penchant-for-design:

A simple but innovative design of a modern pencil by Yuta Watanabe, basically using a modified clothes peg to hold a pencil lead in place.

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A shadow cloud is a three-dimensional object, consisting of multiple shadow-casting elements semi-randomly arranged in three dimensions. A shadow cloud can be viewed as a generalization of shadow casting panels, but of course the basic idea is already present in the so called GEB-triples. More info here.

via http://www.triangulationblog.com/2010/08/shadow-cloud.html

Francesco Franchi’s amazing information design n illustration

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Indoor Tree Climbing by Kaja Osholm Kjolas | 1 Design Per Day

ABC3D alphabet pop-up book by Marilon Bataille! so damn clever 

Color Rhapsody- rhythm on paper

“Colour Rhapsody” is a book about the origin of hearing and the impact of music on our brains. Optical and acoustic experiments make it possible to »see« music in a different way. They create a colourful symphony with compositions for inspiration and information. Final project (Bachelor of Arts) of Irene Themann.

The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” was designed by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus. It is a drawing machine that illustrates a never-ending story by translating words of text into patent drawings.

Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext.

The machine attempts to show how new visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.

Basic procedure
1. The program downloads and parses a part of the text of a recent best-selling book.
2. The algorithm eliminates all insignificant words like “I”, “and”, “to”, “for”, “the”, etc. The remaining words and their combinations are the keywords for the patent drawings.
3. Using the keywords in chronological order, it searches for the key-patents
4. The program now searches for a path connecting the found key patents. This is possible because every patent contains several references to older patents – the so-called “prior art”.
5. All key-patents and the patents connecting them semantically are arranged and printed.
6. Goto step 1.

via http://www.creativeapplications.net/

minimalist wooden chess set..pretty!

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crookedindifference:

Do what you are passionate about. Success and happiness will come of it.

Watch this video and tell me that you dont see a man completely driven by his passion. Will you look back on your life and be as happy with your choices as this man is with his?

A short documentary about a grocery store in LA that sells only soda…500 different kinds and very little high fructose corn syrup.

(Source: kottke.org)

starryfield:

毛並みで伝えるメッセージボード「Dedo Message Board」: DesignWorks

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