…this is.
An extraordinary device created by John S. Holler in Germany around 1880 – ten years before the first ever Swiss Army knife.
100 accessories include blades, shears, scissors, an auger, a corkscrew, saws, a lancet, button hook, cigar cutter, pens and pencils, mirror, straight razor, piano tuning tool, a concealed compartment filled with miniature tools and a fully functioning .22 caliber five-shot pinfire revolver.
Coffee paraphernalia from around the globe – part of a larger infographic by Spanish design company Hey Studio and Mansel Fletcher of the fashion site Mr. Porter.
We’re not there because we’re all about the tay.
The Medusae Collection: a series of four rather handsome meter-tall mylar pendant lamps modeled on freshwater jellies by Californian design house Roxy Russell.
They don’t sting.
Unless you consider €275 to €330 per lampshade (plus shipping) a sting.
The Elemment Palazzo Land Yacht (yours for a mere €2.2 million) is 13.7 meters of luxurious ostentation with a motorised upper deck sky lounge bar, heated floors, a fully fitted kitchen and master ensuite with rainfall shower.
We’d park ours down the Bray seafront and eat chips on the roof.
(H/T: John Gallen)
Pyramid House: a ‘visualisation’ for a recent architectural competition by Mexican architect and 3D artist Juan Carlos Ramos. The multi-level interior features a library, balcony, garage, two bedrooms, and recording studio with one entire facet of the pyramid glazed – or since we’re in the realm of conceptual architecture here – sealed with a triangular force field.
An exhaustively researched (currently in its fifth iteration with future updates including Dune and Mass Effect planned) fictional spaceship size comparison chart by German digital artist Dirk Loechel featuring craft of all descriptions from Star Wars, Warhammer, Babylon5, Star Trek, Wall-E, Serenity, Farscape, Silent Running, Independence Day, AvP, Battlestar Galactica and dozens more.
Link to gob-smackingly massive version here.
UPDATE: Still not sufficiently sated by the rocket-scaling above? Check out Jeff Russel’s Starship Dimensions – an entire site dedicated to this sort of thing.
io9 (H/T: JCDSR)
Spotted in Tyrrelstown, Dublin.
(Thanks Ciaran)
Using ballpoint pens, Jonathan Bréchignac makes large scale drawings of intricately designed Muslim prayer mats. Each one takes about eight months to complete, and Bréchignac believes them to be:
…a “noble” subject for a series of large illustrations meant, by their very nature, to be meditative. “Repeating the same pattern over and over again works for me like a mantra,” he says. “It’s my technique of meditation. It’s how I empty my mind.”
Travel Boy (€52) is lightweight carry-on luggage inspired by the Nintendo Gameboy and the notion that ‘packing is sometimes like Tetris’.
