Because life's too short to wait for the kettle to boil.
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Monday, November 22, 2010
Magic Water
The new Billi B-5000 is amazing. It's a tap that gives you instant boiling or chilled water. And other than being super convenient, it's super well designed. It actually looks like a tap (a nice tap) and not some kind of retro space station. It's got the smallest footprint of any boiled/chilled tap available. It also saves you power and money, there is a handy little calculator on the Billi website which shows you exactly how much you're saving.
Because life's too short to wait for the kettle to boil.
Because life's too short to wait for the kettle to boil.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Winning Windows
The Black Pearl House in Rotterdam South was designed by Studio Rolf.fr and Zecc Architects.
The over 100 year old house was totally gutted and redesigned internally, whilst the facade was painted entirely black and new box windows were inserted.
The new windows placed randomly on the facade, overlapping the blacked out existing windows create an amazing illusion of missing puzzle pieces, as though holes have been cut into your view.
So clever.
The over 100 year old house was totally gutted and redesigned internally, whilst the facade was painted entirely black and new box windows were inserted.
The new windows placed randomly on the facade, overlapping the blacked out existing windows create an amazing illusion of missing puzzle pieces, as though holes have been cut into your view.
So clever.
Switch
Rafael Morgan Industrial Design has created rotative light switch designs that graphically represent energy waste using common positive/negative symbols.
I think these are super clever in that they encourage you to actually think about the power you're using each time you flip the switch, and are still a great, aesthetically pleasing design.
Rafael Morgan has heaps of other great products and ideas on his website, from lighting to furniture and other fun objects.
I think these are super clever in that they encourage you to actually think about the power you're using each time you flip the switch, and are still a great, aesthetically pleasing design.
Rafael Morgan has heaps of other great products and ideas on his website, from lighting to furniture and other fun objects.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Lovers
Check out my other blog, This is For Lovers, which is filled with the work I have done in art and in the last 2 years of RMIT Visual Merchandising.
I finish next week!!
I finish next week!!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Pile of Houses
Vitra Haus.
The new home to Vitra's furniture collection is literally a pile of houses. The building reaches five stories high and contains twelve separate houses.
Vitra Haus is designed by Herzog and de Meuron, best known for designing the Beijing Olympics 'Bird's Nest'.
The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, comprises of many stunning pieces of architecture designed by some of the world's best designers.
I love how the Vita Haus building plays with scale, it's hard to imagine how big or small it is from the outside images. I also like how each individual 'house' looks so conventional, even pre-fab, and yet the overall building looks anything but. The gray exterior makes the all white interiors and beautiful interior light really pop through the large windows.
The new home to Vitra's furniture collection is literally a pile of houses. The building reaches five stories high and contains twelve separate houses.
Vitra Haus is designed by Herzog and de Meuron, best known for designing the Beijing Olympics 'Bird's Nest'.
The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, comprises of many stunning pieces of architecture designed by some of the world's best designers.
I love how the Vita Haus building plays with scale, it's hard to imagine how big or small it is from the outside images. I also like how each individual 'house' looks so conventional, even pre-fab, and yet the overall building looks anything but. The gray exterior makes the all white interiors and beautiful interior light really pop through the large windows.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Rest In Peace
In loving memory of my, now, long lost appendix, which departed my body on Wednesday 6th October 2010 after rupturing itself silly.
A super cool magazine called Appendix, which is available for download from their site. Their site also has a blog full of art, fashion and design goodness, as well as a shop full of hand chosen, vintage garments.
A sample of the kind of thing Appendix offers:
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The Cure for Ugly Branding
Have you ever wanted your medication and remedies in a stylish little box covered in minimalist yet brilliant branding? No? Well you can get it now anyway.
Help has designed some fantastic packaging to go around some supposedly fantastic remedies (I've not tried them so I really can't comment).
The idea?
From the website, 'Help Remedies was created to make solving simple health issues simple. We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.'
And the packaging doesn't just look good. It's environmentally friendly, mostly made out of corn in fact.
Help's website is great too, it is informative and easy to read and actually quite funny (think Nudie juice or Vitamin Water), it even has a section for when you're bored where you can create and buy your own help t-shirt, solve other people's problems and let Help solve your random, non-medical problems.
You can buy packs online for US$4or six packs fr US$20. That said, the shipping is US$14.55 if you live in Australia, making the whole thing not so worth while. Hopefully Help products will be available here soon.
Help has designed some fantastic packaging to go around some supposedly fantastic remedies (I've not tried them so I really can't comment).
The idea?
From the website, 'Help Remedies was created to make solving simple health issues simple. We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.'
And the packaging doesn't just look good. It's environmentally friendly, mostly made out of corn in fact.
Help's website is great too, it is informative and easy to read and actually quite funny (think Nudie juice or Vitamin Water), it even has a section for when you're bored where you can create and buy your own help t-shirt, solve other people's problems and let Help solve your random, non-medical problems.
You can buy packs online for US$4or six packs fr US$20. That said, the shipping is US$14.55 if you live in Australia, making the whole thing not so worth while. Hopefully Help products will be available here soon.
Pinnacle of Design
The Montara by for Meritalia.
The two sides of the sofa are separate entities that can be used as individual chairs or fit snuggly together to make a two seater sofa.
WOW.
The Montara and many more mind blowing things are available via the Meritalia website.
The two sides of the sofa are separate entities that can be used as individual chairs or fit snuggly together to make a two seater sofa.
WOW.
The Montara and many more mind blowing things are available via the Meritalia website.Monday, September 20, 2010
Hey Hayon!
Jaime Hayon, of Hayon Studio, is a Spanish designer, and one of my favorites. His works spans from product design to exhibition spaces and interiors. A lot of his work is a sleek contemporary take on Louis XVI style and uses bold, block colors.
If you complied all his interiors you'd end up with a rough idea of what my hypothetical dream house will look like.
If you complied all his interiors you'd end up with a rough idea of what my hypothetical dream house will look like.
La Terraza del Casino (Madrid)
Octium Jewelry (Kuwait)
Faberge Salon (Switzerland)
Swarovski Sparkle Shady
Faberge Salon (Switzerland)
One of my favorite pieces by Hayon is Swarovski Sparkle Shady, a flexible, versatile light feature with a skin encrusted with Swarovski crystals, allowing it to sparkle and shine even when not lit.
Swarovski Sparkle Shady
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Sensing Nature
Designer, Tokujin Yoshoika's, latest fine art piece 'Snow' is currently part of the Sensing Nature exhibition at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. The piece is absolutely beautiful. I wish i could see it in person.
But Snow is no fluke, Tokujin Yoshioka can hardly put a foot wrong when it comes to design.
Snow
But Snow is no fluke, Tokujin Yoshioka can hardly put a foot wrong when it comes to design.
Designer of The Year Exhibition for Miami Design
Martini Glass for Bombay Sapphire
Visual Merchandising for Hermes
(The face video is played on a loop and timed perfectly to interact with the scarf, being blown by a fan.)
(The face video is played on a loop and timed perfectly to interact with the scarf, being blown by a fan.)
Tokujin Yoshioka's site: http://www.tokujin.com/en/
" ! " Moments.
Nendo is a design company with offices in Milan and Tokyo. They dabble is everything from interior design and architecture to visual merchandising, from fine art to product and graphic design. Everything they do is simply amazing.
I love their concept statement:
"Giving people a small " ! " moment.
There are so many small " ! " moments hidden in our everyday.
But we don’t recognize them.
and even when we do recognize them,we tend to unconsciously reset our
minds and forget what we’ve seen.
But we believe these small " ! " moments are what make our days so
interesting, so rich.
That’s why we want to reconstitute the everyday by collecting and
reshaping them into something that’s easy to understand.
We’d like the people who’ve encountered Nendo’s designs to feel these
small " ! " moments intuitively.
That’s nendo’s job."
It so perfectly sums them up.
Here are some of my favorite things they've done
I love their concept statement:
"Giving people a small " ! " moment.
There are so many small " ! " moments hidden in our everyday.
But we don’t recognize them.
and even when we do recognize them,we tend to unconsciously reset our
minds and forget what we’ve seen.
But we believe these small " ! " moments are what make our days so
interesting, so rich.
That’s why we want to reconstitute the everyday by collecting and
reshaping them into something that’s easy to understand.
We’d like the people who’ve encountered Nendo’s designs to feel these
small " ! " moments intuitively.
That’s nendo’s job."
It so perfectly sums them up.
Here are some of my favorite things they've done
Meguro Office, Tokyo
MD.Net Mental Health Clinic, Tokyo
MD.Net Mental Health Clinic, Tokyo
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