Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Eduardo Souto de Moura is the 2011 Pritkzer Prize laureate
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the 2011 Pritkzer Prize laureate, the prize organisers have confirmed after details of the winner were leaked ahead of schedule.
Postcards to my peeps
Postcards to my peeps is an illustration project by Carolyn Sewell where she sends hand-drawn postcards sent to her friends, fam, and folks she admires. Oh, those lucky people!
LEG-GO Stilettos
Part of Finn Stone‘s new collection, the LEG-GO Stilettos are new for Spring 2011, and will be made in an edition of 12. If you’re interested in snagging a pair, they can be purchased through Byard Art, a gallery based in Cambridge.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Penguin luggage tags
Help your luggage stand out from the crowd with these Penguin luggage tags available in two titles: On the Road, Jack Kerouac and The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Russian architects Arch-group and French studio Sade Sarl last week won an international competition to design a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The Cultural and Spiritual Russian Orthodox Center will include a large public garden surrounded by a glass wall of multimedia screens.
A glass canopy will swoop over part of the garden, joining the stone cultural centre and church with nine golden domes.
Check the project information from Arch Group.
Cultural and Spiritual Russian Orthodox Center in Paris
Architects:
Manuel Nunez-Yanovsky,
Mikhail Krymov,
Alexey Goryainov
Architects:
Manuel Nunez-Yanovsky,
Mikhail Krymov,
Alexey Goryainov
Client: Russian government
Monday, March 21, 2011
Numbers House
This row of prefabricated houses with facades that look like numbers are by Japanese studio Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect & Associates.
Located in Osaka, the project involved taking ready-to build timber houses and reconfiguring the facades so the four units appear as one building. The project was completed in 2007.
Here is more information from Mitsutomo Matsunami:
Numbers House
This is a mass-produced type ready-built house often developed on a large scale, and as such, has the advantage of producing entire rows of housing. In many cases, as the appearance is coordinated at the designation of the owner, rows of houses that do not necessarily match aesthetically are created.
In order to overcome this 4 units are created together at Hozumidai to appear as one building by design, carrying out a strong message to the town. Price competitiveness was maintained by cost effective production of the facade design.
Residence in Hozumidai
Who: Mitsutomo Matsunami
What: ready-built house
Where: Hozumidai, Ibaraki-shi, OSAKA
How: 3 storey timber house
Site area (one of four buildings): 75.91㎡
Construction area (one of four buildings): 40.79㎡
Total floor area: (one of four buildings): 12.04㎡
Number of houses: four buildings
What: ready-built house
Where: Hozumidai, Ibaraki-shi, OSAKA
How: 3 storey timber house
Site area (one of four buildings): 75.91㎡
Construction area (one of four buildings): 40.79㎡
Total floor area: (one of four buildings): 12.04㎡
Number of houses: four buildings
Twist & Brush
A clever idea from Kawamura-Ganjavian: Twist & Brush, a convenient traveling toothbrush. You decide how much toothpaste you need, fill up the toothbrush, and twist to push the toothpaste up into the bristles.
Friday, March 18, 2011
WikiLeaks Confetti – Spread the Truth
A tongue in cheek reference to the criminalisation of WikiLeaks: The CONFETTI YOUR LIFE® special edition “WikiLeaks Confetti – Spread the Truth” allows you to uncover the malicious malpractices of the heinous industrial nations. The hacked and shredded king size top-secret confetti files can be chucked in the air, collected or presented as a gift. What’s hot: By buying this WikiLeaks Confetti Box you support the WikiLeaks organisation with one Euro of your purchase price!
Designer: Tim Klinger, Fabio Christ (Germany)
Manufacturer: CONFETTI YOUR LIFE
Manufacturer: CONFETTI YOUR LIFE
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Bamberg
Pepsi new bottle
PepsiCo unveiled a breakthrough in bottle technology earlier this week: It announced the world’s first petroleum-free plastic bottle. Read more over on PSFK: Pepsi Reveals World’s First 100% Plant-Based Bottle
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Upside Down Apron with Cooking Guide
Fed up of frantically thumbing through cookbooks or coating your keyboard in baked mac and cheese while looking up cooking times and measurements on Google? Fear not! There’s the Upside Down Apron that puts all of that useful info right at your fingertips.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Up comes to life!
Have you ever wondered if equipped with enough balloons, a house could lift off the ground and float into the air like in the movie Up?
The National Geographic Channel has the answer: yes, yes it can.
At dawn this past Saturday morning, March 5, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high and reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet and flew for approximately one hour. The record will be part of a new NGC series called How Hard Can It Be? premiering Fall 2011.
Word Puzzle universal wrapping paper
Word Puzzle universal wrapping paper — design and art direction by Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti. Simply locate the holiday you need, circle it, and you’re good to go.
Fred&Friends
Leave it up to Fred&Friends to come up with new products that put a smile on your face. I couldn’t help but smile when I saw this OCD Chef Cutting Board. And the AppKins.(They don’t seem to be listed in the product pages yet, but are announced on the homepage.)
Sky Garden House by Guz Architects
Here’s a house with gardens on all three levels designed by Singaporean studio Guz Architects on Santosa Island, Singapore. The Sky Garden House includes a large stone-lined swimming pool that can be viewed from inside the building at basement level through a large glazed window. The curved roof at the top is also covered in grass and affords views of the bay beyond.
Photographs are by Patrick Bingham Hall.
The information below is from the architects:
SKY GARDEN HOUSE
This house is located on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. The plots are not large and neighboring buildings are built close to the sides of each house.
Thus our strategy was to build a solid wall to each side neighbor to provide privacy where possible, while creating a central light and stair well which would funnel the sea breeze through the center of the building.
The front and rear of the building meanwhile, terrace back allowing each story to have visual or actual access to greenery.
The intention was to try to allow each roof garden provided a base for the story above allowing the layered effect to make each story feel like it was a single storey dwelling sitting in a garden.as much as we could do in the close confines of Sentosa island and with such a large building!!
LOCATION Sentosa Island, Singapore
AREA 852 sq. meters
GROSS FLOOR AREA 654 sq. meters
DESIGN ARCHITECT Guz Wilkinson
PROJECT ARCHITECTS Caroline Witzke and Szymon GoŸdzikowski
Flashkus - Disposable thumb drive
Products by russian-based design studio art. lebedev often play with digital icons such as a hand or mouse cursor, the computer desktop file symbol or pixelated imagery, translating them into real products.
Though taking a bit of a detour, their latest design still deals with the digital and comes in the form of a disposable thumb drive called 'flashkus'. Made from a cardboard stock material, the sticks come in sets of four, divided by perforations which make them easy to separate and use. The paper surface allows one to hand-write labels directly onto the drives, indicating what is stored on the key. They come in 4GB, 8GB or 16GB storage capacities.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Mp3 player
Giha Woo, a Korean product designer is out with an Mp3 player but with a difference. Shaped like a plug head it not only looks different but can be charged in any wall socket.
Easy functionality and cute looks make it all the more appealing. Plug it in any charging point and it will come back to full life again in a few minutes. With a single led on the facade and click wheel similar to that of an iPod, it can be connected inline to a USB connector through the headphone port to load the music of your choice form any PC
Easy functionality and cute looks make it all the more appealing. Plug it in any charging point and it will come back to full life again in a few minutes. With a single led on the facade and click wheel similar to that of an iPod, it can be connected inline to a USB connector through the headphone port to load the music of your choice form any PC
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Charlie Sheen Random Quote Generator
You are, Charlie, you are.
Which is why the Charlie Sheen random quote generator, livethesheendream.com, is genius.
Packaging for Verve
Chen Design is one of my favorite San Francisco based design agencies. They always put some many lovely details in their designs. This packaging for Verve coffee is no exception. The mixing of patterns, spot varnish and foil detailing look great.This packaging will be featured in The 2011 HOW International Design Awards.
Condolisa Table
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