Category Archives: Design

Davida Helmets

By Chungaiz | Published: July 28, 2010
Buying a motorbike? Get a helmet. Get a hand made one by Davida. (Caveat – in their retention of all the original design features of the 1950′s low dome racing helmet, they do not conform to modern safety standards…)
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Go Faster – Motor Racing Design in the 70s

By Chungaiz | Published: May 7, 2010
It’s not about typography, it’s not about layouts… these cars were designed to look dangerous. A few months back Arkitip reported about the The Graphic Design of Racing Cars book. Buy the book here. Wonderful insight as to how most of the design had a singular purpose… You’d never guess it, but these big toys [...]
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LSN Global and The Future Laboratory

By Chungaiz | Published: March 28, 2010
At the LSN Global trend briefing last week I noted down the following: The rise of the MAVIN nations (post BRICs, we’ll have Mexico, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Nigeria as emerging global powerhouses) 42% of businesses see the recession as an opportunity not a hinderance, and that businesses will change for the better. They see [...]
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±0 watch

By Andy | Published: March 18, 2010
just found out ±0 products, designed by Naoto Fukasawa is available in the lollipop shoppe in Brighton. oh dear…
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Feltron Report

By Chungaiz | Published: February 3, 2010
Nicholas Felton has released his newest Feltron Annual Report for 2009 which outlines all of the activities he participated in last year. Normally it’s a very personal log of the year’s activities that documents things like distance travelled and by what means, animals eaten, books read, plants killed etc (see reports for 2008, 2007, 2006)… [...]
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Martin Margiela White Objects

By Chungaiz | Published: January 12, 2010
Anyone know how I can get hold of these White Objects by Maison Martin Margiela? Or better still, how I can recreate them myself? Brilliant industrial anonymity. A kind of celebration of form and design, but with the texture and decay tempered by cloth coverings and false fronts. Deconstructionism. I particularly love the “doors” and [...]
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Pan Am’s Helvetica Worlds

By Chungaiz | Published: January 5, 2010
Eye Magazine has a great article on PanAm’s advertising and design – albeit only one chapter, as found at the ‘Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art’ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Really modern approach to advertising, graphics and generating that sense of wonder that travel companies seem to [...]
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The Slow Home

By Chungaiz | Published: January 4, 2010
The Slow Home is an online lecture series that brings to life principles of good residential design and how to apply them in a variety of real world situations. It provides the basic knowledge and skills necessary for people to become more informed residential consumers and empower them to make smarter choices about where and [...]
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alan kitching – eye magazine

By Andy | Published: December 29, 2009
a few videos from the eye magazine channel on vineo part one: part two: part three:
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Billion Pound-O-Gram

By Chungaiz | Published: December 21, 2009
Information is Beautiful just came into the office to give a charming talk about, well, the beauty – and power – of data visualisation. Above is one of the thought provoking pieces that David McCandless put together for The Guardian, which puts the huge abstract numbers and costs that are bandied about by government into [...]
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