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Red Dot Awards 2008

Red Dot Design Award has announced the 2008 edition winners
Lots of excellence.

Teroforma / Online Shop

This one looks like it was a labour of love... Or a battle filled with blood sweat and tears. Slick flash shopping over at Teroforma

Almost Naked — Limited Edition Serie

The new Serie from Almost Naked. Order your own Limited Shirt now ! Chooose a number between 0 and 9999. The price of the shirt is 25,- Euro (ex. shipping costs).
Numbers sold : 0001 / 0010 / 0013 / 0019 / 0030 / 0051 / 1414 / 1982 / 1986 / 6666 /

Canvas

Canvas is a computer for the 21-centuery designer. Incorporating both modern and traditional design techniques into a computer that will increase the quality and productivity of the designers work. Canvas well allow an artist or designer to use the PC with little to no training By making the PC experience seem natural and familiar to a non digital designer or artist.

Kyle Cherry

Dinks and Boobs

img. Dinks & Boobs

An excellent message wrapped up in a witty crocheted breast and penis (with sewn in lumps). Shannon Gerard's Dinks & Boobs are a great highlighter for early detection of breast and testicular cancer; part of the profit goes to the charity Cottage Dreams

Print Magazine 20 under 30 - Michael Freimuth

My friend, Michael Freimuth, just received the Print Magazine New Visual Artists Award 2008, a recognition given to twenty designers under the age of thirty. He also just updated his website. Check out his great work at MichaelFreimuth.com

You can also read the article at Print Magazine

Trash Luxury

You know luxury is cliche when trash is the source.

TrashLuxe

Maximum Joy

Mazda Taiki Concept interior

Dutch architecture critic Michiel van Raaij examines Mazda's bold new design language.

In the past year the Japanese carmaker Mazda has been working consistently on a new form language, and this week unveiled their most extreme ‘sculpture’ yet: the Mazda Furai. A car designed to take the 24h Le Mans challenge.

The design features ‘crossed folds’ everywhere. Normal steel plates feature only single folds, but here multiple folds are applied that cross each other diagonally. That is completely new. Unprecedented.

He goes on to talk about "maximalism" in design, and - without saying so outright - asks that we re-examine our definitions of "beauty". (At least that's what I took from it.)

Maximalism is our future. Maximalism is the end of good taste. Maximalism moves the border of good taste a little further and thereby makes room for emergent futures.

“Architects are obsessed with good taste”, Crimson writes in their book ‘Too blessed to be depressed’. I think that is true. But I also think that taste moves in a certain direction, in the direction of form, of maximum form. Zaha Hadid is just the beginning.

(Or, in the direction of "maximum joy", as we learn to shed the shame of Eden and rediscover the uninhibited virtues of wonder and possibility. Mazda does an excellent job demonstrating a new kind of beauty, unburdened by the type of shame which is at the root of outmoded definitions of taste.)

Cobra Speed LD

Cobra Speed LD launches.
Site by Digitaria

adam haynes

Adam fills out Nemo's Nike 6.0 work with his sick scrawls, but that's not all (at all) — as evidenced at his site, Stick Fort and in his upcoming show this Friday, March 7 at Life and Limb here in PDX/OR.