Family Chapel

August 27th, 2010

EXiT architetti associati were asked to design a family chapel in Padova, Italy. Although this is normally not a place where you would feel comfortable, they managed to design it in a way where you could go to think, meditate, concentrate and, above all, allow yourself precious time to stay close to your loved ones.

found at ArchDaily

Aqua

August 27th, 2010

Aqua is a series of digital paintings by Johannes P Osterhoff. He only used elements like scrollbars and menu-elements from “Aqua”, the graphical user interface from OS X by Apple Computer.

Little Big Berlin

August 25th, 2010

Little Big Berlin is beautiful edited film by Pilpop. It’s not just some shots of Berlin landmarks in tilt shift style, but also some nice observations of people in the city.

Kodak’s First Digital Camera

August 24th, 2010

This is Kodak’s first digital camera made by the Kodak Apparatus Division Research Laboratory in 1975.

It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured scene and store the digital info on a standard cassette.  It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette.  The image was viewed by removing the cassette from the camera and placing it in a custom playback device.  This playback device incorporated a cassette reader and a specially built frame store.  This custom frame store received the data from the tape, interpolated the 100 captured lines to 400 lines, and generated a standard NTSC video signal, which was then sent to a television set.

found at BERG blog

RGB Airplane

August 24th, 2010

CSS Mural

August 24th, 2010

This CSS Mural by Paul Flannery is actually a little nerdy. He didn’t use any drawing or painting software but just HTML and CSS. The downside is that it looks different in different browsers.

This is the HTML & CSS version.

This is how looks like in Firefox.

And here’s a bonus piece by Paul: Spellbound.

Error Tea Towels

August 20th, 2010

I would have never thought that I would once post tea towels. Today is that day. Pieke Bergmans designed 6 tea towels for the Textile Museum in Tilburg (The Netherlands). Each one is infected by the dreaded Design Virus. Her goal is to make “personalized mass production” where irregularities are ruled in.
You can buy them for €15 a piece in blue or red at Wannekes.

Ice Me

August 19th, 2010

Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli have one idea a day and put them up on their 01MATHERY tumblr. A few ago they posted their Ice Me idea. You put your jewelery in an ice cube tray, add some water and boooom … jewelery with ice cubes. Not sure if someone will still need this this summer.

found at ignant

Short Story Poster

August 19th, 2010

Klas Ernflo designed this Short Story Poster for a story written by Jess Row.

found at trendbeheer

Duetto

August 19th, 2010

Duetto is an installation by Fabrizio Corneli on Sannomya Tower in Kobe, Japan. The image is only visible during a certain time window a day, when the sun is shining.


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