“Can we go somewhere to talk?” I love the idea behind the BuzziHood design by Alain Gilles. The design provides an acoustic cocoon that gives people a quieter and more private space to take their calls. It also means everybody else doesn’t need to hear your one-sided conversations; they need to fit these on all trains asap!
Relive your wasted youth. Remember a time before X-Box, Playstations & Wii? A time when you would go to your local games arcade and pump a pocket’s worth of coins into your favorite games cabinet? Now you can remind yourself of those days every time you turn on your lights with the Arcade Light Switch, a light switch made using tradition arcade game cabinet push buttons.
Buy the Arcade Light Switch by AlephDesign on Etsy.
More work by Ivan Bravo. I’ve mentioned Ivan Bravo on this blog before, but I liked this wall mural he created for the meeting room of a communications agency specialising in health, so I thought I’d mention it.
Visit the website of Ivan Bravo.
“That’s nice wallpaper… is that a… ?!!… oh!” British artist Jonathan Yeo has released a range of wallpaper through Lazarides Gallery. If you’re familiar with Yeo’s work (many of you have probably seen his iconic portrait of former President George W Bush made up from cuttings from pornographic magazines) you’ll know that on closer inspection of his work, and indeed his wallpaper, you’ll be surprised at what you find. The perfect wallpaper for provocateurs!
Find the wallpaper at Lazarides
Burritos, Lamps & Design. Founded by Mark Irlam and Tom Tobia, Something From Us is one of those creative teams that seem to effortlessly apply their creative skills to any number of activities.
They’ve recently completed the delightfully colourful interior for the gourmet burrito restaurant in London, Poncho No.8.
They’ve also designed the super-cool looking Wired Lamp (available to buy from their website.)
They’re definitely a design practice to keep an eye on, so check out Something From Us.
Chocolate + Design; what more could you want from life? If you’ve ever visited the wonderful London Tea Shop, Teasmith, you’ll have experienced the amazing interiors work of Jonathan Clark Architects. And, if like me, you’re left wanting to see more, then check out their latest work for renowned British chocolatier, William Curley.
One of the main ideas behind the design of the interior was to think about chocolate in terms of it’s origins and how it is procured – designing a predictable dark brown interior to ‘represent chocolate’ was something we actively avoided. This resulted in features such as the gold leaf artwork for the corner banquette depicting cocoa trees and the three-dimensionally arranged hessian clad padded panels behind the counters to reference the hessian sacks that cocoa beans are packed in at various plantations around the world.
Find out more info, and see more images at Jonathan Clark Architects.
Music, line & colour. I love this video for the single “General Motors, Detroit, America” by Record Makers’ latest signing, Acid Washed. The video created by Anthony Burrill features his signature style of beautiful simplicity, producing an almost hypnotic display of colour & simple lines. It’s a refreshing approach considering the overblown production values of most modern music videos.
Check it out at Vimeo.
Update: The debut 12” by Acid Washed is available in transparent vinyl with Artwork by Anthony Burrill via Records Makers.
Is it weird that I want to go for a ride in a bin? Designers Jan Körbes and Mantas Lesauska have collaborated on a special project in South Africa to create mobile prototypes for hybrids between bikes and garbage bins.
It’s a clever idea for re-using, and re-purposing existing objects into something that could have any multitude of new purposes.
They say he plays the banjo & drinks whisky. The illustrator Stevie Gee has a solo show entitled ‘Vengence is Coming’ over at Jaguarshoes 32-34 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London E2 8DA. It’s up for six weeks, so if you’re in the neighborhood, you can pop in and see the custom bike paint jobs by Death Spray Custom, prints, tomahawks, screen prints, T’s, etc.
See more images from the show here.
Why do architects always have shit websites? Is it an in-joke or something? I don’t know much about this, as the websites involved are so frustrating to use that they make you want to climb into the internet and stab them. But nobody cares about the details anyway, do they? Surely, you just want to see the pretty pictures. In which case, just go here and check out the lovely architectural shenanigans.
For those of you that need the details; From what I gather, these dudes created some lovely architecture stuff for this place to show off their collection of fancy rocks. Not very detailed, I know, but it’s all I’ve got.
