Gehard Demetz makes some incredibly amazing wood carvings that are mysterious, eerie, beautiful, and full of emotion! I’m not sure what the story is behind each one of these pieces but I’d love to find out.
See several of his wood carving pieces after the jump.
Paul Octavious makes numbers out of books. Pretty cool
Mirrored pics after the jump.
Check out this interior office space designed by Hofman Dujardin Architects. The Law firm is broken up into 2 different spaces; colorful and neutral. The colorful space caught my attention because the color gradient floors placed based on the suns movement. Warmer colors are in the shadowed areas and sunny areas get the cooler greens and blues. While walking down the hall, the floor gradually changes colors.
With all those color studies out there about what makes you work more or slower, I wonder if this law firm discovers this through their floors. Would make me rethink what I’m wearing each day based on which rooms I had meetings in.
read and see more in these 2 pdfs about the project.
HofmanDujardin_DLAPiper
HofmanDujardin_DLAPiper_downloads
Hmmm, perhaps one day we wont be looking at pixels on a screen, but walking right into them thanks to these firefly LED flying bots. I’d like to imagine them as LED dust instead. Watch the video here.
Awesome ring! I want one! Watch the video above or here. ($165)
Happy Holiday to everyone. I’ll be out in Hong Kong for the break and will be back with some goodies to post most likely dealing with food, shopping, and culture.
If you have not already, please join the Facebook Fan page here which I post to often but write less and it’s open for fans to post to as well. I’ll post a few goodies I shared on the fan page below recently for the holiday break:
- Tadpole like sleeping bag (pictured above) Reminds me of Selk bag.
- Newspaper laptop sleeve holder. I’ve gotta get this!
- TED launches Best of Web.
- Cool jacket..I like asymmetric clothing which is hard to come by for guys.
- LED lights save energy, but don’t melt snow
- Ping Pong office convertible table
- Awesome silloutte clock!
- xylophone table
Betsy Vanlangen has some mesmerizing photography compositions on her website, especially mixing food and materials with people. Makes ya think after looking though her portfolio of work. Lots of inspiration!
Several pictures mirrored via design-milk after the jump.
OOoo, I love magnets, an I think I’m loving wooden magnets even more now from Tegu! Clink Clank, but no broken magnets…. just wooden dings here and there! I think this would be a great holiday gift! Really interesting company story, their sustainable, into education, and SOld out currently! yikes, How am I suppose to get my hands on a few sets to play with and show off my blocknetic creations! Check them out at www.tegu.com.
Artist Mike Stilkey painted inside books, then eventually onto the covers creating a sculptured surface with books he hand selects, sometimes, reads, but definitely paints on. Reminds me a bit of the Wooden Tunnel House and Alicia Martins Streaming Book Installation.
See more of Mikes work at MikeStilkey.com.
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Awesome fun ninja magnets in black, pink, or green! Buy set of 2 for $18 on Mollaspace here.
I’ve seen tons of creative Halloween costumes in the past, but with the popularity of big head Wii characters and DYI costumes, I’d have to give Eric Testroete an awesome star for his big head paper kraft costume this year which as he mentions is very much like Bert Simons projects (posted before). I’m not sure how he ate candy or sipped some goodies that night, but it sure is an eye opener!
Cool!
“A project of Audiochmura (Audiocloud) was inspired by the concept of Audioarchitektura (Sonicarchitecture) – brainchild of artist Piotr Adamski and mode:lina. It is a sonic installation using corrugated pipes as amplifiers emitting sounds gathered around its actual position. The shape of a cloud relates to something ephemeral, almost non-existent and likely to move.”
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