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
I found this advertising campaign by TBWA for Chupa Chups amusing.
via bldgwlf
Fun fact: the Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dalí in 1969.
From Madrid, street artist Alberto de Pedro pasted a large photo of a detailed, decrepit interior on a detailed, decrepit door. Cool effect. via Colossal
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.
Designed by Peter Simonik and Elena Bolcekova of allt studio, this lamp works with the light that the space offers without even being turned on. Then, once turned on, it flashes with an unexpected vividness from its semi-see-through orange facets. via designboom
Definitely has that percussion quality that I like.
Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju made these dresses from fruits and vegetables as part of an ongoing project of constructed art forms made with food that she started two years ago. (Click on photo for more detail.)
“This series of her work forces viewers to defy the actual meaning, the functionalities, and the aspects of what clothing signifies in our lives. The essence of clothing and food has been reinterpreted. Each element does not fulfill its own role and yet, each suggests an unconventional and even contradicting role – un-wearable clothing that is made out of the materials that do not last.”
via Trendland
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
“The Signs Silver Collection was inspired by the frequent use email and mobile phone messages. People use different signs to communicate their moods…”
Chao & Eero Jewel is a Finnish company designing and producing high quality handmade jewelry. via designpumpa
Cartoonist Mark Anderson made a complete alphabet from Star Wars Lego space vehicles. Book deal, anyone? via Quipsologies
Designed by Propella Design in Germany as a “wellness-to-go” product. Part of a marketing campaign for the Bamberg 2012 Garden Fair. Very fun if you like the feeling of grass between your toes… via Designspotter
Sweet Donation Bag is a vessel for donated blood. Its outer casing has been designed to facilitate easy identification, and to soothe the mind of the donor. Designed by Jihye Lee. via Yanko Design
Andrew Meyers, an artist based in California, creates these sculptural paintings using thousands of screws and varying their depths, then painting each individual head, creating a 3D effect. More here.
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.
I thought these were quite clever, especially for a telecommunications museum. Jean Luc Cornec’s sheep are on exhibit at the Museum of Communication in Frankfurt. via lo Spremiagrumi.
Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.
Designed by French-Portuguese architect Didier Faustino. Urban reanimation device. Recycled billboard space.Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture. via Broken City.
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.
These cracked me up. Designed by Ryan Christensen of Steelplant and available at his site.
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