TRAVEL
Escape Machines Pop Up in Paris
DDB Paris created a simple fun ‘Escape Machine’ for the French travel company Voyages SNCF. Wonderful, colourful cubes waiting till somebody goes to bush the button. Then the cube asks where the person would like to travel.
Trip Back In Time
Boeing 747 Tiger Lounge Courtesy, Teague/New York Times 1950 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Lower Lounge Elvis Presley, Fun in Acapulco, 1963 Brigitte Bardot in A Very Private Affair, 1962 In 1956, five sets of stewardess twins make good publicity material for […]
Ethiopia
Somewhere in Ethiopia, are the Simien Mountains, which are mazes of full deep gorges canyons. The mountains are home to the gelada, sometimes called bleeding heart baboons because of a red patch on the chest of the males. (They are […]
Madagascar
The island of Madagascar is one of the oldest in the world. It is located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa.
ARCHITECTURE
A Creative Outdoor Hideaway
These days DESIGNSIGH favorite work so far is from William and his unique “triangular” cabin called the Allandale House. It is a modern version of the forest cabin based on an extruded A-frame that was constructed for an idiosyncratic connoisseur […]
Villa Bio
A studio called Cloud9 designed a suburban house of the future—it also happens to be sustainable, the Home Remodeling Houston company made sure to give the best ideas for the construction. The villa is situated a little over an hour […]
LIFESTYLE
Flow Festival Helsinki
Flow Festival is an annual music festival taking place in Helsinki, Finland in mid-August. The next edition of Flow will be organized this August on 13-14 2011. The music presented at Flow is a strong and varied selection of up […]
W I L D F O X Resort
How cute is the latest campaign from Wildfox Couture? Shot by Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter, the models channel their inner granny, knitting, gardening, playing tennis and more.
DESIGN
Paper Sound Waves
Charles Clary creates a world of fiction that challenges the viewer to suspend disbelief and venture it into his fabricated reality. By layering paper he builds intriguing land formations that mimic viral colonies and concentric sound waves. The towers of paper […]
The Choreographer Of The Wind
Janet Echelman is one of the best choreographer of the wind! She builds living, breathing sculpture environments that respond to the forces of nature — wind, water and light — and become inviting focal points for civic life. Exploring the […]
INTERIORS
Studio City
\ This space is a private residence on Amanda Drive in Studio City, California originally designed by Rudolf Schindler in 1948. This renovation took a tremendous amount of work, starting with the research into what the original design intended. Furniture […]
Project Space
“I used to be really scared of this area,” says the artist Francis Upritchard of London’s Hackney district, where she and the furniture designer Martino Gamper share a charmingly quirky three-story apartment in a public housing project — what the British call a council […]