Swimming Cities – a half art project, half utopian experiment by street artist Swoon (aka Caledonia “Callie” Curry) – is a wonderful, ramshackle flotilla of ‘hoboboat’ rafts made from recycled materials that floated down various US canals and rivers (including the Mississippi and Hudson), stopping off to gather building materials, play music and generally freak out squares along the way.
Category Archives: Design
Everything But The Manual is a LEGO/Meccano-esque DIY furniture concept from designer David Graas: 177 identical oak blocks that can be bolted together to form a variety of useful or decorative shapes.
There’s a video showing construction of several configurations here.
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Atticus writes [via BS app]:
Bought a shaving mirror in Ikea, didn’t realise they could be so dangerous!
https://vimeo.com/70921986
An ongoing attempt to see how fast a bike can go by bike maker Tom Donhou, filmed by Spindle Productions what sez:
Experiments in speed. Inspired by those great men of the salt flats, those men that in the 60s pushed the Land Speed Record from the 300s up towards the 600mph mark in jet-propelled cars built in their sheds. We decided to do what we do: build a bicycle, but this time, in the spirit of those pioneers of speed, build it to see how fast we could go…
Now that…is a chainring.
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Every year since 2000, London’s Sepentine Gallery has invited a leading architect or artist to create a temporary structure on its front lawn. Last year, it was Ai Weiwei. In 2008, Frank Gehry had a go.
This year, it’s the turn of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, who created a 350 square meter lattice of steel poles, illuminated by LED lights installed by London-based United Visual Artists, which are designed (along with suitable sound effects) to mimic an electrical storm.
A guide to making your very own authentically banal, Pabst style ‘seal of approval’ logo by graphic designer Tim Delger.
Ian Cairns writes [via BS app}:
Small font and bad 48 sheet application = Recipe for disaster.
Nonsense. It’s quite clearly an ad for Diet Sprite.
The tent-spawning Walking Shelter: designed by Sibling, a collective of Melbourne architects, what sez:
The Walking-Shelter is a human shelter stored within a pair of sneakers. Stored compactly in integrated net pockets within the shoe, the shelter expands out and around the body to form an enclosure that relies on the human frame as a supporting structure. The shelter accommodates for the body in a variety of ways and can be customised by the user to adapt to a variety of contexts and environments.
We feel we’re being sold a pup tent here.
We’ll take three.
Previously: The Action Film Alphabet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAOZqxoyLMQ#at=21
LA-based comedy magician Eric Buss demonstrates his satisfying and want-inducing combination bubble wrap dispenser and popper.
Yes, it does need a fatter wheel.