Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Visionaire's latest, iPhone panoramas, the season's best foldable shades and more in this week's look at the web

1. Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade A collection of photographs shot by designer Hedi Slimane, this new book (available 31 July 2011) includes images created “before, during and after his tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.” 2. Visionaire Issue 60: Religion One of the first and most over-the-top publications to radically redefine the industry, Visionaire‘s upcoming leather-bound edition takes up the heady …

The Cloud

Asif Khan's indoor cloud machine at Art Basel

Tasked with creating an installation to spark dialogue at Design Miami this year as part of the W Hotel’s “Conversation Pieces,” Asif Khan took the anti-architecture route, using helium, soap and water to make a mini-cloud cover indoors. Khan explains it as “an architectural experiment into what’s the simplest way to create a shaded space where conversations can happen.” Check out the above video to …

The Utility Shower Curtain

Wintercheck Factory's space-saving take on a bathroom staple

Brooklyn’s Wintercheck Factory has made a name for itself by updating everything from sunglasses to swimsuits with their brand of locally-made and highly-functional chic. The latest to get the Wintercheck treatment is the humble shower curtain. Like all the design studio’s products, the simple yet intelligent concept improves on a standard necessity with a few key design features. This clever solution to cluttered shower floors …