Interesting concept from Audi – custom vehicle noises for otherwise silent electric cars. audi e-sound for e-tron electric vehicles from designboom on Vimeo. Composer Creates Artificial Engine Sounds For New Audi Hybrid [Video] @PSFK.
Tag: Design and Architecture
Find Out What’s New with Startup Videos
Love having complicated new products explained to you with nifty animations and videos? Startup Videos is here for you. This gallery site collects some of the best explainer and product intro videos out there. A few of the more interesting ones I found: Dollar Shave Club MixScan MixSCAN Explainer Video from Fueled on Vimeo. Float] …
Explainer: Mom This is How Twitter Works
Hah, this is great. Next time your luddite mother asks your in confusion what all this “twittering” is about, just send her over to this site. Jessica Hische lays it out nice and clear. Jessica’s Conclusion: Twitter is awesome, but while it seems like a relatively simple service, it is quite nuanced. I hope this …
Tiny Living: My Top 5 Super Small Japanese Living Arrangements
After living in NYC for about 7 years, I thought I was fairly well accustomed to living in small quarters – studio apartment, storage everywhere, continuously optimizing my use of space. But of course, the Japanese have us New Yorkers beat when it comes to efficiently using space. After a bit of digging around on the …
Occupy Wall Street, and Look Good Doing It: Occupy Design
In order for any project, campaign, or protest to be effective, it needs people to support it. And that means appealing to people in an interesting, engaging way, through marketing. One of the most powerful ways of connecting people in an effective marketing campaign is through visuals. Recently at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and …
Ikea overload!
5 hours and $1600 worth of furniture from Ikea in Centennial, Colorado. Too much or not enough? In any case, completely furnishing three whole rooms for $1600 is pretty good. The trick now is to maintain the furniture – I’m pretty sure that there’s a significant amount of work that goes into maintaining the “room …
I Can’t Wait For The Future: Airbus Unveils Transparent Plane
Through The Daily Beast and written up on The Daily Mail: Airbus is planning on making airplanes with windows everywhere, giving flyers panoramic views of the sky. Imaging flying on one of these on a cloudless night, or in the northern latitudes for the northern lights? Just a future dream for now, but I’m sure …
Launching JH2 One Tree Home at ICFF
This weekend, after many months of orginization, and a few weeks of my time creating the website, the JH2 One Tree Home furniture collection was launched at the ICFF International Contemporary Furniture Fair. We were lucky enough to get a double-sized spot, and set up the booth in two parts. A few pics..
Designs at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
This week had the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) at the Javits Center in NYC. In addition to working at the JH2 One Tree Home booth, I also had the opportunity to wanter the entire show floor. A few pics…
Audi Urban Future Initative, NYC
Today I stopped by the Audi Urban Future Initiative, down in nolita, Manhattan. In addition to being an interesting exhibit, the central, folded model of NYC was quite amazing. It reminded me of “Inception”… Audi is blogging from New York for the entire time they’re here, so be sure to check it out…