Posts in category: Design
Design 10/10/2008
Dupli Casa
Pretty decent looking house.
Dupli Casa, a private residence by the Neckar river, near the old town of Marbach in South- Western Germany, is the work of Jürgen Mayer H., founder and principal of his cross-disciplinary studio. J. Mayer H. Architekten in Berlin.
From the outside, the three-storey concrete villa looks like a bit like some sort of a fiberglass motorboat job gone funny, yet it also manages to look immensely appealing and intriguing. From some angles, the structure appears to be standing upside down — the lower exterior rim spilling onto the lawn and forming a part of a roof structure, if the building were to stand the other way around. It could have been blown there by the wind; it could be a StarWarsian vehicle frozen in place; it could be just taking off to outer space.
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[ via: coolhunter ]
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Design 09/25/2008
Ferrari Motorcycle concept by Amir Glinik
Check out the amazing Ferrari motorcycle concept by Amir Glinik, an Israel industrial designer who came up with the design, which using a modified engine from Ferrari Enzo.
This V4 motorcycle is equipped with drive-by-wire technology, features hand controls adapted from an F-16 fighter jet and buttons based on those found on the steering wheel of the Ferrari’s F1 car. Controls for sound system and trip computer are located on an all weather touchscreen.
“Vintage and modern Ferrari projects influence my design,” said Glinik. “It’s a mix of what I find to be the best Ferrari lines with the latest technology I could think of in terms of engine, gear and driving management.” There’s a yellow version too.
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[ via: 2dayblog ]
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Design 09/12/2008
Checkland Kindleysides
If you’re into good web design, this Checkland Kindleysides site is… WOW!
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Design 08/06/2008
Skate Study House
Check out the skate inspired modernist furniture, or is it modernist inspired skate furniture? I’m not sure, but it’s pretty nice.
I remember when I first moved to Califonia and had an interview at Powell Skateboards, I thought that the coolest thing about the place was the furniture made out of their decks. Chairs, and desks and what not. I got turned down for the job (fuck them, they didn’t know what they were missing), but I alway remembered that furniture.
Well it looks like the boys at Skate Study House (one of the boys being the founder of Etnies) took the concept and ran with it. They expanded on the idea, refined it, and they’re making some pretty cool stuff.
Like this Jetset Chair with the cushions wrapped in neoprene. This piece is created to the indoor/outdoor lifestyle and fits perfectly on a patio or waterfront deck. The Jet Set Lounge Chair is made of 8 decks with neoprene cushions on a metal frame. Dimensions: 32“x32“x65
No prices on the site, so I’m not sure how much they’ll set you back, but they don’t look cheap. They make a lot of things besides chairs, so click-thru for some more pics, or check out their site.
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Design 07/31/2008
Hey, Nice Clock!
I can’t find any info about this vintage clock except that someone bought it from a man in Beijing. Great design though.
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Design 07/22/2008
Good 50x70 competition
Wow. There were some really nice posters designed for the Good 50×70 ’08.
If you don’t know about the competition:
THE PROJECT THAT HELPS SOCIAL COMMUNICATION.
If you ask most people, they’ll say that advertising, and the communications industry as a whole, sells people things they don’t need and can’t afford. It might be occasionally entertaining, but by and large it’s fundamentally wrong and unnecessary.
As we work in it, we’d prefer to focus on the positive side. The communications industry is also the best in the world at grabbing people’s attention and getting them to act on what we say.
The aim of Good 50×70 is to use these skills to highlight more important things than beer and trainers. It’s a competition to raise awareness amongst the creative community of the power we have to be a force for good.
There are 7 briefs from 7 charities on 7 issues that affect thousands of people around the world. All you have to do is pick a topic that inspires you and submit a poster on that theme. 210 posters (30 from each brief) will be selected by our jury of leading designers and exhibited around the world and published in a catalogue,but more importantly they’ll be presented to the charities for their use as a potential campaign.
Even if you create communication tools every day, this time your poster might really have a positive impact on thousands of lives.
It’s time for our industry to give us something back.
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Design 07/18/2008
Board Graphics
So it looks like we’re starting to move towards skateboard type graphics on surfboards, and I’m curious what you guys think.
These are the new Slater/Merricks designed by Emil Kozak, Thomas Campbell designed a graphic for Dane Reynolds, and we’ve already seen what Super Surfboards is doing with their graphics.
I’m having mixed feelings about it. While I think they’re looking pretty cool, and the artwork is great, I definitely feel like it makes the boards look “cheap”. You totally lose the hand-crafted feeling, and it seems to turn the board itself into something that’s not so special.
If you went to a party and 63 other guys had on the same exact dress as you, it makes your dress seem a little less special. So why would it be any different to paddle out at Rincon and have 63 (of the 400 or so) other people are riding the same exact looking board as you? Does that make your $750 board feel less special to you? It seems like it would.
Here’s what it says on the Channel Islands site about the process:
“Recently you may have noticed many of our team riders have been experimenting with graphic art on their surfboards. This is a collaborative project with HP (Hewlett Packard) in which we directly print an art piece (that has been designed for them by one of their favorite artists) on the fiberglass. It is then layed on the board and the glassing process continues like normal. This eliminates the need for big laminates which soak up resin or heavy paints which ad weight. Both Dane Reynolds and Kelly Slater have been working with artists and have come up with some really cool stuff. Cost is $60 per side / allow 8 weeks for production.”
I mean hopefully where this is going is that you will be able to create your own custom graphics and give them an Illustrator file to use. Then your board will feel completely custom, which would be AWESOME! But if it’s just like the skate/snow industry, and all the graphics are mass-produced, I’m not so sure.
So what do you guys think? Do you like it? Would you spend the extra $120? Do you think it kills the “organic” (artistically, not environmentally) feel of a board? Does that matter at all, or do you just care about ripping?
Let me know.
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Design 07/08/2008
Insight - Dopamine
Well, the new Insight ad campaign “Dopamine” is out, and again, it’s AWESOME! These guys are so on point.
Click-thru to see all of the images, or to check out bigger versions, and watch the films, click right here
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