The Future Piggy Bank

March 10th, 2011

“The Future Piggy” Bank is project made by Wang Chao, Maggie Kuo, and Jordi Parra, at the Umeå Institute of Design, in Sweden. In just a few days, they made this mock-up of piggy bank that accepts credit cards. By using very simple components like an arduino board, a sensor and an iphone as a display, they were able to create a piggy bank which behaves like a Tamagotchi. If you don’t feed it with a credit card it will become sad and the other way around. Very nice work!

found at Co.Design

How to Photograph a Design Poster

March 9th, 2011

JK Keller collected 90 portfolio images of designers displaying their posters. Then he made a poster out of them and cut out the posters from those images. This “How to Photograph a Design Poster” project is actually from 2007 but it’s still great.

found at trendbeheer

Climbing

March 8th, 2011

Jesse McLean is true digital mountaineer, just watch this excerpt of his Climbing video.

found at rhizome

‘Til Death Do Us Part

March 7th, 2011

‘Til Death Do Us Part by Kate Bauman.

found at who killed bambi

Wetpaint

March 7th, 2011

Jon Rafman, Parker Ito, Micah Schippa, Tabor Robak & John Transue are together the digital painting collective Paint FX. Wetpaint is video capture of their digital canvas.

found via PAINTED, ETC.

Ausgebrannt

March 4th, 2011

Ausgebrannt is a series of stools and low tables by Kasper Hamacher. I actually don’t really like them, but the production process looks like fun. By the way, ausgebrannt is German for burnt out.

found at dezeen

Man

March 4th, 2011

Man by Niko Princen.

Venus With Drop Shadow

March 3rd, 2011

Venus With Drop Shadow by Brian Khek. What else is there to say?

found at rhizome

Smart Cover

March 3rd, 2011

Apple launched the iPad 2 today. To be honest, the iPad itself wasn’t the best part of the announcement. But the Smart Cover for the iPad was. It’s a protective cover for the screen which attaches itself to the iPad with 2 magnets. It snaps right in place and it doesn’t really hide the design of the device. I think it’s one of the best industrial design products I’ve seen lately. When you close the cover it will put the iPad to sleep and the other way around. Ingenious.

Re-renders

March 2nd, 2011

“Re-renders” is a series of 5 video loops created by Luke Barcelona Cano for the London edition of Bring Your Own Beamer. Sequence_03 is my favorite.

Sequence_01

Sequence_02

Sequence_03

Sequence_06

Sequence_07

found at triangulation blog


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