chaspirateur

endless forest

2010-07-05T14:57:00.003+02:00

it has been along time since i saw something on the web that made me look twice
have a in-depth look at webecoist

eco

2010-04-05T15:50:00.002+02:00

before the internet

2009-11-04T15:40:00.001+01:00

by lee crutchley, a freelance graphic designer who jots down wonderful, simple drawings and text in the pages of a moleskine. a single drawing on each page includes either a reference to popular culture, a quotation, or a saying.
via deignmilk

arial vs helvetica

2009-09-24T11:43:00.000+02:00

via swissmiss

window to our digital world

2009-09-09T09:17:00.002+02:00

as seen at the dallas cowboys stadium giant screen...
via gizmodo

digital distractions

2009-09-09T09:13:00.000+02:00

by David McCandless
thank you Ina

design for life!

2009-09-03T11:38:00.001+02:00

by Jasper Morrison
via:designboom

makoto yabuki

2009-07-17T12:54:00.001+02:00

White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo.

no words.....

2009-07-17T09:58:00.003+02:00

it has been a long time since my last post...
this ingenius clock got me going again
via core77

handy gloves

2009-01-27T17:46:00.003+01:00

packing centimeter and angle measurements along with a few cute grids that we're fairly certain are just for grids' sake, the only flaw with the measurement gloves is that they're fabricated from stretchy knit that will skew your data
via gizmodo

smart bolts

2008-12-08T10:51:00.002+01:00

SmartBolts, designed for industrial and medical applications, feature a simple color-coded indicator on their tops: if they're red, the bolt is loose. if they're green, nice job, everything's locked down. if they're black, you may over-tightened things a bit.

via gizmodo

walking assist device

2008-11-11T16:29:00.003+01:00

the strange looking gadget is designed to support the user’s body weight, reducing
the weight load on their legs. the machine consists of a seat, frame and shoes. the user simply moves as normal and the machine reduces the load on their knees and ankles. the unit weighs 6.5kg and has two battery powered motors which will last for 2 hours of use. honda has already begun testing the device at one of its factory’s.
via designboom

geard cube

2008-11-11T13:18:00.001+01:00

fly away

2008-11-10T17:56:00.001+01:00

world map of the 21st century
air-lines

as real as it gets

2008-11-10T17:53:00.002+01:00

take a look at the making-of it is amazing
via swissmiss

lilliputians...

2008-10-08T10:52:00.001+02:00

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Tilt-shift lenses sit off-center of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely limited depth of field, giving the effect of a macro shot of a tiny scene. When the effect is matched with the surreal speed boost of many stills strung together into a time-lapse movie (here by Keith Loutit), we get the other-worldly privilege of seeing real Australian beach goers as an elaborate Playmobil scape
Via gizmodo

green design festival

2008-09-17T11:41:00.013+02:00

images from the varius exhibitions of the Green Design Festival

the festival library designed by sotiris papadopoulos

the mayor of Athens with photography curator anne-laure oberson

the mayor of athens looking at the exhibits of thanassis babalis

looking at the interactive exhibits I designed and made with pieces from used samsung cell phones

fasion exhibits

'take two' photography exhibition

bags from umbrellas by anna psaroudaki

lights from take-away packaging by giannis toubakaris

broom from magazines by george zervakis

green design festival

2008-09-04T09:19:00.002+02:00

Green Design Festival is an original, public, free cultural event under the aegis of the City of Athens. It aims at fostering a wider understanding about environmental and ecological issues amongst the citizens of Athens and beyond.

Using new technologies, powerful imagery and design, this festival will transform Athens into a lively, interactive space which will present proposals and ideas about how everyday life could be greener and more friendly to the environment.

Participants include over 70 architects, industrial designers, graphic designers, fashion and street artists, who have worked on the theme of the festival on projects who embrace the non-connoisseur.

ultra compact

2008-07-28T10:03:00.003+02:00

Built for the families teenager, the 12 sqm. house has four split-levels and is an exercise in extreme storage solutions.
completed by H2O Architects in France, June 2007

via core77

simplicity

2008-07-13T12:49:00.003+02:00

simply beautifull
round clock for lexon by anthony dickens

BMW kinet sculpture

2008-07-06T11:32:00.001+02:00

very poetic mix of art and technology (best turn the music off...)

childish fun

2008-05-16T10:14:00.003+02:00

The Ringshot is a change from your regular slingshots, as this one is worn on your hand with a durable rubber band attached to the metal piece. It won't be easy to miss your target now, unless the "bullets" that you use are of inferior quality. Unfortunately, most kids these days prefer to settle their rivalry online by spamming hate messages on one another's blogs instead of slugging it out like a man in the classroom with discreet projectiles under the teacher's nose.

via ubergizmo

cheeky laptop case

2008-05-16T10:09:00.000+02:00

mydocument laptop case is charmingly iconic
via gizmodo

What is Graphic design poster competition

2008-05-15T17:45:00.000+02:00

winners of the What is Graphic design poster competition, 12th prize

stnclrvltn

2008-05-02T15:23:00.001+02:00

2008-04-30T16:37:00.001+02:00

by Atmostheory

begdesign

2008-04-10T18:13:00.001+02:00

lack of inspiration?

2008-02-12T09:40:00.001+01:00

the 2008 Plagiarius awards have been announced.
what can we as designer do to stop manufactures from unlawfully appropriating our work?
how can we make ethics a major parameter in a capitalistic global society?

via: plagiarius

2008-02-11T09:37:00.000+01:00

British artist Alison Jackson talks about her provocative explorations of celebrity culture. Funny and sometimes shocking, Jackson's work contains some graphic images.

via: ted

super virus/super computer

2008-02-11T09:28:00.000+01:00

The Storm Worm Botnet currently infects between one and ten million computers worldwide, which means that it has access to a huge amount of processing power and somewhere between 1 and 10 petabytes of RAM. This apparently makes it one of the most powerful computers in the world, with more computing power than the ten fastest supercomputers in the world combined.

These interesting but admittedly vague and flaky estimates come from computer scientist Peter Gutman. Although you can pick at the numbers quite easily, the guy makes a very interesting point. While projects like Seti@Home can harness a lot of computing power, a virus or worm that doesn't need to ask permission from a user could conceivably be vastly more powerful. Imagine the potential if virus writers found more interesting things to do with those cycles than send spam.

Will the first person to find extraterrestrial signals be an amateur hacker, rather than Seti? Could complex protein folding solutions be found by bored crackers? And would the benevolent act of finding a cure for a genetic illness outweigh the malevolent act of creating the worm that rounded up the processing cycles needed to do it?

via: uber review

kai cars

2008-02-08T11:23:00.001+01:00

i love these small japanese cars. when in japan last november i was so impressed by their design and ergonomics. tall westerners fitted easily and the cars zipped through trafic. parking space was no problem either. i really can not understand why they are not imported in europe where our only choice is the over expensive smart.
via: design-engine

the ones we love

2008-02-08T11:00:00.001+01:00

"the Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. the goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines." the ones we love

out of site, out of mind?

2008-02-07T19:36:00.001+01:00

It's not exactly a Leif-Ericson-class discovery in terms of positivity, but it's important nonetheless. Oceanographer Charles Moore was on the high seas between Hawaii and the US mainland when he drifted into the "'North Pacific gyre'--a vortex where the ocean circulates slowly because of little wind and extreme high pressure systems. Usually sailors avoid it. What he found was revolting:

He was astonished to find himself surrounded by rubbish, day after day, thousands of miles from land. "Every time I came on deck, there was trash floating by," he said in an interview. "How could we have fouled such a huge area? How could this go on for a week?"

This "garbage continent" is apparently twice the size of the US landmass, and was formed from garbage both shipborne and dumped from land. Even worse, it's more malevolent than just a bunch of floating rubbish--it's decomposing into a kind of toxic soup, and it's due to double in size over the next decade. Read the unbelievable tale here.

mobile future

2008-01-25T16:32:00.000+01:00

since the launch of the iphone,more and more very interesting concepts on mobile phones start to appear. we need to see though more concepts on the form and not only on the interface of future hand-helds.

underwater

2008-01-25T11:16:00.001+01:00

a photo by Sanaa showing a family that appear to be underwater.
the effect is created by having a glass bottom pool on top of the pool itself.
via oobject

lens manufacturing

2008-01-25T11:12:00.000+01:00

a very cool and educative video on how lenses are made
via youtube

2008-01-25T10:44:00.001+01:00

Pioneer Greek designers and members of the international elite design group AGI (Alliance Graphique International) Agni and Michalis Katzourakis and Freddy Carabott launch their first design exhibition showcasing a spectacular range of graphic design work done between the late 50s and the early 70s.

Their pioneering and modernist designs have been grabbing international attention and gaining worldwide recognition for the past 40 years.

This retrospective exhibition is the first of its kind in Greece and an important design event worldwide.

benaki museum

inspired by a great master

2008-01-17T17:14:00.000+01:00

according to Dieter Rams:
• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.

Gizmodo has a great article about how the designers of apple are inspired by the work of Dieter Rams for Braun.

isabele allende

2008-01-16T18:03:00.000+01:00

a very inspiring talk!!!

manufacturing processes

2008-01-16T10:14:00.000+01:00

this is a great book for all designers
it describes concisely all manufacturing processes to refresh your memory, it could also be an ideal reference for design students

macbookair

2008-01-16T10:09:00.001+01:00

i am sure you have seen it everywhere by now but i couldn't resist posting this picture.
to be honest i find it very expensive and under-specked but it is gorgeous and a fine example of how laptops could and should look like.
for more visit apple

guerilla gardening

2008-01-11T10:44:00.000+01:00

lets follow the example of the Japanese and lets become green anarchist's.
we have to take action and change our urban environment, it is a great area for designers to come up with ideas that we can all implement.
see more on PingMag

is that the future of laptops?

2008-01-10T10:07:00.000+01:00

I don't know how real this video of the next macbook is, but it was well overdue to see some real innovative solutions. laptop computers are widely used not only by professionals any more, design wise though they have not changed since they first appeared. lets hope this is the manufacturers will take giving designers the platform for further innovation.

heat sensitive coffee mug, it could be much better

2008-01-02T05:07:00.001+01:00

"At plain sight it is a standard black mug as they come a dime a dozen and in big white letters it say OFF. Nothing fancy, but once you add the hot beverage of your choice, the mug changes color and is turning white and in big black letters it states: ON" via betterlivingthroughdesign

more and more we will be seeing the application of smart materials in everyday objects, it is our responsibility though to design in such a way as not to make novelty or ''gadgety'' items but products that serve the task for which they have been designed.

lets see if we can do better, send me your solutions on how you would incorporate heat sensitive pigments on a coffee mug, I will post the most innovative ideas and try to produce the best on through begdesign

empire of the senseless partII

2008-01-02T04:47:00.000+01:00

a magnificent piece by iranian Natascha Sadr Haghighian on show at moma

osx tablet

2008-01-02T04:40:00.000+01:00

the long-awaited Modbook is finally shipping. First unveiled nearly a year ago at Macworld 2007, the MacBook-based, Wacom-modified Modbook has definitely seen its share of delays, although in the days and months since, the 13.3-inch slate has gained the distinction of being one of the few pieces of non-Cupertino, Apple-approved hardware.
via engadget

happy New Year

2008-01-02T04:32:00.000+01:00

happy New Year everybody from a cold and beautyfull New York, may it be creative and inspirational

seventy-nine short essays on design

2007-12-26T11:16:00.000+01:00

this book by Michael Bierut is a collection of his writings for a blog called Besign Observer, it is an amazing read with very inspirational content, each essay uses a deferent font chosen to compliment the content of the essay.

underground map of the world

2007-12-25T18:52:00.000+01:00

how would our world be if we could actually go anywhere?
a beautyfull map of the world showing all city's that have or currently developing an urban transport system, based on the iconic map of the london underground.

controled nature?

2007-12-25T14:04:00.000+01:00

remember the scene with the floating plastic bag at American Beauty?
this mesmerizing installation was part of a great exhibition on Nature and Design at the Museum Fur Gestaltung in Zurich

hello everybody

2007-12-25T13:21:00.000+01:00

after years of spending too much time on the web, I thought of putting all this surfing in to use. so as of today everything I pick up from the web or any other source of inspiration I will share it with you. I hope this 'spam' will be an inspiration to you too.