Saks 2010 Christmas 3d Projection

Saks gets the 3D projection mapping treatment in NYC.





Watch it here

Apple Friend Bar

New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

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This from CR Blog

"So what's this all about? Well, turns out that long established Soho record shop, Harold Moores (specialist in classical and jazz releases), is closing for a re-fit. In order to prepare the shop for its revamp, staff are chucking out thousands and thousands of records (well over 20,000 by my reckoning) - which were dumped, rather unceremoniously, in a skip outside the premises...

But that's not to say the records are destined for landfill just yet. During my lunchbreak I stumbled across this scene of vinyl hungry people clambering over each other to grab a few vintage slabs of wax..."

Supermarket Mario

You can't knock this...

Kyle Bean at Selfridges

Nice window displays by Kyle Bean based on 'The Scientific law of conservation of energy'...

Harvey Nichols windows

Some lovely stuff made out of stuff...









More over at Notcot

Cockney cash machines

Sniff the dog

Sniff is a virtual dog that lives in the window of Creative Thrift Shop in Brooklyn. Created by Karolina Sobecka and James George. More here

Drink chiller

Parra X Stones Throw

Ace illustrator and record label Stones Throw have teamed up over in LA to do a pop-up mobile Rockwell store. Some nice touches and tees, etc.





More here

Racing suit

Design agency GBH and set designer Anna Burns have teamed up to make a Ferrari F1 car out of clothes as an installation in the Puma store on Carnaby St.

Here's the car:



Here's the making of:

Brilliant

James Eyre is a friend of ours. He does Paul Smith's window displays. He did this on Floral Street, Covent Garden, due to the roadworks (above) going on outside the shop...





Not sure if he nicked the signs or made the them. Who cares...

Space: The 3rd Dimension

After a short break, our internal UTI's are back for 09.

Neil Mason, one of our top 3D dudes, has arranged the following, with some poster skills from Dangerous Dave...



3 diverse experts will be chatting their way through 3D spaces past, present and future. Those 3 are:

Gary Shelley - a designer responsible for a wide range of Museum and exhibition design projects in such places as the Museum of London, Tower of London, V & A and the Natural History Museum who currently works for award winning designers Casson Mann.

He's joined by Steve Jensen who is is just finishing Vivienne Westwood's offices and has a range of works spanning 20 years from residential projects to the Big Brother house.

And completing the trio is James Eyre who has worked for the likes of Barber and Osgerby Juggernaut and for the last five years Paul smith, designing windows for the man globally.

Should be good. A write up of what went down will be here a few days after in case you can't make it down.

Gas station from the future

Recently we were talking about all the abandoned petrol stations that currently blight inner city areas (usually now hand car washes) and it reminded me of this...



I saw this in LA a few months ago - easily the best petrol station in the world - not sure who the architect was. It's called 'Helios House' and you can see more pictures here and read about how eco-friendly it is here