The new book Magic moving images from Tarquin Publications is a nice example of an old way to show apparent motion – through sequences of still images in rapid succession. This was actually the only way to see moving pictures in the early years. Even if we live in a more or less digital world...
Stockholm architects Tham & Videgård Hansson has developed a nice light-weight building in wood and glass as a summer house in the Stockholm archipelago. The layout of the plan is generated by the specifics of the site, the house being placed on the flat surface between two mountain rocks and turning simultaneously towards the sun...
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have released some new images from their installation for Designers’ Days in Kvadrat showroom. 14/06/07 – 18/06/07 in Galerie des Saints-Pères, Paris. The textile walls are constructed with individual foam fabric tiles called North tiles which connect together using an ingenious folding system. Originally conceived for the Kvadrat Stockholm showroom. The...
Dan Golden is a New York based artist who has shown his playful yet sophisticated work in galleries for nearly a decade. In 2006 Dan Golden joined forces with interior designer Ford Lininger and together they created and developed a series of luxurious hand-tufted New Zealand wool carpets. The pattern of the carpets is based...
Fashion brand Lacoste has recently started a collaboration with Michael Young for the LACOSTE Holiday Collector’s Series, where the brand on annual bases selects a designer from outside the fashion world to ‘reinterpret’ its iconic polo shirt and to challenge its production methods and processes. The idea for the pattern of the Plastic Polo comes...
Some time ago I wrote about the Ferrari 250 GTO, one of the greatest sports cars ever. In this movie called C’etait un rendezvous by Claude Lelouch, somone (there are a lot of talk going on wether it was himself or a F1 driver that were behind the wheel) drives an iconic Ferrari 275 GTB...
Klaus Haapaniemi has been working with a lot of interesting companies; garment prints for Diesel, Levis, Marimekko, Dolce & Gabbana, Cacharel and Bela’s Dead, a new brand. He’s an important rising star in illustration and design. This year Finnish household brand Iittala has launched his prints on a series of ceramics called Taika. The strong...
The Stitch room is a nice installation by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec as a part of the collective exhibition “MyHome” at Vitra Design Museum. The exhibition is up and running until September 16th, 2007. The Stitch Room is a room for rest. Much needed in our high speed society… Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : ronan...
my daughter, who is 4 and a half years old, can already recognize hundreds of brands. but she doesn’t know that water comes from the sky, unless it rains. and she doesn’t know that it comes from the ground, even when it forms a stream….she is only four years old, so she thinks water comes...
It’s summer time in Sweden and to celebrate it I will post some easy and fun post every now and then. This is a nice one. IAmboredr is running a design competition where you have to make a CD design which incorporates the hole as well. See some of the results below. They speak for...