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Vancouver 2010 - Doubt many of us would be aware of this sporting event but whenever there is such an event, I see opportunities for design. This year for the Winter Olympics, the medals are pretty interesting. Featuring artwork by Corrine Hunt and Omer Arbel, the medals were cast from metals recovered from discarded computer motherboards. Sustainable. Why not. Click here for …
Microsoft Excel - I have always thought that Excel is meant for spreadsheets and accounting purposes. This drawing of a GAT-X105 Strike Gundam using Microsoft Excel is really amazing. Using Excel like you are using Illustrator. Cool.
Jamie Oliver - Celebrity chef talks about diet problems like obesity from modern food products. It is a definite problem if we ignore it. Think about what you eat today and wonder if what he says is worth believing. Insightful and thought-provoking.
Synopsis - World famous film director Guido Contini reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, an American fashion journalist, the whore from his youth and his mother. Review - The story is pretty intensive so is the …
Ron Arad - Take a sneak peak at this unique Israeli-born designer's studio.
Rainbow Church - A glass window made of 500 crystal prisms. The eight metre-high installation will create rainbows within the space as light is refracted. Inspired by a trip to the Chapelle du Rosaire, which Henri Matisse, a French painter, created in his last years, Tokujin embraced the beauty of the light that the chapel created. A space filled with the light of Matisse. An …
2010 Pirelli Calendar - You got to love him or hate him. Terry Richardson with this awesome video on the making of The Pirelli Calendar 2010. I wouldn't mind doing his job and boy am I jealous of those animals in Brazil.
Digital Analogue - A short film with stop motion animation with over six thousand still photo shots. A composition of music made entirely from sounds recorded from a collection of antique cameras.
Pentagon System - Table and stools. The properties of a three-dimensional pentagon is so inspiring for Israeli designer Itamar Burstein that he uses it to create furniture pieces. The entire structure relies on five identical elements fitting into one another. Made from solid wood and assembled through dry interlocking. The stool is free standing and the table has a plateau …
Zen1080 - Children's furniture that follow one from childhood to adulthood. Using the principle of 'Jenga' to the furniture, users can adjust the composition at will. A seat for a toddler, a bigger chair for a kid and a multitude of helpful bits for life. Made of birch plywood and stainless steel structure. Click here for more info.
Synopsis - Ryan Bingham, is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. Review - What a movie. Love it for being real. A story behind a story. Clooney is excellent (I'm slowly becoming a fan of his except …
P1 and P2 - Sustainable design research. Inspired by buildings across Asia that use bamboo scaffolding for its properties of strength, flexibility and durability. Identifies ways of using everyday materials to produce a chair that is accessible, comfortable and environmentally friendly. Made from bamboo, concrete and plantation timber, the strength of each chair is provided …



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