Teenage Engineering: The group that helped Ikea make a digicam out of cardboard
Ohmilawrd. This site deserves its own entry. Teenage Engineering was mentioned in the articles for IKEA KNÄPPA, the cheapest digital camera created, crafted from cardboard, featured on petapixel. Teenage Engineering worked with Ikea on the camera, and with a name like that, I had to check out their site (wrong pronoun placement/use of antecedents). I have to post their … Read more
Grab bag: Design and architecture
Still cleaning up open tabs. This will end someday and I will get around to actual writing. Soon, soon. Accurate fake sunlight. Beautifully practical Japanese objects. Friends of Type. Mon Zamora photos. A graffiti motion capture program. Andy Baio essay-article on the limits of intellectual property in design. Design documentaries. Business card design. Brand memory … Read more
Clever: Bucket list in graffiti, tongue-in-cheek timekeepers, glow-in-the-dark social commentary and various graphics
After things that just make your eyes glaze over through sheer visual awe, now we have things that are cool because they say something about something. 1. Before I Die by Candy Chang via studentdesignblog 2. Mr. Jones’s “The Accurate” and “The Average Day” watches Featured in Selectism. 3. Jason Dean’s Day and Night poster from … Read more
Smart, smart. Space-saving designs
Just a quick post. I know, I’m “delayed”. One of these ideas is actually two years old. But since I just saw it browsing through a back issue of a magazine (Sublime), I’ll share it anyway. I love how these two maximize space and are just so…practical. Daniel So – Spine Clothes Rack via
SMART: RKS Design for KOR Water
RKS Design and KOR Water, I love you. Thank you for fully capitalizing on the beauty of sustainability, design and crowdsourcing/market research. I can’t wait to see one of these bottles for real. And, as a water almost-non-drinker, it really makes me stupidly happy that some people acknowledge that you sometimes have shallow, unrelated reasons … Read more
