crazy about products?

-Watch this smartly done video advertising for an Ikea lamp , its simple and it just really simplify our "love" for products ...
WATCH THE VIDEO

glufolio for esquire

pne of a series to accompany a fiction story in Esquire. more work

Medicom::Be@rbrick collector book

-Toyz head , toyz loverz:
we sold out present a limited edition of a Beautiful book about Medicom story since 1996 !!!

every single existin Be@rbricks is inside in order to celbrate 10 years of the company.
sold with ,Be@rbrick 100% collectorCD Rom.

I want to buy it

new Touch screen technology

Lumalive technology by Philips

-Eindhoven, the Netherlands - Philips Research intends to impress the visitors at this year’s IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) with a world-first demonstration of promotional jackets and furniture featuring its innovative Lumalive technology. Lumalive textiles make it possible to create fabrics that carry dynamic advertisements, graphics and constantly changing color surfaces.
i want to know ..

radical cartography

City Income Donuts, by Bill Rankin ::

"These maps show the distribution of income (per capita) around the 25 largest metropolitan areas in the US (all those with population greater than 2,000,000). The goal was to test the "donut" hypothesis — the idea that a city will create concentric rings of wealth and poverty, with the rich both in the suburbs and in the "revitalized" downtown, and the poor stuck in between.

This does seem to have some validity in older cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, or Chicago, but in newer cities it is not the case. Instead of donuts, one finds "wedges" of wealth occupying a continuous pie-slice from the center to the periphery.

Just from visual inspection, it also seems that poverty donuts all tend to have about a five-mile radius, regardless of the size of the city. Perhaps this is the practical limit for commuting without a car?"

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nendo

nendo's concept:

Giving people a small ≪ ! ≫ moment.
There are so many small ≪ ! ≫ moments hidden in our everyday.

But we don’t recognize them.
and even when we do recognize them,we tend to unconsciously reset our
minds and forget what we’ve seen.

But we believe these small ≪ ! ≫ moments are what make our days so
interesting, so rich...

seen here :: brand destroyer, hanabi & the milan bloomroom

via sensory impact

sand & birch diamond sofa

sand & birch explain the concept: "The Diamond sofa thought by Samanta Snidaro and Andrea Fino of Sand & Birch design studio is entirely realised in mirror-like aluminium. On the wide stripe 160 crystals of Swarovsky will be disposed creating images. The lamp on its side is a fluorescent or a led one."

I like thinking of the sofa this way...as a "provocative design", with..."predominantly aesthetical value" and I also wonder what would happen if this form was treated for contrast, for uber-functionalitly -- for instance, as a park bench with reading lamp, made of recycled materials...

via design spotter

the underground & chiho aoshima

first :: if you happen to be in London, check out their public art program, "Platform for Art", which showcases international artists in the Underground stations. more info
second :: check out chiho aoshima's work. at blum & poe, at wooster collective, at kai kai kiki

new my plastic heart selection

-toys fan and toys lovers here is some new funcky radioactive man named Hazma Po series B1.2 and a nice magazine called HI FRUCTOSE , (toyz related) with , guess who ?? a great cover story on Mark Ryden, plus a special feature on Jim Woodring and a ton more.
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z+partners & the carpet invaders

visit this blog, put together by andrew zolli + partners, think-tank & horizon watchers. featured here from the blog, janek simon's carpet invaders

Richard Sheed::here

-Found through designspotter Richard Shed last Wall mounted hookis made of
Lacquered MDF and is called HERE
Initial Edition available in Green, Orange and Yellow
Never again will you have to tell guests where to hang their jackets.
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