Archive for the ‘design love’ Category
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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November 4, 2011
I know, I know, we have been over this before but, this time it is true love…..oh wait, that was for the latest edition of mills and boon I am writing.
I love cubby houses.
I really just do.
I treat our grown up house like a cubby house. Well I found some new ones, perhaps in a more reasonable price range (when I say reasonable, I mean if I was a single millionaire, and the kids I were entertaining were the ones I bought from an orphanage).
These simple modular cubbys give the kids that certain modern minimalist chillout sopt they deserve.
I would order a birch double.
check them out over at Play-Modern
I think I really like the little planter boxes as well, gives that appeal that you kids pad is in SoHo NYC or Camperdown SYD
Tags:children, cubby house, design, housing, kids, modern, modular, plants
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October 28, 2011
Look. We all love how sexy the iPhone4/4s is. Siri voice or not. It looks beautiful and no wants to see it get wrecked right?
Well through following DNA11 art on face book and the web I was pointed in the direction of gelaskins.com
These skins for a lot of devices are just awesome. Designed by artists and uploaded by you, the skins come with free wallpaper to make your iPhone or device look as though it is capsulated in a beautiful design tech master piece.
There are just so many cool designs to choose from and even me, the resident ‘installation idiot’ they are easy to apply. That is one a of the best points. They are removable. Swappable. Exchangeable. Changeable.
This means during installation it doesn’t matter if you need to reposition. And believe me I did. But now installed for mr and mrs panda’s phones they look great.
Gelaskins also offer a free iPhone app downloadable from the app store to keep your wallpaper fresh. All for free.
The two wall papers/designs we got were these
Cable Cranes by Nanami Cowdroy
And
Tail Feathers by Tula Pink
Go and get some. They are really great. And less then 1mm thick. You cannot even feel the beautiful skin on your phone.
Totally recommend this life hack.
Tags:apple, gelaskins, iphone, iphone4, mobile phone
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October 28, 2011
Purchased this the other day as I sat in my office my iPhone playing music on loud speaker as the owner of any smart phone would know, just doesn’t cut it.
So I decided to start browsing eBay for some sort of cost effective, well designed, micro speaker or dock.
This one jumped out of the page at me. I can’t give specific URL to find the product as it probably breaches a whole bunch of Apple copyrights, but if you are desperate and cannot find it let me know and I will give you the store details.
The packaging was right up there with Apple packaging in terms of good looks and cool science lab design. Very akin to the box I purchased my 6th gen Nano in.
and the back gave great tips to remember to back up data to your local or home computer lulz.
The product consisted of the actual tiny little speaker module, and the dual function speaker cable and usb charger cable.
The speaker has a small round black on off button on the bottom and the mini USB connector hole that serves as a connection point for the dual function cord supplied with the speaker
There isn’t a need for the unit to be plugged into power, as it is driven by a lithium ion battery, and the little apple glows white when the speaker is switched on.
and to plug your phone or whatever in? well a 3.5mm jack. Not digital signal I know but come on it is for an office not for a THX home cinema.
and with an iPod Nano 6th Gen in the form of a lunatik watch, doesn’t it make the most adorable little office stereo?
let me know if you want eBay store details!!
Tags:apple, ebay, gadgets, Music, office life, speakers, tech
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October 26, 2011
need a new welcome mat?, nerd?
or maybe you need a new flash drive
or maybe you need someone to talk to in your office?
or perhaps you are having an 8bit day?
I know, I know, it is all at thinkgeek.com but when was the last time you had a browse?
Tags:8bit, c64 day, ninjas, office supplies, officework, thinkgeek
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October 25, 2011
YSMR Architecture are helping out with this awesome temp housing project for earthquake/tsunami effected areas of Japan, built from ex shipping containers these beautifully liveable housing options, would have to be a lovely and welcome change from tents and demountable housing.
One of the main things voice by the extremely humble people of the Sendai area, was that privacy is something they missed – with the loss of their OWN home and their OWN belongings. These beautifully designed and affordable temp housing solutions go a long way to helping parts of the community to get back on their feet.
you can donate here
Tags:architechture, container housing, design, japan, sendai, YSMR
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