While we were at SXSW we caught a few good shows, but one of our stand outs was Los Angeles natives Gliss. It’s ironic when you travel 500 miles to find a band you love from your own backyard, but we’ll take goods band where ever we can get them. As you might imagine, when 5,000 bands come to town some are better than others, and Gliss was one of the gems.
If you’d like to hear yourself some Gliss, you can check out their blog, or their myspace page. We got some great shots from their show at Stubbs, you can click below and see a ton of photo’s in case you missed it.
Paris based Serero Architectes have won the bid to redesign the top floor of the Eiffel Tower. The organic feel of the new observation deck brings a modern touch to the iron tower, which celebrates it’s 120th Anniversary next year.
The extension of the observation deck will be built using high performance carbon Kevlar which will be grafted to the tower, temporarily bolting the structure to the slab. No modifications will be made to the existing structure. Read the rest of this entry »
An uncut and unedited interview with Steve Jobs about his experience working with Paul Rand while developing the logo for Next. It is as interesting to watch Steve Jobs answer the questions as it is to learn about the graphic design giant. Read the rest of this entry »
SI-LA Presents new work by established and emerging artist chosen for Illustration West 46 competition. Selected by renowned editorial, book and gallery painters and illustrators: John Hendrix, Josh Cochran , Mark Matcho, Noah Woods and Tim Egan the exhibition places established pros along side exciting newcomers giving viewers the chance for the first time to see the next generation of illustrators who are just beginning to make a name for themselves The exhibition is made possible with the support of The Society of
Illustrators Los Angeles .
This table, by Israeli designer Itay Ohaly, Encourages the removal of smaller internal tables to be used separately before being herded back to the larger table. Walnut and Corian. 100 cm x 120 cm x 28 cm. Read the rest of this entry »
Our friends at Obey Clothing and Metropark are holding a T-Shirt Design contest that’s open to the public. Winners will get their T-Shirts made by Obey Clothing and sold exclusively through Metropark stores, and will get paid in cold hard cash. They’re even giving away Obey Clothing and Metropark gift cards to to 4 lucky runner ups.
This year’s contest includes submissions for both Men’s and Women’s categories, which means your shot at winning is twice as good. You can submit your design or just rate other peoples on Metropark’s website. Good luck!
Cell Phone Disco is an experimental installation made out of flashing cells. It allows us to see the normally invisible electromagnetic waves which emanate from mobile phones. We are so getting cancer from our iPhones. LED lights, sensors, plexiglass, and mixed media. If you’re gonna be in Pittsburgh, PA, you can catch it at Wood Street Galleries through April 5th.
Every once in a while we get the itch for some new music and just like you, we have a few friends who just always seem to have the good stuff. Yesterday they slid the new Mystery Jets album “Twenty One” our way, and as we passed it around our IM lit up with the same response, “This is a really great record”.
This kind of reminds us of that early eighties english dance sound but redone will protools. If Cold Play dug through your dad’s record collection and found a few Style Council and The Jam records and rocked out to them for a summer, this might be the album that came out of it.
We wish we knew where you could buy this amazing record in the US but alas, iTunes only sells it through their UK store and amazonUK is out of stock. In the mean time you can listen to “Flakes” and “Two Doors Down” by clicking on the tracks below. If you dig those, they have most of the album on their myspace page, and seriously listen to the whole thing because this is an album full of stand outs.
The name OFT comes from the word Loft, in which it has been taken out the “L”, that has to be meant like the dimension “Large”. The OFT is in fact of limited dimensions in its basic composition, but, as well as the loft, it is characterized by spaces adaptable to changeable necessities.
We have imagined a home that would easily allowe to assemble different pieces and to change them during the time. Adding or subtracting elements, also temporarily. Designed by Samanta Snidaro, Andrea Fino and Barbara Giroldi for Sand and Birch Design. Apparently it’s in the ballpark of $500 per square foot.
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