Pain in the arse
Ace Jet 170 |
8 hours ago
Did you see this on the CR Blog today? Brilliant.
Flash, say hello to Augmented Reality
TAK! Flim Flam |
8 hours ago
This is, by far, the coolest thing I've seen in years, the cool interaction possibilities for this is just mindblowing. This is some amazing stuff right here! http://interactive.digitalpictures.com.au/?p=392
OZOlife Eco-Friendly Gift Pack
As the holiday decor and requisite complaints about it begin, it's also time to turn to resources like the good people at OZOlife, the online magazine and daily email about smart, sustainable living, who are offering a gift pack that will be sure to please even the fussiest friend.Each gift pack includes seven essential items designed to ease to your eco-conscience, daily life and wallet—from the classic Sigg bottle to a toothbrush made from recycled plastic yogurt containers.At $105, you can [...]
Marmite Cheddar Bites
That's Right |
8 hours ago
Smart fun stuff from DDB London for Marmite Snacks. The cool Illustrations are by Al Murphy.This obviously works much better in it's original form as a print concept.Nice, love it.That's Right, HMKThanks to the keen-eyed folks at Ad Hunt.
Visualize what a Lexus IS F sounds like
Lexus IS F Visualizer is directed by Crush via Dentsu Canada and is currently being shown in cinemas in Canada. "We were given an audio clip of the car running full tilt and asked 'what would that sound look like?' We then interpreted the sounds visually and used Maya and After Effects to create imagery that built adrenaline and took the audience on a journey," Crush Creative Director Gary Thomas explains. Full credits
DuPont Corian® instalation by michael craig-martin
parade by michael craig-martin © banque européenne d'investissement (photographer christian mosar) the new european investment bank in luxembourg features two large installations by british artist michael craig-martin. parade and one world look like line drawings or vinyl appliqués on the floor and wall, but these two piece are both made from DuPont Corian®. parade is an 88m long painting located in the buildings staff cafeteria and depicts a series of 60 everyday objects in overlapping line drawings. [...]
At last, a senisble, humorous, relevant tagline.
And it rhymes too.
Defensive design: Magnetic zones on the unibody MacBook
To access the RAM slots in a unibody MacBook you must first remove the back plate—a thin piece of aluminum attached by eight tiny screws. Half of the screws are hidden beneath the battery cover, and each one is surrounded by a recessed magnetic zone. The purpose of these zones is ostensibly to help keep the battery cover seamlessly attached to the case. But removing the screws made it clear that the magnetic zones serve a second function. When my screwdriver [...]
robert burton
british photographer robert burton is an original thinker and his site reflects this. flash and xml used to good effect, multiple navigation makes this a site you can use as you like.
Gun Rack
Design Milk |
9 hours ago
What better juxtaposition than a happy girl and soaring birds with a machine gun? And, perhaps a few of your bills or car keys, too. http://www.ponoko.com/showroom/stufingerhut/
Toifu
Design Milk |
9 hours ago
Toifu takes taxidermy and wall decals to a whole new colorful level. http://www.toifu.com
Clo
Design Milk |
9 hours ago
Clo is a chair made of beech and cotton rope inspired by Japanese Jomon pottery, an old style that used ropes to decorate their surfaces. http://www.yonoh.es
Xbox 360 experience is a great improvement, Sony fumbles
5ThirtyOne | It's not wheatgrass |
9 hours ago
Microsoft deserves a pat on the back for pushing out an excellent update to the XBox experience last night. The svelte update was surprisingly quick - taking no more than a few minutes to complete. Watching the opening welcome screen reaffirmed my belief that Xbox team should really give more input concerning the OS side of Microsoft. Netflix streaming sans PC Not too long ago, Netflix streaming was limited to PC’s. I shrugged that feature of Netflix off considering a) the movie [...]
Erica Sadun on Using Undocumented iPhone APIs
She makes an interesting distinction between the venial sin of using undocumented methods in a public framework (which is what Google has done with the proximity sensor), and the mortal sin of linking to a completely private framework. Sadun — who’s the author of the very good iPhone Developer’s Cookbook — even shows source code for an example app that catches proximity sensor events. Based on some of the email I’ve gotten this morning, I think the occasional use of undocumented [...]
decor8 Discounts - Round Up!
decor8 |
9 hours ago
Did you enjoy the discounts this year? I hope so! I thought that since all of the decor8 discounts have been posted that I’d make it easier by creating a little guide below grouped by offer expiration date. I’m not including those that have already expired, only what will expire either tomorrow or on November 30th. {Offers expiring on November 21st, Midnight EST.} LAMA, 20% off, code: LAMAdecor8. {GIFTS} Lollipop Pottery, 20% off, code: decor8isgreat. {CERAMICS} Designers Guild (US website only), [...]
saint etienne biennale 08: sustainable mobility at 'city eco lab'
'solar sound system, 3S' by cédric carles for atelier2cé/association for the development of renewable energy, 1998 image © designboom one of the main exhibitions of this year's design biennale in saint-etienne was 'city eco lab', curated by john thackara. the projects presented in the show all followed the theme of trying to contribute to a sustainability in the world, with interest in the 'green' development of saint-étienne. one of main focuses is sustainable mobility in the urban environment. [...]
New gig site
Long time Stylegala reader launched new gig site, workstir.com -- a trustworthy classifieds site. Check it out and leave feedback!
The Designers Review of Books
The Designers Review of Books is a brand new site reviewing design books. It's run by Andy Polaine, an interaction designer, journalist and lecturer. (via subtraction)
The 48 Hour T-shirt: A Pre-emptive Holiday Strike Sale for Culture Jammers
A three-part special limited-edition run of t-shirts? Each one available for purchase for only 48 hrs? Each with a different angle pulled from research-based marketing? ! With one fell swoop we've taken care of every hipster, vinyl-collector-sneaker-freaker and ethnographer on our holiday list!... and You can too! Learn more with this PDF. The first one drops December 3rd.(more...)
Write wry & win a Ballistic Rose
One of 13 entries to date... write wry & win a Ballistic Rose for your permanent collection here.
Aqua Creations at Designer’s Saturday
David Report |
9 hours ago
On 8-9 November 2008 Designers’ Saturday took place in Langenthal, Switzerland for the twelfth time. Aiming to provide an inspiration for top performance, Aqua Creations in collaboration with its Swiss distributor Sphinx Lichttechnik, chose to exhibit at Creation Baumann’s warehouse. Having the designs return to their place of origin– the factory– or as Le Corbusier envisioned “the birthplace of cultural renewal”, an extraordinary and magnificent event took form. Given the dramatic, unconventional, and challenging exhibition space of an entryway and [...]
Nice Forms
Nice Forms. A script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.
HoneyShed trying hard to find some friends
adfreak |
10 hours ago
I freely admit I'm obsessed with HoneyShed. The Publicis-backed Internet shopping channel from Droga5 and Smuggler is such a different idea, often bizarre and always interesting, and one I've tried to put in perspective recently. One part of the site's relaunch last week I didn't get to cover in detail: its embrace of social media. HoneyShed started following me on Twitter, after already adding me as a friend on Facebook. For me, HoneyShed's success or failure is pretty straightforward: It [...]
Loewy Lived Large
We've spent some time raiding the latest internet time sink--Google's archive of previously-unseen Life Magazine photos. There's three pages of film on Raymond Loewy, who was apparently quite the partier (check out his crib, above). This, friends, is the Grandfather of Industrial Design's bathroom, circa 1949. Loewy laying in the cut: Behind the wheel of his Lincoln Continental concept car with a plexi roof. The Loewy Crib in Palm Springs featured an indoor/outdoor pool studded with natural rock formations. Hit [...]
