This simple yet absolutely brilliant Light of Life invention by social entrepreneur Illac Diaz is an epitome of low-cost, high-impact, life-changing innovation (via curiositycounts)
I’m strangely drawn to this 40-character glyph language, designed by Eight Hour Day as part of the rebranding of the Chicago-based digital agency Manifest.
A little over a year, ago three German students tested the design viability of a shiny black cube. They asked established designers and design critics to assess the cube.
Dieter Rams was one of the interviewees and he talks about his ‘less, but better’ philosophy. I agree with him so very, very much. ‘More’ is a bankrupt approach.
Oslo based design studio Jenk, lead by British designer Thomas Jenkins, have created the Slope desk. Designed to counteract the distractions at home, Slope has an angled top giving a more ergonomically correct working surface, which aids your concentration helping you to finish your work as quickly as possible. The felt lined opening storage areas prevents clutter accumulating by allowing you to store essentials. Slope also comes with two wedges to provide a balance for drinks and pens etc.
(Another golden find by carlmhbarenbrug… how does he do it?)
Blast of Silence II, by Bureau Mirko Borsche (via Olaf)
Curatorium
Only in his first year at the Rhode Island School of Design, Nicholas Ozemba has created Curatorium - a maple box designed to protect and display precious artifacts; a miniature museum catered to the individual containing objects of personal and sentimental value. Its contents however precious, lack permanence, living in a journal provided to archive their existence. (Via carlmhbarenbrug)
Canadian designer Lukas Peet created the Hanging Light (via CONTEMPORIST)
“The edge of the world”
A French priest came to an Indian town called Ongniaahra, ‘point of land cut in two’, because it stood near Lake Ontario, where a wide river cut through the land. Farther up this river, the Indians said, was a waterfall; but the priest did not go to look at it, probably thinking all waterfalls were alike. The French remembered the name of that town, and called the river after it, and later the waterfall. But they twisted it on their tongues until it became Ongiara and finally Niagara.
- Names on the Land, 1967, by George R. Stewart
Photo by J.R. Hughto.
Can’t stop watching this music video for I’ll be gone, a song by Mario Basanov & Vidis featuring Jazzu.
Amazing work by VFX / Design company KORB.
Fred Sandback, Untitled (Sculptural Study, Five Part Construction), 1987/2009. Via David Zwirner Gallery.
In this TED talk, Salman Khan calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script: give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
Now that’s an excellent idea if you ask me.
I’ve not been able to find out what this is, but whatever it is, we need more of it.
It’s an oil painting by Jimmy Baker.
