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!
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.
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.
Fatty Bum Bum lives in the Fatty Dream Galaxy where dreams like him can grow up to unimaginable sizes. Their life is simple; they eat and they sleep. If they’re not eating they’re sleeping. If they’re not sleeping they they’re eating.
Odd game, fun graphics, time waster for sure. Check it out. Via QBN.
On Friday October 16th Cut & Paste will take over the Hammerstein Ballroom with 48 competitors from around the world (16 different cities) duking it out for design championship and victory. Onsite and webcast viewers can tweet during the show with #cutandpaste, and all the comments on the work as it’s happening will be shown on screens between each round. Interactive awesomeness.
Want in to the event with a pair of free tickets? Tweet “I want to go to #cutandpaste NYC @joshspear” and I’ll choose two lucky winners randomly by the end of the week.
Wonderwall is the interior design firm created by Masamichi Katayama– they’re responsible for all kinds of incredible spaces around the world (but especially in Japan). Ever been inside a BAPE store and wondered who was behind the genius interior design and architecture? Some other highlights include Dean & Deluca in Roppongi, APC in Aoyama, Collete in Paris, the UNIQLO store in NYC (with the moving mannequins) and more. Look into more of their amazing work here.