eyjafjallajökull
Lightning storms caused by the static discharge from the massive amounts of airborne material from the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland.
Photos by Marco Fulle.
fools
woodcut illustrations by Albrecht Dürer from Sebastian Brant’s Das Narrenschiff
happy april fool’s day!
chromaesthesiae
installation by softlab at the devotion gallery
via designboom
wwii gliders
Schweizer LNS-1 gliders over Parris Island in 1942
guastavino
also known as timbrel vaults, catalan vaults, and tile vaults
these structures are as elegant as they are strong
images from wiki
villa astrid
villa astrid in gothenburg, sweden by wingårdh arkitektkontor ab
images by james silverman
pencil jewelry
sea ice
pirate
the r-boat Pirate built in 1925, and lovingly restored in 1999
currently on display at the Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union in Seattle
super normal
in furniture studio last spring we read a great article about the Super Normal exhibition being put on by designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukusawa. the basic idea is design that works by not really being noticed, at least not on a conscious level. maybe as you are opening that hundredth bottle of wine you suddenly realize that the corkscrew you’ve had all these years could never be improved upon. it just works. quietly, calmly, but without fail. but also that the corkscrew might actually improve the more you use it – one interpretation of the japanese idea of wabi-sabi (as i understand it). the idea behind the term lagom in reference to design is really very similar, which is precisely why i was taken with the work of both Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukusawa…
Jasper Morrison’s air chair
Naoto Fukusawa’s wall-mounted cd player
table ware by Jasper Morrison
digital watch by Naoto Fukusawa
get it, read it, it will change the way you look at items
