Saturday, October 31, 2009

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Scribble A Beautiful Masterpiece

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 11:58 AM PDT

One of my biggest regrets is that I don't have a good hand at drawing. I mean I can copy someone else's sketches but there's a lot room for improvement. Incidentally, the ScribbleBot is a drawing tool for people like me. Ones who crave to draw neatly, but just don't have the in-built talent for it. The device can be fed with a preconceived drawing paths downloaded off the internet, to maneuver your hand and pen in way that results in some awesome sketching. The video gives you the hang of how things are done.

Designer: Jon Cumberpatch

ScribbleBots from Jon Cumberpatch on Vimeo.

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ScribbleBots Digital Drawing Tool by Jon Cumberpatch

Pratt’s Third+Bond; More Like Third+Awesome

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 10:58 AM PDT

Pratt, in a crazy scheme to promote its students, alumni and faculty, recently outfitted two Brooklyn condos on the corner of 3rd and Bond Street with every manner of design paraphernalia, invited a bunch of people and put up an open bar. Color me there.  Drawing on past and present Pratt faculty and students like Eva Zeisel and Tucker Viemeister, the spaces came alive with conscious, inventive, often green, always cool design.

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The space of the upper apartment above uses the Dual Height Bench from David Zachary as a delightfully geometric centerpiece surrounded by a one-of-a-kind lounge from Eva Zeisel as well as cardboard chairs from CardboardDesign.  In a similar nod to cardboard, the winerack from Anthony Caradonna and Pratt architecture students (below) will contrast nicely with your expensive wine and if the recycled cardboard doesn’t assuage your eco-guilt, its alcoholic contents surely will.

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One of my personal favorites, the Array Series from Pratt alumnus Jason Pfaeffle (above), will appeal to any former K’nex fans who can’t resist taking apart their furniture and putting it back together as they like.  Evoking similar focus on user interaction, the Rosebud Felt Bowl from alumnus Diane Ruengsorn below has the user snap the bowl together using a magnets embedded in a single piece of industrial felt.

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Also displaying a selection of fine art from the school, the Laser Bed Prints (above) were captured from the Architecture department’s often used laser cutting machine by Pratt professor Mark Parsons and transferred to Homasote, rendering otherwise discarded scraps into something beautiful.  Using the same laser cutting process, Anthony Caradonna cut away the disarming lamp shades (below) which, standing erect by their own cylindrical structure, are simply placed over a bare lightbulb.

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Finally, seeing Pratt alum Harry Allen’s C’mere Hand Hook in person, holding a Timex watch from Evo Design, confirms every suspicion I had, it is indeed as creepy in person as it is on the ‘tubes.  If anyone in the Brooklyn area has an interest in the condo’s and between 300 and 900 large burning a hole in their pocket, drop by Third and Bond, for those less filthy rich I would suggest the newly opened Yanko Store.

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YD Store Scavenger Hunt Winner# 4

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 01:11 AM PDT

The name is Love, Mike Love and he is the winner number 4, of the YD Store Scavenger Hunt. Regretting that your name is not the one called out? Don't sweat dear…because only ONE MORE 10% Lifetime Discount Coupon at the YD Store is left to be given out. It's never too late to participate. Join The YD Store Scavenger Hunt, and who knows you could be Winner# 5! Details Here.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Yanko Design - Latest Posts

Yanko Design - Latest Posts

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YouRail Design Contest - Visions of modern transportation by Bombardier

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 06:52 AM PDT

Is publishing your contents on online design communities or hosting your own portfolio site enough for creative satisfaction? Don't you want evaluation or recognition for your efforts? Much like how a post is done on YD, where we hear scores of you either trashing or praising a design, forcing the designers to re-think his strategy or go-ahead with his convictions. The Bombardier YouRail Design Contest by HYVE gives you instant feedback, allowing you to re-think your contribution or simply refining it.

The contest is really simple, you only need to register, get inspired and submit your design ideas. The contest is about the creation of new and innovative interior designs for trains. Questions like how a modern train interior should look like and what kind of innovative features should be integrated need to be solved. It is irrelevant if participants have great experience in interior design or not, the contest is addressed to professionals, students, hobby designers and everyone who is interested into the topic. The designs can be submitted drawn freehand or computer generated, by using the configuration tool or just by explaining the interior idea. Participants may either design a seat upholstery with the configuration tool or freely create an interior design to the following three topics:

  • The Leisure Passenger
  • The Business Traveler
  • The Everyday Passenger

Like I mentioned to participate you need to simply join the community and submit your own vision for interior design in trains. Or you can create your own seat cover with the 3D - configuration tool. Anyway, you can discuss and evaluate the designs of the community and win great prizes: The members with the three best freely created designs amongst all three topics win cash prizes up to 2.000 Euros. The members with the three best configured designs also win cash prizes up to 600 Euros. Plus: The members with the 4th to the 10th best freely created designs win netbooks. Hurrah!

The winning design will be built as a prototype and will be exposed on the InnoTrans 2010 in Berlin which is the leading trade fair in transportation. Besides, the designer of that winning design will be invited by Bombardier to visit the InnoTrans 2010. In addition, the most active member as well as the best freely created and configured designs according to the community evaluation are rewarded with a netbook, too. Finally, one idea will also win a netbook (and a signature book about Bombardier) by the "president's pick" where the jury select the most unconventional idea.

The jury has an impressive line-up with high-level management and design experts - get to know them here: http://yourail-design.bombardier.com

What is really impressive is that like our YD community, there is instant feedback and reaction to your designs by the community members. So participating in this contest really makes sense. You get evaluated not only by your contemporaries, but also by an elite panel of judges. Which other design competition can boast of this killer combo?

To know more on the contest details hit here.

The whole contest phase is being charged by the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH. HYVE is a German innovation agency dealing with customer integration into the product innovation process. Feel free to get all important information about HYVE on their website, or contact them directly.

Post Baroque Hardcore Violin

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 12:01 AM PDT

For over 500 million years… or wait… 500 years, the form of the violin has deviated from the baroque style very little. This violin right here, it’s different. Made by designer Hopfgartner Gerda to spearhead a new age in 4/4 design, this is indeed the “Gavari” Semiacoustic Violin. Created in co-operation with a professional Viennese violin maker to assure perfect dimensions and sound criteria.

The Gavari semiacoustic violin was made with virtually no change from a classical violin in the areas of geometrical curvatures and material thickness in the cover and the soil. Playing this instrument requires no education beyond that of the average violin player.

The design aesthetics of this violin are inspired by giant boats. Boats and yachts of the 50s as well as feminine curves and “sundry corset outlines” of the Baroque, Rococo, and Biedermeier ages.

Maybe this reminds me of the violin in the movie Starship Troopsers? I hope that is not a crime. That and this are basically the coolest violins I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

Designer: Hopfgartner Gerda

Gavari Semiacoustic Violin by Hopfgartner Gerda

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War of the Patio Worlds

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 12:01 AM PDT

There’s no deflection like reflection! Does that make sense to you? It will in a second here, just wait. As for the title of this post: this products we’re about to explore is a Heat Reflection Canopy and it’s made, quite simply, to keep your patio warm. Oh that didn’t explain it well enough for you then, ey? Well perhaps our alien overlords could explain better?

Yes indeed, this project’s look gives a nod to the ol’ radio broadcast and sci-fi story War of the Worlds. In the story, we humans are saved from an alien invasion by pathogenic bacteria against which they cannot defend themselves. The same will be true for the earth if humans ever die out - pollution will be obliterated by the natural recycling process of mother nature.

*Also the object of the project looks like an invader.

Thus, this project. Designer Russell Zoran Corder has made what basically amounts to a series of reflection panels made to continue use of heat which would normally escape into the air, thus reducing the amount of energy we’ve got to use to heat a chilly patio.

Fun? Yes? Yes! Fun.

Designer: Russell Zoran Corder

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Heat Reflection Canopy by Russell Zoran Corder

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The Green Share A Cab

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 12:00 AM PDT

In Utopia you can actually find cabs that are willing to take you to your destination. In that same fantasy land, cabs drivers and passengers actually believe in carpooling! For such fantasy situations is the Carpool LED Top Light. This sprightly indicator harnesses the wind energy via the embedded fan to power the indicating lights. Sadly we don't live in Utopia and we can never find a cab, let alone share one!

Designers: Xi Ouyang, Yuanbiao Jin, Yao Sun & Yelu Liu

Carpool LED Top Light by Xi Ouyang, Yuanbiao Jin, Yao Sun & Yelu Liu

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