Roll It: Experimental House
Students from University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Christian Zwick and Konstantin Jerabek have designed this unique experimental revolving house called Roll It, based on the concept of “mobile and space-efficient construction”. The design offers flexible housing in a minimum space.
The cylindrical house features a very unique interior setting which changes its functions depending on the orientation. The workspace in one position becomes bedroom when rolled 180 degrees and the kitchen becomes bathroom. The center of the structure can be used both for sports activities as well as for lighting control. Continue reading »
The Centrifuge Brain Project
The “Centrifuge Brain Project” gives an insight on scientific experiments with amusement park rides.
Boat Roofed Shed in Wales
Boat Roofed shed is Owned by sheddie: Alex Holland. The roof is an upturned boat! It is located at an altitude of 750ft above sea level in the Cambrian Mountain range near Machynlleth in mid Wales. It is full of nautical nonsense befitting a boat turned upside down up a mountain! It has a 20w solar panel trickle feeding a leisure battery which powers 3 pairs of ultra-brite L.E.D. lights and a 12v sound system. There is a 12v/gas refrigerator and a bottled gas cooker with 2 burners, a grill, and an oven.
Also has a small ‘Belfast sink’ plumbed in. It is heated by a 19th century French enamel wood burning stove. The chimney is an old king pole from a circus big top that used to house elephants know as ‘The elephant shed’! The shed is made completely from recycled materials except for the 12v system. 3 sets of chimes from inside mantelpiece clocks have been screwed into the centre board of the boat and you can play them with a big nail. Continue reading »
Micro Unit House by Julya Grundberg
Interior designer Julya Grundberg shows off a fully furnished 325-square-foot studio apartment during an exhibit displaying a transformable “micro-unit” at the Museum of the City of New York during the opening of a new exhibition, “Making Room: New Housing for New Yorkers”. New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled New York City’s first ‘Micro-Unit’ building will have apartments as small as 250 square feet. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY) Continue reading »
Grumman E-2 Hawkeye
The Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, aircraft carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft. This twin-turboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s by the Grumman Aircraft Company for the United States Navy as a replacement for the earlier E-1 Tracer, which was rapidly becoming obsolete. The aircraft’s performance has been upgraded with the E-2B, and E- versions, where most of the changes were made to the radar and radio communications due to advances in electronic integrated circuits and other electronics. The fourth version of the Hawkeye is the E-2D, which first flew in 2007. Continue reading »
Canned Fresh Air
China’s capital Beijing is one of the most polluted cities in the world. Now it’s the first city where you can buy canned fresh air. And it’s not a souvenir or something like this. It’s a can of the real fresh air that you can use if you feel dizzy and have headaches. Continue reading »
Concept Ice Vehicle by Lotus
We can forget all about the price of gas when we get news like this. Sure, we’ll probably never ride in the Concept Ice Vehicle (CIV), but just knowing that folks at Lotus are working on things like this while we sleep… well, it’s like finding out that there is a Santa Claus. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: The Element
Large swell forms after severe storm in Sydney (Cameron Spencer / Getty Images News)
SHORT CUT by Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
With a piece in which a white car towing a trailer emerges from a long imaginary journey to the center of the earth out of the floor of the central octagon in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset make a unique incursion into the daily life of Milan and its history, reinterpreting one of the city’s iconic landmarks.
A metaphor for global tourism, but also a symbol for the precarious nature of today’s world, the installation Short Cut (2003) describes a universe in movement that travels along endless, unpredictable paths towards fanciful destinations. For their first public project in Italy, the two artists also chose to tackle local stereotypes: the car is a run-of-the-mill white Fiat Uno with Naples plates, and on the dash one can see a map of Rimini.
Mixed media, Fiat Uno, camper trailer, about 250 x 850 x 300 cm
Commissioned and produced by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Photo Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
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Bestiarium Mobile
A beautiful mobile based on the animal depictions and stories from medieval bestiaries. The mobile is for home decoration: It hangs in the biologist’s library, turns a graphic designer’s office into a happier place, decorates grandma’s knitting corner and inspires the cat’s imagination. It is not suitable for babies or toddlers. Project by Laura Kra. Continue reading »
VOLTIO
Unity is strength, and through this idea cames Voltio, an illustration and lettering specialized studio based in Valencia, Spain.
Formed by three old friends and influenced by graffiti, comics, punk-rock music and freak culture, it has worked, with just 2 years old, for national and international clients, from places like Canada, New York or South America.
The amount of different styles and skills, enables the studio to develop a wide variety of graphic and artistic projects, including poster design, branding and editorial design. Continue reading »
Coffee Stirrer Stool
The Coffee Stirrer Stool has been designed to resist compression with a minimal amount of material, using a geometry identical to the molecular structure of diamond – a truss originally patented by material scientist John J. Gilman in 1981. The structural framework fills the largest volume of space with the shortest individual length of a predefined number of struts, making them inherently resistant to buckling.
These coffee stirrer sticks have been arrange to form this framework, allowing them to comfortably support the weight of the sitter. Designed by Alexander O.D. Lorimer. Continue reading »
Cantilevered Desk Lamp
Cantilevered Desk Lamp designed and constructed by Taylor Donsker in Los Angeles. Sculptural steel skeleton houses a long life, low energy led bar in its pivoting arm providing dimmable light from any angle. Continue reading »
The Rebel: The Making of an American Icon
‘The Rebel: The Making of an American Icon’ is a collection of James Dean inspired artwork by Kerry Laster. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Winter in Kraków
Photography by Marcin Ryczek.
Photo of the Day: Devil Ride
Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara set the world record for biggest wave ever ridden back in November 2011, when he tamed a 78-foot monster. McNamara reportedly broke his own record by riding this 100-foot wave on Monday in Nazaré, Portugal.
Fight!
This fight is a battle of the sexes for the bear necessity of life, food. These pictures taken by a British nature photographer, Nathan Harrison, show how the larger male brown bear starts the fight until his sister gains the upper hand by giving him a clip round the ear. They later wonder off as friends once again. The twins from Lake Clark National Park in Alaska are known for being of one minded and in this case the twin three-year-old bears are only thinking of their stomachs. (Nathan Harrison / Barcroft) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Huddle Up
Two chimpanzees hug each other to keep warm at Qingdao Zoo in Qingdao, Shandong province, Eastern China. (Barcroft)
Skull “Fleurs Noires” by NooN
K.Olin tribu is proud to present its first outing of the year. This is done in collaboration with a young French artist: NooN.
Passionate sculptor, he began to porcelain in the early 2000s. Now fully mastering this material so special reactions. Its shape completely in tune with the times is adorned with a vintage decor. The perfect combination! Extra white porcelain. Series of 50 pieces, all numbered.
Feature: the installation of the decor being made by the artist on each crane, each piece is unique!
Size:
20 x 13 x 13 cm
Delivered in a wooden case. Continue reading »
New Mini Painting by Mario Soria
New and awesome cardboard paintings by Mario Soria, designer from Barcelona, Spain. Continue reading »
Josiah DAB Radio and Bluetooth Speaker by Studio Yayo and Kwamecorp
Josiah is a radio and bluetooth speaker that marries British ceramic heritage from Stoke-on-Trent with the simplicity and playfulness practiced by our Soho design team.
Josiah is the outcome of a collaboration between studio Yayo and Kwamecorp. The DAB Radios and Bluetooth Speakers are all handmade locally between Stoke-on-Trent and London. Each Josiah ceramic body was cast up north in a family-run workshop whilst the design, woodwork and assembly were taking place in London. Josiah is now showing in the creators’ Soho shop, which they designed specially for the product and as a warm escape from West-End winter, with hay bales, playground swings and free tea. Continue reading »
The Arc Of Suspense
The piece of art created by Mario Fischer.
Steel, wood walking stick, rubber, plastic, screws, primer, acrylic lacquer.
60 x 150 x 137 cm
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The Big Face Woody – Creating a Wood Watch Everyone Loves
Made from all natural bamboo, The Big Face Woody is lightweight, durable and eco-friendly. Finally, a wood watch you’ll love! Continue reading »
One Thousand Ksoids
The ‘One Thousand Ksoids‘ project is an experiment in procedural generation of huge amount unique characters based on relatively small amount of creation rules. Created by Danil Krivoruchko with ICE in Autodesk Softimage.
Unseen Beatles Colour Pictures of First US Tour go on Sale
Rare and unpublished early colour photos of The Beatles on tour are to be sold at auction. They were taken during the Fab Four’s triumphant summer 1964 visit to the US, when most early photos of the band, and even films, were in black and white. Colour was more expensive and seen as too extravagant for a pop group from Liverpool – who many felt were just a passing fad.
The images were taken by Dr Robert ”Bob” Beck, an award-winning research physicist and inventor who died in 2002 and left them in a huge archive of photographs and slides in his Hollywood home. The lot will go on sale on March 22, 50 years to the day in 1963 when The Beatles released their first album, Please Please Me. Continue reading »
