radiolarian sofa = cad + cardboard + ingenuity

 

By Liam Hopkins and artist Richard Sweeney @ Lazerian Studio, Manchester

More Amazing Wind Turbine designs via Greendiary

even more at Greendiary.com

Domestic Wind Turbine

 

 Starck's go at green.

It seems though he wasn't the first with this.

Quiet Revolution has been at this since at least 06 with their qr5:

iPad, iLust

The Apple iPad ! from Patrick Tusinski on Vimeo.
Here's more info at the Apple website.

shoes changing how we run

another article on how shoes affect our natural running technique, benefits of barefoot running, and studies of how shoes affect people used to running with and without shoes.

iPad

 iPad is announced...

me....want....

MacBook Pro Unibody Construction...video

Audi R8 v10 Spyder - auto lust

TransNatural Exhibition

 Lucy McRae trained as architect and ballerina, her work deals with the body, love it.

NASA "Puffin"- Personal Air Vehicle Concept

Push Your Ideas!

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan on Vimeo.

Solar and Wind...Car

"...Mark Muller – A Swiss engineer who intends to take a 40, 0000Km trip around the world in his own build ‘Wind and Solar Powered Car’

Banksy in US

Salt Lake City, Utah

Design Revolution, Colbert Nation!

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Emily Pilloton
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy

Book Lust

Bird by Andrew Zuckerman

Glimpse of Clarity

More words (lines, forms)
does not equal,
More clarity.

Fewer words (lines, forms)
Equal
Greater Clarity.

Singular thought,
Singular action,

A Pure object,
A Pure sense,

Clarity.

Copenhagen Bike Rail Support...system

Copenhagen biker traffic waiting rail

Tree Trunk Garden House by Piet Hein Eek

Piet Hein Eek

Haiti

let's help where we can,
if you txt 90999 it will send $10 to Red Cross for Haiti Relief Efforts.

Here's a list at NY Times for more...

Christophe Gilbert - photo manipulator

more beautiful work

Multicultural Critical Theory...say that three times fast

Business looking for an edge up,
looks to design thinking as a way,
is it really design thinking or just, critical thinking?
either way, whichever you call it,
the end is to produce better
business people who can navigate
complicated issues, ranging from client
to environment in a better way.
see more broadly,
look for connections,
see more clearly,
make a better decision.

whole article

Stepping it up

 Rotman School of Management

Kid Robot

on running shoes...

"A new musculoskeletal study finds that running with running shoes exerts significantly more stress on key joints than running barefoot..."

whole article

which brings us back to running barefoot and vibram 5 fingers.

such a tricky thing, designing for the body.
it's designed to move.
it's sort of like water.
it can assume so many forms,
what is/is there an optimum form for it?

"id" transformation(s)

"Product design used to account for 80 percent of companies' requests," he said. "Now it has declined to about one-third of our total business. Design strategies and improving brands and services are becoming more important."

article

i smell form trend

by Dzmitry Samal

...maybe its just me...hmmm

eReaders

Nook?

Kindle?

I really like this one...Skiff.

Thin, legible, indestructable, and it might even save the newspaper industry, or so they say.

Ford Adding Social Networking to Cars

"guess what guys? i just caused a 10 car pile up! whoops! lol"

It totally boggles my mind how ANYONE who's driven and seen people drive with a cell phone, much less txting while driving, could think this is a good idea. And the rationale?

"It is a reason now to buy a Ford," Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally said in an interview. "It's a new way of working and talking with your car." 

You know, I'm no social scientist. I've done no studies to prove that driving and texting or driving and talking on the phone are wreckless. ("Most of the industry studies show that just driving and just talking is the same," Kuzak said. "As long as the customer's eyes are on the road, they are not compromised."  Yeah, this coming from the guy/gal swerving all over the road) I do have my own experience which very very clearly says this is just Bad, yes, capital "B".

Come on, what happened to good sense?
or
Why can't you trust your own experience? vs. experts to tell you (for you)
or
Do you not drive a car ... on this earth?

whole article

THIN(ner) is IN(ner)

Samsung 1.6mm OLED

Sony Bravia NX

...a race to zero,
when is enough, enough?
isn't there a point where a thing, needs a thing-ness?
a dimension?
a materiality?
a physicality...of some sort?

Pocket Clip Pencil

by P & C (Present and Correct)

Excellent...

Get one!

eco-modding

Sure it looks ridiculous, but adds 15% better gas mileage.

Badda boom,

Badda bing.

Yantouch Jellyfish light

tic toc...the anticipation builds...itablet

article that says nothing but builds anticipation

but, it's got me, or they've got me...i don't know what it looks like or how it'll perform and yet....
I want one already

Galeria Adriana Varejao by Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez, Fernando Falcon y Eduardo Chalabi

Galeria Adriana Varejão / Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil from Pedro Kok on Vimeo.

The Most Useless Machine...Ever

...hahahahaha

wanna build one?

Shigenobu Twilight

by Anicka Yi and Maggie Peng

Super nice, i pretty much don't even care what it is...
(a perfume bottle)