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The Lumio is a portable light that folds up just like a book and when opened it becomes illuminated from within. The light is embedded with magnets so it can be mounted on a wide variety of surfaces and when fully charged it remains lit for 8 hours. The Lumio was designed by architect Max Gunawan who launched it as a Kickstarter project.
Using a portrait of Russian Mathematician Grigori Perelman by artist Jules Julian, designers Alan Temiraev and Volodenka Zotov created a beautifully designed pencil set. The packaging is designed so that when intact, the eight individually boxed graphite pencils make up the illustrated portrait, by Jules Julien, of the Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, famous for solving the the legendary Poincaré Conjecture. via
http://vimeo.com/58011741
This week Mozilla Foundation is announcing new Firefox OS developer preview phones because we believe that developers will help bring the power of the web to mobile. These developer phones are being developed by Geeksphone in partnership with Telefonica, Spain. They are looking to make them available in February. Sounds promising!
"The Re: Sound Bottle is the audio equivalent of running around in a field in the summer collecting fireflies in a jar. Designed by Jun Fujiwara from Tama Art University, the bottle is simple in its usage but absurdly complex in its design which relies heavily on software to handle the recording, storing, and playback of audio tracks. To use it you simply uncork the device and if sound is present it immediately snaps into recording mode. As you record more individual sounds, an audio database is formed and tracks are automatically selected to create rhythmic tracks, essentially like a miniature robot DJ in a jar. To listen, you again uncork the top and wait for your personal soundtrack to play. Jun says he hopes the Re: Sound Bottle (still just a concept) will help people interact more directly with music by recording the audio from their daily life. The bottle won a special judge’s prize at the 2012 Mitsubishi Chemical Junior Designer Awards earlier this year."
http://vimeo.com/42921558
The loving and lasting solution for your mechanical bereavement. Make the history from the metal horse you ride for ages with the help of professional Bicycle taxidermists on http://bicycletaxidermy.com/
Sao Paulo City, Brazil based typography and illustration print artist Adhemas Batistais a self-taught digital artist that is world-renowned for his colorful and distinctive illustrative style that he brings to his projects. Batista has worked for advertising agencies, design studios and interactive shops around the world and has developed skills in creative and art direction, illustration, interactive, photography and photo manipulation.
Spanish architect Teresa Sapey has designed CHRISMY for local manufacturer VONDOM.
I think we are the only blog that had not payed attention to this product design that already gained Year awards from numerous media and organizations. Okay meet this little fellow - BERG, it is Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful miniature newspaper.
This comics says all about the product:
An interactive media installation called Firewall created in collaboration with Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals and expressively play music.
http://vimeo.com/54882144
These clear plastic playing cards by MUJI, the Japanese brand that never ceases to amaze, are indeed astonishing. I think it is not late to have them for Christmas or New Year
As a child I always admired the short animation (little did I know that it was Pixar) of two lamps Mother and Son went alive. Here is a little flashback from am anamorphic project called Pinokio Lamp. The iconic Anglepoise lamp has been given a new lease of life by students at the University of Wellington. They’ve transformed the inanimate desk light into Pinokio, an object that expresses a range of movements and behaviours, and demonstrates an awareness of its environment by responding to external stimuli.
http://vimeo.com/53476316
Dead-simple interaction of a plug inspired studio Skrekkøgle (Theo Tveterås and Lars Marcus Vedeler) to created a prototype of DAB radio "Plugg" investigating physical and metaphorical interaction with electronic devices.
http://vimeo.com/54361584
As it stated in subject Nebula 12 is an indoor lighting appliance that brings outside weather into our homes. Designed by Micasa LAB in Zurich, the revolutionary weather station predicts and recreates the weather for the next 48 hours. By using LEDs, liquid nitrogen and wireless technology, Nebula 12 is able to change its aspect from a warm yellow sun to a real cloud on gloomy days. The user can adjust its settings and designate the preferred meteorological data provider.
http://vimeo.com/54555114
There was a time I bought a copy of "Jurassic Park" PC game on 3 branded floppies, and it is still a time we have "Save" function in all computer systems replaced by the iconic methaphor of a floppy disk. The triumph of the icon continues and take strange forms from post-its to coffee tables. Berlin-based design duo Neulant van Exel have the broad portfolio you might expect from a collaboration between an architect and sculptor, and their latest project, "Floppy Table" is a surefire hit.
The Omote 3D Shashin Kan (“Shashin Kan” is translated “photo booth”) that produces miniature human replicas. A brainchild of Tokyo-New York creative company PARTY, Omote 3D is currently running a pop-up store in the hip Tokyo neighborhood of Harajuku, at the Eyre of Gyre shopping mall. Please read the full interview with Omote 3D founder Masashi Kawamura on Wallpaper*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POx6eWOr97I&feature=share
B&O PLAY is designed to appeal to a new generation of audiophiles who also demand plug and play simplicity and wireless freedom. The BeoPlay A9 is a striking addition to the range – big, bold and beautiful, in both sound and vision.
"The BeoPlay A9 is perhaps its most radical and successful integration of sound and beauty to date. It’s a music system you want to give pride of place to, even build your domestic arrangements around, rather than look to hide."
"Young Denmark-based designer Øivind Alexander Slaatto has created a remarkably innovative design for the A9, essentially a clean white disc, which is the very definition of minimal."
http://vimeo.com/50794338
via Wallpaper*
See previous product BeOLit
I love this project just because I run Win 3.11 in childhood in favor of DOS Games only because of Solitaire, Golf and Paintbrush studies."A simple piece of software got us through the dark ages of computing before the Internet allowed us to waste company time more effectively. Now you can reconnect with this old friend on the other side of the computer screen. Solitaire.exe is a physical pixel-for-pixel recreation of the popular computer card game included in the Windows 98 operating system." Evan Roth is an interaction designer whose work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art and has received numerous awards, including the Design Museum London’s Design of the Year. Many of Roth’s works include the image of a pack of playing cards featured in solitaire.exe which came bundled in old Microsoft systems. As an exclusive collaboration with the Cooper-Hewitt, Evan Roth has created an actual deck of Solitaire.exe playing cards, faithfully and ironically replicated, right down to the pixilation. Each pack of playing cards in this limited edition of 500 is signed and numbered by Evan Roth (they are all sold out).
http://www.evan-roth.com/work/solitaire-exe/ http://when-we-were-kings.com/
http://vimeo.com/28272866
Designed by Ben Redford of Mint Digital, Projecteo is a tiny LED-powered slide projector that displays a selection of Instagram photos onto any wall. They really print photos on 35mm film and cut it to the size of projector's wheel frames. It is tiny, brave, smart and touching project :)
This is not a first concept of analogue digital clocks. This one called "The Clock Clock White" done by Humans Since 1982 and available by request from http://victor-hunt.com/collection/humans-since-1982/clock-clock/
http://vimeo.com/52798481
We make a rare attention on fashion world but the new Christmas windows in famous Parisien Primtemps made by Dior store took it all. The friendly source Yatzer were invited to the opening ceremony and did a great write up worth reading and enjoy the atmosphere of Christmas in Paris..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=on5UoDymFpo
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