Posts tagged with "design"
Gear 08/27/2008
Waldmeister Bikes
Check out the amazing Waldmeister Bike!. It’s produced by Supernova Design, they only make one per month, and they cost about $15,000.
Click-thru for more pictures, and a lot more information about how great & environmentally positive (although not cruelty-free) the bikes are.
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Gear 08/06/2008
VITEO OUTDOOR SHOWER
All surfers like an outdoor shower after a sesh, and this one is pretty sweet.
The VITEO OUTDOOR SHOWER was awarded the IF product design award in the category leisure or lifestyle. The new product, designed by Danny Venlet for VITEO OUTDOORS.
This Outdoor Shower features clear and functional forms and is ideal for the garden, the pool area and also the patio. The jets get set off by your body weight and gush up around the edge of the foot panel before falling gently down like rain and create a new sensual outdoor shower experience! The white foot panel is made of UV resistant, non-slip plastic, with the substructure enclosed in a stainless steel ring. Water is supplied via a standard garden hose with a Gardena connection. Material Upper Piece: Plastic, UV resistant and non-slip with drill holes. Spray height approx 6.5 ft to 13 ft.
p.s.- I don’t think the Donnie Darko inspired rabbit mask is included, but you can get one here if you want.
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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 07/07/2008
Monster Children
While I was in Australia I was finally able to pick up a copy of Monster Children Magazine, and it’s really nice. Both the design and content of the magazine are a refreshing change from the standard “action sports” mag format. It’s a little more like Lowdown. Unfortunately, a subscription here in the U.S. will run you about $100 a year for 4 issues (ouch), so you might just want to check out their blog instead if you’re poor, but it’s not nearly as cool as the magazine itself.
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Design 05/31/2008
Carry 2 Coffees in 1 Hand
We’ve all had the pleasure of going for a coffee, when your friend says “oh, will you grab me a triple tall non-fat soy no sugar latte please?”.
Well this saves you from having to leave the coffee shop by opening the door with your back, and it looks much more stable and easy to carry than the current flat 4 compartment tray we currently get when we order more than one drink. Pretty smart, and oh so sheik.
If you can read German, there’s more information here. But when I used babelfish to translate it, I found out all it says is:
“You to it already times didn’t wish that there is a carrying bag for a Coffee 2 go? (thx leopoldogolba) Who does not know it: One carries oneself a coffee forward, but is already loaded to above eh. How is one to be able there still to rauskramen its autokeys? Now there is the answer: The carrying bag for the coffee, even directly for two!”
Which is pretty much what I said anyway.
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Design 05/28/2008
Spaghetti Bench
Wow! The Spaghetti Bench by Pablo Reinoso sure is cool!
[ via: productdose ]
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Travel 04/29/2008
New Airline Seat Design
Duh. Why hasn’t anyone though of this until now? We all hate airline seating (unless you’re in First Class, which I’ve never been), especially on long flights. Staggering the seats like this makes so much more sense to me. Yes, I see the obvious flaw, if you’re traveling with your significant other or your screaming child, this is definitely less intimate, but who gives a shit, comfort is more important.
Thompson Solutions designed these seats, and with most airline seat innovations being made for higher-paying Business- and First-Class customers, it’s a nice surprise that Delta will supposedly begin installing the seats in their Economy sections by 2010.
Click-thru for more photos:
[ via: dvice ]
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Design 04/01/2008
Philippe Starck Hates Design Now
Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday.
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper. “Everything I designed was unnecessary.”
“I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression.”
Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead.
“In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,” he said.
Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.
[ via: breitbart ]
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Industry 03/11/2008
Ezekiel Launches New Website
Ezekiel has launched their all-new website.
What do you think of the new design?
Comments please.
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Art 02/11/2008
HARD BLOW
Thomas from ths.nu is one of my favorite designers. He first came to my attention when he was doing his PDF magazine BEAST. His work is a mixture of illustration, cut and paste photography, Carson-ish typography, and some crazy sexual images, that all come together in a beautiful mess.
He used to sell his 1 of a kind “gluebooks” on the site, I never bought one, and now regret it because I don’t think he’s making them anymore. He’s become a hot commodity in the design world, and I think he’s mostly just doing big money work for big money clients now.
But, the next best thing (and more affordable) is Thomas’ new limited edition monograph for Rojo Books. It’s 240 pages, 110mm x 150mm, and covers his last 7 years of work.
Click for more images from the book:
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Design 02/07/2008
David Carson is the Best Graphic Designer in the World
David Carson is by far the most influential graphic designer of our time, and he now joins forces with a brand new company called Life on a Board that I’ve never heard of from Virginia Beach, who Carson says is “positioned to grow into one of the most influential brands”.
Interesting.
Looking at their website, it seems like the company’s current image (it’s pretty clean right now) is very different then Carson’s typical look, but I gotta say, I do like their little square Japanese character based logo. It’s cute.
For a new company LOAB must have some cash to toss around, because the services of Mr. Carson don’t come cheap. At all.
One time I went to see David speak at UCSB, waited around for 2 hours (with about 2000 other people), and he never showed up, so I left. I got a firsthand report that he was just walking around downtown Santa Barbara, and decided he didn’t feel like going to the event. So he didn’t.
What a dick! But at least he’s a super-talented dick I guess…
Congrats to LOAB for retaining his services though, can’t wait to see what he comes up with.
Here’s the Press Release:
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Design 02/01/2008
The Nicest Surf Company Catalog Ever.
I’ve been designing catalogs in this industry for a really long time, and I think that this new catalog from UK based Nineplus might be the nicest one I’ve ever seen. Beautifully designed by NBUFFALO, the catalog is a 6“x8” hardbound 128 page book, that looks like something you would pay $20 for at any good book store, but I picked it up for FREE at Mollusk Surf Shop in Venice.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never actually heard of Nineplus. They’re a longboard based company in England, so I guess because I don’t really longboard much, and I’ve never surfed in England, my ignorance is somewhat justified. But I gotta say, after looking through the catalog, and feeling their wetsuits in the store, I’m leaning towards picking up their Stylist Shortie for the Summer. The neoprene is made by a company called YAMAMOTO, and it’s made mostly of limestone. Supposedly that’s better for the environment (check out this article from treehugger.com for more details).
click-thru to see some photos
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