Dutch Design Week: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school’s Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. Van der Veer presented two projects: a rainwater storage butt with an integrated watering can called A Drop of Water (top and below), and a biodegradable packaging system for plants called Bioplastic Planter..
Lenovo has let slip some official-looking (if not rendered) shots of a Vaio P-like netbook, the Pocket Yoga. Update: Sadly, it's just a concept. Granted, this is a decidedly male back pocket and not the ass-hugging skinny jeans of Vaio P ad fame. And it still looks like it's filling that zone halfway between concept and actual product (as the actual concept sketches that accompany the shots on L..
Merete Rasmussen is a Danish artist who predominately works with one-off sculptural forms in stoneware clay. She has lived and worked in London since 2005. Merete is interested in the idea of one continuous surface, with one connected edge or line running through the whole form. Clear, clean shapes; soft smooth curves in contrast to sharp edges; concave and convex surfaces; the discovery and str..
Car brand BMW will unveil its Vision EfficientDynamics concept car at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. The hybrid-engined car features 2+2 seating, polycarbonate windows and gull-wing doors. It has an anticipated top speed of 250 kmh (155 mph) and can reach 100 kmh in 4.8 seconds. Fuel consumption is 3.76 litres per 100 kilometre. See our story from June 2008 about BMW’s GINA Light Visionary ..
Seattle architect Nils Finne has shared with us his experience of getting a custom designed handcrafted rug made in a remote area of Nepal. Nils says: The rug is meant to evoke a field of grass, and we generated drawings and made sample color strike-offs here in Seattle. Then, Dorjé Contemporary, a custom rug company based in Seattle, transmitted all the information to their weavers in Nepal. Th..
"Alan" table lamp Lighting collection by 7Gods 7Gods is a London based Interior Architectural company that have been creating innovative work for clients large and small in Commercial Office design, Retail design, Residential Interior and Branding design. Over the years 7Gods have created lighting solution on most projects they have worked on which have now become a small collection. 7Gods recen..
The Local Motors competition to design a car for Detroit closed earlier this month and the winners have been announced. First prize of $1500 went to German student Dmytro Zyubyairov for his Michigan concept, a sleek and slightly Citroenesque-looking front-engined 2+2 shooting brake. Dymtro’s design mixed sharp styling with the practicality and cargo capacity afforded by a shooting brake. As with..
toronto based photographer ian pool imagines the lives of superheroes if they were average people. in comic books and movies, superheroes are extraordinary people. they save lives and have super powers that allow them to do almost anything. that being said, it may be difficult to imagine what batman would do on a tuesday night, or how the incredible hulk walks his dog. these questions and more a..
In the 18th and 19th centuries, sideshow carnivals known as misemono were a popular form of entertainment for the sophisticated residents of Edo (present-day Tokyo). The sideshows featured a myriad of educational and entertaining attractions designed to evoke a sense of wonder and satisfy a deep curiosity for the mysteries of life. One popular attraction was the pregnant doll. Although it is com..
Twendy-One demonstrates its ability to hold delicate objects by manipulating a drinking straw between its fingers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering laboratory in Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. The sophisticated robot has been developed by the university's team, led by Dr. Shigeki Sugano, in hope of supporting people in aging societies. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kam..
