Dandella (think dandelion) is a GPS-like tracking device. Though it behaves more like a sunflower always point towards the sun, this device lights up & bends towards its direction or other dandella that it's been synchronised with. Easy for finding your friend in a crowded mall, or for parents to keep track of their kids at the mall. The form is kept minimal and humble, likened to holding a flower in the hand. Dandella simplifies the complex interface of current GPS devices to a simple notion of ‘just follow where it points.
Designers Yong-kai Tan and Priscilla Lui from NUS Design Incubation Centre say they were simply trying to solve the problem of losing someone and having to find them.
Dandella provides an intuitive way to navigate, and find directions by ‘pointing’ to the right way.
This device works with GPS enabled mobile phones to track physical locations. Dandella bends and points toward the targeted location. It can be programmed to track each other, for parent and child to locate one another. Alternatively, it can also be use to find a location base on a particular set of GPS coordinates determined by the user. By ‘going where it points’ users can instinctively find their way with Dandella.
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Dandella provides an intuitive way to navigate, and find directions by ‘pointing’ to the right way.
This device works with GPS enabled mobile phones to track physical locations. Dandella bends and points toward the targeted location. It can be programmed to track each other, for parent and child to locate one another. Alternatively, it can also be use to find a location base on a particular set of GPS coordinates determined by the user. By ‘going where it points’ users can instinctively find their way with Dandella.
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Finally, the Lacoste footwear in collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects is on sales now. Priced at $525, the Limited Edition will only features 850 pairs. A lower-price diffusion line will hit stores in September.
The Zaha Hadid for Lacoste footwear collaboration began with a digitized interpretation of the iconic crocodile logo. Hadid’s research team then used this as a basis to explore a series of surfaces with repeated patterns. ‘The design expression behind the collaboration with Lacoste footwear allows the evolution of dynamic fluid grids,’ explains Hadid. ‘When wrapped around the shape of a foot, these expand and contract to negotiate and adapt to the body ergonomically. In doing so a landscape emerges, undulating and radiating as it merges seamlessly with the body.’
To achieve this tactile landscape effect, Zaha’s team designed a series of metal plates depicting the desired wave pattern. These plates were subsequently utilised to apply a combination of heat embossing and debossing techniques to the calf leather, thus rendering the topography in relief. The effect is visible on the uppers, curving around the top of the toe, and on the exterior fascia of each shoe. A similar pattern is replicated on the sole of the shoe, crafted of moulded rubber, which is designed to reflect points at which the foot naturally exerts pressure. The heel itself is the minimum depth possible in footwear construction, emphasizing the slender and streamlined profile of the design.
The shoes also feature the unique Zaha Hadid for Lacoste logo, visibly wrapped around the side of the heel and on the in-sock. The sleek and sophisticated black box which packages the product also bears an embossed version of the same logo. The shoes are unisex in design; the women’s are available in black and purple, whilst the men’s come in black and navy. A limited-edition boot version of the Zaha Hadid for LACOSTE shoe will be available exclusively at such high-end boutiques as Colette in Paris, Dover Street Market in London and 10 Corso Como in Milan in July 2009 as a preview. The main shoe line will be appearing in stores worldwide from September 2009. This exclusive collaboration will be highlighted in store by a suite of bespoke material designed to compliment and enhance the themes and colours of the project.
To achieve this tactile landscape effect, Zaha’s team designed a series of metal plates depicting the desired wave pattern. These plates were subsequently utilised to apply a combination of heat embossing and debossing techniques to the calf leather, thus rendering the topography in relief. The effect is visible on the uppers, curving around the top of the toe, and on the exterior fascia of each shoe. A similar pattern is replicated on the sole of the shoe, crafted of moulded rubber, which is designed to reflect points at which the foot naturally exerts pressure. The heel itself is the minimum depth possible in footwear construction, emphasizing the slender and streamlined profile of the design.
The shoes also feature the unique Zaha Hadid for Lacoste logo, visibly wrapped around the side of the heel and on the in-sock. The sleek and sophisticated black box which packages the product also bears an embossed version of the same logo. The shoes are unisex in design; the women’s are available in black and purple, whilst the men’s come in black and navy. A limited-edition boot version of the Zaha Hadid for LACOSTE shoe will be available exclusively at such high-end boutiques as Colette in Paris, Dover Street Market in London and 10 Corso Como in Milan in July 2009 as a preview. The main shoe line will be appearing in stores worldwide from September 2009. This exclusive collaboration will be highlighted in store by a suite of bespoke material designed to compliment and enhance the themes and colours of the project.
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Known for its sporty and stylish timepieces, Tag Heuer has come up with its latest creation - the Meridiist handphone. With dual display screen & a Tag Heuer switch allows you to check the time and manage your calls at the same time. Set to rival the Vertu's handset, the Meridiist collection also come with a hefty price tag: €3,400 to €3,900 depending on the phone options.
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Kerry Vesper sculptural works are just amazing! By using the technique of gluing layers of wood together and carving it into forms. The visual effect of parallel lines from laminating wood give the sculpture a more interesting visual effect than craving a solid piece of wood.
Although Kerry Vesper also done wood-made bowls, chairs & tables, all of his works can be describe as sculpture. Every piece is a work of art rather than everyday object!
via Kerry Vesper
via Kerry Vesper
If you always set your clock a few minutes fast than the real time, then this On-Time Clock is really made for you. Designed by Fabrica's Tak Cheung and produced by Diamantini & Domeniconi, The On-Time Clock fast forwards 3 minutes of your time so you don't have to run for the bus. The trick is to fool yourself into perpetual confusion, never realise what the real time it really is.
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Designed by Denmark-based Line Depping, Borrod table is a project playing with order and disorder. An idea to tidy your working desk in an instant.
The table top slide open mechanism allows you to tidy your desk in an instant whilst also providing a useful storage compartment for cables and alike. the flexible inlay also acts as a screen for privacy.
The table top slide open mechanism allows you to tidy your desk in an instant whilst also providing a useful storage compartment for cables and alike. the flexible inlay also acts as a screen for privacy.
Designed by Benjamin Morin, the 'Pret-a-Porter' lamp is a cute, a bit humorous & full of character floor lamp. While the lamp has a human-like figure, seeing thinking of something, the designer has this to say: "Like trying on a hat on, I wanted the lighting is a bunch of different shades ... or even incandescent lamps. They shed light on very well without dazzle and customize the lighting differently. In a store, you can also hang clothes. An original way to propose different items. "
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A multiplicity of legs, making it difficult to see which ones are supporting the piece, give these benches the lightness and movement of an walking object. The series of three seats designed by Héctor Esrawe for Pirwi explore visual lightness through saturation and an apparently contradictory yet highly effective strategy by giving the idea of a resistant surface that undulates in order to adapt to a changing floor or a sideways movement.
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Tivoli is a prototype chair made by Fredrik Mattson. 'Tivoli' presents itself as a luxurious, playful experiment, and is meant for those who do not only want a chair as an object for sitting on, but who would also like a sculptural object that activates all their senses.
The chair is made of compressed wood, taking it to the extreme here by shaping four glued pieces of compressed wood that with the use of form-bending are able to rotate as a closed curve around a fixed axis. The shape of the curve is thus fixated, while the size grows bigger and bigger in a geometrical progression, thus the spiral shape makes up the chair's seat, back, and sides. The shaping of the chair demands precision craftsmanship and specific treatment of the material. From the foot of the chair, made of red painted ash wood, there are six steel wires that at the end each have a glove shaped holder that both provides a strong grip and stabilises the flexible spiral.
via Fredrik Mattson
via Fredrik Mattson
New concept of chess set designed by Moscow-based Yar Rassadin. The curvy design of Air Chess set is based on ring symbol. Hole inside the shape emphasizes key-element of each figure and stresses the symbolical approach to design. The semi-transparent plastic was chosen to support the lightness of the shape.
Emiliano Godoy's Knit chair just shouts good design! The fact that it is completely biodegradable just adds to the experience. The materials and construction blend the common, cotton rope, with high tech, aircraft plywood, in such a way as to be startlingly intuitive. The interesting point is that small wood pieces are held together with strings, and it is possible to develop in various shape & design. It is unique that 3-dimensional shapes are made by separating pieces.
The construction of the Knit chair speaks about smaller pieces coming together to form a bigger structure. Flexibility is incorporated into the design by means of the cotton rope connections, allowing the chair to dynamically respond to the user’s body, and adapting lightly to the movements, size and posture of the seater.
This chair won a Bronze Leaf at the International Furniture Design Award in Asahikawa, Japan in 2005.
via GodoyLab
This chair won a Bronze Leaf at the International Furniture Design Award in Asahikawa, Japan in 2005.
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If you like champagne, then you will love this Veuve Clicquot On the Go 2 collection. Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label has come with a stylish golden yellow cooling bag. A must have luxury item while on the go with your champagne. This isotherm case will keep your champagne at the perfect temperature, and ready to be enjoyed at any moment.
An unusual and elegant case with a dash of colour, enclosing a sparkling gift! Even when the bubles have disappeared, the surprise is long lasting!
So, what are you waiting for? Let's go to the beach this summer!
via Veuve Clicquot
So, what are you waiting for? Let's go to the beach this summer!
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Awesome RATATA gun from Dutch designer Tomm Velthuis. Built of 11 wooden pieces, this intriguing toy when put together form a real-life dimension machine gun.
From the designer's words:
Eleven pieces of wood in a wooden box. A blocks set, just a toy. Until we start to play with it. When we put pieces together, it becomes a full size machine gun. People should play more, really play more. With each other. Away from that computer, get outside! Ypu don't play with a gun, yet it looks friendly, with its smooth edges and a pleasant light color. There's two emotions hidden inside that provide food for thought.
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Eleven pieces of wood in a wooden box. A blocks set, just a toy. Until we start to play with it. When we put pieces together, it becomes a full size machine gun. People should play more, really play more. With each other. Away from that computer, get outside! Ypu don't play with a gun, yet it looks friendly, with its smooth edges and a pleasant light color. There's two emotions hidden inside that provide food for thought.
via By Tomm
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