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Since 2003
Awesome project fixed between art and engineering featuring hand made cube kite created by Ivan Morison and Heather Peak in collab with Sash Reading and "Queen and Crawford". Commissioned by Dandara Ltd for the Chart Room, Castle Quay. Photography by Matt Porteous. All made in The Observatory.
Lumi is a design team pioneering the Lumi Process, a revolutionary photographic print process for textiles and natural materials. They are taking photography out of the darkroom by using sunlight to make durable prints on sustainable materials. Check the video and interior design examples.
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Guy Laramée is a true post-digital renaissance artist. Being an interdisciplinary artist found his way through such varied and numerous disciplines as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Focusing on his sculptural works there are two series of carved books art - Biblios and The Great Wall. Both a worth to check online or on our gallery.
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"Remake" was an open competition organized by Adobe and Booooooom portal. The idea behind was simple, participants were requested to remake famous fine art or photography masterpiece. The submissions were awesome, and now take a look at ten finalists. My favourite work is “The Ship” Salvador Dali remake by Justin Nunnink (yes, I am Dalinian).
You can vote for the best remake on Facebook
P.s. the work in a post thumbnail falls out finalist but we like it too - Rodchenko remake made by Giuseppe Roccasanta.
Ten years in the making, a green space transforms an old railroad trestle. The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side.
[button size=big link=http://www.thehighline.org]The High Line Park NYC[/button]
"Banksy just placed a new sculpture, Cardinal Sin, at Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England. The piece, made in response to the child abuse scandals that the church seems to be known for these days, features a face taken off and replaced by blank bathroom tiles. Banksy noted in a statement, ":I'm never sure who deserves to be put on a pedestal or crushed under one." The sculpture sits next to religious works dated from the 17th Century." says Juxtapoze
[button size=big link=http://banksy.co.uk/indoors/cardinal.html target=blank]Banksy official[/button]
"Would you like to work in a space station? Not the boring old real space station where conditions are quite cramped but a space station built by graduates of the Stanley Kubrick school of interior design? If so, I highly recommend that you get in touch with Google, and ask to be transferred to London." says FastCompany.
Designed by PENSON
They really make carpets but post-modernist using daily basis objects like buttons, matches, pegs, bricks, pasta etc reflecting 21 century by old traditions. WE MAKE CARPETS, consisting of Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg, mix traditional skills and a critical view of the consumer society in unusual carpets.
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Okay, Google official came to curating industry bringing on Google Currents a new application for the iPad, iPhone and Android devices that allows you to subscribe to your favorite websites and view the content in a lovely magazine-like format.
But we still love mighty creative curation applications Flud, Plethora, Design Scene and a lot more.
Update: Application is available in US App Store only, such a Google proprietary behaviour :D
[button size=big link=http://www.google.com/producer/currents target=blank]Google Currents[/button]
Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device.
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Sweden products designers are not creating new bicycles, they understand people needs and enhance products. All of their work is conceptual product design but I believe they will find a decent partners and make people happier. Now check their latest project of transparent sound system.
How they designed it for people. "The transparent design lets the speaker blend in to any living room out there. The size can be big enough to offer a good sound quality, yet the speaker takes little visible space. The box is transparent, but the sound creating components are clearly emphasized."
Other products:
[button size=big link=http://peoplepeople.se target=blank]People People[/button]
Katy Beveridge presents her student dissertation as a part of proto animation research. She proves that all simple ideas are awesome. As she added "This is more like a phenakistoscope which uses the shutter speed of the camera to create the strobe effect instead of the slits." Watch the video under the cut.
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Young italian design studio released an early concept of what they see as an Apple Camera. It deeply reminds the working prototype from WVIL Concept Camera but instead of a custom body they use iPhone with a special lens connector. Also it can works as a projector.
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We love the nonsense and hence the sense of an object demonstrated by Mathias Nösel, a young art director from Germany. Together with friends they gave a new life to old grandpa's fan and breathe a new function of a pencil sharpener in it. Simple, clean and fun idea makes our day.
[button size=big link=http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Pencil-Sharpener-Ventilator/2242202 target=blank]Mathias on Behance[/button]
Tokyo Motor Show 2011 brought us a unique concept car from Toyota named "Fun-Vii". Company president Akio Toyoda called the Fun-Vii a "smartphone on four wheels."
French designer Philippe Starck has created an armchair with an organic, anthropomorphic outline. The 'Lou Reed' armchair is part of a collection for Paris's Royal Monceau Hotel, fully refurbished by Starck, where it is placed in every room. The video directed by Sébastien Jousse shows of the creation process of the chair.
UPD: RIP Lou Reed it's so strange to have a last news on your page about this post.
DESIGNerd was founded in mid 2010 by the Australian based internationally award-winning graphic designer (and publisher) Kevin Finn on behalf of design enthusiasts the world over.
As a self confessed DESIGNerd, Finn has developed the 100+ Design Trivia Game concept as a fun, social and accessible means to further promote design education and awareness. To achieve this, Finn invites some of the world’s most significant and influential designers to share their vast knowledge through their personal selection of 100+ trivia questions.
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The beauty of the cars from the past revealed in this nice app. An experience designed like a digital, interactive museum, Road Inc. plunges the user into a universe of cars that have reached legendary status. The app is paid but I think it's worth of it.
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We like crazy concepts especially when it comes to Nokia Concept Lab.
Nokia GEM which revolutionizes mobile design by turning the entire handset into a touchscreen.
The GEM device changes appearance from camera to phone or map according to the function selected by the user. It could even display advertising messages on the back of the phone.
The back and front are also interactive, making it possible to pinch and zoom the rear of the phone while getting a constant clear view of the image on the front.
I wish I could read on French but here is a website to celebrate Garamond typeface 450th anniversary. Created in 1461 by Claude Garamont it comes through the ages and still fits the modern life of typography and design. Long life Garamond!
