Qlock Two

Wow. Just wow. This clock is so sick, word to Ne-Yo.
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Sheet Seats

I love it when they improve upon something. Please, please produce these.

Featured at DWR’s M+D+F 2009 and IDSA’s Equilateral Exhibitions during New York Design Week, this portable chair is apt for small spaces, allowing ease of storage and transportation. This creative design looks appealing with its extraordinary appearance and convenience

BMW SX Concept

from likecool:
The BMW S.X concept by designer Iulian Bumbu, a graduate of the Transportation Design Course at the Scuola Politecnica di Design (SPD) in Milan. This BMW S.X Concept represents the next generation luxury sports coupe from BMW could look like. And it would be well positioned to take over where the current 6 Series BMW. This design has high-mount brake lights incorporated into the edges of the rear window and the lateral vents located just behind the front wheels.

Ping Pong Door

Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?

Node outlet

So simple. So sick.

from thedesignblog:
With increasing number of electronic devices intruding apartments as well as offices, we require lots of sockets to plug-in the gadgets, which often mars the decor of the modern residential and work spaces with the web of wires and extension cords. However, “Node” is an innovative solution to the scruffy problem that not just amps up multiple plugs in the circuit, but it featuring a simple yet fresh design also go hand in had with the interior decoration. There is no reason why the Node shouldn’t get a nod from interior designers.

Transformers USB hub and drive

I love functional toys. It's one thing to entertain, another to be useful and entertaining.

You can pre-order at the bigbadtoystore.

Rubik's Cube Type Stamp

from Creative Review:
Jas Bhachu, who will soon graduate from Liverpool School of Art & Design, has created this Rubik's Cube Font Generator

The Font Generator has rubber stamps attached to four faces of the cube, with two faces blank. The modular elements of the stamps can be combined to form characters which can then be printed.

6emeia Project

from The Smoking Section:
Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente started what is called the 6emeia project, in an effort to liven up the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. These storm drains feature some very creative and intricate designs, see for yourself after the jump. You can check out the 6emeia Website for more info.

Harley Davidson Trunk

from ecofriend:
A green Harley Davidson seems to be an oxymoron, but concept bike designer Nicolas Petit thinks otherwise. Petit has made sure that in a world where car and motorcycle manufacturers are looking for ways to make their bikes green, Harley Davidson should not be left behind. With an ecofriendly thought and tools to bring his creation to some realistic form, Nicolas has designed the Harley Davidson Trunk concept – a bike designed to run on clean, zero emission electricity.

This doesn't scream "Harley" to me. If you slapped a Ducati badge on there, however...

Abisko Washbasin

from trendir:
Breathtakingly brilliant in glacial white… the Abisko Washbasin from Eumar is a totally new concept for our modern lifestyle. In these environmentally-conscious times the cast mineral marble washbasin Abisko brings us back to nature. Inspired by the unspoilt waterfalls of the Swedish National Park Abisko, the sink is unfettered by pipes. Nor does it allow water to accumulate in a big tub, something designers Johan Kauppi and Lars Sundström deem unnecessary. Rather, one should be aware of just how much water one is using, and catch it with careful consideration. An extraordinary, sculptural piece, the Abisko washbasin captures the freshness of mountain streams as water cascades down the length of the sink to slip away down a discreet floor-level grill. Living with an awareness of our limited resources, surrounded by cherished objects… these are the keys to happiness offered by the Abisko Washbasin from Eumar.

Nike and James Jarvis present "Onward"

Onwards from akqa on Vimeo.

Comic Shelves by Oscar Nunez

from freshome:

Imagined by the designer Oscar Nunez for Mexican Fusca Design the “Comic Shelves” is a simple, but creative idea that looks really good. This idea would be better if you would have a character on your wall right under this bookshelf.

"Carousel" by Adam Berg

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick...apparently it's for Philips' new TV

I Want to Believe

from SuperTouch:
While the Chinese modern art market of recent years with its fast rising cult-of-personality art stars was ultimately born to fail—and with the recent economic meltdown, fail it has—the shining light of the red country’s art world continues to glow in the form of CAI GUO-QIANG. Drawing freely from ancient mythology, military history, Taoist cosmology, extraterrestrial observations, Maoist revolutionary tactics, Buddhist philosophy, gunpowder-related technology, Chinese medicine, and methods of terrorist violence, Cai’s art is a form of social energy, constantly mutable, linking what he refers to as “the seen and unseen worlds.” His newly unveiled retrospective, “I Want to Believe,” at the GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, Bilbao (the second stop on a global tour that began in 2008 at the Guggenheim NYC), presents the full spectrum of the artist’s protean, multimedia art in all its conceptual complexity.

Born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, in 1957, Cai studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute. In the 1980s he emerged as a member of the burgeoning experimental art world of China’s postreform era. After moving to Japan in 1986, Cai tapped into a rich vein of international 20th-century art and critical thought. While living there, he mastered the use of gunpowder to create his signature gunpowder drawings and the related outdoor explosion events. These practices integrate science and art in a process of creative destruction and reflect Cai’s philosophy that conflict and transformation are interdependent conditions of life, and hence art. At once intuitive and analytical, his gunpowder drawings and explosion events are intrepid, conceptual, site specific, ephemeral, time based, and interactive—performance art with a new matrix of cultural meaning.

Cai has lived in New York since 1995. While increasing his participation in the global art system of biennials, public celebrations, and museum exhibitions around the world, Cai’s social projects engage local communities to produce art events in remote, nonart sites like military bunkers, a socialist utopianism influenced by Cai’s experience growing up in Mao’s Red China and during the Cultural Revolution of 1966–76. His recent work has expanded to include large-scale installations, allegorical and sculptural, that recuperate signs and symbols of Chinese culture and expose the dialectics of local history and globalization.

Designed by the artist as a site-specific installation, the Guggenheim’s exhibition presents art as a process that unfolds in time and space, dealing with ideas of transformation, expenditure of materials, and connectivity. The structure of Cai’s art forms are inherently unstable, but his social idealism characterizes all change, however violent, as carrying the seeds of positive creation.

Kusho

from fabrikproject:
Shinichi Maruyama was born in 1968 in Nagano, Japan. He hurls black India ink into water (or visa versa) and photographs the millisecond that these two liquids collide. Capable of capturing this phenomenon at a 7,500th of a second, Maruyama takes full advantage of a recent advancement in strobe light technology which can record physical events faster than the naked eye can perceive them. In the series Kusho, which means “writing in the sky,” Maruyama’s goal is to arrest in space and time the sublime intersection of two different media before they merge into one. In some respects, the project resembles a scientific experiment, but in Maruyama’s artistic hands, the total action becomes a form of Shodo (Japanese calligraphy) performance–with the gesture executed in the air rather than on the flat surface of the paper.

Notte Sento

Notte Sento (English subtitles) from napdan on Vimeo

Check this out. It's a film that was created using a still camera for all it's footage. The story is pretty cool too.

From Vimeo:
SYNOPSIS
A girl misses her train to Milan and is set to wait overnight in Rome until dawn. However, a chance encounter with a guy changes her plans and the night lights of the capital turn into the background to a tender love story. An extraordinary chemistry made of knowing glances and small gestures fills the few instants that separate them both from the sunrise.

Short film made with 4500+ still photographs. Shot with a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Intelligent Siftable Blocks

Siftables Music Sequencer from Jeevan Kalanithi on Vimeo

from nerdwithswag:
This intuitive concept could very well usher in the future of music production as we know it. Created by David Merrill (an MIT graduate student), his intentions are to utilize computerized tiles to initiate learning and allow us to “Interact with information and media in physical, natural ways that approach interactions with physical objects in our everyday lives.”

From Hypebeast:

Originally hinted at a few days ago, NIGO pops the top off of his latest and greatest toy, an iconic Mercedes Benz SL300 Gullwing with a transplanted AMG 6.0L V8 engine. Enthusiasts alike will probably already feel that the modernized powerplant is in itself sacrilegious but Nigo goes one-step further with the trademark Bape camo. The car is set to make a debut at tonight’s Bape Hong Kong 3 Year Anniversary Party.

Justine Lai "Join or Die"

Provocative, to say the least. Justine Lai, an artist out of San Francisco, CA painted a series depicting her having sex with each of the first 18 Presidents of the United States.

From her site:
"In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.

I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do."

Click the link to check it out (NSFW):

Justine Lai "Join or Die"

Burger Grease Art

Nummy.

DNA 11

DNA 11



Clever way to make art or ruse to collect DNA and finger prints from the general public? THE ANSWER IS UP TO YOU!!!

For those of us that aren't conspiracy theorists, these make some pretty damn cool art pieces that are one of a kind (unless you're a clone). And they require no blood! You just place an order and send a cheek swab in the package they send you. After a couple weeks, voila! You're DNA all over the wall.

THE GREAT SLUMBER a.k.a. Blood Puddle Pillows by Keetra

Some killer pillows. Uh... pun intended O.o!!!

Check it out in greater detail here.

Ball of Wonder by Keetra

It's soo... sooooo... so beautiful. Check out the other images here.