Cuckoo clocks imagined as Erno Goldfinger and Marcel Breuer brutalist buildings by German artist Guido Zimmermann.
Category Archives: Design
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A grimy 1961 Land Rover Series IIA inexplicably ‘slammed to the floor’ by Partridge Design with lowered suspension, wide tires, a rebuilt engine and WW2 aircraft style seats.
The Peter Dinklage of off-road vehicles.
Only not charming or good-looking.
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The Royal Enfield WD/RE (aka the ‘Flying Flea’) saw action during WW2 when it was designed to be dropped behind enemy lines via glider.
This is the Pegasus 500 Classic – a remake by the original manufacture which ups the engine capacity from 125cc to a 499cc parallel twin motor.
1000 replicas (complete with 1940s style canvas saddlebags) will go on sale later this year available in ‘Service Brown’ or ‘Olive Drab Green’
36 Days Of Type is a project that invites designers and graphic artists to put their own spin on letters and numbers. Designer Ben Huynh compiled his submissions into a short film.
Other submissions can be seen here.
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The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 that appeared in the opening scenes of Goldeneye comes up for auction next month.
No performance supercar, certainly, but presented in excellent condition and still capable of 150mph, it’s expected to sell for between €1.37 and €1.83 million.
UPDATE: It fetched €2.33 million in the end.
Paperback Paradise – wherein the awkwardly staged covers of coming of age books for young American adults are mercilessly retitled.
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Behold: the Ferrari SP38 sports car – a one-off custom creation from Maranello based on the 488GTB and inspired by the F40.
All the twin turbo, twin intercooler, V8 rortiness of its progenitor but with bespoke, nipped and tucked, rolled and rounded, quite possibly sensuously massaged bodywork.
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Ice pops fashioned from resin studded with hundreds of thousands of multi-coloured Swarovski crystals by Chicago based artist David Jacob.
Jacob’s work is currently on display at the Nonfinito Gallery in New York, if you’re passing.
More here.
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A 1955 Jaguar XK140 Fixed Head Coupe once owned by Jaguar Works racing driver Duncan Hamiliton.
Price on application.
