I want a house along these lines, curved ones. House SH, by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Architects is just lovely. A pregnant looking facade is really seating in the interior. Why do most architects still think straight lines and ordered layouts are beautiful? I suppose its down to time. Buildings just take a lot longer to build so by the time architects get up to date, we're already looking for the next thing.
After many painful clicks, I found Wooster Collective, which I should have found earlier really. Check this out, A Different Kind of Buff, where art takes on another form, with some elevator buffer going extreme with his work. Chock full of great street art, Wooster Collective showcases graffiti and more from around the world. Its really interesting how people engage their emotions on a real level, street level, as their art moves into the real world, taking on new meanings and reflecting on real events. Its a far more powerful thing as opposed to say a massive framed oil painting or some staged performance involving a light switch.
The shoe above is the Nike Air Max 360 Air U Breathe designed by Kevin Lyons. It's part of Nike's latest efforts to inflect more art into their product line, with Lyons, Ben Drury and Hitomi Yokoyama on board, Nike Air U Breathe. That feature is off Freshness btw.
I got this email from The Gloss advertising their new webshop, which is pretty well stocked with good stuff and this shoe being part of it. (They're this Swiss shop that also has a branch in Shanghai, of all places.) What caught my eye wasn't the pretty graphic applique alone but the fact that it was primarily, a trainer, which typically gets zero love in terms of artist collaboration.
Perhaps trainers are finally on the cusp of a comeback.What are your Favourite Thingz? Let everybody know and earn some moolah at the same time. Favourite Thingz allows anyone to make their own badge out of pictures of their favourite things. You can select from their database, which comes in various categories like bands and brands or you can submit your own pictures. When someone clicks on your favourite thing and buys something, you earn money for it. Each user created badge can be placed on a variety of websites and blogs, allowing anyone to show their love for whatever floats their boat. It give you the ability to choose advertising you'd actually like to put on your site.
Via Josh Spear.
B+N take contemporary wall decoration to another level with their latest Iconic collection. Above is their Versailles wall panels painted in blue. The beauty of using wood is that there's a lot more physical depth than paper you can use for decoration and the result is marvellous. It adds a lot more richness and character to a space. There's a myriad of patterns to select from, each evoking a particular style, whether 60s pop art or Victorian era glamour. You also have to applaud the product shots, each one perfectly balanced in terms of color, composition and mise en scene.
Via MoCoLoco.
Erich Grinder hails from Seattle and pictured above is his ghost antler coat hook. Its part of his ghost collection, a series of objects created entirely by hand from solid cast resin. Via teejay's backsplash.
If you waved your hand over one of these Scintilla tiles from Sensitile, they actually react! Each tile contains hundreds of light conducting channels that make the tile appear to shimmer and respond to various changes in light. Look at the website to see what I mean. Via teejay's backsplash.
HANDHELDEN is the website for the Electronic Plastic book, which Buro Destruct made back in '04. On it, you'll find loads of old school electronic games, sorted by manufacturer. Remember Donkey Kong, the old pixel version with the clamshell design handheld unit? Back in '93, all the cool guys in my school had one of those AND one of the cowboy ones. I got this lousy submarine one. Damn I want that cowboy one.
Back then, we didn't have fancy schmancy 3-D graphics and surround sound. It was single toned pixels and beep beep sounds. Every game had its own console and you marvelled at the simple fun it provided. Of course, my parents would say, way back, we only had rocks to play with, but that's beside the point. Fact is, a lot of games today are senseless updated version of the old ones. Thankfully, HANDHELDEN will remind us of nostalgic times gone by.
Via productdose.
Here's some lovely biomorphic architecture by New York based Gage/Clemenceau Architects. They take the best technology has to offer and use it to create their remarkable pieces of work. Shown above is their competition design piece for the Tsunami Memorial in Thailand. Their website mainly shows various competition submissions and project proposals that show off their flair for the dramatic. Via Future Feeder.
An electric car that performs. That's the basic idea behind the Tesla roadster. "0-60 in about 4 seconds" is a nondescript little blurb describing one aspect of the levels of performance this car can achieve. Now you can have your car and save the world too. You really wonder how long it will take before more automobile marques start rolling out electric cars that work instead of gifting us with the typical plus sized SUV plague.
