An ingeniously designed 16th century devotional text printed in Germany and currently housed at the National Library of Sweden – an example of sixfold dos-à-dos binding whereby six books are conjoined in one, designed to be read separately by opening each of six metal clasps.
Category Archives: Design
The UFOgel is a shingle-clad wooden holiday home designed by Urlaubs Architektur. balanced next to a farmhouse at Nussdorf near Lienz in Vienna.
Irregularly shaped , immaculately finished down to the last seam, and raised off the ground by skinny steel struts, it commands spectacular views of the Alps and is designed to accommodate up to eight people.
Not the Addams family lawyers but, rather, new movie quote prints (US-shipped only, dammit) from illustrator Chet Phillips: Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein and Office Space.
Previously: Sheldon Everett, Dread Pirate Roberts And Malcolm
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Bento boxes by food artist Gamene, who used to make these to cheer herself up during a previous career as a lawyer, during which time she photographed hundreds of her squeeful creations.
Neck spec by Real Men Real Style.
Behold the Airbus A300-600ST ‘Beluga’ – a cargo aircraft with over 1200 cubic meters of space and a carrying weight of 42 tonnes.
Not the biggest but easily the whaleiest.
For bookings call 1800-AHAB.
Airbus Beluga: Inside The World’s Strangest Looking Plane (CNN)
(All pix via CNN)
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Aquasaurus by Indian artist Jitish Kallat – one of many vehicle/fossil ‘bone sculptures’ that Kallat describes as ‘grotesque, burlesque and arabesque’.
Currently on show at Art Stage Singapore.
Around 20 years ago, a government housing expo in the Gangnam district of Seoul in South Korea featured a town designed by leading local architects.
As well as making maximum use of the limited available footprint, this house – Ga On Jai – built by Iroje Khm Architects neatly encapsulates four distinctive Korean techniques of Korean architecture: Ru (internal support with one facade left open); Madang (the inner court); Cheoma (cantilevered roof) and Doldam (stone masonry wall).
