Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Meadow Fresh turns Auckland’s Britomart train station green
January 17th, 2010 | Arts, Design | Comment »Well this is a great idea. Meadow Fresh, a dairy producer in New Zealand, laid 1250 square meters of grass in Auckland's Britomart Station for a series of commercials they were shooting to advertise their new prebiotic milk. This is one of the ads that resulted: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmNp8aec0Y4[/youtube]Related posts: How The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ... Read more »
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The perfect home? Otter Cove Residence by Sagan Piechota Architecture
December 24th, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »OK. Sagan Piechota Architecture might be the best architecture firm in the world. It's fronted by Loring Sagan and Daniel Piechota and headquartered in San Francisco, and they're responsible for this gorgeous single family home, located in Carmel, California, and built in 2008. From a post over at ArchDaily: Private cliffside residence just ... Read more »
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From my brother: Archigasm
So much nicer than your house.
The Perfect House?
The perfect trailer?
The perfect answer to any question
The Alfa Romeo 8C Spider is pretty.
December 3rd, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »That's it. Nothing else to say. Just saw it in person and thought it was pretty. Enjoy its beauty quickly, then listen to what Hans Rosling has to say about HIV in the previous post. Related posts: Nash Edgerton’s short film, Spider, is pretty wonderful Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps looks pretty ... Read more »
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Pretty incredible: Nintendo optical illusion
From Kanye: A-cero’s Dominican Sto. Domingo house is pretty beautiful
TED Talks: Hans Rosling dispels myths about HIV
Studio Lindfors’ Aqualta – NYC and Tokyo after sea levels have risen
November 23rd, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »CNN.com has an article today that talks about the cost of rising sea levels: A possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $28 trillion worth of assets in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the insurance industry. ... Global ... Read more »
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From Kanye: A-cero’s Dominican Sto. Domingo house is pretty beautiful
November 21st, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »Kanye West posted about the Sto. Domingo house in the Dominican Republic, designed by Spain-based architecture studio A-cero's Joaquin Torres and Rafael Llamazares. Strangely, the thing I think I like the most about this house is the sunken sitting area in the back. [gallery orderby="title"]Related posts: House with a view Tangga House by Guz Architects Triangulo ... Read more »
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From Kanye: Highways of the future
November 9th, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »From a post on Kanye West's blog: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA[/youtube]Related posts: King Kanye From my brother via Kanye: MC Hammer 1, Hipsters 0 Runaway, a short film by Kanye West Read more »
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Argh. I want this house.
November 4th, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »From an article in the New York Times: When they saw an advertisement for the old water-pumping station in a Berlin suburb, a working-class area called Neukölln, the pair’s creative antennae began to twitch. The former pumping station, surrounded by fully grown chestnut trees and flanked by apartment buildings on a ... Read more »
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Interesting angle.
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Lego, meet the intertubes.
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From my brother: The Shard
August 29th, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »It's an awful, awful name, but it's an amazing design. And what sets it apart from other amazing designs is that they're actually building this. It's not just a pretty idea. Pretty crazy. The building, designed by ol' Renzo Piano, is going to be the tallest building in Western Europe (1016 ... Read more »
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My own horn: tooted.
From my brother: Lin-Manuel Miranda at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word
Say it ain’t so: a third bridge
Lego, meet the intertubes.
Interesting angle.
The Perfect House?
August 23rd, 2009 | Arts, Design | Comment »The Gama Issa House by Marcio Kogan, built in 2001 and located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At least seven kinds of beautiful. Related posts: Tangga House by Guz Architects The perfect home? Otter Cove Residence by Sagan Piechota Architecture House with a view Read more »
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From Kanye: A-cero’s Dominican Sto. Domingo house is pretty beautiful
So much nicer than your house.