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JULY 25TH, 2010

Cars and Customs by Fred Boss

Cars and Customs by Fred Boss via Signalnoise.com

Lets start Monday off with a whole bunch of fun. When I was a kid I spent a lot of time drawing cars, most of which involved the General Lee, the A-Team van or K.I.T.T. all jumping, smashing into one another or speeding down a road. I believe my dad was the one who first taught me to draw the general shape of a car from side profile, making sure I got the doors and windows in the right place.

Well, check out the work of Norwegian artist Fred Lammers, aka Fred Boss. He does lots of other amazing illustration work, but I couldn’t get enough of these cartoony custom cars he had posted on his Myspace. Just love them for so many reasons. Some are long and sleek, others squat and blocky not to mention the attention to detail including logos, striping and beautiful color treatments. He even lays them out like magazine ads from the ’50s. Awesome.

I really hope Fred has or will be working with either Pixar or Hot Wheels in the future because this sort of thing should not go unnoticed in the film/toy industry.

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JULY 20TH, 2010

Passive houses as type houses

COMMENT: I like the concept of movement through space based on time — something about the full usage of the individual’s environment.

Passive houses as type houses

by David Carlson

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Kjellgren
Kaminsky has produced Swedens first series of passive
houses sold as type houses in collaboration with Emrahus.
Their goal is to make this environmentally friendly building technique
available for all. Villa Nyberg is the first one to get built. The
villa has been customized for the Nyberg family and is situated in
Borlänge, central Sweden.

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Passive houses are extremely well-insulated buildings that are
largely heated by the energy already present in the building – people
and the household equipment generate a lot of energy. The energy
simulations show that this villa will have an energy consumption for
heating of only 25 kWh/m²year.

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The villa is situated by a lake in a fur forest in central Sweden.
The living room and kitchen open up towards the views of the lake, the
more private areas such as the bedrooms and bathrooms are situated on
the other side of the house with smaller windows overlooking the
forest. The round shape of the villa eliminates coldbridges and reduces
the enclosing wallarea of the house. It also effects the way you live
in the house, during the day one will move from room to room around the
building experiencing different views and daylight conditions.

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JULY 14TH, 2010

minale-maeda: rietveld LEGO buffet for droog

COMMENT:  I started as an industrial designer and have loved the ‘simplicity’ of rietveld and can see the complexity a little clearer because of this work.

minale-maeda: rietveld LEGO buffet for droog


gerrit rietveld buffet executed in LEGO

dutch based design duo minale-maeda (kuniko maeda and mario minale)
playfully reprise
gerrit rietveld’s grace to reconsider his de stijl masterwork, ‘buffet’
for dutch design company
droog. the ‘rietveld LEGO buffet’ uses over 25, 000 pieces of LEGO,
updating the de stijl’s call
for simplified materials through the use of the iconic toy building
blocks known to us as children,
creating a re-iteration of one of modern design’s most relevant
historical suggestions.
the buffet comes in a numbered edition of 5.


gerrit rietveld buffet executed in LEGO


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mario minale working on the construction of the buffet


lego pieces all laid out


buffet production in progress

the rietveld via LEGO, buffet is on show as part of droog’s presentation
at
design miami / basel 2010 from june 15th – 19th, located at booth
G28, hall 5,
messe basel, messeplatz.

the buffet is a continuation of mario minale’s 2004 rendition of
rietveld’s red blue chair,
also done in LEGO.


‘red blue LEGO chair’ by mario minale

this LEGO version of the iconic ‘red blue chair’ by gerrit rietveld is
6% larger because
it is goverened by the LEGO brick size. the chair was produced in the
spirit of rietveld’s
original intention to make the design widely available, however,
copyright laws prevented
this LEGO version from being mass produced.


detail
all images courtesy of minale-maeda studio

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