YO

So here American designer Victor Vetterlein has designed Yo, an MP3 player dock with removable stereo speakers. Now i like the concept, but I've seen similar speaker in urban outfitter too :)

The Winner

Looking back on some of my old posts I was reminded of the CityRacks Design Competition to redesign a bike rack to be installed on NYC streets. Since we live so close NYC and this is something I could directly see, I decided to follow up. So the winner was in fact not the one featured in core77 by Andrew Lang and Harry Dobbs, but another (pictured below) by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve. Although I had a personal attachment to the the other one, this one is pretty okay too and I will def keep my eye out for it in the city. For the full article see here.

Will this work?

This sort of reminds me of the airplane trick you use to get children to eat their vegetables.....
London is trying to get their inhabitants to drink more tap water, so they decided to have the Thames Design Competition to see who could design the most appealing cups and bottles from which to serve it from. Somehow I don't think people will be necessarily be fooled by this "crafty" trick, but hey why not?

Just Sketch

This week on core77, one of the most popular articles was We (heart) "I (heart) Sketch." This article is about a completely new way to, well, sketch. I (heart) Sketch is a new device from Seok-Hyung Bae that allow the user to draw right on the screen. It runs along the same lines as a tablet laptop, but one look at the video and you can already recognize some amazing difference. We've crossed the line from turning handwriting into text, and mouse-drawn lines into curves, and now we can do with any line we make. No longer is there sketching things out, scanning/transporting them in, I (heart) sketch transforms your lines right then and there. But thats not even the best part of it, check out the video for more:

Better Better Better

New Bike racks?? Didn't really know they needed improving, but since seeing these redesigned racks from Andrew Lang and Harry Dobbs, I can definitely see the change. Aesthetics is a huge amount of city streets and neighborhood, think realty curb appeal, and how much better would it be to see one of these fancy bike racks opposed to the crummy metal racks we mostly have now. Even Jones Beach, had attempted to make their bike racks better, but wire seahorses can only go so far. Hopefully one of, if not Andrew and Harry's, designs will pass the test on the streets of NYC for the CityRacks Competition and better bike racks everywhere.

Lets Grow a Chair Today

So I've seen cardboard chairs, can chairs, trash chairs, all different kinds of chairs, but this has to top all the rest. Today on core77 there is an article about growing chairs. Yes, thats right, growing, like a plant, like a child, like a cat, but chairs. Ok so even though it sounds weird, not that bad. The Venus Chair by Tokujin Toshioka is made by growing crystals into a chair shape, see below.

Overall its an interesting concept, but I wonder how long it will last/hold. I mean I used to grow crystals in a jar as a kid, but they used to break in a week too. The chair will be heading the Second Nature Exhibition in Tokyo on 10/17. Here are some links to some other interesting chairs built off of nature inspired materials and designs too: Honey-Pop(2001), Pane chair(2006).

Step 1 Complete!

So after a long search of words and experiments I cam up with my word for my three countries combine into one. Here are the words from each country I choose to use:

from Denmark: REJSE = journey

from Turkey: SU = water

from Thailand: JAI = mind

I liked all these words and their meanings also played into my logo and general focus for the combine, so I set about making various combinations of the word. I ended up liking RESUJAI best, so I cut of the "I" picked a font and viola:

(The font is Amerika San from dafont.com)

Put it with my logo design and here's my final word composition: