Projections

Some really cool video mapping projections I came across on youtube at a secret festival in the North East of England. Designed and created by The Darkroom. The theme and logo of the party was the heart (as you can evidently see throughout the video). The majority of The Darkroom's work is content creation for live video performance and multimedia enviroment design team. See all their work here

Advertisement against guns...

brilliantly done

ReUse your CD's

Interesting article on how to make your old CD's dust free and useable for decorative purposes. Here are a few examples

Read the full article here

A multifunctional shopping trolley

Here are just a few uses for a shopping trolley that I've come across...

1. The normal shopping trolley where you carry your groceries through the supermarket and later transport them to your car. (If your lazy enough and you dont want to carry your groceries home, you can go beyond the red line and take the trolley home, there is no such thing as an alarm that will go off)

2. As means of transportation through the crowded streets of Cairo

3. Why invest in a BBQ grill, when you can have this shopping trolley for a pound?

4. Trolleys made their way into sculptures. The British artist Abigail Fallis has created the first model of DNA made of shopping trolleys entitled DNA DL90.

5. They even made their way to the recycling world. Ptolemy Elrington made the sculptures from discarded shopping trolleys pulled out of rivers by RiverCare volunteers.

6. Shopping cart chairs - Reestore are a company who 'take everyday waste objects and cheekily turn them into charming yet functional pieces of furniture and accessories' and their converted shopping cart chairs are a perfect example of the quality of their work

7. The shopping cart/ Bicycle Hybrid. The Cartrider is an invention from Korean designer Jaebeom Jeong which combines a shopping cart with a bicycle, resulting in a rideable goods carrier which is supposed to make shopping a less punishing task

Has anyone come across anything else?

Dining in 2015

din-ink designed by andrea cingoli, paolo emilio bellisario, cristian cellini, francesca fontana from Italy was one of the winners for a design competition organized by designboom under the theme dining in 2015 (at work, while traveling or at home). This design allows you to turn your favourite office tool - your ballpoint pen - into common cuttlery (also a good excuse to bite the cap now!) All you do is replace your normal cap during lunch time. The caps are made out of natural starch and fibres and are 100% biodegradable.

Apple... I'm disappointed

Came across this on youtube... How could Apple have disregarded their charger??

When Japanese farmers become artists

A group of farmers in Japan have created these beautiful murals from planting different colours of rice in their paddy fields. Believe it or not these farmers sketched out their designs on their computers so that they knew exactly where every coloured seed needs to be planted. Paddy field artwork is actually a tradition that began in 1993 in the village of Inakadate, north of Tokyo. It all started as a project to revitalise the local economy.

See the full article here

its sad, so sad

Low-sodium meals push salt shaker to edge

Rebuilding the world one LEGO at a time

German artist Jan Vormann uses LEGO blocks as part of his Dispatchwork project in different cities like St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv and Berlin to restore damaged architecture by filling these Lego blocks in the cracks and openings. In Berlin he placed Legos in walls where WWII bullet holes used to be! 

when you have a Lee Washington in your class

My friend's youtube video that has got 20K views already! Brilliant 

idea to prevent the tangling of your headphones!

Lee not only has his own Tshirt company but also sells his own 

paintings and has his own blog!

When Google Maps becomes useful for typography

These were the results for a project by Rhett Dashwood that started in October 2008 until April 2009 which was aimed at searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations that resembled letters. These finding are all located within the state of Victoria in Australia.

YALA! what are we waiting for?

Are you creative? then you can stay here for free!Creators Inn is a joint project between the swedish fashion brand elvine and the design agency The Next Century Modern. The idea of this project is to give free short term accomodation to creative individuals! Aren't we lucky!

Based in Gothenburg Sweden, the aim of this inn is to attract creative people to contribute to the cultural life of the city and promote the local area. All you have to do is go online and explain why you deserve a free room at the inn! (I have already started working on my portfolio).. The project has also expanded to Stockholm recently!

Here are a few pictures to get you as excited as I am!

“The hotel challenges our modern conception of hospitality, taking it back to the olden days, when travelers were offered shelter based on what they could provide in return”
– Electronic Beats 

creativity at its best

Directed by Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura, this highly amusing music video was shot for Sour's 'Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of everyday) for their first mini album 'Water Flavor EP'. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base from all over the world.  It was all filmed purely via their webcams!

who would have thought bugs can be so pretty?

flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.

This short film by Charlie McCarthy was made out of 156 photographs (each at a 4 second exposure) of insects flying around a street light. Notice the spirals... beautiful!

Only in Jordan

picture taken by Zeina H.

No need to worry about deadlines anymore

Designed by Brenda Durham is this 'XTRA time' clock. This clock (still not sure how it exactly works) bends and stretches time, as long as the user stays within the same 24 hour frame. By pressing a button, your one hour lunch break will last for two! The joy!

This clock was the winning design for the A-Z list of products that Selfridges might sell in 100 years! While 'XTRA time' was for the letter X, the letter A was an Airbag Helmet, which inflates on impact (I'm just suggesting that london bikers might probably need that a little earlier that 2109).

If you want to see them for yourself, all 26 products are currently displayed at Selfridges until the end of the month.

Phone a famous face

Sculptor Alex Queral has sculputed some of the most famous faces using unused phone books

have a look at the full article

If only I had the patience...

Came across this on youtube... Talk about dedication and patience, this man is a genius!

Kinetic wave sculptures

Funny

Why didn't I think of that?

"Your a product designer,with a passion for pancakes, and u never thought about this! Shame on you :)" was what my sister had to say when she sent me this link. Come to think of it, Why didn't I think of that!? 

“If your quest for the perfectly-shaped, drip-free pancake has lead you down the dark halls of infomercial madness, take note: all it takes is the re-purposing of a condiment squeeze bottle.” via Lifehacker

Hello There

I have finally come around to doing it, starting my own blog! I've been meaning to do this for ages now but never came around to it. Now that I'm in the most boring internship ever, I have all the time in the world! I'll be adding some stuff to 'blog' about later on, so keep on coming back.