We Built This City

out of staples.
I was looking at a block of staples and thinking that if scaled up sufficiently they’d make an attractive table.
Then an hour later found out how small my thinking was when compared to Peter Root, who built a whole city from them.

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Cloudscapes at the Venice Biennale

Japanese Studio Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have collaborated to create an installation in the Arsenale Exhibition Space at the Venice Architecture Biennale. And it is just amazing.

The fringe benefits of Failure

J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Unlimited Design

all thoughts, creativity and your own design story are welcome here…
Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific is a new international event supported by the Queensland Government to promote the value of design thinking in shaping a positive future for the Asia Pacific region.
You can join in person during our 2010 event, or online to reveal the valuable [...]

Steampunk Optimus Prime

Here’s one for fans of the classics. Enter the Steampunk Optimus Prime that combines the leader of the Autobots with some amazing Steampunk Art.

Inception Costume Design

There is an excellent interview with Inception costume designer Jeffery Kurland over at clothesonfilm.com

Sound + Typography = Stereotyped

The Type People and the Music People
Nils Crompton & Brooke Trezise | Stephen Banham & David Chesworth | Amanda Cole & Ellen Lupton | James Cecil & Tin&Ed | Jay Ryves & Nathan McLay | Gemma O’Brien & Jared Underwood
The What
Stereotyped: sound + typography is an exhibition that will look at how type + sound [...]

This changed my life…*

The original post where I saw this was called ‘You will never look at a duck the same way’. This is so true.

I told my 4 year old niece about this while we were standing watching some ducks in a pond and it completely flipped her mind. She just told me yesterday that she had [...]

Pencil Art… Literally…

I kinda like this idea. Making art with pencils… literally. I would never have the patience to do something like this, not to mention the minutia… But there’s something to be said for the concept of taking such a common, everyday object like a pencil and using as an end in itself rather than a [...]

Designs For A Vertical City

Anthony Stahl and David Lee’s “barrio de los paracaidistas’:
The architecture within the tower develops over time, creating a dynamic composition of vertical neighborhoods that grow around and into one another.