For The Love of Plants and Cleaning

I love the simple TwoFaced Window, a window that allows you to conveniently clean both the sides of the pane and nurture plants according to the elements. The window pivots and does a full 360-degree rotation. Well the cleaning aspect is one part of the design, however the thoughtful incorporation of a flowerbed and its maintenance, scores it many brownie points!

Designers: Junkyung Kim & Yonggu Do

rubber house

Dutch architects Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten have designed this one-man pavilion made entirely of rubber.The Rubber Pavilion is entered though a slit and has a bench in one wall and a window frame, which cannot be seen through, in another.The entire pavilion including the bench and window frame are formed from resin poured into a mold.The pavilion will be on display at the Museum Bahnsteig in Oberhausen, Germany from Wednesday 25 August until the 1 October, and then will sit in front of the Schauspielhaus in Bochum from 4 to 8 October.

go beyond borders

New slogan of CNN, launched at the end of 2009 to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. 40km of tape marking what used to be the border between east and west berlin. Including train station, cafe, and any other places.

contemplating monolithic design

British designer Barber Osgerby have collaborated with sony to present series of conceptual product combining light and sound. Called Contemplating Monolithic Design, the projects are on show in a sound-absorbing chamber covered in foam pyramids in the zona tortona in Milan this week.



The exhibition features five different spaces that represent Sony’s vision of how their products can be integrated into contemporary interior spaces.Ideas on show include combined lighting and speakers, a near-field speaker integrated in a headrest to avoid disturbing others when watching television, and speakers disguised as furniture.

Contemplating Monolithic Design by Sony and BarberOsgerby from Dezeen on Vimeo.

skinput

skinput is a concept of future interaction gadget, as a combination of art, design and science, skinput use human body as echo chamber. which when the users tap their body parts, the sensor, placed on the upper arm will receive a signal from vibration created from the tap.

terreform 1: homeway

homeway is another conceptual architectural project from the architects of terreform 1 led by
dr. mitchell joachim. the project focuses on how cities can extend into the suburbs sustainably.
their idea is to mount suburban homes on wheels having them drive into the city by day and back
again at night. in their vision, city highways would be enhanced with an intelligent renewable
infrastructure that would serve these mobile home structures. 'in the future, the physical home will
remain permanent but its location will be transient. our static suburbs will be transformed into
a dynamic and deployable flow. houses will have the option to switch from parked to low speed.
homes, big box retail, movie theaters, supermarkets, business hubs, food production, and power
plants will depart from their existing sprawled communities and line up along highways to create
a truly breathing interconnected metabolic urbanism. dense ribbons of food, energy, waste and
water elements will follow the direction of moving population clusters.'

http://www.terreform.org

tokyo motor show part 1

Tokyo motor show has ended by the beginning of this week, and here are the exclusive photos from the exhibition.

As the effect of economic crisis, this year's exhibition seems a little bit 'smaller' than what we had from the previous years, and majority of the exhibitors were japanese auto manufacturer. But some manufacturer still managed to present their latest concept with a very pleasing presentation.

Awesome Design Sketch Hacks

I love it when Industrial Designers don’t take themselves or their sketches too seriously. Reviewing sketch after sketch in an automotive style does get tiresome at times.

Enter Craighton Berman, an Industrial Designer and Creative Director, who is not afraid to share his view on the lighter side of Industrial Design at his Fueled by Coffee blog.

The Ultimate Remote Control: Lego

via: designsojourn