Disposable design

Pingmag has another nice posting where they take a look at the pet bottles which can be found in the many vending machines on Japanese street corners.
I especially like these ones resembling bamboo, the material traditionally used to drink these kinds of teas:



Link: Pingmag - Japanese packaging design #5: Nifty PET bottles!

Check out this cool boat designed by the G-star team including ex-springtimer Pieter Kool. The boat will be used as exclusive watertaxi in Amsterdam. nice branding tool after previous Raw defender. check the dezeen blog for more pictures.

UnitedVisualArtists

UVA are a based collective that create some really amazing architectural installations, live performances and responsive installations. They were commissioned to create a music video for the latest Battles single, "Tonto".

Click the Quicktime icon on this page to view the video: UVA



Check the UVA site for more cool projects: http://www.uva.co.uk

Daft Punk?

The British Ministry of Defense showed a prototype of a helmet for future F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter) pilots.
The future is now, that's the only thing I can think of when I see this. The sci-fi age has truly arrived!



from: BBC News, Day in pictures

Sustainable dance club

Creating energy by people dancing in a club. See the link.

T R A A N L A T E N

yesterday I was for the first time at Rotterdam Centraal station since they closed down the old main buidling. coming back from the city I saw the text T R A A N L A T E N in the same characters as the original C E N T R A A L S T A T I O N . very cool!

not just for shipping

The humble shipping container, we all know it as the workhorse of the world economy. There is however a more interesting side to this object. Students across the country might already know it as an interesting place to live. Easy to stack, they make for some cool flexible cheap housing.
NOTCOT has an overview of some more creative uses for these containers, the Illy mobile coffee bar is one of the latest surprises:



link: NOTCOT

Tokyo motor show

The tokyo motor show always features some of the most outrageous and futuristic concept cars. This year's show
is no different, featuring the mazda taiki, the yamaha tesseract and the honda puyo.

Manhole cover design

Decorative coins? Nope, Japanese manhole covers from the Okachin Manhole Cover Gallery, which is over a thousand images deep. If you're going to make your living climbing down into sewers, you may as well have something pretty to look at on the way in.

Space Money

Money and spacetravel is apparantly a tricky combination. Imagine a heavy metallic coin floating around, bumping into delicate instruments. Well, a team of scientists has now come up with a way to provide space pick-pockets with a new prize. A new currency and coins specifically designed to solve these problems, called the quid (Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination).



I can imagine these being HIGHLY sought after by coin collectors that now have to do with mere Earth money.

link: BBC News

Sexy apparel!

Without showing anything this is a very hot ad! Not?

Drink' n fun!

iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface. This input is used to let the projected content interact dynamically with the movements on the counter. Objects can be illuminated at their position or virtual objects can be "touched" with the fingers.
Cool thing is that the cameras recognize any objects such as glasses, money, credit cards, phones, hands - and adjust the projected connections and animations to them!

Home sweet home, back in the days!

See a nice collection of funky 70's interiors

Wrong job?

See the others of this campaign designed by Berlin's agency Scholz&Friends...

Cargobee

very cool product; great innovation from 's Heerenberg, Holland. not so nice design though. check out the Cargobee website for more images and applications. could be the new Roodrunner?

Delorean back in the future?

The famous stainless steel Delorean, mostly famous because of the Micheal J. Fox movie Back to the Future is about to have a come-back. The company 'Delorean company' from Humble TX is maintaining and restoring these cars, that were mainly great because of their Giugiaro design. Check out this article in Detroit news about the plans to make a new version with the same body, but updated technology.

Bloggerdeblog!

now this is an interesting phenomenon: springtime won a sparkaward end of june and this week 1 after the other blog is posting an (almost the same!) article on their blog after the spark organization sending out a press release a couple of weeks ago.
engadget gizmodo treehugger core77 trendhunter
it looks like all those blogs forward links or the copy eachother? the result is this week various journalist are calling us to find out more. let's be honest, we love the attention, but the concept is been around for a while, so why not call us before?

vignale samantha

last week a gentleman called for my lancia beta interior that he wanted to install in his "vignale samantha". a what? check out this cool car; oh, those were the days with companies like vingale, zagato and others making special bodies for regular cars!

Jealous computers

Who thinks up these commercials? Check jealouscomputers.com for stories on how ordinary computers get jealous and attack their users after they came too close with their new Nokia smartphones.

www.jealouscomputers.com

Making space travel sexy again...

Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, has been working together with local design office Trotti and Associates on a new space suit design. The suit relies on materials incorporated in the suit to keep the astronaut pressurized, as opposed to gas pressure on current much heavier suits.



link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html

swarovski philips earbuds

very cool! brillant integration of product and jewelry. check out the colette website, a luxury shop in paris

easy glider electric Big-O?

check out this cool powered version of our Big-O! nice youtube movie also

Augmented Art?

If you think augmented reality is just a serious design tool, think again. Why not use it to create something fun, art even?
That's what Pablo Valbueno did, with his Augmented Sculpture project. Like they say in the Gizmodo link, it does have a Tron feel to it.



Take a look here: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/groovy/augmented-reality-sculpture-makes-you-think-you-are-tron-274773.php>Gizmodo.com

Table of trash

Makes you think about your paper use/waste... the table is actually made from recycled paper; wellboard.
You can see this and other stuff by Marie-Louise Gustafsson at www.marielouise.se/projects. Some really cool things, like the 'slacker chair' and 'cosy' table...

Design heroes

Nice mockumentary on the world of design..




http://www.designerslashmodel.com/

via: Design Observer

Recycling with a twist

www.relationchip.org

VOGT + WEIZENEGGER, V+W started a project called Relationchip, where clothes with a history get a future... 'At the "RELATIONCHIP-STATION" visitors can exchange one of their garments into a prepared RFID-chip tagged garment from the station. with this act, the visitor automaticly becomes a member of the RELATIONCHIP network, leaving a statement, his portrait and his used garment at the station.'

the clothes people leave are re-designed by cj's, clothes-jockeys(!), gets tagged with the relationchip, and exchanged for the next person's garment...

Genetic jewellery.

'21st century locket
-replacing the display of the traditional picture or lock of hair, with the DNA of the person, plant or animal that is most precious to you.'

lab-yrinth make jewellery with dna capsules; you can have a necklace with your own dna, or from your lover, kids, pet... you can also by ready-mades with panda or reindeer genoma!

www.lab-yrinth.net

Neverending picture

Ever felt like you are stuck in time and space? Well, now you can experience it for yourself.



link to the neverending picture

Very cool solid woodwork toys, made by Takeji Nakagawa under his own brand take-g toy's.
Besides these cool figurines he also makes the more traditional woodblock toys.
A refreshing take on the usual vinyl desktop toys.



link: take-g toy's

City Shrinker

Ben Thomas is shrinking cities everywhere with his photography. Using some photography gadgetry he's creates photo's that make real world scenes look tiny:



link: City Shrinker, via: NOTCOT.ORG

Jeff Han

This guy started the whole multitouch display hype, it seems MS did some cooperation with him. Wired had a nice article about him and his screens:



link: Wired article

microsoft interface

check out this cool minority report interface on this microsoft site
www.microsoft.com/surface/

Human evolution?

I think this image pretty much speaks for itself.

from: Gizmodo

IKEA be brave not beige

love this campaign from IKEA. brings exactly that positive creativity across that fits to their brand. Check the campaign

Daniel Simon

Very cool work by concept artist Daniel Simon. He's famous for his outlandish car and movie vehicle design work. Later this year (December actually) a book will be available showcasing his work, published by designstudiopress.





link: danielsimon.net

Love em or hate em..

They evoke some strong emotions for sure, these guys go through some length to showcase their dislike of these oddball shoes.. check out this shirt they made:



link: ihatecrocs.com, via Josh Spear

more Bee pics

The new Bugaboo ultralight stroller is getting some exposure at the JPMA convention in Orlando. Babychic 101 went there and shot some (rather dark) photos.



link: Babychic 101: Bugaboo Bee

milano 2007

yes, already summer in milano.
here a compact overview of this year's salone del mobile.
http://www.designws.com

Graffiti

How cool is that?! I can see great opportunities of addressing your goverment in a very direct way. No need to wait for elections or referendi; just write your griefs and desires on their palace walls. Picture this on the White House...


Check the video

Equipment:
1 PC Laptop - ASUS A8JS - Core 2 Duo 1.83 Ghz 1GB Ram Nvideo Geforce Go 7300 256MB - VGA and DVI out. 1 Pansonic PTD5600U 5000 ANSI Lumens 1024x768 DLP Projector. 1 Watec 221S Security/Astrononmy Camera with manual iris zoom lens. 1 Bogen magic arm and super clamp. 1 Pinnacle PCTV USB capture card. 1 60mW Green Laser ... and loads and loads of AAA batteries.

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

Fowtows

Ok, maybe not a hilarious as the infamous 'extra inch' butch sure as intriging; photographer Fabrice Robin' portfolio.
Clean 'n crisp portraits (probably heavily photshopped, but if the result is like this I don't mind :))

http://www.fabricerobin.com

The extra optical inch (by Philips)

Philips/Norelco took an interesting approach in addressing their target group for the Body Groomer: the brand is actually telling you what it is meant for! No more cryptic descriptions of body parts, but bring out those vegetables!! Check the ad: www.shaveeverywhere.com

Bugaboo experience

Bugaboo experience is a compact presentation piece developed by our friend of Kubik (built the Nike Joga Bonita pitch we designed). not completely sure what the thing does, but it looks cool.
www.thinkubik.com/article_Bugaboo.html

Bagelbox

Gimmicky, yeah probably... does it work? I wouldn't count on it... but still, it's a nice demonstration of thinking outside of the box (no pun intended!).
link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/piwonka/384203161
(via boingboing.net)

Get up to scratch on your car design lingo!

Don't know your cowl from your rocker? No worries, check out this article!
from: NYtimes.com

Everything for the effect!

Seen on Bar.nl this week (Of course the cows were fake, and also dead)

ikea projection

check out this very cool POS solution in a IKEA store is Sweden. karin saw this back home. it is a movie projection on the bed. send an e-mail to karin@springtime.nl to get the full movie.