Posts Tagged: ‘Design Corner’
A different way to build a house #59 – Making the most of small apartment spaces
by Marshall Brain | September 27, 2010
You may recall the amazing “transformer apartment”:
A tiny apartment with moving walls becomes 24 different spaces
Now there is a new take on this idea using rolling walls on tracks, similar to the mechanism seen here…
1) Levi Strauss design comp seeks electricity-free ways to dry laundry
2) Maker of Eco-Connect Bottle System has lofty goals
3) They built Pandora: The ultimate guide to Avatar’s designers
4) The Man, the Mouse and the Wardrobe
5) Creative and Unusual Cutlery Designs
And 20 more…
1) The Unicab EV Could be New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow -and- Aussie design in the running to revolutionise iconic New York City cabs
2) Designing the Taxi
3) Italian-Designed Space Saving Furniture
4) Is This the Craziest Bridge Ever Designed? See also: Wacky bridge design that looks confusion but solves problem
5) Designers Spin Spidey-Worthy Webs From Packing Tape
1) Incredible Pencil Drawings of Animals That Look Like Photographs
2) Put The Light On! Original Lamp Designs.
3) Young Architects Buy Detroit Home for $500, Turn It into Design Lab
4) Live / Work House Plan in San Francisco for Modern Architect
5) How Comic Books Can Make You a Better Designer
6) The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car
7) More Creative Furniture for Cramped Urban Living: 20 Pieces of Ingenious ‘Flat Pack’ Furnitur
8 ) Megaproject may lead to tallest building outside Vancouver’s core
9) Great website effects that dont require flash
The conventional wisdom says, “cash motivates people”. What if the conventional wisdom is wrong when it comes to creative people? There are some fascinating insights revealed in this video…
1) Porsche Pickup Truck
2) Lufthansa’s “customers’ wishes integrated into design” of First Class A380 cabins
3) 5 Fantastic Notebooks and Sketchbooks for Designers
4) Applied physics
5) 40 Free PSD Files
6) 15 Modern And Creative Staircase Designs
7) Cardboard Tube Art
8 ) Proposed urban park designs
9) Gorgeous Shipping Container Art Studio in New York
1) Mysterious Mirror Man Spotted in Los Angeles
2) Visual recipes
3) New bus design for London
4) BAE Systems and Design Q unveil Explorer concepts
5) AfterEffects Showreels in Motion: Design Products
6) A DIY Web Design Education
7) The 80 Most Handsome + High Design Wall Stickers
8 ) 36 Creative Bottle Designs
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1) Disposing of chewing gum 2) Furniture that Comes Alive 3) 45 Beautifully Designed Book Covers 4) Google New Look UI Released 5) Reclaiming Oil Rigs as Oceanic Eco-Resorts 6) Better lock design for use in the dark 7) Katy Perry Wears Glowing LED Gown to Met Costume Gala 8 ) 25 Epic Bikes 9) [...]
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