April 3, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

The David Wax Museum

I saw The David Wax Museum perform at City Winery last month. SO likable! Too bad this video doesn’t include the amazing donkey-jaw playing. Yep, you read right. You can see it here . From their album Everthing Is Saved.

March 31, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Vintage Collections

I think it’s time to start collecting old objects in series. I really love the way they look together. from Lost Found Art

March 30, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Luxxbox Tingle

Daniela and I saw these last year at the ICFF and loved them. Apparently we weren’t the only ones. Google is using these in their California offices, as well as on their traveling roadshow, in the primary Google colors.

Tingles are from the Australian company Luxxbox. More information here.

March 30, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Plastic Bag Installation

This beautiful installation was part of a workshop at the Lund School of Architecture in Sweden taught by Theodore Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Sweijd and David Erkan. The mission was “to build a geometry with a component.” The participating students, (Emilia Thurin Melin . Karin Backlund . Kim Öhrström . Alexander Carlén . David Ottosson . Emanuel Kjellberg . Filip Mayer . Johan Svartnäs . Petter Nilsson . Robert Janson), constructed the installation using plastic bags and colored lights. Very dramatic. More at Robert Janson’s site. via notcot

March 29, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Character

Okay, how cool would it be to have one of these at home? Answer: very.

“Character saves fascia signs from demolition. We choose the most stylish letters and turn them into individual and unique design objects. We replace the old neon tubes with LEDs, add a transformer, install a power cord and give them a new life cycle.”

via Beautiful Life

March 28, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Interaction Design: Studio Roosegaarde

Daan Roosegaarde and his team of designers and engineers comprise Studio Roosegaarde. Together they create interactive artworks that instinctively respond to sound and movement, exploring the dynamic relation between space, people, and technology. Incredibly fascinating and at the same time very beautiful. From top to bottom:

FLOW is a smart wall composed of hundreds of ventilators that interact with passing visitors.

Sustainable Dance Floor (SDF) is an interactive floor which generates elecricity through the act of dancing.

LOTUS is a living wall composed of smart foils that fold open in response to human behavior.

DUNE is an interactive landscape that brightens according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors.

More information, photos, and videos on all of these projects are available here.

March 25, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

The Naked and Famous: All of This

Definitely has that percussion quality that I like.

March 24, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Not Your Mother’s Hostel

Hostels definitely didn’t look like this when I stayed in them! Golly+Bossy is a design hostel in Split, Croatia. Couldn’t find the architect, but they certainly did a beautiful job. via coolhunter

March 24, 2011 by collabcubed - 1 Comment

Lego Spaceship Alphabet

Cartoonist Mark Anderson made a complete alphabet from Star Wars Lego space vehicles. Book deal, anyone? via Quipsologies

March 22, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Slice

I spotted these Slice scissors last weekend at mxyplyzyk, here in New York. We are familiar with Karim Rashid’s green series for Slice, but hadn’t seen these. I love the clever logo, packaging, and brochure (by Manual Creative) as well.

March 21, 2011 by collabcubed - 3 Comments

The Duke Spirit – Don’t Wait

Dan and I heard this a couple of weeks ago (on a show that shall go unnamed) and really liked it. Still might not be rockin’ enough for the aunt, though…
The Duke Spirit.

March 20, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Tara Donovan: Pins & Mylar at Pace

Being a longtime fan of Tara Donovan’s work, I was especially happy to learn of her two shows at two different Pace Galleries in NYC these past two months. The top two (I’m noticing a lot of “twos” in this post) images are from her nickel-plated steel pin drawings at the 25th St. gallery. The bottom image is of her mylar sculpture “Untitled (Mylar) 2011” which takes up most of the space at the 22nd St. location.
To see some of Donovan’s other works look here.

March 18, 2011 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Typographic Posters

Yep, I love this kind of stuff. The playfulness in these posters reminds me of the fun typographic puzzler book, Conundrums, by Harry Pearce of Pentagram.
Posters by Mattias Sahlen.