Blue Kuki chair by Zaha Hadid
She designed it for Sawaya & Moroni
Via Dezeen.
Yahoo Acquires Tumblr
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.
Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs. With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month. On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day. Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network. The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.
In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love. In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences. The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.
As I’ve said before, companies are all about people. Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing. I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them. That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met. He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with. His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.
Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.
Blue Thonet no 107 by Robert Stadler
Blue Thonet no 107 by Robert Stadler
Thonet says:
A Comfortable and Resilient Wooden Chair for Restaurants, Bistros and Private Dining Areas
It’s a feast for the eyes: the 107 chair is particularly suited for use in restaurants and cafés, thanks to an excellent combination of elegance, stability and lightness. With its simple form, it also lends itself perfectly for use as a dining table chair in the home.
With the 107 chair, designer Robert Stadler continues Thonet’s successful café and bistro furniture tradition. This wooden chair with its elegant form and comfortable feel is almost completely machine-produced, easy to clean and sturdy. Fulfilling both a constructional and aesthetic function, the offset backrest is a particularly striking feature.
Frame solid wood, without armrests, seat and backrest moulded plywood natural or stained beech. Wooden seats or upholstered with leather or fabric. With gliders for hard and soft floors.
Robert Stadler says:
Chair 1O7
A new bistro chair for Thonet / 2O11
To design a new bistro chair for Thonet is a touchy task. Initially I was proposed to customize a typical Thonet chair for the Corso restaurants, the design of which I am in charge of. But I preferred to elaborate a new chair instead of producing one more Designer comment on this essential piece of furniture. My starting point was the fact that today chair 214 (historically baptized Nr. 14) is rather expensive, which represents a certain break in regards to Thonet’s history. Indeed the company is renewed for being the first having achieved a world wide distribution of their furniture thanks to it’s ingenious conception based on dismantling. Yet, after more than 4O millions sold chairs the manufacturing of the back is still rather traditional. With chair 1O7 I focused on a new design of that element which is now being produced in an almost totally automated process.
I Dear say:
I do love other work by Robert Stadler, but this is a mis design. Hardly any curve as per the original Thonet café chairs. No remembrance of the innovative steam bending as bending seems hardly necessary for this chair. No I’ve hold off for a long time to share this chair, but in my striving to be as complete as possible here I have to share it with you, but not without my view.
On the other hand I would like to point you (and Robert and Thonet) to the chairs of Hendrik Petrus Berlage who, probably influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright (see for instance his High Back Chair), advocated a lack of curves and introduced a back load baring construction as in the Egyptian Chair: The load baring is not in the connection between the back and the seat, but on another part of the seat, or lower in the back.
Blue Acrylic Oh Void by Ron Arad
Blue Acrylic Oh Void by Ron Arad
Blue FFF Chair by Therese Granlund
Blue FFF Chair by Therese Granlund
FFF stands for Form Follows Foam.
Therese Granlund graduated from the Design Academy, Eindhoven, MA Contextual design, in July 2012. Earlier she obtained a BA in Denmark at The Danish Design school, Product design. Currently she is a freelance designer based in Stockholm, Sweden