I rarely ever do a post about furniture but this piece I couldn't pass up. The
Kinesis Chair and Ottoman created by Thos. Moser. He has designed a chair with a matching ottoman that is not just a chair but a sculpted piece of art. The collection, called Kinesis, features a chair with a sensuous seatback and arms; the sleek lines look as if they would be at home in a Porsche. I'm sure your wondering at this point how much does this sweet chair cost. Well I will tell you. Upholstered in a natural cowhide or soft suede-like cloth these are your choices. The Walnut color will run you $7,350.00 and matching ottoman will run you $2,425.00 for a total of $9,775.00. I know I couldn't afford it but it's still nice to look at. I have added video below where David Moser talks about how his design came to be.
Source: NYTimes
The
Perch ($180) is a classy and sleek designed portable wireless speaker that's designed for use with mobile media. This two-piece speaker/dock features Bluetooth for wireless audio streaming, a magnetic charger built into the dock, which also has a tray for charging your smartphone or media player. It also has built-in digital clock with alarm function, and an integrated microphone for conference calls or video calls. The Perch also has a hinge on the backside so you can prop the speaker up in the portrait mode.
This Perch is currently in presale status on
Quirky. Once it's quota is reached it will then be put into production. Quirky is a site where an idea can become a reality. I would love to explain it to you but I think the video below will do a better job then me. So if you have an idea
join Quirky and you can have your idea become a reality like this product.
Sustainable houses are something that I think are great and fascinating. I found this house that was built by
Crosson Clarke Carnachan architects in Great Barrier Islands. The house is nestled in a beautifully private setting surrounded by nothing but nature. The living zone opens completely to this setting, and the timber exoskeleton references the surrounding trees. The bedrooms all have protected outdoor space, being closely located to the trees for increased privacy. The house is located to protect the existing vegetation and to make the most of the sun and the native bird life on the property.
Being on Great Barrier Island, the building also needed to be sustainable - the following abstract from an e-mail received from the Clients refers to this point: “The outdoor room is a place we spend much of our time, eating, reading, doing homework and siesta-ing; but the feeling of being indoors on those hot summer days with all doors open is also fantastic. Not cold enough (owing to that great low E glass and good design) for fires yet - we have had 2 only for ambience, not heat. “It is an astonishingly decadent feeling lying in a bath of free water, heated by the sun, pumped by solar power. Free as anything! Hot water gets up to 68 degrees in the tank from the sun, and has to be cooled to come out the tap. “With 9 staying and all the laptops, music, washing etc we’ve only run the generator 3 times ever. All the irrigation systems do clever things. So it’s more than a PC nod to sustainability, as you know from all our fussing about timbers and paints.”
Source: Crosson Clarke Carnachan
When I first saw these poster designs by
Mark Brooks it immediately caught my attention and sucked me in. The color tones and the minimal yet subtle design of each poster had me searching around for more of his work. Mark designed these posters for
SantaMonica a Barcelona based brand that presents a very solid and refined graphic identity with there prints and t-shirts.
The one that really caught my attention out of this series of posters is the particle acceleration poster with the giraffe. The idea and the concept are quite interesting using the spots of a giraffe to symbolize the idea of particles separating. Well I will leave you to checking out the posters now but I will leave you with a little fact about giraffe's. The word "giraffe" comes from an Arabic word, "zirafah", which means "the tallest of all".
Source: Behance
First off I would like to thank everyone that enter the contest for the "The Collective Loop Poster" and the $15 Gift card to iTunes. So with out further ado I would like to present the winner of the
400th post giveaway and that goes to
Monique McCulley.
Congrats Monique on winning the giveaway. Please send me an email letting me know how you would like your prize shipped to you.
Again Thanks to everyone that entered. I look forward to doing more giveaways in the future.
Parachute Journalists is an indie/folk/punk band with members
Jeff Finley and
Adam Wagner from
Go Media in Cleveland, Ohio. This gig poster below was created for a January 9th concert at the 5 O’clock Lounge. The first poster below is one of many items intended to define the visual branding of the band. I have also added a couple of other poster designs I found for the band that were created by Go Media. I'm really enjoying the concept and the feeling of each poster. The first poster though has some really good composition in form, color and association.
If you want to check out the bands music check out this
link.
Source: rafdevis
I was super excited when I found out about
Wordmark.it from the
Jetstreamprojector's Blog. It was a great find and something I'm sure a lot of you out there would appreciate. Wordmark.it is a site that allows you to preview all the fonts installed on your machine. All you have to do is just type in whatever word you want and bam! It gives you a visual representation of what it will look like with the font's installed on your machine. Just like in the above image. The creator behind this site is Fahri Özkaramanlı and let me be one of the people that thanks you for creating this. It will now save me a lot of time from sitting there going through my fonts to find the right one. Now I can do it in a one stop shop in less time and for that I thank you.
