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Category Archives: design
alex roman video
Be sure to watch it full screen.
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
We are living in a storm
“We are living in a storm where a hundred contradictory elements collide; debris from the past, scraps of the present, seeds of the future, swirling, combining, separating under the imperious wind of destiny.”
Adolphe Retté , La Plume, March 1, 1898
The desk video
The desks of designers
http://www.imaginaryforces.com/featured/10/502
suggestions for a design library
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2480-creating-a-design-library?132#comments
many of the usual suspects including Tufte and Christopher Alexander as well as some other interesting suggestions.
japan micro houses
I wish the story were better with more photos but there’s some inspiration here.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128953596&ft=1&f=1004
thingsthatwelearn.com
I’m pretty impressed with the selections on this site from cars to stationary to furniture. http://thingsthatwelearn.com
try recreating this shot
Braun designer Dieter Rams
core77 design magazine and resource
http://www.core77.com/
This is one of the best industrial design sites I’ve seen.
Let’s have a cup of tea
Big Skateboard
For my son who suffers from recurring road rash
Carlo Mollino (May 6, 1905 – August 27, 1973) was an Italian architect and designer.
Sexy furniture, cars, architecture and naked women.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Carlo+Mollino&qpvt=Carlo+Mollino&FORM=Z7FD
An oak and glass table made by Italian designer Carlo Mollino in 1949 sold Thursday for $3.8 million – double the previous auction record for a piece of 20th-century furniture, Christie’s auction house said.
Book- ISBN-10: 8837048572, ISBN-13: 978-8837048570
Arabesques is a celebration of the life and achievements of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)–architect, designer, author and photographer, and one of Italy’s most extraordinary cultural innovators. In a 100 color and 80 black and white illustrations, and with commentary by an array of contemporary Mollino scholars, it examines his famously elegant furniture designs, a selection of his most iconic buildings, his wonderfully futuristic aeroplane and automobile designs and a portfolio of his photographic portraits of women. It reveals a man almost impossible to grasp in his entirety, with a ravenous intellect and a temperament both friendly and proud, whose work requires the attentions of several scholars–among them Lisa Ponti, Carmen Guererro and Fulvio Ferrari–to assess here. Yet Mollino’s approach was itself often synthetic; his interiors (which were almost always commissioned) integrated his furniture, interior design and architecture towards a unified aesthetic environment, expressing a coherent aesthetic of elegance and energetic sinuousness. Arabesques makes sense of this rare instance of a true Renaissance man, and will sweep the reader up in Mollino’s infectious energy and polymorphous genius.
architecture created since 1980 from Vanity Fair
When V.F. asked 52 experts to choose the five most important works of architecture created since 1980, they named a staggering 132 different structures. Here are the top 21, in order of popularity.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/architecture-survey-slideshow-201008?currentPage=all
New Medieval Castle
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10440300.stm
Deep in the forests of central France, an unusual architectural experiment is half-way to completion, as a team of masons replicates in painstaking detail the construction of an entire medieval castle.
The Chateau de Guedelon was started in 1998, after local landowner Michel Guyot wondered whether it would be possible to build a castle from scratch, using only contemporary tools and materials.
Lego talk by Hillel Cooperman
Reuben Margolin Kinetic Wave Sculpture
2d = painting
2d + dimension of time = movies
3d = sculpture
3d + dimension of time = kinetic sculpture or performance
link thanks to amélia
more jesse rosten, iPad Shopping
I think this is interesting because I’m interesting in online shopping carts. This is a pretty tantalizing look. At some point this experience will be ubiquitous with HTML 5.
iPad Shopping Mock Up from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
IPAD + VELCRO video
I’m not that crazy about the idea of ipad + velcro but I think this video is really well done.
iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.