DUNHILL & CAMPAIGN:NY 11-18-02-10

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NY 11-18-02-10

February 2010

London based studio Campaign are pleased to announce their collaboration with luxury men’s brand dunhill on NY11-18-02-10. dunhill commissioned Campaign to realize their vision for a temporary installation during New York Fashion Week, a vision that challenged whether it is possible to move the grandeur of the brand home in London to NYC momentarily.

Taking up residence in one of the last remaining archetypal disused warehouse spaces in the Meatpacking district of the city for one week, NY 11-18-02-10 recreates Bourdon House, the home of Alfred Dunhill in London, offering a rare opportunity to experience the unique atmosphere of this extraordinary Georgian London House.

The installation recreates an ethereal facade of Bourdon House with 22 separate 3m x 1.5m and 2mm thin laser cut white powder coated aluminum panels. The panels are suspended from the ceiling using unistruts to hover dramatically over a black rubber floor. A lifesize vinyl of the Bourdon House exterior and its Mayfair environs completes the streetscape. The drama and theatricality of the space are further heightened through the use of photographic lights in an arrangement designed in collaboration with New York Photographer Frank Oudeman.

Beyond the small and self-contained lobby entrance, the three distinct spaces of Bourdon House, the Archive and the Garden are contained within a vast 600sqm interior.

Reminiscent of a Georgian interior temporarily hosting dunhill’s Autumn/Winter 2010 collection, this space will display 30 key looks on bespoke made easels and frames complimented by antique brass clothes rails. The mirror above the fireplace provides a frame to project a film of the latest dunhill Paris presentation. Selected pieces from the Alfred Dunhill museum can be admired alongside a limited edition range of products that can be bought.

A modern interpretation of an English garden in the space can also be discovered. Channeling the essence of a memorial garden, visitors can – through the magic of projection - enjoy the sights and sounds of London’s buzzing Mayfair while sitting on ‘park’ benches, each bearing the engraved plaque ‘Alfred Dunhill – 1872 – 1959 – he would have loved this place’.

11 – 18 February 2010

410 West 13^th Street, New York, NY

Press enquiries and image requests: Rumina Haji

Publicist, Claire Curtice Ltd

+44 (0) 20 7613 1442

rumina@clairecurtice.co.uk

Entrance within

Overall Shot

Featured Article

Design Week

Live feed Dunhill

The Concept

Twitter Dunhill live from the event

RIP Lee Alexander Mcqueen 1969-2010

Without knowing the man, but knowing his work we are all here in studio incredibly saddened by the terrible loss of Lee McQueen.

Such a massive British creative talent that I am sure all of us have referenced at some point, has departed.

RIP Lee Alexander Mcqueen 1969-2010

Burberry London Fashion//Catwalk goes 3D

Burberry are staying in London this fashion week, which is really good news. But for those unable to attend London Fashion Week, the British brand will stream their LFW show live in 3D to simultaneous events globally.

“This unprecedented event will enable people to experience the energy and atmosphere of this showfrom around the world. 3D technology will bring our global audience into the London show space allowing them to see the colours and fabrics, to hear the music and to be a part of that moment when it all finally comes together.”

Said Christopher Bailey, Chief Creative Officer.

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Ally Capellino//Pug Bag

We love Ally Capellino here at Campaign & turns out that Ally & her team love Pugs, so the news is Effie Star has talked herself [we hope] into a exhibition Ally Capellino is putting on over at the Wapping Project later this year.

Check out the new range here

http://www.allycapellino.co.uk/

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Location:Deal's Gateway,Greenwich,United Kingdom

Renzo Rising Debate//Central St Giles

So we are all a little torn here on our views on Renzo Piano's Central St Giles development over at TCR. The design brings vast amounts of colour to the city, how did he ever get this through planning..........same planning lawyer as The Shard I guess.

Let us know your thoughts.

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Hermes design luxury £90m yacht

Just a little crazy really........

Interactive Ink

PAPPELTALKS from vizage on Vimeo.

Hubero Kororo designed this interactive CD cover for the band Uceroz. When you open the CD packaging on the side, ink is set free and bleeds into the cover of the CD. I really like this idea.

Campaign: Fashion meets Furniture Design

Over the next few weeks we will be taking a look at the emergence of fashion labels developing furniture, rolling on from the Diesel/Moroso collaborations we have already seen happen.

The Swedish creative agency Acne, which is mostly known for its fashion brand, presented its first furniture collection during the Paris fashion week. The started off from a Swedish design classic byCarl Malmsten: the Nya Berlin (New Berlin) Sofa. He designed it for the Swedish consulate in Berlin and hasn’t been in production since 1949. Acne stretched, squashed and pulled the simplistic shape to create new sculptural forms. The designs are of course upholstered with denim which they bleached and hand-dyed. I’m curious to see them in real life.

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Campaign: 555 Kubik

Campaign: details

Inspired moments from this weeks browsing_________









Spiral stair: the rainbow house- a.b.rogers currently for rent through ModernHouse
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Campaign: Very Jetson's

The Campaign Studio went a bit crazy for Phils new 3d glasses.

The glasses represent watching a 40inch LCD screen 6feet away. All link in with the iPhone & various consoles.

It is clear to see what we will all be wearing in the year 2020......








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Campaign loves: Aesop

We have been fans of Aesop for some time now. Even more so when you are lucky to have lots bought for you as a fabulous gift.

The new redchurch street. E1 shop is now opening adding to the luxe Studio Ilse, Mayfair offering for the Australian brand.

Lots more happening world wide, with fantastic interiors.

We are huge fans of the March Studio concepts in Australia & Singapore.





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Campaign: Happy New Year 2010

First and foremost a huge Happy New Year to all from everyone [+plus Effie Star] in the Campaign studio.

Sorry for our delay in blogging in 2010. January in the design world is pretty full busy on as I am sure you are all aware .

Campaign has just turned 01 Yrs old and to top such a great year, we have just found out that the Dr. Martens store has been put up for 2 design awards: The Design Week Awards & AJ Awards.

We are currently busy packing up and organizing the move to our new studio.

Lots to tell, more to come

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Burj Khalifa (formerly Burj Dubai)

The first real architectural news of the year which kept reaching our ears was the opening of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, the worlds first 1/2 mile tower.
Designed and engineered by Skidmire Owens & Merrell. The tower was privately funded and can be seen 95kms away.

The tower itself comes up just half a mile short of Frank Lloyld Wrights 1 mile high tower vision Illinois skyscraper to be the focal point of Broadacre City, crazy but wonderful piece of tower design, never realised. The unfortunate and indeed obvious design matter in Burj Khalifa tower is that architecture really became a secondary factor, this tower is hugely engineering led. No right angles are seen, curves convex in and then out lead the way. Design to deflect wind away from the structure. A wonderful feet of enginering and one which has implemented the tallest tower in the world to date. I wonder now the tower is built and the bar has been raised, can architecture take over the baton and deliver a tower of this scale.
It also remains to be seen if an emblem of this scale is again to be required, all this tower seems to act as is a trophy, unfortunately one which only illustrates Dubai's current state of financial affairs.


some tower facts via S.O.M
Completion Year: 2010 Site Area: 104,210 m² Project Area: 464,515 m² Building Height: 828 m



Mile High Illinois facts:
Frank Lloyd Wright
1956
Frank Lloyd Wright intended his Mile High Illinois skyscraper to be the focal point of Broadacre City, the theoretical city, he began planning in the 1920s. Because the Broadacre project was an exploration of horizontal space, a one-mile-high skyscraper might at first seem out of place—but by the 1950s Wright had decided that some cities were “incorrigible,” and that even Broadacre City could use a tall building as a cultural and social hub. The foundation of Wright’s building was a massive column, shaped like an inverted tripod, sunk deeply into the ground. This supported a slender, tapering tower with cantilevered floors. In keeping with his belief that architecture ought to be organic, Wright likened this system to a tree trunk with branches. He planned to use gold-tinted metal on the facade to highlight angular surfaces along balconies and parapets and specified Plexiglas for window glazing. Inside the building, mechanical systems were to be housed inside hollow cantilevered beams. To reach the building’s upper floors, Wright proposed atomic-powered elevators that could carry 100 people.

Ipad launches

Here at Campaign we were excited but perhaps a little unsure about this. Seems like mac have had to push the button on a 8 year old patent. Could this be the first form of commercial mac products ?









First review of the evening via The Guardian__

Apple iPad: the first review

You may wonder what the Apple iPad is for. The answer: everything, but could that be too much?

Apple iPad is finally shown off. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Like everything Apple designs, the iPad is intended to satisfy our cravings for simplicity and clarity. Steve Jobs had already sneered at the idea of ­netbooks, labelling the cheap, low-powered ­laptops that have proved phenomenally popular with consumers slow and clunky – but it's clear that this is the ­market the iPad is aiming for.

On the surface it appears to be little more than an oversized iPhone, a flat, black screen with a single button but underneath it wants to be a laptop.

As one of a small group of people given a sneak, hands-on preview of the iPad, my first impressions were good: it's hefty but not heavy, feeling solid and responsive in the hand. The screen is about the size of a large paperback, but it's just half an inch deep. That big, glassy screen does leave it vulnerable to breakages, but could also prove ­liberating for people who are used to toting a laptop around with them.

Using it will be familiar to anybody who has tried an iPhone: it uses the same combination of swipes, pokes, jabs and sweeps of the finger of its smaller cousin. Sweep your hand across its reactive 9.7-inch screen, though, and everything feels more satisfying and natural.

The big problem I had was in trying to understand what the iPad was for: the answer, it seems, is everything.

It attempts to do almost everything that your laptop can, while also offering almost everything your smartphone can do as well. Surfing the web was a breeze, while it plays video smoothly and ­handles a variety of games pretty well. You can use any of the existing iPhone applications straight away, though it is disappointing when you realise that they become blocky and almost childlike when expanded to fill the larger screen.

Switched into ebook mode, the way the iPad emulates the printed page feels fairly natural, if not entirely on a par with rival ebook readers such as Amazon's Kindle. The backlit screen doesn't come anywhere near the clarity of electronic ink, which means it's going to prove a lot harder on the eyes of bookworms(it's great for reading in bed, one Apple flunky told me, keen to stress the positive side). But what it loses here, it makes up for with the addition of ­colour and even video. When you get down to business, the iPad might not be enough for heavy users. The on-screen keyboard will take a little getting used to: unlike the thumb-driven flash of text messaging, typing on the iPad requires either a single finger stab or putting it down on a flat surface. But for casual entertainment, it manages to do plenty very well: the sort of thing likely to tempt customers who want a ­lightweight laptop but doesn't really need it to do any heavy lifting.

For anyone who loves new technology, getting the first touch of a new Apple device is a little like laying hands on the Shroud of Turin, or seeing a unicorn: the first experience of a mythical object imbued with miraculous properties.

Jobs trumpeted it as exactly that, a magical device that will change the way we use computers in our everyday lives. And while playing with the iPad was not exactly a religious experience, it's not hard to see that the gadget, or at least the ideas it contains, will be with us for a long time to come.

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Location:Bull's Head Passage,City of London,United Kingdom

Campaign NYC//Public

We are sat in the amazing Public for our Christmas dinner which was designed by the fantastic Avroko.

One of our team members was quoted as saying "this place is designed within an inch of its life".

One of the joys of great design is that it does not feel too intimidating, Public is somehow relaxed but formal with fantastic service & the food is incredible.

check it out//

PUBLIC

www.public-nyc.com

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Campaign NYC//

Campaign were fortunate enough to celebrate their Christmas party in New York City.

We love this city and such a great time of the year to visit.

Also there were some very important work projects to check in on.

Highlights//

The Standard Hotel, Highline Project

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Neil Denari Apartment Building

Roy Design, Apartment Building

Campaign Frame

A very proud day at Studio Campaign

FRAME MAGAZINE RUNS DR. MARTENS SHOP

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Campaign//Design Week November 19th 2009

Philip our CD has just been featured in Design Week writing about the person who has inspired him the most: Mr Christopher Bailey.

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Campaign//research

We are quite inspired by this idea, very good fun!







forget-me-not panties™ have built-in GPS and unique sensor technology giving you the forget-me-not advantage.



Don't let her get away!
www.forgetmenotpanties.com


Hmmmmmm

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Pop up madness at Campaign Studio

Even cellotape is getting in on the pop-up act. You've got to love this. We had issues getting it working.




Good thinking 3M.

We are still here//Campaign

Hi All,

Just to let you know we are still very much here, there has just been a lot of traveling of late, however fear not. New recruits now have access and also courtesy of Orange we all now have sparkling new iPhones!!

New posts to be up very soon

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Campaign//9 month retrospective

Campaign have collaborated with the recently graduated film director Barnabas Wilhelm to produce a profile on the company for the London Design Festival open studio.

We were extremely happy with the results.

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Campaign are Recruiting//October

Campaign are once again opening there doors and recruiting. We are looking for designers with a minimum of three years experience in retail design.

Please see full add at dezeen
apply here

Hope to here from you soon

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To pop or not?//

The “pop-up” store has become a well-used term of late, pioneered by Comme des Garçon from their first store designed by a student in Berlin. Some love the term some just prefer temporary store.

Pop-up stores allow a brand to quickly tap in to an area either through dedicated followers or the success of driving attention in to the locals

Often the stores are pulled together on a budget and take less commercial locations or as more commercial previously unattainable spaces now become more readily available.

The surge in the pop up stores must be linked to way we shop now, not everyone wants to be trawling districts with the masses, buying the same generic pieces. By placing a shop let's say in Hoxton, London you are tuning into those very people who can instantly self-promote a brand. It also works for the label being able to test short experimental product runs, inviting collaboration for example. You only have to be in E1 on any day of the week to find the next fashion house having a sample sale.

With internet shopping counting as major factor for the deterrent of the high street it is exciting to see brands using such gorilla tactics to bring their products to the forefront.

Campaign are currently involved in two pop-up stores both for successful brands and are hungry for more.