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HMK 561 Electric Bicycle Concept
Mar 12th
Most electric bikes are fairly sordid affairs, little more than an ordinary bicycle with a motorized hub, a strap-on battery pack and regenerative braking capabilities (if you’re lucky). Not this HMK 561 electric bicycle concept, which took home an iF Design Award for some seriously forward thinking. It’s not just the stylish forward rake of this juiced cruiser that’s innovative, it’s the frame — composed completely of a conductive carbon fiber weave that allows the bike’s body to not just pass electricity to the motors, but actually store it like a giant capacitor. Factor in integrated lights and a pinch of that aforesaid regenerative braking at each axle, and you’ve just about got the bicycle of our dreams. Oh, and did we mention a prototype has already been built? Yeah.
Stihl’s autumn calendar automatically rips through to tomorrow
Mar 11th
Unless they’re incredibly quiet or potentially explosive, you won’t find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages?
Terrace Bar Seating pods
Mar 10th
I’m lovvving these Terrace Bar Seating pods by Sekhar Roy, a student at the Florence Design Academy.
The swooping arm holds interchangeable light fixtures, and while there’s a chance someone sitting near the center might bump their head on the arm, I’d be willing to watch my guests do that time and again just so I could have this thing in my house.
Plasmavis & AcidWax Visiuls
Mar 9th
PlasmaVis is a music “visualizer” that turns sounds into graphic works of art. It features high resolution hardware-accelerated graphics combining texture, color, and advanced mathematics such as real-time fractals. Simply put, PlasmaVis is something to look at while you listen to music. Beyond that, it can be used as background effects at concerts, dance clubs, parties, etc., a screen-saver to decorate your computer, or an advertising venue to draw attention to a message.
TeamWox GroupWare
Mar 4th
Description of TeamWox GroupWare
The TeamWox collaboration software is designed for the optimization of management and production processes in a company. Using it, you can organize management processes inside a company, make them more transparent, quicken decision making based on full and authentic information.
Besides, all the information about your clients and history of the cooperation with them, various documents, tasks and discussions are stored in TeamWox. Now all this information is concentrated in one place and available to you from any point of the world.
TeamWox contains everything to provide the efficient operation of your company by achieving well-organized teamwork and collaboration.
All info ; http://www.teamwox.com/
Santa’s Little Helper – Paul McCarthy
Sep 26th
Over the past four decades, Paul McCarthy’s work has gone from intimate performance videos to spectacular public sculptures — all without sacrificing its unnerving psychosexual tone. While the artist’s recent show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York surprised many with its unornamented structuralism, its restraint was comically upstaged by the unmooring of his giant inflatable dog turd at Switzerland’s Zentrum Paul Klee, which left a trail of downed power lines in its wake. It was as if McCarthy’s art had unleashed on the Swiss countryside the cartoonish extravagance that had been put on the back burner for the Whitney.
Not that McCarthy hasn’t paid tribute to the twisted pop-mythological deities of the American psyche. “I’m interested in caricatures — from Miss Piggy to Popeye to Santa Claus — that are cultural fabrications,” observes the 63-year-old artist from his LA home. “Santa is one that I’ve hung on to longer, that I repeat more. There’s the whole thing of Christmas and consumption and commodity, and its relationship to capitalism and Western culture and Americana. The character itself is this roly-poly patriarch with a beard — almost a godlike figure.” In fact, he notes, one of his earliest childhood drawings is of Santa Claus.
Computerlove {cpluv.com}
Sep 25th
Computerlove {cpluv.com} is a unique social platform and source of inspiration for talented creatives.
- Find inspiration and get fresh, hot design news
- Share you work with talented and awarded creatives (Population: 20,000+)
- Stay connected with creative people you know and admire
- Promote yourself to find a job or get famous !
Every free account include: Personal blog/ RSS, Gallery & portfolio management tools, plus a networking engine.
addicting OMGPOP | play games. meet people. hang out.
Sep 3rd
OMGPOP (formerly i’minlikewithyou or iilwy) is a casual online multiplayer gaming website built entirely in Flash. OMGPOP states on its homepage that it is “a place to hang out, play free online multiplayer games, chat and make friends”.
The OMGPOP team is based in Soho, in New York City. The site was founded by Charles Forman. Dan Porter is the CEO and E.J. Mablekos is the CTO. OMGPOP is funded by Spark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures and Betaworks, as well as angel investors including Ron Conway, Kevin Rose and Marc Andreessen.
OMGPOP is on TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2009.
Fall and Rise of the Fools Ark by Dadara & Jesse
Aug 26th
Dadara and Jesse are a veejaying duo from Amsterdam, who together made the movie “Fall and Rise of the Fools Ark”.
The movie is the partially-animated story of the Greymen and their battle against the Fools Ark, a 15 metres long wooden ship built in Holland , transported to the States and burnt in the Nevada desert. Footage from the construction of Dadara’s Fool’s Ark at Burning Man is intertwined into an audio-visual journey through forgotten worlds to tell the tale behind the project. This journey is guided by the music from Lamb.
Dadara is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and installation artist from Amsterdam, who regularely exhibits at the Reflex Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam. He established himself designing flyers, doing live paintings and recordsleeves for the emerging housescene beginning of the nineties. Other projects include the 8 metres high Greyman Statue of No Liberty, baby shaped loudspeakers for B&W, and campaigns for Greenpeace and Absolut Vodka.
Jesse Limmen is an animator, graphics artist, woodcarver and cameraman also from Amsterdam. Limmen started out in commercial business designing websites, but quickly burned out of the corporate world, and moved on to make animations and free work. He has produced large animation projects for national TV, as well as and live concerts. Next to commercial work, woodcarving is one of his strong points.
Luke Chueh
Aug 26th
Born in Philadelphia, but raised in Fresno, Luke Chueh (pronounced CHU) studied graphic design at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obipso where he earned a BS in Art & Design (Graphic Design concentration).
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