Bang & Olufsen have just announced a new brand, a follow up from the company's previous release, the BeoSound 8 sound system. The B&O Play Beolit 12 Portable Music System ($800) was designed by Danish designer Cecile Manz, the Beolit 12 has a stylish sleek look that's topped off with an Italian leather carrying strap, and is equipped with Apple's AirPlay. It has a built-in power supply and a rechargeable battery which can charge an iPhone or any other connected device and play back music for about 8 hours. It currently comes in the gray style but the company is releasing later this month the yellow, blue and light gray versions of this music system. It will also be available as well in the Apple Stores as the company's authorized outlets.




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This home is located in a residential neighborhood of central Tokyo, Japan and its called House S., a single family residence for Tokyo-based studio Keji Ashizawa. The home use to be the site of an old samurai residence and is filled with beautiful pines and zelkova trees which gives this home a connection with nature and combines both nature and urban living. Each floor in this home has planting and the interior wood floors on the first level open up to a lushly vegetated garden, allowing the greenery to permeate the wood interior. The planting and the openness as well as the staircase are just a few things in this home that give it a open calming feeling to it.

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These screen print airport runway posters were created by Jerome Daksiewicz, which feature runway patterns of airports around the world. I actually like this series due to the minimal design but also for the structures and layouts of each airport.  If you're interested in buying any of these prints they are available on Jerome website. He currently has editions for Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles International, and Minneapolis St-Paul, but will soon be adding five additional cities. Two dollars from every purchase goes to the Challenge Air Program that introduces children with specials needs to aviation.




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Swissted is an ongoing series by graphic designer Mike Joyce and owner of the Stereotype Design in New York.  He took two things that he enjoyed swiss modernism and punk and redesigned vintage punk show flyers into international typographic style posters. Each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium.

He states that all of these shows actually happened in his series. So I wanted to pick out some of the posters of bands that I have seen in concert. See below.

Check out all the other posters here: http://www.swissted.com/




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The team at Teenage Engineering has created a stylish looking portable synthesizer but it will cost you.  It has a hefty price of $1,100 and it's such in high demand that they're currently sold out.  The OP-1 synthesizer was created to be the world's preeminent, portable synthesizer. It merges the best of classic, analogue soul with the latest in digital technology.  It's more like a hybrid of sorts with a digital synthesizer and MIDI controller with tons of features.



It has 8 synthesizer models (FM, Virtual Analog, String, +), 8 samplers, on board effects, OLED display, battery powered, built in microphone, FM radio, built in speaker, mp3 export, and some really unique sequencer to explore.

More info here: http://aiaiai.dk/store/things/op-1

See Youtube videos on the OP-1 here: http://www.youtube.com/user/teenageengineering

Vizio has joined in the market of computer business and the company is ready to announce its new line of all-in-one computers and laptops at CES this week. Vizio really took in the motto "design is king" when they designed these machines. They definitely raised the bar when it came to the all-in-one desktops and laptop designs. They kept them clean and minimal but yet functional and practical. The Vizio Computer Lineup ($TBA) consists of a 27 and 24-inch all-in-one desktop.  If you're wondering where the PC part is, it's at the base of the monitor. Their lineup also consists of a 14 and 15.6-inch slim notebooks, and a 15.6-inch full-size notebook. These beautiful aluminum and stainless steel crafted machines will be launching in the spring of 2012.




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Samsung Series 9 Monitor 27" Quad hi-def ($1,199) is nothing but a cutting-edge, sophisticated design that blends with any decor. It has a brushed aluminum finish and screen that almost seems like it's floating in mid-air. The connections on the monitor are integrated into the base allowing for a streamlined appearance. It even has anti-glare edge-to-edge tempered glass display and a slim profile. The Series 9 monitor also has the ability to produce over one billion colors with an amazing resolution of 2560 x 1440 (WQHD), which is four times more detail than a traditional HD panel. One of the coolest features on this monitor is the Mobile High Definition Link (MHL) for MHL-enabled smart phones and tablets.

By linking their Android MHL-compatible smartphone, users can enjoy content from their mobile devices directly on the much larger screen and with the benefit of rich, built-in stereo audio. They can also keep an eye on their smartphone, seamlessly browse to it and even charge the device for added convenience.



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Riccardo Sabatini designed this Mekkanika typeface which was inspired by old technical mechanic drawings and modern machinery. They are mixed together to form letters and numbers and this typeface was originally based on the letter form shape of DIN Alternate Black. Below our some of his typeface done in poster size.



































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Monotunes has created a neat little website where 8bit characters come to life and play sounds. It gives you the option to make your own remix and watch the characters go nuts. It has actually been quite entertaining for last 20 minutes. Go ahead give it a try; it even has a remix button which randomly selects the characters for you. So either way you're making 8bit character music.