This is an innovative suspended staircase called Object Élevé. Combining a desk, storage, and shelving designed by Dutch design studio Mieke Meijer. The Dutch studio was commissioned by designer Just Haasnoot for his home in The Hague, Netherlands. Handcrafted out of oak wood and black steel, its minimalist and industrial look contrasts nicely with Haasnoot's pale walls and muted tones. You can find out more information on Mieke Meijer Website.



Source: Dezeen

I stumbled upon Reuben Wu and his photography and just like his work in Ladytron, I was impressed. His images let you get lost in the world that we might not always get a chance to see.  Also as you can see from the first image he also did the latest photography session with Tycho. 

About Reuben Wu

Check out all of his work on Behance or his website. I know I will be.



Source: Behance

Platform 5 architects created this Shoffice (shed + office).  It's a garden pavilion containing a small office alongside garden storage space. Located to the rear of a 1950's terraced house in St John’s Wood, the brief required the shoffice to be conceived of as a sculptural organically object that flowed into the garden space.

So what do you think of the Shoffice?  Would you use it for a home office, extra guest bedroom or an art studio?

Roku's new device will offer access to 1,000 channels and 31,000 movies and it allows users to cast from Netflix and YouTube to their televisions. The device works with free Android and iOS apps. Unlike Chromecast, it does comes with a Wi-Fi remote control.

You can currently pre-order via Amazon, BestBuy, WalMart and Staples and its scheduled to be on the shelves in April. Are you going to get one?

Source: Mashable.com

Welcome to TCL Playlist-59.  In this installment we have a spring like mix that brings in a little bit of more hype but at the same time transitions from the end of winter to the beginning of spring. The new playlist has some new music by Tycho, Kid Cudi and a new artist EMBRZ who seems to be blowing up and more...

Click Play and have at it! If you want to check out any of the other Playlist then click on Archived Playlist in this post or on the right hand side of this blog or in the menu.


Cover art by: Damion Schweizer

Tracklist

For those of us that use multiple machines and devices this application is a godsend. PushBullet, the app for Android allows you to quickly transfer links, pictures, and notes between your smart  devices, tablets and desktop Chrome Browsers.  It is one of those insanely useful tools that is what FREE!

The PushBullet team introduced full notification mirroring, a feature that syncs all of your phone and tablet notifications to Chrome on PC. Viewable in Chrome’s notification tray (the bell-shaped icon in the system tray on Windows and the menu bar on Mac), they aren't actionable – you can’t respond to a text from desktop, for example – but they can be dismissed.  Check out the video below to see how it works.





Source: Droid Life

Artist Qi Wei Fong in his last series called Time is a Dimension depicted layered collages of landscapes and cityscapes photographed over 2-4 hour period. Now he has taken this collage type photography to a new project called Time in Motion. The new photos, shot in locations around China, Indonesia, and Bali show the change in light at sunrise or sunset through angular rays and concentric circles that shimmer as time passes. You can see more from the series on his website.


Tanah Lot Sunset, 2013


Shanghai Freeway, 2014

Source: ThisisColossal

Guardians of the Galaxy which is due out in August 2014 has just released the official trailer. From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team--the Guardians of the Galaxy.

An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits--Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon; Groot, a tree-like humanoid; the deadly and enigmatic Gamora; and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand--with the galaxy's fate in the balance."

I'm looking forward to seeing if this movie can live up to the other cinematic Marvel movies, but after watching the trailer I'm sure it will do just fine in bringing the story to life.

It has been a while since I have written about branding but Branch Creative caught my attention. Their solid color choices with minimal lines and typography kept me focused and interested in what they were displaying.

Here is a little bit about Branch Creative:

Branch Creative is an executive production and advertising house that represents a pool of photographers, illustrators and commercial directors from around the world. We created a sophisticated identity system with a playful typography treatment.

See more of their branding material on Behance.