Wednesday 30 June 2010

The Contagious Conversation

This is a visualisation of the debate that happened during Cannes at The Contagious Conversation... (click to enlarge)



More info on chat over at Contagious and the visual done by Scriberia

CDsea

Installation in Wiltshire by Bruce Munro using 600k CDs...





Few more pics over on De Zeen

Cheers



Nice beer and footy collab posters...



Check them all here

Lomo 360

Check this bad boy out - Lomo that does 360 panoramas at the pull of a chord...



Dig it more here

Solar phone

By Samsung - being unveiled in India. More at PSFK

Tuesday 29 June 2010

Skills of the rockstar planner

Nice series of chats with planners around lots of stuff. This one is about intuitive problem solving....



Watch others over at PSFK

Kenner AT&AT Walker - walks...

AT-AT day afternoon from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.

Stop the water

Finally someone has done this...



Buy and read more here

Hipster cycle



By Emily Miethner

Monday 28 June 2010

Newspaper sculptures

NYC urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, depositing them in random locations around the city...





More over on Flavour Wire

Friday 25 June 2010

FabricBall

Spanish designer Klas Ernflo covers footballs in cool fabric patterns...







Thursday 24 June 2010

The Big Caption

I'll just let the images (and words) do the talking but do check out The Big Caption - it's awesome... as it The Boston Big Picture blog where all the images are originally from - photojournalism at it's best...







Smile

A lovely smile activated ice cream vending machine from Unilever as part of their 'Share Happy' philosophy.



Read more over at PSFK

Nerdball

Some lovely data visualisations of football over at World Cup of Nerds ...



Human LCD

Wednesday 23 June 2010

My phone is off for you



Great social intervention project by Ingrid Zweifel getting people to turn their phone off and dedicate quality time during a meal.





Go here for the official site - and video - or a review on Notcot

Stuff & Things

STUFF & THINGS. from Jack Cunningham on Vimeo.

Tuesday 22 June 2010

Steve Powers at PSFK

"Who he?" you say. Shame on you. He be the man behind Love Letter in Philidelphia as previously blogged and also featured in top film Beautiful Losers. Check it:

The Cupcake Dance

Monday 21 June 2010

Foodballers

Frank Yampard:



Broccoli Sagna:



Pepper Reina:



Aaron Lemon:



Lots more over at Yep We Can

2 bits of Star Wars illustration

First off, Greg Smeltz does dapper Victorian portraits...





Secondly, John Woo puts the characters of Star Wars in couture and trendy street wear...



On the other hand...

The Dislike ink stamp from the same people that bought you the Like ink stamp. Having never been a Facebook fanatic, I'm feeling this more...



We are not time travellers



Alex Varanese has grabbed grab all the modern technology he could find, taken it back to the late 70's, superficially redesigned it all to blend in, and started a fictional consumer electronics company to unleash it upon the world. Cool.









For the full set go here

Friday 18 June 2010

Lego England



Read an interview with the creator over at CR Blog

Thursday 17 June 2010

The hoverboard is here

And about time too. Just don't stand on it yet:

HOVERBOARD - NILS GUADAGNIN from nils guadagnin on Vimeo.

OK Go - End Love video

Maybe not as good as their previous efforts but goodish

iPod Arcade dock



By Pinel & Pinel. Only $13,713 but comes with Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and Space Invaders loads more retro games - therefore a bargain.

Thumb war



Lovely - by Christopher Lee - who's done some fantastic vector illustrations

Swarm Lighting

By Random International





'Swarm Light' by rAndom International / Design Miami / Art Basel 2010 from rAndom International on Vimeo.

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Robocup 2010



The other World Cup - The Robocup 2010 - is played by robots made by loads of techie dudes and colleges. It kicks off in Singapore in mid June. It might be more exciting than the real thing.

Here's one of the top players:



Go here for a comprehensive preview and meet the other key players or check the official Robocup website

The train that never stops

Lapp-pro X Nike



LAPP-PRO pay homage to Nike’s eight sponsored teams at this year’s 2010 World Cup with a stunning display of light painting using no digital enhancements...







Check the rest and the 'making of' video at Hypebeast

Tuesday 15 June 2010

Sugar Skull by Paul Alexander Thornton

Tweet yawn



Pilfered from Wooster

Gun Fan



Go buy here

 

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