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October 4, 2009

Cardboard Sculpture | Art

Chris Gilmour, an English artist based in Italy, re-creates objects and machines from our everyday lives using only packing cardboard and glue. Built with stunning detail, Gilmour’s life-size replicas and sculptures leave one gazing at the sheer artistry of his work and contemplating the nature of materials in general.

                 

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May 26, 2009

Modern Fossils | Art

The modern fossils by Christopher Locke are made from actual archaic technology that was once cutting-edge. Most of these examples were discovered in the United States, although the various species are represented all over the world. It has been shown recently that the true demise of most of these specimens came from runaway consumerism and wastefulness at the high end of the food chain.

               

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April 28, 2009

Braun for Apple | Design

Dieter Rams was chef designer for Braun, when he designed the pocket radio T3 in 1958, which you could easily take for an iPod. But this is not the only product design Apple cribbed from Braun's designer. The loud speaker LE1 shares similarity with the iMac and the Apple G5 looks alike the radio T1000. Both products were established in 1960. Also the iPhone's calculator application is based on a design by Dieter Rams, the calculator ET66 from 1977. The common root of all these objects is the beautiful simplicity, which is the base of success for many new Apple products.

       

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April 17, 2009

Koi | Origami Art

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April 15, 2009

12 Animals | Creativity

Kentaro Nagai created a project that form animals from the Japanese Zodiac using the world map. Check out the flash presentation!

                       

(seen at swissmiss)

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April 1, 2009

The Real Inventor of the Eiffel Tower | Engineering

In celebration of the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower (article in german).

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March 12, 2009

Fire Extinguisher | Design

More then 100 years ago Minimax started the worldwide first serial production of a portable fire extinguisher, the Spitztüte. Since then the company became a important player in the fire protection business. However, since fire extinguisher are not beautiful in particular, Minimax started to offer design extinguisher for private use.

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February 15, 2009

Poster Boy | Street Art

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February 4, 2009

Agostina | Design

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January 26, 2009

Universal Connections | Art

Given the current, often exotic use of USB the guys from dialog05 were inspired to use this interface, with all its possibilities and ambiguities as a medium to create installations, objects and products that are surprising, enlightening, inspiring and questioning, and on the other hand ironic or even amusing. Have a look.

 

 

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