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Mother’s Milk
via dezeen
So for the coming of age designer who has traded in long nights in the studio for long nights tending to newborns, check this self heating bottle by Karim Rashid. As a father myself, I can tell you that a portable, energy conscious method of heating bottles (not through your car) would be of tremendous value, especially with breast milk that needs refrigerated.
iiamo go is a self-heating feeding bottle that gives parents on the go the ability to serve body temperature milk to their baby anywhere anytime without the use of electricity. iiamo go is the only bottle in the world with this unique combination of a portable, non-electrical, throw-away organic heating cartridges (iiamo warm) and a patented heating technology that is integrated into the bottle itself. The process is very simple. Pour the mother’s milk, formula or milk powder in the bottle; insert the cartridge in the bottom of the bottle and then just push, wait a few minutes and serve the milk.
I would encourage all to read the article and comments, as Karim defends his design, and if you are like me, you might appreciate something else besides cynicism and negativity.
MS
On Elegance
Having just acquired the new AD entitled Elegance, edited by Ali Rahim & Hina Jamelle of Contemporary Architecture Practice, I felt compelled to comment on the once over I gave it straight from opening the Amazon box. Besides the fact that the actual word “elegance” (or some form of it) is used with a 10:1 ratio to other words in the book, it makes some interesting provocations. It is actually one of the first instances that I have seen which begins to cite taste as critical to tactful project. One of it’s main propositions is that, simply using a new technique (digital or otherwise) to realize a design, does not make it good. In fact, it argues that the way we are moving cares less about the technique itself, but rather the methods and strokes with which it is applied. Scripting (as a technique), to the author, becomes a way to resolve complexities in context, form, space and metrics through a tightly knit group of associations that rely on one or more similar organizations. It also advances the notion that as we become more attune to the complexities produced by synergistic systems, the act of “reading” the process is of non-importance compared to the feeling evoked by the project.
MS
