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What happens when you take an accelerometer controlled product like the wii fit, and strap it onto a 4 wheels, then put a baby seat on top? We’ll based off this video I bring you the Segway for babies. I find this both a bit scary, but then the geek side of me says, awesome!
“Art is an idea that’s found perfect form. There are too many possibilities. No matter how perfectly you do something, it can still be improved.â€
—Paul Rand
I noticed this amazing airplane print over on Unhappy Hipster. It’s part of the Aircraft series by Jeffrey Milstein. Oh my, this is getting #wishlisted asap. Simply stunning.
For now, I’ll stick to the book: AirCraft: The Jet as Art.
Matteo Sangalli and Erika Zorzi, two young designers, are running a fun tumblr blog called 01 Mathery on which they showcase 1 IDEA A DAY. The idea is to design an object a day. Made me look and smile.
(via ignant)
Interesting project to start kids early in the thinking process in saving for charity! Very cool and needed.
“The power of piggy:
We believe that this simple product, Piggy, can truly make the world a better and more compassionate place.
Piggy helps teach kids about charitable giving, with the hopes of inspiring new generations of caring, sharing, philanthropic citizens.
With 12,000 children born each day in the US, imagine the social impact if just a fraction of them learned powerful lessons
of gratefulness and kindness to others.”
See the full project at goodlittlepiggy
A few pics after the jump.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, the city of Detroit developed rapidly thanks to the automobile industry. Until the 50’s, its population rose to almost 2 million people. Detroit was the 4th most important city in the United States. It was the dazzling symbol of the American Dream City with its monumental skyscrapers and fancy neighborhoods.
Increasing segregation and deindustrialization caused violent riots in 1967. The white middle-class exodus from the city accelerated and the suburbs grew. Firms and factories began to close or move to lower-wage states. Slowly, but inexorably downtown high-rise buildings emptied. Since the 50’s, “Motor City” lost more than half of its population.
Nowadays, its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great civilization.
If you by any chance will pass Stockholm in the next coming weeks you have the possibility to see the exhibition “The Ruins of Detroit” by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre at The Gun Gallery, Runebergsgatan 3, Stockholm. The exhibition opens August 27 and runs until September 19.
Neat!
“In the sought-after London boroughs of Chelsea and Islington, inner city birds often have to claim their nesting space quickly! However, birds that are open to changing their wild ways might be convinced to try out the innovative bird-housing concept developed by the artists at London Fieldworks. The “Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven†opened recently as part of the Secret Garden Project by UP Projects and hopes to develop into a haven of biodiversity and create a new public awareness of the ecological and cultural value of urban green spaces.
With over 250 bird and bug boxes available in the stunning sculptural art installation, birds can choose from a range of shapes and sizes of boxes to use for shelter, nesting or feeding spaces. The diverse complex of bird boxes were designed to reflect the architecture in the nearby Georgian terraces and 1960s flats that surround the park in Duncan Terrace Gardens and Cremorne Gardens. We love the strangely organic forms that are created by stacking these distinct modular box shapes together and are happy to hear that they have been woven together using elastic bands, which means the structure can change over time as the tree grows.
Read the rest on Inhabitat with more pictures.
Hehe, so if your struggling to pick a typeface and don’t have a graphic designer to help you out, here’s a fun little infographic that might save you some thinking time in choosing a font.
“Sao Paulo ad agency Moma Propaganda created a wondeful series of retro future ads for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Skype as part of the “Everything Ages Fast†ad campaign for Maximidia Seminars.”
I’d really like an embossed large print of these posters… what a great project! Somewhat reminds me of Back To the Future.
via LaughingSquid (This Isn’t Happiness & Ads of The World)
See all the Retro Future ads after the jump!
Lottery tickets can make or break dreams, but they can also be transformed into beautiful objects in their own right. Ghost of a Dream, a team of two Rhode Island School of Design Graduates, has created one of the most astounding sets of recycled art that we’ve seen in a long time, using a cheeky combination of lottery tickets and romance novels.
Read the rest of Lottery Tickets Transformed Into Beautiful Works of Arthttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ [www.inhabitat.com]
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Fifty years after The Americans of Robert Frank, and practically at the same time as the reconstruction of the then pioneering exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", FotoMuseum, through the exhibition American Documents, offers a comprehensive overview of the documentary trends in American photography from the 1970 until now continue
Wow, check out this space in japan.. makes me want to be at peace with nature, Â relax, an live a very simple life… though it needs a small pool or Onsen somewhere.
“The Minimalist House in Itoman-shi, Okinawa, Japan, was designed by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates / Urbanist Architect. Just have a look a the floor plan and you’ll understand why it’s called the minimalist house.”
More images mirrored via todayandtomorrow after the jump.
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