Artist Uses Lego to Recreate Video Games Scenes
A talented pixel artist called Skinny Coder had the great idea of recreating video games scenes using legos. Above, you can see his recreation of Excitebike, one of my favorites Nintendo video games.
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A Modern More or Less Humane
Since before its completion in 2002, Stephen Holl’s award-winning MIT dormitory, Simmons Hall, has been garnering praise from the architectural community. But assessing a building as a professional critic is different from living in and interacting with it. I wondered how the students who lived there felt about it.
According to his Web site, Holl’s intention was to produce a porous structure that would promote free-flowing social activity and energy. The building does indeed seem to be a refreshing change from the material palette, primarily brick, of the surrounding campus. The Simmons Hall facade is covered with hundreds of L-shaped metal panels that frame small square windows. As intended, the building’s monolithic form has the appearance of a permeable membrane.
Dressman By Siemens
It might look like a dress dummy, but it could be the ironing lady of your dreams – it’s an ironing machine designed to iron shirts and it has just gone on the market in Germany for EU’ 1.029,00. Apparently, it works VERY WELL! Research shows it takes the average person eight minutes to iron the average shirt according to Seimens, the makers of the Dressman, the world’s latest attempt at building a machine to iron shirts. For those busy professionals amongst us, that represents a saving of at least 40 minutes a week, not to mention the opportunity to avoid one of man’s least favourite chores (again according to research from Siemens). The ‘dressmann’ irons completely on its own and has a number of other attributes which make it worthwhile – it can ‘freshen up’ jackets that have not been worn for a while, and can actually dry a freshly washed blouse.
Flipper Screen
This screen is the answer to our need for both a screen and a great place to display our Adler ceramics. The flipper folding screen has unique circular cut-outs, hinged with locking mechanisms to create a lovely disk shelf for your own ceramic collections, bowling trophies, goldfish bowl, or pictures of your sweetie. Or, leave them closed to remain mysterious to those in the next room.
AntWorks
AntWorks was developed the by NASA Space Shuttle experiment to study animal life in space and test how ants successfully tunnel in microgravity. The Fascinations Ant Works allows you to study the behavior of ants in a unique, self-contained environment. Its special gel is full of nutrients specially formulated for the needs of the ant. Because the gel is clear, you can see tunnel architecture develop in 3-D.
Bix Project
“BIX” represents a new approach to create, to work with and to learn to understand media surfaces in architecture and urbanism.
A matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps is integrated into the eastern acrylic glass façade of the biomorphic building structure of the new Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria. Through the possibility to individually adjust the lamps’ brightness at an infinite variability with 20 frames/second images, films and animations can be displayed – the Kunsthaus’ skin is transformed into a giant low resolution computer display.
Six Part Toaster By Matt Gossington
The Six Part Toaster rotates and heats the toast in single compartments. The compartments lift from the main assembly and swing open to allow toast to keep warm and crisp on its hot plates. The toaster is ideal for homeowners that are inspired by contemporary touches in their living space, making an inspiring centerpiece at the dinner table.
2006 Dodge Challenger Concept
I’ve always been a big fan of muscle cars and when I saw the 2006 Dodge Challenger concept car, my eyes literally popped out of my head. This beast is based on the iconic 1970 model, a car with mega horsepower and pure lines. Rethought, reworked, reproportioned and redesigned, the Challenger concept car offers a HEMI-powered performance coupe derived from one of the most sought after classic American muscle car. I’m sure this car would give General Lee a run for its money!
Magnus Long
Magnus Long was born in 1979. He studied furniture and Product Design at the Nothingham Trend University School of Art. During this time Magnus carried out a social and ergonomic study into how people really uses their clothes. The study resulted in 3 major projects: a transparent wardrobe, a clothes rack and a shoe shelve.
Magnus concepts consider the individual and how we would like to do things. He evolves and refines the idea into a design for manufacture using simple, elegant forms to create beautiful, stimulating objects.
Mansion Chandelier By Eric Ginder
Eric Ginder‘s studio was founded in the fall of 2004 with the conception of the ghost collection, a series of objects created entirely by hand from solid cast resin. Before focusing on a career in design, he studied at Chicago’s Art Institute and worked as a production artist in advertising. Now his studio focuses on crafted pieces that attempt to blur the line between art and design, like this chandelier which is made of laser-cut aluminum construction and halogen-bulb lamps. It’s s an original aerial spirit of ghost.
Torre Combi Center Container By Joe Colombo
Joe colombo is one of Italy’s most influential product designers. After experiences in various art fields, from informal painting to furnishings, he devoted himself to industrial design and to a mass-production by experimenting new materials and advanced technologies since 1963.
The system of cylindrical elements diversely equipped and arranged into free-standing furniture containers of varying heights which rotate one on top of the other. It was presented in its various versions as a hobby container at the XIII Triennale in 1964, where it won the silver medal. It was used as a book display stand in the publishing section of the XIV Triennale. New versions are now in production: a TV and video recorder, set trolley,desk computer and printer trolley especially for home work.
Tropical House By Jean Prouve
Jean Prouve, one of the great designers of this century, was trained as an ornamental ironworker in Nancy. In 1930 he achieved an innovative breakthrough, producing a plastic and technical form oriented to industrial practice and went on to become the progressive partner of significant architects and charismatic furniture designers.
Prouve designed the Tropical House in 1949 as a prototype for inexpensive, readily assembled housing that could be easily transported to France’s African colonies. Fabricated in Prouve’s French workshops, the components for the house were completed in 1951 and were flown disassembled to Africa in the cargo hold of an airplane. The house was erected in the town of Brazzaville, Congo, where it remained for nearly 50 years.
Sake Set By Morgan Levine
Morgan Levine devised forms in pillow-shaped ceramic.A crushed plaster-filled bag served as the mold for the sake bottle which also provide a nest for two ceramic cups. The culturally constructed boundaries of Sake drinking with this fabulous white pillow ceramic sake set will bring curiosity around your table.
Receptionist Robot By Hello Kitty
PeopleStaff, an employment agency in Japan, is adding robots to its usual roster of people. The agency will dispatch Hello Kitty Robot, a robotic receptionist capable of sensing a visitor’s presence, greeting him or her and holding simple conversations.
The Nagoya-based agency is also offering the services of Ifbot, an elderly-care robot that chats and poses riddles and arithmetical problems to train the brain and help avoid dementia.
The Memphis Collective
Memphis was a Milan-based collective of young furniture and product designers led by the veteran Ettore Sottsass. After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style.This really original porcelain fruitbowl’s has been designed by Matteo Thun for Memphis. Matteo was born in 1952 in bolzano/alto adige, he studied under oskar kokoschka at the salzburg academy. in 1975 he was awarded his phd in architecture at the university of Florence, Italy. In collaboration with Ettore Sottsass he grounded the Sottsass Associati and the Memphis design group in 1981.
Wax Desk by Frank Lloyd & Wright Johnson
Designed in 1936 for the S.C. Johnson Wax Company, this iconoclastic desk and chair still satisfy the needs of that person looking for a functioning work of art to place in their home or workplace. Brick-red metal frame with natural cherry wood accent top and arms. A pendaflex file drawer, waste-basket, and accompanying file rack complete this state of the art design.
Cassina is the exclusive licensed and authorized manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright designs worldwide. Every item in the Cassina Wright Collection bears the signature of the designer and a serial number. The serial number indicates the exact date of production and allows the article to be matched with its Identity Card. This item is available for 10 day Quick-Ship.
Comforters By Reality Bedding
Let’s go to sleep in a sexy bed, pretty girls are waiting for you to have a really exciting night. Reality bedding uses a revolutionary new printing technology that makes the image come alive! Sharp and lifelike, it just leaps off the surface of the fabric.
The Strokes – First Impressions Of Earth
We’re big fans of The Strokes at Cubeme so we were very excited to get our hands on The Strokes’ third album, First Impressions of Earth. All I can say is that it lives up to expectations. This album shows maturity, diversity, and you can actually hear Julian Casablancas’ voice. I was impressed by the deepness of “Ize Of The World” and the infectious pop anthem “You Only Live Once”. It’s probably one of the rock best albums of 2006.
