A Thread for Fine Design

[simon le bon]

Dale,

@unknownuser said:

I love his naive style.

+1 I understand better more the spirit

And love Richard's Fun Package too

simon

[Rich O Brien]

Didn't know whether to post in Funny Pics or here? The last image isn't fine design but the rest tackle daily problems with clever solutions...

Wasn't the cup holding the biscuits a great design?

[utiler]

I like the shirt, Rich. Grown up little man, isn't he?

[Rich O Brien]

True, not really fine design. I hope I haven't rained on Dale's parade

[dale]

@unknownuser said:

True, not really fine design. I hope I haven't rained on Dale's parade

Let it pour Rich.
Actually I have built the stair drawers many times. Don't know who originally thought of it, but it is a damn fine use of space.

[boofredlay]

Rich, when my daughter was a baby we had springs under the feet of her crib. Great idea indeed.

These are pretty cool:
Anatomical Cross-Sections Made with Quilled Paper by Lisa Nilsson

[dale]

A quote from the always quotable atomic physicist Niels Bohr:
" To think about the paradoxical truths of quantum mechanics is to think in images, because the only way to know anything about the invisible is to create an image of it that is by definition a human construct, a model, a half-truth trying to hint at the real truth."
He also collected cubist paintings by the likes of Picasso... thought provoking.

[dale]

Another fine piece from Marcus (d12dozr), who you all know for his contributions to SketchUcation.
Here is a link to the Thread in case you haven't seen it. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=383931#p383931
In my own experience, there is nothing more exciting than seeing something you envision come to life. It's a big undertaking, and I congratulate Marcus on bringing this little gem to life.

[solo]

Bonsai architecture.

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/39037/bonsai-architectures-and-pebble-infrastructures/

[dale]

This guy does some neat work.
His Hawaiian Pineapple Resort

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[dale]

Jordi Mila http://jordimila.com/en/the-collection.html
Mountain Diva
Four Seasons
Light Boxing

[dale]

http://www.weinor.com/glasoase.html

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[dale]

Today's inspiration. Eric Owen Moss http://ericowenmoss.com/
Umbrella is an outdoor performance venue designed for 30 performing musicians, and is part of a re-design of 2 1940's warehouses originally planned to house the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.

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[dale]

On the glass theme.
http://www.casali.info/en-US/

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[dale]

This is in the "Would never get past our building inspector" department

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[david_h]

the upside of owning a staircase like that. . .it would make you want to stick to your diet. . .

[simon le bon]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/harbin_international_ice_and_s.html

[url=http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/2/16:3uj0ryuu]Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer[/url:3uj0ryuu]

Libraries over the world
[url:3uj0ryuu]http://knstrct.com/2012/01/10/weekly-roundup-libraries/[/url:3uj0ryuu]

[url=http://knstrct.com/2010/11/27/philippe-stark-le-royal-monceau-hotel/:3uj0ryuu]PHILIPPE STARK: le royal monceau hotel[/url:3uj0ryuu]

[url=http://knstrct.com/2011/04/04/the-confederate-120-fighter/:3uj0ryuu]The Confederate 120 Fighter[/url:3uj0ryuu]

simon

[dale]

Thanks Simon
For those not familiar with Philippe Stark. his work is well worth seeing. A renaissance Man.http://www.starck.com

[stefanq]

Yeah, Philippe is great!

[simon le bon]

Hi Dale and Stefan

I remember many years ago to have visited his house with a tv team . a beautiful house bordered by the river Seine. The entrance walls was absolutely covered with pretty no free space with african masks. Questions about that.. the effect was great: gloomy, a bit stressful, beautiful. And at the same time the personality of each mask was something like denied...

In the main room, a collection of sea scenes earthenware was entirely ringing the room.

This collection of very "kitsch" objects once again was strange.

I'm far to like everything because Starck likes to play around the frontier of "mauvais goût"!!
And at the same time he reach sometime to touch genius.

by the way I have discovered the reflective aspect of his work which can lead to a better understanding of his way:

Example: those (seemingly) awful Gun lights:

Here is his reflection about Kalashnikov (automated Google translation)

http://www.starck.com/fr/design/categories/luminaires.html#gun_lamp

@unknownuser said:

To the Life, To the Death.
Then there have been trials of life, then a
sketch of life, then life.
It was of little value, life and death
confused, somewhat randomly, without
Importance.
But it worked. Much.
We created a civilization for Life
Vive.
Necessarily sublime, becomes sacred, untouchable,
The big, beautiful life, guaranteed for
everyone lived and survived to us, the twenty-first
Century, millennium, coming
of civilization civilized.
Bravo, sleep in peace.
PARATRAS.
It's never as is believed.
Hardly lived a small light cycle,
the shadow returns, fast dense, menacing.
Backspace, death awaits.
Today we kill. Religiously,
Militarily. Civilly. Sometimes
civilly. By ambition.
By greed. For fun. For
Show.
Are banana republics,
Our masters of tyrants.
Created, manufactured, sold, dreamed,
purchased, used, our new
icons are weapons.
Our lives are a carton.
The collection "Gun" is a sign of the times.
It has the symbols we deserve.
Glory to our dictators.
A life and death.
PH. S.
P. S.
Light, functional, low, affordable, stylish, with over 100 million
copies of products difficult, the
Kalashnikov is one of the largest
success of our Industrial Design
generation.
Mr. Kalashnikov receives no
royalties. He does not complain often.
So I will pay a commission to Mr.
Kalashnikov on sales of
representation of his model. The poor.
The rest will be donated to "Doctors Without Borders
International. " I wonder
well why.
Citizens to tears.
Citizens on Patrol.
Explanation:

• GOLD weapons represents the ratio between money and war.
• The table represents East Gun.
• Bed Side Gun Europe.
• Gun Lounge West.
• The abajour black represents death.
• The cross inside remind us of our dead.

++simon