January 29, 1886, Karl Benz applied for a patent for his "vehicle with gas engine operation." Patent DRP 37435 for the Benz Patent Motor Car.
Seven months after Benz filed his patent for the automobile, Daimler with his master engineer Wilhelm Maybach attached his Daimler engine to a four-wheeled coach producing the first "horseless" carriage.
this is the 1885 Benz Patent Motorwagen
- I'm proud to present you the latest thing we've been up too at Lazerwood.
As always those are real wood covers for your phone 4 .
We partnered with attak and edub and came up with two unique design,available on vlack cherry, cherry or walnut , they are hand treated with water based stain.
The attak/lazerwood one is called Loose lips, intricate,engaged and pretty much awesome, the partnership with edub created Treebird, a nice clean design .
Oh and we actually added one graphic called "chevron" to the permanent collection.
Go check them out , they are going fast.
Tom Davie's most popular design have been assembled in one beautiful package consisting of a set of offset lithographic note cards ,letters, typography, illustrations, awesomeness .
check out his website for some more eye catching work of art.
-Yesterday night was the official re-launch of the TEague academy in Seattle , it was held at the Seattle sculpture park , the designer invited was Emily Pilloton, an awesome architect that started with a project called project H then a year later launched studio H: A real-world experiment in design-based education.
To make it short : a really nice story story about two San francisco architects that decided to move to the poorest county in North Carolina and design a program to help public school kids build themselves a better futur by learning, ideation, welding, creation, critique, team work ...
A really fresh approach and a nice message for us "comfortable designers" . I especially loved her last message which sounded like " if you want to get inspired , copy or redo this program, take my hard drive, i'll give you everything about what i learn, i just don't know if i have what i take to repeat the experience somewhere else , i'm here to stay and you are welcome to follow the movement" brilliant.
Here are some visuals of the chicken coop projects she's just been finishing with her students.
Thanks Tad Toulis for bringing a real design super hero to remind us that design can actually do "real" good things :)
Here is Matt Pyke's from universaleverything.com "Esquire Logo Project" video, which takes sound recordings of men saying the magazine's name in different accents and visualizes them as animated sound sculptures.
- I just have one word for the work of this talented artist:matthew Cusick: WOW
those portraits , paintings and illustrations are realized with maps, check his website for some stunning pieces. more info
- New product launch by lazerwood, real wood covers for apple TV 2nd generation .
" No, Apple TV doesn't really need protection, but our beautiful wood cover does make the shiny black puck look a little more domestic. Choose either walnut or black stained cherry finish.
Laser cut to fit exactly to the contour of the top, our peel and stick wood veneer adheres solidly to the top of the new Apple TV."
- Freedom of creation came up with that surprising 3d printable font called kashida and an easy set up page online to type (both Latin and Arabic) characters and order you own 3d printed sign/name/whatever you like to write down, it's costly but it's new to , go check it out, it's worth a visit.
Developed by Yara Khoury and Melle Hammer in collaboration with Freedom Of Creation and upon invitation by the Khatt foundation for Arabic typography and design research.
fabricated on demand and shipped worldwide apparently . try the latin version try the arabic version
bufalino' by german industrial designer Cornelius Comanns is a small camper aka autonomous life cell,
which offer absolute flexibility during periods of travel. the vehicle is based
on the existing piaggio 1948 APE 50( still on the market today) three wheeled light transport vehicle; a model chosen for its economic and fuel efficient benefits.
Cornelius has been interning in the past at Pininfarina's Turin studio and at Art lebedev in Moscow.
The ultimate pocket RV .more info
