A pre-festival ‘best-of’ CGI teaser for the computer graphics and interactive tech conference SIGGRAPH 2013 which opens this weekend in in Anaheim, California.
Song: Disintegration by Monarchy
Category Archives: Design
Weeble Table
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The Float Table – a matrix of wooden cubes containing mutually repulsive magnets held together with tensile steel cables.
It wobbles, but it won’t fall down.
Book On Book
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The Book On Book (¥5880/€45) is an acrylic paperweight for those who like to read hands-free or, you know, al-fresco in a light breeze.
Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal is the annual celebration of ‘a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials).’
On view at the Montréal Botanical Garden until late September, the exhibition features 22,000 plant species in ten greenhouses and thirty themed gardens
Huge photoset here.
(Pix: Guy Boily)
Nope. Still awful.
Graphic designer Samantha Kemplen imagines the Houses of Westeros as a series of modern corporate identities.
New York comedy team The Bilderbergers opening salvo in their Thingstarter’ Kickstarter parody series with a patented solution to the perennial ‘wet penny’, among other things.
A furtive browse through nearly a century of fetishistic runner-candy – from the wanton 1917 Chuck Taylor Converse All Star to the shameless 2013 Nike Kobe 8.
Available as a 60cm x 90cm framed print from Pop Chart Labs.
Now go have a shower.
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According to Melbourne restauranteur Paul Mathis, the word ‘the’ should be interchangeable with the new symbol “Ћ” (just as ‘and’ is represented by ‘&’) not only because the most used word in the English language deserves its own symbol, but also, slightly more tenuously, to make texting and typing faster.
He’s already invested AUS$75,000 in a mobile app to help make it happen.