Joby Blog » delightful design http://joby.com/blog Insights into the world of Joby Wed, 22 May 2013 18:57:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Delightful Designs: Fluid Dress http://joby.com/blog/2010/11/delightful-designs-fluid-dress/ http://joby.com/blog/2010/11/delightful-designs-fluid-dress/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:02:51 +0000 eileen http://joby.com/blog/?p=1055 I just felt compelled to share this super, light show dress. 600ft of knitted tubing powered by a pump =  an amazing creation.

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]]> http://joby.com/blog/2010/06/delightful-design-the-lego-printer-the-character-filled-analog-solution-to-the-laser-printer/feed/ 0 Delightful Design: Cave Restaurant Design and Restaurant Acoustics http://joby.com/blog/2010/04/delightful-design-cave-restaurant-design-and-restaurant-acoustics/ http://joby.com/blog/2010/04/delightful-design-cave-restaurant-design-and-restaurant-acoustics/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:27:27 +0000 eileen http://joby.com/blog/?p=206 A few weeks ago, I was eating out in New York at the Fatty Crab – playing with your food makes it taste so much better. The food was awesome, the company was fun, but I could barely hear a thing that was being said. When  I saw the design for the Cave Restaurant on Contemporist, I was grateful to not be alone in my concern. The beautiful, organic wood arcs remind me of the inside of a ship but with the added benefit of creating sound isolation for diners.

Description from the architects:

We aim to change the way we eat and chat in restaurants. The acoustic quality of restaurants contributes to the comfort and enjoyment of a dining experience.

We have experimented with noise levels in relation to the comfort of dining and the ambiance a cave like environment can create. The timber profiles generate a sound studio atmosphere, and a pleasant ‘noise’ of dining conversation, offering a more intimate experience as well as a visually interesting and complex surrounding.

The series of acoustic curvatures were tested and developed with computer modeling and each ‘timber grain’ profile has been translated and cut from computer-generated 3-D data, using Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology.

The Cave Restaurant by Koichi Takada Architects

Design and Function at the Cave Restaurant

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