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Archive for March, 2008

The Armory Show 2008

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: New York's Pier 94 drew massive crowds for the , one of the worlds largest contemporary art fairs. While recession fears may have attributed to a more conservative choice of artists featured, many European visitors enjoyed the weak US dollar ensuring massive crowds every day. One noticeable trend was ...

The Wood Co-Op

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: The Wood Co-Op / 2modern While in Vancouver we made daily trips to Granville Island, visiting the great Public Market and exploring numerous shops featuring some of British Columbia's most talented designers.  One of our favorites was The Wood Co-Op. The Wood Co-Op is Canada's premiere showcase for quality handcrafted contemporary design. ...

Nice

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: Nice / the serif Nice stuff here

One Hour Design Challenge WINNER!: TheftProof Bike Seat Lock

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: Okay, we know that the amount of negative space in the seat shaft is slim, and that the cable's gonna be similarly slim, but the winner of the most recent is RBAid's "TheftProof Bike" seat lock system. We liked that this solution embraces and exploits the behavior that ...

Happy Lovers Town

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: Happy Lovers Town / the serif Some nice work here

Not Content with Enormous, Weird Buildings, Chinese Government will Also Engineer the Weather at Beijing Olympics

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: From , a so-bizarre-it-must-be-true story on plans already in the works to make sure it doesn't rain on the 2008 Olympics, no matter what. The details of how this gets done are mighty impressive, starting with a supercomputer-driven weather tracking system that gives hourly forecasts for the Beijing area, specific ...

Furniture hack: LED-glass door

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: In one of the most impressive furniture hacks we've seen lately, Norway-dwelling Smilodon made an etched-glass door, from scratch, with engraved glass lit by LEDs. And with no tripod to shoot the project on, he hacked one out of a chair and an adjustable mop handle. via and ...

Can design end consumer culture?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: Hugh Graham asks on designers, their role in consumer culture and the philosophy of it all in this thoughtful post. Here's a snippet, Should designers work toward the end of aspirational consumer culture? Can the design industry, broadly defined, reposition and reinvent itself to provide value and sustainability while ...

Luisa Bernardes

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: Luisa Bernardes / the serif Luisa Bernardes has some nice motion graphic work

One Hour Design Challenge WINNER!: TheftProof Bike Seat Lock

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Original Post: Okay, we know that the amount of negative space in the seat shaft is slim, and that the cable's gonna be similarly slim, but the winner of the most recent is RBAid's "TheftProof Bike" seat lock system. We liked that this solution embraces and exploits the behavior that ...