Archive for February 17th, 2007
Taiwan International Design Competition
Gadget addicts will love the quirky fare dished up at the latest Taiwan International design competition. From shoes that double as floor mops to wristband dairies and umbrellas with art-print canopies, this year’s competition boasts an interesting range of useful and fun innovations. Our favorites is the digital picture frame, which uses laser hologram display [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yet another holiday destination, that I can’t miss…
If celebrity patrons are an indicator of a hotel’s popularity, the Maldives super-lux Huvafen Fushi is about as hot as it gets. George Clooney popped in for lunch last month, Kate Moss partied in her Ocean Villa, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes booked in a massage during their honeymoon, Alexander McQueen had left when I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Honda Racing F1 Car Installation
View Suspended’ is a stunning art installation created from the thousands of parts that make up a Honda F1 Racing car.
The amazing display was created especially for the event by Dutch artist Paul Veroude. Each of the 3200 parts of the Formula 1 car are suspended on fine wires to produce a 3D ‘exploded [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cool Kids Spaces
Cool designs does not have to be limited to spaces used by adults as we see with these unique areas designed to enhance places of learning.
Forget the “concrete jungle” archetypal school, complete with bars on windows. This school’s hallways (pictured above) have been inspired by the imaginary landscape of the Silver [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wash Your Hands Dude
washyourhands.tv won’t tell you anything you haven’t heard a thousand times from your mother, but maybe this time it’ll get through.
Slapping life sized decals over the door on the way out of men’s bathrooms, JWT Toronto is drawing attention to hands and germs and things that spread.
Small stickers close to the doorknobs read “You washed. [...]
My Next Weekend Away – “W” Maldives
As a brand, the W chain of boutique hotels has practically claimed the concept of luxury to be its own; turning their properties into ‘must-do’ destinations for the hip, famous and wealthy. Just the mention of a new W property going under construction creates an immediate buzz that few other international brands could generate.
The latest [...]
SCOOP – REINVENTING THE ICE-CREAM TRUCK
Gone are the days when surly ice-cream men trawled suburbia with their diesel spitting vans and bags of flakes. Those travelling sweet-sellers forever condemned to the cultural quirks of childhood. Well, almost. Adam Ellis, design director of brand agency Coley Porter Bell (CPB) has rekindled his love affair with ice-cream in a van and hopes [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Skeleton “Valentines” Won’t Be Parted
February 13, 2007—In what’s been called a Valentine’s Day gift to Italy, archaeologists today excavated two interlocked Stone Age skeletons—leaving their “eternal embrace” intact and making it easier to analyze the double burial.
Discovered last week during construction not far from Verona, the setting of Romeo and Juliet, the roughly 5,000-year-old couple has [...]
