Cool Hunting |
Mar 13, 2009 10:05AM
Sydney-based Emily Valentine Bullock sculpts, primarily using feathers, which she collects from birds killed by cars and cats, and from people's dead pets. More recently, she bought a trapping and killing machine to collect feathers from Australia’s registered pest, the Indian Mynah. From these oddly sourced materials, she creates very odd, but rather beautiful sculptures. Most of these are strange hybrid creatures—dogs with wings and bird-headed dolls. She also makes beaded and feathered brooches and bangles which can be purchased [...]
Unmatched Style |
Mar 13, 2009 10:04AM
What a great website. This is full of great illustrations and great layout, plenty of brown (the designer’s name is Matt Brown…) Very nice blog too.
core77.com's design blog |
Mar 13, 2009 10:03AM
A quick congrats to frog design on their 40th anniversary, set to celebrate with their SXSW kick-off party tomorrow night in Austin. Here's from the release: "For the last 40 years, frog has been focused on helping our clients to create meaningful products and experiences that improve people's lives," said Doreen Lorenzo, president of frog design. "This is a tremendous milestone, and as a long time supporter of SXSW, there is no better community to help us celebrate the occasion [...]
eightface |
Mar 13, 2009 10:03AM
Books on book covers, an emerging meta-trend in cover design. Eventually, walking into a bookstore will become an Escher-esque event that blows your mind.
Signal vs. Noise |
Mar 13, 2009 10:00AM
There are certain places that people expect text to be rote, boring, and dry. When you come in with some humanity instead, it really stands out. Example: Sönke Johnsen’s “Advice For Potential Graduate Students,” a wonderful piece of writing that is given to lab applicants. An excerpt: In many ways you will turn into your advisor. Advisors teach very little, but instead provide a role model. Consciously and unconsciously, you will imitate your advisor. You may find this hard to believe [...]
Cool Hunting |
Mar 13, 2009 09:35AM
by Kelsey KeithLast week we were taken aback at NYC's Pulse Art Fair by artist Dietrich Wegner's "Playhouse," an installation shaped like a mushroom cloud and built like a tree fort covered in swaths of cotton. A study in contradiction, "Playhouse" mingled with tattooed babies and dotted light paintings in Chicago gallerist Carrie Secrist Gallery's booth. Wegner creates "images that are safe and unsettling, abject and beautiful... all in an effort to explore our varied states of contentment and security." His [...]
Reaction! |
Mar 13, 2009 09:35AM
Just a quick reminder about our summer internship programme. Please keep the applications coming in folks...
Design Milk |
Mar 13, 2009 09:35AM
These lovely door designs are the newest from Massimo Iosa Ghini. http://www.iosaghini.it
core77.com's design blog |
Mar 13, 2009 09:33AM
Coming off our review of The Big Necessity, we were inspired by a recent email concerning the PeePoo, a plastic bag-cum-toilet for the developing world. So we got in touch with the designer of the device, Peter Thuvander, to provide some first-hand reflections on the project. Here's Peter: It could be that the cruel reality of shit has escaped you. To let you in on the numbers, approximately 2.6 billion people lack sanitation. The consequences of this are horrific. One [...]
MoCo Loco |
Mar 13, 2009 09:31AM
The Area series by Anya Sebton for Lammhults shown at the Stockholm Furniture Fair was a mix of faded elegance and contemporary line. The modules can be put together as a sofa, but stand alone even better as armchairs. The Concrete Things Grid by Komplot for Nola is a wire frame armchair that has a concrete counterpart with a completely different attitude. The Pebble armchair and ottoman from Osko Deichmann are tidily contained, tightly upholstered cushions in sensible wire frames [...]
MoCo Loco |
Mar 13, 2009 09:31AM
Digital bits this week from the MoCo Twitter page. Above Planet 3 Studios' portable, compact Out-of-Box Workstation is missing only one thing; the Out-of-Box worker.
Preoccupations |
Mar 13, 2009 09:30AM
Preoccupations posted a photo: Footpath beside St Paul's completely underwater
SimpleBits Articles |
Mar 13, 2009 09:30AM
I’ve always loved the constraint of a 4-track cassette recorder. So when I first came across FourTrack, a simple recording app for the iPhone, I figured I’d give it a whirl. I grabbed my trusty ukulele and laid down a little tune I often play to the kids. The audio records right from the iPhone’s built-in mic. The quality is impressive. Then I grabbed my three year old son Jack’s toy percussion kit, and banged along to the uke track. In [...]
GetANewBrowser |
Mar 13, 2009 09:05AM
If you are not familiar with Twittad - they are an advertising platform for Twitter that allows users to sell ad space on their profile page. What does this launch mean for Twitter users? Well, glad you asked… The short and sweet version is that Twitter users can now opt-in to any advertiser campaign that is listed on Twittad. Once you login to Twittad and select “Search Campaigns”, you will see all available campaigns based on your demographics, location, and category. These new updates [...]
abducted by design |
Mar 13, 2009 09:05AM
Romain Laurent is a top notch photographer from France, highly talented and very well known for his advertising work. His photos have so much meaning to it and it's so understandable that makes his work perfect to the ad world. Sit back and enjoy! <!--break--> For more visit www.romain-laurent.com About the authorHi! I'm Paulo Canabarro and I'm here to post some really cool stuff for you, if you have any ideas or any requests please get @ me - paul0v2@yahoo.com you [...]
core77.com's design blog |
Mar 13, 2009 09:03AM
DesignDroplets has just published a fascinating interview with Richard Kuchinsky, designer and Core77 forum contributor. It's impossible to pick the choicest paragraphs from the thing, but the section on how footwear design really happens will surprise you: The process as I described earlier just doesn't need CAD for the most part, so it is not used. There would be no point in doing the upper design of a shoe in CAD when a 3 view line drawing in Illustrator is [...]
Design Reverb - Design Blog |
Mar 13, 2009 09:03AM
Selectively Disabling Downloaded-File Warnings in Leopard I had implemented something similar to this, Eric Meyer dug deeper and has a tuned up version. Selectively Disabling Downloaded-File Warnings in Leopard - Design Reverb
Inhabitat |
Mar 13, 2009 09:02AM
When the new owners of this beautiful wood-clad home decided they needed to update and add a bit more space to the house, who better to renovate it than the architects who designed the original? Re-enter, New York-based Bates Masi Architects, who worked out a plan to enlarge the kitchen and dining areas, modernize the bathrooms, and refinish the floors, walls and counter tops. Materials and wood from the house were kept and re-used in the renovation, minimizing the need [...]
Photoshop Killer Tips |
Mar 13, 2009 09:00AM
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Design Milk |
Mar 13, 2009 08:35AM
Radius Design has come up with a beauty: the Tree of Charge. The adapters and such are hidden inside, so your charging station becomes a hub for everything but the wires and mess. http://www.radius-design.com
core77.com's design blog |
Mar 13, 2009 08:33AM
I tried a yoga class at one of those touchy-feely yoga centers. Everyone came in with one of those rolled-up mats. The instructor offered me a mat. I declined; she, and everyone around me, looked at me like I was crazy. But when you see photos or drawings of the guys who invented yoga, they're always sitting on some bare mountaintop without that silly waffle-ized rubber thingy, no? I feel the same way about yoga mats that I feel about [...]
core77.com's design blog |
Mar 13, 2009 08:33AM
Designer Davy Grosemans' Hole in One sidetable won an iF Product Design Award, even though it's essentially an Ikea side table with a hole in it for a parasol. Of more interest to us is his Bowel Chair, inspired by the human intestinal system, and privacy-offering Georges II lounge chair. Check out the rest of Grosemans' rather interesting body of work here. (more...)
Three Minds @ Organic |
Mar 13, 2009 08:06AM
Hot on the eve of the South by Southwest conference, Dennis Crowley (founder of the mobile social service "Dodgeball") and Naveen Selvadurai opened the gate to a new new mobile lifestyle application called "foursquare" for the iPhone. Foursquare, introduces a new twist to the burgeoning landscape of mobile social applications. So far, the reviews are promising. What makes "foursquare" different... Read more
abducted by design |
Mar 13, 2009 08:05AM
"With great power there must come great responsibility". We are well aware of this amazing quote by uncle Ben. For that, we'd like to apologise to all of you who tried to visit Abduzeedo this week and didn't make, because our server was down. For some time now, Abduzeedo has been growing a lot, thanks to all of you guys. But unfortunately, our server needs also grow with us, and sometimes it doesn't follow our pace. That's why Abduzeedo was down [...]
adfreak |
Mar 13, 2009 08:04AM
Steffan Postaer, chairman and chief creative officer of Euro RSCG
Chicago, is sending us daily updates as he judges the Dubai Lynx awards
this week.Day Three: Friday, March 13
As might be expected, the Dubai Lynx is less frantic a pace than the festival at Cannes. Judging the proceedings has been painless by comparison. It also afforded me opportunities to get to know the personnel involved with putting on the show: members from the International Advertising Festivals and [...]
