Lipstick Enigma is a computer-driven sentence-generator made by Janet Zweig. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, controlled by 60 circuit boards. The software invents and writes a new line of text, using rules and a lexicon written by the artist, and displays it on the sign when triggered by …
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Pintassilgo Prints is a Brasilian studio: they deal with typography, fonts and handprinting. And finger puppets: handpainted Ramones, Velvet Underground (& Nico), David Bowie and the Fab Four as well. Rock’n’roll (to) your fingertips! Check out puppets here, more institutional works here.
Another great product from the Freitag brothers, always cutting and thinking and testing there in Zurich. This is the time to reinterpret the classical backpack in the “Freitag way”. The F48 HAZZARD is probably one of the smartest FREITAG bags there ever was – with comfortable padding, hiding straps, electronics compartments up to 17″ and tons of quick-access …
Designed to embrace the very imperfections that made analog cameras of abygone era memorable, BadCamera™ is a free-to-download application that isnot only easy to use but a fresh take on the category. BadCamera allows the user to jump right into taking snapshots while evoking a sense of nostalgia through a variety of different lens effects – …
Sitting high atop the Pacific Palisades and overlooking Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean, the original Eames House was built in 1949 as number eight in the series of Case Study Houses and is still recognized for its revolutionary use of space and materials. Charles and Ray Eames moved into the house in 1950 and …
Abbiamo scoperto il restyling di un brand che molti di noi ricorderanno dai celebri spot degli anni 90: Packard Bell. Dimenticate le offerte del vecchio pc fisso. A conferma che il connubio tra tecnologia e design si fa sempre più indissolubile e indispensabile, il brand ha lanciato due nuovi Netbook 10 pollici: Dot S e Dot S fiori. Come Polkadotters abbiamo …
This stunt from WWF in Moscow showed people how it feels to be one of the thousands of animals killed by shotguns every year in Russia. The t-shirts had augemented reality codes that triggered a shooting animation when exhibited in front of special mirrors in the stores or in front of the webcam at home. …
AXA is Belgium’s first insurance company to launch an iPhone app. Their free application helps and guides you through some basic steps when you have a car accident. Want to know more? Visit http://www.axa.be/iphone | via
Wallpaper*, the international design, fashion and lifestyle magazine, has extended its successful iPhoneapp to create the official guide for the London Design Festival.With 240 events taking place across the capital over nine days (18-26 September 2010) the updated app,created in association with Veuve Clicquot, is an essential guide and exclusive edit of the best things …
The world’s smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8. Professor Fletcher’s invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. | via
What are the benefits of Norton Internet Security 2011? Well, for one thing, it helps protect your unicorn from Dolph Lundgren. More here. | via
Propellerhead recently decided to create a giant, 4×4 light-emitting device so large that you have to literally jump between each of the pads in order to trigger the drum samples. Then they just randomly set up shop outdoors somewhere and hooked everything up to a projector showing the Kong drum synthesizer that it was hooked …
