Wednesday, March 4, 2009

CASA NOVALIMA






By architects Danilo Matoso, Paulo Trajano.

Via: plataformaarquitectura

TSAI RESIDENCE






HHF Architects, in collaboration with Ai Weiwei, designed the Tsai Residence for two young art collectors.

The design reflects their request for a simple and abstract looking piece, almost without scale sitting on top of the site, which is located two hours upstate from New York City.

The whole outside of the house is wrapped with corrugated metal panels. Inside, the living room focuses on the different light conditions needed for an existing?and future art collection, while the great view into the nearby countryside is present?without being dominant.

Via: coolboom

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Impress - Flexible Display


impress - flexible display from Sillenet on Vimeo.

Impress is a tactile touchscreen created by Silke Silsing from FH Würzburg. The prototype was built using pressure sensitive sensors and foam as the carrier material. The application is using Processing and the Arduino to process and project the data.

More info on the project | Via


Papier Bags by Saskia Diez






This collection of bags, called Papier (= paper), was actually designed by Stefan Diez for Saskia Diez, his wife who designs really nice jewelery. They are made from the same material, Tyvek®, as his other bags A1 & A2. It is a synthetic paper made from PE which is extremely tearproof, lightweight, waterproof and recyclable. Like most bags, they become nice after some wear and tear.

via: todayandtomorrow.

Guy McKinley’s New Figure




Just awesome. Can't wait for this to come out!

via: vinyl pulse.

Damien Hirst Skate Decks For Supreme



Interview Magazine gives us a look into Supreme’s upcoming project alongside contemporary art’s bad boy Damien Hirst. Having already established a solid archive of contributing artists to their previous campaigns, this latest lineup continues the brands quintessential status amongst American street culture purveyors.

Possible PSP Redesign?


"There's a new rumor floating around about an upcoming PSP redesign. It predicts a complete aesthetic redesign, including a sliding screen, but no new hardware inside.

So you'll have the same internal architecture as the current models, but the form factor will be more cellphone-like with the inclusion of a sliding screen."

Via: gizmod

Paper Airplane


Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.

Top paper airplane engineer throws one from the 31st floor in lower Manhattan…

Via: joyengine

Monday, March 2, 2009

Re*Nascent


As promised, motion design genius: Joost Korngold aka "Renascent" updates his website with fresh new look and works. Killzone's 2 Open Credits proves Renascent's capability to reinvent himself in every project.

via: cpluv.

Safari 4


The new faster beta version of Apples browser now available.

Secret Lives of Comic Store Employees



Wired
looks at the secret lives of Comic Shop employees.

Two New Notebooks




"Two notebooks that allow you to express yourself freely, the new Walls Notebook by design studio the. and Moleskine's upcoming Folio are intended to provide an outlet for the creative class and doodlers alike.

While Moleskine's latest addition to their notebook collection is a large-format, bound tablet with blank pages for your complete imagination, the.'s Wall Notebook comes with 80 pages of NYC backdrops for you to live out graffiti artist dreams.

Moleskine is set to release the Folio Collection in stores in May 2009 and the series will include both a ruled and plain book, a portfolio, a sketchbook and watercolor album. Walls Notebooks is available now from Amazon for $17, which they aptly point out, is much cheaper than jail time."

via: coolhunting.

Marcel Dzama gets animated for a new NASA video

Friday, February 27, 2009

Weekend Warrior

Puma By Mihara MY-41





Here comes another sneaker from the Puma by Mihara Spring 2009 Collection. The Japanese designer has always something special in mind and the MY-41 comes with a very interesting design on the heel and especially the sole, with layers seeming to go into each other. We like the colorway and especially the matching laces. Otherwise its really a matter of style, as we are sure it is not for everyone. Via Kenlu.

via: highsnobiety.

Converse Jack Purcell Match-Point



"The former design of badminton great Jack Purcell, Converse gave a new life into the staple classic with its Jack Purcell Match-Point back in 1976. The traditional JP is slimmed down with the most notable change in the usual chunky rubber toebox. The Match-Point toebox is much slimmer and integrated closely with the shoe’s upper. Two colorways are available based on similar palettes including white, black and blue. Available now at FLAUGE."

via: hypebeast.

ALPHA RESORT-TOMAMU







It's the Alpha Resort-Tomamu in Shimukappu, located on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. At the inside you will see ice bar, ice bed and cool air jacuzzi, ice etc.

Via: 2dayblog

Pleats-Pleats




Pleats-Pleats is a sofa designed by Daniel Hedner from Imaginary Office. Clothed polyurethane foam is woven around a white powder coated steel pipe frame.

via: dezeen

Thursday, February 26, 2009

A Bathing Ape Skullsta Sneakers




"Just in time for warmer weather and Spring months, Bape unveils new eye catching colorways for their Bape Skull Sta. The familiar design of the shoes will remind you of Adidas shell toes with obvious twists. The latest pair features a vivid neon green base supporting the lightning bolt yellow trademark Bape star on the side. The other colors include bright Pink with Neon green star and finally hot orange. The shoes come equipped with a white toe and vintage fat laces."

via: hypebeast.

Neighborhood Black Pencil Set


An interesting release from the Neighborhood camp as we see them include a pencil set in their collection. A sense of irony in this product based on the notion that pencil and even pen use is largely dead with the pencils featured in an all black aesthetic. Something cool to mix things up from Neighborhood though, but hard to justify the re-seller price of ¥2,625 JPY (approximately $27 USD) which can be seen over at Cliffedge.

via: hypebeast.