Google Earth Postkarten

Der Künstler, Architekt und Designer Clement Valla hat für die Serie "Postcards from Google Earth, Bridges" Screenshots von Brücken bei Google Earth gemacht. Das Ergebnis ist eine faszinierende Mischung aus verzerrten zweidimensionalen und dreidimensionalen Landschaften.

"The images are screenshots from Google Earth with basic color adjustments and cropping. I am collecting these new typologies as a means of conservation – as Google Earth improves its 3D models, its terrain, and its satellite imagery, these strange, surrealist depictions of our built environment and its relation to the natural landscape will disappear in favor of better illusionistic imagery. However, I think these strange mappings of the 2-dimensional and the 3-dimensional provide us with fabulous forms that are purely the result of algorithmic processes and not of human aesthetic decision making. They are artifacts worth preserving."

Palette Coasters

Das Labyrinth Design Studio hat Miniaturpaletten aus Holz entwickelt, die man als Glasuntersetzer benutzen kann. Die Palette Coasters sind im 5er Pack für 21 Dollar plus Versand im designboom Shop erhältlich. Wirklich großartige Idee!

Papela Lamp by Meirav Barzilay

Meirav Barzilay has created Papela, a lamp made from Tyvek that comes delivered as a crumpled piece of paper. You can uncrumple and re-crumple it as you like. It has minimal stitching and is hand-sewn.

Ingvar Collection by Pedersen + Lennard

Pedersen + Lennard is a Cape Town, South Africa-based company that produces wood furniture and their latest collection is called Ingvar.

The Ingvar Range takes inspiration from the great success of IKEA and its founder Ingvar Kamprad. Besides being sensible from a cost perspective, flat-pack furniture also makes a lot of sense environmentally. By sending our tables, chairs and benches flat they can save up to 80% of the packaging materials while also drastically reducing shipping costs.

The furniture arrives in a flat cardboard box with instructions and the necessary bolts, as well as an Allen key for assembly. The parts come together in one configuration and only take a few minutes to assemble. The aesthetic is clean, honest and features the details and joints. The range is made using Scandinavian birch and finished with a durable epoxy varnish, but it is also available in bamboo.

Pedersen + Lennard explain that "the flat-pack challenge brings a lot of opportunity to our design process and forces us to think in new ways."

Photos by Santjie Viljoen.

Thanks, Chris!

Michal Maciej Bartosik

Michal Maciej Bartosik has created two new floating compression lights that are based on two of Kenneth Snelson's sculptures: 'Needle Tower' and 'City Boots'.

Utilizing Snelson's structural discovery, appropriated and popularized by Buckminster Fuller as "Tensegrity," Bartosik proposes new possibilities of light forms, whereby the light source and its electrical wire work mutually in compression and tension to produce a seemingly discontinuous field of light defined by it structural form.

The light sculptures won best Studio North Collection at the IDS11.

mike chen: home living TV

'home living TV' by mike chen
images courtesy of mike chen 


'home living TV' by new york-based designer mike chen
is a re-interpreted television design that looks to reverse 
the evolution of the familiar object.

looking to bring back the idea of TV as furniture, the 
contemporary and pared back piece uses an aesthetic language
and materials that are familiar to a young generation. 



front, side, back 


two antennas on the top of the set become switches, moving
left and right to control channels and input modes. speakers on 
the front and back are seamlessly integrated into the interface, 
along with a 1950s style remote control that fits into a slot on 
the front of the television when not in use. 



 
acrylic antennas 



50s style remote control 

jonas wagell: steel works

'basic'


'steel works' by swedish designer jonas wagell is an investigative project on the tactility and details of cutlery. 
for the project he has imagined three imaginary settings which constitute the case study 'steel works' 
resulting in the prototype cutlery sets:
bistro, bold and basic. 



'basic'

'basic' takes on a uncomplicated, more square approach in the design of its handle.


'basic' profile



'bold'

'bold' reveals a rounder design that is fuller in its shape.


'bold'



'bold'



'bistro'

the most classic of the three case studies, 'bistro' has an elegant, contemporary feel.


'bistro'



from left to right: 'bold', 'bistro', 'basic'


images of the making process: