The Honda Experiment | VIDEO

Just curious to know if any of you are able to actually play with this great visual and interactive experiment by Honda. I am not - but I still love the concept, the visual, and the "Making of" Video (this last gave me some clues about how to play with the interactive game and showed [...]

Canstruction: one can make a difference

While searching for sustainability projects in the Retail food industry - my daily task as ECOFFEE Project Manager - I stumbled upon this US based non-profit organization, Canstruction®. Canstruction holds annual design and build competitions to construct fantastic, giant sized, structures made entirely out of canned food. In each city after the structures are built and the [...]

nendo | oki sato

I stumbled upon one of latest nendo designs while reading Wallpaper - featuring the "bell-orgel" collection,  wooden music boxes for Isetan which I found very interesting. The ‘bell-orgel collection’ project was  launched with the cooperation of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's moretrees initiative, which promotes the protection of forests as absorbers of CO2. The music box, which was then decorated [...]

Is text interactivity going to kill human brain creativity and critical thinking? | VIDEO

I have just finished reading this FastCoDesign article and a sense of  "discomfort" rose inside of me. The article is about a new concept, Tangle,  by a former Apple designer, Bret Victor.  Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately - [...]

Stuff No One Told Me

When you are experiencing a personal crisis, just think about what happened to Alex Noriega, 30 year old guy from Barcelona: "At some point in 2010 I was going through a crisis due to some issues at work, so I decided to start this blog as a way of trying to find what I was [...]

dmvA Architecten – Antwerp

I could not help myself from sharing this project from one of my favorite architecture design studio - dmvA Architecten. Blob VB3 is a small mobile home, - a great medium-sized office if placed in my garden 😉 - the product of 18-months work of skirting around strict building codes. The result is a a [...]

IDEO.org needs you!

I have just received an email from Patrice and Jocelyn at IDEO.org which I am happy to share with all of you. For those of  you  who do not know IDEO.org yet, their mission is to bring human-centered design to the humans who need it most — those facing poverty every day. They're teaming up [...]

UXUS -Design Agency

This is the Agency where many designers would like to work for - at least, I would! Founded in Amsterdam in 2003, UXUS ( shorthand for ‘You Times Us’) is an international multidisciplinary and award winning design agency specializing in strategic design solutions. An with multidisciplinary they really mean MULTIdisciplinary offering  Retail Design,  Architecture,  Hospitality Design, Brand Identity & [...]

Misako Inaoka

You might say that I am having a crush with Japanese art and design. True. Actually, I have always had it. Born in Tokyo, living in San Francisco, Misako's works are influenced by  "manipulated urban nature (..). I emphasize the subtle details of surviving nature and exaggerate their illogicality to cultivate my own version of [...]

Introducing Miharu Matsunaga’s Ten-Ten

Another great design related spotted in Nicole's blog. Enjoy this wonderful "ten-ten"  (dots) flow by Miharu Matsunaga, talented Japanese Designer, Artist and Photographer. Miharu Matsunaga's Got Me Seeing Spots. In Mihaur's  website, you can also find other interesting works, such as the below featured Tarzan.

Au coin de ma rue

This is a great project I have discovered just a couple of days ago thanks to Chicquero. Barbara Iweins is a very nice woman living between Brussel and Amsterdam who a couple of years ago started the "Au coin de ma rue project" "I always wonder what makes me turn to look at one passer-by [...]

It is just an illusion | VIDEO

Astigmatism has always created me problems with 3D vision and depth, this is why I have always had hard time with anything that involves stereoscopic vision - this is maybe why optical illusion has always fascinated me a lot. Thanks to Quora, I have found a couple of great optical illusions I am happy to [...]