Neste fim de semana, estive em São Paulo para ver a 27a. Bienal. Ela gira em torno do tema “Como viver juntos”. Da exposição como um todo, posso trazer o fato muito positivo que alguns estados brasileiros artisticamente esquecidos tiveram espaço e destaque, principalmente o estado do Acre.
Sasatoku is a site with some cute paper automata that I mentioned last year on this blog. It has also been one of my links for some time. Recently, I noticed my link no longer worked, so I sought out the new site. It turns out the new version is MUCH easier to navigate than the old one and now includes lots of new free model downloads, including these cute fairy tale characters. If you are into the mechanical paper stuff like me, you’ll like the simple but lovely little automata still available on the site.
[Via Paper Forest]
Já é antigo, mas é muito bom e vale a pena ver de novo. =)
Shaïwear, a French sportswear company, has seen a lot of buzz around their interactive catalog for Summer 2006 (which made the rounds on some advertising and marketing sites). It comes in multiple formats and features couples enjoying each other’s company (and their clothes). Green dots appear on the screen near the clothing, and a simple roll over the Flash movie introduces a catalog entry with size, color and product details.
[Via Cool Hunting]
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The BLT ring was created as a collaboration between jewelry designer Carrie Weston and The Grateful Palate the pork connoisseurs behind the Bacon of the Month Club we featured in our 2005 Gift Guide. Composed of five stackable individual rings—a bacon ring, a tomato ring, a lettuce ring and two bread rings—it’s available in Sterling Silver for $150 or multicolored 14k Gold for $750. See an image of the gold ring modeled on a hand after the jump.
[Via Cool Hunting]
Cory recently reviewed Scott McCloud’s amazing new book, Making Comics. Kevin Kelly also reviewed it on Cool Tools and included this marvelous page from the book about combining two primary facial expressions to create a complex facial expression.
[Via Boing Boing]
Using a two-dimensional, graphic profile to form a three-dimensional object. By combining geometric shapes and streamlined corners, this armchair creates interesting continuous single stroke no matter which angle you view it from.
[Via Design Spotter]
Sometimes things aren’t what they appear to be, and here’s a case in point: the floor of this elevator car is painted to give the illusion that there’s no floor at all. It’s a trompe l’oeil that’s realistic enough to convince the roadrunner that there is indeed a tunnel on the side of the mountain, not just a painting by Wile E. Coyote.
[Via Gizmodo]
The NYT reports on the increasing trend to building secret rooms in contemporary houses: not just fortified “safe rooms” for the home-invasion paranoids, but also playful rooms hidden behind bookcases, stairs and others that speak to our inner Bruce Wayne.
[Via Boing Boing]
The amazing ice sculpture from Okomoto Studio that we had at our recent party for the 50th episode of Cool Hunting Video left us all wanting to express ourselves in a frozen medium. Luckily the design geniuses at Lego are a step ahead. The Lego Ice Cube Tray makes ice cubes with the classic Lego brick shape. Whether you are building a scale model of the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden or simply building the perfect cocktail the Lego Ice Cube Tray is available online for $7.99.
[Via Cool Hunting]