Category Archives: Design

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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Making of Fantastic Mr Fox

By Andy | Published: November 27, 2009

A lovely new book designed by Angus Hyland. More over at the Pentagram blog.

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muji lego

By Andy | Published: November 26, 2009

so very very good. i want some!

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2010 diary

By Andy | Published: November 25, 2009

new year, new diary. this one perhaps: typotheque or this one? arctic paper

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Knot ohundred watch

By Kai | Published: November 4, 2009

nice new timepiece from knot – has been circulating the web and made appearances on a number of blogs, but here it is again on scrapbook. no idea how much it is, and equally not sure about knot’s claim that the watch: “harmonizes modern uniqueness with the appeal of vintage military masculinity.” cool looking thing, [...]

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Fixed: global fixed-gear bike culture

By Andy | Published: October 28, 2009

FIXED is the first book to document global fixed-gear culture. It joins the dots between the bike’s design, its racing heritage and the customization that marks its appearance on our city streets. It meets the track stars, tricksters, messengers, hill bombers and polo players the world over, linking them to the artists, designers and framebuilders [...]

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morvelo

By Andy | Published: October 28, 2009

there are quite a lot of companies springing up to cater for the new cool side of cycling, but these guys have been around for years (no diss). they race track, road, cx, mtb, even hill-climbs and they’re doing some really cool tees and some very desirable cycling kit too. is lycra getting cool now!? [...]

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Cervelo Test Team TDF

By Andy | Published: October 28, 2009

the bartape.net has uploaded a new ‘beyond the peloton’ video of Cervelo Test Team at the Tour De France. As per the last ones, it’s beautifully made. Enjoy!