Archive for July, 2008
For those of you with a passion for typography why not take a peek at Artext’s creative offering…?
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Posted in Design
© Photographs copyright Christian Richters
By coupling indigenous techniques and materials with modern design technologies and aesthetics GBA has created this intimate double pavilion for a writer in Costa Rica. A main studio space, with library, writing desk and grand piano, is the writer’s daytime space. The pavilion’s wooden structure, sourced from local timber, sits on a simple foundation of wooden stilts on small concrete pad foundations. Roof beams of up to 10 m long and 355 mm deep allow for an interior with no vertical columns. The mono-pitched roof elevates towards the sea shore, while the interior is through ventilated via a completely louvred glazed end façade.
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Posted in Architecture
Samsung have announced their newest belter of a mobile phone. Its called the Innov8 to focus on the big 8 megapixels on the camera, it also has autofocus and a dual LED flash, plus an image stabiliser, panoramic stitching, face detection and a number of other features.
When we look at the the multimedia player in the Innov8 there is a huge choice in supporting video/audio formats including - DivX, WMV, MP3, H.263 and H.264 video plus MP3, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, WMA, AMR and RealAudio formats. Other features worth mentioning are that it has A-GPS (Assisted GPS), is a Symbian phone and to add that little bit extra it has an accelerometer.
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Posted in Audio-Video, Gadgets
BLUTSBRUEDER DESIGN is an acclaimed Design Studio with a roster of international clients. Specializing in art and advertising print productions with a focus on visual effects, Blutsbrueder Design provides both the creative direction and the final implementation of the image. This service includes 3D work from their accomplished team of digital artists, the retouching and the post-production and as a special service, matte painting.
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Holy crap—somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop! No — wait — sorry. That’s just my USB flash drive. My bad. Nevermind. Mammoth 2-gig capacity. Peggable blistercard packaging.
Design: Windell Oskay
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OCIU is the name-card of ZAVA collection. The suspension is fully realized in opal methacrylate, 8 mm thickness, diameter of 185 cm and a width of 90 cm. Its name born from a typical Venice dialet expression: OCIU means EYE! or PAY ATTENTION! 100% well-aimed. Immediate and spontaneous is the sentence coming out from who observes OCIU for the first time: HUGE! IMPRESSIVE!
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Posted in Lighting
Continue reading ‘The Ociu light, who says size doesn’t matter?’
Picture credits: Hufton + Crow
The UK has unveiled its first zero emission home that will set the environmental standard for all new homes in the future. The two-bedroom house is insulated to lose 60% less heat than a normal home. It also features solar panels, a biomass boiler and water efficiency devices such as rainwater harvesting.
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Posted in Architecture
Continue reading ‘First zero-emission home unveiled’
Words By: Nargess Shahmanesh-Banks for wallpaper Magazine
Vehicle design at the Royal College of Art turns 40 next year. The postgraduate course, with a global reputation for nurturing up-and-coming car designers, boasts an alumni that reads like the who’s who of the car design world.
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Posted in Cars & Bikes
