nooka is a brand i’ve only recently learnt about. i like their modern range of watches (more to add to the list), which is quite extensive!
for kanye west’s glow in the dark tour (which was great!) they made him 15 glow in the dark nooka’s as a gift, which was pretty nice. except unfortunately, that [...]
from designboom:
‘TOBU DEPARTMENT STORE is affiliated with world heritage kew gardens and
helps organize campaigns to help raise awareness and protect the earth.
for the competition ‘green earth’ you are asked to enter projects in to one or both
of the following 2 categories:
‘green‘
create a graphic artwork that illustrates the environmental protection
and how human beings and nature could [...]
out of office design collective is a group of designers who graduated from my course at ravensbourne last year. i read a small profile on designboom today, and had a look at the website, and it looks pretty good! lets hope i can produce stuff as good this time next year…
link to out of office [...]
i remember my dad once told me about how during the first world war they used to paint warships in crazy colours to make them hard to see properly through periscopes (on submarines). as submarines shoot torpedoes ahead of the ships in order to hit where they’re going to be (not where they are), someone [...]
this time, eliminating the need for trains to slow down!
from boingboing gadgets:
‘Taiwanese inventor Peng Yu-Lun believes that trains are more energy inefficient than they have to be, hobbled ecologically by the totally unnecessary task of having to stop to pick up passengers. To counter the problem, he has invented a concept for a constantly moving [...]
the wall mounted CD player, by naoto fukasawa for muji, is in my opinion a modern classic. it was designed in 1999, and still looks great to me, i remember the moment i first saw it i wanted to own one.
it costs £79, which i guess isn’t that much really, but i have never had [...]
you may not know this if you aren’t into football, but euro 2008 started on saturday. i’ve always been quite into football boots (previous entries here and here), and one thing i noticed was the new nike ranges. usually at major tournaments the big brands of nike, adidas and puma among others usually release a [...]
the above image is of a macbook air on top of the voodoo envy laptop. at first glance, you may think how amazing apple have been in creating such a thin laptop compared to what most windows based laptop designers can come up with. but in fact, the voodoo is thinner.
from boingboing gadgets:
‘Looking at the [...]
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