Eponymous Style Of The Sixties
The Swissmade limited edition (set of 200) AM1 (€990) watch stands as the firstborn of the AM series. Its curves are a tribute to the eponymous style of the Sixties: simple, elegant with nuances of attitude and swagger. The AM1 subtly and successfully twists the past and present aesthetic codes of watchmaking. I totally fell [...]
Apolis Transit Issue Camera Strap
Apolis worked with expert local leather craftsmen to create this beautiful handmade camera strap ($98), perfect for your vintage film camera, or to bring some warmth to your digital camera. The strap can be adjusted for carrying a camera around your neck or over your shoulder and is composed of 100% USA sourced materials. Additionally, [...]
Inspired By The Night
A nocturne is usually a musical composition that is inspired by the night. Wikipedia writes that “the name nocturne was first applied to pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside … Nocturnes are generally thought of as being [...]
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The Easy Way To Send Big Files In Style
The photography of GAT co-founder Peter Nitsch of a cable wire in Bangkok is up on WeTransfer! This photo is dedicated to the electricity and telecommunications cables in Bangkok that seems to carry on their own uncontrolled and chaotic lives above the heads of passers-by. At the same time those cables seem to have virtually [...]
Tuesday Link Pack – Design
In the following you’ll find our tuesday design link pack for your consideration … have fun exploring. Hopefully you’ll have just discovered one or two subscription-worthy design sites. ❚ 100for10 (source image/background above) 300million A List Apart Ace Jet 170 AisleOne Anagrama Brain Pickings Brand New Creative Review Daniel Gray Design Observer Design Notes Design [...]
Will Design For Money
Will Design For Money ($16) is part of some witty typography tees by Words Brand that make you look awesome. WDFM is a pure designer tee. Whether you’re “free” lance or on staff, wear your art on your sleeve with this seemingly obvious but often overlooked truism. Or if you’re prefer to stay in perpetual [...]
Leaving Gaza By Andrew McConnell
Leaving Gaza by photographer Andrew McConnell documents the now 23 surfers – each with their own surfboard and others who borrow boards when they can – documenting their life in a region where the common narrative is conflict and daily life is marked by constant struggle surfing offers a means of escape. “Their Freedom of [...]
100 For 10 Basic Backgrounds
With this basic set you’ll get 100 pro backgrounds for just 10 dollars, yeah. This means $1 for each high resolution image! No matter if you’re a design-minded guru, icon designer, developer, web designer, magazine designer, architect or a “who the hell knows I just need some backgrounds for my iPad” buff, this background set [...]
Give Your Plant A Voice
A plant is a plant is a plant … not exactly! Plants aren’t what they seem to be, they have a identity as well. The Koubachi Wi-Fi plant sensor (€122,60) is an intelligent assistant for optimal plant care – for indoor use – that notifies you via email if your plants need water or fertilizer [...]
Literally Speaking, It’s A Living Object
In contrast to other cabinets, the drawers of “growing cabinet” by German industrial designer Yi-Cong Lu are located on the side. By pulling the drawer, extra space evolve, which can be use as a temporary storage if needed. This kind of interaction makes it a “living” object, that changes its shape and size according to [...]
Radical Sitting, Hidden Experiments In Seating Furniture 1900 – 1990
Radical Sitting, Hidden Experiments in Seating Furniture 1900 – 1990 is an illustrated curated “source book” by Okolo including timeline of some of the lesser known, but really interesting experiments in the seating furniture designed during the 20th century. The project was created for SEATS 05 exhibition at Depot Basel. The book includes Carlo Bugatti, Paul [...]
Leica M Monochrom Camera
Will this be the future of monochrome digital photography? One can’t ignore that countless iconic black-and-white photographs have been shot with the legendary cameras of the Leica M-System. But will the Leica M Monochrom ($8.000), a black and white only camera with the same body style as the M9, really make the cut? Leica’s niche [...]
Day Maker – The Charging iPhone Alarm Toaster
We have seen a lot of alarm clocks, but nothing says morning like a piece of toast jumping in a toaster. With that in mind, Day Maker (est. $180) , a bedside phone charger/alarm hub, lets you know it’s time to rise and shine with a little added spring from your phone alarm. And if [...]
Free Polyhedral Wallpaper By Carmelaine Antonio
Carmelaine Antonio, born in 1990, is a graphic designer based in the Philippines. As you can see in this free downloadable Wallpaper above for Kuvva she loves and finds joy in playing with shapes, lines and mixing 3d objects to create interesting abstract forms. Her interests include photography, advertising, print, Illustration, typography and now she [...]
This Is Not The End …
… this is just the beginning of something new, a great magazine project by designer Stefan Trifan about Art, Culture and Fashion. At a time when large media groups are dissolving and cohorts of prophets are trumpeting the arrival of a fully digital world, to talk about and to propose a new publication in an utterly [...]
Hammarhead Industries Day Pack
Hammarhead is widely known for their motorcycles. Knowing the bike industry HH released the Hammarhead Day Pack ($290), which “resulted from our search for a minimal bag suitable for riding and capable of holding the tools of modern life.” Constructed from waterproof waxed cotton, black leather and parachute hardware, the backpack features a roll top [...]
The Ace Of 52Aces
52Aces ($28) is a deck consisting of 52 extremely different cards. The basic idea behind this playing cards by Zeixs is to have each of these cards individually designed by an international designer or illustrator in their distinct style. The unique ensemble, in which a variety of illustrations in many styles come together to form [...]
Forests By Andrea Altemüller
Whilst staying in the south of Thailand, German photographer Andrea Altemüller would often take long walks in an ancient pine forest to be found close to a temple. “During my walks, the forest would always feel other wordly, somehow dream-like in my perception. I set about to capture this quality with my camera, an inspiration [...]
The Tattooed Poster – History Under Your Skin
How to promote a tattoo studio? Serviceplan Campaign 3 developed a poster and making of video that impressively shows the bavarian tattoo artists’ skills. The Chaos Crew tattoo studio is well known in Munich and far beyond its city limits. “Just as tattoo motives tell countless stories, we interwove the most important events of 2011 into [...]
New Persistance Of Memory
Liquid Time by designer Andy Kurovets is a wristwatch that interprets Salvador Dali’s melting clock in The Persistence of Memory in a modern way. The watch utilizes two LCD screens specially crafted to fit the watch “melting” the time in form of typography with counting numbers. The truth is, time is an illusion! The future [...]
Light Illusions Using Highly Complex Pyrotechnics
In this photography series Explosion by Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr, the artistic duo create light illusions using highly complex pyrotechnics. They built a custom-made detonator, which is connected to the cameras and synchronized to snap a photo at the very moment of the explosion. Their bio describes, “In this way, they were able to [...]
Are You Really My Friend?
Photographer Tanja Hollander is interested in how we define friendship and who we let into our private yet very public online lives. So she’s set out to make portraits of all of her Facebook friends (626 when she started the project) in their homes, which are scattered around the country and the world. What started [...]
Pinball Magic Machine Accesory With Folding Legs
Pinball Magic is a free iPhone game with a realistic pinball machine accesory ($34.99) with folding legs for easy transport storage. Just like the classic cabinets only smaller, Pinball Magic game is a time machine that recreates classic arcade pinball action on your iPhone or iPod touch. Side mounted flipper buttons, realistic pinball ball-launching plunger [...]
