Architect Zaha Hadid (you’ll recall her floating office block in Dubai) has partnered with Hamburg luxury shipbuilders Blohm + Voss to create a ‘family’ of five 90m sinuous, ocean going, customisable yachts based on a 128m exoskeletal concept prototype (top two pix).
It’s called ‘project jazz’.
Nice.
Irish graphic designer and illustrator (she of Megan’s Movie Alphabet) Meg Hyland’s contribution to LA Gallery 1988’s Crazy 4 Cult: Say Hi to the Bad Guy show opening next week. Meg sez:
My piece is called ‘CRAZY 4 GARY’ and is a set of four of Gary Oldman’s greatest screen villains. Zorg from Fifth Element – titled ‘My Favourite’, Stansfield from Léon – titled ‘EVERYONE!!!’, Drexel the Pimp from True Romance – titled ‘I Know I’m Pretty’ and Dracula from Bram Stoker’s Dracula – titled ‘A Man of Good Taste’.
In related illustrative news, don’t forget tonight’s Illustrators Ireland exhibition at the Copper House Gallery in Dublin.
‘Screw You’ launched at Dutch Design Week 2013 is a series of 3D printed shapes that allow PET bottles to be screwed into place, creating new functional and/or decorative designs.
The Layers series (founded by Haarlem-based Studio David Graas) includes six designs ranging from €29 to €269.
The ‘vase-maker’ above is €129, excluding bottles and flowers. Superb value, you’ll no doubt agree.
Using a clever pulley system and counterweight, Ethan Schlussler has converted an old bicycle into a lift that allows him to pedal his way over 9 meters up to his treehouse.
Yes. He also has a treehouse.
Finally.
Mark Sugrue writes:
This is a really great idea for parents who want a quiet cuppa. It’s ‘Dublin’s first Rotating Venue Play Cafe’. Basically, Coffee for the parents/toys for the kids.Visit & catch your breath.
Home furnishing site Elite Fixtures generate a nifty bit of online PR by enhancing comic book covers with, well, lamps.
The IZZYbike prototype.
Cyclings’s next great evolutionary leap, or mutant velocipede?
You be the judge.
Related: Evolution Of The Dandy-Horse
(H/T: Captain Redbeard)
Porcelain Grammar Grumble Mugs from the Literary Gift Company (£40 for the set of six)
Above: the full mouth toothbrush, automatic back hair remover and grooming kit, nighttime shades with dip beams, hovering grocery assistant and three-wheeled foot propelled bristle sweeper.
All ‘invented’ by German photographer Patrick Strattner.
Guy’s a genius.
