One of the best general Design shows in Europe comes to Rotterdam’s Van Nelle Fabriek this coming weekend. 5/6/7th June 2008. See you there.
Link to the exhibition site by clicking the Logo.
Dunno about you, but often I hate using thumb tacks (or drawing pins as we Brits call them) because they look, so, well… tacky. I stumbled upon these great pins the other day while looking for something else (don’t the best web finds start that way?) and thought they were a great way of holding your paper to the office notice board, and making your drawings look a little bit more bad-ass too!
Based on the Ninja throwing stars we’re familiar with after watching all those kung fu movies as kids, these pins are a great example of how someone has re-thought the simple thumb tack. This leads us to ask how you would redesign something which you use everyday and take for granted? Answers below in the comments boxes please.
image © chromoly.ca
Filed under: Architecture, Design, innovation | Tags: Architecture, building, Design, egg, india
Suddenly every other office looks a bit stale. Here is a project the architects, James Law Cybertecture International, for a new office complex in Mumbai, India. The whole concept considers the world as an ecosystem and let it evolve. Hence its egg shape. The building takes care of its inhabitants, helping track blood pressure and weight automatically with data being sent to their doctor if needed. The roof garden dissipates heat from the building itself, while its egg shape makes the most of reaping the abundant solar energy of the area.
Great looking building and a good concept but what do you think about having your health monitored on a day to day basis every time you enter the building? I can see it causing a few human rights and intrusion issues in Europe.
image © James Law Cybertecture Intenational
Here is a guy who designed something he was very proud of. Dr. Fredric J. Baur, of the United States, was so proud of having invented the original ‘Pringles’ container that his request of being buried in one when he died was carried out by his family. Over years of innovation and product development for the Proctor and Gamble organisation he was most proud of his packaging solution for the Potato chips everybody is familiar with, so proud of it that he was buried in one when he died early last month. You can check out the full story by clicking the picture above.
So, that leads us to ask you, what is the thing you are most proud of in your field? Did you design something that changed the world, or was it a simple something that helped your company produce less waste? Either way, tell us and the rest of the world by putting it in the comments boxes below. You never know we might just start to produce an annual ‘Everybody can design innovation award’.
