Peugeot Concept, personal mobility car, designed by Yuji Fujimura. Bubble cars of the future, where are you?
[Via Likecool]
Peugeot Concept vehicle
Category Archives: Design
PS3 Slim gets the chrome treatment
After going gold, it’s only proper for the Playstation 3 Slim to receive the chrome treatment. The XCM Cyberchrome case is not a cover, it’s a complete shell casing that fits over the Slim’s body. It’s on sale at TotalConsole for $79.99 if you’re looking to get your PS3 a-shinin’.
kidrobot x Tremonto MUNNY Lightbot
Designer Marcus Tremonto has teamed up with designer toy store and apparel manufacturer kidrobot to create a collection of MUNNY Lightbots. MUNNYs are kidrobot’s customizable collectible dolls. By adding colorful materials to the dolls Tremonto has managed to customize the MUNNYs in a variety of ways. Some are puking rainbows (see above), while others are peeing concentric circles and donned with eye shields and laser swords. Check ’em all out in the gallery below. The MUNNY Lightbots are on sale at the kidrobot store in Soho, NYC. Each doll is signed by Tremonto, numbered, and is packaged in a custom box. kidrobot is well known for exclusives that ran out fast and are gone forever. So if you’re interested in one of these guys, I’d make it to the store on the double. (Tremonto is the same guy behind the carbon fiber lamp.)
[Via InventorSpot; Gizmodo]
Robot sculptures
These impressive robot sculptures are designed by artist Michael Rivamonte. The majority of them stand three feet tall, are made from materials like steel, clay, and wood, and much detail is given to each body structure. Rivamonte is a collector of antique and vintage objects and he uses them to create his robots. As you can see from the gallery of photos, they are composed of random mechanical parts like old movie cameras, tube radios, hair dryers, binoculars, staplers, and drive-in movie speaker boxes. Exposed wiring adds to the mechanical aesthetic.
[Via Gizmodo; DinosaursandRobots]
Animated short: TheHead
Short film: Paper War
Crayola Rockets
Houston, we have a colorful lift off. Over and out.
John Coker, a DIY rocket enthusiast, built and successfully launched a pack of Crayola Crayons rockets in the Nevada Desert. This launch event was six years in the making. Though only four of the eight rockets launched, those that did soared 2,928 feet into the air! If you’re interested in how he did it, check out his site. More photos from the liftoff event and the design process in the gallery below.
[Via Huffington Post; JCrocket]
Keyboard Bench
Wolfgang Keyboard Bench, designed by Nolan Herbut.
The Wolfgang keyboard bench is made up of 2,000 keys imbedded into a layered Baltic birch wood. Each key is pressable and actually makes a clicking sound when pressed.
Neat! Check out a bunch of detailed shots of the keyboard bench in the gallery below.
[Via Coroflot; Freshome; Likecool]
Vitrahaus is a ‘pile of houses’
Take a long gander at the Vitrahaus, a house-upon-a-house designed by architects Herzog and de Meuron. DesignBoom’s got the scoop:
The five-storey structure is comprised of 12 ‘houses’ – five houses are set at the base in which seven other houses are stacked upon one another. Each of the structural volumes appear as if they have been shaped by an extrusion press and are cantilevered up to 15 metres in some places. The floor slabs intersect the underlying gables, resulting in a three-dimensional assemblage or ‘pile of houses’.
Located between the border of Switzerland and Germany at Weil am Rhein, the Vitrahaus resides as a presentation space for Vitra, a Swiss furniture manufacturer. To no surprise, the interior of the home is just as flat-out spectacular as the exterior. It oozes modern and minimalistic curves and other unconventionalities. Definitely worth a look in the galleries below.
[Via DesignBoom, here & here; Gizmodo]
Expandable chair made entirely of recycled paper and wood
The FlexibleLove chair, designed by Chishen Chiu, combines an “accordion-like, honeycomb structure” and recycled paper and wood waste to form an expandable chair than can stretch and fold to make various seating arragements. The company calls it “ecological, adaptable, practical” and I couldn’t agree more. I want one! Look after the break for a video of it in action.
[Via Likecool; FlexibleLove]
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Concept: Decorate & color your walls without paint
Change It! Designed by Amirko.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have the ability to change the look and feel of the rooms in your home without the hastle of dealing with messy paint? Concept designer Amirko has thought up a way to do just that. The wall of colorful squares you see in the image above is actually made up of many small triangles. Each triangle features a different color; some are black, white, and rainbow-colored. With slight manipulation you can spin the triangles to create various designs to decorate an entire wall. Neat, huh? Check out the gallery below for some more designs.
[Via YankoDesign; Gizmodo]
‘Experience the void’ at the Guggenheim: come happy, leave injured
JDS Architects have come up with a wild n’ wacky idea to fill up the void at the Guggenheim Museum, that is, the wide open space inside the building. JDS invites you to “experience the void” by bouncing your way from the top to the bottom of the museum via a trampoline net. Design Boom points out that “this idea plays on Frank Lloyd Wright’s original scenography for the Guggenheim in which he envisioned patrons visiting the exhibition from the top, downwards.” Problem is, this method of transportation in the building would likely result in one too many tragic body traumas. Take a deep breath, it’s only a concept; and due to such safety concerns, it will likely remain just that. But it’s a fun idea, is it not?
[Via DesignBoom; Gizmodo]
