iWant

Nuf said!

Voga... Voss?

this new Voga Quattro wine bottle looks an awful lot like VOSS water.
But still elegant.

Bulldog Gin

Bulldog Gin - its got asian infusions like longnan ("dragon's eye"?) - but really i love this bottle - the rugged look, yet that subtle glass collar is great. And the url looks like bulldogging almost.

Adobe CS3 Photoshop FREE!!! click here.

Photoshop user! As you have most certainly heard already, Adobe has made Photoshop CS3 available to the public as a beta release.

The bags of Bierut

A handsome and classic new identity designed by Pentagram for iconic New York retailer Saks Fifth Avenue launches on January 2, 2007. Click the title, partner Michael Bierut describes the process behind the development of an identity with more variations than there are electrons in the known universe.

blog-atrophy

I've suffered from blogger atrophy lately. However I'm doing my best to get back. I'm getting way into package design work lately and it has been totally consuming. Look out for more package design blogging here.

Brand in mind

This is a trip. it's a piece about branding and creating ads "under the influence" of subliminal messages.

Invisible bling!

Just when you thought you had seen it all... well you won't be seeing this either. In the future, there will be a way to convert our cars into hovercrafts, just so we could sail along smoothly down the main drags of our respective cities. Short of that, we'll take some 100 percent transparent two-inch thick polycarbonate wheels for our rides, like the ones a few bloggers just spied at this year's SEMA show, going on this week in Las Vegas. These amazingly sexy D'Vinci Forgiato Radurra wheels cost a cool $2,000, which will buy you a single 20-, 22-, or 24- inch wheel. Four of these will make you the coolest kid in town, for sure.
Link above.

Onoffice Magazine

onoffice takes a brand new view on the world of workplace design. All things office come under the onoffice microscope, from cutting-edge interior projects through technology and products to real human issues. onoffice takes designers, architects, facilities managers, specifiers and end users on a journey through the cosmos of commercial space, delivering piercing insight, fearless criticism and the gamut of essential knowledge that makes perfect sense of the world of work.

Dutch Design Week

This year, Design Academy Eindhoven presents an exceptionally extensive exhibition by the name of Graduation Galleries 2006. No less than 140 graduated industrial designers will show their remarkable and innovative designs to the public for the first time.

Duck Sauce

I love what the Hip Hop headz are doing to fashion and music culture. Here is one of the next evolutions of the game. Check out DUCK SAUCE, the second label of New York-based street wear brand Garbege. The brand garnered quite many attention lately, including a spot on BET. Focused on head gear only, the products incorporated flavors of Asian art into a very Western accessory - baseball caps. Even the label’s logo mimic a giant supplier of Chinese food condiments in the New York area.

We caught a preview of the second series of goods, which will launch next season. It took on even more of an Asian theme. Featuring irradiance embroidery that looked similar to patterns found on Chinese porcelains or Indian silk saffron.

Adore seating

Multifunctional Sofa is getting a lot of gaining popularity as today lifestyle and limited space.
This is a multifuntional sofa too, but it is got something more special, All functions are ready to use.
As human's behavior and their activities with the sofa is became the concept of this design. From
the angle between sitting and lay back transformed shape of this sofa.

Bu-Cha

I just like it. More info at the link above.

Diamond chair

In the East, Most People give an important to the well being life and believe in the precious object which can bring prosperity
to their family. Therefore, this design was given an important to the furniture shape which power to the felling of wealthy and
preciousness. We seek for the design which can show its value by itself. To this point, We have an idea about making a chair in
gemstone or dimond shape which is in the vein of brings prosperity to their houses. Moreover, Thailand is well known as the
land of gemstone in South East Asia.

Blinging the heat.

This radiator is much like floor heating, but with the advantages of the large surface design of a radiator. The inside of the radiator is made with tubing you find in floor heating. Floor heating tubes have triple walls to prevent heat expansion. The outside is casted with glass fiber reenforced concrete. The unique baroque decoration of the radiator is applied to expand the surface. According to Joris' tests the radiator has better heat transmission capabilities than a normal steel radiator or floor heating.

Hype This!

Here's a new secret obsession of mine easily surpassing my one day (4 hour) binge on youtube or my puzzled freakish stares at myspace. Hypediss gets right to the point and has the potential to become a valuable marketing and common man shopping tool. The site describes itself...
What is hypediss?
hypediss is the place where you can submit your favorite stories, hype or diss the stories to the top, and comment on anything you like. Since hypedisse's content is user-driven, it is up to YOU to contribute. It´s the place to love and hate, make friends or enemies.

modern man

BenQ-Siemens Black Box Concept Phone

Oops, this may be the best concept phone ever. I love this phone. This is the definition of elegance. The Dictionary says, el·e·gance (l-gns) n. Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners. Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation. Restraint and grace of style. Scientific exactness and precision.Gizmodo says "Unlike previously mentioned, BenQ is still making phones in Asia, just no longer in the German market. This is one of the concept phones being worked on—the Black Box. No keypads, no buttons, just a big ass touchscreen."

modern man

Best phone concept yet.

Nokia is taking our gadget-fondling addiction one step further with its concept Aeon phone. The cell phone ditches a traditional keypad for a touchscreen display you can caress with your delicate fingers. It's different than Nokia's previous keyless phone and seems like it'd make less of a bulk in your front pocket than Synaptics' Onyx phone we wrote about last week. The Aeon is still a concept phone, however, so Apple still has time to steal their thunder with an iPhone of their own

Thicke is the intellegent man's Timberlake

It is the long awaited and in my camp greatly debated release. But I'm glad it's here. R&B has taken a dive and looks like it's down for the count. Thicke comes along in the blue-eyed soul vain and brings the sweet, sultry, under appreciated heat. It's really good music, even if it often feels like a subcategory to "real" soul. This effort pushes just enough of the pop buttons to give it a wider appeal. Although a little less rocky turn funky than the previous releases Robin definitely put it down on this one. He has joined forces with Pharrell Williams of the Star Track Label to make it all smoothly happen. Thicke is found "mercin'" (see throwing down) with the likes of Lil Wayne and Mary J. Blige and standing his ground. Set your phasers to chill and enjoy this one.
modern man

Higher Breed

Guys love cars. I love cars that aren't here yet, does that make me a man in waiting. Thanks to the good guys over at Gizmodo I can always find the latest future tense auto-lust.
Our hybrid fetish lives on, especially for the Citroen C-Metisse Diesel Hybrid Sports Car that'll be rolled out at this year's International Motor Show in Paris. This four-door rocket is powered by a 205hp diesel V-6 engine and two electric motors, one on each rear wheel. That combo delivers pretty good numbers, too: 0-to-62 mph in 6.2 seconds at a top speed of 155mph, all the while sipping the fuel at just 42 miles per gallon.

While we probably won't be seeing a car like this on these shores or anywhere else anytime soon—yeah, it's a concept car—these design exercises will likely bear fruit somewhere, somehow. Plus, we're really digging those four gull-wing doors, inviting a quartet of lucky riders to jump in and hit the triple miles-per-hour digits. Someday. – Charlie White
Link
modern man