If I was in London, I’d absolutely be checking out the Dieter Rams “Less and More” exhibition at the Design Museum. If you don’t know who Dieter is, he was the director at the German electronics company Braun for 30+ years. No question he was a visionary.
“My aim is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential s shown to the possible advantage…”
MOMO, the artist responsible for one of the newest (and certainly brightest) Y3 shoe collaborations has just released this short film: He did a video of the 5 art shapes, which are included in the shoe box and came up with 3520 different art hanging possibilities. He documented them all in stop motion + also made a poster out of it. the video is pretty amazing.
Common Projects makes shoes. Really sexy ones. Or do they do more? The black nappa leather duffle bag would look good filled with a weekends worth of clothes for a getaway. Bag available for $600. Via Hypebeast
The super-duper popular IKEA bookcase we all know and love by the name of Billy is turning 30 this year. IKEA is celebrating the occasion by releasing a couple of limited edition models. Fun!
Absolutely beautiful images based on something called Delaunay triangulations, which maximize the minimum angle of all the angles of the triangles in the triangulation; they tend to avoid skinny triangles.
This was created using a scripting plug-in for Illustrator by Jonathan Puckey– he calls his work Delaunay Rasters. Check them out, the faces are so great.
Why can’t all batteries look this good? Unique and colorful packaging for Volta Batteries by ACME Industries in Romania. Good enough not to throw out and remember to recycle? Hope so.
Give him some recycled cardboard, paper bag, along with some glue and acrylic paint, and artistMike Leavittcould create just about anything, including the replica sneakers above.
You can pop by the Fuse Gallery at 93 Second Avenue in NYC to see them.
Via Arrested Motion (with an interview with Mike there as well)… Hat Tip to Amber!
The new Buckyballs packaging is fantastic. So happy for Jake and the Zoomdoggle crew. Want to win a set? Comment below and we’ll pick some winners later this week.
Disclosure, I’m a part owner in Zoomdoggle, which is a part owner in Buckyballs.
The Dieline Awards by, well, The Dieline– which is one of my favorite package design sites. The official ceremony will be held at the FUSE Conference, April 14th, 2010 in Chicago.