http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFLucaq73zs
Aston Martin celebrates its centenary with a handmade, carbon fibre, split cockpit V12 concept roadster, based on the legendary 1956 DBR1.
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Category Archives: Design
Ballroom Luminoso – a series of six LED-lit chandeliers made from structural steel and ‘medallions’ recycled from bike sprockets. Designed by artists Joe O’Connell and Blessing Hancock, the chandeliers are currently installed, and lit by night, beneath an overpass in San Antonio, Texas. The artists say:
The medallions are a play on the iconography of La Loteria, which has become a touchstone of Hispanic culture. Utilizing traditional tropes like La Escalera (the Ladder), La Rosa (the Rose), and La Sandía (the Watermelon), the piece alludes to the neighborhood’s farming roots and horticultural achievements. Each character playfully rides a bike acting as a metaphor for the neighborhood’s environmental progress, its concurrent eco-restoration projects, and its developing cycling culture.
Bolton Street product design student Henry Daly writes:
I am trying to promote this project at the moment and hopefully get a job off the back of it some day. If you could post it on Broadsheet it would be great.
Say no more, Henry.
From the video description:
Exo is an electric off-road vehicle for recreational use on dirt, sand and gravel. The aim of the project is to merge man and machine providing a deeply immersive driving experience. The vehicle leans during cornering connecting body motion to vehicle motion and allows a higher maximum cornering speed. The birdcage frame is fabricated from Aluminium tubing. Power comes from a 10kW DC brushless motor run from a Lithium Ion Battery pack.
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Wade writes:
Was at Pubstandards geekmeet the last week, saw this lad’s
t-shirt. 10 out of 10 for initiative, definitely a glass-is-half-full approach, someone out there in cyber-tech land should “call this method” and give him a job based purely on his +ve attitude.
Absolutely. Yes.
We have no idea what any of this means.
Der Teekalander – created for tea traders Hälssen & Lyon by German agency Kolle Rebe – every day of the year featuring one of the company’s tea varieties compacted into a solid, dissolvable rectangle.
(Hat tip : Spaghetti Hoop)
Designer Cléon Daniel’s 4-pocket banana billiard table, created with the help of retired carpenter Julien Forder.
More details of the build project here.
A mini doc about infographics, Google Maps and the ubiquitous, ever-evolving data visualisations of the modern world by PBSoffbook, what sez:
Data has emerged as such a critical part of modern life that it has entered into the realm of art, where data-driven visual experiences challenge viewers to find personal meaning from a sea of information, a task that is increasingly present in every aspect of our information-infused lives.
The Sterling silver ‘Just a thimble full’ shot cup, one of many ‘exclusively sourced’ trinkets for sale on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website, goop.
The blurb reads:
This sterling shot cup has the phrase “Just a thimble full” engraved on it – a gentle reminder to practice a little bit of restraint.
The thimble costs $950.00.
The Mozayo Interactive MultiTouch is a touchscreen table with a 32in HD LCD screen – effectively a horizontal Dell quad core 2400 processor equipped with IR multitouch technology and a 3D world map.
We would mainly play Pac Man on it.
From the Tumblr 9 Film Frames, wherein films are summed up in grids of nine stills.
(Above: Bullit, Chinatown, Blue Velvet, Trainspotting, Metropolis and 2001: A Space Odyssey)