“I was brought up surrounded by the smell of oil and steel and the sound of machinery.” – Tokyo-born Shinya Kimura, founder of Zero Engineering and now California-based Chabott Engineering uses the motorcycle as his medium of choice.
We’re rather taken with this simple and clever design allowing you to easily convert any hard surface of 24-30mm thickness into an impromptu table. Compliments of Swiss designer Nicola Stäubli. Her work is is worth a look.
Fantastic tribute to some of the most stylish album covers of all time. Filmed by Bante, produced by Filmatindustriali
Delightful leather and jute toys designed by Renate Müller in the tradition of German toy makers since the 1800s. Developed for therapeutic use, this menagerie of animals was used for balance training and orthopedic exercises by mentally and physically handicapped children. The toys debuted at the Leipzip Trade Fair in 1967 and continued annually. Each year Müller added new personalities to the collection. In 1990, Müller took over the rights to her designs and continues to produce limited quantities of old and new designs. (via handmade charlotte)
Argentina-based design and architecture office Normal™ explores the extraordinary potential of ordinary objects in their site-specific Tender installations. Based on the ready-made, the installations feature clothespins repeated en masse to create a uniquely beautiful relationship with their spaces. See and read more at Yatzer.
Check out this phenomenal tool, ONull. It’s a standalone application that’s written in Java and runs on the Processing graphic engine. You import and image that gets rasterized with vector pixels. Basically you can make a photograph composed of squares or circles or you can even upload your own vector that the program will use. Great tool and fun to play around with!
For those with dual citizenship in both the cult of lever espresso machines and the supporters club of La Pavoni (card-carrying), please observe what happens when 70′s industrial design is embraced by the warm Italian hand of LP: the Eurobar a Leva. A beautiful product of that moment’s aesthetic, restored in full by Orphan Espresso. Available for new ownership right here.
Ceramic and cork speakers from Joey Roth. “Joey Roth designs products to articulate the beauty of everyday rituals.” Indeed. We’re impressed with the beauty of approach as much as the finished object. Official members, Joey Roth Ceramic Speakers Fan Club.
DIng! Ding! Transport bike sensibility – long neglected by the cycling industry – is now the hot, hot category. Right on time, Oregon Manifest has created the first ever Constructor’s Design Challenge, charging framebuilders, designers, and engineers to conceive the next-wave multi-functional cycling rig. The Design Challenge will pit the unique sensibilities of each builder against another’s within very specific criteria: youngblood against old guard, steel against carbon…and if we are very lucky, a Truly Sensational Solution. Ready to be amazed? Yes.
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Delight, inspire, innovate. Hella Jongerius is easily one of the most important designers working today. A nice little documentary from Design Onscreen.
