May 14th ‘08
Takeshi Miyakawa's interesting Fractal 23 bureau makes use of every one of its cubic inches, even if it's not immediately obvious. You can see more of the Brooklyn-based designer's work here.
Fractal Furniture
It’s always nice to see a new approach in a making music videos and this one entitled ‘Again and Again’ is refreshingly different as it uses the mac OSX Leopard desktop. Shot by a digital filmmaker Dennis Liu.
Again & Again
A cool Flickr Set that takes a look at the similarities between the real New York City and the virtual Liberty City from Grand Theft Auto 4.
Grand Theft Flickr Set
Billed as “the first analog website in the world”, the stage features four menu items relating to the shows content. Ingo Schmid plays the cursor and when prompted, his friends join him on stage and perform live music mimicking the MySpace experience.
Analogue Website
A weekly update featuring some truly excellent websites, designers and illustrators. What a treat it was to discover this gem of a website. i can’t wait to go through their archive. Check out this week’s offering here.
Yay Monday
Swedish Cider
May 15th ‘08
A nice set of illustrations by Christian Ward whose style works well across fashion, comic books and advertising.
Christian Ward
Excellent animation in 2D/3D by Laurent Gillot for French band Sna Fu.
Luarent Gillot
PARIS-NYC: Different ways to drink coffee. The hypothetically saucer become the cap of the cup.
NYC-Paris Cup
I’ve never heard this hymn sung at church before, but then again I never go to church, so I could be wrong. but I doubt it.
Songs of Subtitles
Now I don’t feel so bad about spending the last 15 years buying endless House records. Some people on this astonishing list from Neatorama have spent their lives collecting Soviet Calculators, Burnt Food and over 2,500 AOL CD’s. Wow and Why.
25 Strange Collections
This is a really nice little idea by Julie Cloutier. A color swatch book of NYC observations, such as trees, parks, sky and construction signs.
NYC Colour Swatch
May 16th ‘08
A Beautiful collection of handpainted keyboards including the one above, Gold, Pink Flowers and a fairly illegible green and white.
This is definitely either a drunken or indulgent purchase. A wireless R2D2 webcam / projector complete with a Millennium Falcon remote control and Lightsaber IP Phone.
R2D2 Projector
To be honest I am so bored of all this ‘greener’ and ‘eco friendly’ products, but this was a nice change from the usual ‘we’re killing the world’ crap.
Eco Store Ads
Lovely liquid raindrop pendant lamps from benjamin hopf & constantin wortmann. A small but wonderful leap forward from your standard lightbulb.
Lamp Drops
Lustix.com is the online portfolio of designer and animator Gabriel Pulecio. The body of work on his site displays his broad range of style and technique. You can check out his slick reel here and the rest of his portfolio here.
Gabriel Pulecio
The Pierre Hardy special limited edition ‘Cruzeiro’ in metallic calfskin (above) and below, the must-have terry toweling inspired sneaker by Japanese brand realMadHectic - the Pile.
Sneaker Alert
Nishi Ki Keyboard
May 19th ‘08
An astonishing collection of classic and current surfboard logos, over 400 of them. The whole site is a pleasure to ‘surf’ and there are some great Surf Posters on there too.
WeSC strikes again with these brand new Bongo Headphones painted by the graphic artist Mitch. Guaranteed coolness for just under £70 from Creme De La Creme.
Marek Bongo Headphones
Here's something sweet for chocolate lovers. This Choculator looks like a chocolate bar but is actually a handy pocket calculator. It is solar powered, even has the fragrance of chocolate and wont melt in your pocket.
Choc-o-lator
I absolutely adore the work of Brian Marconi, the extreme, over saturated colours are almost addictive. You can see his old portfolio here, which is features the excellent CMYK Lovers.
Brian Marconi
DB Clay have just released their latest line of uber cool wallets. Simple and stylish, I could never get bored of looking at them. The hard bit is choosing which one to add to my collection.
New DB Clay
The Bubble House by Antti Lovag is where I’d imagine a giant hamster equivalent of Blofeld might live. Check out more pictures over at Designer Daily.
Bubble House
Surfboard Logos
May 20th ‘08
This is a great video showing how the 1983 HBO intro was created. At the time the techniques used were top notch.
HBO Documentary
After spending yesterday doing this at the beach, (trying and not really succeeding) with my son, it reminded me of a record breaking video I saw years ago where this guy got 51 bounces! Well, here it is along with more from the experts at ProStoneSkipping.com.
Stone Skipping
Fancy watching Giant Coke Robot Vending Machines walk around Tokyo? Well you’re in luck as here are some pictures and some amazing homemade Godzilla style videos. "Vending Machine Metal!"
Coke Robots
A hole between New York and London... dug so that people on opposite sides of an ocean can interact through a 19th century telectroscope.
Telectroscope
A nice little video compilation of some classic Nike Ads from back in the day.
Classice Nike Ads
The creation process sounds painstaking, but it was worth it when you see Michael Wendel’s wonderful Splash Chair, a giant milk drop frozen in time.
Splash Chair
