I found Ohio Design while looking for furniture last week. They sell several good pieces of modern (yet, eco friendly) furniture - but what I found most interesting is their service of printing images on the furniture. See the images below - and then visit their site: Ohio Design. Print on Furniture Small Type Link: Ohio Design
Spiegle Online reported that Russian gas giant Gazprom (owner of 16% of the world's gas reserves) is expanding into Europe. The company is holding a design competition for its new headquarters just opposite the famed 18th century Smolny Cathedral on the Neva River in historic St. Petersburg. The images below show the six designs currently in the competition. Read the article at Spiegle.de (english version). RMJM of London Jean Nouvel [...]
This town home in TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal street) in New York uses energy extracted from a depth of 1,400 ft. Geothermal Manhattan Townhouse From the Wall Street Journal "The five-story town house stands in TriBeCa, a few blocks north of the World Trade Center site, and uses an unusual geothermal energy system to provide heating, cooling and hot water. Pipes extend about 1,400 feet into the earth, where the [...]
This is a design by One Architecture, Ton Matton and NL Architects in the Netherlands for a windmill that resembles a tree. Windmill Equals Tree via Reluct.com
Here's a photo of lightning striking both the Washington Mutual Tower and the Space Needle yesterday during a squall. Another bolt of lightning hit a power-line in front of our home. The impact destroyed a power transformer, sending its lid (roughly 100 lbs.) hurling over our building where it landed near our back alley. Luckily our building was okay - other than the light spraying of transformer fluid. Lightning x [...]
"In the late 1920s, in an attempt to break Europe's hold on the world rubber industry, Henry Ford looked to South America. There, surrounded by the Amazon rain forests, the Ford Motor Company built a modern manufacturing center and christened it Fordlandia." Read more at Michigan History Online. Fordlandia The Church at Fordlandia Links: Michigan History Online Bouncing-balls.com Material in this post copyright Michigan History Online & Meg Belichick.
Thomas Weinberger from Munich, Germany, uses a very interesting method in his photography. It's called synthesen and as you can see, the images below are almost surreal. Wienberger's technique is to take two photographs - one durring the daylight hours and one at night - then he combines them. The photographs are from the same physcial location. In each one you see aspects and lighting of both day and night. [...]
Just to the lower right of the moon is a clutch of stars known as the Beehive Cluster, or Praesepe, in the constellation Cancer, and to the right of that is the planet Saturn. The Earth, meanwhile, sports some shining lights of its own. The International Space Station was flying above Scandinavia when this image was taken, allowing city lights to pierce the black of night. The Aurora Borealis. Photographed [...]
I stumbled across the photography of Geert Goiris on http://www.edwardmitterrand.com a few days ago and thought you might find the photos interesting. Ministry of Transportation, 2004 - Russia. Photograph by Geert Goiris | link Futuro, 2002. Photograph by Geert Goiris | link Eugene's Neighbourhood , 2002. Photograph by Geert Goiris | link Palanga, 2000. Photograph by Geert Goiris | link Children's Pavillion, 2005. Photograph by Geert Goiris | link Visit [...]
By Tom Guarriello - From UX Magazine "Experience" is the new "black." Very hip, very now. It's impossible to read any publication even remotely concerned with commerce and not find some reference to "user" or "customer" experience. As a psychologist who's spent over 30 years focusing on human experience, this newfound attention is fascinating. After all, for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, what mattered most about people were [...]