Jean Nouvel's New National Museum Of Qatar

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkaQM9NhMHaYaO8VQQf9RWN8yY_Xu7zQ3ifVy_cF7Dg0cd3L5-faRcTz4ybDLVUCSq5yEgcH2VlBrqAgXGliRQL-IQYrCEvJ_A9Rj5ngVjool4btfhXijNtopdoaHR12GP65UE7jWlozA/s1600/partial-north-view.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463148711430682530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkaQM9NhMHaYaO8VQQf9RWN8yY_Xu7zQ3ifVy_cF7Dg0cd3L5-faRcTz4ybDLVUCSq5yEgcH2VlBrqAgXGliRQL-IQYrCEvJ_A9Rj5ngVjool4btfhXijNtopdoaHR12GP65UE7jWlozA/s400/partial-north-view.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 306px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxygrDgKxGsgISBtSbXogK3WqJiDMKKJ9cbFbL8ijEo1jBeqXWj06z-VzxE3Bsg6cFQh_9_wTbo26pJSIFrUD4npLZUGOL7NyCQYJ7bArtFaFrx4NKl-QMTkmkEsVLQfVfsdJmB2w4OsY/s1600/entrance,-North-detail.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463149178081224322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxygrDgKxGsgISBtSbXogK3WqJiDMKKJ9cbFbL8ijEo1jBeqXWj06z-VzxE3Bsg6cFQh_9_wTbo26pJSIFrUD4npLZUGOL7NyCQYJ7bArtFaFrx4NKl-QMTkmkEsVLQfVfsdJmB2w4OsY/s400/entrance,-North-detail.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 372px;" /></a><br /><br />The Qatar Museums Authority has engaged Pritzker prize-winning architect, <a href="http://www.jeannouvel.fr">Jean Nouvel</a>, to design a new National Museum that will preserve the original palace while creating an unprecedented 21st century institution celebrating the culture, heritage and future of Qatar and its people. The museum is presently closed during construction with an anticipated reopening in late 2013.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTRNRIl1EHK84yo55Px8ufmgkJNuH9KmzJjlCKoAOXhLYehpKzwD1nzs5bXsUCVNlku1iAfaRTE_wZqFm3cfFwRazM_BNAu-hMWqvKC8PrvpM8YoYL55Iw5SwuS0RAa-7sbLwFG60hXg/s1600/old-museum.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463145232460103442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTRNRIl1EHK84yo55Px8ufmgkJNuH9KmzJjlCKoAOXhLYehpKzwD1nzs5bXsUCVNlku1iAfaRTE_wZqFm3cfFwRazM_BNAu-hMWqvKC8PrvpM8YoYL55Iw5SwuS0RAa-7sbLwFG60hXg/s400/old-museum.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 173px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkt_0iu0F5EKvVUTwIbDV_2dn6z6DIjEA8eb-mPJthAu581E5dh6Gp1tcF9Pv7DsaIzNyXe3MqeNMgfRDBF5QjqVJZOyaDcZ84c1QkS527MsRC-qnb4m6_uZCGHTjENApWkg8KzFbDoRo/s1600/Picture-8.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463145912603310994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkt_0iu0F5EKvVUTwIbDV_2dn6z6DIjEA8eb-mPJthAu581E5dh6Gp1tcF9Pv7DsaIzNyXe3MqeNMgfRDBF5QjqVJZOyaDcZ84c1QkS527MsRC-qnb4m6_uZCGHTjENApWkg8KzFbDoRo/s400/Picture-8.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 172px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">above left: the old National Museum Of Qatar and right, incorporating the old into the new in Nouvel's design</span><br /><br />Jean Nouvel’s design manifests both the active, dynamic aspect of the Museum’s program and its crystallization of the Qatari identity, in a building that, like a desert rose, appears to grow out of the ground and be one with it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuN8_0Dr5aLQGwp9QsaWbYSbiZRjXNaTn6QokNrCh1y25cWKOA2fxx3125njKUc_bcwR24l3eipXNWJY7wunVQV1BAmRFbRy6QAWTGdz5_wWGvGAC5zJ2wU1OGMONe3A3NFEHhihDtRp0/s1600/28268_2.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463144713324478130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuN8_0Dr5aLQGwp9QsaWbYSbiZRjXNaTn6QokNrCh1y25cWKOA2fxx3125njKUc_bcwR24l3eipXNWJY7wunVQV1BAmRFbRy6QAWTGdz5_wWGvGAC5zJ2wU1OGMONe3A3NFEHhihDtRp0/s400/28268_2.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 535px; height: 342px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">above: a model of the proposed museum, now under construction</span><br /><br />Prominently located on a 1.5 million-square-foot site at the south end of Doha’s Corniche, where it will be the first monument seen by travelers arriving from the airport, the building takes the form of a ring of low-lying, interlocking pavilions, which encircle a large courtyard area and encompass 430,000 square feet of indoor space.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFHV0SwbH67sGY8RLdXgH815VNTmNnCPjnamYHuaxJ7kgzuArzqaPeVO_SrlevOLkTF1u2MdSJa2F7qQGGjaUkuD6dT1g6N4TonFti7tQFvU5jnYGWXgyPUyq99jA1u50gu4_IACSH8o/s1600/concept-drawing.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463144892880772498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFHV0SwbH67sGY8RLdXgH815VNTmNnCPjnamYHuaxJ7kgzuArzqaPeVO_SrlevOLkTF1u2MdSJa2F7qQGGjaUkuD6dT1g6N4TonFti7tQFvU5jnYGWXgyPUyq99jA1u50gu4_IACSH8o/s400/concept-drawing.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 396px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">above: Jean Nouvel's concept drawing</span><br /><br />In its organization, the building suggests the image of a caravanserai—the traditional enclosed resting place that supported the flow of commerce, information and people across desert trade routes—and so gives concrete expression to the identity of a nation in movement. The tilting, interpenetrating disks that define the pavilions’ floors, walls and roofs, clad on the exterior in sand-colored concrete, suggest the bladelike petals of the desert rose, a mineral formation of crystallized sand found in the briny layer just beneath the desert’s surface.<br /><br />Here are the computer generated images (by Artefactory) of the amazing and unusual looking new <span style="font-weight:bold;">National Museum Of Qatar</span>.<br /><br />The Caravanserai Courtyard:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOSb8r2vpCS-xslts8xvq3twCz4SVKHeh0nTih-Lb-Ivk0DpNj1vvKTXOYzeOlD3gUD0D1aOavBeHyBJHM9JeN8S4AfMB4jxbBD9TIDkID_TEv6vcP7cCYzvvbuwurhW3U50HgAFwmlHo/s1600/Caravanserai-Courtyard.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463147112823093090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOSb8r2vpCS-xslts8xvq3twCz4SVKHeh0nTih-Lb-Ivk0DpNj1vvKTXOYzeOlD3gUD0D1aOavBeHyBJHM9JeN8S4AfMB4jxbBD9TIDkID_TEv6vcP7cCYzvvbuwurhW3U50HgAFwmlHo/s400/Caravanserai-Courtyard.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 256px;" /></a><br />courtyard detail:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLk1C8AF61wvXx7NtGRIKt0Cv6pedDW3LfEwgzqrv4DVoL6O13T5Q_D8jma_ASYpmPEjuKKmVINLjGiTKMk6q8JT6307dDbGtroKm0XG9nNM2ekX6bCvfD0WfbS33VrMCBwOuO88T3O-w/s1600/courtyard-deatil.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463147311847353698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLk1C8AF61wvXx7NtGRIKt0Cv6pedDW3LfEwgzqrv4DVoL6O13T5Q_D8jma_ASYpmPEjuKKmVINLjGiTKMk6q8JT6307dDbGtroKm0XG9nNM2ekX6bCvfD0WfbS33VrMCBwOuO88T3O-w/s400/courtyard-deatil.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 366px;" /></a><br />North view:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJAM-FrNWLomowfhpM-tKqJWdPbnuaMbJM0sps52Ob7825etcLVF74DfAseSelhnzGnJuwmaH7xdpO1rZzKwo67MNsInvd282aKTotPCqXipn2RJgWfCCn8S0QFa7u6lhDr16_l63dPE/s1600/north-view.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463147873504081202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJAM-FrNWLomowfhpM-tKqJWdPbnuaMbJM0sps52Ob7825etcLVF74DfAseSelhnzGnJuwmaH7xdpO1rZzKwo67MNsInvd282aKTotPCqXipn2RJgWfCCn8S0QFa7u6lhDr16_l63dPE/s400/north-view.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 137px;" /></a><br />West view from Doha Bay:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShzOJqE_kqlZ44xROvAJK78dD6tf4hsKjyVbn_WDeVVz3aBI7Hur25BgBwSscMkh24MZBrzKNMgQl4osJvHtKIVrJft3vzp80V7ZlgrN5WHZELFgn3OyoXVadphE_oSphzan-Pzug8Y8/s1600/_West-View-from-Doha-Bay-.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463147221619835074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShzOJqE_kqlZ44xROvAJK78dD6tf4hsKjyVbn_WDeVVz3aBI7Hur25BgBwSscMkh24MZBrzKNMgQl4osJvHtKIVrJft3vzp80V7ZlgrN5WHZELFgn3OyoXVadphE_oSphzan-Pzug8Y8/s400/_West-View-from-Doha-Bay-.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 260px;" /></a><br />South view:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_PtsDo33pl1paG5q496M5dzlfwKwepYMe20rhQl47k90L2GKRN63mucDu4BrhfWqduE6jHcfIY7giyol7OULZfTJXwsiYqMT9af6EsHxCiPW2jyrc-j52K-GGsT6caqVasFAOl_ff8Q/s1600/south-view.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463147985779129842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_PtsDo33pl1paG5q496M5dzlfwKwepYMe20rhQl47k90L2GKRN63mucDu4BrhfWqduE6jHcfIY7giyol7OULZfTJXwsiYqMT9af6EsHxCiPW2jyrc-j52K-GGsT6caqVasFAOl_ff8Q/s400/south-view.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 289px;" /></a><br />Architect Jean Nouvel:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcr18srp1bNbau14uZa7oMMleNJYONGnMTuDMPezeQ1ViTUTussTTLnZAswLC7xUkTBI2gcBD2zTRXny7JIdc3VFAU0B1l8q2NYqSfL1xLFSYcOfDjZvvVpvsTAr_2WPmHfVlSxo0FyiY/s1600/jean-nouvel.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463146602981550722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcr18srp1bNbau14uZa7oMMleNJYONGnMTuDMPezeQ1ViTUTussTTLnZAswLC7xUkTBI2gcBD2zTRXny7JIdc3VFAU0B1l8q2NYqSfL1xLFSYcOfDjZvvVpvsTAr_2WPmHfVlSxo0FyiY/s400/jean-nouvel.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 349px;" /></a><br /><br />Commenting on his design, <a href="http://www.jeannouvel.fr/">Jean Nouvel</a> stated, “This museum is a modern-day caravanserai. From here you leave the desert behind, returning with treasured images that remain engraved on your memory. The National Museum of Qatar will become the voice of a culture, delivering a message of modernity, metamorphosis and the beauty that happens when the desert meets the sea.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Details of the Building</span><br /><br />The National Museum of Qatar building will provide 86,000 square feet of permanent gallery space, 21,500 square feet of temporary gallery space, a 220-seat auditorium, a 70-seat food forum / TV studio, two cafés, a restaurant and a museum shop. Separate facilities are provided for school groups and special guests. Staff facilities include a heritage research center, restoration laboratories, staff offices and collection processing and storage areas. The Museum will be surrounded by a 1.2 million-square-foot landscaped park that interprets a Qatari desert landscape.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw05vZ-Y2QwYs8ESziDQoKtBVQU8gb7rMhB8iyyxj6xXR7Q0jX6C4HMpOPUPsNg3DYG-5ob_0BzV8tUJXXjFIfVn1Ksu8mRBom8qE5gbZVGHfsjyu3bHXK042S-KFWQ5SXmTJo_He5Drs/s1600/north-view-entrance.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463148860456633522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw05vZ-Y2QwYs8ESziDQoKtBVQU8gb7rMhB8iyyxj6xXR7Q0jX6C4HMpOPUPsNg3DYG-5ob_0BzV8tUJXXjFIfVn1Ksu8mRBom8qE5gbZVGHfsjyu3bHXK042S-KFWQ5SXmTJo_He5Drs/s400/north-view-entrance.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 262px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">above: North side entrance</span><br /><br />Inspired by the desert rose, the interlocking disks that compose the building—some of them standing more or less upright and acting as support elements, others lying more or less horizontal—are of varying curvature and diameter. The disks are made of steel truss structures assembled in a hub-and-spoke arrangement and are clad in glass fiber reinforced concrete panels. Columns concealed within the vertical disks carry the loads of the horizontal disks to the ground.<br /><br />Glazed facades fill the voids between disks. Perimeter mullions are recessed into the ceiling, floor and walls, giving the glazing a frameless appearance when viewed from the outside. Deep disk-shaped sun-breaker elements filter incoming sunlight.<br /><br />Like the exterior, the interior is a landscape of interlocking disks. Floors are sand-colored polished concrete, while the vertical disk walls are clad in “stuc-pierre,” a traditional gypsum- and lime-blended plaster formulated to imitate stone.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI07NrGAO59QEjRDhD0ir6FNVoC_58xorNNAmzdFEYwL1H3zcSiVBHeef1dh8HQQLrJtq3YtKTvfn8CbWYm2IvnSjpmGGo-BV1oW2NsfgZDnIF5oPGSKv6pNiIRJFj9O_z2yiV0eP0HAE/s1600/south-view-detail.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463148318618421202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI07NrGAO59QEjRDhD0ir6FNVoC_58xorNNAmzdFEYwL1H3zcSiVBHeef1dh8HQQLrJtq3YtKTvfn8CbWYm2IvnSjpmGGo-BV1oW2NsfgZDnIF5oPGSKv6pNiIRJFj9O_z2yiV0eP0HAE/s400/south-view-detail.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 412px;" /></a><br /><br />Thermal buffer zones within the disk cavities will reduce cooling loads, while the deep overhangs of the disks will create cool, shady areas for outdoor promenades and protect the interior from light and heat. Steel and concrete, the main materials of the building, will be locally sourced and/or fabricated. The landscaping will feature sparse native vegetation with low water consumption. Through these and other sustainability measures, the Museum is working to achieve a USGBC LEED Silver rating.<br /><br />The Museum’s gardens are specifically designed for the intense climate of Qatar. Plantings will include native grasses and indigenous plants, such as pomegranate trees, date palms, herbs and the Sidra tree, the national tree of Qatar. Landscaping will feature sand dunes and stepped garden architecture to create sitting areas and spaces for the Museum’s programs of tours and garden lectures.<br /><br />Information about museum and building details courtesy of <a href="http://www.qma.com.qa/eng/">Qatar Museum Authority </a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar">Qatar</a> is a peninsula located in the Persian Gulf.

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Finn Magee's Flat Life Products. Coming Soon To A Wall Near You.

<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zqFoq3qej2c/RyU4G3pvqwI/AAAAAAAAFL4/gzlX0Knt1x4/s1600-h/26.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126565441500588802" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zqFoq3qej2c/RyU4G3pvqwI/AAAAAAAAFL4/gzlX0Knt1x4/s400/26.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><br />Flat Life project at the Designers in Residence exhibition, Design Museum, London.<br />Finn Magee was commissioned to develop posters along the theme of designers in residence.<br />He wanted the installation to be an advertisement for the product, so The light is ‘unpacked’ and the clock is ‘hung’ at the gallery entrance.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIb8G9oOTebSC1gbI1-qzQL9BYUc9sHMYgt5326zi4VM4I7PS74zzYvYq3pCr6qaDwapMju8pDKLZVSFva7NgIISLTIWT-66Thdv362Sg0I-8p-WIF25tH40-51m5OoXzAztv1i3o-Bqn5/s1600-h/23.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126561859497863906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIb8G9oOTebSC1gbI1-qzQL9BYUc9sHMYgt5326zi4VM4I7PS74zzYvYq3pCr6qaDwapMju8pDKLZVSFva7NgIISLTIWT-66Thdv362Sg0I-8p-WIF25tH40-51m5OoXzAztv1i3o-Bqn5/s400/23.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 383px; height: 254px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqTX0rEq3Es5NNiWK5xjmay-dPwiF8rIxy_mE-Twfh2xvPo8D4ZeFzpocaYsvOaaRv7iAK4FVxbCaFyIfsiBn6CdJlHxUYleKpzMsgLvgm4W7gYJDMVykMS8la0x_spyjwLyqL4a21I4H/s1600-h/25.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126562005526751986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqTX0rEq3Es5NNiWK5xjmay-dPwiF8rIxy_mE-Twfh2xvPo8D4ZeFzpocaYsvOaaRv7iAK4FVxbCaFyIfsiBn6CdJlHxUYleKpzMsgLvgm4W7gYJDMVykMS8la0x_spyjwLyqL4a21I4H/s400/25.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 571px;" /></a><br /><br />And the exciting news is that <b>the Flat Life posters will soon be available</b> for purchase. <a href="mailto:finn@finnmagee.com">Click here to get on the mailing list.</a><br /><br />Flat Time:<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zqFoq3qej2c/RyU0B3pvqrI/AAAAAAAAFLQ/CuPSOtHxuU4/s1600-h/Flat-Time-wbbed.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126560957554731698" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zqFoq3qej2c/RyU0B3pvqrI/AAAAAAAAFLQ/CuPSOtHxuU4/s400/Flat-Time-wbbed.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 524px;" /></a><br />See if you’re late, by checking the poster.<br />The image of a radio alarm clock that uses a 7-segment LED display to tell the time.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY_PcHTAliK_QbKqQI3ejtxSgctN1WadoDMTHdg43-BZ16ZFPIHphJXohFB40ksTEJX1CYM3ogMSGCeACnWlmvovV8Ui7rj03IFd2WegaKH6Wk0AlJ7fnshcRpkvITkymCiTIuqItGjg5y/s1600-h/Picture+1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126567872452078370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY_PcHTAliK_QbKqQI3ejtxSgctN1WadoDMTHdg43-BZ16ZFPIHphJXohFB40ksTEJX1CYM3ogMSGCeACnWlmvovV8Ui7rj03IFd2WegaKH6Wk0AlJ7fnshcRpkvITkymCiTIuqItGjg5y/s400/Picture+1.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 208px;" /></a><br />Flat Light:<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zqFoq3qej2c/RyU0I3pvqsI/AAAAAAAAFLY/rws88Bphl0o/s1600-h/Flat+Light+crop.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126561077813816002" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zqFoq3qej2c/RyU0I3pvqsI/AAAAAAAAFLY/rws88Bphl0o/s400/Flat+Light+crop.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 558px;" /></a><br /><br />The productive atmosphere of a desk light without the bulk. LEDs in the poster illuminate the printed lamp.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdzobs6J7HHRw3TPeOTVW4ZQFt5dY6jqEnoQVbH7SWNEoi6-u3Ircph34UrzISVOSKVydAp_WPrfnONFeBTQTzXpwBrlisqvTLVHV2cICSG9VxsrktdCDdo_Sj396sHHpQoC42qYHT0ahG/s1600-h/conran2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126561460065905362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdzobs6J7HHRw3TPeOTVW4ZQFt5dY6jqEnoQVbH7SWNEoi6-u3Ircph34UrzISVOSKVydAp_WPrfnONFeBTQTzXpwBrlisqvTLVHV2cICSG9VxsrktdCDdo_Sj396sHHpQoC42qYHT0ahG/s400/conran2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 549px;" /></a><br /><br />About the designer:<br />Finn Magee graduated from an Industrial Design BA at the National College of Art and Design, Ireland in 2004. He realised he was interested in more than just the object and its manufacturing process, and wanted to explore the social context and values associated with products. An MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London fostered his interest in advertising and the construction of meaning through image.<br /><br />Finn's RCA show investigated the potential of advertising techniques in product design, in particular looking at how mechanisms such as juxtaposition, humour and surprise can function in products as opposed to adverts. Finn’s Flat Life Lights are currently in development with Artemide, an Italian lighting company. He has exhibited at Design Mai in Berlin, the Salon di Mobil, Milan and the Design Museum, London.<br /><br />Contact Info:<br />t: +44 (0) 7718990408<br />e: finn@finnmagee.com<br /><i><br />Photographs: Emma Wieslander and Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad<br />Photographs of photographs: Luke Hayes</i>

Finn Magee's Flat Life Products. Coming Soon To A Wall Near You.

Flat Life project at the Designers in Residence exhibition, Design Museum, London. Finn Magee was commissioned to develop posters along the ...

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