Taken from Design.nl This design for a special cabinet-cabin by Jeroen van Mechelen (Studio JVM) creates a guesthouse within a newly designed villa that was carved out of a mountain wall in the village of Vals in Switzerland. Designed by the renowned architectural firm SeARCH in collaboration with Christian Müller architects, the villa has only [...]
It’s no secret that in Amsterdam, trying to get a drink in a bar can often turn into an ordeal and a half. If you’re not flapping your arms around or batting your eyelids or tall/pushy enough, how do you get served?? The answer: let guests serve themselves. At the new Minibar in Amsterdam, designed [...]
The Heineken Experience here in Amsterdam reopened on the 2nd of November last year after having taken time out to revamp the complex. With a new look and feel to the user experience designed and detailed by BRC Imagination Arts. The new Heineken Experience has been designed to bring the values of the Heineken brand [...]
There is a cardboard construction doing the rounds at Festivals this year. It’s called the ‘shit box’. Its a a flurry of poo related puns and visuals of poo…..generally its a poo-fest. The cardboard unit makes the excretion process even more personal. Retailing at £15.67 (bog standard price) this is a unique item to say [...]
Risa Fuku: Taken from an interview on Pingmag: In our digital world of graphic wonders at a push of a button, there totally needs to be a place for the traditional handcraft of “Papercutting.” Luckily, Japanese papercutting artists Risa Fukui, has taken on a quite special task to reinvigorate this filigree art. Her amazingly elaborated [...]
BMW presents GINA, a new take on car design, materials, and flexibility. The GINA replaces the traditional metal/plastic skin with a textile fabric skin that’s pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires. Even the shape of the car can change. Fascinating and creative design study. With the development of the …
Day to day we encounter packaging. We buy food its packaged to encourage us to purchase it. We buy technology its packaged to enhance our visual keys and again push us to spend our cash on it. So what if you take these graphic adorned corrogated packaging to start to rework its very function? Italian [...]
A great flicker photostream all about scooter culture in tokyo some manga inspiration here me thinks Link
The 2008 Texaco children’s art competition winners have been revealed. This year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition – which is now in it’s 54th year – has unleashed a wide range of colour, creativity and diversity. The winning pictures, and other entries, were put on display after the winners were announced at a special ceremony …
“Seven historic Aboriginal paintings stolen from an Australian museum were recovered hours later after the thief apparently dumped them in a park, police said. The paintings, valued at more than £230,000 by the Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery in Darwin, were undamaged.” Read More
Category: Craft/interior