March 6th ‘08
This carbon-fiber board has been designed to maintain the balance and weight of an original board, but with the help of two pins and a quick release lever, it can halve in size. And if you love surfing, make sure you read the excellent Surf Nation Blog by Alex Wade, which must be good if I enjoy reading it and I don’t even surf,
Collapsible Surfboard
Some of the best ambient campaigns around via UADDit. I particularly enjoyed the Papa John’s Pizza and Leica Camera Zoom and was impressed by the Kill Bill lift. But the Frankfurt Smoking Zone was rubbish.
Ambient Delivered
It really easy interesting to see Garfield gets funnier, when you remove Garfield. Jon all of sudden appears to suufer from schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life.
Garfield?
Designed by Stefan Eberstadt, this has to be one of the most unusual extensions I’ve ever seen. Despite looking like extremely unsafe, it in fact works. See more photos over at Design Hole.
Rucksack House
Maya Wild
Never again feel alone in the dark! The Swing Lamp creates a comforting ambiance through lighting and movement.
Swing Lamp
March 7th ‘08
Rocksmith paying tribute to Christopher “Kid” Reid and Christopher “Play” Martin with the print from the Class Act theatrical poster. The back has text reading ‘House Party XXXIII 1/3.”
Kid n Play Tee
BLOOMBERG OFFICES, LONDON
Interactive seating based on scrabble provides a short break area for employees.
A collaboration with Alistair Willmott
Scrabble Pillows
Nice little archive of film titles in Quicktime format including a few of the Saul Bass classics.
Lab-au
Sesame Street clips you can't afford to miss... or show all your clients to get them thinking the right way... enlightening stuff.
Visual Thinking
Men’s fight bag made with canvas printed with a picture of a ghetto blaster. The bag is styled with smooth chocolate leather trims and an adjustable shoulder strap, and is zip opening. Delicious.
Paul Smith Bag
A laser was used to etch around 80,000 of the stars in the Milky Way, using 3-D data from the Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory. Read the PingMag interview with creators Living World.
Swing Lamp
March 11th ‘08
It’s it a fridge? Is it a cupboard? No, it’s a sort of warm combination of both. I give you the Drying Cabinet...a nice and shiny modern take on the traditional airing cupboard.
Drying Cabinet
Dynamic and stylish design and art direction for music, fashion and lifestyle brands such as Nike, Ministry of Sound, Levi’s and Playstation from the brilliant Baby.
Baby
Coogi Jacket
Creative Review have selected some great new music videos, the pick of which for me is the excellent Utah Saints "Something Good 08" by Eran Creevy.
6 of the Best
These astonishing lights designed by Anke Weiss are actually recycled old bottles and boxes. Beautiful attention to detail and creative outcomes, if only everything could be recycled so brilliantly.
Packing Lights
Amazon Kindle
March 13th ‘08
Fun site dedicated to photoshop disasters. I loved severed hand in the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.
Photoshop Disasters
Just a really great idea for bikers, to let the cars behind you know where you are going. Leah Buechley used her LilyPad Arduino to make this soft circuit turn signal bicycle jacket, great for spring.
Biker Jacket
Cool attention-grabbing doorstop shaped like a gold bar. The digits inscribed on each bar (260373) reference the first day women were allowed to enter the London Stock Exchange.
Gold Doorstop
A type of behaviour which is characterised by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. We’re all victims, just check out this great workflow diagram.
Procrastination
A series of great photographs by Dulce Pinzon showing the real Mexican Superheroes working in New York. All of which work long hours for little cash, which they send home to their families. Impressive in every level.
Superheroes
Alvin Aronson has made the beautiful "d/a clock," in which seven-segment LED numbers are made manifest in Corian and wood. Watch a mesmerising video of Aronson's functioning clock.
Digital Analogue
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March 14th ‘08
If you are in or around East London in the next week and a bit pop into Kemistry gallery for their current exhibition ‘Pure Yet Complex’ by Sanderson Bob. Check out his inspirational portfolio here.
Sanderson Bob
When looking to create a fresh, modern new brand, you might not think automatically of painkillers and bandages. Thankfully, Help did with a brilliant range of t-shirts and packaging.
Help
Designer, Hunn Wai created an unlikely pairing of a ping pong table and a workstation with his Paul Smith Ping Pong table. Hunn combines a sense of fun with the use of flea market finds; a second hand dining table, lace, steel and acrylic paint.
Paul Smith Ping Pong
Suck UK nail it with another cracking gift. Never since you were a child, has been seeing how tall you are been so much fun. The Who Tall Are You Mirror must be a killer for Tom Cruise.
Full Length Mirror
These odd looking cloud formations are called cloud streets. They are extremely rare and caused when strong currents cut through low lying clouds leaving long clean strips. They are 300 meters tall and stretch for over 100km.
Cloud Streets
The Life Clock by Bertrand Planes goes 6,1320 times slower than a regular clock, preferring to tick away the days and years over seconds and hours. Does that mean that in a few years, I’ll be facing the big 30 0’Clock?
Life Clock
