Profoundly Moving:
Sir Ken Robinson, Part 2
May 26th, 2010 — 9:09am
Archive for May 2010
Lao-Tzu Loved Beer
May 24th, 2010 — 1:57pm
A perfect gift for my friends. Lei Xue, have you been reading my diary?
Comment » | arts, beautiful, ceramics, cool, handmade, ingenious, sculpture
Get the Point?
May 20th, 2010 — 1:29pm
Excellent online magazine called Point, which is published by OPX London.
The first issue covers sustainability.
Comment » | climate, design, education, massivechange, publishing, sustainability
Yii Design: Brick Plan
May 19th, 2010 — 9:04am
Beautiful carved brick project by Pei-ze Chen & Rock Wang. According to Yii Design,
“Brick is one of the symbols of Taiwanese culture and was influenced by the Dutch during their 17th-century colonization of the country. The organic form of the tray is created by carving out of a block of this industrial building material by hand. The vases, plates and bowls are also made of brick but by using an industrial technique.” Magnificent!
Via designboom. Images by Yii Design.
Comment » | arts, beautiful, craft, design, ingenious, inspiration, sculpture
EnVision Releases Electric (Lady)Wagon(Land)
May 17th, 2010 — 12:14pm
This is a true story. This past Saturday, as I was listening to the Gulf disaster unfold, I decided that enough is enough. I simply can’t be a willing participant in the dumb petroleum game. “I need an electric station wagon. Where is my electric station wagon? Who hasn’t thought of this yet?” After 5 minutes online, I found it. The future is here, thanks to EnVision Motor Company.
The Electric Wagon (do you guys need a branding consultant, by the way?) sports a nickel sodium chloride battery and has a range of 200 + miles and speeds of 75 MPH +. This is exactly what I was looking for. At $37,000, it’s a little steep for me, but the maintenance & fuel savings seems to make up for the price differential after 6-10 years or so. Oh, and it qualifies for the full $7,500 Federal tax credit.
Nice work, EnVision!
Comment » | cool, culture, design, goodstuff, green, ingenious, inspiration, kickass, massivechange, product, spaceship earth, stoked, sustainability, transportation, worldchanging
Unit is at it Again
May 14th, 2010 — 12:09pm
The great folks over at Unit have released number 2 in “a series of ‘newspapers’ devoted to the overlooked and unexpected corners of graphic design and visual culture.” This time it is “Looking at Form, a quarterly magazine of the arts (1966—1969).” These great papers are available for £7.50 including postage. Buy it here.
Comment » | arts, culture, design, education, history, inspiration, reference
The Wizard of Speed and Time
May 13th, 2010 — 8:56am
A timeless classic by the immensely talented Mike Jittlov.
Check out his glow-in-the-dark web page, too.
Comment » | arts, cool, culture, designgreats, film, handmade, ingenious, oldschool, vintage
Radio Ulanaland
May 12th, 2010 — 10:47am
