledge sharing is caring
As a result of isolation, access to local raw materials and local manufacturing
is becoming more and more valuable and may offer solutions to many problems and
shortages. The operation of open design utilizes values such as knowledge
sharing, innovation or local supply chains.
More and more open source products
design
From hotels to home office | A response to the crisis from Amsterdam
The hospitality and hotel industries found themselves in an extremely difficult
position owing to the pandemic. Two hotels in Amsterdam, however, attempt to
survive the situation with a seemingly successful rebranding strategy: now they
offer their rooms transformed into private work spaces to the employees wishing
to escape from their
art
Quarantine barcodes
I came across a quite outstanding reflection
[https://retoka.com/quarantine-barcodes] amidst the isolation. The
Barcelona-based RETOKA , [https://www.behance.net/retoka] responded to the
quarantine situation with a very thoughtful poster series.
> During these quarantine days, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we took a breath
and decided to make
architecture
vital houses | Mobile health centers during epidemics
We see more and more responses to the coronavirus pandemic on the field of
architecture, too: for example, the Dutch Studio Prototype would combat future
outbreaks with temporary health centers.
The project titled “vital house” started off from the weakest point of the
covid-19 pandemic: the response time and capacity
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Inhale deeper: OFF Biennial is postponed due to the pandemic
The art and design festivals and fairs of the world are postponed one by one
owing to the exponentially growing coronavirus epidemic. Unfortunately
OFF-Biennial Budapest [https://offbiennale.hu/] planned to be hosted between
April 24 and May 31 shares this fate, too.
> It’s only been a month since we
