Pack Chair Grows Before Your Eyes
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009French designer François Azambourg, known for his inventive creations has developed an ingenious transforming chair that grows into full form before your eyes. The Pack Chair comes in a small plastic package, and shapes itself from a compact flat block into its final form through a chemical reaction.
Design Boom explains:
..Designed with the intention of selling [...]
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U.S. Report: Internet Usage By Age
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009Following up on our article from last week that shared Internet Population Distribution by country, we were directed to a recent report published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project detailing findings on Internet usage by age in the United States. The study, titled Generations Online in 2009, confirms that surfing the web is still primarily [...]
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Pic: Fancy McDonald’s
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009We noticed this rather smart looking McDonald’s in London’s Holborn last week. It has obviously had the new design-driven make over - complete with Arne Jacobson knock off chairs in the window.
There’s a nice night shot of this outlet here too.
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Pic: Empty Heathrow
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009Heathrow Terminal 4 was a ghost town when we returned from London to New York last Sunday. Also, all of the Team PSFK reported that their flights to the UK and back were almost empty. People aren’t flying - as we have heard. But the silence at this airport reminded us of the knock on [...]
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drMM’s Dynamic Architecture: The Sliding House
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009Architects drMM have created a spectacular example of flexible architecture with their Sliding House design. A huge exterior shell moves over a greenhouse-like glass interior and open air spaces creating a variety of different living areas.
drMM explains:
The surprise: the separated forms can be transformed by a 20 ton mobile roof/wall enclosure which traverses the site, [...]
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Should Automakers Start Thinking Like Google?
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009Author Jeff Jarvis thinks there are lessons Detroit could learn from Google’s success becoming an internet giant. BusinessWeek recently spoke to Jeff who’s new book, ‘What Would Google Do?’ offers some suggestions.
One thing that Google has gotten really good at is opening up its development process to users/consumers. The company uses beta releases as a [...]
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Pic: East London Street Art
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009There still seems to be quite a bit of buzz about East London and the above piece definitely caught our attention. Spotted in Shoreditch, across from the Griffin (not the house of ill repute), it’s an interesting update on Pearly Kings and Queens.
We also liked the stencil at the bottom poking a bit of fun [...]
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Los Angeles Taking Further Measures to Curtail Outdoor Advertising
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009We wrote last month about the city of Los Angeles winning a court appeal to uphold their ban on new billboards but despite the legislation, many advertisers continue to try and skirt the wording of the law by putting up supergraphics signs instead. Supergraphics are essentially enormous advertisements made mostly out of vinyl that are unfurled [...]
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The Economic Crisis in Song
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009What does a failing economy sound like? Johannes Kreidler offers his rendition with these computer-generated tunes created with Microsoft’s Songsmith program, Muzak-y compositions that follow the downward tumble of American financial institutions, as well as the unemployment rate and Iraq war statistics. Watch the video below to see how the melodies match the depressing stats [...]
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The P2P Alternative Social Economy
Tuesday, den 3. February 2009The Wall Street Journal reports that a peer to peer social currency based economy may be playing a large role in our future. Stan Stalnaker, founder of the Hub Culture social network is says “I don’t think anybody has any idea of how big a shift is coming in terms of our our view and [...]
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