Jun 19
Being creative doesn’t mean having access to the latest and greatest gear. It’s often a matter of thinking outside the box to find the best solution. Casey Neistat’s studio
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Jun 19
Romain Jerome has become known as the watchmaker that incorporates exotic materials into its timepieces, from moon dust
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Jun 19
The Massaud Canopy isn’t the first piece of furniture that was created for individuals who wanted the option to hide away from the outside world at will. Remember the Abri-Boca Living Pod?
While the pod is more for home use, you can set up the Massaud Canopy is a variety of location, like your room or den and even your office.
Image Credit: Apartment Therapy
It looks like a typical mod lounge chair, until you pull the hood down and disappear into your own little world – at least until someone comes along and brings you back to the real world by pushing the hood back up again.
Aside from the hood, the Canopy comes equipped with built-in LED lighting, a removable pillow insert so you can get comfy, and Bluetooth connectivity for your audio. Aside from extra privacy, the drop-down hood also improves acoustics so you can enjoy watching movies, concerts, or TV shows while in the seat. The Canopy is an optional accessory for Massaud’s Work Lounge, a comfy chair with a built-in work surface.
The Massaud Canopy was recently displayed at NeoCon 2013 in Chicago. It was designed by Jean-Marie Massaud for Coalesse and is described as “a revolutionary step forward in communication and space utilization.”
It’s expected to be available for purchase sometime in 2014.
[via Apartment Therapy via C|NET]
Jun 19
Last week we brought you inside the Common Press, a letterpress studio where printing methods of yore are reinvigorated in the name of art. As much as the Press is engaged in making new things, the technological history being preserved there is vast.
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Jun 19
This concept trimaran will most probably able to smoke every boat in your local bay, assuming it ever gets made. It should be able to go fast since its designed to minimize the amount of boat surface touching the water as it picks up speed.
The Gran Turismo Trimaran was designed by Clemens Auer, and it was inspired by classic cars. The front half reminds me of the wings of cars from the 1930s, while the back has a similar shape to lat 1960s/early 1970s muscle cars. It was conceived with plenty of different finishes and exaggerated features to keep everyone happy.
It’s a concept for now, and was originally designed back in 2008. Maybe at some point, someone will want to make this dramatic boat.
[via Yanko Design]
Jun 19
For most of us, lighthouses are synonymous with trips to the shore. But for seafarers, lighthouses have represented a vital symbol of safe passage for centuries. In fact, they go back to 280 BC, when the famed Lighthouse of Alexandria was built—though lighthouses of the ancient world looked more like battlements than the candy-striped variety we know today.
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Jun 19
We have accessed music in many different ways. It’s the 21st century after all. And now UK-based communications agency Uniform has devised a new way to access music. With their interactive Postcard Player.
These music playing postcard prototypes are printed with electronics using conductive inks. These allow users to interact with the flat printed circuit. The postcards can be docked into the Postcard Player to play music. You can control music by touching the paper postcards in the same way you would a touchscreen. Each card has tracks with printed buttons to pause and remix the music. Though it appears that the music itself is stored in the docking station, and the printed circuit only serves to identify which track to play and to control playback.
The Postcard Player is being shown off at Design Museum’s 2013 Designs of the Year show through July 7th, where it is showing everyone what you can do by printing electronic circuits onto unconventional surfaces. Pretty cool. Imagine getting a postcard, then docking it to hear a voice message and a song. Sure, it’s a novelty, but an interesting one.
[DigitalArts via TAXI via Damn Geeky]
Jun 18
People say that peanuts are healthy. They’re a super food or something. But the peanut is apparently good for other things too, like inspiring design. The Japanese architect Hiroshi Ueda overlapped two circles to create the peanut concept for this building, completed last year. And it seems only fitting that the peanut house a nursery school.
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Jun 18
Biomimicry borrows design solutions from the embedded intelligence within animals’ bodies—chiefly from other species. But occasionally, it also borrows from within the human body. For example, a new study from MIT suggests that buildings of the future could be built with super-strong materials based on the structure of human bones.
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Jun 18
Games of Thrones Gates of Qarth Table: The Greatest Table That Ever Was or Will Be
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe crews of most TV shows use regular tables to have conferences and go over their work, which is fine because most shows are pretty crap. But that will never do for a quality program like Game of Thrones. What does the crew of Game of Thrones use? Why, the gates of Qarth of course.
Cat Taylor is a “Keeper of Scrolls/Behind the Scenes writer on the set of Game of Thrones.” She tweeted picture of a conference table that the crew uses to show how awesome they are and asked readers to guess what it was. Well, it turns out that this table was once the gates of Qarth.
How can you bot do great work at this table? Well, I have many complaints about the show, but still, it definitely makes everything more epic.
[via Nerd Approved]
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