Monthly Archives: April 2010

Lego furniture

Posted on April 29, 2010 | Leave a comment

So lego is of course one of the new big things, and it’s not even that new any more. Nevertheless, we couldn’t not post this.

These lego tables by Lunatic Construction are just brilliant. Of course they look great, if nothing remarkable, but this isn’t quite the point.

What really appeals to us is the idea of having furniture you can literally take apart and rebuild with your bare hands if you fancy a change. If the table legs are getting in the way, just rebuild them as a single column. The chairs could easily be combined to make a sofa, and you could just tear the desk up if work isn’t going well. What more could you want?

(via Design Fetish)

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Neglect hits Parliamentary proportions

Posted on April 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

Action for Children’s Neglect appeal has been up and running for some time but last night saw it really grow in scale, hitting the Houses of Parliament.

This video (starring the brilliant Jess Hynes lending her support to the cause) documents the latest in a series of light projections that Action for Children has been putting on, culminating in this display on the Houses of Parliament – which we think looks pretty amazing. It would certainly have got our attention if we had walked past.

These have in fact been appearing all over the country, such as in Cardiff on Cardiff Castle and the Millennium Stadium…

… and in central Belfast…

Check out the Action for Children facebook page for more photos and details, or get involved at actionforchildren.org.uk

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Cassette Art

Posted on April 27, 2010 | Leave a comment

We’ve seen this kind of thing before, but that doesn’t stop it being cool.

Erika Iris Simmons uses good old-fashioned audio cassettes to create portraits – usually of famous musician types.

The level of detail she manages to capture is staggering when you remember this is actually tape she’s working with. We are just a bit confused about how enough tape to make Bob Marley’s hair comes out of one cassette…

You can view the entire series of cassette tape portraits here.

(via Design Fetish)

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Colouring life

Posted on April 26, 2010 | Leave a comment

We saw this image of a project by Katie Sokoler and loved it. We got all nostalgic for Pac-Man and really liked the idea of brightening up the streets.

So then we had a look at the rest of her stuff and saw this was just part of what seems to be a general philosophy to brighten up life. Her motivation seems to lie in making people smile – usually in surpising and quirky ways – such as this adaptation of a parking meter…

We’re not claiming any of the work is absolutely brilliant, but as a project, we love it. Anything that injects some fun into the dull bits of life this much gets big thumbs up from us.

(source: Vidafine via Notcot)

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Mirror Man

Posted on April 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

Street performers are one of those things we’ve never really seen the point in. Most of the musicians are fairly terrible, and the gymnasts, magicians and comedians rarely do anything we couldn’t do. And even worse are those ones who just dress up as something, and then stand around. But we’ve found someone to change our mind.

Mirror Man is to be found hanging around the streets of LA, his entire body covered in mirrors. The mirrors are carefully crafted to fit every angle of his body – even his face. It’s not entirely obvious how he sees anything, but that’s a minor concern.

We’re worried he’s patented this, otherwise we’d be out harrassing the tourists in Covent Garden ourselves…

(source: The Coolist)

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Slim Chips

Posted on April 22, 2010 | Leave a comment

Everyone loves chips (or crisps, if you speak real english) but it remains one of those horrible facts of life that they are really quite fattening. Hafsteinn Juliusson has however become our favourite Icelander of the week, and come up with a calorie (and guilt) free option.

Slim Chips are in fact made purely from edible paper, and then flavoured and coloured with wholly organic products to create blueberry, peppermint and sweet potato chips (crisps).

The copy on the bags reads “Instead of getting fat you can now eat paper with flavour. It’s like eating tasty air.” which we think is absolutely brilliant.

This product launched last week in ultra-stylish Milan (naturally) and we just hope it comes to the rest of the world soon. Otherwise we’ll have to try and make our own from printer paper…

(source: Design Fetish)

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FedEx Campaign

Posted on April 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

We love this new campaign for FedEx from DDB Brazil, with photos shot by Manolo Moran.

It’s fantastically simple, capturing the speed and reliability of FedEx delivery brilliantly, adding a personal touch, and even playing with your mind a little, as you have to stop and stare to make sure it’s not really two people leaning out of windows, rather than just a poster.

Just goes to show you can do good work even on the dullest subjects…

(source: Design Fetish)

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Eyafallajokull – the good side

Posted on April 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Eyafallajokull is of course the Icelandic volcano which is currently covering most of Europe in ash, making it impossible for planes to fly in or out of any country north of the Mediterranean. This is annoying really quite a lot of people who want to go on holiday, and it may well start to have implications for imports – especially food. However, we think we’ve found the silver lining in a set of truly beautiful photos.

Apparently the lightning is actually generated by some kind of electrical discharge within the ash column, which is slightly scary, but the results are stunning – from a distance.

So, for anyone upset or annoyed by this whole business, at least its given the rest of us some pretty photos to look at.

(source via Notcot)

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Recycled island

Posted on April 15, 2010 | Leave a comment

We’ve always been a fan of crazy architecture and schemes. This is however probably the oddest we have come across yet.

This multicoloured monstrosity is a representation of a scheme by the appropriately named Whim Architects from the Netherlands – to collect all the plastic floating around in the sea and turn it into an island. An island the size of Hawaii.

So it’s a little terrifying that there is enough plastic in the sea to do this in the first place. That aside, we love the execution. The idea would be to have beaches, housing made from recycled plastic, farms fertilised with human waste, seaweed grown for biofuels, and power harvested from the sun and sea. Essentially, you take a whole pile of waste and turn it into a green, self-sufficient community.

The plan is to float this thing somewhere between San Fransisco and the current Hawaii – precisely the middle of nowhere. We reckon it should be towed around for people to jump on as their real island chains (The Maldives, etc) sink under the waves.

(via Inhabitat)

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Edible gold & silver

Posted on April 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

For some people, food presentation is simply a waste of time and effort. After all, it’s the taste that’s important so why dress up the food? Well these people really don’t have any excuse any more thanks to this bizarre product from Deli Garage.

Essentially all this is a spray which turns your food gold. Or silver. It is however fully edible, meaning you can dress up your plates with this stuff and then serve them as normal. And the packaging is pretty excellent as well.

However, we’re really not sure whether this stuff actually looks good. Personally, eating metal doesn’t really appeal. Plus we’d love to see what happened if you tried to do this to soup…

(via The Coolist)

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