fantastic!

brand excitment!!!

back to the drawing wall

layers of 'pixel motes' with various shades of grey make an interesting dynamic graphic for your wall!! nice!! seen on core77

budget brands

H&M brings victor and rolf to the masses! more importantly a wedding dress that does not cost an arm and a leg! $349

green and fast

0-60mph in 4 seconds!!!!!!! now were are talking. telsa roadster

honda doing good stuff!

also on the alternative energy front.

first production solar car

seen on gizmag (see links)

why does green have to mean this.......

solar panels on the roof, but it may look like a proto but they are actually producing 200 of the things! (good luck to them)it is the way to go! but maybe just a bit differnt design. lets make enviromentaly frienly more atractive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wrap it up!

Concept from NEC flexable mobile with memory material, but will probably stay a concept. nice work thought!

100dolla' luv yew lung time.

the highly proclaimed 110 dollar laptop or one cjild one computer project has reached the working proto stage! big question is didi theyachive the target price. click here for the link to site

Jolli Fiat Panda

ultra smart suits!

social suicide is a seriously cool brand that make statements with mens fashion. they will take photo's of your tattoo's and have them embroidered in the same place on the your suit. nice! check the video from coolhunting!

black is back!

a logical step, but nice! real nice! interface is completely software driven! the black box can become whatever product you need (almost) and looks a touch like another well know consumer electronics design, but this does not detract from the concept ans oh so appropriate! from BENQ. find info on this link seen on 77

brave enough to walk the green path?

A good article from doorsofperception, if you have any intrest in sustainability (and if you don't, you should!)

My long walk home
I chose a bad place to read George Monbiot’s new book Heat - the transit lounge of Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi Airport. I already knew that flying is an indefensible way to travel because of its contribution to global warming. But I’ve comforted myself over the years with the idea that what environmentalists call a ‘soft landing’ could be achieved if people like me cut down our flights a wee bit every year.

'Heat' destroys my alibi. Long-haul flights produce 110 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger kilometre. According to Monbiot's numbers, a single passenger flying to New York and back produces roughly 1.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is about the same as each of us will be entitled to emit in a whole year once a 90 per cent cut in emissions is made.

Monbiot says that a 90 per cent cut is needed by 2030 if the biosphere is to remain habitable for you and me. He arrives at this sobering figure as follows. By 2030, the total capacity of the biosphere to absorb carbon – its carbon sink - will be reduced from today’s 4 billion tonnes, to 2.7 billion. By then, world population is likely to be 8.2 billion. By dividing the total carbon sink by the number of people – and spreading the load equally – Monbiot arrives at an average cut in the rich countries of 90 percent per person.

In the case of my flying behaviour, it's probably more than that. A single passenger going from the UK to Beijing and back in business class, as I am doing, emits probably four times as much carbon dioxide as someone going to New York and back in coach. I am probably using up four years’ of my personal carbon allowance in 2030 within one single week.

And that’s just if I count my time in the air. Just sitting still reading Monbiot's book was also wasteful. Suvarnabhumi is a vast forest of concrete pillars and structural decks. Outside, endless acres of concrete apron spread into the far distance. It all looked very nice and modern until I read, in Chapter 10 of Heat, that the manufacture of cement emits a ton of carbon dioxide for each ton actually made and used.

I don’t know how many million tons of the stuff were used in Bangkok’s new airport. Many. I would not be surprised if my use of that airport - for a few hours, just sitting there, on this one trip - used up another few weeks of my annual carbon ration.

A 90 per cent cut in emissions requires not only that growth in aviation stops, but that most of the planes which are flying today be grounded. We need to cut the number of flights by 87 per cent to meet Monbiot's target.

And he is adamant that this means me, personally - not someone else, out there. “Writing, reading, debate and dissent – of themselves – change nothing” he concludes, pitilessly. “They are of value only if they inspire action. Progress now depends on the exercise of fewer opportunities. If you fly, you destroy peoples lives”.

I’m still in Beijing as I write this. It’s going to be a long walk home.

George Monbiot. Heat: How To Stop The Planet Burning. London, Penguin Books. 2006

found on doorsofperception.com

defensive tactics at a cost

good article on the strategey behind the xbox from microsoft and how much money they loose but don't care!? just to kick sony's ass! click here for link seen on business week

dove Evolution

doves shows how our perception and expectations are influenced! check the add on you tube seen on core77

nieuwe audi

yep, it's the new R8. very nice car, give me one.

What is this

found it in sevilla, what is this .....

cars cars and more cars

nice slideshow from businessweek. some wild and wonderfull concepts, like the citoen, some good work from nissan, and surpising pimped up ford focus. enjoy! here is the link

apple i-cant get enough syndrome

yes, more i-pod related gadgets! high end speaker to conetct direct. why does apple rule the world? is it performace, user interface, marketing, or just great looks!. please comment i would really like to hear your oppinions? i recon it's all in the look's there are so many other players that have a higher spec. it must be the looks? product to buy at audioengine seen on coolhunting.

sumsung bursts apple's bubble

seen on gizmodo, view it on you tube

editing

sorry, i knock one blog out. time to play nice

how to brainstorm!!!!!!

read the article from good old bob sutton, placed in bw. i especialy like the take on individual brainstorming before and after. bob also has an interesting no asshole rule! see more on bobsutton.typepad.com

New cool website

Check those new guys! www.c10.nl

Coming Zune!

yes yes, finally microsoft will attack apple on it's most succesfull product. but will they succeed? not to many specs reveiled yet, but count on a big marketing campagne...

not too beautiful, but impressive hardware

this "phone" can do just about anything: MP3 player, video player, tv (!) with a 2.6'' QVGA LCD, 3MP camera with built-in stabilizer, PictBridge for printing, 4channel stereo speakers, touch screen with vibration reaction. currently only available in Korea

more info: pantech

detroit show

ford doing interesting stuff. seen on designengine (see links), nice beefy design

link to apple s show

link

another slice of apple pie

apple tv streamer and mini shuffle, they sure do keep the pace up on the new product front, see more products and read article at businessweek

honda explosion

see article 3200 parts suspended by dutch artist Paul Veroude. seen on the cool hunter.

future pads

induction charging for all your equipment (as long as int's enabeld) see link seen on core77

Polish this!

Alessi has a shiny new design for a dust buster. i just wonder how plastic it we be, or is it really metal??????

how to launch a product!

The perfect pitch for a new product. 1st part of 4 parts. read here seen on core 77

apple more red than green

interest in manufact. responsablity continues link

design goes to china, manufact. comes home!

article on demise of the designer and birth of the cultural stratagist! we designers have to adapt because china is going to rule the form design roost with it's low hour tarifs.
also touched on is the change in attitudes to mass market with more local shops shouting out there non-sweatshop/ home woven and sexy! message!from americanapparel. all found on core 77!

retro paint jobs

Eurobike in DE. solid reto colours (beige green brown), matt, with elegant graphics maybe a reaction on all the bling and sports graphics! further more the power assist bike is making it's presence known and trying desperatly to get rid of it's old peoples image. but hardly sporty of healthy is it?

magic wand

in businessweek they are heralding this as a huge breakthrough, the telephone that has no buttons! it recognises gestures, like hit it on your head and it'll call you pysichotheripist rub it and it'll call your wife ect. (at least that was my interperatation) not really a new concept but if the manage to make it real then we are getting somewhere! but still is this how the revolutionary telephone will look?seen on businessweek - designed by pilotfish

bling!

yes we like shiny things! a rendering of a proposed sculture for NY. quite simple - a polished ball. but it does the trick!
seen on core 77

bangin' tunes!

there is no end to the i-pod accessories, but this has a certain.. style. spin that dial and plug and play!

superhighway or back street alley

webmeter is now included to check traffic, is anyone listening out there?

old, big, and modest; teague

do you know teague, we yes i did but i didn.t know what kind of history they have and which huge clients they have! check the article on the top bar of core 77 'the last man standing'

moving design further

a designer who thinks that movements should be more exciting in product design, some exploration in blue foam is shown on his site, seen on core77

sony pushes the button further!

media skype games and all that stuff, and rather small! you nevr now wither it will be hit or miss whith sony but I like it!!!! just need to find out what it really does! seen on gizmodo!(see links)

The importance of being Ernest

Article on the roll of asthetics in the mobile phone industry, and how this is intergrated in our lives!!!!! seen on core77

Nike's future vision on a car! It looks a nike what is remarkable as Nike is nothing more than a footwear brand (and some small gadgets) but still it is recognizable. And a quite new and fresh look for the car branch.

who's the dude on the glowing bike?

nice blog for the bikeo's .Link.

Sense simplicity and the sales index

we all know philips has a huge design department (rather well paid too;) and run loads of projects and few make it to the shelfs, well here's a decent article to stimulate the design mind, called "high design"

blog bored!

nothing new on the site for a while, boring....well there is but one solution! PUT SOMETHING ON THE F#**$%ING SITE! keep the ball rolling!!!

old tricks

we have seen it before but it stays good! but why is the bakfiets such a success where is the well designed competionion. well for insperation see the bike design competion site all winars are listed onder the year of entry. link!.

waiting on the big bang!

So more inflate concepts! tent i slooking alright! but why do designers keep comming with this stuff but it never becomes annything? wouldnt it be great for picknikers or beach hoggers! just throw it down and ask some one to blow! every one should have one?