Martin Bahrij: Lamp Design
One of the best modern furniture designs I’ve come across. It almost looks alive as it glows sort of like a jellyfish…lol The design is based on a wooden keystone. In the middle are placed all the necessary cables and join. Between the bulb and the keystone of the knob is turned off on thread...
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Mother and Daughter: Michele Deiters and Bibi van der Velden
Dutch artists, mother and daughter Michèle Deiters and Bibi van der Velden, have created a series of sculptures that demand a double take. Their new partnership, Bibi Michèle, combines van der Velden’s conceptual vision with Deiters’s sculptural talents. The resulting pieces of art seem both new and timeless. The reflecting surfaces of the bold human-head...
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Peter Gronquist: Designer Weapons
Gronquist says that he “Really just wanted to make something completely ridiculousâ€. The design-labeled weapons are everything from guns to bombs, even chainsaws. They have become so popular that movie character “Bruno†showed up at his own premiere in Los Angeles with a shining Chanel RGP. Peter Gronquist has designed weapons labeled with different famous...
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The Apartment: YMCA
there comes a point in every agency’s life at which one can’t deal with clients anymore and we must follow our bliss. the opportunity to convert the first ymca in the united states’ basketball court and suspended running track into an 7,000 square-foot, 5-bedroom romantic minimalist pleasure was such a bliss. the building was in...
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Lego Boardroom Table
Below is a really neat boardroom table design. Its such a simple concept but is also so well done. Designed and built by abgc. The table consists of 22,742 pieces clicked together with traditional lego construction techniques (no glue), a 136mm grommet is located in its centre. It sits on a polished Stainless Steel square...
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Rainey Mutsch: Dune
During Vienna Design Week, Rainer Mutsch showed a preview of a new outdoor furniture system for the traditional Austrian manufacturer Eternit called Dune. Dune is a modular furniture system consisting of five combinable modules: each one of them is molded out of an whole fiber cement-panel. Fiber cement is a 100% natural and fully recyclable...
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It’s a boy!
I love design, especially when it makes me smile. When I have a bad day these small things are the ones that can turn my day arround! Hope it turns yours as well.
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Evolution of Type
A superb series by the creative Austrian Andreas Scheiger around the birth and the evolution of the alphabet. A surgical opening of the letters has, Z, S and W while revealing muscles, veins and bones like true living beings. More images in the continuation.- FUBIZ
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Audi One Design
A collaboration enters the designer Jason Battersby and Audi AG with the creation of this concept “Audi One Cultural Achievementâ€. Inspiration of a very futuristic sporting car equipped with long metal plates and tinted panes. More images in the continuation of the article.
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Apartment 182
What would you do when you would have to live in a 182 square foot apartment? Right, you will have to be creative! There have been a lot of creative people who showed how they lived on such small places but until now I didn’t like any of them this much. This looks great, would...
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Aquariva by Gucci, customized by Frida Giannini
Gucci, and Riva, in collaboration with Officina Italiana Design, the design company which created the original Aquariva in 2000, are proud to unveil the exclusive made to order “Aquariva by Gucciâ€, a model customized by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini. This initiative will be one of the activities marking Gucci’s 90th anniversary year in 2011....
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Lexus Sculpture: CT Umbra
Created by Los Angeles-based Nondesign, the installation aimed to highlight the two seemingly opposing features of the vehicle – luxury and eco-friendliness – by changing colors from luxurious gold to earthy green and blue. This contradiction was also the underlying question during the debates. full article at: coolhunter
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