Pretty nifty gadget for making bikes locked to lamp posts more secure. The video is in German but i think the language of hypothesise, test, analyse and repeat is prety universal. For the short on time among us, skip to 120 for the (short) demo
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Improved bicycle safety
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bicycle, cycling, design, invention, lamp post, locking, security, urban on December 10, 2010 by pictureplaneWe put bed in your desk so you can sleep while you work
Posted in Uncategorized with tags adjustable, architecture, compact, design, furniture, murphy beds, space on August 13, 2010 by pictureplanevia the daily what
Shelob awaits you
Posted in Uncategorized with tags amazing, art, design, installation, space, spider web, vienna on June 13, 2010 by pictureplane
Come into my parlor said Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen to the mob. This exhibit in an old stock exchange building in Vienna is made entirely of packaging tape. Nearly 117,000 feet worth. As you can see below, the structure is strong enough to support people climbing inside it. The exhibition runs only until today but if anyone is around Frankfurt in September, they’ll be making another in a public space in the city centre.
Click here for more pictures and information in the original article by Jill Singer for Fast company
Beyond petroleum?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags BP, design, gulf coast, humour, oil spill on May 30, 2010 by pictureplane
From a competition by greenpeace to reimagine the bp logo in light of the recent gulf oil spill
We have let down our ancestors
Posted in Uncategorized with tags built environment, city, design, future, imagination, postcards, year 2000 on April 23, 2010 by pictureplane
Great series of postcards from 1900 that imagine what the world would be like by the 21st century
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Holy exploding lampshades Batman!
Posted in Uncategorized with tags comic book, design, explosion, orange on April 21, 2010 by pictureplane
German designer Ingo Maurer presented ‘bang boom’ at milan design week 2010.
The hanging lamp is based around previous work, with the addition of comic typography and animation, constructed with paper
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DIY Chair
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bash, chair, customisable, design, metal on April 16, 2010 by pictureplane
The ‘Do Hit Chair’ is a creation by Dutch designer Marijn van der Poll. It’s a metal box which you can shape into a chair with the hammer provided. You can shape the box into whatever form you choose it to be. After a few minutes or hours of hard work you become the co-designer of the ‘Do Hit Chair.’ Prize? Around $6,000
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(Video @ link)
Flexible Love Chair
Posted in Uncategorized with tags amazing, chair, design, flexible, furniture on February 17, 2010 by pictureplane
Posted in Uncategorized with tags address, design, envelope on February 10, 2010 by pictureplane
The MapEnvelop project prints your current location inside of your letter’s envelope.
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