Erik Johansson’s Impossible Urban Scenes
Hello people. I want to dedicate this post to the fantastic personal work of Sweden-born and Berlin-based photographer and retoucher Erik Johansson. Give yourself a few minutes to click through his series of realistic photos of impossible scenes. Much of his graphic work has a strong spatial focus, which makes it very interesting for architecture and urbanism enthusiasts. […]
Seung-Yong Song’s Multi-Functional Furniture
We've got plenty of stuff in our houses with all kinds of different functions. Why not combine those objects better and have less of them? That is what the Korean industrial designer Seung-Yong Song must have thought when he created a series of multifunctional and pretty furniture. Song used the most simple daily objects such as chairs, lamps, cupboards and laundry racks to created complete new furniture typologies with unique combined uses.
A Relaxation Island In The Vltava River
Prague-based architects Ondrej Lipensky and Andrea Kubná have launched the concept for an interesting ‘floating oasis’ for the Vltava river in the Czech capital. Their proposal consists of a swimming pool lined with lounge chairs and cabins. A smaller, shallower pool for children will be built off the side of the main, 9,000-square-foot pool. Other services […]
QRawr: A Comment Wall For Real-Life Objects
Apparently it is very intriguing to superimpose digital concepts on physical reality. But how can comment walls like on Facebook be applied to real-life objects? The people behind QRawr came up with a partial solution. QRawr enables users to transform any object into a digital discussion wall. By pasting a QRawr sticker with a unique QR […]
Flexible Outdoor Design Furniture From Sweden
Thomas Bernstrand’s Stockholm-based design studio came up with this so-called Share Portable Park Chair. The Share Portable is a very simple and smart combination between a public bench and a shopping trolley. The system requires users to insert a coin to release a chair from the chain. The coin is given back when they return the chair. […]
Winter Sun Over Trafalgar Square
In 2012, Blue Monday (the most depressing day of the year) occurred on the 23rd January. To lift the city’s spirits, artist collaborative Greyworld (commissioned by Tropicana) created a special sun that spread its dawn light over Trafalgar Square for one day only. Weighing 2.5 tons, and using 210,000 watts of power, it’s a great sight to behold on […]
Delicate — New Food Culture
Food is something serious and eating is not only a physical need or routine. The characteristics of food are often based on a rich world of different cultures, ceremonies and social interactions. If eating is an aspect of our lives that we can’t take lightly, cooking is the creative part of it — a true form […]
CityTouch: The Urban Lighting System Of The Future
Intelligent technologies allow for ground-breaking innovations in urban environments. A great example here is CityTouch, an online urban lighting management system developed by Philips that enables dynamic, intelligent and flexible control on a city-wide scale. The CityTouch system is able to provide light precisely when, where and in the right amount needed. Why fully illuminate the […]
Flying People Over Manhattan’s Skyline
Sky-writing and airplane banners are pretty nice outdoor advertising concepts, but not as outstanding as flying people! These remarkable objects in the the sky are remotely controlled human-shaped aircrafts. This is a marketing campaign of 20th Century Fox to promote its newest blockbuster Chronicle. The creator of the controversial concept is Thinkmodo, the office that also created the iPad […]
Roamler’s Co-Founder Wiggert De Haan On Location-Based Crowd-Sourcing
Some time ago Daniel wrote an article on Roamler, a new app from Amsterdam that provides a totally new way of exploring the city. Roamler enables its users to earn real money by completing location-based assignments. Companies can outsource tasks that usually relate to marketing and promotion, ranging from checking a product’s placement within a store to the individual publicizing the product in different ways. We asked five questions to Roamler's co-founder Wiggert de Haan.
Pop-Up Café On Ice
It’s cold here in Western Europe, very cold. In the Netherlands there’s only one thing that counts these days: will the legendary Elfstedentocht (‘Eleven Cities Tour’) be held? René Boer sent us this photo of a pretty ‘cool’ intervention in the city of Leiden, where a clever entrepreneur has taken advantage of the frozen canal in […]
A Store For Urban Beekeepers
Claimed to be the latest big environmental movement, urban beekeeping is hotter than hot. Perfectly in line with this trend, a true urban beekeeping store has recently opened doors in Portland, Oregon. Bee Thinking specializes in offering products and services relating to beekeeping in urban environments, such as beehives that require minimal space. The owner […]
AWOL — A Guide To Getting Lost
Recent Chelsea College of Art & Design graduate Dan Cottrell has created a guide for the sole aim of getting lost. Pyschogeography is nothing new, but AWOL provides a beautifully simple design approach to the subject. AWOL comes as a pack, consisting of a compass that doesn’t work, a simple poster and and a map that […]
Win Tickets For The Art As Money Festival In Amsterdam
In 2011 our friend and artist Dadara has started his own bank. The aim of the Exchanghibition Bank is to explore the relation between money, value and art. The bank developed its own currency and publishes its own bank notes. Being the first artist running a bank, Dadara states that “in a world where even art seems […]
E-Waste Furniture By Rodrigo Alonso
Colombia-based designer Rodrigo Alonso has launched his ‘N+ew: No More Electronic Waste’ series, a collection of pretty bizarre cube-shaped stools. As you can see, the furniture’s main ingredient is recycled electronic waste, as well as epoxic resin and melted aluminium to shape the stools. This must be the most chemical furniture I’ve ever seen. The […]
