You’re going to have to ignore the connotations of the word “emo” here. The e’mo is a lightweight electric car for town and local traffic, of a totally new design. Consistent with the motto of “less is more” e’mo renounces all superfluous unnecessary burdens and places in pole position the original purpose of the automobile, that is individual mobility. The name itself stands equally for electric motion, efficient mobility and for emotion. Thus the central concerns for e’mo are optimal energy efficiency with high suitability for everyday use, an attractive and distinctive package, and all this at an affordable price.

I can’t decide if I like this car or not. You can’t fault the pure electrical drive, which produces no noxious emissions, and is practically noiseless; but I can’t get over the fact that it looks like a golf cart from a sci-fi film!

Find out more at e’mo.

Nope, this post isn’t about cocktails… It’s about Jason Battersby’s low-rider bicycles. The bikes, named Tequila Sunrise & Eye Candy, are a bit to funky for the daily commute, but you can’t fail to be impressed by the design and work that has gone into creating them.

Check out the photos at Behance.

Parra this, Parra that! Parra, yada, yada! First off in Parra related news – Arkitip are presenting Parra’s first ever Exhibition and Pop Up Shop in Germany. Find out more here

Secondly, and more importantly, LOOK AT MY PARRA SHOES!!! (gotta click ‘more…’ to see ‘em though!)
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No need for facts. All I know about the artist Genta Kosumi is that he was born in 1974 in Osaka, Japan and his artwork is colorful, bizarre and, above all, amazing. Check out his work at Cosmo Head Anno.

Everyone should watch ‘Home’. A non-profit film, Home is a documentary by photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places around Earth, taken in over 50 countries in the process. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet.

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being

Watch it in HD on YouTube or find out more at Home Project.

It’s not an obsession with hammers… Ba5h wants to make you think about what money is; why you use it; who made it; who controls it; why it has a value; how this value can change; who affects the value; is it the route of all evil; and why has it been going down the drain?

Find out more at Ba5h.com.

I’ve never wanted sculpture more. Frank Plant is a Barcelona based American sculptor who creates “drawings in steel. These are simple and direct studies of the forms and compositions of everyday objects.” I’m loving his recent Kalashnikov rifle piece, but my heart belongs to his heart. He’s one of the artists that I really, really, really want some work from, but know it’ll cost more than I can ever afford. Just like José Parlá, he’s now on my “Things I’d Buy If I Won the Lottery” list.

See more work by Frank Plant.

Beautiful photography in horrible circumstances. I’ve been admiring the work of photographer Fazal Sheikh. Most often his work has been with displaced people driven out of their homelands by civil wars, drought and famine, struggling to survive for years in refugee camps where the traditional balance of their lives has been entirely destroyed. He has worked in camps in Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania, where people fleeing conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mozambique and Rwanda were gathered.

It’s easy to become desensitized to the images of refugee camps that you’re presented with via the news media, but the images in Fazal Sheikh’s photographic series’ such as A Camel for The Son are hauntingly beautiful considering their tragic subject matter.

See more work by Fazal Sheikh.

How much is that grizzly in the window? Oh my god! This dude has got a bear. I want one too! That is all.

Seriously. Check out the slideshow. The dude is drinking beer. In a hot tub. With a Bear.

‘Obsessions Make My Life Worse & My Work Better.’ In 2001 Sagmeister embarked on an ongoing project based on sentences from his diaries. For the typography he used a great variety of materials and sites, writing three-dimensionally on objects and surfaces. His latest piece is ‘Obsessions make my Life Worse and my Work Better’, an elaborate design that consists of 300.000 Euro cent coins on a large square.

See the latest piece via this Flickr set, then find out more at http://sagmeister.com/urbanplay/