Tuesday, 6 December 2011



It is one thing to design a space-saving idea for a single room, or a piece of multi-purpose transforming furniture…but this collection is on another level entirely. From all-in-one living, kitchen and work spaces to sofas and entertainment centers, Boxetti has raised the bar on modern interior designs.



Designer Rolands Landsbergs is the Latvian mastermind behind this series of ingenious designs. Following basic principles of “functionality, advanced technology and [modern] minimalism,” each ‘box’ can  transform at the push of a button but is also constructed out of high-quality materials to remain rigid and durable during conversions and use.


God I'd love these!

Monday, 5 December 2011

Franc Grom



Using traditional designs from his home country, Slovenian born artist, Franc Grom, creates some of the most intricate carvings I have ever seen. What makes Franc’s work so unique, is that all the carving is done on eggs in egg shell. Anyone that has blown an egg, knows how fragile the shell gets once the reinforcement of the yolk and white inside has been removed. So the fact that Franc’s designs have anything between 2,500 – 3,500 cuts and holes says something for his steady hand and delicacy of his work.



My Tattoo

This is my recent tattoo. Before anyone asks, it's Frank Zappa.



Big thank you to Edgar at Old London Road Tattoos in Kingston, check their website here.

Friday, 2 December 2011

The 45-Degree Neck

What will happen if we shift the mouth of the bottle from the top to a 45-degree angle? You may not be able to fill it to the brim, and drinking from it may be a bit weird, but filling the bottle from a water cooler or fountain will surely become easy. This simple placement difference can do a heck lot for the packaging design and I think it’s radical and awesome.

Designers: Hsu Hsiang-Min, Liu Nai-Wen & Chen Yu-Hsin






The Humble Pizza Box: Masterfully Redesigned


You may think the pizza box is as good a design as it could ever be, however 'Green Box' have produced a piece of genius. Their pizza box breaks in half, producing four 'plates' and a fridge friendly storage box for the remaining pizza.

Mobile Smart Phone Grocery Shopping in Subway Stations



South Korean grocery chain Tesco was looking for a way to one-up their major competitor – impossible to do in terms of physical shops due to a lack of actual stores; hence, they turned toward the world wide web with a combination of mobile phone and QR code technologies.


Using smartphones, shoppers can browse the isles during time normally spent idle anyway on their way to or from work. Their purchased products are then delivered by the store, waiting for them when they get home and ready to be put right into the kitchen cabinets, refrigerator or freezer.





More Interesting Type

Came across this as well, not sure who the artist is....still pretty cool.




See more here.

Unusual Fonts

If you want to create your own font sometimes it’s no need to use graphic programms. Just use various objects and try to form letters. These unusual fonts were created by Vladimir Koncar– artist from Zagreb, Croatia.


Soil

Pills

Psychedelic Stop-Motion Clay Animations

London-based artist and animator Nicos Livesey creates these mind-exploding animations using intricately built loafs of plasticine.

The colorful clay is formed into morphing and shifting geometric patterns that are revealed as he slices and photographs the cross-sections at painstaking 2mm intervals.

Watch his animations here.