Loving this design, even if it only comes in 80s brown….
Having no new models to reveal at the 1980 Paris Salon, Citroën stylist Trevor Fiore was given the go ahead to build a model (not a driveable car) for display. The result was the trapezoidal Karin, clearly inspired by Michel Harmand’s design for a GS Coupé. A three seater with the driver being seated centrally and ahead of the two passengers, this layout pre-empted that of the McLaren F1 of 1992.
Need a little background story? Haven’t walked by a Puma store this season? Well Puma’s window and instore displays internationally have these incredible life size plastic penguins around. And they are simple beautifully designed glossy little statues. For those of you who , you know I’ve been obsessing over them since Stockholm. And then every time i walk past the Santa Monica store. They are truly one of the awesomest window displays i’ve ever seen.
via NOTCOT
Piixl has done the unfathomable and created a PC that doubles as a VESA mount. You know what that means – you can now literally throw a PC behind your flat-panel HDTV. Out of view and only there when you need it, that's how we like it, baby!
via Piixl’s Slim PC Mounts Behind TVs | Apartment Therapy Unplggd.
These are not the biggerest of Lego spaceships nor an impossible balancing act. It’s just Lego Star Wars perfectly photographed using a very clever, and deceitfully simple technique.
via Gizmodo.
Inspired by the Norwegian turf huts and old log construction, a wooden construction was built and mounted on a lighted and brushed concrete base. The structure is made of 80-layered circles. The circles have varied radiuses and relative center point in relation to each other. Every circle is made out of 28 pieces of naturally impregnated core of pine that are placed with varied spaces to assure chimney effect and natural light. Oak separators differentiate vertically between the pine pieces to assure airflow allowing easy drying of the pine pieces. A double curved sliding door was designed for locking the structure.
via ArchDaily.
Interesting insight into this identity creation…
The COP15 identity is the result of a logo competition held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. It’s created by two very inspiring Danish designers, Troels Faber and Jacob Wildschiødtz, working under the name nr2154.
via Brand New.
Andre Kikoski Architect of New York have completed The Wright, a new restaurant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.
via Dezeen
House KvD is located in the woods of Teteringen, close to Breda. Important, from the residents point of view, was to experience the green environment in a most intense way. This ambition has formed the main concept of the building: A house that feeds in between the trees, giving every arbitrary movement a surprising perspective on the forest. The square-shaped volume keeps you, while moving through the building, in constant contact with the environment.
via KvD House by Grosfeld van der Velde Architects » CONTEMPORIST.
I love the effort and clean look for the desk this guy’s building
When setting up a new office, you want everything to be right. Whatever you do, you need to plan it out so that you are not just slowly adding clutter to your space with mismatched tchotchke. Recently, I built another desk to put in my office and I wanted it to be just right.
I upgraded my working table from the 60×38 Andover table to the 80×40 Portica table with a white oak top, both from Room and Board in San Francisco, when I moved to a larger apartment last spring.The lamps, Tolomeo Micro Lamps from Artemides, are sold with one of three table mountings: a table base, a clamp or an in-set pivot; I chose the in-set pivot because if offered the smallest footprint.
Nice mouse mat, shame about the price…
Do people even use mouse pads anymore? Well if you know someone who needs one…a really nice one, you can recommend or gift them a mouse pad from Vaja. Shaped like a Web 2.0 box, the middle of the mousepad offers luxurious leather padding for smooth scrolling with customizable colourways for border and interior, while for $10 extra, you can customize your fancy pad with a name or short message.
Dimensions are 8.66″ x 7.9, with 30 different border colours and 10 leather pad colour choices. $69 from Vaja.