Posts Tagged ‘ design ’

Sushi Meets Lasers

Beautiful deliciousness. Is it too pretty to eat? Nah…. Via DesignBoom: lasercut nori for designer sushi ‘design nori’, developed by creative agency I&S BBDO for the umino seaweed shop Developed by international ad agency I&S BBDO for the umino seaweed shop, ‘design nori’ is a series of intricately laser-cut seaweed for rolling sushi. each sheet [ READ MORE ]

Bamboo Tech

Nice to see a plethora of high-tech accessories made from sustainable bamboo! Also, a friend of mine started Grove, listed below. Check them out! Bamboo Tech Accessories Via CoolHunting Four sustainable, lightweight and refined tech items by James Thorne in Design on 30 March 2012 Beloved by progressive designers and earth-conscious consumers, bamboo grows free [ READ MORE ]

Cool Ways to Hang and Showcase Your Bike

Bikes are amazing. Quiet, lightweight and fast, they are the real future of sustainable transportation. But for those of us who have our bikes crowding our small apartments, stacked alongside a wall, waiting for people to trip over them, they can sometimes get in the way. Luckily, a number of designers have tackled this problem. [ READ MORE ]

Colani

I’ve long been fascinated by the sculptural and radical designs from German born Luigi Colani.  His work spans numerous decades, but holds a tight theme of bold, visionary, and often bizarre industrial design.  A designer who takes risk, Colani has not seen many of his large-scale vehicles brought to life. A lot of them are [ READ MORE ]

Netflix, unstoppable?

I remember when those envelopes showing up in the mail was exotic and new. A DVD in the mail? Crazy! It was a small, lean, innovative company.  Fast-forward, I mean, skip to 2011, and Netflix nearly dominates the scene, having obliterated Blockbuster, and seeped into millions of living rooms around the country. This infographic I [ READ MORE ]

Tracksuit Bottoms

Tracksuit Bottoms, originally uploaded by Olly Moss. My thoughts exactly&#[ READ MORE ]

Paul Rand Retrospective

Imaginary Forces beautifully and artistically pays tribute to one of Graphic Design’s most cherished figures, Paul Rand. Rand was a powerhouse in the world of design, creating iconic identities for IBM, UPS, ABC, Yale University, among many, many others. The video uses interview footage with Rand, and shows great deft at animating his work to [ READ MORE ]

Cereal Box Art: Hipster Vintage

If I know anything about hipsters, it’s that they love vintage triangles.  Say what? I happen to know a lot of hip, young, design-y types, and the work I see coming from them is geometric, pattern-based, and desaturated, usually with a lot of scenic outdoor photography.   There is a lot of cool looking stuff, don’t [ READ MORE ]

GM is Not Made up of All Old White Men, Afterall.

After GM and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy last year, it was hard for a car geek like myself to give them much respect.  Visions of executive boardrooms with bloated, out-of-touch white men running the show,  filled my head. Late model American cars like the Sebring and Impala epitomize the worst thinking in automotive design today. [ READ MORE ]

Web Traffic

In the scheme of things, I am still learning a lot when it comes to web development. I enjoy the designing aspects, I’m becoming a more confident builder, and I’m picking up on things like SEO (search engine optimization) and other related skills, tools, tricks and trades that give websites a boost. It was vindicating, [ READ MORE ]

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