iPod shuffle in colours
One of the world’s most wearable music player just got even more wearable. iPod shuffle from Apple is just launched in five new colours. “Choose from five brilliant colours to make your musical fashion statement” as Apple describes it. Which colour of the iPod shuffle goes with your personal music taste? Ping Intressant.se Tech Tags:...
Stockholm Furniture Fair: Artek launches Bambu
Next week at the Stockholm Furniture Fair (7-11th of February) Finnish producer Artek is launching the production versions of its bamboo furniture called Bambu. The series is designed by Artek Studio/Henrik Tjaerby and is made of laminated bamboo. Prototypes were shown last year in Milan during the design week. During the next week or two...
Creating a Mini community
The Mini Cooper is not only an example of a smart car with a “I would like to have one” appeal. Like the iPod or like the Rowenta kitchen series by Jasper Morrison (to mention a very few…). In other words a successful product based on a visionary design strategy. To build a strong community...
Cool Kiiiiiii from Tokyo
There are a lot of “school pop” icons in Japan. One of them is the indie band Kiiiiiii. Their style remind me of urban Tokyo and the creative street style (especially in Harajuku) and the bubbling happiness among the young generation. It is pretty cool music as well. Ping Intressant.se Tech Tags: Kiiiiiii indie pop...
Eliot Noyes corporate design
Eliot Noyes is one of the great heroes of corporate design. His work during the 50s and 60s at IBM, Mobil oil and Westinghouse led the way for future designers. Recently a new monograph by Gordon Bruce titled Eliot Noyes: A Pioneer of Design and Architecture in the Age of American Modernism has been launched....
Pictures from imm in Cologne
Designws is showing ninety pictures from this years imm design fair in Cologne including pieces from Konstantin Grcic (picture above), Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Piero Lissoni, Hella Jongerius and Jean Marie Massaud among others. Take a look here. Ping Intressant.se Tech Tags: imm cologne furniture design Andra bloggar om: köln, mässa, design, möbler
The ubiquity of advertising
Netherland-based Studio Smack was commissioned by the Museum de Beyerd (Dutch Museum for Graphic Design) in Breda to create “Kapitaal” (dutch for capital). It is a typographical stroll through a Dutch city revealing the influence of graphic design and the ubiquity of advertising and branded messages in the urban landscape. As you can see it’s...
An iPod alarm clock
The design and product development company Ignition has recently developed an iPod alarm clock for the company Accurian. The alarm clock is a low-cost alternative — and has a completely unique look. The user simply sets the alarm time on the iPod (so there’s no need to learn a new interface), and then plugs in...
Japanese elegance from Dior in Paris
The other day Olivier Rohrbach wrote a nice post called New Gentlemen from the fashion show Milan. What happened at the show this week in Paris then? With “Madama Butterfly” in the speakers John Galliano did a beautiful show for Dior. The stage was full of Japanese elegance and embroidery. It was womanly beauty combined...
Brian Eno at Selfridges
Luminous is Brian Eno’s first large-scale installation of 77 Million Paintings in London and is his latest work from over 30 years as a visual artist. It uses multiple monitors to display a constantly evolving painting, generated from handmade images, randomly combined by computers, creating an ever-changing ‘painting’ consisting of hand-made elements that evolve into...
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