Archive for the ‘design love’ Category
February 17, 2012
[via Design Milk]
Shut your eyes.
Now imagine you have just told yourself to go to bed. You walk across your perfect polished concrete floors, up your small ladder or stairs, through your little bedroom entry hole, yes entry hole, not door, lay down, and close your eyes, or keep them open because the view is far too perfect to shut them.
I guess this is what the Architects at this house a little bit had in mind. The sleeping retreats, each one of the four has its own unique out look.
The Four eyes house is not only beuatiful to look at, but as an inanimate object stimulates your brain by placing a context on other wise nothing spaces. Yes you can creat a bedroom that is spacious or a bedroom that is warm but these bedrooms, create a different environment all together that engages you visually.
It is just a really great idea.
I am a bit caught up looking at houses this week I am sorry.
More can be read about the Four Eyes House either via, Design Milk, or via the Amazing architect Edward Ogosta’s Site here
The idea is basically that all four bedrooms each have their own outlook, one being the sky and stars at night, one being the skyline of the near city, the 3rd being the mountain scape, and the final and fourth incorporating the horizon intune with the sunset.
Even the surrounding landscape is blended without theatrics or bizarre gardens, or succulents, it is just nice looking dirt, and a nice looking lap pool.
Tags:architecture, design, Design-milk, edward ogosta, four eyes, minimal, sleeping
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February 17, 2012
[Via Design Milk]
This place is just amazing. Have I said that before on this site? surely not.
it seems as though through the restriction in space and the high density population the amazing current Japanese architects, are become a form of ‘zen master’ of minimal form and clean non clinical warmth.
Shinichi Ogawa and Associates, are responsible for this master piece, and as can be read in this beautiful article at Design-Milk .
Having a tree encompassed by the house (which includes smoked glass no less) is one of those dream boat things that you hope and prey that by some fortune you can install into your house, even if it is only on a window in a door between the garage and the street.
The rest of Shinichi & friends work is equally amazing, but lets not forget the fact that some terribly talented builders and his team with amazing attention to detail have work from the plan to create this building and give us a glimpse of what minimal heaven may look like if we are sent there after reading or watching too much grand designs.
Going to be planting a tree in our living room as soon as Mrs Panda agrees
Tags:architecture, building, design, house, japan, minimal, white
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February 9, 2012
These are just some of the amazing illustrations doing the rounds on the interwebs, getting the artist Helena Perez Garcia well deserved kudos, you can see a lot more of her work over here at her website.
I will further feature some of her work after contacting her shortly, but these few pictures, just capture how truly amazing an illustrator and artist she is.
Hope you enjoy. I have to say my particular favourite is the wizard of oz parody.
These works by Helena are really eye catching, and I think I would like most of them on a t Shirt.
I imagine this is how my young daughters imagine their clothing is made.
i would definitely vote for him, such a sharp dresser.
Typical clinical waiting room, not as scary without the bellowing fire.
A good example of how my head feels most of the time, and perhaps Mrs Panda.
Tags:art, deisgn, feature, Helena Perez Garcia, illustration, illustrator
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January 27, 2012
I like this app. It is simple and elegant, and has all the mod cons of a lot of other iPhone cameras, without the wanky ‘real camera look’ to put your off.
Don’t get me wrong I really do like and use the Procamera app, and well who could go past Hipstamatic, but this one just wins.
The pictures that I have taken with this app far out perform any other pic with iPhone.
Some samples taken from the website show exactly the great quality pictures that can be taken but it is more the interface that gets me in.
The simple and screen-wide view finder, has minimal information and the buttons are concise and tell you only what you need to know, it takes a little getting used to, but once you are aware of all the information at your gazing eyes reach, then you can just use it like a normal camera. It even lets you know what ISO that you are shooting at, and the distance (macro etc). Getting to used to the lock and slide action only took a few shots and then was abused by myself in exploiting the artificial light capture on different scenes.
The adjustments take a little practice to get good results but for professional camera peeps that know how to rock the D-SLR functions this should be a breeze, for me it was a case of using the sliders, saying oh..thats cool!, and then saving the picture. The app gives you the ability to adjust the last picture that you have taken, and then if you like the settings of adjustment that you have come up with you can save it.
The ability to be able to set your white balance then lock it to take a shot of another scene is magical, and the slider controlled adjustments can recreate most filters available on the app store at present, sans ticket tape label and funny glasses of course.
The app designed by Ben Syverson took two years for him to develop and refine it back to the minimal app it is. It is apparently based on the Hexar, which is a great camera I am told, that was simple and easy to use but still created beautiful photography.
There is also a web-based tool at Mattebox.net that allows you to mimic the adjustment found on the iPhone app. I like it all. I recommend it, but don’t for a minute be expecting speech caption bubbles, 1970s toy camera filter or clipart rabbit ears.
Tags:app, apple, ben Syverson, design, hexar, iphone, iphoneography, mattebox, photography, photos, white balance
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January 11, 2012
[via Design-Milk]
Sometimes a watch just grabs your eye. For me i want to buy every wrist watch in the world. No I will not share before you ask.
just stumbled upon this whilst reading some articles from one of the best design sites in the world IMHO.
Void watches. The half glass half metal façade is supposed to reflect the horizon. I don’t mind. They look beautiful.
Tags:analogue, beauty, design, Design-milk, digital, time, void, watch
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December 22, 2011
Some ideas are pretty fresh. Hand made things are pretty much always fresh unless your Nan is making you the same scarf this Christmas that she has done for the past 15 years.
That is not so fresh.
But putting a handmade spin on tech and design has always had me interested.
Check out this project from Lauren Manning & Camile Wei-Hsin Lin
Over at
The Curiosity Project
The have made these terribly nice to look at hand made QR code posters.
I love when some one comes up with an idea that is not only visually pleasing but has the angle of art and design mixed with tech.
I think that this is why I like Apple products.
These are three posters I stole* from their website. (*by stole I mean borrow forever)
The Curiosity Project has many awesome links and articles updated daily and is truly excellent reading. It gives many daily inspirations, some of which I will do up coming posts about.
I will also follow up shortly with a high speed chase, to get some words and thoughts from one of our favorite artists Nanami Cowdroy.
Bit of a segway but hey. It’s the day before holidays and our work network is down, oh and it is still raining in December in Australia. Can’t wait for the meteorologist visionaries to start with their prophecy about how a cow from Whittenoon is causing Saturn to line up with a dog from Glen Rowin causing unprecedented cold waves throughout NSW only.
Tags:art, curiosity, design, handmade, human touch, inspiration, random
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December 16, 2011
[via Design-Milk]
I can’t help it. I cannot stop reading Design Milks Webpage ever. I do blame them however for constantly breaking what ever christian commandment lust is.
Or seven deadly sin or anti goat coveting law ….you get the picture.
Just want to share where I would like to be with my family this christmas, and easter, and monday thruogh sunday for the rest of my life.
This abode is just exquisite.
There you go. I said it. Exquisite.
I have not posted about apartment or house for a while but wow.
Back the fuck up people this is just the ensuite. Wait for the main bath. Take a breath have a cupcake and then scroll down.
Switchable opaque glass for privacy. Ahhh yepper.
As per Design-Milks article. The actual fitting for the water spout is inserted into the ceiling so the basin’s water alights from the roof and drizzles onto your dainty hands below. cleansing the world with it and possible contributing to world peace – can every one see where I am going with this, this apartment is amazing.
Tags:apartment, architecture, art, bathroom, design, house, sanctuary
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November 28, 2011
In light of this very busy artist currently being very busy, I have decided to feature Nanami Cowdroy without the beautiful interview, full of artistic questions I was bound to ask.
Instead I thought I would let her absofuckinglutely beautiful ink speak for itself.
I guess it all started about two months ago when I fell in love with gelaskins iPhone protective covers, available for all devices, one of the artists that stood out was Nanami. Her black ink on stark white was a total stand out. Beautiful clean lines mixed with bleeding paper pores.
Nanami Cowdroy’s web portfolio/web page is a beautiful whole showcase of her raw talent. To be honest with you I don’t give a fuck what format she uses. What textiles she uses or what medium she uses. Her shit is hot, and accesses the core of ones imagination glands. Or burns her monochrome ink carvings onto your optic disc, staining your optic pathway with what ever fucking chemical it is that floats between the synapse to your brain.
This is only a couple of images or her brilliant talent. I would as other sites have done, delve into her family’s origins or her artistic influences, but hey. Fuck that.
Her pictures are pretty. Proper pretty. Sexy pretty. And I really like them, I hope you do too! And if my little webpage points only one person to her webpage and brings her to the attention of only one person other than myself, then I think that will do her a minimal point of justice. This girls art is the butterfly that starts the tsunami.
Nanami Cowdroy. Fucking sexy pretty ink
Tags:art, cable cranes, Cowdroy, design, ink, monochrome, Nanami, pretty
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November 15, 2011
yeah that’s right, you never hear that any more, do you, such a shame. Who didn’t love a mix tape.
even Cds were a push. And they were only a push if you rocked cover art.
maybe I am a little late on the uptake but the kind folk over at Air Cassette have been kind enough to give us iPhoneophiles a little bit of our childhood back.
totally rock any cassette well almost any cassette not the one that you got back from you ex in the schism of ’88 and had to tear the label off because it had that bitch’s name all over it and to be honest it was probably the worst mix tape you have ever made anyone, and staying up late that thursday to do it really bummed out the next day which was Saturday anyhow
yeah, totally rock any cassette from you teen/youth years. It doesn’t even have that time your cousin yelled out in the recording when you had a blanket over yours and his boom boxes dubbing Poison’s “open up and say ahh” LP.
The only let down that I can see is that you can’t draw your favourite love scene or metal patriot on the outside, and include “like love hearts and kisses and hugs and stuff”.
This app is way up there. It just does everything to compliment the irony that no one really needs a smart phone, as we are all smart phones in person with each other, and in doing so becomes the perfect app for iPhone and whatever other platforms that it comes on which I choose not to recognise the existence of.
there is just so many to choose from, and even though I had my favourite brand (TDK gold) which I still fully believe that I believed sounded better this was probably more reliant on the type of blanket used to cover the dubbing tape players
go there and get it.
Tags:air cassette, apple, apps, cassettes, design, iphone, lifehack, Music, playlist
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November 9, 2011
Came across these the other day and shall now proceed to write a brief and proposal to Mrs Panda to access company funds to purchase one in an adult bed size.
but they don’t make them adult size.
boo.
How good is going to bed, everyones favorite place in the whole world and then opening you door only to find you will be sleeping in this.. a giant chocolate bar. OMFG I would woot until I was unable to woot no more.
“now with extra sleep”…if only.
Now not sure if this goes along with the meaning of sleeping with the fishes but it is cute, all pack in like sardines, v. cute
and a pillow to match
This is probably my fav set though. The pencil box,
complete with the coolest pillow of all three sets.
an eraser pillow.
now so you can go and get all three they are available from Bed Toppings dot com maybe a little on the higher side of well priced but to cool to pass up.
All the company has to do now is make king and queen size.
Tags:adult children, bedding, childhood, chocolate, design, nap time, pencils, sleep
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