Category Archives: Design
Giant Melting Crayon Sculptures
Tennessee artist Herb Williams has been commissioned to construct 3-D flames out of 60,000 to 70,000 Crayola crayons that melt and warp under the raging Texas sun. Blazes have become a very serious threat in Texas this year, as the state endures its worst drought in history. Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire opened October 7 to educate the public about the [...]
Spherical Panoramas
The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera was invented by a German computer engineer, Jonas Pfeil. It allows the user to explore a full representation of the captured environment (see a demo video). The ball’s 36 cell phone cameras capture the panorama, which is stitched together afterwards on a computer. I can’t wait to see this device on the [...]
Word as Image
Simply great.
Rocky Railway High @ Nuit Blanche
One of many (too many) things to tackle during tomorrow Nuit Blanche in Toronto: Rocky Railway High an Interactive Art Project for the symbolic return of the Chinese railway workers to Guangdong, China, their homeland (an important Chinese custom at the time). Between 1881 – 1884, about 15,000 Chinese laborers from the southern Province of Guangdong [...]
Canadian Spirit Website Launch
Over the past few weeks, we have been working on the redesign for Canadian Spirit Down Wear’s newest website. The website features their newest fall/winter collection, classic styled outerwear in a wide variety of colours for men and women. Check out more of the collection at CANADIAN SPIRIT DOWNWEAR.
Unusual elevator
This elevator is a last remnant from when the former Macy’s warehouse building which obliviously catered to a more artsy clientele. Next trip to New York I will defiantly be making the trip out to Queens to see this for my self.
Glorious(?) Return to Canada and new post
Hi all, I’m back from my little stint abroad in Georgia (the country, not the state). So here’s a new eco-friendly architecture from Denmark (Gosh, we’re really lagging behing North America!). This new hotel, the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel, is the largest hotel in Scandinavia. It is in the Ørestaden district in Copenhagen. The hotel [...]
LESS AND MORE: THE DESIGN ETHOS OF DIETER RAMS
Earlier this month I visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and caught the first week of Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams exhibit, which featured a number of his legendary product designs. My favorite part of the exhibit was a room near the back with his 10 Principles for Good Design written along [...]
NORBLACK NORWHITE
It’s not too often that a clothing line catches my eye and stops me dead in my tracks. Well, it just happened. Right. Now. NORBLACK NORWHITE is the creative superbaby borne between Toronto and India. If the loveliness of the website and clothes isn’t enough, leave it up to the girls to work directly with [...]
Digital Distractions
The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions by David McCandless of Information is Beautiful was recently featured at the Museum of Modern Art.
