Loewe bild 9 Brings Bauhaus and Art Deco Glamor to OLED Televisions

When was the last time a television elicited attention specifically on its beauty alone? The Loewe bild 9 OLED television subjectively hits that mark, envisioned by designer Bodo Sperlein to stand out rather than blend in spite of its papercut thin dimensions.

Where most manufacturers might attempt a disappearing act with such a thin display, Sperlein and Loewe celebrate the 7mm-thin OLED HDR 4K display’s luxe looks with a golden-hued floor stand frame, looking every bit the part of a flagship product it is in its most prominent configuration.

And about that stand: the bild 9’s most distinctive feature is a hand-forged, ground and polished steel frame – available either in Amber Gold or Graphite Grey (we say there’s no need pretending humility when you’ve spent this much on a television: go golden!) – the floor stand presents a prominent eye-catching presence, while the streamlined table stand or wall mount option lessen the effect.

OLEDs are characterized by their superb black levels performance, and the bild 9 adds on with Dolby Vision (alongside HDR10 and HLG) and a slide up surprise that reveals a hidden sound bar across its underbelly. And a television this beautiful ideally shouldn’t be marred by cords and cables, so Loewe’s designers have integrated a fabric cover on the back to conceal all the connections and cables from view.

The Loewe bild 9 can be adjusted for wall mount, floor, or with a table stand, with the steel frame hiding cords in every configuration.

If the Loewe bild 9 OLED’s integrated 120 watts, six speakers system with four passive bass membranes isn’t enough, there’s the Loewe klang 9 speakers – designed to complement the OLED in both form and entertainment performance for extra oomph without detracted from the design.

The Loewe bild 9 OLED is available in two sizes: 55″ and 65″. Just don’t expect to see many of these flagship displays much anywhere beyond online and in fashion shoots, partially due to limited availability, but mostly because they start just a paycheck over $9,000.

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A Creative Soul Thrifts Her Way to a Memorable Home

Holley Simmons is a jack-of-all-trades. Not only has she worked as a journalist for NPR and The Washington Post, but she also recently started her own plant-styling business called Sill Life. Through it she helps individuals and companies chose greenery that will not only thrive in their spaces, but look fabulous as well. Think that’s it? Nope. On top of that she’s also scrounged up the time to co-found The Lemon Collective, a communal space where makers can lead classes in their respective fields. Without a doubt she’s a driven individual who leads a colorful life. And what does every vibrant, young woman need? An apartment that matches her bright and brazen attitude.

The quirky look of Holley’s Washington, D.C. space comes courtesy of her wide array of affordable souvenirs and unique finds. The dining room, for example, is decorated with mementos that were free or only cost her a few bucks. Shells from a Sri Lankan vacation, a piece of Mexican coral and a pretty pitcher are just a few of her fun treasures. Paired with these memory-filled decorations is a disco ball, horse bust, and other slightly-eccentric touches with a wink. She’s even turned an old toy into a planter.

Peppered around the home’s knick-knacks are furniture pieces she’s picked up all over the place. And I mean all over the place. Sure there are the standard vintage and antique shop finds, but there are just as many goodies she’s snagged from an alley by her home as well. Holley has found sofas, chairs, lamps and storage cabinets there. She’s not too proud to admit it either — hunting down good finds is one of her favorite pastimes. She says her current collection doesn’t feature a single item costing more than $300!

While every accessory and piece of furniture in Holley’s home charms me, the scene-stealing walls surrounding each have me really gawking. And it’s not only because they’re bright and saturated — it’s because they each come with a story. Like the dining room’s coral walls that are inspired by a sunset Holley took in while on vacation in Greece, or the living room’s blue hue that transports her back to Mexico City and Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul. Each one is such a looker you have to click through to see them all. Enjoy! —Garrett

Photography by Kate Warren

Image Above: After visiting Casa Azul in Mexico City — the cobalt blue home Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera shared — Holley was inspired to hunt down a similar shade for her own eclectic living room. In the end, Benjamin Moore “Blueberry Hill” fit the bill perfectly. Like the rest of her home, this spot is outfitted in secondhand finds.

from Design*Sponge http://www.designsponge.com/2017/06/a-creative-soul-thrifts-her-way-to-a-memorable-home.html

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Designer Desktop: June 2017

We’re continuing with our year’s theme of wallpaper, textile, and pattern brands for our Designer Desktop series with designer Sabrina Soto’s bright and tropical Banana Leaves wallpaper created in collaboration with Chasing Paper. This wallpaper collection is bold, playful and modern. Most of the styles have a bit of whimsy, whether in the color palette or kitschy pattern. Some are modern takes on classic prints, like this one which is Sabrina’s punchy spin on the classic Martinique pattern (also available in grey scale!).

Click on the size below to download:

DESKTOP: 1024×768 \\ 1280×1024 \\ 1680×1050 \\ 1900×1200 \\ 2560×1440

MOBILE: iPhone 6 \\ iPhone 6 Plus \\ iPad

See more of the Sabrina Soto x Chasing Paper wallpaper collection here.

View and download past Designer Desktops here.

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The New School / Parsons School of Design Students Gain a New Perspective

The following post is brought to you by LG. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.

We’ve half-jokingly remarked on occasion that one can discern a creative’s space upon entry into any space without one word of explanation. Just look for the largest monitor in the room.

During the prescient era of CRT monitors – when a 15” desktop screen was considered ample – the largest (and memorably, heaviest) 17”-21” screens were first adopted by those relying upon Photoshop or QuarkXpress. And that hunger for ever more larger screen sizes hasn’t stopped as we’ve evolved into flat screens, growing in parallel with the demands and complexity of the applications creatives now rely upon daily. Bigger isn’t just better when it comes to screens, it’s smarter and faster for workflow. We’ve now entered into a golden age when even non-creatives demand screens pushing the boundaries of actual desk space.

Observe a designer, artist, musician, or digital illustrator switch back and forth between applications and device screens throughout the day, and the comparison to the fluidity of a DJ working a pair of turntables and a mixer becomes apparent. With the multitude of applications, pallets, images, and documents open across a screen, creatives apply a personal regard to customizing their desktop screens specific to the demands and requirements of their daily tasks, a self-optimization that has been observed to result in 52% more efficient workflow, with an average saving of 2.5 hours per day [University of Utah study]. Add that up across the average work week and the benefits become obvious, the investment in a larger screen, small.

The new trend amongst design professionals – apt to search for both the most operably efficient and aesthetically pleasing solutions – is to abandon the dual monitor setups of yesterday and migrate to an ultra-wide monitor, and more increasingly, ultra-wide screens enveloping their users with a curvature without the space required to host two screens. Their singularly enormous screen size allows for seamless multi-tasking across the cascade of open windows and virtual desktops, alongside with the benefits of ever improving color accuracy that designers and artists regularly rely upon (the expanse also provides a perceived sense of personal privacy, something not normally remarked as a feature, but an obvious benefit for creatives who appreciate privacy during the ideation phase of any project).

Leading the field in ultra-wide displays is electronics manufacturer, LG. Their new LG 34” Class 21:9 UltraWide Monitors have come to define the above mentioned trend toward wider and curved screens. Identifying the future of how we work will be defined by those just beginning their careers – or not even yet out of school – LG has partnered with leading design institutions to provide UltraWide Monitors to help students produce work that’ll transform their industries, from architecture to product design.

The different specialized schools — including institutes for photography, film and design — to receive the UltraWide Academy Sponsorship Program, both an investment and informal study benefitting both LG and the recipients.

The most recent partner in this grant program is The New School’s Parsons School for Design in New York City. Numerous LG 34” Class 21:9 UltraWide Monitors were given to students to help enable young designers to be more productive compared while also providing users sRGB color accuracy with over 99% IPS technology with factory color calibration, thus eliminating frustrating color shifting and distortion common with traditional monitors. The UltraWide monitors also offer a Screen Split function with 14 options for simple multitasking across a 34” display.

So what do these students think after becoming benefactors of such a screen?

“It’s very wide and makes it easy to 3D model things or use Adobe Creative Suite, as the screen’s big enough to accommodate all the panels.” said Lorraine, a Product Design student.

“I think the 21:9 monitor is the future of screens putting yourself inside the screen as it curves around you. It’s user oriented. It’s ergonomic. This brings full immersion, the future of virtual reality,” remarked Samuel, a student studying illustration.

“Personally I think creative professionals would definitely benefit from it,” said Joe, an illustration alumni of The New School / Parsons School of Design. “The monitor is basically the new drawing board, the color correction and what you see on screen should exactly be what you printed. And if you’re video editing, then there should be no lag whatsoever.”

Not surprisingly, 70% of students who participated in the LG x The New School / Parsons School of Design program felt the UltraWide’s expansive display made multitasking easier and improved productivity, an argument against the axiom, “bigger isn’t always better”…at least in the case of a creative’s monitor.

from Design MilkDesign Milk http://design-milk.com/the-new-school-parsons-school-of-design-students-gain-a-new-perspective/

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10 Illustrators to Follow on Instagram

In my second-grade classroom, we each had a run at the large bulletin board, the coveted chance to show and tell the many life experiences we had amassed by the ripe old age of seven-going-on-eight. Curating one’s life story earned the spotlight for the show ‘n tell circle. I LOVED that limelight just as much as I loved learning about my friends.

Consider this roundup my modern day bulletin board pinned with 10 illustrators worth following. Except, since it’s my bulletin board, I’m sharing why these illustrators jumped out at me, many of them making me squeal audibly with delight. This is show and tell, and we’re making our way around the circle, so add your own illustrators to the mix, along with your stories in the comments. —Quelcy

Image Above: I work as a food stylist and spend plenty of time obsessing over cocktails, glassware and garnishes, but this illustration has me obsessing over Valeria Danilova’s watercolor abilities. They leap off the page and make me thirsty!

from Design*Sponge http://www.designsponge.com/2017/06/10-illustrators-to-follow-on-instagram.html

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Best of ICFF 2017: Part 3 Favorites from graypants, Fritz Hansen and More

Woven Table by nendo

Woven Table is a table collection created by Tokyo-based designer nendo. The collection was designed for “nendo: invisible outlines,” a large-scape retrospective exhibition held at Grand-Hornu in the suburbs of Mons, Belgium. Grand-Hornu, listed in 2012 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, was formerly a colliery that turned into a museum.

Lines can be weaved into baskets or mesh and create a “surface”. However, an ambiguous expression was the objective of this collection where the detailing of a portion of the smooth surface was weaved, so that it can look as though the “lines” are in the process of forming a “surface”, or conversely the “surface” can look as though they are being disassembled into “lines”.

Since the shape cannot be made from one single metal surface, each individual part was created and then seamlessly interconnected and meticulously polished. After partially masking, the mesh was slightly emphasized with two slightly different shades of white.

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