Category Archives: 3D design

Augmented Reality Maps at TED

By Chungaiz | Published: February 17, 2010
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Hyper local blogs, stories, are overlaid onto the maps, which can easily flip from a birds’ eye view to 45 degree Sim City style landscape, and then flow into a full 3D environment with their equivalent of street view. Immense.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Lego

By Chungaiz | Published: December 14, 2009
Merging man and nature into an architectural masterpiece. In Lego! Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934, Fallingwater® is perhaps the most famous residential home in the world. Open to the public since 1963, this masterpiece exemplifies Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architectural style by intimately merging man with the surrounding landscape. This highly-detailed LEGO® model, co-developed [...]
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muji lego

By Andy | Published: November 26, 2009
so very very good. i want some!
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dalston mills

By Andy | Published: October 8, 2009
this is right opposite ryo’s house. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
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Logorama by H5

By Chungaiz | Published: September 21, 2009
French graphics agency, H5, have a really interesting film coming out: Logorama I know them as the designers of some of the best music videos I’ve seen – Massive Attack’s bio-genetic future of “Special Cases” and Royksopp’s data-driven inforgraphic  “Remind Me” – but this seems to be their forray into feature film. Logorama is 17 minutes of [...]
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Eames Design on TED

By Chungaiz | Published: July 14, 2009
Eames Demetrios discusses many of Charles and Ray Eames’ design influences, including (unsurprisingly) furniture. It also includes rarely seen archival video footage behind their creativity and approach.
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BMW’s 1934 R7 Motorbike

By Chungaiz | Published: March 18, 2009
How incredible is this motorbike – BMW R7 from 1934? We found this at thecoolhunter, and they rightly talk about how design took a back seat around the World Wars as producitivity and function became more pertinent. The lines of this 1934 BMW R7 motorbike are so stunning. Taking cues from Art Deco, Art Nouveau after [...]
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Martin Clothing

By Andy | Published: March 10, 2009
The talented Mike Martin from SF has just launched a clothing line called Martin Clothing. Will post more when i get more details. Looks really interesting, Mike, we look forward to seeing more!
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Space Invading – Architecture Blog

By Chungaiz | Published: January 20, 2009
Space Invading has been set up by Archinect, the cool resource for all things architecture. A very cool collection of beautiful living spaces – mostly real, but some imagined – for your perusal. I think it’s fed in by RSS feeds, but in the future I’d not be surprised if they went for a NotCot [...]
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Playboy on Masters of Design

By Chungaiz | Published: January 19, 2009
Lushpad has a copy of Playboy’s 1961 article about George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom. Not only is there a good introduction to the “American Modernist” furniture, but an exploration of each of the above designers at a tipping point in their careers (though clearly not for all [...]
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